{"id":8647,"date":"2013-07-31T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2013-07-31T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:26:08","slug":"an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html","title":{"rendered":"An Exclusive Look at “The Butler”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The_Butler_poster\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening August 16, 2013 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler is centered around an African-American butler who is an eyewitness to crucial historical events during his tenure at the White House. The star studded cast features Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lenny Kravitz\u00a0– just to name a few!<\/p>\n

The film is\u00a0inspired by the\u00a0real-life account\u00a0of Eugene Allen who served as the White House butler for eight presidencies from 1952 to 1986. Director Lee Daniels pulls at the audience’s emotions as his characters recreate history.<\/p>\n

For an exclusive look at this epic film click here<\/a>.\u00a0Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for a faith based discussion guide that can be used individually or in groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening August 16, 2013 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler is centered around an African-American butler who is an eyewitness to crucial historical events during his tenure at the White House. The star studded cast features Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lenny Kravitz\u00a0– just to name a few! The film is\u00a0inspired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2096,2095,2097,2098,95,2094,2093,2099],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-forest-whitaker","tag-forest-whittaker","tag-jane-fonda","tag-lee-daniels","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-robin-williams","tag-the-butler","tag-the-butler-movie"],"yoast_head":"\nAn Exclusive Look at "The Butler"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Exclusive Look at "The Butler"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opening August 16, 2013 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler is centered around an African-American butler who is an eyewitness to crucial historical events during his tenure at the White House. The star studded cast features Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lenny Kravitz\u00a0– just to name a few! The film is\u00a0inspired…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-31T20:51:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-07-31T22:26:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2013\/07\/The_Butler_poster-202x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Angela Guzman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An Exclusive Look at \"The Butler\"","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An Exclusive Look at \"The Butler\"","og_description":"Opening August 16, 2013 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler is centered around an African-American butler who is an eyewitness to crucial historical events during his tenure at the White House. The star studded cast features Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lenny Kravitz\u00a0– just to name a few! The film is\u00a0inspired…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2013-07-31T20:51:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-07-31T22:26:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2013\/07\/The_Butler_poster-202x300.jpg"}],"author":"Angela Guzman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html","name":"An Exclusive Look at \"The Butler\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2013\/07\/The_Butler_poster-202x300.jpg","datePublished":"2013-07-31T20:51:24+00:00","dateModified":"2013-07-31T22:26:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/31c9fa4d1a7351e4fb2e1182b2bbe399"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2013\/07\/The_Butler_poster-202x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2013\/07\/The_Butler_poster-202x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2013\/07\/an-exclusive-look-at-the-butler.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"An Exclusive Look at “The Butler”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/31c9fa4d1a7351e4fb2e1182b2bbe399","name":"Angela Guzman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/8f1\/8f19688cc7374480c920838b5840be33x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/8f1\/8f19688cc7374480c920838b5840be33x96.jpg","caption":"Angela Guzman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/authors\/a\/angela-guzman.aspx"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/aguzman"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}