Hate on musicals all you like, there remains an artistic reason for this "The Color Purple" singing. The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery, the alluring chanteuse played by Taraji P.

The 1985 Color Purple film featured a brief kiss between Celie and Shug, played then by Whoopi Goldberg and Margaret Avery. In the 2023 film, the characters kiss, wake up in bed together and share ...

Just watching "The Color Purple," though, Spielberg's direction ... A lot of people didn't understand Celie's connection with the singer Shug Avery (Margaret Avery) was meant to be romantic ...