Cheryl Boone Isaacs + Kerry Washington = the Obama Effect hits Hollywood

By Sharon Waxman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Something is in the air in Hollywood. Call it the Obama Effect. Can it be coincidence that Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African-American woman, has been voted president of an organization that is 94 percent white and 77 percent male? Doesn't it feel unusual - or more accurately, of the moment - that Kerry Washington scored the first best actress Emmy nomination for an African-American in 18 years, catapulting her to the cover of magazines like Vanity Fair? "It's major," acknowledged Boone Isaacs in an interview with TheWrap's Steve Pond on Wednesday. ...



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