Denzel Washington on directing: 'I’m still learning'

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Denzel Washington on directing: 'I’m still learning'

By Jocelyn Noveck, AP National Writer Preparing to direct “A Journal for Jordan,” a bittersweet love story opening on Christmas Day, Denzel Washington says he took a “master class.” That master class consisted of starring in a movie directed by Joel Coen, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which opens the same day. “I steal from the […]

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