Not too many attorneys get the chance to see an actor play a version of them on the big screen. And there’s no guarantee that those who are will be pleased with how they’re portrayed.
Such is not the case for New York City criminal defense attorney Robert Gottlieb, who gets to see a fictional portrayal of his 20-something self in “Shirley,” a Netflix biopic starring Regina King as Shirley Chisholm, the Bedford-Stuyvesant schoolteacher who in 1968 became the first Black woman to get elected to the U.S Congress—and who reached a bigger milestone in 1972 when she became the first Black candidate for U.S president on major party’s ticket.
