Effie

The IDF's chief spokesperson, Brig-Gen Effie Defrin, told a briefing on Thursday that its operation had "progressed to another stage" in recent days.

But when asked at a news conference about the lightning speed of the changes, the Rev. Effie McAvoy took a longer view.

A photo taken Monday by The Associated Press shows why: The gorilla’s mother, Effie, has the baby in her loving cuddle.

The birth of Effie’s baby wasn’t simple.

There have been exceptions, of course, such as Jennifer Hudson, who won for playing cast-off singer Effie White in 2006’s “Dreamgirls,” or Viola Davis, who won for her turn as the matriarch of a Black family in midcentury Pittsburgh in the 2016 adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences.”