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G-Unit female rapper Precious Paris drops her latest song, 'I Don't Give A Fucc' featuring Twanee. The duo flips Fred The Godson 'Marvin Room'.
via: http://rashaentertainment.com/new-music-precious-paris-ft-twanee-paris-room  Share on Facebook ·  Bookmark on Delicious Jennifer Hudson says that she didn't turn down the role of Precious because of her weight. She claims that she turned it down because she "felt is was just too graphic for (her) at the time."
Check out the video below to hear her explanation in her own words.
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| Tue, March 09, 2010 at 4:32 AM |
Today one of the biggest publishing markets is Urban Literature. However, Street Lit has come under fire from many angles. With urban novel being turned into Oscar nominated movies such as Precious, this is as good of a time as any to ask what is the state of Black Literature? There are those that say that Street Literature has no real value to Black Literature as a whole, and that it is equivalent to gangster rap's relation to the larger genre of Hip-Hop. Then there are people who swear by Urban Literature, as they claim that is type of literary fair is the only kind they will consume. Surprising the people who swear by Ghetto Literature the most are middle class black women.
Before I became an author I knew that urban literature had credibility issue, I just didn't know how deep the issue really was. I won't go into how many authors have four or five books, but still don't know how to use a simile, yet and still street literature dominates the market. So why would anyone think that there is a problem with black literature? With so many titles selling like hot cakes and its proponents saying 'I've sold X amount of books" , "people are buying it'. I have heard statements similar to these being uttered by crack dealers of the 80s, as justification of why they sold drugs. I was at a book event and I overheard an author say “I am an Essence bestseller”, followed by the publisher snickering, is that respect? This is not to say that there are not some wonderfully well written positive African American books out there. There are stories of black success, black triumph, but are black people reading those books? “Any story celebrating the beauty and strength of black family life, the power of education, and the desire to succeed in the workplace and in business is now out of fashion.” wrote Juan William in his article titled “Precious' Little of Value in Ghetto Literature”.
Another argument is that ghetto literature attracts new readers, or that it provides escapism, but for many blacks this type of escapism can be had by not opening a book, but a door. After reading novels filled with busty women and thugs, novels overflowing with misogyny, depicting female characters as “dime pieces” or “trophies”, proudly display real gritty scenes of criminal activities and murder that go unpunished or glorified, one would have to wonder if Marva Allen owner of Hue-Man bookstore in Harlem was right when she said, “It's not literature it's fiction... they offer no literary advantages.” Or is there something more to this box that these black harlequins have put black literature in? Maybe it has something to do with where you find these books in the bookstore. I have never seen a white literature section, though I have seen American Literature sections devoid of black authors, except for sport stories of course. Is a book made urban by the skin color of its characters, or the skin color of the author? In the New York Times article “Their Eyes Were Reading Smut”, Nick Chiles said ,“On shelf after shelf, in bookcase after bookcase, all that I could see was lurid book jackets displaying all forms of brown flesh, usually half-naked and in some erotic pose, often accompanied by guns and other symbols of criminal life. I felt as if I was walking into a pornography shop, except in this case the smut is being produced by and for my people, and it is called literature.” Is Nick Chiles right?
Maybe the problem is in the definition, What is literature? If you solely define it as it as publication of printed material then there is no issue, but historically literature has meant much more than that. Rebecca West once said that, "Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.” Apparently many disagree...
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 The Oscars aren't about celebrating diversity. That job falls to more special-interest kudos-fests including the NAACP Image Awards, the Imagen Awards, the GLAAD Media Awards and the Multicultural Motion Picture Assn.
True, when the Oscars have singled out minorities, it's made for some of the show's most heartfelt moments: Halle Berry's emotional acceptance in 2002 when she became the first black woman to be named best actress, for "Monster's Ball," or Denzel Washington's second Oscar win, for "Training Day" in 2002, when he saluted that year's honorary Oscar winner Sidney Poitier.
But when it comes to the status of women and minorities in Hollywood, Oscars only can reflect the reality on the ground: While commentators regularly pore over the Academy's annual list of nominees in search of people of color, it's really the film industry's fault when they fail to materialize. For, particularly behind the camera, the industry has been slow to diversify, and it's that reality that is reflected in the Academy's nominations.
This year, though, the DGA already has broken ground by nominating Lee Daniels and Kathryn Bigelow for its feature directing award. Daniels ("Precious") is the first African-American to be nominated in that category, and Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") is only the seventh woman.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean the Academy will follow suit.
Although the DGA has a good track record for predicting the eventual Oscar best director, the Academy's directors' branch doesn't always follow the DGA's lead when it comes to choosing five nominees. One major difference between the groups: The 14,000-member DGA includes not only film and TV directors but also unit production managers and assistant directors. It tends to be more populist than the more-exclusive directors branch, which has just 366 members.
As a result, some DGA noms aren't echoed by the Academy. Last year, for example, the DGA nominated Christopher Nolan for "The Dark Knight," but the Academy balked. Other recent examples of DGA nominees failing to go on to score Academy noms include Sean Penn ("Into the Wild"), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris ("Little Miss Sunshine") and Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls").
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Source: Getty Images/Getty Images North Americ  It's one thing to receive a best actress Golden Globe nomination for your first film, but it's a whole different ballgame when your celebrity crush is the one who delivers the news.
"Oh my God, Justin Timberlake just said my name," "Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe gushed to People magazine of the announcement Tuesday morning. "I'm so very excited to come into this because I'm usually on the other side. I'm a fangirl and I watch these things happen, but they don't happen to me!"
Sidibe joins Emily Blunt, Sandra Bullock, Carey Mulligan and Helen Mirren as nominees for best actress in a motion picture (drama). But those women apparently have nothing on Timberlake.
"I told my roommate, and I literally said, 'Oh my God, Justin just said my name,'" said the self-described 'N Sync fanatic. "He finally said my name."
Mo'Nique, who plays the hateful mother of Sidibe's character, was nominated in the supporting actress category. She'll face "Up in the Air" co-stars Vera Farmiga, playing Clooney's frequent-flyer soul mate, and Anna Kendrick, playing a smart but inexperienced efficiency expert, Penelope Cruz as a filmmaker's insecure mistress in "Nine," and Julianne Moore as a grief-stricken professor's best pal in "A Single Man."
"Precious" also picked up a Golden Globe nod for best drama. It will compete against the recession-era tale "Up in the Air," which led the pack with six nominations, space fantasy "Avatar," the Iraq War tale "The Hurt Locker," and the World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds."
Morgan Freeman's role of Nelson Mandela in "Invictus" earned a best actor nomination, along with "Up in the Air's" George Clooney, Jeff Bridges as a boozy country singer in "Crazy Heart," Colin Firth as a grieving...More GABOUREY SIDIBE
With an impressive box-office opening this past weekend, "Precious" proved to be worth all the critical acclaim and excitement brewing around it. The film features standout performances by pop star Mariah Carey, comedian Mo'nique and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, who plays the title role. Sidibe credits director Lee Daniels for allowing the women to explore their characters.
"It was really, really cool. A lot of things that we said wasn't in the script, and so, like, we had free range," Sidibe said during her appearance on CBS' "Early Show" on Monday. "Mr. Daniels made sure we knew what the scene was about and that we can do whatever we felt like, and so it was really cool. And [Carey] was on her toes and I was on my toes, and it was almost like a fight, like a battle, because we are not friends really in this film at all. It was really cool."
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While Carey transformed into a plain social worker for the flick, the usually light-hearted Mo'Nique became every child's worst nightmare. She plays Precious' mom, Mary, who shows no heart while her daughter battles familial abuse, rape, teenage pregnancy and the claustrophobic hopelessness that has invaded her life.
"[Mo'Nique] did such an amazing job," Sidibe said. "She is such a loving person. She is one of the most caring people I have ever...More GABOUREY SIDIBE
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 Mariah Carey could really use a nap. After a few hours of restless sleep, she rose at 4:30 a.m. to prepare for a performance in Central Park to promote her new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. In the past, this scenario would have been a source of anxiety for the singer, who has long struggled with insomnia and worried about its effect on her famously fluid, multi-octave-spanning voice.
But sitting in her hotel suite as evening approaches, Carey, 39, seems alert and unruffled. "I felt really good about myself today," she says. For starters, she got positive feedback on the morning gig, taped live for The Oprah Winfrey Show, from her backup singers. "They're really talented, and they don't give me compliments all the time."
Another factor contributing to Carey's contentment is sprawled on the bed behind her, sleeping soundly " or at least pretending to. "Nick, I know you're awake," she says teasingly, as actor/rapper/TV host Nick Cannon, to whom she has been married for 17 months, stirs and mumbles, "Uh-uh."
Before she met Cannon, 28, "I wasted my time with stuff that wasn't really real, in my personal life," Carey says. "I was always more focused on my career. But now I have this support system."
The tracks on Memoirs, out Tuesday, hardly present a unified portrait of a blissed-out newlywed. The album "was going to be about women's empowerment," Carey says. "There are songs on there that are just saying (to men), 'I don't need you.' " The first single, Obsessed, accuses a wannabe beau of "lyin' that you're sexin' me," chiding him, "Finally found a girl that you couldn't impress." The song, which has sold more than 1 million downloads, peaked at No. 7 on Billboard's Hot 100. It recently topped USA TODAY's rhythmic airplay chart and is at No. 12 and rising in top 40 airplay.
In the video, Carey appears both as herself and in a couple of male guises, one of them a goateed, hoodie-wearing chap bearing a suspicious resemblance to Eminem, who launched a media feud in 2003 by suggesting in his Superman single that Carey had unrequited designs on him.
Asked if the rapper inspired the tune, Carey says, a bit coyly, "I wouldn't ever call anyone an inspiration for that song. But I'm happy (that) all the people who have been stalked and abused now have an anthem."
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As Mo'Nique prepares for the Oct. 5 launch of her BET talk show, industry buzz has the comedian a clear front-runner to pick up a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her forthcoming role in "Precious."
According to the New York Post's Page Six, D1ck Cavett, Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, Bob Balaban and Joel Schumacher saw the film over the holiday weekend in East Hampton, and emerged in awe of the performance by Mo'Nique.
"She doesn't steal the film -- she kicks, screams and pummels it into an Oscar no-brainer," Forbes.com media critic Bill McCuddy told Page Six.
The filmed, backed by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, has already earned raves at Cannes and Sundance, and Mariah Carey has even received praise for her makeup-free role.
Said McCuddy: "If Oprah can get Barack [Obama] elected, she can get Mo'Nique either a Best Supporting Oscar or a...More MO'NIQUE
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