May 22, 2013

Gabourey Sidibe Wants to Sing in a Musical

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*Gabourey Sidibe is showing off her range as an actress. She’s playing a bully in a recently released independent film, “Yelling to the Sky.” The chocolate-kissed actress told Essence that she’s all about changing it up and showing the world that she can transform herself into various characters and try new things. Her newest dream [...]




Angela Bassett Joins FX’s ‘American Horror Story: Coven’

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“American Horror Story: Coven,” the third season of FX’s “American Horror Story” series, has added Angela Bassett and Patti LuPone to the cast, per a tweet from Ryan Murphy. They’ll join previously announced newbies Gabourey Sidibe and Kathy Bates, and returning regulars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy and others. There’s no word on who [...]




Sidibe on ‘American Horror Story’: ‘I Hope I Don’t Die First’

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*Gabourey Sidibe will join the cast of FX’s “American Horror Story” next season, and the Oscar-nominated actress says she has no idea what’s in store for her character. “I know nothing,” Sidibe told E! Online when asked about “American Horror Story: Coven,” the witch-centric third season of the drama. She hasn’t seen a script and [...]




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*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE I have found that among its other benefits, [...]




Gabourey Sidibe Joins Cast of ‘American Horror Story: Coven’

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*Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe has been added to the growing cast of FX’s “American Horror Story: Coven,” executive producer Ryan Murphy announced today via Twitter. Sidibe, who also appears in Showtime’s “The Big C,” will join Kathy Bates and returning star Jessica Lange for the third version of the FX horror franchise, which will be [...]




Gabourey Sidibe: ‘The Big C’ was Like ‘Going Away to College’

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*Things will be a little different when Showtime’s “The Big C” returns for its final run on April 29. First, it will be renamed “The Big C: Hereafter.” “The purpose of this title was really to speak about how it’s that very Buddhist concept that we’ve explored on the show in the past, that you’re [...]




Gabby Calls WJLB Morning Crew to Dish on ‘Heist,’ Eddie and Precious

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*Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe called Detroit’s WJLB/FM 98 COCO, Foolish & Mr. Chase show Friday morning (11-4-11) to promote her role as the “Safecracker” in the new comedy “Tower Heist” w/ Eddie Murphy & Ben Stiller- in theaters today. Gabby was the only girl on the set at many time and she said all [...]




Gabourey Sidibe Loved ‘Trying to Bone’ Eddie Murphy

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*Actress Gabourey Sidibe was not shy when it comes to exposing her real feelings about Eddie Murphy, her co-star in “Tower Heist.” “Have I ever had a real crush on Eddie Murphy? I don’t know if you’ve seen him in ‘The Golden Child,’ but he wore a lot of leather suits, and there’s nothing sexier [...]




Trailer: Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe in ‘Tower Heist’

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*Universal has finally released the trailer for its long-in-development action-comedy “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni. Brett Ratner directed. The film follows a bunch of blue-collar employees who are defrauded by their wealthy employer and then plot revenge against him. In a post [...]




‘Push’ Author Sapphire Says Follow-Up too Harsh to Become Film

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*Sapphire’s first book became the unlikely Oscar-winning movie “Precious,” but the author isn’t expecting Hollywood attention for her follow-up novel “The Kid,” which features harrowing passages of rape and sexual abuse. Her first novel, “Push,” about an obese, illiterate, sexually abused, Harlem teenage mother named “Precious,” catapulted to No. 1 on the New York Times [...]




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Actress Gabourey Sidibe turns 28 today.

*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE What we are is God’s gift to us.  [...]




‘Push’ Author Sapphire Sells Sequel Novel

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*Push author Sapphire (real name: Ramona Lofton) has just sold a sequel novel, The Kid, to Penguin Press, to be published next summer. According to Publisher’s Marketplace, The Kid focuses on the son of the main character from Push ”as he approaches manhood — alone, brutalized and with the soul of an artist.” Her first novel, Push, was [...]




Gabourey Sidibe Joins Eddie Murphy in ‘Tower Heist’

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*Gabourey Sidibe has joined the cast of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film “Tower Heist,” Deadline.com reports. The film, also starring Ben Stiller, Alan Alda and Michael Pena, follows employees at a luxurious block of apartments who are scammed out of their pensions by one resident. The crooked character lives in the penthouse suite, where he is [...]




Next Oscars May be ‘Whitest in 10 Years’

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Trade magazine “Hollywood Reporter” asks in an editorial today: “Will white be the only color on the red carpet at the 83rd Academy Awards?” Here’s an excerpt from the article by Gregg Kilday and Matthew Belloni… Although Oscar contenders are just lining up at the starting gate for the annual run for the gold, there’s [...]




Sister of Lee Daniels Arrested on Obstruction Charges

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*The sister of “Precious” director Lee Daniels has been charged in New York City with removing guns and cash from her California house following her husband’s arrest on drug smuggling charges. Leah Daniels-Butler was charged Tuesday in a Brooklyn court with obstructing a federal investigation, reports the New York Daily News. She was ordered to [...]