Girl Attacks Classmate!!!

I really was not going to post this; however I could not resist. I think we all have met a Mary in our lives or even went to school with one too.

Who was wrong???

for Colored Girls Movie Trailer

By Kristopher Tapley

Ever since Lionsgate announced a November 5 release date for Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls,” talk has circulated around an expected Oscar campaign. A set of posters dropped recently that went a long way toward showcasing the female acting talent on display. But is it a contender? Could one of these ladies (or the film itself) slide into the race? Or should we expect the usual from Perry? Lionsgate did a fine job launching “Precious” on the same release date last year, but it also had a headwind coming out of the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. We’ll have to wait and see. The new trailer for Perry’s film, released today, is at the very least handsomely mounted.

It was a Precious Night For Mo’Nique 5th African American Woman to Win an OSCAR

I was so happy that Mo’Nique WON an Academy Award an “Oscar” for her role in Precious. She was truly amazing portraying the role as Mary Lee Johnston. Dreams can come true! So, I was wondering if I can win an Oscar too.

I am Black, talented; however, realized I am not a comedian or a singer. Would this hurt my chances of being an Academy Award winner? CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!!!

Whoopie Goldberg: Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost

Jaime Fox: Oscar winner for Best Actor in 2004 for Ray

Cuba Gooding Jr: (Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for Jerry Maguire) - He was a popular winner at the time for a ferocious performance as egomaniacal but insecure Rod Tidwell ("Show me the money!"). Unfortunately, his CV since then is littered with material of dubious quality; he's either a poor judge of scripts, or he should get rid of his agent.

Jennifer Hudson: Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for Dreamgirls

Halle Berry: Oscar winner for Best Actress in 2001 for Monster Ball

Morgan Freeman: After nominations for Driving Miss Daisy and the Shawshank Redemption, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for Million Dollar Baby

Louis Gossett, Jr: (Best Supporting Actor in 1982 for An Officer and a Gentleman) - A charismatic and extremely talented actor with a flair for projecting authority. Louis Gossett was a popular Oscar winner, but he was unable to build on his success and carve out the kind of movie career that he deserved. Today, he is bigger on TV than in the movies.

Sidney Poitier: Oscar winner for Best Actor in 1963 for Lilies of the Field

Denzel Washington: Oscar winner for Best Actor in 2001 for Training Day and Best Supporting Actor in 1989 for Glory

Forest Whitaker: Oscar winner for Best Actor in 2006 for The Last King of Scotland

Hattie McDaniel: Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for Gone with the Wind

Best Original Score
1984 Prince Purple Rain Winner
1986 Herbie Hancock Round Midnight Winner

Best Original Song
1971 Isaac Hayes Shaft "Theme from Shaft" Winner
1983 Irene Cara Flashdance "Flashdance (What a Feeling)" Winner
1984 Stevie Wonder The Woman in Red "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Winner
1985 Lionel Richie White Nights "Say You, Say Me" Winner
1989 Carly Simon Working Girl "Let the River Run" Winner
2005 Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard (Houston and Beauregard are the music group Three 6 Mafia) Hustle & Flow "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" Winner

It will be so PRECIOUS

It was a PRECIOUS week!!! On Tuesday, the Oscar nominations were announced and we were focused almost entirely on director Lee Daniels' moving picture Precious, which is up for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), Best Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher), and Best Film Editing (Joe Klotz). That's six nominations. And come March 7, the film could very well win them all.

Best Picture. It's up against The Hurt Locker and Up In The Air, sure, but we expect Academy voters to shun the blockbuster fare of Avatar in favor of 2009's most buzzworthy film. A vote for Precious is a vote against domestic violence, or so its producers are hoping everyone believes. The film stars blockbuster names (Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique), but not blockbuster attitudes. It didn't just move theatergoers to discuss the film, it created a dialogue. And because of its commercial success, a vote for Precious doesn't just reward a picture that moved people, but rewards a picture that did so while propping up the industry.

Best Director. Besides an endorsement from Oprah, director Lee Daniels is not on an uphill battle. He's the odds-on favorite. His competition is not Inglourious Basterds' Quentin Tarantino, but The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow. Daniels' telling of a sexually abused and forgotten teenage girl, who achieves small triumphs along the way, is a story more human than other of the other contenders. That doesn't make it Oscar bait, but Daniels' so-far humble acceptance of the industry's lauding will go a long way.

Best Actress. A twentysomething newcomer in the industry, Gabourey Sidibe's skyrocketed to muted fame, thanks to her daring portrayal of Precious's title character. She is not a Hollywood player — but she faces stiff competition from the very well-received efforts of Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep, a critic darling. A win for Sidibe would be the Academy's way of solidifying Precious as 2009's ultimate movie of the year. A snub, however, would mean only that voters were absolutely wowed with Bullock's ability to go from Miss Congeniality to, well, awesome.

Best Supporting Actress. There's been no formal Oscar campaign for Mo'Nique, a decision about as purposeful as campaigning for an Oscar. She has not vocalized any desire to win trophies, although she's been handsomely rewarded at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. Utterly transformed in her role as an abusive, love-starved mother, Mo'Nique helped carry Precious as much as its star. And she "gives good speech," a remarkably powerful criteria for choosing winners.

Best Adapted Screenplay. Whether or not Academy voters read the book — 1996's Push — that inspired the film, awarding screenwriter Fletcher the Oscar for transforming Sapphire's novel into a big screen production will have only one downside: snubbing In The Loop's amazingly talented writers. But if Precious is destined to win Best Picture and turn Daniels into a Best Director winner, we find it hard to believe the Academy would not also reward the man responsible for Precious' inner dialogue.

Best Film Editing. If you enjoyed the mindfuck animated montages on Precious (we didn't), then you'll understand why the Oscar could go to editor Joe Klotz. But he faces a huge battle against Avatar's Team Cameron, and this is the one award Precious stands a good chance of losing.

If you think the film is to heavy to go see... Check out this trailer:

C.R. Knight's Diary

Dear Diary -

I recently saw the movie PRECIOUS, the long awaited Lee Daniel's flick gone super-hyped by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.  Yeah that movie.  I saw it the second week with my friend Candace.  Candace is a little on the plus side right now, she is going through some emotional issues, but I digress.  I was all prepared with tissues ready to cry but I didn't shed a tear.  I so wanted to don't get me wrong but, I heard talk and abuse like that when I grew up so I guess that is why it didn't effect me.  And also, I knew it was made up.  But as we all know, art imitates life and vice versa.

A few weeks later, I decided that I wanted to read the book PUSH by Sapphire.  It was such a page turner.  Just to know that there are young women who are raped by the men in their lives.  It was astounding for me to just read those things.  A friend of mine told me that Lee Daniels is good friends with the author.  Now it all makes sense.  I love to see when black people put their minds together and make money.  BIG MONEY.

I will say this, that movie isn't going anywhere any time soon.  It will win an Oscar. Come on Oprah and Tyler know what they are doing.  This is a bit of a pissing game if you ask me or a "who's dick is bigger?" contest.  I love it!  They are going to show Hollywood on a HUGE level that black stories deserve to be told.

I was blown away when I saw this morbidly obese black girl on Oprah.  She is articulate, nothing at all what I thought.  I seriously thought that they had gone to some ghetto somewhere to pluck this delicate flower.  She is definitely going to win an Oscar now.  And I promise you she will not have that weight on for long.  With money comes a better way to eat and trainers and everything at her disposal. She would be a fool not to have some type of surgery to get that weight off.  We shall see, but I see a HUGE 2010 for Miss Gabourey Sidibe.  They are going to wisk her off to a fat farm and we will no longer recognize the soon to be Oscar winner.

Well Diary, I must say good bye for now.  I can't wait until our next meeting.

C.R. Knight

Precious the movie

The Winner goes to:

I think this Oscar season should be EXCITING!!! Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz and my girl Erica Watson were excellent in the movie “Precious”; however, the breakout star was newcomer Gabourey Sidibe.

Gabourey had no acting experience when she auditioned for the lead role in "Precious," director Lee Daniels' drama about a sexually abused Harlem teenager. The film is based on the Sapphire novel, "Push," (Vintage). It was by chance that Sidibe, a New York psychology student, found herself in the Bronx that fateful day. "I didn't decide to go to the audition," she recalls. "I just ended up on that side of the street. Isn't that weird?" So, when Daniels offered her the career-making part within hours of her audition, it's no surprise that tears shot from Sidibe's eyes. "Like water pistols," she says. "It just didn't make sense to my life that I would be starring in some movie."



It makes sense when you hear Daniels tell the story. Daniels, who produced 2001's Oscar-winning "Monster's Ball," interviewed hundreds of women when casting for Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, overweight black teen mother of two whose horrific circumstances take a turn when she is given a second chance at an alternative school. Daniels' error, he says, was in seeking an actress similar to Precious, a young lady so abused in every way by her mother and father that she rarely speaks and is almost inaudible when she does. Sidibe couldn't be more different. "I realized I needed someone to act that, not be that," he says. "I knew she (Sidibe) was the girl. She brought a sense of confidence and smarts (to the role). She got it."

Sidibe, who was raised by her mother, R&B singer Alice Tan Ridley, in Brooklyn, is the opposite of the Precious we meet early on in the film. Sidibe is articulate, assertive and vivacious. "For the first week on set, she was just 'Precious' to me," says co-star Paula Patton, who plays Precious' teacher, Ms. Rain. "Then we're in the makeup trailer and she's all, 'Do you watch 'The Hills?' She talks like a girl from the (San Fernando) Valley." Patton, who starred opposite Denzel Washington in 2006's "DEJÃ Vu," calls working with Sidibe a humbling experience. "She's a superstar," she says. "She's so magnetic. I was blown away by her performance. I think actors can work their whole lives and not turn out a performance like she has done."

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