News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 20 days ago
I drew from girls I'd ignored growing up and the girls I'd stopped being friends with because they were too much like Precious...The result is what appears to be an effortless performance, and now Sidibe finds herself continually explaining that she'...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 20 days ago
Director Lee Daniels was about to be presented with the Sundance Film Festival's top prize for his movie "Precious" when his cell phone rang. Oprah Winfrey's. Images 'Precious' "Lee goes, 'I'm getting an award' and I go, 'Then you need to shut off...
News Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| 20 days ago
But she admits that there was one scene that required so much hate that she almost fell apart. ' I got scared' "There was one time that I got scared because I didn't think that my mind or heart could go to that place," the 40-year-old said. But she...
News Source: People.com
| 21 days ago
Mo'Nique opens up about the sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her eldest brother – and how she channeled that experience onscreen. Oscar-Worthy? "Coming from being molested as a child, when [director Lee Daniels] said, 'I need you...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 22 days ago
Boxers like to say that a punch hurts less if you see it coming. I saw just about every punch coming my way in "Precious" and yet it still packs a hurtful wallop. It melodramatizes everything and yet its overall effect is something more than...
News Source: CNN
| 22 days ago
Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from. The title character of "Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire" is a hushed, damaged, morbidly...