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Movie gives 'a whole new life' to Sapphire's novel 'Push'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 22 hours ago
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The author known simply as Sapphire titled her acclaimed, controversial 1996 novel, Push , for a simple reason: Her narrator, an illiterate and obese 16-year-old girl, is urged to do a lot of pushing. When Precious Jones confesses to a teacher in a Harlem...
Tags: Sapphire, social worker, Los Angeles, Lee Daniels, Tyler Perry, Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Precious, Push, American film directors, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
The surprise diamond of Hollywood
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility But director Lee Daniels is used to trouble, he tells Gaby Wood. He grew up gay on the streets of Philadelphia, after all, and is drawn to the most disturbing truths. That'll be why he's heading to America's Deep South for his next film… Lee Daniels,...
Tags: Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe, African American, Gabby Sidibe, african americans, Black Jesus, Selma, New York, West Hollywood, Mariah Carey, Los Angeles
Mo'Nique knew her character
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The character of Mary Jones, the abusive mother in "Precious," is not someone many filmgoers would recognize from their own pasts. But Mo'Nique, who played the chilling role in director Lee Daniels' uncompromising urban drama, knew her well. "Mary was...
Tags: Mary Jones, Los Angeles, Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique, Sidibe, Precious, Incest in fiction
Marshall Fine: Geoffrey Fletcher discusses his Precious script
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility But screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher knows that not everyone is enamored of Precious, the film whose screenplay he adapted from the novel Push by Sapphire. Even before it opened, he was steadying himself for criticisms of a film that was also winning some...
Tags: Geoffrey Fletcher, Lee Daniels, Los Angeles, Sapphire, Tyler Perry, Precious, The Color Purple, Push, American film directors, Entertainment Culture, Oprah Winfrey
Geoffrey Fletcher pulls 'Precious' from 'Push'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility You can witness a number of memorable debuts in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," including the introduction of leading lady Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe and an initial glimpse of singer Mariah Carey as an accomplished character actor. But...
Tags: Geoffrey Fletcher, Lee Daniels, Los Angeles, Sapphire, Fletcher, Precious, Push, Entertainment Culture
What if Quentin Tarantino had directed Precious?
If you intend to see Precious, a manipulative attempt to condemn society for generations of personal irresponsibility, don’t read this. The billboard reads: “Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry Present Precious, Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.”...
Tags: Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Tyler Perry, Spike Lee, Entertainment Culture, allnews, Tyler Perry Present Precious, Yonkers, Foxy Brown, Lee Daniels, Present, Elmore Leonard, D. W. Griffith, Pam Grier, Human Interest, Blaxploitation, Miramax films, The Sifl and Olly Show, films, Jackie Brown, Push
22: Lee Daniels
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Director Lee Daniels on his "Precious" Best Known As: Film Director, Film Producer Gist: Lee Daniels (b. Lee Louis Daniels, December 24, 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film producer and director best known for the film Monster's...
Tags: Lee Daniels, Los Angeles, films, American film directors, Incest in fiction, Entertainment Culture, Push, Precious, Gabourey Sidibe, Human Interest, Sapphire, Mo'Nique, Sidibe, Oprah Winfrey
Esther Iverem: Precious and Painful
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility In the films of Lee Daniels, horror is expressed through a claustrophobic Black pain that Hollywood finds absolutely compelling. In Precious , the fifth film that Daniels has either produced or directed, he returns to the formula that won him acclaim...
Tags: Lee Daniels, Los Angeles, films, Push, Sapphire, Mo'Nique, American film directors, Incest in fiction, Precious, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues
Documentary explores carbon trading business
Toronto :: Canada | 18 days ago
Credibility Carbon Hunters is about a new breed of entrepreneurs working to get rich and save the planet at the same time. John Travolta, his wife Kelly Preston and their daughter Ella Bleu raised $37,500 US for charity at the Friday sneak preview of the Disney...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Twilight, Werner Herzog, Vampire, Lee Daniels, Ocala Florida, John Travolta, Precious, Push, Entertainment Culture
On the set of Precious: ‘No tears, ladies!'
Toronto :: Canada | 20 days ago
Credibility T he scene could have easily caused a meltdown among cast and crew...Mariah Carey was in character as an unadorned, plain Jane social worker. Facing Carey was American TV actress and comedian Mo'Nique, a friendly presence on set, but cast as a frighteningly...
Tags: Daniels, Mail Mariah Carey, Sidibe, Canada, Toronto, Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, Lee Daniels, Sapphire, Incest in fiction, Precious, films, Entertainment Culture
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