Jennifer Hudson

[BobbyD 2]

Ok, Jennifer...if the diva tactics are true...enjoy the awards while you still can. Hollywood isn't too kind to curvy women with real talent.

[Serendipity 12]

The latest copy of Star Magazine (Feb. 19) has stories accusing Jennifer Hudson of being a diva. Let the backlash begin! It's too long to type out the whole article (which also accuses Katharine McPhee of being a diva), but here is the juiciest part of the Jennifer piece (not much evidence of diva-dom in my opinion, but I'm sure we'll be hearing more). It starts off by regurgitating her recent critique of American Idol, and then goes into the following:

 

In addition to her Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress, she has landed a Golden Globe and a SAG award-- and according to sources, what looks like a major case of diva-itis! For instance, at the Jan. 7 General Motors auto show in Detroit (where Beyonce Knowles' boyfriend Jay-Z unveiled a new blue SUV concept car he helped design), an eyewitness says, "She seemed to have a major case of entitlement, a conceited vibe, if you will." And at the SAG awards on Jan. 28, another source tells Star, "She wouldn't talk to the press much. She acted like she was already an Oscar-winner. Of course, she deserves the awards, but come on! Just one year ago, she was a nobody!"

Beyonce probably phoned in this little tidbit herself!!

[Babloo328 0]

She seems pretty genuine to me - and after playing the HBIC with a major case of diva-itis and seeing how that played out...well, I don't think she'll be turning into Beyonce anytime soon.

[Hoyaheel 1,878]

1) That Vogue cover of Jennifer is NOT attractive. Poor girl!

2) Only 3 african americans on the cover of Vogue, ever??? That's shameful!!!

[Hoyaheel 1,878]

[MC 1]

Ok, Jennifer...if the diva tactics are true...enjoy the awards while you still can. Hollywood isn't too kind to curvy women with real talent.

You know, she's new at this. It's possible that her shyness when thrown into such a bright spotlight is misconstrued as diva tactics. I saw an interview with her when she had just found out about the Oscar nomination. She was in a hotel room in England (I think). She seemed genuinely overwhelmed and grateful. Like the other poster said, I wouldn't be surprised if these diva whispers came from someone who is jealous.

[BobbyD 2]

1) That Vogue cover of Jennifer is NOT attractive. Poor girl!

2) Only 3 african americans on the cover of Vogue, ever??? That's shameful!!!

Agreed, Hoya...Vogue has had Paris Hilton in the Magazine...so F*ck em! It's next month's cover, so I guess Vogue didn't put her on for Black History Month.

[mf'smom 0]

This pisses me off. She's a beautiful woman. They made her look lousy. Anna W. is a jerk. Guess a sexy curvy black woman is against everything she believes in. Anna sucks and so does Vogue. I'm boycotting until they come out with realistic models in their magazine...this cover does NOT count.

[T.C.Darling 0]

" You'z jus jealous o' mah curves. I'm F-A-T, Fabulous and Thick!"

[Blondie 0]

to defend Anna Wintour (am I actually defending this woman after she used Paris?? Let's just call this a clarification), the cover quote referred to celebs, not African Americans in general. Naomi has graced the cover a few times (and I believe that Beverly wassherface who used to date Chris Noth was the first African American on the cover).

only the third African-American celebrity

[Hoyaheel 1,878]

I was going to comment about Naomi, as she clearly wouldn't be considered African American....

[sanlee 49]

to defend Anna Wintour (am I actually defending this woman after she used Paris?? Let's just call this a clarification), the cover quote referred to celebs, not African Americans in general. Naomi has graced the cover a few times (and I believe that Beverly wassherface who used to date Chris Noth was the first African American on the cover).

only the third African-American celebrity

Beverly Johnson.

[Hoyaheel 1,878]

Beverly Johnson was the first black woman on the cover of ANY fashion magazine--Glamour in 1972 I think....

 

ETA And apparently she was the first black on the cover of Vogue, in 1974.....

Edited February 14, 2007 by Hoyaheel

[BobbyD 2]

to defend Anna Wintour (am I actually defending this woman after she used Paris?? Let's just call this a clarification), the cover quote referred to celebs, not African Americans in general. Naomi has graced the cover a few times (and I believe that Beverly wassherface who used to date Chris Noth was the first African American on the cover).

only the third African-American celebrity

The point is...if we can keep count of how many black people appear on the cover of a magazine...there's obviously a problem, don't you think?

[mf'smom 0]

 

to defend Anna Wintour (am I actually defending this woman after she used Paris?? Let's just call this a clarification), the cover quote referred to celebs, not African Americans in general. Naomi has graced the cover a few times (and I believe that Beverly wassherface who used to date Chris Noth was the first African American on the cover).

only the third African-American celebrity

The point is...if we can keep count of how many black people appear on the cover of a magazine...there's obviously a problem, don't you think?

 

I think there's two problems:

1. That Vogue is so friggin' bone thin white

2. That in this day and age there is even an issue with color on the cover of a magazine...pathetic, and I do think it can be directly blamed on Anna W., the skeletal, disgusting witch of NY.

[Blondie 0]

The point is...if we can keep count of how many black people appear on the cover of a magazine...there's obviously a problem, don't you think?

I don't disagree, however being a lawyer - can't help but correct the earlier post. It's not good either way. However I suspect Anna was more up in arms over Hudson's size than her skin color. She is a very discriminating woman in every way.

[Cruzin2Fold 1]

I am so sad....I did not see anything wrong with the photo. I think she looks great in all of her pictures. She is a natural beauty,even Anna can not mess that up.

[sanlee 49]

NY Daily News

 

 

Jennifer Hudson has been spotted hitting Rodeo Drive with Vogue editor-at-large Andre Leon Tally.

They stopped at Louis Vuitton and Coach, and bought a blinged-out $16,000 Lady DeVille watch (with 42 diamonds, thank you very much) from the Omega boutique.

[Hoyaheel 1,878]

I am so sad....I did not see anything wrong with the photo. I think she looks great in all of her pictures. She is a natural beauty,even Anna can not mess that up.

I just don't like that open mouth cover--I don't think it's the best I've ever seen her look at all....

[sanlee 49]

'Dreamgirl' Jennifer Hudson wins Oscar

Associated Press - Feb 25,

 

 

LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Hudson won the supporting-actress Academy Award on Sunday for "Dreamgirls," though her co-star and fellow front-runner Eddie Murphy lost the supporting-actor prize to Alan Arkin of "Little Miss Sunshine."

 

"More than anything, I'm deeply moved by the open-hearted appreciation our small film has received, which in these fragmented times speaks so openly of the possibility of innocence, growth and connection," said Arkin, who plays a foul-mouthed grandpa with a taste for heroin in the road comedy.

 

Hudson won an Oscar for her first movie, playing a powerhouse vocalist who falls on hard times after she is booted from a 1960s girl group. The role came barely two years after she shot to celebrity as an "American Idol" finalist.

 

"Oh my God, I have to just take this moment in. I cannot believe this. Look what God can do. I didn't think I was going to win," Hudson said through tears of joys. "If my grandmother was here to see me now. She was my biggest inspiration."

 

Al Gore's film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won for best documentary feature.

 

The dancing-penguin musical "Happy Feet" won the Oscar for feature-length animation, denying computer-animation pioneer John Lasseter ("Toy Story") the prize for "Cars," which had been the big winner of earlier key animation honors.

 

"I asked my kids, `What should I say?' They said, `Thank all the men for wearing penguin suits,'" said "Happy Feet" director George Miller (news, bio, voting record).

 

The savage fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth" took the first two Oscars, for art direction and makeup, the wins for the Spanish-language film kicking off an Oscar evening stuffed with contenders from around the globe. "Pan's Labyrinth" also took the cinematography Oscar.

 

"To Guillermo del Toro for guiding us through this labyrinth," said art director Eugenio Caballero, lauding the writer-director of "Pan's Labyrinth," the tale of a girl who concocts an elaborate fantasy world to escape her harsh reality in 1940s Fascist Spain.

 

Germany's "The Lives of Others," about a playwright and his actress-girlfriend who come under police surveillance in 1980s East Berlin, won the foreign-language Oscar, the films it beat including "Pan's Labyrinth."

 

"Letters From Iwo Jima" won the sound-editing Oscar for Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman. Murray's father was an Iwo Jima survivor.

 

"Thank you to my father and all the brave and honorable men and women in uniform who in a time of crisis have all made that decision to defend their personal freedom and liberty no matter what the sacrifice," Murray said.

 

The record holder for Oscar futility, sound engineer Kevin O'Connell, extended his losing streak to 19 nominations without a win. This time, O'Connell and two colleagues were nominated for sound mixing on "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's portrait of the savage decline of the ancient Mayan empire, but they lost to another trio of sound engineers that worked on "Dreamgirls."

 

"Apocalypto" lost in all three categories in which it was nominated, all for technical achievements. Gibson, whose "Braveheart" was the big winner at the 1995 Oscars, had been condemned by many in Hollywood for an anti-Semitic rant he made during his drunken-driving arrest last summer.

 

Once an evening of backslapping and merrymaking within the narrow confines of Hollywood, the Academy Awards this time looked like a United Nations exercise in diversity.

 

The 79th annual Oscars feature their most ethnically varied lineup ever, with stars and stories that reflect the growing multiculturalism taking root around the globe.

 

"What a wonderful night. Such diversity in the room," said Ellen DeGeneres, serving as Oscar host for the first time, "in a year when there's been so many negative things said about people's race, religion and sexual orientation.

 

"And I want to put this out there: If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would be no Oscars," she said, adding: "Or anyone named Oscar, when you think about that."

 

Competing for best picture was Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," a sweeping ensemble drama. The film's cast ranges from A-listers such as Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett to comparative unknowns Adriana Barraza from Mexico and Rinko Kikuchi from Japan, who both earned supporting-actress nominations for "Babel."

 

Also in the running were Stephen Frears' classy British saga "The Queen," a portrait of the royal family in crisis, and Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language war tale "Letters From Iwo Jima."

 

Those films joined two idiosyncratic American stories nominated for best picture, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and Martin Scorsese's crime epic "The Departed."

 

Though set among the distinctive cops and mobsters of Boston, "The Departed" had a global connection � it was based on the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs." The film won the adapted-screenplay Oscar for William Monahan, who thanked Scorsese and "The Departed" star Leonardo DiCaprio, a best-actor nominee.

 

"Thanks to Marty and Leo for reading the script and calling each other and saying let's make it," Monahan said.

 

Former Vice President Al Gore � the central figure in the global-warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary nominee � appeared with DiCaprio to praise organizers for implementing environmentally friendly practices in the show's production.

 

DiCaprio set up a gag with Gore, asking the 2000 presidential candidate if there was anything he wanted to announce.

 

"I guess with a billion people watching, it's as good a time as any. So my fellow Americans, I'm going to take this opportunity here and now to formally announce my intentions ...," Gore said, his voice trailing away as the orchestra cut him off.

 

Of the 20 acting nominees, five were black, two were Hispanic and one was Asian, while only two Americans � Eastwood and Scorsese � were among the five best-director contenders.

 

With a Directors Guild of America award and other top film honors behind him, Scorsese was considered a shoo-in to earn the directing Oscar, a prize that has eluded him throughout his illustrious career.

 

The best-picture race was up for grabs, with all five films in the running but many Oscar watchers generally figuring it was a three-way race among "Babel," "The Departed" and "Little Miss Sunshine."

 

Organizers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hoped the suspense of the wide-open best-picture category would help offset moviegoers' relative lack of interest in the competing films.

 

TV ratings for the Oscars tend to be lower when fewer people have seen the top nominees. Collectively, the five best-picture nominees had drawn a total domestic theatrical audience of about 38.5 million people, about a third the number of fans who have gone to see the contenders in recent peak years when such blockbusters as "Gladiator" or "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" have won.

[BobbyD 2]

Revenge of the real girls

By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ

 

Thanks to her Academy Award, Jennifer Hudson is about to become a real American idol.

If the breakout star of "Dreamgirls" thought she was living a fantasy in the months leading up to her Best Supporting Actress win Sunday night, that's nothing compared with what lies ahead.

 

With her brand-new Oscar in hand, the 25-year-old Hudson - who grew up on the tough side of Chicago and wound up on the glamorous side of the red carpet - has become the official symbol of real girls everywhere.

 

Like America Ferrera, the Golden Globe-winning star of television's "Ugly Betty," and the soulful British songstress Corinne Bailey Rae, whose self-titled album has gone double platinum, Hudson has zoomed past the overly primped and posed girls to become the star that female audiences feel they know. Despite all her talent - and all the exciting options now open to her - Hudson is a budding star who really could live next door.

 

"A lot of people are rooting for Jennifer because of her humility. She's a potential star who a lot of fans project themselves onto, because she came out of nowhere," says Gregg Kilday, film editor of The Hollywood Reporter.

 

During awards season, adds Kilday, "she conducted herself with a lot of poise. She has grace, style and flair. And the Oscar win obviously opens up the possibility of a solid [acting] career."

 

Bernie Telsey, a veteran New York casting director, auditioned Hudson for the role of Joanne in the film version of "Rent" shortly after she was voted off "American Idol" in 2004. Though she didn't get the part, Telsey says he saw star potential in her.

 

"She has this great energy," says Telsey. "And what I was taken by at every awards show is that smile. Somehow you want to capture that joy. She's fresh."

 

Though it turned out that the "Dreamgirls" part of Effie White was the right role at the right time, fans of Hudson will be eagerly watching to see what she does next, says Damien Bona, co-author of the Academy Awards bible "Inside Oscar."

 

"She seems to be a very grounded, real person who'll be careful to choose a role that fits her personality," says Bona.

 

Late last year, as the awards hoopla was reaching its peak, Hudson told the Daily News what she felt as she and her family heard her name announced as a Golden Globe nominee. True to form, she thought it might be for someone else.

 

"At first I just heard the first half of my name [during the Globe announcement] - I heard 'Jennifer,' and we were like, 'Ahh!' We would have felt real stupid if they would have said Jennifer Connelly, or another Jennifer.

 

"I [was] like, 'Oh my god - are they really gonna say my name?'"

 

Could a real girl like her get all the attention?

 

Oh, yes.

 

Originally published on February 27, 2007

[Lady Frost 23]

That poor girl.

 

From DListed and the New York Post:

 

http://dlisted.com/?p=7301

 

Jennifer Hudson, did win big - but lost big, too, because of the much ridiculed metallic bolero Andre Leon Talley made her put on. (Post fashion editor Serena French said it made her look "lost in space.") "Jennifer was kind of sponsored by Talley and Vogue," said one fashionista. "Andre insisted she wear that hideous Oscar de la Renta dress with the awful, awful gold python bolero.

 

"Jennifer really didn't want to, and so [noted stylist] Jessica Paster got her a beautiful gold Roberto Cavalli custom-made. But when Andre found out, he went ballistic. Moments before she left for the show, there was a power struggle and Jennifer ended up putting his outfit on."

 

What an ASS! Fuck ANNA WINTOUR! I get she was being "sponsored" or something (what, like an rehabbing addict?), but LET THE GIRL WEAR WHAT SHE WANTS!

 

But I bet the dress she wore in the press room and to the parties was the Cavalli. And that dress was gorgeous.

Edited February 27, 2007 by Lady Frost

[jgr0602 0]

That jacket thing was totally hideous, I can't blame her for not wanting to wear it. Ass.

[mf'smom 0]

That jacket thing was totally hideous, I can't blame her for not wanting to wear it. Ass.

It is too bad too, because with the right clothes and hair, she is a knockout. That dress and idiotic coat were just awful on her. I didn't like the way her hair was done either. Maybe this will give Vogue the black eye (no pun intended) they truly deserve and the readership will fade...and girls will all start looking healthy not dead in Anna's magazine....and then I'll wake up.

[BobbyD 2]