Mo’Nique

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• ‘Precious’: Unforgettable Story of Hope, Self-Reliance

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  Some lives slip through the cracks, people who you might pass everyday without giving a second thought. Precious is one of those people. Vastly overweight and carrying her second child at the far-too-young age of 16, Precious is an African-American girl living in the Bronx who’s stuck four years behind her age ...
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• Precious: Not a Ghetto Freak Show

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  The buzz is at a fever pitch for this movie and for good reason.
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• Acclaimed indie dramas, “Children Of God” and “Precious” to open and close 6th Bahamas International Film Festival

  
  Film Festival Ticker — Authority: 474
  "Children of God" was written, directed and produced by Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer Kareem Mortimer’s  “Children Of God” and Lee Daniels’ “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” will open and close the 6th Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) , which runs Dec. 10-17 on ...
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• Top 10 Network & Cable TV Show Websites – Week Ended 10-31-09

  
  The NMS Blog — Authority: 145
  Nickelodeon’s Spongebob was the #1 ranked TV show website among broadcast and cable networks.  Comedy Central’s South Park was the #2 most visited site, followed by ABC’s Dancing with the Stars ranking at #3.Moves among the top 25 websites included Travel’s Ghost Adventures ranked #14 from #140, BET’s The ...
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• MoNique Channels Abuse Into Oscar-Buzz Performance

  
  Socialite Life — Authority: 162
  Monique is leading a full life these days with her new BET show, motherhood, and her upcoming movie Precious, for which her performance is creating early Oscar buzz. ...read full story
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• Box Office Breakdown: Christmas Carol Wins, Precious Soars

  
  FilmCrunch — Authority: 479
  We’re still weeks away from Thanksgiving, but theatergoers already have Christmas on their minds. Disney’s A Christmas Carol , the umpteenth version of the Charles Dickens tale, brought the story back to life with a visual rendition. Robert Zemeckis’ latest holiday creation earned over $30 million, surpassing ...
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• see precious: “if you can control a nation’s stories, you need not worry about who writes the nations laws.” (adolf hitler, quote pulled from the book, “hip hop slop.”)

  
  Political Poet(ry) — Authority: 106
  yeah you,see the movie.  cuz its not just the movie. it is the scene before the movie. its saturday night, union square, im at cosi’s, waiting for my folks, across the way from the theater. its is the groups of women, the femmes, the butches, the black women, the stunning fat girls, [...]
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• Mo’Nique Recalled Sexual Abuse For “Monster” Role

  
  HelloBeautiful — Authority: 578
  When Mo’Nique, the funny woman with the larger-than-life sense of humor, took on the role of an abusive mother in the film “Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire,” the actress set her current contentment aside and recalled a much harder time in her life. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, Mo’Nique opens ...
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• CNN Says The Late Night Comedy Scene Just Got Some Color….

  
  the.LIFE Files - "Welcome To Exclusiveness" — Authority: 624
  Are you guys watching these new shows??? We saw Mo’Niqe’s and she nearly deafened us, maybe we’ll give Wanda a look…
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• How Mo Nique Lost the Weight and Why Some Dont Like It

  
  FitSugar — Authority: 651
  Everywhere I look lately Im seeing comedienne MoNique. Shes got a new late-night talk show on BET, is making the talk show rounds, and is creating some serious Oscar buzz for her standout performance as an abusive mother in Precious . Oh, and also, shes about 50 lbs. lighter. The stand-up comic has spent a career ...
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• Did holidays, “Christmas Carol” come too early in Hollywood?

  
  Fan Fare — Authority: 589
  When Disney’s animated “A Christmas Carol” debuted over the weekend in U.S. movie theaters, it marked the beginning of Hollywood’s holiday season — the second most-trafficked period at theaters after the summer. But the movie failed to generate a huge amount of excitement with fans judging by its box office ...
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• MOVIE REVIEW: PRECIOUS

  
  THICKSATIONAL.com — Authority: 124
  Before watching “Precious” on Friday, I knew I was going to have a long detailed review and looking at the previews, I thought “Precious” was going to be this generation’s “The Color Purple”.I WAS WRONG!After the long anticipated release of this movie, I left the movie theaters saying “Precious” ...
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• Precious Brings in Breaking Numbers

  
  Non Stop Info | NSI | Urban Entertainment News Gossip And Fashion — Authority: 483
   Precious  is based on the book Push by Sapphire.  I read the book a while back when i was in high school, and this past summer when  I heard they were coming out with a movie I was ecstatic.  The writers, director, producers, and actors did an amazing job bringing the movie to life and leaving no details ...
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• ‘Precious’ was a breakout box office star this weekend pulling in $1.8 million from only 18 theaters

  
  starcasm.net — Authority: 594
  Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire opened with a bang in three U.S cities (Atlanta, New York, and L.A.) this weekend, pulling in $1.8 million in 18 theaters. For those of you like me who can have a little trouble with math, that’s a whopping $100,000 per theater. A Christmas Carol, which finished ...
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• "Precious" Sets a New Record For Films Opening in Limited Theatres!

  
  H. BLU'S WORD — Authority: 141
  Lionsgates "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" set a new record for films opening in limited release. The indie movies weekend take of $1.8 million from just 18 theaters is the best gross ever for a film opening in fewer than 100 theaters, reports Variety. Last year, by comparison, Focus Features "Milk" ...
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• REVIEW: Precious

  
  Filmonic — Authority: 526
  Precious has once again put me in the uncomfortable position of debating just how much I can really enjoy “inspirational” tales about situations slightly too horrific to be believable. Yet, simultaneously, the film that relies on the audience recognizing physical, sexual and emotional abuse in a way that falls ...
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• Mo’Nique: ‘I became monster for ‘Precious’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New York, Nov 5 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The famous comedian Mo’Nique has taken up a tough task in her new movie ‘Precious’. The fun loving comedian has taken up a strong mental challenge to play the role of Mary Jones - the vicious, abusive mother in the critically acclaimed film “Precious: Based on the Novel ...
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• Did You See ‘A Christmas Carol’ Or ‘Precious’ This Weekend?

  
  the.LIFE Files - "Welcome To Exclusiveness" — Authority: 624
  Disney Pictures’ A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey landed at #1 for the weekend box office earning $31 Million dollars.  Movie execs are calling the opening weak since the cost to make the film was around $200 Million bucks.  Precious the Lee Daniels film only made $1.8 Million its opening week, ...
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• Top Shelf at the Box Office!

  
  Punch Drunk Critics — Authority: 437
  So yeah, this is the time of year when most of us are just starting to get into the swing of Thanksgiving right around the corner. When were trying to decide whos gonna do the turkey this year and whether or not your sister-in-law is bringing that disgusting canned cranberry sauce, Hollywood is already way of us and ...
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• Inside every Gay Man Is a Soul Sister Waiting to Come Out!

  
  Socialite Life — Authority: 162
  This year ladies and gentle ladies (hee hee, did you catch the reference to girly men??), it looks like we have our vicarious candidate!Gabourey Sidibe is the Oscar buzzed up star of the Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry produced, and Lee Daniels directed, film adaption of the book, Push: Based... ...read full story
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