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| What's the buzz on Queen Latifah? Secret Life of Bees |
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For this edition of Monday Night Conversation,
BlackTree TV CEO, Jamaal Finkley, sits down with
the Queen, to find out whats all the buzz on her
new movie, her new album, and her take on the
state of Hip Hop
'Secret Life of Bees' brings
issues of love, redemption and
racism to the screen.
By Jackie Burrell
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 10/13/2008 12:11:00 AM PDT
In 2002, Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel "The Secret
Life of Bees" buzzed up best-seller lists where it
hummed and hovered for months.
On Friday, the indie movie based on Kidd's story
about a motherless child and a trio of
honey-making
sisters will finally make its way to the silver
screen.
But despite its book-club-favorite status and a
star-
studded cast — headed by Dakota Fanning, Queen
Latifah and Jennifer Hudson — the movie's path
has
been nearly as poignant and serendipitous as the
book itself.
Sitting in a plush lounge in San Francisco's Ritz-
Carlton Hotel recently, director/screenwriter Gina
Prince-Bythewood relaxed with her young star
before the Mill Valley Film Festival opening. The
novel, which sold 4.5 million copies, is on many
schools' reading lists. Fanning, 14, calls it "a
great
book for people my age."
She and her director talked about what it was like
filming a story set against powerful civil
rights-era
themes just as Barack Obama was racking up his
first
big triumphs. Prince-Bythewood also addressed the
motifs of motherlessness, abandonment and
redemption that run through the characters' lives
—
and her own.
"The Secret Lives of Bees" tells the story of a
young
girl, 14-year-old Lily Owens, who runs from an
abusive father and the deeply held belief that she
is,
somehow, "unlovable."
Prince-Bythewood, a Pacific Grove native, was on a
journey of her own, seeking her birth mother and
trying to understand why she had been given up as
a child when her older brother had not. But when
she was offered the project seven years ago, she
hadn't read the book and turned the picture down.
Two years ago she heard that another director had
signed on, and suddenly she was consumed with
"this overwhelming feeling of 'That's my movie!'"
She
read the novel that night.
"The book just wrecked me," she says. "Oh my God,
I gave up this opportunity. It's about motherhood,
sisters, learning to love yourself. I said those
same
words — 'I'm unlovable' — when I found my
birth
mother."
Then, almost miraculously, everything fell into
place. The movie's director walked, and all that
was
left was the book and its star, Fanning, who was
finally old enough to play the role.
"In retrospect, it happened at the right time,"
she
says. "You grow a lot in five, six years. Being
adopted was part of my journey. To pour myself
into
this script (helped me) get over the last vestiges
of
that tough time."
In a matter of weeks, Prince-Bythewood had her
stars — all working for virtually no pay — and
a
steady stream of cast and crew showing up with
dog-eared copies of the book.
Secret Life of Bees Footage Courtesy of Fox
SearchLight Pictures
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Produced by Jamaal Finkley
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Durée : 578 s |
| Buzz Quiz TV review |
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http://gamesweasel.com - YouTube review of Buzz!
Quiz TV for Playstation 3
Full review at
http://gamesweasel.com/blog/reviews/buzz-quiz-tv-r
eview/
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viewPodcast?id=269451032 for video game reviews,
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Podcast available in mp3, iPod video, PSP video
and HD formats.
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Buzz! Jason Donovan
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Durée : 138 s |
| BUZZ! Quiz TV (PS3) |
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The hit game-show experience on the PS2 is getting
an upgrade bigger than "Big", or even "Mega".
"Quiz TV", aside from the HD upgrade on the
game-show formula, will include an online "Couch
vs. Couch" mode. What more, there will be an
downloadable quiz packs to add to the
already-thousands of questions on the disk. And if
you can't find a topic of questions you don't
want: Make your own. You can even share it online
and see what others say about it.
All with new wireless buzzers!
BUZZ! Quiz TV is now available to play on the PS3!
Video first premiered at the Leipzig Games
Convention, and appears to also be the same video
shown (and now even more wide-spread) from the
recent Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
PlayStation Day 08 event.
Check up with Relentless Software @
http://www.relentless.co.uk/
Tags : BUZZ! Quiz TV PS3 PlayStation Video Game 3.0 Gaming Casual Market Television Show Day SCEE SCEA Jason Donovan 08 2008 |
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