The Pride of Precious Jones
Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.
Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead I loved the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire because it told me two moving stories at once. The ...
The festival-circuit darling Precious has debuted with $1.8 million on just 18 screens. Yes, that's $100,000 per screen for three days. That's the twelfth-biggest per-screen average of all time.
Economists tell us that the recession may soon be ending. "Recession" is an economic term. The "NY Times" tells us "if statistics went back as far,(u...
Oprah announced that she will exclusively air her flagship program on the Oprah Winfrey Network beginning 2011. The move finds Oprah walking...
can Precious become this year's Slumdog Millionaire?Slumdog was about kids from another country. But Precious is about this country.
Palin's mention of Alaska "personalities" Bob & Mark for her upcoming book tour conjures up a truly shameless moment from Palin's past.
For a total newcomer like Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe to find a starring role in any film was beyond comprehension. But to find one where her ultra plus-s...
By Stephen Viscusi I am a headhunter ... and the author of the global HarperCollins bestseller "Bulletproof Your Job" ... some people call me th...
For a man who almost single-handedly revolutionized the broadcasting industry, Stern continues to be spectacularly disrespected by the media that he so radically transformed.
I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.
No matter what Nikki Finke and the critics try to tell you, This Is It, now the highest-grossing concert film of all time in just five days, enjoyed a rock-solid debut,
The Good Wife deftly hints at how even the most well meaning of us, men and women, aren't always well doing.
All of us have demons we have fought off, and have experienced low points in our lives we would love to forget. I don't believe the admission of drug use should define Agassi.
The following women serve as a sweet reminder that you don't need anyone but yourself to live an incredible life and have people remember you long after you're gone.
What can be more rogue than going on the TV show of one of President Obama's biggest supporters?
Obviously aware of the likely objections of millions of her middle-class-suburban-housewife viewers, the other day Oprah very carefully introduced her guest Jay-Z. Way to class it up, Ms. Winfrey.
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.
Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.
In an effort to help Oprah prepare for her interview we've compiled a top ten list of of outrageous questions about Sarah Palin that will need to be addressed.