Howard Stern found the loveliest way to say Gabourey Sidibe should have won Best Actress for Precious on his radio show Monday. “There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s never going to be in another movie. She should have [...]
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire Hands up who wants to watch an overweight girl being abused by her father, being abused by her mother, and balancing raising a developmentally challenged baby in ’80s Harlem with learning to read. A fun night’s in store, right? Fortunately, this stirring adaptation of Sapphire’s bestseller is [...]
Gabourey Sidibe may not have won an Academy Award Sunday, but it sounds like she had the time of her life anyway. Not only did she enjoy the glamor and gifting superstars take for granted, she also enjoyed a more recent Hollywood ritual: getting hit on by Gerard Butler. Butler was walking past Sidibe and [...]
Don’t get us wrong, we love Kelly Osbourne—Shut Up! is an underrated album, for real—but we’re counting the minutes before she gets tired of dressing like a stylish golden girl. That purple-platinum hair dye must be seeping into her scalp and telling her raid her mom’s wardrobe—a 25-year-old should not look “Martha Stewart sexy.” Kelly [...]
The horse race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker ended tonight, with The Hurt Locker coming out on top. Katherine Bigelow beat out her ex-husband James Cameron to become the first female to ever win an Academy Award for Best Director. Other top prizes went to Jeff Bridges for Best Actor (Crazy Heart) and Sandra [...]
No, that’s not the breeze—Keri Hilson‘s dress at the NAACP Image Awards Saturday just looked permanently windswept. The uninhibited singer not only performed at the ceremony but won Best New Artist, with Maxwell, Mary J. Blige and the Black Eyed Peas also taking home honors. In the cinematic categories, Precious, director Lee Daniels and stars [...]
Vanity Fair‘s most recent cover folded out to reveal 9 of Hollywood’s most celebrated new starlets, but there was a glaring omission: Gabby Sidibe, who has blown the world away with her Oscar-nominated performance in Precious. Now the actress is reacting to the much-discussed snub, which many saw as a racially-fueled exclusion. She told Access [...]
Now that she’s been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Precious, Gabourey Sidibe has started thinking about what to wear and how, or rather with whom, to accessorize. The actress has clearly stated in the past her love and lust for all things ‘Nsync and during an interview with the Canadian talk show eTalk, [...]
This heartwarming clip of underdog Jeremy Renner learning he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Hurt Locker (and getting a bear hug from co-star Anthony Mackie) is just one example of the good vibes flowing forth from those acknowledged today. Here’s a few choice quotes from the actors and actresses who woke this [...]
For the last year, Gabourey Sidibe‘s star has risen higher than she probably ever thought possible due to her star turn in Precious. The awesome thing is that. as famous as she’s become, she is completely unaffected, in addition to being an amazing soundbite machine. One recent interview in the Daily Mail was a gem [...]
