Madonna once expressed an interest in producing the critically-acclaimed new movie Precious, author Sapphire has revealed. Sapphire claims the Queen of Pop was eager to be associated with the film adapted from 1996 novel Push, the story of an illiterate, obese girl battling abuse and teen pregnancy in 1987 Harlem.
Madonna was among the first people to show an interest in adapting author Sapphire’s gritty drama into a film.
“There was this really earnest college student with his backpack on who wanted to do his first film, and then Madonna wanted to produce it,” the writer reveals in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.
“I was like, ‘Madonna? I don’t think this is her film,’” she added. “I remember this one producer told me that he had found Precious—and it was going to be Brandy,” a shocked Sapphire said. “Excuse me? I literally almost hung up on him.”
The post finally went to moviemaker Lee Daniels who managed to convince her with his credentials. Precious opens in theaters everywhere this Friday.
Brandy, who is promoting the release of her latest album, Human, opened up to The Early Show’s Maggie Rodriguez about the car accident she was involved in that killed a young mother in December 2006.
Grammy Award-winning singer Brandy is back. Despite finding herself at the center of fatal car crash that led to a tough hiatus from the music scene, Brandy will release her first album in four years, Human, next Tuesday, December 9.
Former R&B teen idol Brandy has been slapped with another wrongful death lawsuit in connection with the December 30, 2006 accident on the Los Angeles 405 that left a mother dead. This time the singer is being sued by the children of the victim. Read the rest of this entry »
Brandy wasn’t under the influence when she rear ended a Toyota in a four car pile-up that left a mother of two dead on a stretch of the Los Angeles Freeway-but she may have been brokenhearted. Read the rest of this entry »
The parents of the woman killed in a car accident caused by R&B singer Brandy filed a $50 million lawsuit against the singer last week, but some legal digging has resulted in questions into whether or not Mom and Dad have the legal right to sue. Read the rest of this entry »
After weeks of adamantly denying that she let Brandy’s baby brother piss on her on video, Paris Hilton’s BFF Kim Kardashian has come clean-more than one sex tape exist. Read the rest of this entry »
In the midst of facing manslaughter charges and being sued for $50 million, Brandy has decided that her long time PR rep Courtney Barnes simply won’t do. The struggling R&B singer has hired Allan Mayer of NYC’s 42 West to salvage her public image. A.M specializes in “crisis management.”
According to TMZ sources, Brandy has been sued by the family of the woman killed in the Dec. 30th car crash that has the singer facing the prospect of manslaughter charges. The family of Awatef Aboudihaj filed the suit today in Van Nuys, CA.
