Lena Horne

Lena Horne news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lena Horne performances. According to Wikipedia: Lena Mary Calhoun Horne is an American popular singer. While she has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians, Billy Strayhorn, and Duke Ellington, she is usually not considered a jazz singer because she does not improvise. She currently lives in New York City and still makes public appearances. She might be best-known for her version of the song "Stormy Weather", which was a hit in the 1940s.

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Just Call Her Lena...Alicai Keys to play Lena Horne in Movie

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From: www.publicitystuntn.com

Oprah Winfrey is reported to have cast R&B singer Alicia Keys in the lead role in her forthcoming biopic on Lena Horne . The talk show host /movie producer has chosen the hitmaker to play the reclusive jazz star, who is now 90 years of age. She says, "We're going to start filming next year, and we've got Alicia." Singer Janet Jackson is reportedly devastated by the news, as she had actively pursued the role of Horne for years...and was in talks to play the music legend when the project supposed to be a TV special. Hmmm this is a tough one. I think ... Read Full Story

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Alicia Keys To Play Lena Horne; Janet Jackson Axed

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From: thebeatniks.blogspot.com

NICE move Oprah! Alicia Keys has won the lead role of Lena Horne in an upcoming biopic backed by Oprah Winfrey. Janet Jackson was originally {WTF???<--Slim} picked for the role but was cut after her Superbowl "Nipplegate" antics. Sources say Janet was "devastated" when she was fired, as she had been vying for that role for some time. OH WELL!!! Janet Jackson should let this be a lesson. Not acting your age and trying to be like these young birds will only get you so far. Lately it hasn't gotten her very far at all with her albums failing. Alicia Keys is a good ... Read Full Story

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Angela Bassett @ Lena Horne's Stormy Weather

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Reserve Result (RR) was invited to the 3rd Annual Sheldon Epps Theatrical Diversity Project Celebration at the Pasadena Playhouse for a special performance of Stormy Weather celebrating Lena Horne, starring Leslie Uggams, honoring Brenda Galloway and hosted by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with special guest Gabrielle Union. I was limited on my Lena Horne biography but soon learn about her tumultuous life in this excellent play and performances by Lesile Uggams, Dee Hoty, Nikki Crawford, Phillip Attmore, Yvette Cason, Cleavant Derricks, Wilkie Ferguson, Robert Torti, Dain Vincent and Toni Trucks. Quam Odunsi Actors Randall Law, Barry Shabaka Henley, Blair Underwood, James Black ... Read Full Story

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Alicia Keys lands role as Lena Horne

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From: 1busstop.blogspot.com

"New York, Dec 13 - It is official -- singer Alicia Keys will play Lena Horne in a movie on the music legend and not Janet Jackson as was rumoured earlier. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who has taken over the project, wanted Keys in the lead role, pagesix.com reports. She said: 'We are going to start filming next year. And we have got Alicia.' The casting seems to be making sense since Keys and Horne share a lot in common. Both were from New York and became famous quickly. Keys is a spokesperson for several AIDS organisations and Horne was heavily involved in ... Read Full Story

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Alicia Keys To Play Lena Horne

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From: livehip-hop.blogspot.com

Alicia Keys is doing big things lately. She recently performed in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony and now, she just landed a new role. Page Six is reporting that Alicia Keys will be portraying the legendary Lena Horne in the Oprah produced film based on Lena Horne's life. Oprah Winfrey has taken control of the project and cast Alicia Keys in the title role. During an interview for her new film, The Great Debaters, Oprah revealed that while she’s never going to act again, she’s taken to producing like a billionaire fish to water. “We’re going to start filming next year,” Oprah ... Read Full Story

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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne James Gavin Hardcover; 608 pages ISBN: 0743271432 Simon and Schuster 2009 ...it just keeps rainin' all the time... If James Gavin's biography of trumpeter Chet Baker = 3578, Deep In A Dream (Knopf, 2002), was a study of the slow motion, black hole implosion of a life into addiction and dissolution, then Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne is a survey in the slow motion explosion of a life...

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Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement

Once, while visiting Brooklyn, I got a call from a fellow Bronxite, back on the mainland. When I revealed my location, he said, “Brooklyn?! What time is it there?” Despite the interborough bafflement, Brooklyn has been a genuine part of the land of the free since day one, that is, July 4, 1776. So when Lena Horne was born there in 1917, she automatically became a U.S. citizen. About 25 years later Horne was asked to give two concerts at Camp...

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