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Queen Latifah at Urbanworld Film Festival and other notes
USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live —
Queen Latifah will be honorary chair of the Urbanworld Film Festival presented by BET Networks Sept. 10-14 in New York. She stars in the festivalâs closing night feature, The Secret Life of Bees (out Oct. 17). Urbanworld highlights independent and mainstream films by and about people of color. ... Fans and friends are expected at Hope Presbyterian Church in Cordova, Tenn., for today's memorial tribute to singer Isaac Hayes , 65, who died Aug. 10 of a stroke. ... Danny DeVito , Danny Glover and Edward James Olmos will be joining Tom Hanks , Bruce Willis and Julia ...
Ursula Rucker Documentary to Premiere at Urbanworld Film Fest
SOULBOUNCE.COM —
I must admit that poetry has always made me feel uncomfortable. Maybe it has to do with the lack of singing and the over-expression of emotion that sometimes occurs...often with the presence of a bongo or two. Despite all of this, there really is something so special and unique and inexplicable about Ursula ...
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"Tropic Thunder" beats Batman at the box office
(Reuters)
news.yahoo.com 8/18/2008 — Reuters - Robert Downey Jr. scored his second
No. 1 movie of the summer on Sunday as Hollywood spoof "Tropic
Thunder," which also stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black, ended
the month long reign of "The Dark Knight" atop the North
American box ...
Tropic Thunder Topples Dark Knight at Box Office
showstalker.net 8/18/2008 — Tropic Thunder just brought down Batman’s at the box office this weekend. The Ben Stiller-directed comedy, featuring Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. in Blackface, debuted at No. 1, taking in $26 million and bumping The Dark Knight to second-place after four weekends in the top spot, according to early studio estimates Sunday.
'Dark Knight' on top overseas
hollywoodreporter.com 8/18/2008 — Batman triumphed on the international circuit during the weekend as Warner's "The Dark Knight" reclaimed the No. 1 slot with an estimated $42.4 million from 7,700 screens in 60 markets, pushing its foreign gross to $328.6 million.
Box Office: Tropic Thunder Takes the Top Spot
buzzsugar.com 8/18/2008 —
Even though Tropic Thunder is technically No. 1 this weekend, The Dark Knight is still being called the biggest winner because it is "the second highest grossing pic of all time after Titanic domestically." Ben Stiller's comedy earned an estimated ...