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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 festival’s 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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