Dreamgirls Play footage

This is a segment on Jennifer Holliday from CBS. Tere are some excellent clips of the Original DREAMGIRLS play which is the main reason why I'm posting it. Why didn't they record the play? It hurts my heart knowing there is no professional recording of the original play. Sad. Anyway, check it out.

Winning is so sweet!

Jennifer's acceptance speech! Kiss that Oscar Jennifer! Jennifer Holliday on E! preshow to the red carpet singing "And I am Telling You"

Oscar Performance and Pics

The ladies looked great in red and they gave a wonderful performance of the three nominated songs. Source: Courtesy of ~Evolution_DC3.BW~ on DC3Forever.2ya.com

Winners

Update: We were robbed for Best Song but the DREAMGIRLS put on a hell of a show. I should get the video soon. Update: Jennifer just won Best Supporting actress. Congratulations Jennifer! The performance should be coming up soon. Update: We lost Best costume design. So far DREAMGIRLS has won one award. They won. best sound mixing and Eddie lost in the Best Supporting category. Score: W-2 , L-3

Oscar Arrivals

Beyonce in Armani. I'm mad Jennifer is rocking that metallic jacket but the dress it beautiful. Anika is looking fabulous, as usual. Sideah Garret one of the songwriters (Love You I Do) from DREAMGIRLS is nominated for Best Song. Keith is the first on the scene, looking real good.

Barbara Walters Oscar Special

Tonight is Barbara's Oscar Special at 7pm ET on ABC and Jennifer Hudson is one of the guest on the Special along with Eddie Murphy. Supposedly, Jennifer sings "And I am Telling You" for the first time. This is an excerpt from an article by The Journal Gazette discussing the special: “I think this is one of the best shows we’ve had,” Walters says. “We’ve got a great cast, and there are things that made us almost sit up and applaud. Often when you’re doing an interview and you ask someone to sing a little something, they’ll say, ‘Oh, no, I’m sorry. I don’t have my music or my arranger.’ Well, Jennifer Hudson just opened her mouth, and this sound came out! We were staggered.” Hudson sings the show-stopping “Dreamgirls” number “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” for Walters, who declares it “the first time people who have not seen the film (or the stage show) will hear it. Her story is like the one in ‘Dreamgirls,’ about the girl who’s told she can’t make it, then gets the biggest part there is.” Click here for the full article. I don't think she will sing the whole song and it seems to be an impromptu performance rather than something that was planned. However, I could be wrong which would be a good thing because there's soem doubters out there who don't think Jennifer can pull the song off live. I know she can and I can't wait to watch all teh action tonight.So make sure you set your tivo's. The special airs tonight at 7pm ET on ABC and 11pm on the West coast following the Oscars.

Oscar Performance Spoilers

Click here if you want some insight into the DREAMGIRLS performance tomorrow night.

Oscar Rehearsal

Beyonce rehearses for the Oscars with Bill Codon directing the DREAMGIRLS numbers. Source: Dc3forever and cornerofbeyonce

Oscars

So the Oscars are this Sunday and new info is coming in about the big night. The official Oscar press release reports that Beyoncé will perform “Listen” (music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, lyric by Anne Preven), one of three Original Song nominees from the musical “Dreamgirls.” Also from “Dreamgirls” will be Hudson singing “Love You I Do” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Siedah Garrett), and Rose, Robinson and other cast mates performing “Patience” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Willie Reale). To read the full press release click here. Giant magazine held a pre-Oscar event Wednesday night at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles to honor Academy Award nominee Jennifer Hudson. Jamie Foxx, and Janet jackson were among some of the people who attended. Stuart Weitzman announced that Anika Noni Rose will wear the Diamond Dream Shoe to the 79th Annual Academy Awards. An excerpt from the press release: "The Diamond Dream Shoe, created exclusively for the actress, is asilver evening shoe with a stiletto heel, adorned with 1,420 individualbrilliant cut Kwiat diamonds, weighing over 30 carats. The diamonds are setin platinum circles, inspired by Kwiat's timeless Circles Collection. Thespectacular shoe is worth half a million dollars."As Anika pursues and accomplishes her dream, I wanted to recognizethis young actress by creating a luxuriously glamorous shoe for her to weardown the red carpet on Hollywood's most celebrated evening," said designerStuart Weitzman." Picture of the Stuart Weitzman Diamond Dream Shoe and to read the full press release click here: Scott Culter, one of the writers for Listen said today that he would split his Oscar with Beyonce if he were to win Best Original Song on sunday night. He says, "Beyonce helped that along a lot - little lifts in the melody, little lifts in the song that we hadn't thought of. She just kept sending back ideas, thoughts, what she wanted. "I'll cut my Oscar in the middle and give her half." Awww how sweet. Click here for the full article. And just to refresh our memories here's Beyonce killing "Listen" when she was on Oprah with the rest of the cast.

New Pic

Here's a new pic that surfaced on People.com

Us Weekly

Jennifer on the cover of LIFE Magazine

Jennifer is a covergirl once again, this time gracing the cover of Life Magazine. Here are pictures from the article. You can read the full article here. Jennifer will also be on the cover of People Magazine with other celebs like Christina Aguilera, Diddy, Pink, and Whitney Houston to name a few. So be on the look out for that as well. Source: Life.com

And I am Telling You I'm Not Going..

E! has announced that Jennifer Holliday will be singing THE song on the E! Oscar Red Carpet Special. I'm a little perplexed by it but I guess it's all good. What do you all think about Jennifer Holliday singing on the red carpet at the Oscars? Speaking of Effie, Jennifer Hudson won a BAFTA on Monday (happy Darren?). I'm a little late with the news but I've been busy. Anyway, the BAFTA is the British equivalent of an Oscar. So congrats to Jennifer on her win. No one can steal her shine right now, not even Holliday. The girl is doing big things!

Beyonce in Sports Illustrated

VOGUE

Here it is, Jennifer on the cover of VOGUE. It's a nice cover, it could have been a little better but I'm just happy that she's on the cover to begin with. The last picture is my favorite. Source: Thanks Damarcus

Dreamgirls at The Grammys

Last night Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson and Jamie Foxx all attended the Grammys. Beyonce performed "Listen," Jennifer and Jamie presented awards.

VOGUE

According to Eonline Jennifer Hudson will be on the cover of the March issue of VOGUE. Here's an excerpt of the article from Eonline: "My gal Jennifer has landed herself a cover of Vogue. Winfrey and Berry are the only other African-American actresses to grace the cover of the magazine. Hudson will appear on the cover of the mag's annual Power Issue. It's one of the biggest issues of the year because it includes a spring fashion preview. "March is to spring what the September issue is to fall," a magazine insider says. Hudson was shot for the magazine by über-celeb shutterbug Annie Leibovitz at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. In addition to the cover (first reported by WWD), I'm told there are three more portrait pics of her inside the magazine to go along with her seven-page story. Vogue will probably begin releasing images of the Hudson spread sometime next week, a source reports." This is huge, she would be the third black woman to be on the cover of VOGUE and one of the only fuller figured women to appear on the cover. Jennifer is doing big things. I will be looking out for that cover. Click here to read the full article. You can also catch Jennifer performing at Clive Davis's pre grammy party. It will air live at 9pm PST/ 12:30am EST. Click here to watch the live show.

BET's 'One Night Only" Kids on Radio

These are the kids from the BET 'One Night Only" series. If you can catch the show be sure to do so. It's great and these kids can sang!

‘Dreamgirls’ To Unite at Academy Awards

Extra reported the following (although most of us already knew this): “Extra” has learned that the dream team, consisting of Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose, will reunite to perform Oscar night.At the Oscar nominee’s luncheon on Monday afternoon, Jennifer Hudson broke the news that she and her “Dreamgirls” will perform live during this year’s most anticipated awards show on Feb. 25.While rehearsals have yet to begin, Hudson also revealed that the film’s director, Bill Condon, will coordinate the grand performance most definitely worth Oscar gold." Source: Extra TV