23.12.09
4.12.09
23.11.09
ANOTHER BIG SCREEN ROLE FOR JENNIFER HUDSON
Jennifer Hudson, the former American Idol contestant who won the oscar in her first screen role in “Dreamgirls,” is ready for her next challenge. Hudson will star in “Winnie,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where the future president spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.
“Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!”
Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography “Winnie Mandela:A Life.”
Picture is being made with South African and Canadian money, with Pieterse producing with Michael Mosca of Canada’s Equinoxe Films.
While Nelson Mandela—who’ll be played by Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Invictus”– is a universally sympathetic figure for his struggle against apartheid, his former wife is a far more complicated figure. She has been depicted as the mother and wife who was a steadfast supporter of her activist husband and who was jailed herself for campaigning for his release and fighting against apartheid. Her image was subsequently tarnished by association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year old alleged informer, and she was later convicted of fraud.
The filmmakers will tell the whole story, good and bad.
“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honored to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”
21.11.09
18.11.09
RIHANNA IN LONDON
Rihanna and her best friend Melissa pose for a photo at the Nokia X6 launch afterpary at Mahiki nightclub, Mayfair on Monday night in London. Word is she left the club a little tipsy.
Rihanna had a special performance earlier in the night, that was sponsored and streamed worldwide via Nokia. Special guests included Jay-Z and Young Jeezy.
13.11.09
8.11.09
TOLLYWOOD STARS
Aunty Ezekiel with Tanzania top movie star Steven Kanumba at SWAHILI FASHION WEEK yesterday.
2.11.09
31.10.09
MADONNA A GODDESS IN MALAWI
Madonna may be Hollywood royalty there in the states, but in Malawi she’s considered a God.
Madonna took time out of her busy schedule to visit Malawi and the orphanage she adopted her son David Banda from this week and the kids couldn’t help but praise Madonna calling her their “God.”
One child said to her: “You are our God. Where could we have been without you?”
The centre’s director, Lucy Chipeta, added: “David is too young to understand… but for us who remember the sickly tiny little baby of 2006, it was hard to hold back tears, including Madonna.”
Orphanage founder Thomson Chipeta added to Us Weekly magazine: “He is so boisterous! I can’t believe he is the same chap of 2006.” Madonna – who also adopted four-year-old daughter Mercy from the country earlier this year – recently admitted she has been “taught a lot” by Malawi.
During her visit Madonna said: “People always ask me, ‘Why did you choose Malawi?’ But I have always said, ‘Malawi chose me.’ Growing up in a privileged life, I took education for granted. Coming to Malawi has taught me a lot.”
Madonna really has done a lot for the country. She’s currently in the poverty stricken country with her children to help open an all girl’s school. What an inspiration she is.
Madonna took time out of her busy schedule to visit Malawi and the orphanage she adopted her son David Banda from this week and the kids couldn’t help but praise Madonna calling her their “God.”
One child said to her: “You are our God. Where could we have been without you?”
The centre’s director, Lucy Chipeta, added: “David is too young to understand… but for us who remember the sickly tiny little baby of 2006, it was hard to hold back tears, including Madonna.”
Orphanage founder Thomson Chipeta added to Us Weekly magazine: “He is so boisterous! I can’t believe he is the same chap of 2006.” Madonna – who also adopted four-year-old daughter Mercy from the country earlier this year – recently admitted she has been “taught a lot” by Malawi.
During her visit Madonna said: “People always ask me, ‘Why did you choose Malawi?’ But I have always said, ‘Malawi chose me.’ Growing up in a privileged life, I took education for granted. Coming to Malawi has taught me a lot.”
Madonna really has done a lot for the country. She’s currently in the poverty stricken country with her children to help open an all girl’s school. What an inspiration she is.
23.10.09
SPOTTED ............................................
Miss Teairra Mari was spotted hugged up on Bow Wow on the set of their new movie “Lottery Ticket” recently.
Fideline Iranga with a friend recentlty
Amber Rose was spotted at Elle Magazine’s 16 Annual Women In Hollywood Event earlier this week wearing a strapless cocktail dress and nude shoes
17.10.09
SWAHILI FASHION WEEK LAUNCH AT RUNWAY LOUNGE
Kisa and Mange
Farna and Makoye
Mustapha and Mwamvita Makamba
K-lynn and Mercy
Farna ,Khadija and Zamda George15.10.09
13.10.09
11.10.09
7.10.09
MTANZANIA KWENYE BIG BROTHER AFRICA
Leo ni siku ya 31 kati ya siku 90 za washiriki kukaa ndani ya jumba la BBA. Mambo yaonekana kuendelea kunoga siku hadi siku na safari hii mwakilishi wa Tanzania Elizaberth Gupta amewekwa kikaangoni...anapigiwa kura ya kutoka..shime watanzania tumuokoe mwakilishi wetu asitolewe kwa kumpigia kura kwa kutuma sms kwa wingi, kwa kuandika neno VOTE ELIZA kisha tuma kwenda namba 15726.
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