As predicted, comedienne-actress Mo’Nique took home Oscar gold for her role as Mary Jones in the film Precious. Mo’Nique was nominated and won in the category of Best Supporting Actress. Mo’Nique now makes the 5th African-American woman to win an Oscar for acting. Recognizing the fact, Mo’Nique paid homage to Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American woman to win an Oscar, by wearing a flower in her hair, as did McDaniel, and giving mention of the trailblazer in her acceptance speech.

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The most prestigious red carpet of all, the Academy Academy Awards,  where Hollywood’s shining stars bring their fashion Extravaganza Eleganza!!  As expected,  all of  Hollywood showed up and brought their best to the 82 Annual Academy Awards Red Carpet on Sunday (March 7).  A few of black Hollywood’s shining stars graced the red carpet, including would-be Oscar winner Mo’Nique, Gabourey Sidibe, Zoe Saldana, Queen Latifah and a host of others.

The fashion was quite daring for some and rather safe & uninspiring for others. Red carpet staples such as Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Nicole Richie all adorned unique looks that sizzled on the red carpet, while others tragically fizzled.

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Ok,  so as you know Soul Wants To Know is a weekly series where I discuss, pose questions and such, on all things celebrity/pop culture. Well this time I wanted to do something a little different.  So, I present to you the HOW YOOUUU DOIN Edition of Soul Wants To Know {LGBT special}

So as RuPaul says, “If you don’t love yourself how in the hell you gonna love somebody else.”  Well start here, love your GAYNESS , love BlackGayGossip, and love this…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Comedian-actress Mo’Nique recently sat down with the Advocate for an interview on her candid backing of the gay community, challenges in launching her talk show, her role as Mary Jones in Precious and her even her celebrity girl crush.

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Oscar-nominated director of the film Precious, Lee Daniels, continues to ride the wave of success and bask in the opportunities that have sprung forth from his highly acclaimed film. Not too long ago Daniels was working with a $600K budget to put together Precious, since then, he’s been offered up to $2.5 million to director projects that range from a Western to a musical.

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Greetings BGG Readers!  Soul here with the latest installment of Soul Wants To Know. Just some thoughts on the past week of all things celebrity and more.

So here we go…

1.  Why in the hell is everyone acting like Pink is the world’s best performer? Anyone can get up on a trapeze and all. NO ONE CAN DO WHAT QUEEN B DOES!! I REPEAT NO ONE….
2.  And speaking of the GRAMMYs, how in the hell did Beyoncé win 6 GRAMMYs and not album of the year? Taylor Swift’s live performance was absolutely the worse I’ve ever seen and if that’s any indication of her album Fearless, then the Grammy powers that be need to snatch that award back.
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This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced and the critically acclaimed film, Precious has racked up 6 nominations.

Those nominations include: Best Picture - Precious, Best Director - Lee Daniels - Precious, Best Actress - Gabourey Sidibe - Precious, Best Supporting Actress - Mo’Nique - Precious, Best Film Editing - Precious and Best Adapted Screenplay- Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious.

Director-Producer Lee Daniels certainly has the midas touch. The first film he produced, Monster’s Ball (2001), won Halle Berry the Read the rest of this entry »

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Comedian/actress Mo’Nique is on a roll this award season. So far, she’s won the Best Supporting Actress award 3 times over this weekend alone for her role in the film Precious. First at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (January 15), then at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (January 16) and now last night (January 17) at the Golden Globes.

Mo’Nique’s chances of winning Oscar gold seem even greater now.

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