[Merrill's Review] Precious: PHOTO
Precious is a very powerful but also very disturbing film. It makes the audience truly appreciate the main necessities of life

Gabourey Sidibe is -Precious' At David Letterman: PHOTO
Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe signs autographs for fans in New York City before heading in to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday (November 9). Gabby , 26, recently sat down with CBS to talk about preconceptions and defying the odds. “As much confidence as I have, there’s still a fat little girl that lives inside of me because everyone told me I wouldn’t make anything of myself until I lost 100 pounds,” Gabby shared. “I just hope that people...

Justin Timberlake - Precious Star Reveals N Sync Obsession: PHOTO
PRECIOUS star GABBY SIBIDE has opened up about a teenage obsession with Justin Timberlake's former boy band 'N SYNC. The actress, who plays an abused, overweight teen in the acclaimed new movie, admits she once toured America trying to get close to her pop idols. Now a star herself, Sibide says, "I was 16. It was a different world when I was 16." Sibide, who boasts about seeing 'N Sync 23 Times in concert, reveals she was among the superfans who shut down Times Square in New York when the band...

HK teen models spur worship, debate: PHOTO
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Soccer hair-pulling fuels debate over sport sexism
NEW YORK — The vicious hair-pulling of an opponent was inexcusable. But prominent advocates of women's sports say that so, too, has been much of the commentary generated by the popular video of college soccer player Elizabeth Lambert's combative tactics in a recent game.

Soccer hair-pulling fuels debate over sport sexism
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Those Two Gals Will Let Health Care Reach A Debate: PHOTO
Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu finally called their own bluff and announced at the last minute that they would, controversially, vote to allow the Senate to debate a piece of legislation it has spent most of this year crafting, to help provide affordable medical Care to people. What heroes. Their procedural votes for their own party’s major bill cost the nation hundreds of millions of dollars in pork handouts. That’s how Serious About The Deficits they are. It...

Gabourey Sidibe is Governors Awards Alluring: PHOTO
Actress Gabourey Sidibe struts her stuff at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Inaugural Governors Awards at L.A.’s Hollywood & Highland Center on Saturday (November 14). The 26-year-old Precious starlet attended the ceremony, where honorary Oscars were given out, and rubbed elbows with celebs, some of whom dished out advice to the potential Oscar contender. Tom Hanks , who told Gabby he loved her performance in Precious , told her , “Just enjoy the ride,...

White Male Film Critic Totally Relates to “Precious”: VIDEO
“Based on the novel -Push’ by Sapphire,” as its official title so juridically disclaims, the new film “Precious” limns the life of an abused, obese, illiterate, pregnant Harlem high schooler looking for a way out of her unequivocally miserable circumstances. And hell if I know how race exploitation may or may not figure into it, or what it means for the future of black indie film. I just know a good movie when I have one marketed to me!

Don't feel sorry for Gabourey Sidibe: PHOTO
Gabourey Sidibe walks into the room and your first reaction is to glance away, but it's not because of the way she looks.

Oscar likes fresh faces
Moments before the recent AFI Fest gala premiere of "Precious," newcomer Gabourey Sidibe brought the crowd to its feet merely by walking into Grauman's Chinese Theater. Sidibe got another standing ovation before a post-screening Q&A and yet another one when the panel ended. "Some days I don't believe where I am or my life," the Bedford-Stuyvesant-born Sidibe says. "It seems like this joke has gone pretty far." If recent voting patterns hold true, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...

Gabourey Sibide is Purplicious Pretty: PHOTO
Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe attends “The MOMA Film Benefit: A Tribute To Tim Burton” at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Tuesday (November 17). The 26-year-old rising star has been promoting her film with appearances at The Late Show with David Letterman and the Governor’s Awards . Affectionately known as “Gabby” to her friends, she was born in Brooklyn Bed-Stuy (New York City) and grew up in Harlem. She has just finished her next film, Yelling to...

Actress Gabourey Sidibe is not at all 'Precious'
First-time screen actress Gabourey Sidibe wasn't sure what to expect from the Sundance Film Festival, where her film "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire" made its world premiere early this year. So she rented the HBO series "Entourage" from Netflix before going and watched the Sundance episode. "I kind of fantasized that maybe it would be like that, and it totally was," she said, laughing. "I was super famous on Main Street, which was funny." Sidibe, a poised yet giggly 26-year-old...

'Precious' Star Gabourey Sidibe: My First Diet Started At Age Six (VIDEO)
'Precious' star Gabourey Sidibe visited Oprah Friday to promote her movie, in which she plays an obese teenager who is twice impregnated by her HIV-positive father. Gabby's own Harlem adolescence was not nearly as troubled but she did struggle for years with her body image. Oprah pointed out that director Lee Daniels has said Gabby speaks "like a white girl from the Valley" and is so confident that she is "either in denial about her physicality or from another planet." "It's something I've had...

Precious star Gabourey Sidibe is true to herself
From the moment actress Gabourey Sidibe enters the suite at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, it's clear that she is not — as she has worked to remind many interviewers in the past few weeks— a Precious teenager, victim of abuse who suffers from little, if any, self-esteem. Sidibe, 24, who goes by the nickname Gabby, walked into the room with a quick and graceful gait, an extreme opposite to the foot-dragging mosey her character uses to move through the film. “We're so...

Gabourey Sidibe is an ONTDer...probably
Gabourey Sidibe is an ONTDer...probably After watching this interview of Gabby Sidibe on Conan last night I am SO SURE she is an ONTDer. OR at least she must know one. She is SUPER funny, super cool and casual, and loves NSYNC . She even stood outside TRL studios back in the day! (btw the interview starts a little shaky but then gets amazing) IF YOU KNOW GABBY OR IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HER PLEASE LET HER KNOW ONTD LOVES HER. OR I DO AT LEAST LOL Source p.s. no I am not her friend Crystal...

Gabby Sidibe On Her 'N Sync Obsession: "I Know, I Know, I'm Totally Geeky!" [Clips]: PHOTO
In a hilarious interview on last night's Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, Gabby Sidibe recalled her hardcore teenage obsession with 'N Sync, admitting that she attended 23 Concerts and that she knows all of their birthdays. Clip after the jump.

Gabourey Sidibe: 'My first diet was at 6'
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'Precious' pulls no punches
Precious is a story about hope and survival. (Full title: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.) As Precious herself is an obese Harlem teenager, endlessly abused and pregnant for the second time with a child who is the product of Incest, there's a lot of pain to get through before you get to the hope part. Set in Harlem in the late 1980s, Precious is a rags-to-riches tale of the emotions -- and all of it brought to life by Gabourey Sidibe. The newcomer actor tells the story from her...

Lead Actress Race
Abbie Cornish "Bright Star" Marion Cotillard "Nine" Helen Mirren "The Last Station" Carey Mulligan "An Education" Gabourey Sidibe "Precious" Meryl Streep "Julie and Julia"

Few Options for Best Actress Nods
Even as the industry buzzes about the female frontrunners for Oscar's Best Director category (Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion and Lone Scherfig), the pool for Best Actress nominees is looking rather shallow. Barring bravura performances in yet-to-be-widely-seen films like The Lovely Bones , only veteran nominee Meryl Streep (for Julie & Julia ) and virtual unknowns Carey Mulligan ( An Education ) and Gabourey Sidibe ( Precious ) seem to be likely nominees. Some even think unusual choices like...

Rihanna, Estelle, Gabourey Sidibe and More Attend the 2009 Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards in New York City: PHOTO
Singer Rihanna, pictured above with her boss, Island Def Jam record exec Antonio L.A. Reid, made a public appearance Monday night (Nov 9) in New York City

Rihanna, Estelle, Gabourey Sidibe and More Attend the 2009 Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards in New York City: PHOTO
Singer Rihanna, pictured above with her boss, Island Def Jam record exec Antonio “L.A.” Reid, made a public appearance Monday night (Nov 9) in New York City at the Glamour Magazine 2009 Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall. Wearing an ivory gown by designer Stephane Rolland, here she can be seen hitting the Red Carpet of the event, designed to honor the biggest women of the year 2009. Read her acceptance speech below: “It was a real honor to be named Glamour’s Woman...

Our critics' selections
Precious: Based On the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire Can the story of an abused, illiterate, obese teenager impregnated by her father be uplifting and heart-stirring? Yup. Philly filmmaker Lee Daniels brings humor and pathos to a horrific tale, and gets amazing performances from Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, and the daunting newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. R An Education Carey Mulligan shines as a suburban British teen, circa 1962, who falls for an older man (Peter Sarsgaard) in this beautifully turned...