In one of Charles Addams' original Addams Family comic strips for the New Yorker, we see Gomez, the family patriarch, perched by a large window in his sepulchral home, looking out the window. His children and wife are standing near him. Outside the window, an apocalyptic storm is raging. A tree has been stripped of its leaves and a home across the street appears to be blowing over. "Just the kind of day that makes you feel good to be alive!" Gomez comments.
Barry Sonnenfeld's 1991 film version of "The Addams Family" captures that outsider spirit. This iteration of the Addams Family values the gloom that most people eschew, presenting Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Houston) as horny, enthused monsters who you kind of fall in love with.
The plot of the movie is somewhat plain: a scheming a-hole finds someone who looks exactly like the long-lost Fester Addams...
Barry Sonnenfeld's 1991 film version of "The Addams Family" captures that outsider spirit. This iteration of the Addams Family values the gloom that most people eschew, presenting Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Houston) as horny, enthused monsters who you kind of fall in love with.
The plot of the movie is somewhat plain: a scheming a-hole finds someone who looks exactly like the long-lost Fester Addams...
- 3/10/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Bobby Brown is finally opening up about the deaths of Whitney Houston and their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. In an emotionally raw interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts on 20/20 - which aired on Tuesday - Brown discusses his daughter's drug abuse, as well as the similarities in the shocking deaths of his daughter and ex-wife. Bobbi Kristina Brown died on July 26, 2015, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia, home last January. Sources familiar with the situation previously told People that the 22-year-old used heroin, cocaine and Xanax in the months leading up to her being found unconscious.
- 6/8/2016
- by Maria Yagoda, @mariayagoda
- PEOPLE.com
Bobby Brown is finally opening up about the deaths of Whitney Houston and their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. In an emotionally raw interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts on 20/20 - which aired on Tuesday - Brown discusses his daughter's drug abuse, as well as the similarities in the shocking deaths of his daughter and ex-wife. Bobbi Kristina Brown died on July 26, 2015, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia, home last January. Sources familiar with the situation previously told People that the 22-year-old used heroin, cocaine and Xanax in the months leading up to her being found unconscious.
- 6/8/2016
- by Maria Yagoda, @mariayagoda
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Bobby Brown's 20/20 interview with Robin Roberts is already making waves for his candid revelations about the deaths of wife Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina. But amid the emotional conversation was another, more otherworldly Brown bombshell: the former New Edition member claims he had sex with a ghost. The 47-year-old singer recounted the story from his upcoming memoir, Every Little Step, out June 13. "I bought this mansion in Georgia ... this was a really, really spooky place," Brown says. "But yes, one time, I woke up, and yeah, a ghost. I was being mounted by a ghost.
- 6/7/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Bobby Brown's 20/20 interview with Robin Roberts is already making waves for his candid revelations about the deaths of wife Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina. But amid the emotional conversation was another, more otherworldly Brown bombshell: the former New Edition member claims he had sex with a ghost. The 47-year-old singer recounted the story from his upcoming memoir, Every Little Step, out June 13. "I bought this mansion in Georgia ... this was a really, really spooky place," Brown says. "But yes, one time, I woke up, and yeah, a ghost. I was being mounted by a ghost.
- 6/7/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Question for the group: Should Whitney — Lifetime’s Whitney Houston biopic, which premiered Saturday — have been titled Whitney… and Bobby, instead?
The Angela Bassett-directed film is as much about Bobby Brown’s fall from grace as it is about Houston’s rise to stardom, chronicling the former R&B king’s drug addiction, musical aspirations and sexual indiscretions in vivid detail.
Then again, it’s only appropriate, considering Brown essentially called the shots in Houston’s life — at least according to the film — from the moment they first clicked that fateful night at the Soul Train Awards. From that point on,...
The Angela Bassett-directed film is as much about Bobby Brown’s fall from grace as it is about Houston’s rise to stardom, chronicling the former R&B king’s drug addiction, musical aspirations and sexual indiscretions in vivid detail.
Then again, it’s only appropriate, considering Brown essentially called the shots in Houston’s life — at least according to the film — from the moment they first clicked that fateful night at the Soul Train Awards. From that point on,...
- 1/18/2015
- TVLine.com
Lifetime’s original movie, which stars Yaya DaCosta as the troubled late singer, feels half-baked
Despite the sentiment of one of her most famous songs, Whitney Houston was definitely not every woman, but instead a talent on a larger-than-life scale.
In her directorial debut, actress Angela Bassett‘s depiction of the “Greatest Love of All” singer, played by Yaya DaCosta (“Lee Daniels‘ The Butler”), attempts to show the human side of the legend, but occasionally staggers along the very line it tries to cross — where genius-level skill meets basic human need for love, understanding and companionship.
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Despite the sentiment of one of her most famous songs, Whitney Houston was definitely not every woman, but instead a talent on a larger-than-life scale.
In her directorial debut, actress Angela Bassett‘s depiction of the “Greatest Love of All” singer, played by Yaya DaCosta (“Lee Daniels‘ The Butler”), attempts to show the human side of the legend, but occasionally staggers along the very line it tries to cross — where genius-level skill meets basic human need for love, understanding and companionship.
Also Read: Whitney Houston...
- 1/17/2015
- by Deborah Day
- The Wrap
The 2012 Soul Train Awards seek to honor music's top acts—even those who are no longer with us. On Wednesday, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse both received posthumous nominations this year's awards. Houston's collaboration with Jordin Sparks on "Celebrate" is up for Best Gospel International Performance, and Winehouse's song "Our Day Wil Come" is up for Best International Performance. Other notable nominees include R. Kelly, whose two nominations this year bring him to six noms total, the most in Soul Train Awards History. Usher also made Soul Train Awards history with five nominations, surpassing both Michael Jackson and Beyoncé for total nominations in a...
- 9/19/2012
- E! Online
By Roger Friedman, ©2012
HollywoodNews.com: From an updated story I published in 1992: This Sunday, 1500 of Whitney Houston’s closest friends will gather in New Jersey for her wedding to singer Bobby Brown. The ceremony will most likely be at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, followed by a reception at Whitney’s house near Bernardsville. Rev. Marvin Winans, brother of singers BeBe and Cece, will perform the service. Stevie Wonder will sing, possibly his old hit “You and I” or maybe something new that he’s written for the occasion.
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“Every important black person in show business will be there,” says a black journalist who’s on the Whitney watch twenty four hours a day. Freddie Jackson is bringing Toukie Smith. Ashford and Simpson will be there. Dionne Warwick of course. The ubiquitous Winans, too. (Last month, Whitney...
HollywoodNews.com: From an updated story I published in 1992: This Sunday, 1500 of Whitney Houston’s closest friends will gather in New Jersey for her wedding to singer Bobby Brown. The ceremony will most likely be at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, followed by a reception at Whitney’s house near Bernardsville. Rev. Marvin Winans, brother of singers BeBe and Cece, will perform the service. Stevie Wonder will sing, possibly his old hit “You and I” or maybe something new that he’s written for the occasion.
Scroll Down For Whitney Houston Photo Gallery In Her Memory
“Every important black person in show business will be there,” says a black journalist who’s on the Whitney watch twenty four hours a day. Freddie Jackson is bringing Toukie Smith. Ashford and Simpson will be there. Dionne Warwick of course. The ubiquitous Winans, too. (Last month, Whitney...
- 2/18/2012
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Washington -- The Congressional Black Caucus will honor Whitney Houston with a resolution that will be sent to Houston's family in time for the late singer's funeral on Saturday, according to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the caucus.
The measure won't be the same kind of resolution that would normally go before the House and get voted on, he said. Instead, the document will come directly from the CBC and go directly to Houston's family, signed only by caucus members, at the family's request.
"It will probably look pretty official. Like you can buy downstairs," Cleaver told The Huffington Post, apparently referring to decorative documents sold in the basement of the Capitol complex. "I mean, it's not going to be shabbily sent to the family."
Cleaver said Houston's family asked that the caucus send something for the funeral. A spokeswoman for the caucus said later that...
The measure won't be the same kind of resolution that would normally go before the House and get voted on, he said. Instead, the document will come directly from the CBC and go directly to Houston's family, signed only by caucus members, at the family's request.
"It will probably look pretty official. Like you can buy downstairs," Cleaver told The Huffington Post, apparently referring to decorative documents sold in the basement of the Capitol complex. "I mean, it's not going to be shabbily sent to the family."
Cleaver said Houston's family asked that the caucus send something for the funeral. A spokeswoman for the caucus said later that...
- 2/16/2012
- by Jennifer Bendery
- Huffington Post
In one of the final candid videos of Whitney Houston, the legendary singer ran into El Debarge at a nightclub in Hollywood ... and the two shared a very touching embrace. It went down in the VIP lounge at Tru nightclub on Thursday night. Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, can also be seen in the video. Houston performed with El Debarge back in 1999 during the Soul Train Music Awards tribute to Luther Vandross. They both battled addiction.
- 2/12/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Philadelphia -- The nation's first free broadcast network targeting African-American audiences arrived in the nation's fourth-largest media market on Thursday.
Atlanta-based Bounce TV is an over-the-air free channel supported by sponsors and is geared toward black viewers ages 25 to 54. Unlike cable channels, Bounce TV is one of a growing number of networks carried on the broadcast digital signals of local television stations.
Bounce TV executives – among them Martin Luther King III and former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young – said the new network's targeted demographic is vastly underserved and hungers for positive programming that speaks to them.
"I believe that a network, while its primary purpose is entertainment, can have a balance so that there is information or education, or `edutainment,' that is created by certain content," King said at a news conference Thursday to publicize Bounce TV's launch on Lenfest Broadcasting's Wmcn-tv in Philadelphia, ranked by the Nielsen Co.
Atlanta-based Bounce TV is an over-the-air free channel supported by sponsors and is geared toward black viewers ages 25 to 54. Unlike cable channels, Bounce TV is one of a growing number of networks carried on the broadcast digital signals of local television stations.
Bounce TV executives – among them Martin Luther King III and former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young – said the new network's targeted demographic is vastly underserved and hungers for positive programming that speaks to them.
"I believe that a network, while its primary purpose is entertainment, can have a balance so that there is information or education, or `edutainment,' that is created by certain content," King said at a news conference Thursday to publicize Bounce TV's launch on Lenfest Broadcasting's Wmcn-tv in Philadelphia, ranked by the Nielsen Co.
- 12/1/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
As Whitney Houston bares her past troubles to Oprah Winfrey, ex-husband Bobby Brown adds his side of their tragic story, saying both were to blame for their tumultuous relationship. "I think we corrupted each other," Brown, 40, tells The Insider. "I don't think she hurt me or I hurt her. I just think we had a 14-year marriage that had its ups and downs and not many people understood it." Brown says he used "an awful lot" of cocaine - "a powerful drug," he notes - starting after his marriage to Houston in 1992. "I think I was bored," says Brown, who...
- 9/14/2009
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
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