THE SPIN (Daily Dose of Celebrity News): JANET LOSES ROLE TO ALICIA
TODAY (DEC. 18): Janet Loses Role to Alicia Keys
THE FACTS:
• Alicia Keys will now take on the role of Lena Horne, originally given to Janet Jackson.
THE SPIN:
Janet Jackson just can’t catch a break. Even after scoring a role in Tyler Perry’s recent hit film, Why Did I Get Married?, she still isn’t able to get her role in the Lena Horne biopic back. Shortly after the Super Bowl fiasco, people close to Lena Horne stated that the legendary actress wanted Janet Jackson removed from her role in the television film set to depict her life. She was apparently appalled by the entire ordeal. Speaking at the premiere of the new film, The Great Debaters, Oprah (who’s Harpo Films produced the movie) has confirmed that Alicia Keys will now take on the role. First she loses out on Dorothy Dandridge to Halle Berry, and now she’s losing the opportunity to portray Horne to Keys. Maybe she can play Michael in his biopic. That is, if LaToya doesn’t snatch the role first.
I love Janet, and think she is a great entertainer and great actress. She has been a personal mentor in my life and I think that if the Dorothy Dandridge or Lena Horne roles were for her - God would have granted them to her without any hesitation. They simply were not meant for her. She has been blessed throughout her life thus far, and those roles are not life defining roles that were meant to measure her status as a performer. She may have had a personal desire to play these roles that none of us will never have the opportunity to know about or discuss with her - but congratulate her on a "job well done" thus far and know that the one life biography role of one of the undiscovered greats of our time - just might have her name on it... PEACE