Word: latifah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predominantly black cast but also deals with African-American themes. Thus, for movie executives, an Eddie Murphy comedy like The Nutty Professor--a blockbuster that grossed $129 million from a diverse audience--doesn't count; Spike Lee movies do. So does Set It Off, the heist movie starring Queen Latifah that was a modest hit this fall, with grosses of $26 million, mostly from blacks...
ARRESTED. QUEEN LATIFAH, 25, anti-violence rapper and a star of the sitcom Living Single; for alleged gun and marijuana possession; in Los Angeles...
...sitcoms often are, for instance, it's hard to imagine anyone but Fox churning out a turkey like Living Single. Rap singer Queen Latifah plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool...
...enter through a door on the side of the school into a short hallway with photocopied photographs on the walls. A picture of U.S. attorney general Janet Reno, hangs next to one of rapper Queen Latifah...
...Would have to give up royal box in theaters to Prince or Queen Latifah...