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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...human baby whose mother had deposited the infant at their feet and then expired, doubtless reassured that her child was in good hooves/paws/claws. In 2006, they coped with global warming in Ice Age: The Meltdown and Manny had the good fortune to meet his true mammoth love, Ellie (Queen Latifah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

Brits and pseudo-Brits, in sum, have lost this franchise. If you're a casting director looking for a voice whose very timbre communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons. The reasons aren't hard to speculate about. The roots of this development go back at least to the 1930s and Paul Robeson's singing "Ol' Man River" in Showboat. The therapeutic notion that suffering confers dignity and authority has spread just as the suffering of African Americans over generations has become universally acknowledged. Above all, black American ministers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama and the Voice of God | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...national mood the Republicans faced. And Plouffe admitted that the introduction of the Rev. Wright problem caught the Obama team by surprise and represented a moment of "great peril" for the campaign. Everyone onstage complained about the political caricatures of Saturday Night Live - except for Ifill. "I got Queen Latifah, so I was happy about that," she said of her impersonator on the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Campaign Postmortem at Harvard | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

DIED Jheryl Busby, 59, wisely said in 1989, "Motown can't be what it was in the 1960s." As president and CEO of Motown, Busby shepherded the careers of acts such as Boyz II Men and Queen Latifah and revitalized the flagging record label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

After turning 14 I decided that I was entirely too grown-up to watch any movie that included coming-of-age themes, magical wonderlands, or a message about the true value of love. Persuaded by superstars such as Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Queen Latifah, however, I finally decided to break my own rule and see “The Secret Life of Bees,” the new movie based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. Fortunately, the characters in the movie subtly and skillfully explore these juvenile themes but without the unnecessary...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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