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When Patti LaBelle first learned that she had Type 2 diabetes 10 years ago, the news hit her, she says, like "a death sentence." The soul singer, 59, had reason to be concerned. Her aunt and grandmother died of diabetes, and her mother Bertha lost her legs to it before she died at 65. But survival in the face of long odds is a recurring theme in LaBelle's Grammy-winning career, so her thoughts soon turned from whether she was going to die to how she was going to live--and, more particularly, what she was going...
Singing may be her trade, but to LaBelle soul food is almost as important as soul music. "I don't do drugs, I don't drink--so my getting high was always the meal after the show," she says. Now, having put in several years as a spokeswoman for the American Diabetes Association (A.D.A.), LaBelle has dedicated herself to finding food that is good for diabetics and good to eat--nutritious, low fat and flavorful...
...mystery where LaBelle got her culinary skills. She describes her mother as a "great" cook who was known around her Philadelphia neighborhood for her blueberry cobbler, and LaBelle's father once ran a soul-food restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. "Oh, my God, I miss that food," she says...
...that Keys' 2001 debut, Songs in A Minor, wasn't actually a complete record. A Minor won five Grammys and sold 6 million copies, but it was a much better media event than an album. Most of the excitement was over one song, Fallin', a little miracle of a soul ballad that merged the grooves of Mary J. Blige with the grieving of Carole King. Fallin' is one of the best love songs of the past decade. To dislike it is to dislike pop music. But the strength of Fallin', combined with the compelling and oft repeated details of Keys...
...precisely what this film is about—what death takes from us, what it leaves behind. The film’s title refers to the amount of body mass a person is said to lose at the exact moment of death—the weight of the soul, some might say. The film’s narrative tiptoe dance through the past, present and future challenges this saying by reminding us repeatedly of just how much the characters once had, and asking us to decide how much they’ve lost through the death of others. How much...