Anika Noni Rose, Princess Tiana

The Princess and the Frog, the first black Disney Princess which was a change from the original version. Anika Noni Rose, voice of Princess Tiana and a Bloomfield, CT native. She graduated Bloomfield high school in 1990, and has already done numerous Broadway, TV, and film leads. Rose received a Tony Award for "Caroline, or Change", starred with Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls", and the HBO TV series "NO.1 Ladies Detective Agency". She won the role of animated Princess over Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Tyra Banks. "Last Tuesday, Rose presented a screening at Bow Tie Palace 17 in Hartford for the kids enrolled in extracurricular arts program".- (via Hartford Courant,Susan Dunne) 

Film in theaters Friday, December 11 

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"I think this is gonna be the first motion picture, documentary done on a hip-hop group, which is an honor,” he said. “…Nas spoke to me a while ago and was like, “I want to shoot a documentary on you dudes.” Michael Rapaport saw us perform in LA and said the same thing, so they combined forces. They basically are shooting it. They got backstage footage. They got old archive stuff. They’ve been interviewing everybody.It’s weird cause they got everybody from [Jonah Hill] to Ghostface, he continued. It’s interesting. It’s gonna be their take or whatever. And there’s a part in the film where they follow Phife into a surgery for his kidney transplant. So, it’s a deep movie."

"In a recent interview with Soul Assassins radio on Shade 45, Rapaport gave an update on the film. “I’m finishing up this documentary about A Tribe Called Quest that I been directing,” he said. “It’s a rock and roll style documentary which is about Tribe which is one of my favorite groups. It’s been fun and hopefully we’ll have it done and ready for 2010."

As of press time there is no set date or title for the film. —Elan Mancini (via XXLmag.com)

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