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On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, from the new Sister Mary Clarence and her Vegas-style ideas on how to run the choir. A charming comedy and one of Goldberg's best .. Read more

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  New York nun sues over Sister Act

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 11 Nov 2011

  Disney bosses have been hit with a lawsuit from a New York nun, who alleges her autobiography was the inspiration for the Sister Act movie and musical. Delois Blakely claims she was a "young, black, singing nun serving the street people and youths of Harlem" when she wrote her 1987 book The Harlem Street Nun, which she is convinced was the basis for the 1992 comedy. Blakely alleges she penned a three-page synopsis of a film based on her autobiography and claims in the lawsuit that a movie... Read more

  

  Whoopi in talks to return to Sister Act

  • 07 Jul 2010

  Whoopi Goldberg has had a religious promotion - she's in talks to return to the stage as the Mother Superior in London musical Sister Act. The actress-turned-U.S. TV personality played Doloris and Sister Mary Clarence in the 1992 movie and its sequel the following year (93) and now she's slated to take on the role portrayed by Dame Maggie Smith in the film. Goldberg will reportedly join the cast of the West End show for the production's final run in October (10). The actress is the co-producer Read more

  

  Knowles to become a nun for Sister Act

  • 06 Jul 2009

  R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles is reportedly in talks to turn the Sister Act stage musical into a movie. The Obsessed actress caught a performance of the hit theatre show - based on the Whoopi Goldberg film of the same name - during her recent trip to London, and she was so taken by the performance, she's allegedly looking to remake it as a movie. A source tells the Daily Mail newspaper, "Beyonce has asked her representatives to persuade Disney to develop the show into a film vehicle for her. "I Read more

  

  Goldberg was a nun in previous life

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 08 Jul 2011

  Sister Act star Whoopi Goldberg was a nun in a former life, according to famous psychic twins Linda and Terry Jamison. The Oscar winner won acclaim as a lounge singer who takes refuge in a convent to escape a mob boss in the hit 1992 comedy, and the Jamison sisters are convinced the actress' portrayal of a nun was destined. Appearing on U.S. TV show The View on Friday, the Jamisons told co-host Goldberg, "You actually were a nun in 17th century Germany. You were a cloistered nun, so there's a... Read more

  

  Franklin taps little known star for her biopic

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 28 Apr 2011

  Singer Aretha Franklin wants a little-known Broadway star to portray her in an upcoming biopic, after Halle Berry passed on the role. The legendary singer has got her eye on Patina Miller, the star of Whoopi Goldberg's musical Sister Act, for the role of the young Aretha - among others. She says, "Finally we've got the financing, we've got the right producer. I'm waiting for the script... And there's a new girl in the game now - Whoopi's little girl from Sister Act. "There's (also) Fantasia (Ba Read more

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    On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, from the new Sister Mary Clarence and her Vegas-style ideas on how to run the choir. A charming ...

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