Jennifer Hudson
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This book provides an in-depth study of the creative and manufacturing processes behind 50 contemporary domestic design objects. Chosen from around the world, they span furniture, lighting, tableware and textiles. The work of both long-established and emerging designers is featured, with each product selected for its significant use of new technology, unorthodox or complex production process, use of innovative materials (or traditional materials adapted...
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This book is a personal and inspirational memoir from the author, an Emmy and Oscar winner that is focused on her transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, she wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in Dreamgirls that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout,...
8) Chi-raq
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Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago₂s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
15) JHUD
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Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson returns to music with her first new album since 2011's I Remember Me. It has already delivered the hit singles Walk It Out; I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel); and It's Your World.
16) Sing
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A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
17) Respect
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Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, this film tells the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
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One summer in New York City, thirteen-year-old Mister's hard-living mother is arrested by the police, leaving him and nine-year-old Pete to survive alone while dodging child protective services and the dangers of the Brooklyn projects. The resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister's vulnerability than his larger-than-life...