Debbie Allen to direct Fantasia's Life story.- Page 3

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 1:55pm

LOL. guys the trailer is on that site.. you know the one that is not allowed to posted on here.

Just go there and search "the fantasia barrino story"

you guys have to see the trailer! It's so frickin Lifetime.

I also find it COMPLETELY insulting that this girl is getting a life story made about her. BUT the AALIYAH STORY still hasn't happened yet. Aaliyah truly deserves it, her fans, we deserve it. It's not fair, we keep waiting and waiting. I think her family may be a little on the edge about a movie about her life, so I think their hesitant. But her career truly deserves it, Not Fantasia. Updated On: 7/15/06 at 01:55 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:00pm

I've seen the trailer on TV. It looks like the movie Lifetime would make if they were down to their last $2.00.

Fantasia's "acting" (as herself!!) in the trailer is some of the worst I've seen in my long lifetime.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:03pm

LOL. I feel bad, but I'm excited to see this, just for laughs.

And how the hell did she write her own autobiography. I'm assuming she had to dictate it to someone, and they wrote it down for her?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:04pm

Must have. She's really working her 15 minutes but hard.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:05pm

Who the heck is she, anyway? As I said, she sounds like a hooker who used to work the deuce back in the day.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:06pm

She's a no-talent screecher who won American Idol a couple of seasons back.

Some people think she's quite talented. I'm not one of them.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:08pm

Thanks. I just saw that trailer and it was full of that shrieking "singing". Maybe she should try out for "Wicked" or "Rent".

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:15pm

I still can't believe she almost made Effie in the Dreamgirls movie.

Theres a clip of her on umm that site with the trailer, of her as a 12 year old screaming in church with "His Eyes On A Sparrow." While it doesn't sound "bad," all she is doing is screaming, I feel like she's having a convulsion. I will say she sounded better at 12 then she does now. I think all the screaming she did as a kid, ruined her voice now.

I still stand by my opinion, she tries to be a knock-off of Mary J. Blige. Who I actually feel, when she jumps around the stage and yes she does scream at times. I get the emotion from Blige, not Fantasia!

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 3:43am

:: jaw drops ::

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 7:55am

Scary. Question though.. why is Loretta D doing this?

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:54am

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/fantas_tic_entertainment_adam_buckman.htm



FANTAS-TIC
By ADAM BUCKMAN

August 18, 2006 -- IT'S the role she was born to play - literally!

Some might say it's not exactly a challenge for someone to play him- or herself in a made-for-TV movie, as Fantasia Barrino does in "The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale," premiering Saturday and airing again on Sunday and Monday nights on Lifetime.

But think about it. Could you play yourself? Would you even want to?

I have no desire to star in "The Adam Buckman Story" (and no one has asked me to, either), although my own life of relative ease and good luck can hardly be compared to the struggles of Fantasia, who overcame long odds - including dyslexia and a pregnancy at age 16 - to win the third edition of "American Idol" in May 2004.

To play herself in "Life is Not a Fairy Tale" - which is based on her autobiography of the same name - Fantasia had to relive a number of bitter, emotional scenes from her life, including the time she was raped inside her high school by a male classmate who she thought was her friend.

Whether or not you deem it sufficiently challenging, she does a terrific job in the title role - a performance that marks this movie as another personal triumph for her, on par with writing a best-selling book and winning "Idol."

Directed by Debbie Allen, "Life is Not a Fairy Tale" begins with Fantasia as a six-year-old singing prodigy (played by a real-life prodigy, the amazing Jamia Simone Nash) growing up in a church-going (and gospel-singing) family in High Point, N.C.

Life takes a series for wrong turns for Fantasia as her parents (played by Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis) break up and she battles self-esteem issues connected in part to her dyslexia, which discourages her from learning. After a period of truancy, she drops out of high school and conceives a child with her aimless, unfaithful boyfriend.

The sad story of her life, up until the time that her friends persuade her to go to Atlanta to audition for "American Idol," makes her eventual victory on the TV show all the more remarkable.

It's an inspiring story that leaves you wondering what Fantasia, who today is all of 22 years-old, will do next.

"The Fantasia Barrino Story:
Life is Not a Fairy Tale"
Tomorrow night at 9 on Lifetime

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:26am

Funny, funny blurb in Rolling Stone blurb that says the woman can not act and the movie is excruciating. Sounds like we might just have another "Joan & Melissa Rivers Story" on our hands, one of my guiltiest TV pleasures EVER.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:41am

"Scary. Question though.. why is Loretta D doing this?"

Debbie Allen must have some dirt that Loretta doesn't want out.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:01am

The Times liked it...actually, not the movie so much, but they loved Barrino (she doesnt actually use that name now...now she's just Fantasia.)

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:13am

For some reason I have never cared for her, so I know what I won't be watching.

Here is USA Today's review:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/criticscorner/column.htm

Updated On: 8/18/06 at 10:13 AM

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:27am

And what does this so-called critic from the USA Today have against " Liberace in Sincerely Yours"?

Just kidding. I've never had the pleasure of seeing it but my guess is it must be a camp pleasure.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:18pm

I love this quote : "Still, at least Barrino can claim youth and inexperience as an excuse. I'm not sure what excuses director Debbie Allen, who should have been masking Barrino's amateur mistakes, and instead compounds them with her own hackneyed choices."

Isn't Debbie Allen the queen of hackneyed choices? Her name alone is enough to keep me away from watching this.
Updated On: 8/18/06 at 03:18 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:37pm

Broadway let Debbie Allen choreograph one time and once was more than enough. Hollywood wasn't that smart.

[javero]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 6:11pm

The USA Today caption should read 'What NOT to Watch This Weekend'.