Irene Cara

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 8:56am

Show the love here.

[Kringas]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 8:58am

"Très jolie, Coco. Très jolie."

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 8:59am

:)

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:37am

What a feelin...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:53am

"People will see me and cryyyyyyy..." She was the original Idina!!

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 09:53 AM

[Kringas]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:51am

OMG! Irene should be the next Elphaba!

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:42pm

*swoon* When the ringtone craze first hit, "What a Feeling" was my ringtone. Until our high school intern told me it was the gayest ringtone she'd ever heard.

I changed it to "Borderline" to prove her wrong.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:43pm

LOL!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:46pm

Sometimes I wonder
Where I've been
Who I am, do I fit in?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:47pm

Make believin'
Is haaaard alone
Ouuut here
On myyyyy own

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:50pm

My fave Irene Cara song. My fave bww chanteuse.

My day is done.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:51pm

I sing the body electric
I celebrate the ME yet to come
I toast to my own reunion
When I become one with the sun

Updated On: 9/9/05 at 12:51 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:57pm

Oh DD, you make me blush!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 12:59pm

Did anyone see her on that stupid "Hit me Baby One more time" show? She is still amazing.
What a Feelin' indeed!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 1:04pm

OSCAR WINNER Irene Cara!!!!!!!






You know that just frosts Debbie Allen's cake, dont'ch?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 1:08pm

HA!

Debbie is still pi**ed off she didnt win that Tony for West Side Story!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 1:12pm

The Me Nobody Knows; original cast 1970
She was about 10-12.

Ain't Misbehavin'; original off-Broadway cast replaced by Charlayne Woodard.

Got Tu Go Disco; about 1979, I cannot remember if she left before this show (a mega-disaster of legendary proportions-millions down the drain) officially opened and played a week at the Minskoff.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 1:18pm

The horra', the horra'

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 1:31pm

I'm gonna make it to heaven...light up the sky like a flame!

When my HS did Fame the musical, downloaded her version, fell absolutely in love w/ it! Such a great rendition of a great song!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 2:39pm

I can rrrreally hayave it all!! Just not a second act in my career.

Wasn't she on that NBC battle of the oldsters for charity show that I can't remember the name of?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 2:41pm

Oh, and please note the director of CERTAIN FURY...Stephen Gyllenhaal! I wonder if wee Jake was conceived on this set.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 3:31pm

I love Irene Cara!! When I first saw Fame, I absolutely fell in love with her, and the soundtrack is always playing, especially the songs "Out Here On My Own", "Hot Lunch", and "Fame"!

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 5:47pm

*GASP*!! NO ONE'S MENTIONED SPARKLE YET?!!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 5:53pm

Kringas quoting Mary Catherine Gallagher quoting the pornograher talking to Irene Cara in Fame. He's the most, to say the least!

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 5:57pm

"SPARKLE" was a flick about a trio of singing sisters in Harlem back in the early '60s. It featured a soundtrack by the legendary Curtis Mayfield. Irene along with Lonette McKee and Dwan Smith sang the songs "Hooked On Your Love", "Jump", "Look Into Your Heart" and "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" (the same song En Vogue had a hit with back in '92) on the movie's soundtrack. Aretha Franklin sang all the songs on the movie's soundtrack album and had hits with "Jump" and "Something He Can Feel".
The movie also stars Philip Michael Thomas, Dorian Harewood and Mary Alice. Joel Schumacher wrote the screenplay. It was going to be remade by Whitney Houston's production compnay in 2001 starring Aaliyah but the project was shelved when she died.