Dreamgirls Film questions (Margo please respond!)

OK; so now that the leads have been cast I know it's like eons away but do you think the material will lend itself to an award-nominated or winning performance by Jennifer Hudson or do you think that people will simply say that nothing will ever compare to Jennifer Holliday's and therefore not be anything special? Will the public give Hudson the chance to prove herself?

Question #2: The teaser trailer is supposed to be running w/ "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Brokeback Mountain" beginning December 9th...have they layed down any tracks so we can hear a little snip or what to expect a year from now since filming doesn't begin until January I'd hate to simply hear the snip from the website of Holliday...what are your thoughts. And particualarly Margo I'm interested in your opinions since you're well versed in Dreamgirls as a whole!

Cheers,

C.

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Of course Jennifer Hudson will receive accolades galore and be lauded for her work as Effie -- its a foolproof part. Frankly, Jennifer Halliday was rather grotesque in the role breathing like a dying elephant. The real revelation who illuminated Effie's pathos was Roz Ryan. Even though she was a smoker.

I would LOVE to have seen Roz Ryan's Effie?

She is an amazing Mama Morton. I'd imagine her Effie was great. How was her AND I AM TELLING YOU?

Jennifer will deliver. I can't wait.

using j. holliday in the trailer? talk about being set up to fail. that was not smart. j. hud can only disappoint.

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I don't really think it's fair to say Roz Ryan "can't sing."

She has been one of the favorite Mama Mortons from the CHICAGO revival for quite some time.

Each time I saw her Mama she blew the audience away and received thunderous applause and cheer. Her voice was also fantastic.

And we'll be seeing more of her this spring, in THE PAJAMA GAME. Yay, I love Roz.

She BETTER capture the soul of that song or I'm hunting her, Condon and anyone else involved with this movie if they ruin my favorite musical of all time!

No, no, no! That's the exciting part about it for me! It has STAR POWER!!

It's just the stars they chose that I don't care for. And I think it has too much star power. But that's just my opinion.

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Amen Gothampc! Amen!

Predicting directly? Not at all.

It has great potential. The buzz is there already - a year in advance. Amazing.

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Jennifer's "And I am telling you" was okay. i totally agree with Margo ( no surprise there) about her connecting with the lyrics and even moreso that music. whats funny is her clips of AIATY are void of connection, but her "Easy to be hard" was simply phenomenal.great connection, delivery, it was all there.

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random question- what will this be rated? i really wanna see it, but if it is PG-13 for lotsa bad stuff, or R, then i cant see it!
and mind you, i know NOTHING about this show/movie, so I have no clue what it will be rated, and please dont stone me!!!