Jennifer Holliday on CBS This morning — Page 3

I am sure it will be on the site that cannot be named shortly.

It was not terrible, and who knows what it would sound like with decent acoustics - but some weird things done during the song (at least IMO).

hehe :) i caught the last "You're gonna love me!" At least E! is trying to paint a better picture of her, not so much like a circus act.

I'm depressed now. That was so sad.

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I think she has always had those facial expressions.

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It wasn't a good performance, she said it was too windy on the roof, the camera angles were horrible and it seemed she was imprisoned in that little spot. When I've seen her in clips singing the song she moves a lot and it seems to work better. I thought she sounded very centered and polite in the E interview, it just tells me that the media was just trying to paint the wrong picture to create controversy.
Is it me or did she miss some of the lyrics? I don't remember her doing the "Please stay and hold me, mister man" section.

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I don't remember her doing the "Please stay and hold me, mister man" section.

I've never heard that part sung live outside of the show.

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She's been singing it that way for years.

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How is it a slap in the face to Jennifer Hudson? No one saw this on E!

She was originally scheduled to perform it during the LIVE from the Red Carpet program. This begins at 6pm EST (3pm PT). She would have had tons of visibility if she performed it during THAT show, which is heavily watched, not this Countdown to the Red Carpet pre-show.

Her 'live' performance was bumped-up early (by over an hour) to avoid any distraction to the red carpet attendees.

If anything...this was a huge slap in the face to Jennifer Holliday. Once again, the joke was on her.

Updated On: 2/25/07 at 05:55 PM

if anyone wants to see what the demise of a Broadway Legend looks like they should view this performance.

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Yeah, for years she's left out the "stay and hold me" part (time concerns?).

And how lame that she was accompanied by the muzak version of the song. She might as well have been singing it to herself in an elevator (larger audience?).

I'm afraid children the closest we'll ever get to seeing her sing the poop out of THE song is by watching the Tony clip and other "footage" from the original production. I realize that she can't afford to, but I think it would behoove her to rest the song for a while, get with a great coach, and learn it all over again. Of course one of her problems is that nobody can tell her anything, so I guess the coach thing is out of the question (and as I was saying, she needs to sing this song to pay the rent).

She says the song is so intense and deeply emotional, but sadly I don't get that from her more recent (years, actually) performances. She is amazingly gifted, but tragically mannered these days. Her power and appreciation of voice and speech has always reminded me of a great classical actor. She crawls into vowels and punches consonants like no other (Barbara Jordan was a huge influence). But just as in Shakespeare, the text can take you but so far. She has SOOOOO much to draw from, and it seems like she leaves her testimony out of her performances. And she knows better, she grew up in the choich, we know when those riffs/runs/growls are real or fake. She needs to pick up a copy of Say Amen, Somebody and let Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith reeducate her.

I love Jennifer Holliday, I just want to see her do well!

It was on that leading ladies concert a few years ago. I do see what you're saying, but I seriously doubt that her performance of that song on E is going to affect her chances of doing it at gay weddings in Miami and whatnot.

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**** off ryan seacrest.
that girl is beautiful and doesn't need to lose a thing.

I can't find it on that site. What's the title?