"Jennifer Holliday too!" — Page 2

Apparently a lot of people are ticked that JHud won...

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I loved that performance. It was like watching the Tonys!

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I can't wait for the Tony's!

UH OH!

sorry. Norbit.

It was cute that she remember to quick thank Holliday at the end. The other people I was watching it with don't follow theater and were wondering who she was talking about. One of the girls, after telling her why she thanked Holliday, said, "Oh, I thought that was her old name or something!" haha. Because that makes sense...

Dreamgirls had too many good songs, they all cancelled themselves out! Don't you hate when too many good things come from one source and they wind up hurting themselves in that situation?

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"When I told a friend JHolliday was singing AIATY, he asked if it was for a KFC opening."
Priceless

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in the press interviews after Jennifer Hudson's win, she went into a more detailed thank you to the original cast of Dreamgirls, including JHolliday by name, saying they "paved the way" and such like. Maybe now Jennifer Holliday will fade into oblivion.

on a side note, Jennifer Hudson should totally come to Broadway if they ever do a revival of Once On This Island! "Mama will proviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!"

Updated On: 2/26/07 at 09:48 AM

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theaterdude87, if you watched the E! coverage in it's entirety, she said that she wasn't naive enough to think she'd ever play Effie in the film. What she wanted was a cameo role (she explicity mentioned the part of Deena's mother, which is the exact role I thought of her for when I saw the movie.)

She seemed very taken by and supportive of Hudson, and talked about how thrilled she was with her performance and how accomplished a feeling it was for her to see the character of Effie finally making it to the big screen.

Although she's made herself look otherwise in recent interviews and articles, I thought Holliday came off as nothing but gracious and professional during her segment yesterday.

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From USA Today:

Hudson used her thank-you cam time to say, "I want to definitely thank Miss Jennifer Holliday, the one and only. And I'd like to thank — did I say God? Yes, God."

On why she thanked Jennifer Holliday: “The original Dreamgirls paved the way for us to be here today. How can you not thank them?"

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I watched the interview with Holliday in the E! "Bailey's Bar" (What's up with that? They were a walking commercial for Bailey's again!) and the girl talking to Jennifer Holliday asked if she had a chance to congratulate and hang out with Hudson. Holliday said no. And she got a look on her face just as the interviewer said, "Well we need to make that happen!" And Jennifer Holliday did not look thrilled at all about meeting Hudson. She tried to play it off but it showed on her face that she was not keen on the idea.

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