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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Lifetime is Making a Movie about Deceased Singer Aaliyah

Lifetime is really on their JOB. They have announced that they will be making a movie about deceased singer and Actress Aaliyah, who died in 2001 at the tender age of 22 yrs in a plane crash. Aaliyah was an exceptional R&B singer and songwriter. She was briefly married to R. Kelly when she was just 15 yrs old and he fronted the money for her to record her debut cd. Aaliyah was in the Bahamas recording scenes for her music video, "More than a Woman", the shoot was completed and everyone wanted to return to the USA. So too many people and luggage was loaded onto the small private jet and it took off ok, but quickly fell back to ground exploding and killing everyone on aboard. It was later learned that the pilot was high on cocaine and had been drinking.The crash was was attributed to pilot error, he allowed the plane to be overloaded and he had intoxicants in his system. So sad! Anyway, this biopic movie has a working title of "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B". And singer Zendaya has been hired to portray Aaliyah. Zendaya will also record 4 of Aaliyah's original songs for the movie. No word on which ones.  Lifetime is also making a movie about Whitney Houston starring America's Next Top Model runner up Yaya DaCosta and directed by the legendary actress Angela Basset. No word on if Yaya sings and will record any of Whitney's vast hits. I am cool with Yaya just lip syncing like Angela did in "What's Love Got to Do With It". I'll be watching both, will you?

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