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NAACP Image Awards 2024: Queen Latifah, 53, makes FOUR epic outfit changes and addresses pay inequality for Black actresses as she hosts ceremony second year in a row

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Queen Latifah returned as host of the NAACP Image Awards for the second year in a row on Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.

The multi-hyphenate, 53, made four epic outfit changes throughout the star-studded evening honoring Black excellence in film, TV, music and literature in 2023.

She kicked off the festivities with a speech that made mention of the ‘pay inequality’ experienced by Black actresses in Hollywood.

Latifah credited The Color Purple’s Taraji P. Henson for bringing the

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What Was So Special About Greta Garbo?

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Fame is so powerful that renouncing it can seem like the supreme power move. Celebrities who retreat from the public eye (Howard Hughes, J. D. Salinger, Prince) will always be legends, no matter what else they may be. Rumored comebacks tantalize. Paparazzi circle. The mystery deepens. In 1941, at the age of thirty-six, Greta Garbo, one of the biggest box-office draws in the world, stopped acting and, though she lived for half a century more, never made another film. For

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The Women Behind the Thirteen-Year-Olds of “PEN15”

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Around then, another pair of best friends, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, débuted their stoner comedy “Broad City,” on Comedy Central, and it became a runaway success. Suddenly, TV executives were looking for the next big female duo. Konkle and Erskine landed several “general meetings,” an industry term for open-ended pitch sessions. One of the ideas they batted around was a sitcom called “Fosters,” in which they’d play former cult members hiding out by posing as teen-agers in a foster

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How Kristen Stewart Became Her Generation’s Most Interesting Movie Star

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Stewart told me that she can now talk to a director for a few moments, even one whose films she admires, and know that it won’t work out. She looks for filmmakers with a sensibility that is “spiritual, unarticulated, emotional,” she said, adding, “There are certain directors that feel otherworldly to me.”

Last year, the sixty-six-year-old French director Olivier Assayas gave a speech called “Cinema in the Present Tense,” in which he addressed, among other things, the state of Hollywood.

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