Faith Evans has been picked to play Florence Ballard in a new biopic about the tragic life of the fallen singer. Ballard, who died abruptly at the age of 32, was once the lead vocalist of the iconic group The Supremes before being forced out in favour of diva Diana Ross. No further details about the film are available yet but one thing is certain: Evans has haunting resemblance to Ballard

http://ht.ly/19lYe4

Nice pick-she'll do a great job

Wishful thinking, we'll see what happens...

**** so who's gonna play Diana Ross than ... Beyonce?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

**** so who's gonna play Diana Ross than ... Beyonce?

Man don't even entertain that thought. NO.

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

**** so who's gonna play Diana Ross than ... Beyonce?

Man don't even entertain that thought. NO.

Timmy84 said:

Wishful thinking, we'll see what happens...

Thats her PR's doing, and I still can't forget when she did an interview with MTV during the release of Faithfully where they said she was signed to play Billie Holiday.

Great choice but . . . . it aint gonna happen

HAPPYPERSON said:

Faith Evans has been picked to play Florence Ballard in a new biopic about the tragic life of the fallen singer. Ballard, who died abruptly at the age of 32, was once the lead vocalist of the iconic group The Supremes before being forced out in favour of diva Diana Ross. No further details about the film are available yet but one thing is certain: Evans has haunting resemblance to Ballard

http://ht.ly/19lYe4

Who wrote this bias BS?

That's like Jimmy Stewart being in his mid 40's and playing Charles Lindbergh. Faith is older than the age Flo died at.

Harlepolis said:

Timmy84 said:

Wishful thinking, we'll see what happens...

Thats her PR's doing, and I still can't forget when she did an interview with MTV during the release of Faithfully where they said she was signed to play Billie Holiday.

See? This is why I just don't think it's gonna get past the PR releases.

sosgemini said:

HAPPYPERSON said:

Faith Evans has been picked to play Florence Ballard in a new biopic about the tragic life of the fallen singer. Ballard, who died abruptly at the age of 32, was once the lead vocalist of the iconic group The Supremes before being forced out in favour of diva Diana Ross. No further details about the film are available yet but one thing is certain: Evans has haunting resemblance to Ballard

http://ht.ly/19lYe4

Who wrote this bias BS?

Some 20-year-old with no knowledge of Motown or the Supremes.

And to be frank, Flo was not forced out because of Diana Ross. She was forced out because she didn't play the game Berry wanted the group to play - to present themselves as a polished pop group.

I'm really hating the fact that they're playing Diana Ross as the bad guy in the Florence Ballard story. That's just not accurate.

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Timmy84 said:

sosgemini said:

Who wrote this bias BS?

Some 20-year-old with no knowledge of Motown or the Supremes.

And to be frank, Flo was not forced out because of Diana Ross. She was forced out because she didn't play the game Berry wanted the group to play - to present themselves as a polished pop group.

I'm really hating the fact that they're playing Diana Ross as the bad guy in the Florence Ballard story. That's just not accurate.

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t's not accurate but they gotta sell it someway.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

Some 20-year-old with no knowledge of Motown or the Supremes.

And to be frank, Flo was not forced out because of Diana Ross. She was forced out because she didn't play the game Berry wanted the group to play - to present themselves as a polished pop group.

I'm really hating the fact that they're playing Diana Ross as the bad guy in the Florence Ballard story. That's just not accurate.

[Edited 10/9/10 10:09am]

t's not accurate but they gotta sell it someway.

They've been doing that for about 20 years lol

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

**** so who's gonna play Diana Ross than ... Beyonce?

Man don't even entertain that thought. NO.

If that happens Beyonce's hate meter is gonna triple.

Cool for Faith.

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Nice pick. I'm saving "Congrats Faith" for later, tho. We don't know for sure yet.

I'm not completely doubting the possibility, but if this is true, why didn't she mention it somewhere in this interview?

http://www.billboard.com/...8627.story

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