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Regina Hall's ‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Opens In Theaters Friday
Everyone’s wearing a smile while falling from grace in ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’
“Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” is the story of a smile under siege. The smile graces the face of Regina Hall in the role of Trinitie Childs, the wife of Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), the charismatic but now disgraced pastor of a Black megachurch in Atlanta. The divine comedy opens in theaters Friday, Labor Day weekend.
It’s a radiant smile, full of positivity, but armor-plated. In the wake of her husband’s fall from grace following accusa- tions of sexual improprieties with several young men in his congregation, she must wear it like a shield, never faltering. She’s his bulwark, his cheering section.
Hall’s performance is re- markable, full of shadings and
intimations of significant emo- tional depths. Writer-director Adamma Ebo and cine- matographer Alan Gwiz- dowski keep the camera
focused on her face, capturing the subtle hints of just how much effort Trinitie is exert- ing to stay the course and stand by her man.
She’s no fool, admitting at one point to a documentary film crew the couple hired to follow them around as they try to revive their church, that she’s long known of her hus- band’s infidelities through their 15 years together. “I’m working my butt off for this man and this marriage,” she says defiantly.
In a sense, the picture is ac- tually the story of two smiles. The other is worn by Brown’s Lee-Curtis. Talk about posi- tivity. He’s a total believer — in himself. He’s a narcissist, a peacock, dressed to the nines in sharp suits and expensive shoes, reveling in the finer things in life with his self-glo- rification at the core of his preaching.
Chris Rock Turns Down Offer To Host Oscars Again
Chris Rock has reportedly declined an offer to host next year’s Oscars. During a standup show on Sunday night in Phoenix, Arizona, the come- dian said.
The awards’ organisers had asked him to return to host for a third time (he previously em- ceed in 2005 and 2016).
Earlier this year Rock, pre- senting the documentary award, was slapped on stage by Will Smith, shortly to pick up his best actor award, after Rock made a joke about
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Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
During his show, Rock re- portedly compared accepting the hosting gig to returning to the scene of a crime, referenc- ing the murder trial of OJ Simpson, which recorded that the night of Simpson’s ex-wife’s murder began with her leaving a pair of eyeglasses at an Italian restaurant. Re- turning to the Oscars, said Rock, would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant”.
Robin Roberts To Take A Break From ‘Good Morning America’
Robin Roberts is taking some personal time away from anchoring Good Morning America.
According to Pop Culture, the 61-year-old broadcaster and breast cancer survivor re- vealed months ago that her partner, Amber Laign, was also diagnosed with breast cancer and recently finished radiation treatments.
Roberts is a two-time sur-
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vivor and was first diagnosed in 2007 after discovering a lump. She made the discovery while prepping for a news seg- ment on performing self- checks.
It isn’t clear when Roberts will return to the air, but it ap- pears she may be gone until at least sometime in September, according to an Instagram post she made about taking some time away.
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