Paula Patton

...Mo'Nique and Gabourey Sidbe are considered award-worthy. Oscar nominee, Queen Latifah, wrote about her Precious experience, mainly Paula Patton's performance, to Variety.com. From the minute she appears in the film you can't help but feel...

In this article: Queen Latifah, Oscar, Mo'Nique, and Lee Daniels

...mother (the amazing Mo'Nique) abuses her. Precious takes a counselor's advice and enrolls in an alternative school. A teacher (Paula Patton) and a social worker (Mariah Carey) eventually reach her. There is strong profanity, drug use and...

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...can't look away when she's onscreen. Mariah Carey is unrecognizable as a plain-looking social worker, and Lenny Kravitz and Paula Patton turn in fine performances as well. Whether or not young adults can see "Precious" is a matter of...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Down syndrome, We Are, Sam's Club, Hasbro, Target, Costco, Universal Pictures, and Mariah Carey

...get punched in the nuts. " - Matt Damon, on Matt Damon 'Relearning' the Differences Between Boys and Girls Robin Thicke, Paula Patton Pick Baby's Name As Robin Thicke gets ready to become a father, he can check one item off his to-do...

In this article: Robin Thicke, Matt Damon, and Las Vegas

Their first child may not be due until May, but Robin Thicke and wife Paula Patton already have names chosen. "We like Julian if it's a boy and Isabella if it's a girl," So how is Robin Thicke's pregnant wife, Paula, doing? "My wife is...

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...welfare-hooked mother. While pregnant, Precious begins attending an alternative school where her teacher (Paula Patton) encourages her to emerge from the thick emotional shell Precious has built for protection. As a result, Precious...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique, Sapphire, Shadowboxer, and Harlem

...into a Gothic cityscape, Mary's home into a haunted house, and the alternative-school classroom of a gifted teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), into an existential decompression chamber. The movie soars on the cast's brilliance at...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Transcendence, Down syndrome, and AIDS

...to hold them because I miss my own kid! '" - Keisha Castle-Hughes, on Keisha Castle-Hughes Finds Young Motherhood a Blessing Paula Patton: I Want Two Kids, Robin Wants Five Pregnancy suits Paula Patton well! During a Friday visit to...

In this article: Robin Thicke, Tyra Banks, and The Tyra Show

Gabourey Sidibe, who plays the role of Precious, and Paula Patton, who plays her teacher, share a laugh during a media tour for the movie, Precious, at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday Oct. 9, 2009. (Laura A. Oda/staff)

In this article: Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique, Monster's Ball, Psychology, Oscar, San Francisco, and R&B

...when people seem to believe, because she fulfilled the weight requirements of the role, that she, too, suffers deeply inside. Paula Patton, who plays Precious' teacher Ms. Rain and is an instantly recognizable actress, entered the room and...

In this article: Mo'Nique, New York, Academy Award, Brooklyn, Harlem, and San Francisco