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Showing on October 17th is the much-awaited movie, The Secret Life of Bees, from the NY Times best selling novel of Sue Monk Kidd. It stars no less than the talented Dakota Fanning, Academy-award nominees Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo, Academy-award winner Jennifer Hudson, and Alicia Keys.

Set in South Carolina in 1964, it is a tale of 14-year old Lily Owens (Fanning) who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Burton). Lily flees with her caregiver, Rosaleen (Hudson), to escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Bettany). She is taken in by the Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo, and Keys) and discovers their enchanting world of beekeeping. Lily discovers a whole new world with the sisters and finds a home she has been longing for since her mother’s death. But a white girl living with a black household brings complications the sisters have feared from the start.
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Jennifer Hudson just got hitched. The singer actress is now engaged to David “Punk” Otunga. The I Love New York 2 star popped the question on the singer’s 27th birthday. Otunga is a Harvard Law graduate who has also worked with Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

The two have been dating for less than a year. Hudson told Usmagazine.com that she has never been happier. Otunga is likewise ecstatic saying that when you are dating a Dreamgirl, you’ve got to move fast.

Following her rise to fame on American Idol, Hudson received a Best Supporting Oscar in 2007 for Dreamgirls and recently starred in the Sex and the City movie. She will return to the big screen in the movie adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, “The Secret Life of Bees,” in October with no less than Dakota Fanning. Meanwhile, she hasn’t abandoned her singing career with her next album due for release by the end of September.