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Hot Question: Is Lupita Nyong’o the Fastest-Rising A-lister in Hollywood History?

No, because she’s not officially an A-lister. The media throws around that term the way Hollywood hands out producer credits, but that doesn’t mean the label is really fair or applicable. Technically, the A-list is reserved for folks who can get a film financed on name alone — and not just stateside. A-listers must carry financial clout overseas as well, enough to guarantee that foreign booties will populate theater seats, or couches on home-movie night, to a significant degree.
Lupita Nyong’o, while undoubtedly radiant, talented, and on the rise, isn’t even in the same league as an established star, someone who has played the Hollywood game since before the birth of Twitter. Could Nyong’o land the cover of a glossy magazine tomorrow if she felt like it? Possibly; she’s already graced New York, W, Marie Claire, and Entertainment Weekly, to name just a few.
But could she command, say the $20 million that Angelina Jolie reportedly got for “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” — the same amount she’ll supposedly make if she stars in “Salt 2″? Or even the $10 million that contemporary Jennifer Lawrence won for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”?
Not necessarily.
What Nyong’o is isn’t an A-lister. Not yet, though you should check back with me in a year or two. No, Nyong’o is something very different, and, potentially, just as powerful, though in a different way. Nyong’o is an “It Girl.” And in that regard, she may very well have risen faster than any other It Girl in recent memory, having skyrocketed from nobody to media darling in the course of a single movie.
“She’s only been in the spotlight for a year,” veteran fashion publicist Cole Trider of Autumn Communications tells me. “That’s huge. As careers go, that rarely happens so quickly.”
In comparison, let’s look at old-school it girl Julia Roberts. Teens of the late 1980s liked her early performances in small movies such as “Mystic Pizza.” But she’d worked in the film biz for about two years before breaking huge as the female lead opposite Richard Gere in “Pretty Woman.” After that movie debuted circa 1990, big, wavy, barely controllable hair became the rage.
Late ’90s it girl Gwyneth Paltrow spent even longer rising to the top of the publicity heap; she spent either five or seven years building her film resume, depending on whom you ask, before she became a household name. “Emma” was in 1996, the same year she scored her first Vogue cover; “Shakespeare in Love,” the film that won her an Oscar nomination and the chance to wear the terribly tailored, and yet somehow historic, Pink Ralph Lauren Gown Seen Round the World, debuted in 1998.
Plum Sykes of Vogue called that Oscar night Paltrow’s “Grace Kelly” moment, but, really, it was her debut as a fashion It Girl.
“Her Grace Kelly moment, when she won Best Actress for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at the 1999 Oscars in Ralph Lauren’s pink princess dress, transported her from starlet to icon,” Sykes recalled in a hard-to-find 2002 homage.
“Afterward, I kept seeing that dress everywhere, BCBG knockoffs or whatever,” Paltrow told Sykes at the time. “And I was like, ‘I hate that dress! I can’t stand that dress!’ Now when I see that dress I die for it. I think it’s so beautiful.”
Even the aforementioned Lawrence didn’t shoot to the top of the fashion-and-lady-mag game right out of the gate a la Nyong’o. After two years in movies, Lawrence landed her first Oscar nomination for “Winter’s Bone, wearing Calvin Klein to the ceremony. It was a nice dress. Some people liked it. But Calvin Klein is certainly no Dior, which reportedly is paying Lawrence a pretty $15 million for an extended three-year endorsement gig.
As for why Nyong’o was able to shoot to the absolute top so quickly, Trider credits several factors. Nyong’o, unlike some of her contemporaries, genuinely cared about fashion from the get-go. It doesn’t hurt that Nyong’o also happens to be a bona fide Stunner. But the biggest factor may be one big, very lucky, meeting, with a stylist named Micaela Erlanger. Vanity Fair has called Erlanger the “woman behind the star,” and it may be right.
Nyong’o met Erlanger through Michelle Dockery, another stylista, while the two were shooting the film “Nonstop.”
“She and Lupita were talking, and Lupita said, ‘I have this film coming out, “12 Years a Slave,” and I need a stylist,’” Trider explains. “The first major red carpet Lupita and Micaela did together was for the Toronto Film Festival… and after that, it was like, boom.”
Boom indeed.

Barcelona right-back Dani Alves eats banana thrown onto pitch during La Liga match

Barcelona defender Dani Alves responded to a racist taunt when a banana landed at his feet during Sunday’s game at Villarreal by picking up the fruit, peeling and then eating it before proceeding to take a corner kick.
Alves said after the match that humour is the best way to combat racism in sports.
“We have suffered this in Spain for some time,” Alves said. “You have to take it with a dose of humour. We aren’t going to change things easily.
“If you don’t give it importance, they don’t achieve their objective.”
Alves had already played a key part in sparking the team’s 3-2 comeback when his off-target shot was turned into an own goal Gabriel Armando in the 65th.
And shortly after the banana incident, Alves launched a cross that Mateo Musacchio headed into his own goal in the 78th before Lionel Messi scored Barcelona’s winner.
The win kept Barcelona four points from league leader Atletico Madrid.
Alves has often been subjected to racist taunts and called fighting racism “a lost war” in January 2013, after segments of Real Madrid’s fans abused him with monkey chants during a match.
Watch the video to see Dani Alves eat the banana.

What Nigerian men should know, being romantic isn’t about money” says Toke Makinwa

When asked by Nigerian Tribune if Nigerian men are romantic ..Toke said ‘
“I think they could do with a little bit of help, but on the average they try. People need to understand that being romantic doesn’t equate with money, you don’t have to spend money to be romantic. Nigerian men believe that in other to be romantic, money has to be involved or maybe it is the women that make them feel that way, but I think romance is all about the little things and the joy that they bring.
Who is your kind of man or you are one of those who love to date men in limelight?
A God-fearing guy, a guy that is fun, someone with a kind heart, just like the guy I married

Veteran Nollywood filmmaker,Amaka Igwe is dead

Nollywood film maker Amaka Igwe is dead.
Igwe, who was CEO of Amaka Igwe Studios passed on at the age of 60,  reportedly died a few hours ago after an asthma attack.
Her death is said to have been confirmed by the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima.
Igwe is survived by her husband, Charles, three children and an aged mother.
May her soul rest in peace.

As the ‘Half of a Yellow Sun' hit the cinema, it's one of the biggest films I’ve done saysGenevieve Nnaji

Super actress, Genevieve Nnaji who has done hundreds of movies said Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the biggest movies she has done. In an interactive session with journalists she said;
“Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the biggest films I have done so far, but definitely not the most challenging role I have played in movies. I have done a lot more challenging roles in Nollywood”
Genevieve Nnaji played the role of Miss. Adebayo in the movie. She said it was safer for her because she didn’t have to experience the horrors of the war but hopes that in future if a different story is told about the civil war she will love play to the role of an Igbo woman where she would express what it meant to be an Igbo woman at that era.
Half of a Yellow Sun is an adaptation of Chimamanda Adiche’s bestselling and award-winning novel with the same title. The movie was produced with over 10 million Dollars (1.7 Billion Naira) and has a superb cast of stars, starring OSCAR nominee and BAFTA award winner, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Genevieve Nnaji, veteran singer Onyeka Onwenu, Thandie Newton, Anika Rose Noni, OC Ukeje, Zack Orji, Wale Ojo, Gloria Young, Tina Mba, , Joseph Mawle, John Boyega amongst others.
According to a press release signed by Bigsam media, the movie has been released in the UK and would be released in Nigeria this Friday on the 25th of April. And for the first time an African movie would be released in the mainstream US Cinema, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia and Portugal. It is also the first movie to show at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The movie was directed by UK-based Nigerian playwright, Biyi Bandele and produced by winner of three BAFTAs and an OSCAR, Andrea Calderwood and Yewande Sadiku, an investment banker.

Peter Okoye Got 2014 Bentley GT

Barely a week after they said they were not breaking up, Peter Okoye has bought a new Bentley GT..If you recall, there were rumours that one of the major reasons for the rift was he needed more money..
For a 2014 Bentley,he must have shelled out a lot of cash….

 Hope you are not jealous....