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(左: 26歲的Lena Horne; 右: 32歲的Whitney)

黑人傳奇女星 Lena Horne (不要懷疑你的眼睛，她是黑人沒錯) 的傳記電影多年來一直處於只聞樓梯響的階段，其中一個主要的原因是Lena找不到中意的女明星來扮演她，經過多方的競爭，預料會出線的 Janet Jackson，卻因為超級盃露奶事件遭到Lena拒絕，她最後決定交由惠妮來擔綱，這項消息在惠妮再度住進勒戒所前發佈，細節目前沒有透露。


HOUSTON GETS A BOOST FROM HORNE
                                                                               
WHITNEY HOUSTON has been given the perfect incentive to overcome her drug troubles once and for all - singing legend LENA HORNE wants THE BODYGUARD star to play her in an upcoming biopic.
                                                                               
JANET JACKSON lost Horne's vote to play her when the pop superstar bared her breast at last year's (04) SUPER BOWL, and now the STORMY WEATHER singer has given her blessing for troubled Houston to step into her shoes.
                                                                               
According to sources, Houston wrote a letter to Horne, asking her for permission to bring her life to the big screen in a planned biopic, and the singing legend agreed to the request just before the soul star checked into rehabilitation earlier this month (MAR05) for ongoing drug treatment.
                                                                               
Source: ContactMusic.com


Lena Horne今年已經高齡88歲，但仍然繼續唱歌，不時有零星的演出，以下是她的簡短介紹：

Lena Horne
One Gorgeous Actress/Singer and The First True African-American Star!

Lena Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an American popular singer. While she has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians (notably Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson), she is usually not considered a jazz singer because she does not improvise.
                                                                               
She was the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, and became famous in 1943 for her rendition of Stormy Weather in the movie of the same name. She later appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky, but was never featured in a leading role due to her race and the fact that films featuring her had to be reedited for showing in southern states where theatres could not show films with African-American performers. (As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were standalone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline.) She was originally considered for the lead role in the 1951 version of Show Boat but Ava Gardner was given the role instead.
                                                                               
Disenchanted with Hollywood by the mid-1950s, and increasingly focused on her nightclub career, she only made two major appearances in MGM films during the decade, 1950's Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song), and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She returned to the screen three more times, playing Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz (197 , with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and co-hosting the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III.
                                                                               
In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note. Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings sound wonderful and include versions of such signature songs as Something To Live For, Chelsea Bridge and Stormy Weather." The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of My Life, was recorded in 1999 but remained unreleased for six years. The new album is scheduled for release on April 10, 2005.

 
Lena Horne and Whitney Houston