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December 18th, 2006

Just got home from watching Dreamgirls. To answer my question from Saturday: I liked it.

[12/19/2006 UPDATE: Actually, I liked it quite a bit. Jennifer Hudson was amazing, and she performed so well throughout the movie that it took some of the pressure off when she finally got to "And I Am Telling You..." because by that point she'd already established herself as fabulous. She performed that song beautifully, but after watching I realize that comparing her performance to Holliday is not really fair. It's like comparing apples and oranges -- Holliday knocked the top off of the song because she was projecting to a Broadway audience. Hudson's performance is different, it's more subtle and sad, and a bit less angry and desperate than Holliday's. I love them both.]

[UPDATE #2: Salon.com has a nice article on Holliday's rendition of And I Am Telling You.]

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Michael W
December 19th, 2006

you “liked” it? i saw it on sunday, and i just liked it also. i really, really wanted to love it, although i did think jennifer hudson was amazing…..

Todd
September 4th, 2007

I watched it last night based solely on the fact that it won the golden globe for best picture (I didn’t realize until later that the competition was limited to “comedy/musical”). Although I knew the song “And I’m telling You . . .,” I didn’t know it was from this show and was pleasantly surprised when Hudson sang it. But until that very moment, all I could think was, “And I set aside my hatred of Eddie Murphy for this?”

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