Who ever thought Precious star Gabourey Sidibe would ever work again?  I mean she's fat.  She's Black.  She's dark-skinned.  She's fat.  And at the moment she has little fashion sense.  And did I mention she's fat.  These characteristics are all most people see when they look at Gabbie.  But I beg to differ. 

Howard Stern is quoted as saying:

"There's the most enormous, fat black chick I've ever seen.  She is enormous.  Everyone's pretending she's a part of show business and she's never going to be in another movie" ... "She should have gotten the Best Actress award because she's never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in?"

Really Howard?  Well Stern and many others have already been proven wrong.  Sidibe has already signed on for one television series and a film.  Showtime Networks will be premiering a new original series titled The Big C.  It stars Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner, Laura Linney, as a suburban mother and housewife whose recent cancer diagnosis makes her re-examine her life and shake it up a bit.  While trying to find new hope in her life Linney is dealing with a loving but highly immature husband (played by Oliver Platt) and Sidibe is one of her smart-mouthed students in her class.  The show is currently in production and is set to air this Summer.

Richard Pryor:  Is It Something I Said?

Marlon Wayans is scheduled to play Richard Pryor in the long-awaited film biopic of the comedian's life.  Adam Sandler will be producing the film under his Happy Madison production company at Sony Pictures.  Eddie Murphy was assumed to be taking on the role of Pryor but had creative differences with the powers-that-be over the direction of the project.  As the hunt was on for a new actor, writer and director of the film, Bill Condon, saw Wayans re-create a Pryor monologue at the audition and the deal was sealed.