Jordin Sparks takes the stage in the musical drama.

Critically-acclaimed drama The Help was the toast of the 2012 NAACP Image Awards on Friday (17Feb12) after landing three top honours.

"She was funny. She was fun to be around. She was great." Director Penny Marshall pays tribute to her The Preacher's Wife star Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday (11Feb12).

Whitney Houston was "excited" to start work on a sequel to hit 1995 movie Waiting To Exhale and couldn't wait to reunite with her original castmates, according to her co-star Loretta Devine.

Whitney Houston is in talks to make her big screen comeback in a reboot of 1976 musical movie Sparkle.

Gossip Girl star Matthew Settle has experienced the two extremes of Christmas - he grew up a Baptist preacher's son and is now married into a Jewish family.

Oscar winner Denzel Washington has praised his The Preacher's Wife costar Whitney Houston for overcoming her drug habit, hailing the singer "clean and clear."

Country Legend Johnny Cash dies at the age of 71.

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