{"id":10254,"date":"2011-09-29T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:28:46","slug":"cee-lo-joins-sparkle-cast-while-r-kelly-signs-on-for-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10254","title":{"rendered":"Cee Lo Joins &#8216;Sparkle&#8217; Cast, While R. Kelly Signs On For Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big-screen remake of the 1976 film <em>Sparkle<\/em> just got a bit, er, more sparkly. EW has confirmed that <strong>Cee Lo Green<\/strong>, the Grammy-winning multi-platinum R&amp;B singer and mentor on NBC&#8217;s<em> The Voice<\/em>, has joined the cast, which includes American Idol winner <strong>Jordin Sparks<\/strong> in the title role of an aspiring music star, and <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> as her mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carmen Ejogo<\/strong> (Away We Go) and Tika Sumpter (The CW&#8217;s Gossip Girl) have also signed up to play Sparks&#8217; sisters, <strong>Sister<\/strong> and <strong>Dolores<\/strong>; together, the trio rise together in the Motown-era music business as a <strong>Supremes<\/strong>-like group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big-screen remake of the 1976 film Sparkle just got a bit, er, more sparkly. EW has confirmed that Cee Lo Green, the Grammy-winning multi-platinum R&amp;B singer and mentor on NBC&#8217;s The Voice, has joined the cast, which includes American Idol winner Jordin Sparks in the title role of an aspiring music star, and Whitney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}