{"id":9894,"date":"2011-09-15T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:18:14","slug":"whitney-houston-jordin-sparks-in-%e2%80%98sparkle%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9894","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks In \u2018Sparkle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> is negotiating to return to the big screen in Sony&#8217;s remake of the 1976 film <em>Sparkle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordin Sparks<\/strong> will make her feature film debut in the movie. <strong>Mike Epps<\/strong> also stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Houston<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t been in a movie since she traveled to Portland, Maine to make <strong>Penny Marshall&#8217;s<\/strong> 1996 The Preacher&#8217;s Wife. She starred opposite <strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong> in that film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Sparkle<\/em> focuses on three sisters who form a musical group and then have to contend with the ups and downs of stardom. Think the Supremes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Whitney Houston is negotiating to return to the big screen in Sony&#8217;s remake of the 1976 film Sparkle. Jordin Sparks will make her feature film debut in the movie. Mike Epps also stars. Houston hasn&#8217;t been in a movie since she traveled to Portland, Maine to make Penny Marshall&#8217;s 1996 The Preacher&#8217;s [&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-9894","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\/9894","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=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}