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Arrest Warrants Doom ‘Gentle Giant’
(A P) — Jerm aine Jones w as d is
m issed from "A m erican Id o l"— and
not because o f view er votes.
It w as revealed during the M arch
14 installm ent o f the Fox singing
contest that the 25-year-old vocal
instructor from Pine H ill, N .J., w as
disqualified for not revealing that
he had outstanding arrest w arrants
back hom e in N ew Jersey.
"Idol" executive producers Ken
W arw ick and N igel L ythgoe c o n
fronted Jones about the issue in a
taped segm ent.
"Y ou w ere incum bent to tell us
the truth about all o f this, and it
appears that you ju s t haven't on
any level," W arick told Jones.
T he so-called "gentle giant," as
h e w a s d u b b e d by h o s t R y a n
Seacrest, w as one o f the view er-
selected top 13 finalists after the
ju d g e s gave him a last-m inute spot
in the 1 1th season's group o f m ale
sem ifinalists. He w as am ong the
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Contestant Jermaine Jones performs on the singing competition
series "American Idol."
b ottom three v ote-getters after p er
form ing Stevie W onder's "K nocks
M e O ff M y Feet" but ad v an ced to
the top 12 singers.
"I didn't w ant to get ju d g ed ,"
said Jones. "I didn't w ant to get
penalized fo r anything that h a p
pened in the past."
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Melanie Block, L.D.
Actress Makes Splash on Broadway
fo r the last few seasons o f "The
C osby Show ," w as in "H angiri W ith
M r. C ooper" for several seasons,
and played C harisse in the tw o "D oc
to r D olittle" m ovies op p o site Eddie
M urphy.
Raven-Symone
in lead role for
‘Sister Act’
(A P) — R aven-S ym one is all
grow n up — and going to a c o n
vent.
The form er cutie from "The Cosby
Show " w ill take ov er the lead part in
B roadw ay's hit m usical "Sister Act"
later this m onth, playing a night-
clu b -sin g er-tu m ed -n u n .
T h e 2 6 -y e a r-o ld a c tre s s a n d
singer says she's in rehearsal a l
m ost every day o f the w eek from
"sun-up to sun-dow n" to "m ake
sure I have everything dow n" w hen
she takes o v er at the B roadw ay
T heatre on M arch 27.
R aven-S ym one says she fell in
love w ith the m usical the m om ent
she saw it. "I w as definitely one o f
the audience m em bers dancing in
the aisles," she says. "I think it's a
w onderfully scored and directed and
w ritten m usical. I'm very excited to
be part o f this."
She takes over the role from P a
tina M iller, w ho earn ed a T ony
A w ard nom ination in the part and
w hose final perform ance is M arch
18. W hoopi G oldberg, w ho w as the
original D eloris V an C artier in the hit
1992 film , is producing the m usical.
W hile R aven-S ym one did a guest
sp o t w ith "T he B o y s C h o ir o f
H arlem " on B roadw ay w hen she
w as 5, she prefers to think o f this as
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Raven-Symone (AP photo)
h er B roadw ay debut.
"I w ant to do stu ff I hav en 't done
before. I did it at 5 but I don't rem em
b er that, obviously. So I w ant to do
it fo r real — a big, cro w d -p leasin g
show as w ell as w orking w ith these
great people."
"S ister A ct" o p ened on B road
w ay in A pril 2011 after a stint in
L ondon and w as n om inated for a
best m usical T o n y last year. It has
original tunes by so n g w riter A lan
M enken and lyricist G lenn Slater.
T he m usical's plot is faithful to the
movie: A nightclub singer acciden
tally w itnesses a m urder by her crim e
boss lover and flees to a convent to
hide. T he nuns com e alive as she
teaches them razzle-dazzle and rhythm
w hile she, in turn, learns the value o f
sisterhood and self-sacrifice.
R aven-S ym one becam e fam ous
playing the ap p le-ch eek ed O livia
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