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Best Rap/Song Collaboration: "All of the Lights," Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie Best Rap Song: "All of the Lights" Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie Best Spoken Word Album : "If You Ask Me " Betty White Best Song Written for Visual Media: "I See the Light," Alan Menken & Glenn Slater, songwriters Best Instrumental Arrangement ... (more)

Would Jesus invite Tupac Shakur and Queen Latifah into his house to save "those who hunger and thirst for right-eousness?" The Framingham resident who is chairman of the African-American Studies Department at Northeastern University and serves as founding pastor of the just-opened Community of Love Christian Fellowship church in Allston believes ... (more)

Can you smell it? Either love is in the air or the Chick-Fil-A has started using chicken-scented billboards.

The music was joyful, for sure. As for the rest of the movie, it would get a solid B. Joyful Noise centers around a small church in a dying town going through the worst of the recession.

WHAT: "Joyful Noise" STARRING: Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah DIRECTED BY: Todd Graff RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes RATED: PG-13 Dolly Parton and hip-hopper-turned-actress Queen Latifah tussle for the musical direction of their church choir as it prepares for a big annual sing-off in "Joyful Noise," a new comedy-drama from writer and director Todd ... (more)

The strange thing is this: Mainstream hiphop was not always dominated by Jay-Z types, the big exploiters of black male precariousness.

When choir director Bernard Sparrow passes away unexpectedly, Pastor Dale finds himself on the horns of a dilemma.

Things have come a long way since 1996 when Dino Venti sold chicken, beef and rice dishes out of a... On a purely cynical or grumpy level, you shouldn't like "Joyful Noise," a musical comedy/drama about a church choir competing in a national singing contest.

For the first time in years the Grammy Awards have a host. And they picked a natural candidate in LL Cool J who has been hosting the Grammy Announcement Concert since 2005 when Queen Latifah hosted.

Tony Bennett made music history with the Grammy-nominated CD Duets II when it debuted at the top of the Billboard Album charts, making Bennett the oldest vocal artist ever to achieve the number one spot.

My wife assures me "Joyful Noise" is a wonderful movie. She laughed, clapped and wants to own it on DVD.

George Lucas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, and Method Man spoke to CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi about their new film, "Red Tails," which tells the real-life story of the Tuskegee Airmen.

What is your "Joyful Noise?" Maybe it's the laughter of your child in the morning or the crack of a beer being opened on a hot summer day.

When the Sacred Divinity Church's choir director Bernard Sparrow passes away unexpectedly, Pastor Dale finds himself on the horns of a dilemma.

What you should know: Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah play rivals battling for control of their church choir as the Parton character's grandson and the Latifah character's daughter court and spark.

Paula Deen, known for her many decadent recipes as one of Television's most infamous cooks, has revealed that she has type-2 diabetes.

Proving action movies are still box office catnip, Mark Wahlberg's ' Contraband ' had a $24 million debut, making it the most popular flick at theaters this weekend .

She was nicknamed Latifah, which means "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic. She started her music career as a human beat box alongside rap group Ladies Fresh, and her album "Black Reign" was the first album by a female MC to ever go gold.

Think Glee with a religious twist. Joyful Noise , starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, features all the rival divas, angsty romance and moving musical numbers of the hit TV show - plus the timing of a bad sitcom and the melodrama of a movie of the week.

Picture: Queen Latifah 's Church Gown on display to promote the new movie 'Joyful Noise' at Planet Hollywood Times Square New York City, USA .... Queen Latifah arrived late to last night's Golden Globes ceremony and was forced to wait at the back of the room until the evening's host Ricky Gervais had finished his opening monologue.