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Feb 10, 2019 · Download this stock image: 61st Annual Grammy Awards 2019 Arrivals held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Featuring: Bonnie McKee Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 10 Feb 2019 Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com - RYPAPJ from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. February 26, 2021 Instagram. “Samuel and Zelma Staples both are from Camden, AR. Samuel a 1963 grad of UAPB. We new each other from home. We were always friendly with each other, but not friends. There was always some interest in each other to some degree. Zelma was the Lincoln High School marching band ...
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Music group Halestorm attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
- Became The “Spuds” Girl
- Launched Film Career Opposite Eddie Murphy
- Forced to Wangle The Exhale Audition
- New and Challenging Roles
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But Rochon’s genetic combination of brains and beauty were inadvertently leading her down another path. “In Los Angeles, people stop you on the street and say, ’Do you want to model? It pays two hundred dollars an hour!’” she told Cosmopolitan’s Tom Green. Rochon found it a difficult offer to pass up, and the money helped pay for college tuition an...
Rochon’s first big break came when she won a small but pivotal role in the 1989 Eddie Murphy film Harlem Nights. She spent only ten minutes on screen as a dressed-to-the-nines hooker, but it was a sassy performance that earned notice. Three years later, Murphy cast her in a small role in Boomerang, and Rochon again stole the moment—her scenes turne...
When Rochon read Terry McMillan’s 1992 bestseller Waiting to Exhale, a novel centered around the romantic travails in the lives of a quartet of successful, intelligent African American women, Rochon felt a connection. “I knew that Robin was my part,” she told Collier in Ebony when she heard it was being made into a film. “I was like, ‘Oh please, my...
The success of the film made Rochon a household name: by early 1996, Waiting to Exhale had become a box-office phenomenon that was taking in millions of dollars weekly, and Rochon was a star. “Although Exhale is an ensemble effort, it is Rochon who most surprised fans with her versatile acting effort,” wrote Ebony’s Collier. Female moviegoers ident...
Cosmopolitan,May 1996, p. 114. Ebony,May 1996. Essence,May 1996, p. 52; March 1997, pp. 67-68. Jet,April 9, 1990, pp. 24-26. People,January 15, 1996; October 14, 1996. —Carol Brennan
Dec 11, 1995 · Photo by Barry King/Alamy Stock Photo - 2C6400P from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Beverly Hills, California, USA 11th December 1995 Actress Lela Rochon and parents mother Zelma Staples and father Samuel Staples attend 20th Century Fox' 'Waiting To Exhale' Premiere on December 11, 1995 ...
When Zelma Grace Staples was born on 28 January 1908, in Baylor, Texas, United States, her father, Lewis Porter Staples, was 24 and her mother, Pauline Campbell, was 19. She married Jack Haskell Taylor on 23 December 1925. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
