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eurweb.com   *Rumblings of Alicia Keys possibly playing legendary entertainer Lena Horne in a biopic began circulating back in 2007, when Oprah Winfrey had taken…

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The estate of legendary jazz singer and actress Lena Horne is selling some of the elaborate gowns, jewelry, fine art and books that filled her New York City apartment. More than 200 items are for sale at the Doyle New York auction house today, reports the Associated Press. They include a sequined cardigan evening coat […]

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Lena Horne, the ground-breaking singer, actress and civil rights activist who, in 1942, became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio, died on Sunday, May 9, at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.  She was 92. According to the New York Times, Horne’s death was announced by […]