The star of the TBS sitcom “For Better or For Worse” and Perry’s “Jumping the Broom,” “Why Did I Get Married” film and its sequel says she’s got just a real person in mind for a future project.

Namely the late Donna Summer.

In an interview with theGrio’s, Smith says she’d love nothing better than to play the late Queen of Disco in a movie biopic.

“I want to play Donna Summer,” she said.

Smith said it would be “a dream role” for her, but confessed that she doesn’t sing.

“But neither did Angela Bassett when she played Tina Turner,” Smith said.

Smith’s career rise in Hollywood has been a meteoric one following a tough upbringing in Camden, N.J., where she and her twin sister were raised by a single mother. Smith soon succumbed to the temptation of drugs, she said during an interview with Ebony Magazine earlier this year.

“I used to do drugs every day,” she said. “I used between the ages of 19 and 25.”

She confessed to a routine that consisted of smoking “two packs of cigarettes a day”, having “[marijuana] every day” and “[using] cocaine three times a week.

Now a devoted Christian, Smith attributed her victory over drugs to “the grace of God.”

She is quick to credit Perry for his role in helping her become one of America’s most recognizable African-American actresses, but is clearly looking to expand her professional horizons.

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Robert Griffin III might not throw another touchdown or perform anywhere like he did Sunday. But he will always have Sunday.

And no one will forget it any time soon, either, as his 320-yard, two-touchdown, no-turnover effort in the Washington Redskins’ 40-32 victory in New Orleans against the Saints.

Griffin was named the NFC Player of the Week, the first rookie to receive that honor. Ever.

But that’s what goes with coming into a hostile Mercedes Benz Dome against a supposed-to-be tough Saints defense and commanding the game from start to finish, as a top-flight veteran would.

The No. 2 overall draft pick completed 19 of 26 passes (and had at least three dropped) and no interceptions in Sunday’s victory — making him the first player in league history to amass 300-plus yards passing, two or more passing touchdowns and no interceptions in an NFL debut.

Griffin is also the first rookie quarterback to throw for at least 300 yards and win a season opener.

On top of that, Griffin is featured on the current edition of Sports Illustrated with the headline “Power Surg3.”

For all he did in ringing up 40 points on the Saints, fans, observers and teammates alike were equally impressed with the way Griffin handled the moment.

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It has only been four years since Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew were murdered by her former brother-in-law William Balfour, but the Dreamgirl admits that she forgives him and actually feels sympathetic towards him.

“For the most part, it’s not his fault,” the 30-year-old award winning R&B singer told Oprah during her interview on Oprah’s Next Chapter. “It’s like what he was taught and how he was brought up … he never had a chance.”

Oprah dug deeper as she brought out Jennifer’s sister and Balfour’s ex-wife, Julia, who ignored the constant threats that her husband made towards her family.

Although it doesn’t seem as if Jennifer holds her sister responsible for their family’s death, Julia admitted that she often blames herself for the tragic murder of her family.

“What if I hadn’t married him,” Jennifer’s sister asked herself. “That was his promise. If you leave me, I’m gonna kill you. I’ll kill your family first. I left and he did what he said he was gonna do.”

Now that Balfour has been ordered to remain behind bars for the rest of his life, the former American Idol contestant said she can finally go visit the grave sites again.

“I haven’t been to the grave site since we buried them,” said the soulful singer from Chicago. “But now I want to go because I feel like we’ve accomplished this. We’ve done this. We got justice for you.”

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The Eagles were supposed to handle the Browns with ease, and yet, primarily because Vick was awful with four interceptions, Cleveland held a late-game lead. But Vick rebounded before it was too late, engineering an 11th-hour drive that produced a 4-yard touchdown pass to Clay Harbor with 1:18 left, saving the Eagles, 17-16.

Mostly, Vick saved himself from an avalanche of criticism.

”When you throw interceptions,” Vick said, ”it’s one thing. But when you throw an interception for a touchdown and it changes the dynamic of the game, you look up at the scoreboard and now you’re losing, you feel a sense of dissatisfaction.

”I have a responsibility to this team and that’s to lead them, not to hurt them.”

Vick hurt the Eagles most when he threw his fourth interception early in the fourth quarter and it was returned 27 yards for a touchdown by Browns linebacker D’Qwell Jackson, who somersaulted the final few yards into the end zone as Cleveland fans flipped out in the stands thinking an upset was possible.

But with the Eagles down 16-10, Vick marched them 91 yards for the go-ahead TD on his career-high 56th pass. Before that, the superstar showed that missing all but 12 snaps during the preseason because of injuries was indeed a big deal.

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Will and Jada have lent their considerable influence to the picture, which tells the story of activist Angela Davis and her imprisonment in the 1970s. Will Smith is a big admirer of the project’s director, Shola Lynch. The Smith family posed for pictures on the red carpet with both Lynch and Davis herself, the retired University of California Santa Cruz professor and two-time Communist Party Vice Presidential candidate who is one of the most enduring symbols of the Black Power Movement in the 1060′s with her trademark Afro. The Afro is now curly and reddish-gray, but Davis still looks like the woman who became a lightning rod for conservatives 40 years ago.

Sporting a curve-hugging white backless dress, Jada seemed to be enjoying the red carpet most of all as she cavorted with adoring fans, posing for pictures and signing autographs.

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