Posted on 09/05/2012 6:40:26 AM PDT by marshmallow
Harlem nun claims Sister Act is based on her life story
A nun who claims her life story was made into the Whoopi Goldberg movie Sister Act is suing the Walt Disney Company for $1 billion.
TheWrap reports that Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely of New York City's Franciscan Handmaids of Mary Convent in Harlem claims her life story inspired the original film, plus its sequel and the Broadway musical based on the movie.
Sister Act, she claims, used her 'actual life experiences without her permission or authorization, thereby irreparably damaging her by depriving her of the windfall of financial gain reaped by defendants," according to the suit.
"The subplots actualized in the said motion picture Sister Act and portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg are her real life experiences," reads the claim.
Blakely is now suing Disney as well as Touchstone Pictures, which is owned by the studio.
(Excerpt) Read more at inmovies.ca ...
LOL...Lawyers will love us!
My guess is, that after all these years, life is not going well lately for the “Queen Mother”, and her previous “work” and her prior handling of her funds will not provide her with her acustomed standard of living for the rest of her life, so she’ll now see how much of a “settlement” Disney will offer to just make her go away.
One would hope Disney will not make any offer unless there is a strain of truth in the “Queen Mother’s” story.
Whoopie’s character was not a nun, she was a nightclub singer, who was in witness protection, hiding as a nun.
I was obviously making a joke.
As was I.
Besides, suing for $1B is not exactly nun-like behavior.
Perhaps this nun has simply lost her marbles.
Besides, suing for $1B is not exactly nun-like behavior.
Perhaps this nun has simply lost her marbles.
She is a former Catholic nun according to a 2003 NYT article.
Here is a link to the NYT article
From that article,
“Her deep-seated spiritual life was, in fact, first developed at the Convent of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary on West 124th Street, where she arrived at age 16 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and where she spent 10 years as a nun before leaving to pursue a worldlier vision of things. She moved into a friend’s apartment, found work in a watch factory and then at J. C. Penney’s, experimented with nail polish and permanents, and eventually discovered what it was like to have strange men whistle at the sight of her legs. She said she went on to get a master’s degree from Harvard and a doctorate in education from Columbia.”
So why she is referred to as a nun in the original posted article is beyond me.
$1 Billion? That’s a lot of pocket change, mates!
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