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How Many Wrong Buttons Can The NY Times ‘Push’?

3:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Remember Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire, the wild Mariah Carey/Mo’Nique starrer that lit up Sundance (and took home three awards)? Lionsgate took our advice and bought it, and now things have gone haywire.

Defamer Futurologists Correctly Predict Sundance Sale of ‘Push’

6:15AM Kyle Buchanan | We don’t want to toot our horns or anything, but…hey, what’s that loud, sustained honking? Shortly after SPC picked up An Education just as we’d prognosticated, Lionsgate has followed our other Sundance advice.

‘Push’ Sweep Pushes Mo’Nique Closer To Oscar Short List

3:46AM STV | OK, so for real this time: Much as we loved our festival jaunt (and are keeping its sinus-besieging germs close to us even today), Sundance’s awards announcements are our official signal to finally move on.

Today In Sundance Hell: ‘Mo’Nique’ And ‘Oscar’ In The Same Sentence

3:14AM STV | Our final round-up of news from the Sundance Film Festival brings together at last the Mo’Nique/James Gandolfini combo the whole world has been waiting for.

So Sherri Shepherd, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, And Mo’Nique All Walk Into A Sundance Movie…

9:00AM Kyle Buchanan | What distinguishes Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire from every other Sundance movie? Let’s start with Mariah Carey sporting the faintest hint of a moustache and go from there.

4:52AM STV | Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 11/9 — Right before showtime at the Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant show at the Greek, MARTIN LAWRENCE and his date walked in with an entourage of people. He had some diamond-encrusted eyeglasses that look like they cost more than my car. MO’NIQUE was there really early with a guy and two women, and they were eating chicken tenders and fries. She was really nice to everyone who came up to her, even saying, “I love you, too” to the old man across the way who told her “I love you” and then kept flipping her off. She laughed. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.au.]