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singing. One sister using the gift in a positive
way and the other sister using the gift in a
destructive way. We wanted to be able to
show the outcome of both.
There are always some wonderful
unexpected things that occur. You hope that
a movie comes together and you hope that
it’s good. One of the unexpected things
was to see the impact the film had on those
who saw Sparkle and how moved they were
by the story, the performances, by Whitney
Houston’s performance in particular; that
was certainly a blessing and to a degree,
unexpected. We knew we were planning on it
and hoping that the performances would be
great, but it is entirely another thing to actually

see it in action. We were very very pleased with
the response to the film.
As a Hollywood movie-studio executive, I
handled the production for the studio. I put the
whole thing together. My role as a movie-studio
executive is to find great material . . . that is a
book, a script, an adaptation or remake of a
movie and then to buy it, develop it and produce
it. Get it made. My job is to find (faith based)
material, movies that hopefully the audience
wants to see. It really makes sense to find
things that the audience will love, but you never
know. Sometimes you can pick wrong, but I get
movies made and hopefully see those movies
perform at the box office.

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