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.
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"Queen Mother" Dr. Delois Blakely
If she's a "nun" then I'm the Pope. Not sure who this woman is or how she comes to be called a "Queen Mother" (whatever that is) but she sounds like a grifter. Do not see any mention of her on the website of the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary in Harlem.
Sister Act came out in 1993. This is just dawning on her now?
And if she’s a nun, I’m an astronaut.
Sister Act came out in 1993. This is just dawning on her now?
Sorry for the double post. Mozilla appears to be having a stroke or something.
So much for the vow of poverty
She's the "honorary mayor" of Harlem and an all-around agitator.
The zero’s are off to Hawaii in a few months and anyone that wants anything had better get their bid in now.
Very very doubtful
sure took long enough
If she really wants to go big, the “Queen Mother” should ask for one Gagillion Gazillion Dollars!
Really! I guess this paves the way for me to sue over that Brady Bunch series.
You just can’t make this stuff up. Oh. Wait...
She wants some obama bucks. She’s one os the entitled. The only Queen I know is Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven and Earth. To bad this poseur doesn’t know that to. The only queen she knows is welfare. Truth hurts.
Not really. Hollywood has a long tradition of being inspired by true events and then fictionalizing them just enough to avoid paying the people whose true events inspired them. They did this to one-time Judas Priest singer Ripper Owens when they made the Mark Wahlberg film "Rock Star."
She could be telling the truth.
“Hollywood has a long tradition of being inspired by true events and then fictionalizing them just enough to avoid paying the people whose true events inspired them.”
In general, they’re under no obligation to pay people for telling a story based on them.
I forget - what is larger, a Gazillion or a Bazillion?
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