When Universal Pictures sent us  the first preview trailer of CATS  awhile ago, you really didn’t need to be a genius to spot that the movie STANK.  And not it a good way like Phoebe Buffay’s Smelly Cat one of  the highlights of Friends,  With a budget of sone $91 million  and a star studded cast and an Oscar Winning Director, the reviews are just in and nothing less than savage.

Rather than waste your money filling one of the many empty seats at the movie theater, stay home and listen to JENNIFER HUDSON one of the movie’s stars with her rendition of Cat’s most memorable songs MEMORIES.  The video is of her performing it on TV’s The Voice

 

And talking of Jennifer Hudson (which we love to do) this video clip from MGM  landed on the QUEERGURU desk’s earlier today. .  It’s a sneak preview of La Hudson playing ARETHA FRANKLIN  in a new biopic that will be released in August next year.   She both looks and sounds stunning, and we feel sure that the late Queen of Soul herself would wholeheartedly approve too.

The movie directed by Liesl Tommy (Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings) also stars Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans ,Tate Donovan, Tituss Burgess, Mary J. Blige and Audra McDonald. 

We smell another Academy Award Nomination for Hudson, and no doubt she will be more than happy that there is after all life after Cats  .