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MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014
Disney Channel star suddenly is out of a job
TV news usually
slows down to a trickle
at the start of the July 4
holiday week.
There was one story,
however, that kept social
media buzzing this
weekend. And it had to
do with the Lifetime
Network and a planned
MATT BUCKLER
made-for-television
BROADCASTING
movie about the late
R&B star Aaliyah, who died in a plane
crash in 2001 at the age of 22.
Two weeks ago Zendaya Coleman, a big
up-and-coming star on the Disney Channel,
was named to play Aaliyah.
Filming hasn’t even started yet, however,
and Coleman is no longer involved in the
project.
In fact, there might not even be a project.
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Lifetime has put the planned movie on hold.
The announcement of Coleman’s departure was made on Twitter.
“We are sad Zendaya will no longer play
Aaliyah. Production is currently on hold,” a
Lifetime representative said in its Twitter
account.
Lifetime, however, didn’t say why
Coleman, 17, no longer is involved. Or if
the project will resume.
It’s a win for many who posted in the
social media that they were against
Coleman getting the job, claiming that she
looks nothing like Aaliyah.
Insiders also claim that Aaliyah’s family
was also upset Coleman got the part.
In fact, they were upset with the entire
idea of a Lifetime movie.
Aaliyah’s cousin, Jomo Hankerson, told
the New York Daily News last week that the
family wanted a “major studio release.”
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Apparently Lifetime wasn’t major
enough.
The big question, however, surrounds
Coleman, who is such a major star on the
Disney Channel that she even landed an
appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.”
This movie role would have been the next
big step in her career.
Instead it turns out to be a backward step.
Was she forced out? Did Lifetime listen to
the criticism?
Or did Coleman have second thoughts
about playing Aaliyah? Was she the one
who decided to back away?
For whatever reason, Coleman is out —
the defining moment of her young career
turns out to be a question mark.
Matt Buckler is television and radio
editor of the Journal Inquirer.
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8 P.M. / CBS
Kat Dennings stars as Max Black in
this sitcom about two struggling
waitresses in a Brooklyn diner. In
tonight’s repeat, Deke takes Max to
his place after a great first date, but
his so-called home is nothing like
she expected. You would think after
a great first date, Deke could live in
a trash bin and Max would be happy
— unless it really is a trash bin.
MOVIE MENU
★★★ The Pawnbroker. Turner
Classic Movies at 8 p.m. (1965.) Rod
Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock
Peters, Jalme Sanchez, Thelma
Oliver. Steiger stars as Sol Nazerman,
a survivor of a World War II concentration camp who owns a run-down
pawn shop in Harlem. He has
become cruel, offensive and totally
removed from the people that surround him. After you’ve been in a
Nazi concentration camp, however,
wouldn’t it be impossible for your life
ever to be normal?
Q&A
Q. Is “24: Live Another Day” the
start of another regular, ongoing
“24” series? — Tim Scott,
Pawtucket, R.I.
A.Though it was designed as a
stand-alone miniseries, the current
Fox show is billed as “Day 9,” thus
folding it into the history of the
entire franchise. Nothing had been
said about another “24” series at
the time of this writing, but we’ve
learned never to count Jack Bauer
(Kiefer Sutherland) out. There’s
long been talk of a feature-film version of the series, too, so it’s entirely possible that another “day” still
may come for the character and the
concept.