Given the buzz that now surrounds her performance in Precious, Mo’Nique made the right decision. But her enthusiasm for the role of Mary Jones, the abusive mother of an overweight New York teenager, was tempered by the need to draw on traumatic events from her private life.

“Lee Daniels said to me, ‘Bitch, how do you make me hate you and feel sorry for you at the same time?’ ” she remembers. The answer lay in her own experiences growing up in Baltimore County, Md.

“I was molested,” she says, referring to a family member. “I won’t say I’m a victim, because to me that means I’m carrying it with me. But it happened in my life, and I don’t wish that on anybody. It started when I was about 7 years old and went on for a few years.”

Mo’Nique draws on a reservoir of emotion that might surprise those who know her best as the flamboyant comedienne who has starred on TV series like “The Parkers.”

But when she came to shoot, she didn’t dwell on it. “When it’s done, it’s done,” she says. “We never looked at dailies, we never went back over it. Everybody asked, ‘How do you know what to do?’ Well, I trust Lee Daniels and he trusts his actors. Some people, you’d be like, ‘Wait a minute, sugar!’ Not one time did I ever say, ‘Wait a minute, Lee, I don’t see this character like that.’”

She adds of characters like Mary, “You see them as monsters. You want to judge them and walk away saying, ‘I hated that person.’ But I don’t hate Mary Jones. I’m sad for Mary Jones. Mary Jones is mentally ill, has spent her life being sick, but nobody ever paid attention — including Mary Jones.”

In her own life, Mo’Nique has found love with her husband of three years, Sidney Hicks, whom she has known since adolescence. Twice divorced before that, she is also the mother of young twins.

She still finds time for a career in comedy, having delivered her first public performance during an open mike night at Baltimore’s Comedy Factory in 1991. She was able to leave work — including a job as supervisor at a phone-sex company — and pursue her craft full time.

Appearances on “Showtime at the Apollo” and HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam” followed. Mo’Nique also opened an eponymous comedy club in Baltimore and played the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Then came a five-year, award-winning run on UPN’s “The Parkers” and appearances in such movies as “Phat Girlz” and “Soul Plane.”

Did she worry about alienating her comedy audience when she did “Precious”? “No,” she says. “I trust that they recognize this is entertainment, this is acting. They won’t say, ‘Oh, we can’t imagine Mo’Nique doing anything that doesn’t make me laugh.’ “

Daniels had previously cast Mo’Nique in his debut movie, “Shadowboxer,” as the drug-addicted girlfriend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character, so he was confident of her acting abilities.

Now she intends to continue pursuing dramatic roles. “They keep telling me I’m an actress; I keep telling them I’m a stand-up comedian; they keep giving me these parts. I’m like, ‘For real? OK!’”

One project has particular personal resonance. “I own the rights to (Oscar-winning “Gone with the Wind” co-star) Hattie McDaniel’s life story, and I can’t wait to tell that story, because that woman was absolutely amazing. She had to stand up to the adversity of black and white (society) at a time when we really weren’t accepted. Mr. Lee Daniels is going to direct it, of course, and I’m going to be Miss Hattie McDaniel. I really hope I can do that woman justice.”

Comedy remains Mo’Nique’s professional priority, and she recently started a late-night talk show for BET.

“I love to get on that stage, honey, and make you laugh until you pee on yourself,” she exclaims. “That’s my baby. I will never stop stand-up. I will be 97 years old, with two teeth and maybe a bit of hair, and I will be on that stage hoping they’re having as much (fun) as I’m having.”

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I have the comic module up on MyYahoo; Why don’t the comics update daily everytime?

If I go directly to the comic page and look at specific dates I can see the days comic, but the module on My space will not be updated. This doesn’t happen all the time, but it is currently happening this weekend on 2 of the 3 comics shown on my module.

I don’t know but mine do the same thing. Not all the time, just sometimes….like this weekend also. I want to know also so I will check back on your ?? later. lol

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Rich and just basically brimming with culture and history, New York CIty actually has a million or more stories to tell about its decadent past and how things around this cosmopolitan city all came to be. Considered to be as one of the United States’ biggest newspapers, whose circulation is actually well more over 700,000 copies.

The New York Daily News, a newspaper printed using a tabloid format has actually started its newspaper journey way back in the year 1919. Mortimer Zuckerman was actually the founder of the New York Daily News while also having the catch phrase, “New York’s Picture Newspaper” (which has over the years, was changed to “New York’s Hometown Newspaper”). Still, in spite of the various changes, the New York Daily News has continued on printing their tabloid format newspaper still with a lot of photographs. Of course, the whole point of being a newspaper just simply means that the New York Daily News also contains lots of news (obviously, it’s not called New York Daily NEWS for nothing).

Gossip about celebrities and other famous people also abound in the New York Daily News Page 6 columns, it is where people often turn to just to read about the hottest, freshest and juiciest gossips about the who’s-who in the industry. As like with other newspapers, the New York Daily News also contain a classified ads section, a popular comics section as well as an equally well-read sports section and an opinion section. New York Daily News really packs in the punch with its varied features and scopes of interest. Here’s a fun fact about the New York Daily News: Bill Gallo is actually the much celebrated sports cartoonist of the New York Daily News.

The New York Daily News was actually founded by Joseph Medill Patterson who’s family were actually the publishers of The Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News has also been able to establish WPIX-TV and WPIX-FM. During the whole history of the New York Daily News, there was actually a time, during the early part of the 1990s that the New York Daily News almost went to bankruptcy. Fortunately for the New York Daily News however, was the financial assistance that was brought about by Robert Maxwell, a millionaire who offered to help the New York Daily News stay in the media business. However, due to Robert Maxwell’s death, his company didn’t any more felt the need to continue on publishing the New York Daily News.When it comes to their opinions section however, the New York Daily News try to set its self apart from its various competitors. The well-respected New York Times have actually set very liberal standards for their newspaper’s opinions column, while fellow tabloid, the New York Post differs from the New York Daily News’ opinions pages by being a staunch rightist.

However, the New York Daily News has actually been able to acquire ten Pulitzer prizes since it was first established but due to its fierce competition with fellow tabloid, the New York Post, the New York Daily News has actually resorted to some sensationalism as a counter-tactic against the New York Post wherein the New York Daily News has been touted as the newspaper with the most creative headlines and captions for its photos in all of journalism.

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I am looking to find a random daily web comic. Any suggestions?

I am a HUGE fan of “Cyanide & Happiness” and I have recently discovered “Ctrl+Alt+Del”. Any suggestions on comics similar to those?

Try any of these:

Digital Unrest
Dueling Analogs
My Extra Life
Full Frontal Nerdity
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
Order of the Stick
Penny Arcade
PvP Online
Real Life
The noob
Theater Hopper
User Friendly

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