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"Life is Not a Fairytale": The Fantasia Barrino Story



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Citation :IDOL' ELBOW

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WANTEDFANTASIA TO QUIT

By LINDA STASI
"American Idol" Fantasia proves that she's more than just a beautiful voice when she stars in the movie of her life - which hints that "Idol" producers tried to get her to quit. Photo: AP "American Idol" Fantasia proves that she's more than just a beautiful voice when she stars in the movie of her life - which hints that "Idol" producers tried to get her to quit.
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July 28, 2006 -- EVERYBODY loves a rags-to-riches tale. And when that rags-to-riches tale happens to include a winner of "American Idol" - well, oh baby!

So you can just imagine how beside myself I, a slobbering, shamelessly rabid "Idol" fan, was when a copy of the upcoming Lifetime movie, "The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale," showed up in the office.

On most levels, it delivers - and not just in a way that only rabid fans of the show will get. It delivers in ways that rabid fans of Rocky-against-all-odds stories will get.

Directed by Debbie Allen, the movie, based on Fantasia's best-selling book of the same name, gives away a dirty little secret that the producers of "Idol" probably would rather have kept to themselves: They tried to get her to quit the show after she'd already made it to the finals.

Why? Because they were afraid that the revelations that came out on the Internet during that time and spread faster than bird flu - that not only had she been a high-school dropout who had literacy issues, but that she was an unwed mother who had her daughter when she was in her early teens - would hurt the show.

The suits at "Idol" pushed her to quit, but the kid pushed back. She'd been through too much to quit - again.

Her mother had quit her dreams to have babies. Her grandmother (a minister) was a struggling unwed mother, and Fantasia knew that if she quit then, she'd face nothing more than life in the projects raising her daughter alone.

Needless to say, she not only won that fight, but won the whole deal, and became 2004's Idol winner.

First there was her own best-selling book, and now the movie of the book.

So who do you think they cast to play Fantasia? Well, Fantasia must have been looking for work, because she's playing herself. Talk about clever casting - and writing your own ticket! You'll be happy to know that she does a very credible job of playing herself.

And while it's somewhat disconcerting to see someone playing themselves (and almost in real time - she just turned 22, after all), it's nice to know that although she hasn't risen to the super-star pop-singer level we all expected, she is a pretty darned good actress - well, if playing herself is any indication, that is.

More importantly, Fantasia's story is a great American tale - she is a kid you just gotta love.

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Citation :FANTASIA’S GHOSTWRITER IS DISGRUNTLED: Writer feels left out after Lifetime ignores her contribution.
(September 29, 2006)
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      *A woman who says she was the ghostwriter of Fantasia Barrino’s autobiography “Life is Not a Fairytale” has decided to stop being a ghost.

      In an exclusive interview with Radar Online, writer Kim Green has stepped out of the shadows in search of recognition for her work on the New York Times bestseller, which she says was carried out despite the subject being unable to read or write.

     "I want people to know that I wrote that book," Green told Radar, adding she found out about Fantasia’s illiteracy after the two had already begun working on the project.

     When Green gave the artist her finished chapters to review, "She'd say, 'Oh, it's great, I'll read the rest later,'" Green recalls. After Barrino finally admitted to her reading shortcomings, Green went directly to publisher Simon & Schuster to suggest damage control. Though she had signed on as a ghostwriter, Green suggested they list her as co-writer—to avoid the inevitable questions about how someone who can’t read or write can author a book.

      "I went to them and said, 'I don't want credit, but I don't want [Barrino] to look dumb, and I think strategically it's not going to be wise for her to pretend to have written this book.'"      

      But the publisher refused. Green decided to take her $45,000 check and keep quiet, even after the nondisclosure period mandated by her contract expired.      

      "I didn't want to seem like a troublemaker, and didn't want to burn any bridges of my own," she says.

      But then Lifetime television entered the picture, and all bets were off.      

      "Nobody even called me to say 'Do you have any insights? Do you want to tell us some anecdotes?'" she says of the network, which adapted “Life is Not a Fairytale” into a two-hour film that aired in August. "I found it to be so appalling that nobody thought, 'Oh, we should call Kim Green.'"      

      While Green does not blame Barrino for keeping her out of the loop, she does question whether the singer, who is reportedly receiving tutoring, will ever actually read her own book.      

      "I'm really grateful for the experience, but I was a little soured by the process," Green tells Radar. "Publishing is the last art form that doesn't give credit to the people who do the work."

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