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Oprah Winfrey Returns to the Silver Screen in The Butler

Originally posted 05/09/2013 02:35PM

Oprah's back – on the big screen, that is – in The Butler.

Based on the life of Eugene Allen, the White House head butler who served eight presidents during a 34-year career, the film stars Forest Whitaker playing a character called Cecil Gaines. Oprah plays his wife, Gloria Gaines.

As shown in the intriguing two-minute, thirty-second trailer, the OWN network mogul, 59, shows off the acting chops that once earned her an Oscar nomination, for 1985's The Color Purple.

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Filed Under: Movie News, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker, James Marsden, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, Minka Kelly, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard

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UpdatePosted 08/02/2012 02:00PM

Cuba Gooding Jr.: Bartender Won't Press Charges

Originally posted 08/03/2012 12:25PM

A New Orleans female bartender who says she was shoved by Cuba Gooding Jr. won't press charges over a disruption that may have started when other restaurant patrons wanted pictures with the actor.

"While we continue to investigate this matter internally, we are hopeful that this will put an end to the matter," says Old Absinthe House spokeswoman Carolyn Pierce, according to the Associated Press.

Without a complainant, authorities formally dropped charges on Friday.

Gooding, 44, who is in New Orleans filming The Butler about the White House butler who served eight presidents, was temporarily the subject of an arrest warrant on a misdemeanor charge of municipal battery.

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Filed Under: Crime & Courts, Cuba Gooding Jr.

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Cuba Gooding Jr. Wanted by Police After Bar Fight: Report

Originally posted 07/31/2012 03:00PM

Show me the handcuffs.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is a wanted man: the New Orleans Police Department have issued a misdemeanor battery warrant after receiving a complaint that the 44-year-old actor pushed a female bartender at a Bourbon Street bar early Tuesday morning, TMZ reports.

According to reports, the Oscar-winner got into a heated argument with fellow bar patrons who were trying to take his photograph at The Old Absinthe House.