MOVIE STILLS: 'A RAISIN IN THE SUN' with SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS, SANAA LATHAN & PHYLICIA RASHAD; TV VERSION TO AIR ON ABC IN FEBRUARY '08.

Thanks to WoooHah.com and Soul Glo, here are some exclusive movie stills of Sean 'Diddy' Combs as Walter Lee Younger in the television adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun. The film will air on ABC on February 25, 2008 from 8pm-11pm, so check your local listings for the channel. Combs, who reprises the role of Walter Lee, Jr. which brought him acclaim in the Broadway version in 2004, stars in the television movie adaptation from Sony Pictures Television, along with the cast of the award-winning Broadway revival who recreate their roles for the new film, including Emmy and Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan, plus "ER" star John Stamos (Stamos also played the role of Uncle Jessie on Full House).

Based on the play that inspired a generation, A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of a family living and struggling on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. A fiercely moving portrait of people whose hopes and dreams are constantly deferred, A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. It premiered in 1959 with a cast that included Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett, Jr. A Columbia Pictures feature with the same cast followed in 1961.

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RANDOM CELEB PIC: TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN & TICHINA ARNOLD.

Don't be alarmed by Tichina's appearance. The actress is in hair and make-up for her role as Miss Pippy in Alex In Wonderland. Anyhoo, here is a random picture of Arnold and her BFF Tisha Campbell-Martin backstage at the UCLA Freud Playhouse before one of Arnold's recent performances. Alex In Wonderland is an adaptation of the story Alice In Wonderland. The play was created, choreographed and directed by Debbie Allen and is this year's holiday production presented by the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and its sponsors.

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FROM HIS OWN MOUTH, JAY-Z SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT RE: HIM MARRYING BEYONCE: SAYS, 'A WEDDING WILL BE SOONER THAN LATER...'

After the grand opening of his 40/40 nightclub in Las Vegas last Monday, mega-mogul Jay-Z, talked to Robin 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' Leach and set the record straight regarding his soon-to-be wedding nuptials with longtime girlfriend-turned-fiancee, Beyonce Knowles. However, don't expect to see exclusive wedding photos of the most rumored to be married couple in celeb history in People, In Touch or Essence magazine. For six days, music mogul hip-hop star Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) and gorgeous galpal, Knowles held hands and were literally inseparable on their Vegas visit—but not only did he laughably deny recent rumors of a secret marriage in the French capital of Paris, he also told me that they wouldn’t tie the knot in Vegas this trip either!

“A wedding will be sooner rather than later, though,” he says, “but it will be kept a private serious celebration for our very closest family and friends. When it does happen, we’ll keep it very quiet. When we read these news reports about hiding tattoos under wedding rings, we laughed together and said, ‘uh huh, another wild one—put it with the other 80,000.’”

Guest attendee Rev. Al Sharpton has so much admiration for the couple, he's offered to marry them for free. "I told both of them that I would marry them pro bono—I won’t even charge a fee.”

To read Robin Leach's entire interview with Jay-Z as well as other celebrity attendees from the grand opening,

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