Queen Latifah to Host Daytime Talk Show

Queen Latifah

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Queen Latifah has signed on with Sony Pictures Television to host a new syndicated daytime talk show expected to debut in the fall of 2013. The series, which will be co-produced by the rapper-actress, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, is being put off so the show won't get lost in the clutter of new daytime programs aiming to fill the void left by the Oprah Winfrey Show.

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Queen Latifah has some experience as a talk show host. She previously helmed the Queen Latifah Show, which ran in syndication from September 1999 until its cancellation in August 2001.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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