"Whitney was a multi-Grammy winner, she appeared on the appearance a amount of times. We're actual saddened, and we don't wish to blitz into annihilation that wouldn't be respectful," Ehrlich said.
"I've asked Jennifer Hudson to come, and we're absolutely at this moment talking about what she's traveling to do," he continued. "It's traveling to be something respectful. It's not traveling to be a absolute tribute, that's too aboriginal and it's too beginning at this moment. It's traveling to be something admiring to Whitney's memory."
The Software has been tweaked "to accomplish abiding the accent is right," he added. "Our appearance celebrates music of the accomplished year, and is accepted not alone just for the accomplished year [in music] but the accomplished years of American accepted music. There are some accouterment that we capital to accomplish script-wise that apparently accomplish it a little added appropriate."
Even with those changes, "It's still traveling to be a abundant music show. Knowing Whitney like I did, she was a abundant artisan and a abundant performer, and she knew the accent of blood-tingling an audience, and that's what we plan to do."
Sadly, Whitney Houston will never get to see her latest film, "Sparkle," adventure admirers if it makes it to the big screen.
The 48-year-old amateur had active on to play adverse Jordin Sparks in the accommodate of the 1976 film, and afresh captivated the project. The adventure is about based on The Supremes, and follows three sisters who accept to face the difficulties that appear forth with acclaim as their singing careers yield off.
Sparks portrays the titular character, Sparkle, one of the three Williams sisters, and Houston played their mother, Emma.
As of now, the flat affairs to absolution "Sparkle" in August of this year.
A agent for Sony Pictures tells CNN in a statement, "Like all those who knew and admired her, we are abashed and afflicted and the apple has absent an incomparable talent. Adapted now our thoughts are with her daughter, her ancestors and her friends."
The film's producer, Bishop T.D. Jakes, asked in a account for the "world to accompany us in appropriation up Whitney's ancestors in adoration and ask God for their backbone and abundance during this devastatingly difficult time."
"At the acme of her career, Whitney had no peer, with a articulation that shaped a generation," the account said. "She has larboard abaft a agreeable and blur bequest that will endure.... she will be hardly absent by us all."
Elsewhere, Fox's hit "Glee" will aswell pay accolade to Houston this anniversary with their aboriginal anytime Whitney Houston rendition. Star Amber Riley will accomplish "I Will Always Love You" as allotment of the program's Valentine's Day episode, Riley's co-star Matthew Morrison said.
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