Reba to take lead in movie career

Friday, Feb. 7, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

The 42-year-old country music star cut a three-year movie and TV deal with Universal Studios, which will back projects by her Starstruck Films company.

Starstruck recently spent more than $1 million for the rights to a book on the New York Times best-seller list. A company spokeswoman wouldn't say which book, but said McEntire would have one of the two female lead roles.

"With Reba's dialect, she probably won't be playing an Englishwoman," Narvel Blackstock, her husband and manager, predicted in The Tennessean newspaper Wednesday. "Look for movies like 'Ghosts of Mississippi' or 'Fried Green Tomatoes' -- things like that."

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