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Precious wins People’s Choice Award, screens free tonight

By Sarah Nicole Prickett

| September 19, 2009

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Precious wins People's Choice Award, screens free tonight — Oprah Winfrey at the premiere of Precious (Photo by Karon Liu)

You get a free screening of my movie! You get a free screening of my movie! And YOU get a free screening of my movie! Yep, the Oprah-produced, clunkily titled Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award this afternoon during a ceremony at the InterContinental Hotel Ballroom. That means that anyone can turn up for a free screening of the film tonight at 9 p.m. at the Visa Screening Room,

right after the closing gala, The Young Victoria.

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