Article: Q&A with `Last Holiday' star Queen Latifah.

Byline: Roger Moore

Queen Latifah took the name "Queen" long before she deserved it. But at 35, the former Dana Owens of Newark looks more and more like the sovereign of all she surveys.

She's popular enough to step away from the rap that made her famous, cutting an album of standards.

She's averaging three movies per year in her Hollywood career, and an Oscar nomination for "Chicago" put her in a new league in terms of the sorts of the things she's offered.

You can't escape her on TV. This one-time star of "Living Single" now does pitches for Wal-Mart, Maybelline cosmetics and Pizza Hut. Something about her connects with people, be ...

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