Yaya DaCosta Cast As Whitney Houston In Angela Bassett's Lifetime Movie

Yaya DaCosta will play legendary singer Whitney Houston in Lifetime's biopic, due out in 2015, TVLine reported.

DaCosta made her small-screen debut on "America's Next Top Model" Cycle 3, but has since appeared in "All My Children," Ugly Betty," House" and "Lee Daniels' The Butler." In the Lifetime movie, she'll play Houston as she deals with her volatile relationship with Bobby Brown and her early success in the music industry.

Angela Bassett will make her directorial debut with the film, which is tentatively titled "Whitney Houston." Shem Bitterman wrote the script and Larry Sanitsky will produce. (Both worked on "Betty & Coretta," the Lifetime movie in which Bassett starred last year.) At the time the film was announced Bassett, who starred in 1995's "Waiting To Exhale" with Houston, said in a statement, "I have such regard for both Whitney's and Bobby's amazing talents and accomplishments; and I feel a responsibility in the telling of their story. Their humanity and bond fascinates us all. I'm beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world."

The killing of children HAS TO STOP: Houston father shoots and kills boy in teen daughter's room

I have no problem with people owning guns, if their gonna be responsible and use them as a last resort. Because I'm sick and tired of seeing our children shot down in cold blood by people saying it was self defense where there's only one firearm present. If you've had teenagers you know how they sneak and hide whatever they don't want us to see as parents. If you find a boy in your house pre-dawn, in your daughters room, shouldn't you be pulling her aside for an explanation? My son use to lock his bedroom door and sneak out the window. We didn't know this was going on until someone called my mom for a ride at 5am one morning. She goes outside and her Van was gone. I thought it was towed because metro had put a temporary bus stop sign in front of the house and asked that we not park there. However my mom would park there anyway. Then all of sudden the Van pulls up and my son gets out. He had been driving her Van without a License. So I removed the door from the hinges and took out the Stereo. His ways changed quickly. So sometimes teenagers are gonna do stupid things. But the boy did not deserve to lose his life.

A Houston father shot and killed a teenage boy he found in the room of his 16-year-old daughter in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. The father heard noises coming from the room and went to investigate. Upon finding the 17-year-old boy with his daughter, the father got into a fight with the boy, and "the homeowner, who was armed, shot the male once," the office said. Police have not released the name of the 55-year-old father or the dead teenager, who the daughter first said she did not know and then said she did. The incident was under investigation and no charges have been filed, according to the sheriff's office