
On Tuesday she gets a chance at yet another kind of fame with her debut album, “Jennifer Hudson” (Arista), something she and her fans have had to be especially patient about. She made it to seventh place, and when she won an Academy Award last year as best supporting actress in “Dreamgirls,” she became a symbol of second chances. Hudson, 27, emerged as a sweet-natured, big-belting “American Idol” contestant from Chicago. And she did come through, exactly in her way slowly.” “I saw the look in her eye, and I believed her. “She said, ‘Henry, I want to tell you I’m a slow learner, but I will get it,’ ” Mr. WHEN Jennifer Hudson began working on the film “Dreamgirls” in late 2005, she pulled aside Henry Krieger, who wrote the music, and asked for his patience.
