According to the award-winning director, Lydia helped inspire the outspoken queen bee, Cookie Lyon from his hit TV show Empire. “As the fires are burning, so is my heart. My younger sister Lydia ...

A decade after Empire ... Cookie spin-off alongside original producers Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. While a script was written, in December of that year, Fox decided not to go forward with the ...

HONOLULU — Wallace “Wally” Amos, the creator of the cookie empire that took his name and made it famous and who went on to become a children’s literacy advocate, has died. He was 88.