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They were talking about Montel on the Doug Banks show this morning. What I don't understand is this: If having a prescription for 'medicinal' marijuana legitimizes it, why did he still have to pay the fine? :confused:

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~ Actor Dondre Whitfield (“Hidden Hills”), who seems to have a new series on television every seasonLOLOLOLOL, has landed a role in Vivica A. Fox’s "Beauty Shop." The film, which also stars Darrin Dewitt Henson (“Soul Food”), Kym E. Whitley (“Deliver Us From Eva”), Monica Calhoun (“The Brothers”) and Garrett Morris (“Martin”), is currently shooting in Baltimore. Whitfield will play a smooth-talking hairdresser and ladies man in the comedy, which was written and is being directed by Mark Brown. Vivica has ditched the weave and opted for a flattering, short, Halle Berry-like cut in the movie.

Can’t Say Names: I hear that a Hollywood comedienne recently walked off of the set of the movie she is starring in because the producer’s money was funny. Sources say that the Hollywood bigwig who was financing said entertainer’s film was bouncing checks bigger than basketballs. I’m told the comedienne told Mr. Megabucks that until he could pay with cash, she wouldn’t be back. Me thinks Mo'nique

There are rumors circulating that a certain neo-soul singer is talking retirement. Said singer is said to be tired of the music business and wants to pursue other ventures. I guess only time will tell if her next release, which is scheduled to bow early next year, sees the light of day.
Just don't say JILL SCOTT and I will be cool.

~~~ Things That Make You Say Hmmm!?!: Looks like “All Of Us” star LisaRaye McCoy’s memory isn’t too smooth. Yesterday, New York Daily News columnist Lloyd Grove ran an item that mentioned that the actress had griped to Sister 2 Sister magazine editor-in-chief Jamie Foster Brown about King magazine bumping her from the cover for singer Mya.

"I did a hell of a shoot with them. At the last minute, they put Mya on the cover. I had turned down Smooth [magazine] because I was doing King,” said LisaRaye in the interview.

Well, I just happen to be Smooth’s entertainment editor and recall things a little differently. I can unequivocally say that LisaRaye at no point ever turned Smooth down. We never even extended an offer to her to be in the magazine. Her people contacted us! We were actually negotiating a Beyonce Knowles cover with the film studio responsible for “The Fighting Temptations.” At the last minute, that cover didn’t materialize and LisaRaye’s camp called begging for the cover since King ditched her. The timing worked out for both parties, and we ran with it.

That issue came out in September and featured my controversial interview with LisaRaye complaining that she was sick of being seen as a Hollywood home wrecker. In case you didn’t catch that article, LisaRaye discussed having been romantically linked to both single and married men like Michael Jordan, Jalen Rose of the Chicago Bulls, Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers, and Gary Payton of the L.A. Lakers, among others.

"I wish I would have caught [Jordan] before [his wife] Juanita's ass did! [Rose] made it known that he liked me and wanted to date me. But to me, that doesn't mean anything,” she said. “Me and [Iverson] ain't ever been together. I guess people just want to link me up with all of the damn athletes huh? They want to put me with all of the people that got some money, but let them be available though!"

I just hope her recollection of those relationships is better than this whole magazine cover issue. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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MORE ABOUT PRINCE
Pious Prince: My friend C.J., a columnist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, is the one who broke the hilarious story about the artist known again as Prince and his recent door-knocking Jehovah’s Witness pitching. A bunch of outlets picked up on the story, including Rush & Molloy of the New York Daily News, and failed to credit C.J. For those who missed the story or didn’t hear me report it on the Doug Banks Morning Show, I’ll recap it for you.

A few weeks back, Prince was out proselytizing for Jehovah's Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon in a town called Eden Prairie, Minn. Prince visited a woman, who preferred to be identified only as Rochelle, said, "Door bell rings. My husband runs upstairs and says, 'Prince is at the door!' I said, 'No way.' " Even though this was an inopportune time, they let in the man who introduced himself at "Prince Nelson" and another man.” She was speaking of famed bassist Larry Graham of Graham Central Station.

"This is Sunday at about 2 p.m. And it's the night of Yom Kippur,” remembered Rochelle. “My first thought is 'Cool, cool, cool. He wants to use my house for a set. I'm glad! Demolish the whole thing! Start over!' Then they start in on this Jehovah's Witnesses stuff. I said, 'You know what? You've walked into a Jewish household, and this is not something I'm interested in.' He says, ‘Can I just finish?’ Then the other guy, Larry Graham, gets out his little Bible and starts reading scriptures about being Jewish and the land of Israel. They stayed for about 25 minutes. Left us a pamphlet."

Prince didn’t offer any autographs or anything. “He was very kind,” Rochelle added. “We watched him leave. Outside is a big black truck with a woman, long dark hair, in the front seat and they left." The woman met the general description of Prince's supposed wife, Manuella. Rochelle seemed perplexed that Prince didn't seem to stop at any other houses in her neighborhood. "They go door-to-door. Walking. He wasn't walking. He was driving. It was so bizarre. You would have just laughed," she said.

Rochelle also admitted that the perfect esprit d'escalier came after Prince left. "If I showed up at Paisley [Park], would you let me in your front door to talk about Judaism," she pondered.

Just when C.J. was done reporting on Symbolina, as she calls the flamboyant singer, she was bombarded with e-mails and calls from Jehovah's Witnesses who explained why Prince visited a house in Eden Prairie, then got in an automobile and left. They explained that Prince was probably visiting an address that had been missed earlier. "Well, looking at your picture, I'm going, 'Cute,'" said a caller named Greg. "Please remember that Prince is just the messenger trying to give out information, along with Mr. [Larry] Graham. Apparently you thought it was funny. I don't get it, but you should get this: God does not like ugly, and he's not too crazy about cute, either. Check yourself."

If God doesn’t like ugly, I wonder what he thinks of Prince writing that song “Billy Jack B!tch” about C.J.?
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(Nov. 4, 2003) Meet Blondielocks: Former “Living Single” and “Facts of Life” star Kim Fields is making the transition from Hollywood actress to recording artist. Though Kim and her blond dreadlocks and Bohemian-sheik attire fit perfectly into the whole neo-soul movement, singing isn’t her medium of choice. Kim has instead opted for spoken word, the ever-growing genre becoming increasingly popular with shows like HBO’s “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.”
Last week, the bright-smiled actress had a listening party for her latest spoken word release, “Smooth Is Spoken Here,” at the Top Room of the Marina City Club in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Kim performed at the sexy affair and was joined by acclaimed jazz musician Najee. Spoken word artist CoCo Brown also performed, as did “Cosby” kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner who strummed his bass and delivered poetry of his own. Among the others who attended the intimate party included former “A Different World” star Dawnn Lewis, theater actress Maia Madison, Kim’s younger sister, actress Alexis Fields, and “Entertainment Tonight” producer Monica Moore.

The inspiration for this spoken word meets jazz collection came only about two months ago for Kim. “I was in IKEA actually, and I was like, ‘I really love smooth jazz, and I really love the consistency of the audience in smooth jazz. I love that they’re grown folks and that they really support that genre,’” giggled Kim. To convince me, she pulled out her IKEA brochure where she began jotting down lyrics to her first piece and brainstorming concepts for the CD in the store.

This music venture has taken Kim, whose musical nickname is Blondielocks, from the comforts of a controlled television studio audience and placed her in front of live concert crowds. This year Kim has been regularly appearing on the jazz festival circuit, performing in lounges, and even appeared at the Essence Music Festival and on the Tom Joyner Morning Show Cruise. “I’m connecting with the audience on a different level,” explained Kim, as we sat outdoors at Priscilla’s, a coffeehouse in Burbank, Calif. “It’s a different medium. With doing spoken word, I‘m not a character. I‘m very much me. It‘s probably the most naked that I‘ve been and the most purist sense of me. It‘s very revealing.”

While music is her outlet of choice for the moment, Kim hasn’t abandoned Hollywood. The seasoned actress and director can not only be heard on the single “Mocha Soul” by the group Impromp2, she also appears in and directed the accompanying music video.

Music is in Kim’s blood. Her mother is veteran actress Chip Fields (“Good Times”/“Living Single“) is a consultant on shows like “The Parkers,” as well as a musician herself. “Mom plays piano by ear. I don’t play by ear, but like her, I can hear it,” said Kim. “Because I am able to hear it, I can completely articulate to a musician or a producer what it is I am hearing. The feel of this, the harmony here, or just under or over. It’s fun for them that I am not fully in their lingo and that they’re playing things that they wouldn’t normally play.”

While Kim can hear music, she doesn’t play a single instrument. But she wouldn’t be herself if she allowed a little issue like that stifle her creativity. “I said to the two producers on this project, Earl and Gary, ‘I want to do this particular song all by myself.’ It’s called “Being Your Woman.” I wanted them to just engineer,” laughed Kim. The actress actually played the track for me in my car before we left Priscilla’s, and her lack of musicianship in no way hindered the message she attempted to convey.

Though it seems that actors always want to be musicians, and vice versa, Kim feels quite at home in her new genre. “I don’t feel like a fish out of water. I don’t feel like a foreigner, and I don’t feel like some celebrity that’s trying to do this now because it’s the trend. It’s something that is definitely from deep within, and it’s just another place that I am sharing from,” said Kim. “Just like when I am acting, certainly some of the things that I put into characters come from different places within me that I am choosing to share to create and breathe life into this character. It’s the same thing [with the music].”

One of Kim’s driving forces to continue on her musical journey has been the encouragement of musicians like Najee. “Musicians whom I really respect and admire and love, [and] their interest and desire to work on the project has been one of the biggest compliments to me. I’m coming into their world, and I’m being embraced. That’s a great feeling,” she smiled.

In addition to promoting “Smooth Is Spoken Here,” Kim is already readying her next release called “Uninhibited.” It’s hip-hop, it’s jazz, it’s R&B, and it’s neo-soul, and all the music that we all love. I got a tribute to Doug E. Fresh, there’s some stuff that’s political, some stuff that’s sensual, and some stuff that’s just fun,” shared Kim.

I couldn’t let Kim leave without asking her why she didn’t appear in the film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.” “The main thing was availability. But also, in general, I truly, truly shy away from anything that deals with ‘former child star.’ There are certain images that I am not going to escape no matter how hard I try. I’ve played a killer. I’ve played a mouthy storeowner who gets shot. I’ve played the sassy, single gal in the city, and I’ve played a widowed mom. I’ve done a lot and people respond to all of it, but they’ll say, ‘But you’ll always be Tootie.’ People think, ’Oh she hates the “Facts of Life” and don’t call her Tootie.’ It’s not that I hate it. My God, it was a part of my life, too, for nine years of me growing up. The best example I could give would be, if you had that aunt, that grandma, grandpa, uncle or whoever that gave you whatever your nickname was as a child. Now you’re a grown-ass man and might have four kids, a degree [and] two houses. You’re grown, and yet when you go home, you’re still lil’ so-and-so. I’ve moved on. I guess I am just a little leery of anything that might take me backwards,” she concluded.

For information on how to purchase Kim’s CDs, her concert dates, or where she may be popping up next on television, visit her online at http://www.KimFields.net