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Busy Beyonce Tired of 'Booty-This, Booty-That'
33 minutes ago Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beyonce Knowles (news) helped promote the "booty talk" so prevalent on the pop scene as well as appreciation for a woman's round, tight butt, but the sultry rhythm and blues diva is tired of all the bootylicious babble she has inspired. "It's really silly. I wrote a song called 'Bootylicious,' maybe three years ago. And now the word is in the dictionary. To be honest, I hate the word," said Knowles, the singer turned actress whose second film, "The Fighting Temptations," opens nationally on Friday. Knowles, who got her start with the singing group Destiny's Child, which had a number one record when she was 15, has gotten a lot of mileage out of her song and sexy videos celebrating her voluptuous attributes, but the Houston native says it is time to move on. "I'm getting older," said the 22-year-old Knowles, wearing long, glittering diamond and ruby earrings and a bracelet to match at an interview this week. "I want my style to reflect that." Knowles, who scored a hit this year with her first solo album, "Dangerously in Love," is certainly not slowing down. Next week she is meeting with fashion designers about launching her own line and seeing some movie people about her next film project. Then it's off to Rome and Paris to shoot commercials before starting a six-week European concert tour ahead of a January reunion with cohorts Michelle Williams (news) and Kelly Rowland (news) to begin work on a new Destiny's Child record. Knowles, needless to say, does not shy away from her creative urges and explained the story behind "Bootylicious." "I'm glad I wrote it. It's a fun song," she said. "It's just a word, like someone is feeling confident. I wrote it because I was gaining weight, and I felt like for all the people that feel like I do right now, I'm going to write this song and make people proud of their curves. "But now everywhere I go, everybody is saying, 'booty-this' and 'booty-that' and it's really irritating." Though "The Fighting Temptations," which co-stars Cuba Gooding (news) Jr. and a host of gospel, soul and rap talent, contains a laugh-line reference to "bootyology," Knowles feels she is stepping forward with the film. BAREFOOT IN A LONG BLACK DRESS "The character just seemed like it was written for me. It was perfect," she said about her role as Lilly, a nightclub singer recruited to join the revitalization of a southern church choir in the fairly predictable, but spirited gospel comedy. "It's very rare you can find a movie that has a message and has great music and is funny and not corny and you can take your parents to and still really enjoy," said Knowles, who was quick to laugh as she lounged barefoot in a long, black dress. Knowles, whose first film role was as the cartoonish Foxxy Cleopatra in "Austin Powers in Goldmember," said she had great fun making music in the film with the likes of the O'Jays, Melba Moore, Shirley Caesar and Ann Nesby. "By the end it felt like a real choir, it didn't feel like we were working," she said. "It didn't matter if it was one in the morning and we had been working all day. You could see we had fun. In the end, in between takes, we had jam sessions singing each other's songs." Knowles said she fell in love with gospel music after her family switched from a Catholic to a Methodist church when she was 10 and she began singing in the choir. She said she also related to Lilly's strong-mindedness. "I grew up in the south so a lot of her qualities were in me. She was outspoken and I know people like that and I know how it feels to be judged. I grew up around single parents, single mothers. Strong women. I think it was nice to play that." "In a lot of ways I'm a lot like her. She was not very glamorous, just natural. And even though I'm so over the top as Foxxy Cleopatra and on stage, in real life I'm a lot like Lilly." |
Entertainment - LAUNCH Music
Montell Jordan And Wife Welcome New Baby Boy Thu Sep 18, 5:00 AM ET LAUNCH Radio Networks R&B singer Montell Jordan and his wife, Kristin Hudson, welcomed a baby boy into the world on Monday (September 15). Their son, Skyler, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and weighed in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces, and is 20 inches long. Both the mother and Skyler are doing fine. The couple also has a 7 year-old daughter, Sydney. Jordan is currently gearing up for the release of his fifth album, Life After Def, on October 21. The first single from the set is "Supa Star." Recently LAUNCH spoke with Jordan, who revealed that he shot the video for the single in one day with director Eric Shue in Los Angeles. "The 'Supa Star' video has been shot," Jordan said. "It was shot by a director by the name of Eric Shue, who is the protege of Dave Meyers, who was there for the video shoot as well. He was in the video shoot actually. It was shot in Los Angeles. It was a one-day video shoot." BTW, Where is Afrochic? :confused: |
World Entertainment News Network
September 16, 2003 Hip-hop star SISQO was arrested on Saturday (13SEP03) for allegedly firing several shots at a car parked outside a neighbour's house. The DRU HILL singer, whose last solo release was his 2001 album RETURN OF THE DRAGON, was arrested along with his girlfriend at his home in the Baltimore, Maryland suburb of Randallstown. Sisqo, real name MARK ANDREWS, was charged with five criminal acts, including first-degree assault, resisting arrest and reckless endangerment. His girlfriend TERA THOMAS was charged with second-degree assault and resisting arrest. Police believe three shots were fired. Sisqo allowed officers into his house and denied firing any shots, but police say they found a gun in the singer's kitchen which appeared to have been recently used. |
I don't know which part is more surprising- that Sisquo shot somebody up , or that he has a GIRLfriend.
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Housekeeper Sues Will Smith
18 minutes ago LOS ANGELES — Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith (news)'s former housekeeper is suing the celebrity couple for allegedly failing to pay her about 1,640 hours of overtime pay and firing her after she complained to them. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 11 in Ventura Superior Court, Marilu Cooley said she worked for the Smiths' and lived on their estate for 4 1/2 years. She said during that time she often worked more than 40 hours per week and received overtime pay during her first two years of employment. But starting in March 1999, Cooley alleged the Smiths stopped paying her for overtime and instead promised to pay her a $25,000 annual bonus. Cooley said she never received the bonus and, after she complained about it, the Smiths fired her in October 2001. The lawsuit says Cooley was paid $1,000 per week but did not state how much she earned in overtime pay. Cooley was seeking at least $175,000 in damages, according to the lawsuit. Calls to Cooley's attorney, Stephan Math, and the attorney for the Smiths, Jason Sloane, were not immediately returned Thursday. |
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Busta Rhymes Assault Trial Set For January
Mon Sep 22,12:00 AM ET LAUNCH Radio Networks Rapper and actor Busta Rhymes was in Fall River, Massachusetts on Thursday (September 18) to attend a pre-trial hearing for his upcoming assault trial, according to the Associated Press. The rapper was hit with misdemeanor assault and battery charges by a fan, Celine Giguere, following an altercation which occurred last December 7 at Jake's Twin Saloons in Fall River. Giguere told police that Busta Rhymes grabbed and shoved her against a table after she touched him on the chin following an impromptu performance. The rapper then allegedly threatened her, "If you ever touch me again, I will f--king kill you!" Police declined to press charges but Giguere is pressing charges against the rapper. She was in turn also hit with misdemeanor assault and battery charges after testifying on April 29 in Fall River District Court that she also touched the rapper during the incident. Separate trials have been set for January 22 by a district court judge. If found guilty, either party could face up to a year in prison. Following the pre-trial hearing Busta Rhymes told the media, "I was just so sexy to that young lady. She just had to get me to do something to come back." |
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pics from ginuwine & sole's wedding
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is that Tyrese in the last pic? if so, didn't realize they were tight like that?
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