Queen Latifah, Chaka Khan at awards
 

Queen Latifah needs to lose the hippy-dippy clothes. Peasant doesn't get it.

Also, Chaka shouldn't wear tight clothing. Speaking as, ahem, one who has a similar "pooch," loose is better.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Afrochic
[B]4-1-1 ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 2, 2003

Did Ruben win by default? A telecommunications company claims there were 240 thousand misdialed calls. OH PLEEEZZZEEE! IT’S OVER RUBEN WON…GET OVER IT! I am so sick of these stories. HE WON..HE WON…RUBEN WON! Last week I mentioned how Simon would be leaving the show. Trust me Simon will be back for a third season of American Idol. There is too much money involved and Simon is part owner of the show. Last week Star Jones from the ABC Show ‘The View’ revealed how she got a lots of hate emails because she supported Ruben as the choice for American Idol. Star said she got hundreds of emails telling her to go back to Africa and take Ruben with her. Sometimes we think everything is okay and that we have made great strides but there will always be someone or something that will remind us that racism is alive and well in America.
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It's soooo funny how that when Tamyra lost, no one was hollering DEFAULT or Telecom error then. Why don't they just accept the fact that Rueben won and be done with this whole thing. It's been how long since the show ended..........:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :mad: :mad:

For the Legally Blonde Fans......
 

I didn't know Reese was preggers again! :D

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Pregnant Witherspoon Finds Fitting Script
Mon Jun 9, 9:03 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...witherspoon_dc

Is she pregnant or does she love brewskies?
 

Re: Whitney

She's on the latest cover of Essence. In the article it mentions that she likes her Bud. I assumed they meant Budweiser, not "bud". LMAO This could explain her little pooch, pouch, shyt stomach! LMAO

:p :confused:

Re: Is she pregnant or does she love brewskies?
 

With that stomach, she must be drinking Bud by the keg....

I cannot wait for Bad Boys 2!! I know it's going to be great. Did anyone see National Security? I really enjoyed it too...

Ashanti is defintely switching up styles. I'm sure it has to do with moving her away from the 'Murder' image. Being part of a company that's being investigated for drugs can't be good for your career. But not being able to sing all that well hasn't hurt her, so you never know...

I'm glad Vivian Green is getting recognition. She has a great voice and is talented. I can't wait to see her in concert next week!!:D

I saw National Security also. I didn't think it was going to be that good, but I enjoyed it. Can't wait for BB2 though!!

Re: Re: Is she pregnant or does she love brewskies?
 

She need to do a few hundred crunches or go to one of them celebrity surgical retreats and get some lipo done. Because she is getting a skrate up BEER BELLY, her lil pouch is turning into a GUT!:rolleyes:

Sean Combs' car
 

P. Diddy Rolls Out Sean John Designer SUV
Thu Jun 12, 1:27 PM ET

By Barry A. Jeckell

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has partnered with Lincoln to design a Limited Edition Sean John Navigator. He was seen showcasing the $85,000 luxury ride at last week's MTV Movie Awards and his private after-party. Restricted to a production run of just 100, the vehicle will be available beginning July 1.

The special edition SUV will boast such standard features as exclusive Sean John wheels, a platinum coated logo emblem, custom tinted windows, and black chrome detailing.

Inside will be a Pioneer Premier Audio system with satellite radio, three DVD players and six TV monitors, a Playstation 2 (news - web sites), logo-embossed leather seats, heated/vibrating driver and front passenger seats, suede covered center consoles, and black wood interior.


Combs launched the Sean John fashion line in 1998 with a signature sportswear collection. The line is produced four times a year and targets males aged 12-40. "We are not in the clothing business for a quick hit," the artist says of his company on its Web site (http://www.seanjohn.com). "We would ultimately like to have Sean John viewed as the future of fashion"


P. Diddy will relaunch his Bad Boy Records label with the July 15 soundtrack to "Bad Boys II." He teams up with Nelly and Murphy Lee of the St. Lunatics on the tracks "Shake Ya Tail Feather" and "Take It Low," and joins Lenny Kravitz (news) and Neptunes member Pharrell on "Show Me Your Soul."


Reuters/Billboard

Who da hayle needs 3 DVD players and 6 monitors in ONE CAR!!! The Navigator is not the streeeeeeeeeeeetch limo.

I saw the car on the MTV Awards. It is as sharp as a razor. I wish that I had the money because I would get one. Then again, I have the hots for P. Diddy....

I want to be like him when I grow up! :D He has made it and he makes his money work for him. That's what we need in our communities.

NO news. I just wanted to have the 91st post! :p

No way!! I opened this up just to see what was new!!:p

4-1-1 ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 9, 2003

Did Musiq’s roving eye doom his relationship with Singer India Aire? Musiq and India were a couple for a hot minute but I hear Musiq had his eye on someone else and India decided to move on. India is now seeing someone else and she doesn’t let him out of sight. (Afrochic's sidenote: I wonder if Musiq was looking at other women with his lazy eye? :eek: )

Al B Sure has a greatest hits L.P. in stores. (Afrochic's sidenote: So!?)

Congratulations to Singer Angie Stone. Angie is engaged to rapper THC. Angie is very happy with her much younger man.

Michael Jackson and Puff Daddy together? Michael wants Puffy to save his career and they are going to hook up in the studio soon.

Beyonce is on a roll, her new album is due out soon and she is climbing the charts with the song ‘Crazy in Love’. Beyonce has a clothing line coming out next summer called B-Wear. Beyonce will be working with her mom Tina Knowles.

Sylvester Stallone will be writing, directing and starring in a movie based on the life of former L-A-P-D Detective Russell Poole. Poole was in charge of the murder investigations of Biggie and Tupac and the widespread corruption within the L-A-P-D. Filming starts in September.

Remember singer Grace Jones? Grace had the 80’s hit ‘Pull up to the Bumper’. Grace 52 is getting married to a 32-year-old record producer. He is also very rich the heir to a 45 million dollar fortune.

Ebony Magazine has a new look. Check out the July issue with Russell Simmons and his family on the cover. The new Ebony has more colors and features.

Whitney Houston is on the cover of the new Essence. Whitney opens up like never before. Whitney talks about her husband Bobby Brown, being a mommy and the past two years as she battled drug abuse. Whitney also talks about not working with her mentor Music Executive, Clive Davis. The article was fascinating; I hope Whitney is able to get it together.

The Essence awards will air June 27th on Fox. Steve Harvey is hosting with special awards going to Queen Latifah as ‘Entertainer of the Year’. Tom Joyner, Mary J Blige, Rapper/Actor Mos Def and Mom and Pop Winans will also be honored.

Jesse Jackson’s son Yusef is going to have to take a paternity test. Is Yusef 33, the father of a young daughter? A brunette is claiming that Yusef is the father of her baby. She says she met him at her job and she went thru her pregnancy alone.

Is he a well known rapper? If not, I hope she has better luck with her celebrity hopeful than Vivaca Fox did.

Lord...help her cuz Tina had those girls wearing some wack stuff.

1. Never heard of THC. Isn't that a technical term for marijuana or some drug?:eek: :confused: :eek: Isn't Angie trying to go to the seminary? Angie, first DeAngelo, then Calvin, now THC. . . :(

2. It might work. We will at least have good remixes.

3. Like father, like son. . .Sorry Miss Jackson, Whoooooooo, I am 4 real


Oh and Beyonce's clothing line. . . As long as I don't get clothes like this:
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003260375,00.jpg :o :o :o

CTFU :D

You are tooo wrong for that! Funny though.

Malika Yoba's Whereabouts

Phoenix, AZ - What seems to be a throw back to the Twilight Zone is actually a stirring piece of cinema that has recently won BEST SHORT FILM at the 2003 Phoenix Film Festival.

Directed by up and comer Joe Eckardt, this film challenges you to reassess where we are today in regards to race. Malik Yoba stars in the 17 minute film and delivers a powerful performance as a black man lost in a white man's world.

Yoba, made famous in the series television series New York Undercover, plays an independent black man who finds himself lost. What he finds is a pocket of life stuck in another era, where prejudice and intolerance are accepted. Ultimately, he must try to escape without losing his life.

As the story unfolds, so do our ideas about how far we have really come since the civil rights era. Eckardt, being Colombian, knew that he wanted to tell a story that could transcend races and gender, which is what he did.

The film played to a packed audience who hopefully took home their own interpretation of DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE.

Currently the film can be seen at the upcoming SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL and will screen in HOLLYWOOD in July at HYPEFEST.

Well if that ain't the darndest camera angle! Didn't need to see all the biznass.

Tina Knowles is helping B design? Um...everyone guard your drapes and table cloths.

THC is the active ingredient in marijuana.

LLLLLLLLLLOL @ Musiq's "ROVING EYE". How can one be sure he was really looking at someone else?

Can anyone find a pic of the Diddymobile?

I paid attention in HEALTH class or science or whatever class we learned about drugs and ingredients. :o I always JUST SAY NO!! :cool:

Photo of Sean Combs and Kim Porter
 

Here's Diddy with Kim Porter at the CFDA Awards in New York City earlier this month.
http://www.nysocialdiary.com/Partypi...ter_060203.jpg

Thank you...eeeewwww.

Various Tidbits
 

It's a boy! Hot 97 New York radio personality/rapper Angie Martinez and Dru Hill's Nokio welcomed their baby, whom they named Niko, into the world on Thursday in New York. ...

Timbaland was deemed songwriter of the year at the 16th annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards Tuesday. Tim, who also received the honor in 2001, was recognized for penning the hits "More Than a Woman" and "I Care 4 U" for Aaliyah, as well as Tweet's "Oops (Oh My)" and Missy Elliott's "Work It." Ashanti's "Foolish" picked up the top R&B/hip-hop song; Nelly's "Hot in Herre" was dubbed best rap song; and Fat Joe's "What's Luv?" was named best soundtrack song. ... Timbaland is also working on his third LP with his childhood friend Magoo. The album is coming out later this year and features Missy on the first single, "Cop That Sh--." All three flip classic verses from Rakim, MC Lyte and Special Ed in their rhymes. ...

Destiny Child's Kelly Rowland will perform the national anthem at game 6 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio on Sunday. ...

Queen Latifah will play a cab driver who teams up with a young cop to solve a series of bank robberies in "Taxi," a remake of the 1998 French movie of the same name. Tim Story ("Barbershop") is in negotiations to direct the flick, scheduled to start filming in September. ... Ja Rule and comedian George Carlin will make brief appearances in "Scary Movie 3," which is currently being shot in Canada. Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen and Simon Cowell will also make cameos in the movie. ...

Eminem's Ex-Wife Facing Possible Cocaine Charges
 

Eminem's ex-wife, Kimberly Mathers, is facing possible cocaine possession charges after police found a white powder in her car early Tuesday morning.

The rapper's 28-year-old former high school sweetheart was pulled over near Detroit around 2:30 a.m. and arrested for driving without a license, according to a spokesperson for the St. Clair Shores Police Department.

Authorities searched Mathers and the white Cadillac Escalade she was driving and turned up two small bags of what they believe to be cocaine. The material is being tested by the Michigan State Police crime lab.

Mathers was traveling with another woman on Interstate 94 near 12 Mile Road when she was pulled over for an undisclosed traffic violation. She was later freed pending charges, according to the spokesperson, who said officers are still investigating.

In July 2001 Mathers was arrested on felony cocaine possession, but the charges were later dropped.

Eminem and Mathers divorced in October 2001 but have reportedly reconciled. Mathers is the subject of some of Eminem's most violent songs, including one called "Kim," a fictional account of the rapper murdering her.

—Corey Moss

Amen!

Q

Y'all are some crazy so and so's...

I don't think the outfits from the Diva's Live show was Tina Knowles. Those outfits were from a REPUTABLE designer. :o :p I think that's what I heard on Extra, ET, or E! :confused: Tina's designs are more "cut up".

Afrochic doesn't post regularly, but you can count on her to give us the SKOOP! Thanks! :D

Huuuuuuuuuuuufffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ff, both of them look like a HOT mess!:rolleyes:

Today is Tupac's bday!! :)

:o :p ;) :cool:

**coughlamarcough**

Orlando Jones to Get Late-Night Talk Show
 

Jun 16, 2:12 PM (ET)

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the crowded neighborhood of late-night talk shows, Orlando Jones wants to move in and become the rowdy resident who shakes up the block.

The "The Orlando Jones Show," debuting Monday night on the FX cable network, features the popular former 7-Up TV spokesman pledging to break what he called the stale humor of his late-night rivals.

Among the sketches, Jones plays a researcher at an institute studying the palm-slapping, finger-jabbing moves of street handshakes. He also plays the pitchman for bandages that match the skin tones of black people, from "Morgan Freeman Black (with freckles)" to "Halle Berry Latte."

If that sounds offensive, Jones says you're too uptight - or too old. The 35-year-old actor-comedian said he's "not looking at the world the way people who are 50 look at it."

Instead of having a band, he hired pop and R&B producer Dallas Austin to add music to the show. He also discarded the traditional talk-show decor. "A desk and a cityscape is really kind of boring," Jones said. "It's not me. ... I want a sofa, something Italian, sexy, sleek, that looks like a club I'm going to."

Among his first guests: Adrien Brody, the Oscar-winning star of "The Pianist," and Michael Chiklis of FX's crime series "The Shield," a program that proved to Jones that the network would stand by edgy material. Half-hour episodes will air Monday through Thursday with a rerun on Fridays.

Re: Orlando Jones to Get Late-Night Talk Show
 

You mean he is only 35 :eek:

RIP Blacula
 

'Blacula' actor William Marshall dead
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 Posted: 11:00 AM EDT (1500 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor William Marshall, who played a variety of roles, from Shakespeare's "Othello" on stage, to "Blacula" in the camp movie classic, died Wednesday. He was 78.

Marshall, who suffered in recent years from Alzheimer's disease, died in a Los Angeles rest home.

The actor appeared in dozens of films and in popular TV series such as "Star Trek" in the 1960s and "The Jeffersons" in the 1980s.

He taught acting workshops at colleges and at the Mufandi Institute in Watts, where he served as director in the 1960s.

On stage, Marshall portrayed singer Paul Robeson and statesman
Frederick Douglass, a role he spent 15 years researching. He
eventually played the part of the famed abolitionist on television.

Marshall was born in Gary, Indiana, and studied acting at the Actors Studio and the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City after spending several years as an art student at New York University.

He played the Moorish king in "Othello" in Europe and in the United States. The London Sunday Times once hailed him as "the best Othello of our time."

Marshall brought the same dignity to the title role in the 1972
movie, "Blacula" and its sequel, "Scream, Blacula, Scream!" First
conceived as a dimwitted count, Marshall modeled the character on the original Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 19th century novel.

Mekhi Phifer slams ex-wife

The 8 Mile star Mekhi Phifer has launched a harsh attack on his ex-wife Malinda Williams, after she spoke out about his infidelity.

Actress Williams, who has a son with the ER star, blames the actor for their marriage meltdown -- and now he's fired back.

He rants, "I was 23 when she got pregnant. You want to do the right thing – what society deems as being the right thing. She wanted a structured family lifestyle that she was used to growing up. The women are dominant matriarchs in her family and the men are subversive, subservient and subdued. Me? I come from a family of men – grown-ass men handling their business.

"It's easy for a woman to say, 'He cheated on me and did this and that.' Look, I'm a very sexual person – I love to make love. In the morning, stink breath? I want to make love. At night after champagne, I want to make love. Women have to let men be men, not walk over them. If you are dealing with a yellow-bellied, no backbone muthaf***a, then okay. I'm a mover and a shaker – a king.

"I didn't want to be home anymore. We had nothing to talk about because she didn't know the people I knew. Any argument that we had, 90 percent of the time, I didn't know what the f**k she was talking about. There was just tension in the house and she couldn't be sympathetic. I didn't ask her to cook, clean, nothing. I had cleaning ladies, all that s**t.

"But if you want your man to be there with you, you have to be there with him, too – a stimulus for a muthaf***a. For most of the relationship, I was the mover and shaker, she was home complaining.

"I was young. I had an ideology of what I was doing, but it wasn't the right thing with that particular person. She's a great mom; I'm a great dad. But we weren't made for each other. You can't teach an old dog new tricks."



:( I don't want anyone talking bad about "Bird" (Malinda Williams)... have ya'll read her interview in Honey?

Yes, I read the article in Honey. She said that she used to always find numbers in his pants pockets or in his car. She even had to BEG him to come to the birth of their child. :eek: ***SMH***

Reportedly, Brandy and her husband are separated.


I got a tip on a new book by Michael Jordan's sister. I heard part of the interview this morning on my way to work. It sounded juicy. Sis and Mike have not spoken in 5 years. :eek:

If it's the sister that lives in Philly....yeah there is definitely drama between those 2.

Already, they haven't even been married that long. :o

Her name is Delores E. Jordan. . . I found the book info, you know where to look. :)

if interested in the book...www.jordansignaturepublishing.com

On the Russ parr morning show this morning she was on there promoting her book "Living in the Family Shadow". She talked about how she was molested by her father as a child, :eek: , how
her mom ordered their family to ignore it and never discuss what happened, how she wanted to get help at a mental facility but feared ruining m.j.'s career. She also said that nobody in her family wanted her to publish the book but she's been trying since early 90's. Its out but only via website(claiming that barnes/noble, walden books and other outlets will not sell the book b/c mj was the greatest, etc.).