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Queen Latifah To Host VH1 'Divas' Concert
Queen Latifah will host VH1's annual "Divas" concert, which will air live May 22 from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mary J. Blige, Jewel, and Chaka Khan are among the first artists confirmed to perform, with several more expected to be added. This year's event is being titled "Divas Duets" and will feature more artist collaborations than in past years. "Divas Duets" will raise funds for VH1's Save the Music Foundation, which has donated more than $25 million worth of musical instruments to public schools since 1997. Ticket information was not immediately available at deadline. Last year's show, "Divas Las Vegas," was headlined by Celine Dion, the Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks, Anastacia, and Shakira. The show, which featured the Dixie Chicks and Nicks dueting on the latter's "Landslide" plus Dion and Anastacia's unlikely cover of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long," was released on CD and DVD in October. Queen Latifah was recently nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Matron Mama Morton in "Chicago," an award ultimately won by her co-star, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Latifah can currently be seen starring opposite Steve Martin in "Bringing Down the House." |
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Lasting Love: It looks like the budding romance between Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri, has moved beyond the casual dating stage. "I'm happier than I've ever been," admits Dupri in the May issue of The Source. "Just like me enduring and being in this industry, [our] relationship is a staple." Breaking her silence on the subject, Jackson agreed, simply stating, "He makes me very happy."
Dupri made one request to the magazine, though, "I don't want to pick up The Source and read a headline that says 'Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson: Thug Lovin'." ~~~ Judge Being Sued: Loveable TV arbitrator, Judge Glenda Hatchett could be on the other side of the bench now that a former personal assistant is suing her for unfair dismissal. "She fired me because I was a pregnant white woman," said Robin Rinsler, who filed a $10 million suit in Manhattan federal court. Rinsler's lawyer, Marc Garbar, told the New York Daily News, "Everything was fantastic in Ms. Rinsler's work relationship with Judge Hatchett...until [she] informed her employer she was pregnant." Rinsler apparently first got a demotion and pay cut. She believes her work duties were changed to keep her on her feet, a strategy to make her resign. Rinsler delivered a healthy baby boy in August 2001, but that November, she was allegedly told that "as a white person, [she] could not be sensitive to Judge Hatchett's black issues," and was fired. Garbar said an African-American assistant was subsequently hired. Hatchett is not personally named in the lawsuit, which lists as defendants Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Tri-Star, Entrada Productions Inc. and the "Judge Hatchett Show." ~~~ Things That Make You Say Hmmm!?!: "I believe that every black person has a responsibility. When you do good, everyone is looking at you…every black person," said rapper Jay-Z in the April issue of Playboy Magazine. "So you're the same person as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. I'm not just representing the hood and Roc-A-Fella Records, I'm representing for the whole culture. A lot of people look at me like they looked at Martin Luther King." ~~~ Can't Say Names: What Hollywood actress is extremely frustrated that her movie career has not taken off? Said actress apparently thought her striking good looks and big personality would help win her over with Hollywood directors -- but it hasn't. Side ventures in television, calendars, club appearances, etc., haven't help raise her level of celebrity, nor earn her any major acting roles. * Looks like another R&B singer has been sent back to the studio to rework several tracks for her upcoming album. This singer, who is releasing her sophomore set, serviced a less-than-stellar single to radio last fall, and despite a remix of the song that came later, it never seemed to catch on. Record executives at said singer's label are now scratching their heads and are trying to come up with a single that will at least help this star earn at least the gold plaque that she got for her debut effort. ~~~ Quickies: ~ Former NBA cross-dresser, Dennis Rodman, is trying to shop a reality show about his life. A rep for Rodman insists that several networks are interested in the hoop star's life and promises it will portray the "weird, wacky world of Dennis Rodman" where "everyday life is just a big party" a la Anna Nicole Smith. Rodman has also offered to return to the NBA, but the league is apparently tired of his act. **SMH @ DENNIS** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apr. 8, 2003) K-Ci & Jo Jo found out the hard way what happens when you literally don't handle your business and don't give it up to Uncle Sam. The two are free on bail after being arrested on tax evasion charges. The two R&B crooners were released from jail Sunday. They're charged with failing to pay taxes to their home state of North Carolina for shows they performed in the state during 1999, 2000 and 2001, said their lawyer, James Williams. "Both of these young men, as artists, do not handle their own affairs. They were victimized," he said. "The best I can discern, their main problem is that they changed accountants. It's just a matter of paperwork that needs to be filed and money that needs to be sent." According to press reports, Cedric Renard "K-Ci" Hailey, 33, was charged with two counts of failure to pay taxes for 1999 and 2000. He was released on $287,727 bail. Joel Lamont "JoJo" Hailey, 31, was charged with three counts of failure to pay taxes in 1999, 2000 and 2001. He was released on $370,000 bail. The two were arrested Saturday night after a Raleigh, NC performance in which they opened for Jaheim and Tank. **must use all their money to buy their WEED. . . did I tell you those mofos were high when they came to my school and sang in my classroom. |
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Shaquan from down da skreet has designed you all's gowns. They be ready one hour before the show. :p |
Has anyone seen the making of J. Lo's video, "I'm Glad"? It's a mock/remake of "Flashdance." That "B" knows what she is doing by having her assy hanging out all over the place. Come on!! We don't need to be seeing that all the time! I mean, she has a nice size, but you don't have to keep broadcasting it, YET claim that you don't people to just know you because of your body....:rolleyes:
I wonder if I can get a fly body if I work out enough..... Trust me. I'm trying! (But I promise not to have my assy hanging out! I'm a lady!) |
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Entertainment - LAUNCH Music
Sean Paul To Tour With 50 Cent Wed Apr 9,12:00 AM ET Jason Gelman Sean Paul has been added to the second leg of 50 Cent's upcoming summer tour. Paul will join the chart-topping rapper on the road starting July 13. 50 Cent is currently on tour with Clipse, and his summer dates with Paul have not yet been announced. Meanwhile, Paul's single, "Get Busy," is at Number 46 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop chart. 50 Cent/Clipse tour dates (subject to change): April 7 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Egyptian Room April 8 - Morgantown, WV - West Virginia University April 9 - Norfolk, VA - The Boathouse April 10 - North Myrtle Beach, SC - House Of Blues April 12 - Nashville, TN- Gaylord Entertainment Center April 13 - Birmingham, AL - Boutwell Auditorium April 14 - Memphis, TN - International Shell April 15 - Oklahoma City, OK - The Ford Center April 16 - Valley Center, KS - Kansas Coliseum April 17 - Tulsa, OK - University Of Tulsa April 18 - Springfield, MO - Shrine Mosque April 19 - Lincoln, NE - Pershing Auditorium April 24 - Brockport, NY - SUNY Brockport April 25 - State College PA - Bryce Jordan Center April 26 - Storrs, CT - University Of Connecticut April 27 - Binghamton, NY - West Gym May 2 - Newark, DE - University Of Delaware May 3 - Hartford, CT - Hartford Civic Center May 4 - Amherst, MA - Mullins Center May 6 - Boston, MA - Avalon May 7 - Durham, NH - University Of New Hampshire May 8 - Portland, ME - Cumberland Civic Center May 9 - Providence, RI - Dunkin Donuts Civic Center May 12,13 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre May 14 - Salem, OR - Salem Armory May 16 - Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues May 17 - La Jolla, CA - RIMAC Arena May 18,19 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues |
Hmm, I might have to start trying to win some tickets to that concert now that my baby daddy Sean Paul will be performing . :cool: :p
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4-1-1 ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 7, 2003
The Showtime Series ‘SoulFood’ returns on Wednesday, April 9th on Showtime at 10pm. According to Published reports Oprah wants to take some nude photos and present them to her sweetie Stedman Graham. Oprah turns 50 next January and she wants to give them to him as a present. Oprah is looking for a photographer that she can feel comfortable with. Oprah wanted Famed Photographer Herb Ritts but he died last December. Producer Jermaine Dupri is coming out with his own clothing line. The line will be called Dupri. Jermaine is dating Janet Jackson and the romance is still going strong. Queen Latifah will be starring in the movie Beauty Shop and her character will be introduced in Barbershop Two with Ice Cube. Latifah is getting ten million dollars to star in the movie. D L Hughley is returning to TV. D L will be costarring with Howie Mandel in a series for NBC. (Afrochic's sidenote: Huh? D.L is so not funny on sitcoms. Who put those two together anyway? :confused: ) Amy Dubois Barnet the Editor and Chief of Honey Magazine is leaving the magazine to become the Editor in Chief of Teen People Magazine. Amy will be the first African American Female to head a major magazine at Time Inc. Time Inc is the nations largest magazine publisher. Congratulations to State Senator, Vincent Hughes and Singer/Actress/Broadway Star Sheryl Lee Ralph they are engaged to be married. The State Senator got down on bended knee and gave his lady a Two Carat ring. No wedding date has been set. Tyreese’s new movie ‘2 Fast, 2 Furious’ comes out in June. Tyreese is currently topping the charts with the song ‘How You Gonna Act Like That’. Whitney Houston will be gracing the cover of the July Essence Magazine. She did a photo shoot and sources say she looks fabulous. I wonder who will get kicked off American Idol this week? Last week Corey Clarkson was removed because he lied to producers about his background. Corey is due in court next week on charges that he beat up his kid sister and resisted arrest when the police arrived. This happened last October and in 2000 Corey was sued by the Walmart store for writing bad checks. Corey was able to get by the background checks because the police report had his name spelled differently. Trencye another American Idol with a criminal past was allowed to stay on the show because she confessed about her 1999 shoplifting arrest. American Idol Judge Randy Jackson is also making headlines his wife’s, first husband claims Randy broke up his marriage. Randy’s wife Erica was married to a man who says he found out his wife was cheating on him when he noticed a new tattoo on her body and she admitted she got it for Randy. Randy and Erica are happily married with two children. He also has a child from a previous relationship. |
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The 4th season of “Soul Food” debuts tonight at 10:00 (Eastern & Pacific) on Showtime. The cast and crew are keeping quiet about the new storylines, but we do know that Ahmad will have a lot more coming-of-age drama involving girls. He’s also going to cause some chaos among the family when he starts feeling strange about being in prep school and tries to “go back to the ‘hood.” Tonight’s episode will be followed at 11:00 Eastern by a live Internet chat with Malinda Williams (Bird) and Darren DeWitt Henson (Lem). Log on to www.sho.com. Michael Jackson reportedly wants to sell his Neverland Ranch, but supposedly no one has been willing to meet his $20 million asking price. According to media reports, Neverland was recently appraised at $12.3 million. Meanwhile, Michael has been shopping for houses in Miami for the last few months. One reason Michael may be trying to move to Miami is that Florida is a "homestead state." That means that they can’t take your house if you get hit with a big financial judgment of some kind. Michael’s been ordered to pay $6 million to a concert promoter for missing two Millennium Eve shows and Jackson is currently in a multi-million dollar legal fight with two former financiers. Michael Jackson got a standing ovation when he went to dinner at The Forge in Miami with Serena Williams, Chris Tucker and “Rush Hour” director Brett Ratner. Oh, and a gossip writer is reporting that Michael now lets his kids walk around without wearing veils. Bill Cosby and the classic TV network Nick at Nite are teaming up to create a prime-time animated series inspired by Cosby’s best-selling 1986 book, “Fatherhood.” The show will feature the voice of David Alan Grier as Dr. Bindlebeep, a high school teacher with three kids. This will be the first original series for Nick at Nite which specializes in reruns of great, old TV shows from back in the day (including “The Cosby Show”). 50 Cent is launching his own record label, G-Unit Records, which will be marketed and distributed by Interscope Records. The first release will be the debut from the rap collective G-Unit, which features 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks. The album will be out by the end of the year. 50 Cent promises that G-Unit – the record label and the group – will have a devastating impact on the rap game. 50 said, quote: “I'm not leveling the competition, I'm destroying it." Jennifer Lopez has her own fashion line but that isn’t stopping her from promoting another designer. Women's Wear Daily reports that Lopez is about to shoot some ads for Louis Vuitton. Star Jones reportedly went off when ABC refused to let her give a free plug to Payless shoes on "The View." Star is a spokesperson for the low-cost shoe store chain. According to a gossip columnist Star screamed at ABC execs then yelled at her agent, Betsy Berg. Celebrity Birthdays Today: 1) Keshia Knight Pulliam, Rudy on “The Cosby Show” is 24 2) Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 77 3) Cynthia Nixon, Miranda on Sex & The City, is 37 4) actor Dennis Quaid is 49 |
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Silent treatment worries family of R. Kelly's wife
April 8, 2003 BY MARY MITCHELL SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Despite his legal troubles, R. Kelly is on a public relations roll. After the E2 nightclub tragedy, Kelly stepped up and donated $63,000 to the families of the 21 victims. Given that most of the victims were young and uninsured, the money made a big difference to the grieving families. Last week, Kelly scored points again, by releasing a new song to show support for the members of the military fighting in Iraq. "This song is my way of saying thank you to everyone protecting us, and allowing us to sleep comfortable at night and send our children off to school in the morning," Kelly said in a news release. Proceeds from "A Soldier's Heart" will go to support the soldiers' families, according to Kelly's official Web site. But there's something else the public should know. While Kelly may understand how difficult it is for military families to cope when they are estranged from loved ones, he apparently is not as understanding when the problem is a lot closer to home. His wife, Andrea Lee Kelly, hasn't spoken to her mother, grandfather or aunt since the R. Kelly sex scandal broke. "The last time I talked to her was over two years ago on the phone," said Gerri Cruze, Andrea's mother. "She was crying hysterically and violently. Of course you are worried when you go from talking to a person every day to not talking to them period." After that disturbing conversation, Cruze said she was unable to reach her daughter because the telephone numbers were changed. Desperate, she asked the Olympia Fields Police Department to check out the home to make sure her daughter was all right. Although police verified that Andrea Kelly was fine, Cruze, who currently lives near Atlanta, is planning to move to Chicago to find out why her 29-year-old daughter has broken ties with her family. "I don't know if my child is under the influence. I don't know if she is being controlled. I don't know if people are watching her. I don't know if she is being brainwashed," Cruze said. I did try to reach Mrs. Kelly myself but couldn't get past the lawyers. Obviously, I have no way of knowing why Mrs. Kelly is estranged from her relatives. But sources who know her claim she is living in luxury, is happy, and has a nanny for each of her three children. Cruze isn't buying it. "If everything is all right, then she should call her mother and her father," Cruze said. "I find this behavior bizarre." Although there have been published reports about Kelly's falling out with his own family, Cruze describes the family he married into as "close-knit" and "strong." She divorced Andrea's father years ago but has managed to maintain a good relationship with her former in-laws. "We are a very, very close family, and this is very uncharacteristic of my daughter," Cruze insisted. "We always communicate. Prior to everything going haywire, that has been a rule in this family." "We are just infuriated by this," Cruze continued. "She is an adult, but my instincts are that this is a control situation." Andrea Kelly's paternal grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Lee, 78, lives a community away from the Kelly family's Olympia Fields mansion. He also hasn't been able to see his granddaughter. "I was there a few minutes ago," Lee said when he contacted me two weeks ago. "One of the nannies told us that she couldn't get in touch with her. We haven't been able to get in touch with Andrea since she had this last baby. We have not seen her, nor have we been offered any visitation. This has really been debilitating for the entire family." Franchon Lee, Mrs. Kelly's aunt, is also concerned. "Everybody is just upset and freaked out," she said. "This is very unusual. Andrea is very outgoing and very friendly. If nothing else, she is going to talk to me or her mother." Obviously, Andrea Kelly doesn't have to talk to her mother. She's a grown woman with a family of her own. There is also no evidence that she is a domestic violence victim or is being held hostage in her own home. Still, it is understandable that Mrs. Kelly's family is worried about how this scandal may be affecting her. After all, what mother can read published accounts in which her daughter is described as being treated like a "puppy dog" and not worry about that daughter's well-being? "There is a possibility that she doesn't want to talk us, but I doubt it," her aunt said. "When this scandal happened, she was so upset and just cried and cried and cried. It was awful. There is no law that can help us get in there and talk to her. But it seems to me when you get in this kind of trouble, you would call your mother and your pastor." "I want it to be documented that the fact she is not calling us is not the Andrea we know," Cruze said. "We know her not calling us is sending a signal that something is wrong." I hope this family's plea doesn't fall on deaf ears. The least a daughter can do is tell her mother why she isn't taking her calls. After all, that's one way of proving that the freedom her husband is singing about is the freedom she has at home. |
Liya Kebede, model, becomes face of Estee Lauder
From the New York Times:
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/...on/08dres1.jpg April 8, 2003 A Black Model Reaches the Top, a Lonely Spot By GUY TREBAY hampagne flutes were lofted last Thursday to toast Liya Kebede's first day on her new job. Ms. Kebede had just been officially named the new face of Estée Lauder, the flagship brand of the cosmetics giant. As Leonard A. Lauder, Aerin Lauder and a small group of executives gathered in the 40th-floor headquarters on Fifth Avenue with decorous hush, there were rote speeches and little to suggest there was anything epochal about the decision to hire a reedlike 24-year-old with coffee-colored skin as one of just three women (the others are Elizabeth Hurley and Carolyn Murphy) who symbolize the global image of Estée Lauder. Yet Ms. Kebede is the first black woman in the company's 57-year history to represent the Estée Lauder brand, and she is also that greater rarity, a minority woman with a beauty contract, one reported to be equal to that of Ms. Murphy, who is paid $3 million annually. "The first thing with Liya is the beauty," said Ms. Lauder, the vice president for advertising for the Estée Lauder line, who played a key role in casting the Ethiopian model as part of a corporate effort to revive sales by reaching a wider audience, including the African-Americans who some studies say account for 19 percent of all cosmetic sales. "The beauty buzz is first," Ms. Lauder said. "Second is ethnicity." Fashion is rarely a proving ground for racial diversity. In fashion, after all, the beauty buzz always comes first. Yet it seemed fitting that Ms. Kebede's hiring coincided with oral arguments in the Supreme Court that challenge the University of Michigan's consideration of race in its efforts to increase minority enrollment. These arguments have revived debate about issues of inclusion that twine through every aspect of American life, even fashion. A New York Times survey of magazine covers last fall found that from 1998 to 2002, fashion magazines nearly doubled their use of nonwhite cover subjects, and this gave encouragement to some in the industry. But on the runways — which serve as the feeders for magazine work and high-profile beauty contracts like Ms. Kebede's — the story has been different in recent seasons, with so few black women working regularly that virtually anyone in the business could cite them all by name. "Liya, Yasmin Warsame and Alek Wek," said Conor Kennedy, a booker at Elite Model Management, referring to the three African women who seemed to have filled an unofficial quota for women of color for the past several seasons. "It's like there's only room for one very successful black model at a time," Mr. Kennedy said. "For the past year it's been Liya. It's amazing to see her do so well. But it's frustrating when so many other black and African-American models are trying to craft out a living and all anyone wants to hire is blondes." For the hundreds of shows staged for the past two seasons in New York, Milan and Paris, numerous designers, both American and European, employed few Hispanic, Asian or black models, Mr. Kennedy said. This is not to suggest that fashion designers discriminate. "Ralph Lauren I will send every black model and he wants to see them," said Nian Fish, the creative director of KCD. "Puff Daddy obviously wants to see every black model. Tom Ford is also colorblind." There is little question that all the marquee American designers, like Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, have used minority models on their runways for years. Yet many inside the industry point out that these hirings have dwindled to a point where they are far from representative. This observation appears to be borne out by a 116-page pictorial in the February 2003 issue of Italian Vogue, a twice-yearly survey of the previous season's catwalk shows, one in which a diligent reader is forced to search for faces that are nonwhite. Ms. Kebede came to Estée Lauder's attention thanks to an Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche advertising campaign shot by Steven Meisel. "We were thinking, `Who is this person?' " Ms. Lauder said. Earlier Ms. Kebede, then a struggling newcomer, had been spotted on a Milan runway by Mr. Ford, who cast her for his Gucci shows in spring 2000 and afterward in the Saint Laurent ads. "I would not call it racism, per se," Oluchi Onweagba, a Nigerian model, said last week, referring to hiring practices that can appear exclusionary. Ms. Onweagba herself found a degree of success in modeling after she won an Elite modeling contest in Africa in 1998. Since that time, she has been photographed by Mr. Meisel and Peter Lindbergh, has appeared on the cover of i-D magazine and Italian Vogue and has worked on runways for Gucci, Dior and Chanel. Yet when she went to Milan this year for the seasonal castings, Ms. Onweagba had, she said, "the experience of walking into a casting where you can tell they don't want you to be there." Unlike advertising campaigns and editorial spreads, the casting of runway shows is under the control of the designers themselves. The surfeit of television, magazine and Internet coverage focused on the catwalk has not, however, turned designers into demographers. Expressing an aesthetic vision on the catwalk remains a designer's first right. "Fashion is about the right moment and every season you have to have the new moment and the new girls," said Mohammed Fajar, an agent at Supreme models, a division of the agency Women. "But there is no black moment. There is not now and there never will be." If this is so, the reasons are not easy to ascertain. Designers "will tell you black girls don't move merchandise," said James Scully, a seasoned casting agent with Kevin Krier & Associates, a fashion production house. It was Mr. Scully who is generally credited with alerting Mr. Ford of Gucci to the existence of Ms. Kebede several years ago. Before that, the young Ethiopian had been languishing as a catalog model in the Midwest. Most designers contacted to discuss current runway castings were quick to acknowledge the shift toward fewer black faces in recent seasons, but reticent to discuss the reasons. "It definitely has changed," said Cynthia Rowley, one of the few designers who would speak for attribution. "I'm not sure why." According to the young designer Peter Som, "We're going back to 1950's America, where only what's familiar is what people want to see." An apparent paucity of minorities on the runways at the twice-yearly Seventh on Sixth collections in New York is "not something that we've focused on," said Peter Arnold, the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Stan Herman, the organization's president, noted, "There was a flash of representation in the late 80's," referring to an all-but-forgotten period when fashion runways reflected what David N. Dinkins used to call the gorgeous mosaic. The 80's, by consensus, was the last time when "things were really creative and you saw all colors," said Bethann Hardison, a model-turned-agent, who brokered the multimillion-dollar deal between Polo Ralph Lauren and Tyson Beckford, the Jamaican-born model. "That's all over now," said Ms. Hardison, who is at work on a documentary about the fashion industry with the working title "Invisible Beauty." "There used to be room for the honey-browns, the café au laits, the chocolates, the beige-y people," said Alva Chinn, a former model and the founder, with Naomi Campbell, Veronica Webb and Ms. Hardison, of the Black Girls Coalition, an ad hoc group of industry advocates formed in 1992. Beauty is a tough commodity to regulate and "with African-Americans, part of the problem is that their complexions become part of the fashion," said Patricia A. Turner, an author ("Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies," University of Virginia Press, 2002) who teaches at the University of California at Davis. "It's part of what's worn, in the same way as shoes or hats." If for the moment the runways are lagging behind the realities of the global population, some point to Ms. Kebede's hiring as an optimistic sign. When Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, the president of Estée Lauder, greeted his company's new model last Thursday, he alluded to the most potent force in changing racial attitudes: the market. "Not only is she helping us to communicate with a wider audience as our first ethic model," Mr. Bousquet-Chavanne said. "She has a kind of beauty that brings fashion to the brand." |
"I don't know if my child is under the influence. I don't know if she is being controlled. I don't know if people are watching her. I don't know if she is being brainwashed," Cruze said.
i think this is a control issue. when R. Kelly was on that home show on BET we saw his house in detail, an adult house, no kiddie toys. when the scandal broke, we heard he had a wife and 2 kids, one on the way. i was like, "what?:confused: where did this family come from?" before it was like he kept a tight lid on the family so it didn't ruin his "lover, player"-image. then he felt the need to play family man, for damage-control purposes. to this day i've yet to see her so it seems to me she bought into this as well. unless, i'm not reading the right magazines:p |
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Queen Latifah airbrushed for ads
This came from the Age, an Australian paper. It's very dismaying that this happens, but it does. And people wonder why lil' girls have body image issues. Boo, hiss to that Miramax official who may have signed off on the airbrushing. :mad:
Airbrushing an 'accident' April 4 2003 http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/ur.../Latifah,0.jpg Picture: AFP Latifah arrives at the Academy Awards in Hollywood. It's happened again. Not three months after GQ magazine embarrassed itself by airbrushing out Kate Winslet's curves for a cover shot, Miramax has done the same thing to Queen Latifah. Miramax, the distributor for the Oscar-winning Chicago, admitted to Inside Edition that Queen Latifah's body was altered in a print ad for the film, blaming it on a "ratio mistake". Inside Edition reported that when it contacted Miramax after noticing an unnaturally lithe Latifah in an ad, the company admitted it altered her body, saying it was an error. A day after Inside Edition's inquiry, Miramax changed the ads; they now show Latifah in all her plus-sized glory. Ad Week's national editor Jack Feuer said he wasn't surprised by the alteration. "It happens all the time, especially in movie ads. I assume a 'ratio mistake' is what we in journalism call spin," he said. - KRT |
Cornucopia of Celeb News
THINGS THAT LOVERS DO: R&B couple Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore, who just released a duets album called Things that Lovers Do, welcoming their first child, a baby boy, Thursday morning--which is also Lattimore's b-day. Kenny Lattimore Jr. was born in Los Angeles and weighed nine pounds. Everyone is doing well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SINGIN' THE BLUES: Rap impresario Sean "P. Diddy" Combs set to play legendary blues musician Robert Johnson in the HBO Films feature Love in Vain. The flick starts shooting in Mississippi in September with Tim Blake Nelson at the helm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BACK IN THE ACT: Fox green-lighting Homey the Clown, a big-screen comedy featuring Damon Wayans reprising his signature character from his In Living Color days. Shooting stars in June. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From this month's Sister2Sister (Queen Latifah on the cover) Jaime: You don't want them to know what your sexuality is? Tevin: I'm not gay, but there are a lot of different things that I do like, sexually. Being in the business, you are introduced to a lot of different things. I'm not gay but I'm a freak and I think a lot of people know what a freak is. Jaime: I don't. What is it? Tevin: Basically, I'm trying a lot of things. Being open-minded. It has nothing to do with attraction. It's just having fun and I did a lot of that on the road with dancers. We had truth or dare. Jaime: So you're saying it could be male or female? Whatever is happening at that time? Tevin: Right. I am not exculsively attracter to men. I'm not gay, but sexually... Jaime: Would you say you're bisexual? Tevin: No, just TRY-sexual (CT4: TRY SEX with anyone.:p) Jaime: What is that? You, me and he? Tevin: Leave that to the imagination ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` |
Um...Tevin...COME OUT THE CLOSET. THX.
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Gunmen Open Fire On Snoop Dogg Convoy
Rapper Avoids Injury; Bodyguard Wounded POSTED: 10:39 a.m. EDT April 11, 2003 UPDATED: 11:25 a.m. EDT April 11, 2003 One person was injured Thursday night as three gunmen opened fire on rap star Snoop Dogg's convoy after a verbal incident. The Los Angeles Police Department says one of which was carrying the rapper, but he wasn't hurt. One of Snoop Dogg's seven bodyguards -- an off-duty police officer -- was hit and wounded in the back. He was released from the hospital early Friday. Police say the shooting happened at about 9 p.m. Thursday as one car pulled alongside the convoy. Police say it appears that one of the gunmen wanted to speak with the rapper. Words were exchanged, followed by gunfire. "The officers tried to find the vehicle that apparently shot at this entourage of vehicles but were unsuccessful," Los Angeles police Sgt. John Pasquariello said. The 31-year-old rapper -- whose real name is Calvin Broadus -- was acquitted of the 1993 shooting death of a gang member. No charges are expected against him in the latest incident. Copyright 2003 by TheKansasCityChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. :eek: :eek: he betta watch his back fo'shizzy! |
Ummm Suge, can you account for your whereabouts on Thursday around nine p.m.???
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/cha...hristina.shtml
Christina - she is beautiful, no matter what she weighs Last updated 07 April 2003 Gossip mongers are saying that Christina Aguilera could be pregnant after she appeared at a Los Angeles fashion show. As you can see in the picture she was wearing a Passion Venus inspired gown by designer Jeremy Scott during a show previewing his autumn collection in Hollywood. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/images/a...gnant1_120.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/images/a...gnant2_120.jpg The singer has nothing but praise for the designer: "I feel like a little mermaid right now. But Jeremy Scott - he's great. I love his bold, ambitious, being unafraid to be out there and be different and go as under or overboard as he wants to. I love that. I love people who take it to that level of being unafraid to go there." ************************************************* I just saw her on MTV when they were talking to her before the show. She is getting a little to plump. Y'all know that girl is rail thin and that weight gain is unexplained...." |
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Who would be Xtina Aguilera's baby daddy? I haven't heard her name linked w/anyone lately.:confused:
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It looks like a beer gut to me. I mean it is kind of like multi-layered if you look at it, not like a pregnant stomach. Maybe she is partying too much? :confused:
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I think Christina is preggers.
As far as her baby daddy, it probably is a brotha. In an interview, she stated that she prefers black men because they have "flava". :rolleyes: So not the question is.....WHICH BROTHA?http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-019.gif |
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I thought she was dating one of her dancers?
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Why doesn't she try to woo Brain McKnight or Ice T? You know, I was watching Entertainment Tonight and they were doing a special about the modeling gig where she was wearing this dress. She was also wearing high heeled shell top Adidas, if you can even imagine such a thing. OOGLY. |
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Girl I was thinking the same thing fo'shizzy!......... :D :p |
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She was but they broke up. He's in her dirrty video, but to me it seems like he would go for Redman more than he would her;) . He's also in her come on over video. He has really curly hair ( french braids in the dirrty video) and a thick mustache and is her dance partner in that video. You had to see the shoes to really appreciate its ugliness. |
Dennis Rodman is about to get married again. The controversial ex-NBA star will wed Michelle Moyer on May 13, which happens to be his birthday. Rodman’s manager says The Worm decided to tie the knot on his birthday so he’d never forget his wedding anniversary. Rodman’s previous marriage, toe Carmen Electra, lasted nine days.
Suge Knight and his label, Tha Row, have been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a young woman who was murdered and partially eaten by an aspiring rapper. Carolyn Stinson says that rapper Big Lurch killed and cannibalized her 21 year old daughter, Tynisha Ysais, in order to enhance his image as a gangsta. Big Lurch, who’s real name is Antron Singleton, was arrested last year on murder and torture charges after police found him staggering around naked and covered in blood on an L.A. street. Police said they found the mutilated body of Tynisha Ysais in a nearby apartment. The body had teeth marks on its face and on pieces of a lung which had been torn from her chest. A medical exam revealed that Singleton had human blood and flesh in his stomach. The wrongful death lawsuit filed by Tynisha Ysais accuses Suge Knight and Tha Row of supplying Singleton with drugs "to encourage (him) to act out in an extreme violent manner so as to make him more marketable as a 'Gansta Rap' artist." The lawsuit goes on to state, quote: "Part of what makes a Gansta Rap artist marketable is the fact that the artist is a current ongoing participant in violent gang activities. Singleton met this criteria and was even more marketable because his songs were as violent as his lifestyle and included rape, murder and ended with him eating his victim's body organs." As of yesterday, no one at Tha Row had commented on the lawsuit. Two people got shot in the parking lot following Saturday’s BET College Hip-Hop Fest at the Paramount's Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. One man is in custody in connection with the shooting which police think was sparked by a car accident in the parking lot. The two victims and the alleged shooter knew each other. The suspect, David Gleason McKoy, is being held without bond. About 20,000 people attended the BET College Hip-Hop Fest which featured Fabolous, Keith Murray, Cam'ron and The Diplomats. 50 Cent announced yesterday that he’ll go on tour with Jay-Z this summer. 50 says Jay should headline the tour because he has a longer string of hits. 50 says he also intends to collaborate in the studio with Jay-hova. Plans for the tour have not been finalized but it will most likely start in July. Lil Mo says she’ll open on some of the shows. Method Man will appear on upcoming episodes of the Fox high school drama “Boston Public” and the HBO crime series “The Wire.” Taye Diggs will play a Secret Service agent on two episodes of NBC's “The West Wing” during May sweeps. Back when she was a struggling wannabe, vocalist Blu Cantrell picked up some extra cash by posing in the porn magazine known as Black Tail (Turner’s Two Cents: I don’t think a Klansman could have come up with a title more demeaning to African-American women!) Now, Blu’s gonna bare it all again; but this time it will be for the more upscale skin publication, Playboy. Blu Cantrell will be the cover model on Playboy’s August issue. Playboy reportedly played Blu close to a million dollars to get naked for their cameras! Celebrity Birthdays Today: 1) sitcom star Flex Alexander is 33 (“One On One,” “Homeboys From Outer Space”) 2) ex-LA Lakers star Michael Cooper is 47 3) Olympic sprinter Evelyn Ashford is 46 (member of five U.S. Olympic teams 1976 – 1992; winner of 4 Olympic gold medals: including 100m in 1984, and 4 x100m in 1984, '88 and '92; also won silver medal in 100m in '88; member of 5 U.S. Olympic teams (1976-92). |
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