NAACP Image Awards
 

They will air on FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002 on FOX. Check your local listings for air times.

Check out the Nominees: www.naacpimageawards.org

http://www.naacpimageawards.org/nomineeslist.html

Why
 

Why are they mixing TV with Movies for Youth Actor/Actress?

II. YOUTH ACTOR / ACTRESS
#6 - Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress
AARON MEEKS "Soul Food"
ASHLEY MONIQUE CLARK "The Hughleys"
KYLA PRATT "Dr. Doolittle 2"
MARCUS T. PAULK "Moesha"
RAVEN-SYMONE "Dr. Doolittle 2"

They could very well do movie seperately from TV.

TV
Aaron Meeks
Kyla Pratt
Marcus Paulk
Bernie Mac kids
Little Boy who plays Dr. Benton's son

Movies
Kyla Pratt
Raven Symone
whoever else?

:confused:

Forget the kids...
 

They can show my "other" husband- Chris Tucker, as often as possible.

Re: Forget the kids...
 

http://www.plaudersmilies.de/nono.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/nono.gif Umm SOROR, we are only ALLOWED to have one man up in HEA and you have declared BORIS as yours so I graciously let you have him but CHRIS is MINE!!

**singing in my best MOKENSTEF voice** He's Mine You mighta had him once but I got him all the time. :D :p

Re: Re: Forget the kids...
 

Oh Soror you hadn't heard? I've moved to Utah. Between Boris, Chris T., Mario Van Peebles, and Ginuwine I couldn't decide. So we decided to give polygamy a try. :o

Everyone has their daily duties. :p

AIGHT ONE MO GIN
 

The awards will be on in 33 minutes :p

This year once again, we will commentate in this fashion

the GOOD, the BAD, the UGLY, the WAS THAT REALLY NECESSARY and the I ALMOST DIED LAUGHING WHEN...

early comments
 

sorry but i have to comment now

1. UMM THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER!?!?!?! -- Was DESTINY'S CHILD out of the solar system? What about ANYBODY OTHER THAN who sang it!?!?!?!:mad:

2. GO CHRIS -- he was funny. LOL and looking SEEEEEEXXXXAAYYYYY :cool:

3. Vivica Fox -- Can we say NOSE JOB?!?!

Okay, I didn't get to see the beginning of it. So all I can do is comment on what I DID get to see. Okay here we go.

THE GOOD:

1. Chris Tucker. He WAS looking mighty fine.
2. Was Destiny's Child there? Boy, I'm SO glad that I missed them. :D :D
3. The progam was done in taste (it started on time and went off on time). I liked that.

THE BAD and THE UGLY:

1. Now why did Master P and Lil' Romeo come up there with those "twin" outfits on. Now I could see them dressing alike. But why is it that one of the Richest rappers in the USA---an African American male who is listed in FORBES--and his son CONSTANTLY wearing outfits that look as if they got their clothes from a FLEA MARKET? I mean, REALLY!!!. You just couldn't tell me that their outfits did not look like they were made of pure PLASTIC. What's up with that?

2. Al Green and his GOLDEN suit. I love ya Al. But you coulda gone with another color.

3. Sean Combs/Puff Daddy/P. Diddy (and any OTHER name that he's called nowadays. Why is he even showing up as a presenter at these awards shows?

4. Indie.Arie not winning one single award...AGAIN. That's a shame.

5. And oh my goodness, how could I forget Little Richard and his JACKED UP CROUCH? His pants were so far up in his "AREA", that it looked as if he had to go to the bathroom. Little Richard, Little Richard!!!! PLEEEEZZZZ check yourself BEFORE you accept any more awards in front of a crowd.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!! :D :D

Re: AIGHT ONE MO GIN
 

THE GOOD
1. CHRIS TUCKER -- Funny for real
2. Angela Bassett's victories because her competition for the most part was nonexistent
3. India Arie's performance with Take 6 and Stevie Wonder's performance
4. SOUL FOOD WINNING DRAMA of the year!! WORK IT OUT SOROR FELICIA HENDERSON, Exec Producer!!

the BAD
1. MASTER P AND SON's MATCHING TACKY @$$, PLASTIC @$$ outfits. Korkscru -- you were so right.

2. Little Richard's pants --- Korkscru I am glad you thought the same thing.

the UGLY
1. Mo'Nique's DRESS and her TATAS
2. LISA NICOLE CARSON's pregnant like breasts


the WAS THAT REALLY NECESSARY
1. ALL of that DAYUM HAIR in Nicole Ari Parker's hair. Somewhere there is a naked horse shivering and cursing out baldheaded Black folks.

2. VIVICA's NOSE JOB

3. OLD DUDE who damn near sexed LIZA MINELLI with that tongue kiss. :eek: :mad:


I ALMOST DIED LAUGHING WHEN
1. BERNIE MAC said GOD IS GOOD. . .Can I get a HELL YEAH!!http://www.plaudersmilies.de/lach.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/lach.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/lach.gif
2. Chris' performance with Stevie
3. Little Richard's tribute and the old woman who was oooching and cooching but if her azz woulda fell, I mighta busted a gut.

DAMMIT... i missed them.
I wish I had it on tape!!! Boooo... :(

No they were not there and while I was glad they had some babes on stage singing sTAR SPANGLED BANNER that made me put my WTF face on big time. I would have rather have had DC sing it. Basically it seemed like NO BLACK performer was CAPABLE of singing the S S B. :confused: :confused:

NAACP PICS
 

I can't show all but here are a few:

1. Chris and Stevie
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...3221250141.jpg

2. Man who dayum near sexed Liza before getting an award
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...3691003993.jpg

3. Aaron McGruder, creator of the Boondocks
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ds_caln125.jpg

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/...&c=news_photos

The awards were mighty good overall. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Chris Tucker. He is TOO funny! I enjoy the fact that WHENEVER you see him, he's FUNNY! He rarely has an off moment. So madd kudos to him. And YES, he was looking mighty fine up there! :D

My fav moments....
Ok, I liked the star spangled banner performance but who were those girls? I didn't hear their name announced.

Chris and Stevie's "duet" :p...that was too cute!

I was very happy for Angela Bassett for winning. She is a great actress...glad she got some props for that.

Take 6 (although they were Take 5 at the moment :D) and India's performance was great.

Ok, what is the girl's name from The Steve Harvey's show? I can't think of her real name but it's Lavita (sp?), Ceddy's wife. I thought her dress was TOO cute! And wasn't she just soooo adorable when she accepted her award?!

My ultimate fav moment: Chris Tucker's impression of Bill Clinton was HILARIOUS! I was dying! I was amazed at how much he sounded like Bill....too funny!

Now, the not so fav moments:
Mo'nique's chest......can we say "EWWWW"? What is up w/ that? Isn't that uncomfortable? I mean, that's just gotta feel weird. Patti Labelle had that same issue going on at the Grammys.

Little Richard's pants....I was embarrassed for him. But can ya'll believe he's going to be 70!? Daaaannng! I mean, I figured he was up there in age, but wow!

And I agree w/ everyone on the Master P thing. I am so mad they let that man go up there and present. But not only did they do that, but they let "Mini-me" go up there with him :rolleyes: Master P just annoys me. I mean, I'm happy that you are successful and all, but get a stylist! Get something! ugh!

Overall, I thought they put on a good show.

Master P may be a skilled "bidnesman," :rolleyes: :rolleyes: but he lacks any degree of taste and real style. It puzzles me that more than a few black people who have worked their butts off and earned their wealth feel the need to act like ghettofied clowns?:o

Little Richard is just a steaming hot hunk of mess and has been for 40-plus years :eek: When I read your post, I was ROFLMP&GBO and thinking ""Tutti frutti aw rootie. A womp bomp baba luba a womp bam boom..." :p

So that is what the lyrics look like. You know not to be funny but he musta been on some serious stuff to come up with that "hook".

Re: Re: AIGHT ONE MO GIN
 

I thought Chris was so funny and again very good as host. But I do have one question, did anyone else notice how long his feet are? I'm just saying, he got some long azz feet.:p

Now when I saw Lisa Nicole Carson, I was like what the hell is up with her and those breast.:eek: They were really scary!!
Now the entire time Nicole Ari Parker was on stage, I kept going who is the white girl. With all that hair, and yes it was way to long, I thought she really looked like a white girl.

When Bernie said God is Good and then was like can I get a Hell Yeah I thought I was going to fall out. That was way funny. When the kids came up on stage and the little boy was like you should have won, that was another funny moment.

CT4 I agree when that woman was doing that tribute to Little Richard I was thinking the same damn thing..I was like please don't fall cuz that mess is going to be funny, but I did like her outfit that she had on. She was kicking it for an older woman.

Terri J. Vaughn, I loved her hair and what she had on. I thought she looked very cute.

I have no comment what so ever on that Master P and Little P mess. Someone needs to tell Big P that his line of clothing really sucks.

Overall, I thought the show was really good. Seeing as though I didn't post while it was on, I can't really remember a lot of the good the bad and the ugly .

OOOOOOOO YES LAWD
 

I peeped that but did not want to mention it. :o :o But OOOOOOOO thank you LAWD for the big feet menses. :p :p

**fanning**

Little Ree-chahd
 

I don't doubt it. Little Richard is straight up crazy. I've read his autobiography and the man has been a hunk of hot mess forever.
:p

LAWD, LAWD, how in the WORLD could ANYONE miss Lisa Nicole Carson's and Monique's BREASTESES (pronounced Bre-ste-sez). :eek: :eek: Now I'm a woman with a lot of meat also, but there ain't no way in the world that I would THINK that I could possibly fit my size 42-C's in a size B cup. And that's EXACTLY what Monique did. As a matter of fact, I think that Monique did what she said she was going to do on the movie TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME (yall know when she said that she was going to buy two of the same dress and use one for the front and the other for the back?). Homegirl did that mess FOR REAL. :D :D :D Now as far as Lisa Nicole Carson is concerned, I REALLY thought that she was pregnant. That didn't make no sense. She's a beautiful woman (and so is Monique), but it's obvious that she (and possibly Monique) has this THING about her breasts.

LAWD HELP 'EM!!!! :D :D

A bit long, but another view
 

This is from the Los Angeles Times. It's long, but she brings up some interesting questions:

Saturday, March 2, 2002

COMMENTARY
Image Awards: Fame Is the Benchmark
Instead of honoring the best work of African Americans in film and TV, these honors from the NAACP tend to celebrate familiar faces.

By JANICE RHOSHALLE LITTLEJOHN, Special to The Times

Somebody ought to boycott the NAACP.
It's bad enough that the organization screams and shouts that Hollywood isn't employing African Americans in film and television—going so far as to threaten boycotts against the broadcast networks. But when they have an opportunity to honor those who are working—as they purport to do with their annual Image Awards, which were handed out last week and broadcast Friday on Fox—the NAACP fails to honor the very best.
Instead of recognizing works based on their quality, the Image Awards is a popularity contest to celebrate familiar faces. The problem begins with the submission process, which even some of those working on shows find to be flawed. What it amounts to is that any Tom, Dick or Jane with $100 can submit any artist for a nomination, just as long as the nominee has released something in film, television, music or literature between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. Those with the most submissions get on the ballot.
The votes are then cast by subscribers to the NAACP's Crisis magazine, the readership of which, I am told by NAACP members, is primarily older women. That might explain why Della Reese has consistently won for best actress in a drama series for "Touched by an Angel" since 1994, despite the fact that this year's nominees Nicole Ari Parker ("Soul Food") and Lorraine Toussaint ("Any Day Now") delivered some of the strongest dramatic performances on TV last year by an actress of any race.
Steve Harvey is also a popular repeat winner. Both the star and his series, the recently ended "The Steve Harvey Show," beat Bernie Mac and his critically lauded Fox series, "The Bernie Mac Show," which, by most accounts, is the hottest comedy on television.
It's one of those things that made me go, "Hmm," until I had a chat with Clayola Brown, Image Awards vice chairman, at a pre-awards gala. She went on and on about what a wonderful supporter Harvey is of the NAACP and how much they love the guy. Ah, I see now. He's the favorite son.
But I still find myself scratching my head about Isaac Hayes, who three years ago was nominated as best supporting actor in a comedy series for his voice-over as Chef in Comedy Central's irreverent cartoon "South Park."
Never mind that he was competing against live-action actors, but here's a one-dimensional character, whose sole motivation in any given episode is to feed little white children during the day and get women in the sack at night. Aren't these the kinds of buffoonish images of African Americans that the NAACP ridiculed the networks for in "Beulah" and "Amos N' Andy" in the 1940s?
Certainly one can applaud Denzel Washington's deserving best actor win for "Training Day," for which he's also an Oscar nominee. (Had he lost to "Baby Boy's" singer-turned-actor Tyrese, any sane person in Hollywood would have grabbed a picket sign.)
Halle Berry received a best actress Image Award for her less-than-impressive role in "Swordfish," which essentially was more a supporting part than the lead. Then again, every actress listed in that category has supporting parts, with the exception of Vivica A. Fox for "Two Can Play That Game." Berry, however, also gave a noteworthy, Oscar-nominated lead performance in "Monster's Ball." Guess the Crisis voters missed the screening.
I'll confess, I've been suspect of these awards for a long time, going back to the day when teenage WB stars Tia and Tamera Mowry were nominated, and won, for best actress in a comedy series. Yes, they're twins, and they play twins on TV. But they're also two individual people and should be nominated and awarded individually.
It also doesn't help matters much when true actors are overshadowed by high-profile personalities. Last year, for example, Rosa Parks won best supporting actress in a drama for her guest appearance on, you guessed it, "Touched by an Angel."
The NAACP should honor Parks, and has honored this civil rights legend, for her activism. But to award her outstanding supporting actress? Give me a break.
This year's Parks was Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds. An actor he is not, even by his own account, but the singer-producer still managed to make the ballot for best supporting actor because of a guest appearance on "Soul Food," which he produces with his wife, Tracey Edmonds.
Moreover, like the Golden Globes (and unlike the Emmys), one-time-only TV performers are lumped into the same category with series regulars, which, in this case, means the nomination could have gone to "Soul Food's" Darrin Dewitt Henson or Rockmond Dunbar, "Third Watch's" Coby Bell or any African American actor on "Oz." These are talented performers who toil and sweat on series, week in and week out.
Such oversights rankle some within the industry. Even "Soul Food" producer Felicia Henderson, whose show was just honored for best drama series, complained last year about losing to the NAACP's diversity poster drama, CBS' "City of Angels," a program that drew mostly negative reviews and was off the air by the time of the awards ceremony.
More than a few industry folks that I've spoken with over the last few weeks have complained that the awards are hopelessly flawed and should be reexamined. For starters, just opening the submission process to more people working within the entertainment industry would at least provide a better, more diverse list of personalities to be recognized.
Yes, as an African American, I think it's great to have an awards show that honors the achievements of African American talent. It would be truly great, though, if the NAACP worked harder to recognize them. If they don't, I'll be working on my sign for next year.

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a freelance writer in Los Angeles.

I thought that the category that Halle AND Vivica were nominated for was for SUPPORTING Actress. And, it seemed to me that Vivica was nominated for something else and it wasn't 2.

I thought Vivica was nominated for 2 can play that game and something else? I could have sworn they had 2 nominations (one as supporting actress and another as actress), didn't Angela Bassett win in both or one of the categories? :confused:


:confused:

GREAT POINTS
 

Thanks ST for this article. I am truly feeling what she said on several different points.

Della Reese's victory shocked because as an AVID, LOYAL, DEVOTED, SUPPORTIVE fan of Soul Food -- I was outdone that Nicole Ari Parker did not win that Image Award because girlfriend has been fierce this last year. Dealing with everything that she gone through, she has totally ACTED the H*LL out of her part.

Steve Harvey's show "jumped the shark" long ago and it was highway robbery that BERNIE MAC did not win. I have not always been the biggest fan of Bernie's comedy but his show is really funny.

Don't really have much to say on ISaac Hayes winning an Image Award -- see "MOST EMBARASSING BLACK PERSON" series compliments of Aaron McGruder.

I have not seen Swordfish and while the other nominees were nothing to cheer for, I was not totally feeling her win in that role.

I thought the same thing about the twins -- two people, two roles, only ONE winner.

ROSA PARKS -- Rosa boo I love you but a ONE Time appearance does not a Supporting actor make because both Darrin and Rockmond play the hell out of their roles. I know I am a little bit biased since I only watch SOul Food but you cannot be nominated for SUPPORTING for a one time appearance.

Guess I will have to join the NAACP, :o , vote, and make my voice heard.

I guess the reason I don't complain TOO loudly is because the NAACP IMAGE AWARDS is the BLACK FOLKS awards and WE have to start somewhere.

yEAH
 

Yeah Angela Bassett won both awards for actress. VIVICA was nominated for Supporting Actress in KINGDOM COME and MAIN ACTRESS for 2 Can Play That Game. Having SEEN KINGDOM COME, I know why the only thing it won was soundtrack. . .will watch 2 Can this weekend thanks to Hollywood video's sale.

Vivica was also nominated for her role in "Kingdom Come". Angela Bassett won for "The Score".