News for the Spring

[Confucius]

Patty's Celebrity Report for 04.09.07



Patty Jackson's 411 for the week of April 9th:

I Love New York! is what Tango proclaimed on the season finale of I Love New York. The reality TV star picked the aspiring rapper as her choice, but a Florida woman is claiming that Tango is her man and New York better back off. But wait, didn’t Tango propose to New York? What do you mean he has a girlfriend!!? The Florida woman is a college student, and she says Tango only appeared on the VH1 show to further his rap career. She has a message for New York: Please stop sending nude photos and crazy text messages! The reunion show is set for Sunday, April 15th. Will Tango tell the truth? Has New York lost out on love again? These romances don’t last. When Flavor Flav picked Deelish on the Flavor of Love: Season Two, he had already moved on with another woman and had a baby. Now speaking of Flavor of Love, the rejects from the show are going to charm school courtesy of Mo’Nique. Mo’Nique’s Charm School debuts on VH1 Sunday, April 15th. The winner will get $50,000 in cash if she can get her act together and get a better weave. The show has already gotten off to a rocky start. A woman is claiming that VH1 stole her idea for their show. She says the idea for the Charm School was hers, and her show was called Ghetto Fabulous.

Mel B has named her baby. Fortuna Daphne Bay weighed 5lb and 4 ounces, and she has a head full of hair. What kind of name is Fortuna? Why didn’t she just name the kid Fortune? Because if Eddie Murphy is the daddy, that’s what she’s going to get! (smile) A DNA test is expected soon.

Momma Katherine wants her daughter Janet to settle down and make some babies. Janet Jackson says she is feeling the pressure from her mom who wants her daughter to be a mommy herself. Janet, who’s dating Producer Jermaine Dupri, says she’s working on it.

The divorce will be final any day now between Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Custody of their teenage daughter Bobbi Kristina will go to Whitney. In a tearful plea to the judge, Whitney declared Bobby was not capable of having custody of their daughter. Bobby is trying to get his act together. He is currently doing tour dates around the country. Whitney is hard at work on her comeback album, and sources say she is distancing herself from boy toy boyfriend Ray J.

Vivica A. Fox’s long awaited movie, The Salon, is coming out on DVD May 11th. The movie is based on the Shelly Garrett stage play Beauty Shop. The movie also stars Terrence Howard, Kim Whitley, Darrin Dewitt Henson and Monica Calhoun.

Bernie Mac will be producing a reality show for NBC. Welcome to The Family is a spinoff of his movie Guess Who? The show will follow couples from different religious or ethnic groups and their families meeting each other for the first time.

Sly & The Family Stone are marking their 40th anniversary in the music industry with a box set of their greatest hits. It’s a six CD collection.

Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts, is coming out with a book called Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life. Dungy is the first African American Coach to lead a Superbowl winning team.

Tomi Rae Hynie, the woman who claims she is James Brown’s fourth wife and widow, has selected a special guardian for her son. This is the first step towards determining her son’s paternity. Hynie wants to prove James Brown, Jr. is the son of The Godfather of Soul. Brown, Jr. was left out of the will.

Britney Spears had to pay to get out of her marriage to Kevin Federline. Federline is getting $25,000 a month in child support since he will have custody of their kids four days a week. Federline can’t write a tell-all, but he will have plenty of money to share with his first baby momma, Actress Shar Jackson. Jackson has already gone under the knife to look good for K-Fed. She recently got a tummy tuck and a breast lift to the tune of $15,000.

Wedding bells are in the air for Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson. Hudson is currently hard at work on a new album, and she’s planning a wedding with her boyfriend of 8 years, James Peyton.

Allen Iverson’s stepfather is in trouble with the law. Michael Freeman, 50, was arrested last week after being caught with crack cocaine during a routine traffic stop. Freeman was stopped on a minor traffic violation in Virginia, and police found money, crack cocaine and alcohol on the front seat. Freeman had about $3,000 in cash. Ten years ago, Freeman was arrested for drugs. Spokespeople for Iverson, who is now with the Denver Nuggets, had no comment on his stepfather’s arrest.

Beyonce is preparing for her world tour. She’s due in Philadelphia at the Wachovia Center on August 10th. Word has it the tickets are quite pricey. Sources say a $30 membership fee is being added to the regular ticket price. One ticket could cost you $150, and that’s in the cheap seats.

Actress Victoria Rowell, who is best known for her role as “Drucilla Winters” on The Young & The Restless, has released her new book, The Women Who Raised Me. Rowell spent 18 years in foster care, and she talks about her life and the women who raised her. A lot of people are still in shock that she left the popular soap opera The Young & The Restless, but Rowell is moving on with her life. She is scheduled to do a movie with Angela Bassett called Of Boys and Men.

Usher is set to unveil his new fragrance line this fall. Usher teamed up with Liz Claiborne in a multi-million dollar deal. The line will be available for men and women and will be called Spring Fever.

It’s official! Brandy is out of the NBC talent show America’s Got Talent. Brandy was a judge on the show last summer. But, since her tragic car accident late last year that left a woman dead, producers are backing away from the singer. Brandy has not been charged. It was an accident, but producers feel any scandal could hurt the show. Brandy is being replaced by Sharon Osbourne. Jerry Springer will be hosting the show in place of Regis Philbin, who recently underwent heart surgery.

Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery is going to jail. Montgomery pleaded guilty to participating in a counterfeit check ring. Montgomery, 32, faces up to four years in jail. At one point, he was known as the fastest human in the world. Then, he got caught in a steroid scandal, and he was forced into retirement. Montgomery also has a child with fellow Olympic winner Marion Jones.

Upcoming movies:

At the movies, it’s Halle Berry and Bruce Willis in the thriller Perfect Stranger.

Tyler Perry’s latest movie, Daddy’s Little Girls with Gabrielle Union and Idris Elba, is coming out on DVD, June 12th.

WHAT’S THE UNDERGROUND BUZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

This TV Personality is working hard on her TV comeback. She needs a steady gig. Her husband doesn’t work, and she likes to live large. She has undergone a tremendous makeover, and she needs a hit show. The last thing she needs right now is scandal. That’s why it’s so surprising that her husband can’t sit still. He loves to go out and roam the parks without her.

http://www.wdasfm.com/pages/airstaff/pattyjackson.html

[pinkies up]

[QUOTE=Confucius;1428283]Patty's Celebrity Report for 04.09.07





WHAT’S THE UNDERGROUND BUZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

This TV Personality is working hard on her TV comeback. She needs a steady gig. Her husband doesn’t work, and she likes to live large. She has undergone a tremendous makeover, and she needs a hit show. The last thing she needs right now is scandal. That’s why it’s so surprising that her husband can’t sit still. He loves to go out and roam the parks without her.

Soror Staruh Jones

[jitterbug13]

^^^^
I haven't heard about BGA in a minute...

Brandy: I think it is messed up the way they have kicked her to the curb. They could have at least waited until charges were filed (if any are going to be).

Tango possibly having another girlfried may make Sunday very interesting.

I heard Shar had some work done. Probably with Britney's $$$$.

Coach Dungy's book sounds intersting

And...WHAT KIND OF NAME IS FORTUNA???? Sounds like a type of fish.

[unspokenone25]

I loved as Professor Foster in The Cosby Show and A Different World. Such a refined, talented and intelligent actor and black man. He will be missed. RIP.
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne Dies in LA at 81
By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer

33 minutes ago

The CBS handout from 1979 show actor Roscoe Lee ...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.

Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family.

Browne's career included classic theater to TV cartoons. He also was a poet and a former world-class athlete.

His deep, cultured voice was heard narrating the 1995 hit movie "Babe." On screen, his character often was smart, cynical and well-educated, whether a congressman, a judge or a butler.

Born to a Baptist minister in Woodbury, N.J., Browne graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he later returned to teach comparative literature and French. He also was a track star, winning the 880-yard run in the 1952 Millrose Games.

Browne was selling wine for an import company when he decided to become a full-time actor in 1956 and had roles that year in the inaugural season of the New York Shakespeare Festival in a production of "Julius Caesar."

In 1961, he starred in an English-language version of Jean Genet's play "The Blacks."

Two years later, he was The Narrator in a Broadway production of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," a play by Edward Albee from a novella by Carson McCullers. In a front page article on the advances made by blacks in the theater, the New York Times noted that Browne's understudy was white.

He won an Obie Award in 1965 for his role as a rebellious slave in the off-Broadway "Benito Cereno."

In movies, he was a spy in the 1969 Alfred Hitchcock feature "Topaz" and a camp cook in 1972's "The Cowboys," which starred John Wayne.

"Some critics complained that I spoke too well to be believable" in the cook's role, Browne told The Washington Post in 1972. "When a critic makes that remark, I think, if I had said, 'Yassuh, boss' to John Wayne, then the critic would have taken a shine to me."

On television, he had several memorable guest roles. He was a snobbish black lawyer trapped in an elevator with bigot Archie Bunker in an episode of the 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family" and the butler Saunders in the comedy "Soap." He won an Emmy in 1986 for a guest role as Professor Foster on "The Cosby Show."

In 1992, Browne returned to Broadway in "Two Trains Running," one of August Wilson's acclaimed series of plays on the black experience. It won the Tony for best play and brought Browne a Tony nomination for best featured (supporting) actor.

The New York Times said he portrayed "the wry perspective of one who believes that human folly knows few bounds and certainly no racial bounds. The performance is wise and slyly life-affirming. "

Browne also wrote poetry and included some of it along with works by masters such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Butler Yeats in "Behind the Broken Words," a poetry anthology stage piece that he and Anthony Zerbe performed annually for three decades.

[JustMyself]

I ran into this article tonight. Very interesting.




http://www.blackvoicesblogs.com/2007...i-rape-condom/

[delph998]

Originally Posted by JustMyself

I ran into this article tonight. Very interesting.




http://www.blackvoicesblogs.com/2007...i-rape-condom/

WoW! Now that's deep. Is it really going to be effective?

[Honeykiss1974]

jitterbug13;1428421
And...WHAT KIND OF NAME IS FORTUNA???? Sounds like a type of fish.

It does. Mel B just sentenced her daughter to a lifetime of teasing. *SMH*

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

It does. Mel B just sentenced her daughter to a lifetime of teasing. *SMH*

In Britain, possibly not. Fortuna sounds peculiarly English. I've also seen Honora there too.

Switching subject, why does anybody find Jase Kidd attractive? Gabrielle Union did right by dumping him in high school.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04132007...e_pagesix_.htm

April 13, 2007 -- NEW Jersey Net Jason Kidd is loving the single life. Kidd - who claimed he was a victim of spousal abuse by his soon-to-be ex, Joumana - found some soothing comfort in the arms of a "hot young model" at Tenjune last Saturday. The two spent the night kissing and making out in a corner before leaving together in his car at 4:30 a.m. But the unidentified model isn't his only lady - our spy says, "He has a different woman in every town now."

[RBL]

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

In Britain, possibly not. Fortuna sounds peculiarly English. I've also seen Honora there too.

Switching subject, why does anybody find Jase Kidd attractive? Gabrielle Union did right by dumping him in high school.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04132007...e_pagesix_.htm

April 13, 2007 -- NEW Jersey Net Jason Kidd is loving the single life. Kidd - who claimed he was a victim of spousal abuse by his soon-to-be ex, Joumana - found some soothing comfort in the arms of a "hot young model" at Tenjune last Saturday. The two spent the night kissing and making out in a corner before leaving together in his car at 4:30 a.m. But the unidentified model isn't his only lady - our spy says, "He has a different woman in every town now."

Something tells me he had that the second joined the NBA..

[jitterbug13]

^^^^
I'm confused. Rumor has it that Jason and Gabrelle were back together.

And this is why:

http://www.blackvoicesblogs.com/2007...pring-eternal/

[Confucius]

MSNBC.com Envision shooting blacks, German GI told Video of army instructor issuing racist order latest in string of incidents

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:02 p.m. ET April 14, 2007

BERLIN - A German army instructor ordered a soldier to envision himself in New York City facing hostile blacks while firing his machine gun, a video that aired Saturday on national television showed.

The president of the Bronx, the New York City borough that the army instructor referred to in his directions to the soldier, demanded an apology from the German military and said the clip “indicates that bias and assumptions and racism is alive and well around the world.”

Coming after scandals involving photos of German soldiers posing with skulls in Afghanistan and the abuse of recruits by instructors, the video seemed likely to raise more questions about training practices in Germany’s conscript army.

The Defense Ministry said the video was shot in July 2006 at barracks in the northern town of Rendsburg and that the army has been aware of it since January.

“We are currently investigating the incident,” said Florian Naggies, a spokesman for the army and Defense Ministry.

He did not identify the instructor or the soldier.

‘You are in the Bronx’
The clip shows an instructor and a soldier in camouflage uniforms in a forest. The instructor tells the soldier, “You are in the Bronx. A black van is stopping in front of you. Three African-Americans are getting out and they are insulting your mother in the worst ways. ... Act.”

The soldier fires his machine gun several times and yells an obscenity several times in English. The instructor then tells the soldier to curse even louder.

In New York, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. said whoever was responsible for the video should be disciplined.

“We need to put to rest the prejudices and the hate that is allowed ... to be perpetuated so easily and cheaply,” said Carrion, who is of Puerto Rican descent.

“The German government obviously has work to do to correct something that is insidious ... Clearly these folks don’t know anything about African Americans or the Bronx,” he said.

Sharpton: ‘Blacks as target practice’
Carrion, who just returned from a trip to Germany to promote Bronx tourism, said he would be willing to go back to talk to people in the German military about his borough.

“If we can get a delegation of German military officials to come or government officials, I will host them,” he added. “I’ll take them around the Bronx.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he was outraged that Germans were “depicting blacks as target practice.”

“I think this is an incredibly racist kind of insult to African-Americans and it speaks to the kind of institutional racism that people think we are hallucinating about,” he said.


The existence of the video was first reported on the home page of the German news magazine Stern on Friday and excerpts were aired on the news television channel n-tv on Saturday.

Latest in a string of embarrassments
According to Stern, the 90-second clip had been posted on a Web site used by soldiers to exchange private videos. A soldier who used the site alerted his superiors, the magazine reported.

The video is the latest embarrassment for the German army. Eighteen army instructors are currently on trial for allegedly abusing and humiliating 163 recruits in 2004. Last year, newspapers published photos of German soldiers in Afghanistan posing with a skulls — including one who exposed himself while holding a skull.

“We can no longer talk about an isolated case,” said Lt. Juergen Rose of the Darmstaedter Signal, a group of current and former army officers and sergeants who independently review military procedures.

“Things like this don’t happen in the army on an everyday basis, but unfortunately in recent years there have been a number of comparable incidents.”

Carrion said he spent much of his visit to Germany telling people about the “turnaround of the Bronx,” which became a national symbol of urban decay after a 1977 visit by President Jimmy Carter. Movies like “Fort Apache: The Bronx,” about a police precinct overrun by crime, added to the negative images.

Unemployment and crime have fallen dramatically in the borough, while investment in housing, office space and other projects is way up, Carrion said. The New York Yankees are building a new stadium next to their old one in the borough, a 53,000-seat open-air ballpark that is set to open in 2009.

The people of the Bronx, especially black residents, “deserve an apology from the German military,” Carrion said.

© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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And people wonder why we stay up in arms.

[Confucius]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

^^^^
And...WHAT KIND OF NAME IS FORTUNA???? Sounds like a type of fish.

LOL.....Now that was funny.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally Posted by Confucius

Mel B has named her baby. Fortuna Daphne Bay weighed 5lb and 4 ounces, and she has a head full of hair. What kind of name is Fortuna? Why didn’t she just name the kid Fortune? Because if Eddie Murphy is the daddy, that’s what she’s going to get! (smile) A DNA test is expected soon.

'Scary Spice' Melanie Brown Names Her Baby
TUESDAY APRIL 24, 2007 11:25 AM EDT

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has named her new daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The child, born on April 3, is named in part after Eddie Murphy, whom Brown, 31, says is the baby's father. Murphy, 46, has said he wants a paternity test.

"Melanie spent a while deciding on the baby's name," a friend of the singer tells PEOPLE. "It was inspired by a number of things."

On Tuesday, Brown, who lives in Los Angeles, explained the name in a brief statement released through her London reps.

"Angel, as she was my little angel through my pregnancy," she said. "Iris, as it's my grandma's name, Murphy because he's the dad and Brown because I'm the mum!"

http://www.people.com/people/article...036549,00.html

[MzJ25]

oooooooo

I can't wait for this ish to hit the fan.

I personally think it's Eddie's baby, but wouldn't she look like boo boo tha fool if it wasn't his.

[jitterbug13]

This is ONE MILLION TIMES better than Fortuna.

Something tells me Eddie is not the father. Can they go on Maury for this?