News for the Spring

[MzJ25]

Clearly if they had gone on Maury we would have known in like 24 hours.

Who ever said that childs name was Fortuna needs a beat down. Fortuna is a hot azz mess.

Here's the link to YBF Blogsite. The baby is too cute, too bad she had to come into the world in the middle of all this ish.

http://ybf.blogspot.com/2007/04/eddi...her.html#links

[lovelyivy84]

Originally Posted by MzJ25

Clearly if they had gone on Maury we would have known in like 24 hours.


http://ybf.blogspot.com/2007/04/eddi...her.html#links

LMAO!

[unspokenone25]

Rosie is announcing that she's leaving the show! YAY!! Good riddance!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

Rosie is announcing that she's leaving the show! YAY!! Good riddance!!!

That didn't take long.

[jitterbug13]

I heard that she may get another talk show, so I'm not suprised she's leaving. She's probably mad about loosing the chance to replace Bob Barker on The Price is Right. Star is probably ROTFLHAO.

[unspokenone25]

No, it did not. Really, her attitude sucked. There was too much controversy surrounding her comments towards daily topics and events that took away from the purpose of the show. It's called The View, not Rosie's View.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

It's called The View, not Rosie's View.

HOLL!!

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

No, it did not. Really, her attitude sucked. There was too much controversy surrounding her comments towards daily topics and events that took away from the purpose of the show. It's called The View, not Rosie's View.

Agreed. She was very rough, perhaps too rough for the show in my opinion. And she was sloppy.

[Conskeeted7]

Now I might actually watch the View again. I couldn't handle the show with Rosie. She is so annoying when trying to get her opinion across.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

No, it did not. Really, her attitude sucked. There was too much controversy surrounding her comments towards daily topics and events that took away from the purpose of the show. It's called The View, not Rosie's View.

I totally agree!

[Steeltrap]

Women in Need dinner. I love us at these events. Class, not a**, works every time.

Deborah Roberts:



Susan Fales-Hill (right) and Alexis Clark, who works at Town & Country:



Peter Jennings prize winners and Loretta Gaillard, a WIN client who spoke. I do wonder, however, how some might feel -- might they feel that they're being "trotted out" to appease certain folks' guilty conscience about having $$$ :

[TheEpitome1920]

What is wrong with him.

[Little32]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

Rosie is announcing that she's leaving the show! YAY!! Good riddance!!!

That is hilarious. Did she even make a year?

[thesweetestone]

Originally Posted by unspokenone25

Rosie is announcing that she's leaving the show! YAY!! Good riddance!!!

I like Rosie! She has a big mouth and you never know what she going to say next. It makes the show interesting.

[unspokenone25]

Zola Taylor of The Platters dies at 69

She claimed she was married to Frankie Lymon

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zola Taylor, who broke gender barriers as the first female member of the 1950s R&B group The Platters and later became entangled in a public soap opera as one of three women claiming to be pop idol Frankie Lymon's widow, has died, her nephew reported Tuesday. She was 69.

Taylor, who had been bedridden following several strokes, died Monday at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside County from complications of pneumonia, said her nephew Alfie Robinson.

Founding Platters member Herb Reed said he spotted Taylor, the sister of Cornell Gunter of the Coasters, rehearsing with a girl group in 1955 and knew immediately she had the charisma and vocal chops the band needed.

The all-male group had just signed with Mercury after its single Only You topped the charts and its manager thought they needed a female voice to soften their sound.

"She was a very pretty young lady and what a great, great smile," Reed told The Associated Press. "And she had this baby voice that everyone liked."

Reed said Taylor, a contralto, turned out to be a great fit. She showed up on time, knew her harmony parts and charmed audiences with her smile and beauty. With her in the lineup, The Great Pretender raced to the number one spot on both R & B and pop music charts in the U.S. and Europe, according to The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul by Irwin Stambler. It didn't take long before the group's success spawned a rush of imitators.

"It was a great surprise to everyone," Reed said. "We were the first Afro-American group to have a girl singer. That was the talk of the nation. All of the sudden, other groups started looking for girls."

The Platters' success began to fizzle after 1959, when four members were arrested in a Cincinnati hotel and accused of using drugs and soliciting prostitutes. Reed said he had been out of touch with Taylor since the early 1960s.

Taylor was back in the spotlight in the 1980s when she and two other women all claimed to be Lymon's widow and fought over his royalties. Lymon, a juvenile pop sensation in the 1950s with such hits as Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, had died of a drug overdose in 1968 at age 25.

Robinson said she told him that the two wed in Mexico while she was touring with the Platters and forgot to file papers in San Diego.

Reed said he was as surprised by the uproar as the titillated public.

"I never heard Zola say anything about marrying Frankie Lymon, I never saw him with her and he never mentioned anything about it," he said.

The drama was a focal point in the 1998 Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love. Halle Berry played Taylor.

Robinson, Taylor's closest known living relative, said his aunt continued touring with other lesser-known acts until 1996 and wed two other times. Her last husband died in 1982, he said. She had no children.

Robinson said funeral arrangements were pending.


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