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[librasoul22]

Originally posted by pinkey08


Sources say singer, "Adina Howard," is making an unexpected comeback. In case you didn't know, before there was Lil' Kim or Khia, there was Adina (Freak Momma O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L baby). Her multiplatinum #1 single "Freak like Me" sold a whopping 2-million units worldwide. Can she do it again? We'll just have to wait and see, as her new album "Ride Again: 7/2" is scheduled to drop on July 2nd 2003. So this summer is going to be hot in more ways than one. But Adina got a lot of work to do 'cause Lil' Kim has given freak a whole new definition.

YES! Adina's CD was OFF THE CHAIN, MAN. I hope the second one is hot too, Adina is my girl.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I guess it helps her that her hubby is NOT AA.

Now you know you ain't right!

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by pinkey08

Insiders say singer, "Brian McKnight," is on pins and needles as the real truth behind why his wife ended their 13-year marriage fiasco. Reportedly girlfriend been running her mouth and it's been alleged she suggested her marriage has been over for years. Allegedly she just couldn't play hose anymore. Just tired of the reported physical abuse, mental abuse and lonely nights, while Brian travels the country singing love songs that support family values and as soon as the clock strikes twelve, his old azz on a booty call. Brian McKnight's new album is called "U-Turn," which is funny, 'cause that's exactly what I plan to do, make a "U-Turn" as soon as I get to the cash register. I don't support abuse!

I have 10 words: Brian, STILL MARRIED, New Orleans, mistress, beat down, restraining order.

Through deductive reasoning, formulate your own story. Brian is a TRIFLIN' NEGRO!!

Sources say musical genius, "Missy Elliott," has worked her production magic once again and singer, "Monica," is reaping the benefits. "So Gone" is the 3rd single being released from Monica's forthcoming junior album. In fact, this album has actually been pushed back more times than Tonya Blount's album which is almost impossible. The single is set to drop on March 31st 2003, even though I don't know a soul who is checkin' for Monica. I've never heard of any artist having 3 singles out before the album is released. So, I need ya'll to remember that 'cause I promise you you'll never hear of this album again.

I don't know what to say about Tonya because she should have blown up just like Lauryn Hill, but I am checking for Monica's CD. I LOVE that song, "So Gone"!! I really didn't feel that first single. What was the third one? Anyway, I have her first two CDs and I will buy the third.

Sources say singer, "Adina Howard," is making an unexpected comeback. In case you didn't know, before there was Lil' Kim or Khia, there was Adina (Freak Momma O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L baby). Her multiplatinum #1 single "Freak like Me" sold a whopping 2-million units worldwide. Can she do it again? We'll just have to wait and see, as her new album "Ride Again: 7/2" is scheduled to drop on July 2nd 2003. So this summer is going to be hot in more ways than one. But Adina got a lot of work to do 'cause Lil' Kim has given freak a whole new definition.

She CAN NOT do it again. Her career ended a long time ago. Plus, VH1 has forever slammed her to the one hit wonders list and I agree.

In closing news, insiders say, "Jennifer Lopez" almost had a $1.5 million dollar disaster while dining at an upscale Hollywood eatery. Reportedly J-Lo took a bathroom break and inadvertently knocked her 6-caret pink diamond ring down the sink while washing her hands. Eye witnesses say she was horrified, as she'd ironically lost her former husband's (Criss Judd) ring down the sink as well. Reliving this nightmare twice and having to tell Ben Affleck she goofed again was unbearable. Needless to say restaurant workers recovered the ring and were given a $110.00 tip (cheap azz). It couldn't have been me, because that ring would have never come off my finger in the first place and if so, I would have torn that damn sink apart myself.

Could that be a sign? Why do all of her relationships go down the drain.....?

[AKA2D '91]

Luther's condition has been downgraded to critical.

[AKA2D '91]

DMX Making 'Werewolf' His Latest Mission
Wed Apr 23, 1:16 AM ET
By Zorianna Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rapper-turned-actor DMX ("Cradle 2 the Grave") is in negotiations to star in and produce the action-thriller "Werewolf."



The Phoenix Pictures project is described as being in the vein of "Blade." DMX will play a mysterious bluesman whose mission is to rid Earth of werewolves, the last of whom live among the rich, glamorous and drug-addicted in the Hollywood Hills.


A late-2003 start date in Montreal is being eyed. Italian director Dario Piana will make his U.S. feature debut from a script by Marshall Todd, who sold the project to Phoenix two years ago in a deal potentially worth almost $1 million.


DMX just wrapped shooting "Never Die Alone" for director Ernest R. Dickerson. His other credits include "Exit Wounds" and "Romeo Must Die." The actor is likely to take on another feature project before segueing into "Werewolf."


Piana has shot commercials for the likes of Ferrari, Dolce & Gabbana and Pennzoil.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[Steeltrap]

Reality TV truly sucks hot a** if this comes to fruition. And from what I understand, this is a network specifically aimed at "us" -- http://www.uatvn.com I can't determine, however, if it's black-owned, but if it is, Bob Johnson gets some company in the hall of shame.


O.J. Simpson Makes Pass for Reality Show
Tue Apr 22, 9:55 PM ET

MIAMI (Hollywood Reporter) - O.J. Simpson (news) is preparing for his debut as the star of his own "Osbournes"-esque reality show.

Fort Worth, Texas-based Urban America Television Network said it will distribute a 13-week series about the former football great -- who was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1995 -- to its 75 independent broadcast TV station affiliates starting in June.

The series will chronicle Simpson's daily life in Miami using footage collected over several months of filming in 2001 and 2002.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Reality TV truly sucks hot a** if this comes to fruition. And from what I understand, this is a network specifically aimed at "us" -- http://www.uatvn.com I can't determine, however, if it's black-owned, but if it is, Bob Johnson gets some company in the hall of shame.


O.J. Simpson Makes Pass for Reality Show
Tue Apr 22, 9:55 PM ET

MIAMI (Hollywood Reporter) - O.J. Simpson (news) is preparing for his debut as the star of his own "Osbournes"-esque reality show.

Fort Worth, Texas-based Urban America Television Network said it will distribute a 13-week series about the former football great -- who was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1995 -- to its 75 independent broadcast TV station affiliates starting in June.

The series will chronicle Simpson's daily life in Miami using footage collected over several months of filming in 2001 and 2002.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Ummm, BOOOOOOOOO! No one wants to see this mess!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Zeta-Jones Gives Birth
Apr 22, 6:04 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a girl for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.

The Oscar-winning actress gave birth to Carys (pronounced KEHR'-is) Zeta Douglas on Sunday morning in Ridgewood, N.J., near the couple's Manhattan home. The baby weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces.

"They're all doing fantastic," Cece Yorke, the actress' Los Angeles publicist, said Monday.

The couple also has a 2 1/2-year-old son, Dylan Michael. It's the second child for Zeta-Jones and third for Douglas, who has 24-year-old son, Cameron, from a previous marriage.

[FeeFee]

MARY DOROTHY CHRISTIAN died Sunday at the Creekside Care Center in San Pablo, where she had lived since 1992. She had come down with a cold that turned into pneumonia, said nurse Ester Aballa.
“She would be 114 in two months, and she kept saying she wanted to make it,” Aballa said. “I guess it was just her time.”
The Gerontology Research Group identified Christian as the oldest living American in November following the death of Mary Parr of Florida, who also was 113. The title brought Christian a brief celebrity that she enjoyed, according to relatives.
Born June 12, 1889, in Taunton, Mass., Christian moved with her family to San Pablo. She was a teenager working at an East Bay chocolate factory when she watched flames engulf San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake.
She married in 1907 and had two sons, whom she outlived. Following a divorce in 1922, she worked several jobs, including elevator operator and department store saleswoman, before retiring in 1971.
Relatives said Christian lived alone until she turned 102 and refused to be taken in by family members. She indulged cravings for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hostess Twinkies as long as she was able, they said.
A niece, Marge Parks, said Christian was sometimes confused about the time and her whereabouts but nearly always remembered relatives’ birthdays and anniversaries.
Christian is survived by two great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The oldest living American is now Elana Slough, 113, of New Jersey, who was born 26 days after Christian, according to the UCLA School of Medicine, a member of the research group which tracks the ultra-old. The oldest living American man, 112-year-old Fred Hale, lives in New York.
The world’s oldest person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, is Kamato Hongo of Japan, who is 115. The oldest person on record was Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who was 122 when she died in 1997.

[AKA2D '91]

Mandela's Ex-Wife Found Guilty of Fraud
34 minutes ago

By SAHM VENTER, Associated Press Writer

PRETORIA, South Africa - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was convicted Thursday of theft and fraud involving $120,000.


AP Photo



Madikizela-Mandela — whose financial adviser, Addy Moolman, also was convicted — could be sentenced to 15 years in jail.


The trial marked the latest setback for Madikizela-Mandela, who had played a role in the nation's successful anti-apartheid campaign led by Nelson Mandela.


Madikizela-Mandela, 64, and Moolman sat next to each other as Magistrate Peet Johnson read his verdict for two and a half hours.


He said Madikizela-Mandela had not been honest to the court and that her evidence that she did not know about the fraud was "totally improbable." On the theft charges, Johnson said she was an accomplice to Moolman.


Madikizela-Mandela and Moolman had both pleaded innocent to 60 charges of fraud and 25 of theft involving $120,000 at the African National Congress (news - web sites) Women's League, which Madikizela-Mandela leads.


The prosecution said letters on organization stationery that bore Madikizela-Mandela's signature were used to fraudulently obtain bank loans in the name of bogus employees, including her daughter, Zinzi.


The theft charges relate to money deducted from the bank accounts of loan applicants for a funeral policy that the prosecution says did not exist.


Concluding her testimony last month, Madikizela-Mandela said she signed the documents, handed to her by her secretary, without checking them.


Outside the court, Madikizela-Mandela was met by a group of about 30 students, chanting "Viva Winnie viva," with raised fists. She smiled at the group and raised her fist in return.


One young man who did not wish to be identified said he was disappointed by the judgment and claimed the African National Congress had deserted Madikizela-Mandela. He said all she had been trying to do was help the poor.


"I don't think she deserves this type of treatment," he said.


The trial started in July 2002, and proceeded in fits and starts, with 23 witnesses testifying for the state.


On Thursday, Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft, while Moolman was found guilty of 58 counts of fraud and 25 of theft.


Madikizela-Mandela is still known to her supporters as "the mother of the nation," even though she also was convicted in 1991 of kidnapping and assault, and sentenced to six years in prison. Her appeal saw the sentence reduced to a fine.


Nevertheless, she has been sharply criticized by the African National Congress party, which leads the country.




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Jay-Z Launches Signature Footwear Collection
Wed Apr 23,10:00 AM ET

LAUNCH Radio Networks

Jay-Z and Reebok are pleased by the buzz and the huge demand for the hip-hop superstar's signature athletic footwear collection, the "S. Carter Collection by Rbk."



Jay-Z, whose real name is Sean Carter, is the first non-athlete to have a signature athletic footwear collection.


The collection was launched in the Philadelphia on April 17--one day prior to its worldwide release. Fans in the city of brotherly love waited in line for hours to meet the musician, and the collection sold out in one day. According to Reebok, the collection continues to sell out in key markets.


How does Jay-Z describe his experience in Philadelphia? In his words, "People waiting in line to buy the shoe at 6 a.m. and waiting for hours in Philadelphia on a cold and rainy day has just been love."


About his latest business venture, he said, "The success of this partnership between myself and Reebok is a reality now. It's a beautiful thing. We dreamed about doing it, we put a plan together, we created the shoe, and now it's really happening. I'm excited about these results, and now the collection is just going to grow."


The rapper's other businesses include Armadale Vodka, Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc-A-Wear, and Roc-A-Fella Films

[Dancerella1908]

Big Ben receives an unprecedented 96.7 percent of the vote
Pistons' Wallace Wins Defensive Player of Year

NEW YORK, April 20 -- Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons was named the 2001-02 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, the NBA announced Saturday.
Wallace, a 6-foot-9, 240 pound center/forward, averaged 13.0 rebounds per game and 3.48 blocks per game joining Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton and 12-time NBA All-Star Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players in NBA history to lead the league in rebounds and blocks in the same season.

Ben Wallace ruled the paint in 2001-02.
Allen Einstein/NBAE/Getty Images
Abdul-Jabbar led the NBA in rebounding (16.9 rpg) and blocks (4.12 bpg) in 1975-76; Walton accomplished the feat in 1976-77 14.4 rpg, 3.25 bpg); and Olajuwon led the NBA in both categories in 1989-90 (14.0 rpg, 4.59 bpg).

In the most convincing Defensive Player of the Year vote ever, Wallace received 96.7 percent of the votes (116 out of a possible 120) from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Dikembe Mutombo of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers' Kobe Bryant were the only other players who received votes. Last season, Wallace finished fifth with six votes.

Wallace is the first player other than Mutombo or Alonzo Mourning to win the Defensive Player of the Year Award since 1995-96 (Sonics' Gary Payton) and the first Piston to win the award since Dennis Rodman in 1990-91.

Wallace helped the Pistons to their first Central Division title since 1989-90, the year Detroit won its second straight NBA championship. This year's team improved from a 32-win season last year to a 50-win season this year, the first 50-plus-win season for Detroit since 1996-97.

Wallace also led the club's defensive surge as Detroit held its opponents to 92.2 ppg (sixth in the NBA) this season as compared to 97.3 just a year ago. The Pistons also finished best in the NBA in blocks (565).

Wallace grabbed an NBA season-high 28 rebounds in a 109-101 win versus Boston on March 24 and blocked an NBA season-high 10 shots on Feb. 24 at Milwaukee.

The six-year NBA veteran, who went undrafted out of Virginia Union '96, also averaged 7.6 points on .531 (255-for-480) shooting with 1.73 steals per game over 36.5 mpg in 80 games (80 starts). He ranked second in offensive rebounds (318), third in defensive rebounds (721) and 14th in steals (138).

The 120-member voting panel consisted of 35 national media members and 85 media members who cover the NBA.

2001-02 NBA Defensive Player of the Year results
Ben Wallace (Detroit), 106 votes
Kevin Garnett (Minnesota), two votes
Kobe Bryant (L.A. Lakers), one vote
Dikembe Mutombo (Philadelphia), one vote

Top five winning margins Season Player, team Percentage, votes
2001-02 Ben Wallace, Detroit 96.7 percent (116 of 120)
1998-99 Alonzo Mourning, Miami 75.4 percent (89 of 118)
1992-93 Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston 74.5 percent (73 of 98)
1989-90 Dennis Rodman, Detroit 53.3 percent (49 of 92)
1989-90 Dennis Rodman, Detroit 53.1 percent (51 of 96)

All-time winners
1982-83: Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee
1983-84: Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee
1984-85: Mark Eaton, Utah
1985-86: Alvin Robertson, San Antonio
1986-87: Michael Cooper, L.A. Lakers
1987-88: Michael Jordan, Chicago
1988-89: Mark Eaton, Utah
1989-90: Dennis Rodman, Detroit
1990-91: Dennis Rodman, Detroit
1991-92: David Robinson, San Antonio
1992-93: Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1993-94: Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1994-95: Dikembe Mutombo, Denver
1995-96: Gary Payton, Seattle
1996-97: Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta
1997-98: Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta
1998-99: Alonzo Mourning, Miami
1999-2000: Alonzo Mourning, Miami
2000-01: Dikembe Mutombo, Philadelphia
2001-02: Ben Wallace, Detroit

[Steeltrap]

Getting that award than that thuglike Ron Artest. Ben Wallace is very versatile with his 'fro and all that.

[Dancerella1908]

Okay I copy and pasted last years article...my bad but Big Ben is 2002-2003 Defensive player of the year also. For more info go to pistons.com.


Why Are You So Defensive?
Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons was named the 2002-03 Defensive Player of the Year, marking the second consecutive season he has earned the award, the NBA announced today. Wallace, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound forward, became the sixth player in NBA history to win the award in back-to-back seasons as he recorded a league-leading 15.4 rebounds, the highest regular season average since Dennis Rodman’s 16.1 rpg in 1996-97.

[bro_strawter]

Only this fool can come along and mess up a good picture



Good to see Whitney looking healthy. I guess she's given up the drugs, or slowed down cause she looks like her old self a bit, especially in her new video.

[AKA2D '91]

She looks higher than a kite in that last picture.