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[lostnfound117]

Originally posted by Afrochic
Ok I know this is mean but I had to share.

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[vanda]

But isn't that Ben Affleck article a tongue in cheek joke? The guy that wrote it is a humor writer? Besides, wouldn't we have heard about it on the news by now?

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by abaici
NO NO NO!!!!!!!!

I'm about to go Florida Evans over here in a minute!

Calm down, Soror. After all, the Sacramentans got Brad Miller, Shaq's assault victim a couple of years ago.

[AKA2D '91]

Re: Ashanti's pic...that is harsh...gorilla? oh my lawd!

Anyway, she and her sister look more alike in the "before" photo.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by lostnfound117
Talk about a control freak....Poor Jen...


http://www.msnbc.com/news/945680.asp?0sl=-20&cp1=1

this is a joke isn't it

[lostnfound117]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
this is a joke isn't it

i thought it was a joke, but the person who sent it to me says it isn't...i dont' know now

but...based on that interview i saw with them last week, he does seem to be a little controlling.

[abaici]

It is soooo a joke

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by treblk
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Heavy D isn't so heavy anymore.

The rapper-turned-actor says he's dropped 135 pounds in the last year. Although he didn't say what he previously weighed - or how he lost the weight - Heavy D, whose real name is Dwight Myers, said the loss wasn't prompted by health concerns.

"I went on a couple auditions and one director was kind enough to say, 'Look, you would've had this part but you're not fitting, you're stifling yourself,'" he told the Television Critics Association last week.

"He was right. I kind of always knew it in the back of my mind, and I just woke up on a Tuesday and I just kept going."

Heavy D plays a mechanic in "The Tracy Morgan Show," a proposed show starring the former "Saturday Night Live" comic. It's not yet on NBC's fall schedule. Heavy D composed and performs the show's title theme.

The 36-year-old has no plans to lose the moniker he's used since he broke into the music business. Heavy D and the Boyz earned three Grammy nominations and scored a hit with "We Got Our Own Thang."

"There's a lot of checks involved with 'Heavy D,' so that name stays," he said.

His credits include the movies "Life,""The Cider House Rules" and "Big Trouble."

I was trying to post this story yesterday, but a certain website **coughgreekchatcough** wasn't working properly.

I wonder what the new "Heavy D" looks like.

[FeeFee]

Gabrielle Union's Survival Story

Gabrielle Union co-stars with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys II," which has already grossed over $91 million at the box office. But before she hit Hollywood, Gabrielle lived a story movies are made of -- a story of fear, of tragedy, and ultimately, one of survival.

"Back in 1992 you had something very horrible happen," said Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson. "Yeah. During a robbery at a store where I worked at my summer job, I was raped and beaten and actually had a real gunfight for my life. Fortunately, I survived and the man was convicted and is in prison now," Gabrielle revealed.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by FeeFee
Gabrielle Union's Survival Story

Gabrielle Union co-stars with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys II," which has already grossed over $91 million at the box office. But before she hit Hollywood, Gabrielle lived a story movies are made of -- a story of fear, of tragedy, and ultimately, one of survival.

"Back in 1992 you had something very horrible happen," said Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson. "Yeah. During a robbery at a store where I worked at my summer job, I was raped and beaten and actually had a real gunfight for my life. Fortunately, I survived and the man was convicted and is in prison now," Gabrielle revealed.

This story was published in Honey mag a few months ago when she was on the cover. She was an employee at Payless back then. It seems as though there was a "Payless rasist" on the loose. I believe that it was a former employee and he knew how to get into the stores through back entrances and stuff. He had previously raped an employee at another store, but the company didn't warn the other female employess about it. I don't remember anything about a gunfight. I don't know where that came from. I just it was added for good measure. However, since Payless failed to warn and protect her, she got a sizeable settlement from Payless, thus enabling her to move to LA and get her acting career kicked off.

[FeeFee]

Rapper's final hours

Pal: Fearful Jay flashed a .45

By MICHELE McPHEE
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF


Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay)

Hours before he was gunned down, hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay showed up at his Queens studio with a .45-caliber handgun stuffed in his jeans, afraid he was about to die, a longtime pal of the rapper has told the Daily News.
"That was the first time I ever saw Jay with a gun," Ronald (Tinard) Washington said. "He was scared. He didn't say it, but I know Jay. He was scared."

In an exclusive jailhouse interview with The News, Washington said he knows who killed Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell.

He knows because he was there that day, he says.

Washington - who is awaiting trial in Nassau County on unrelated robbery charges - has told police investigators and prosecutors his story.

Detectives believe that Washington was nearby when Mizell was killed in his Hollis, Queens, recording studio in October. But they are unsure whether that makes him a good witness or the likely lookout for the killer.

Nonetheless, detectives are investigating Washington's version of events, according to NYPD Inspector Michael Coan, a police spokesman.

And at the request of law enforcement officials, The News is withholding the names of the murder suspects implicated by Washington, 39.

"Jay was the only person in this universe who called me by my name, Ronald," Washington said from the jail, accompanied by his lawyer, Dana Grossblatt. "I did not commit this crime. I loved Jay."

On Oct. 30, Washington said, Mizell summoned him to the recording studio. When he got there, Mizell asked him whether he had a gun.

He says he didn't, but that Mizell lifted his jersey to show off his own chrome-handled .45.

"I told him I didn't have a gun," Washington said. "So he gave me one that was hidden in the studio. Then he gave me $200 to buy bullets."

After buying the ammo, Washington said, he returned to the studio to find a husky man - a former rap manager - and his son heading into the studio. Minutes later, he heard gunshots.

Mizell was killed, and a friend, Urieco Rincon, 25, was shot, both by a .40-caliber gun.

Two .45-caliber shells - matching the type of gun Washington said Mizell had - were found in the studio lounge.

The men Washington said he saw matched descriptions of the suspects released by cops hours after the shooting. NYPD detectives are investigating those men, but they are not being labeled suspects, sources said.

Cops mum on gun

The NYPD refused to say whether Mizell was carrying a gun the night he was slain. "We cannot comment on what was found at the crime scene," Coan said.

Washington wonders whether Mizell might still be alive had he interceded. But then he said, "There are only two types of people who run into trouble - cops and fools - and I ain't neither one."

Mizell's mother, Connie Mizell, said she doesn't know what to make of Washington's tale.

She told The News that since her son's slaying, she has come across evidence that makes her believe he may have been involved in things he never disclosed to her during their daily conversations - including carrying a weapon.

"A lot of things I hear now make me think something was going on in his life that bothered him," Connie Mizell said last week from her home in North Carolina.

"There is no way for us to know now if he was threatened or afraid," she said. "If he thought someone was trying to kill him, he never would have told us, the family. He never would have said something that would have frightened me."

Even if Washington's story is true, it's still unclear why those men wanted Mizell dead.

Washington suggested Mizell may have been involved in at least one drug deal that went bad, and that may have angered the two men whom he saw walk into the studio.

The around-the-clock murder case has been a complex one, with detectives investigating drug kingpins and unpaid debts, alleged marital infidelities and disrespectful rap rhymes.

Uncooperative witnesses

Police have described two possible witnesses - Lydia High, who buzzed the killers into the studio, and her brother, Randy Allen, Mizell's longtime business partner - as uncooperative. High has told cops that the two men were masked, though Washington said they had no masks when he saw them.

Meanwhile, federal prosecutors are conducting a sweeping probe into the rap industry that extends beyond gangsta street violence and into the offices of record company executives. The case could relate to Mizell's slaying, sources said.

"It is a complicated case," Coan said. "We are looking at every motive. Old disputes, arguments, business. Every door is still open."

Washington is in the Nassau County jail, arrested for allegedly being part of a two-man crew that robbed a Floral Park, L.I., hotel clerk at gunpoint, then led cops on a high-speed car chase through Long Island.

Police had been seeking Washington as a potential suspect after the Mizell shooting. After his robbery arrest, Washington told police his name was Mark White. Fingerprints revealed his identity and his criminal past.

He has convictions for shooting a cop during a jewelry store heist, dealing drugs and committing assaults.

As for Connie Mizell, she continues to visit her son's grave and even prays for whoever killed him.

"Whoever shot my son, his conscience will be his end. This was not the mob. This was not a professional hit. This was a local thing," she said. "I believe in God. I believe someone in that neighborhood knows, and it will wear them out until they tell."knows, and it will wear them out until they tell."

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by FeeFee
Mizell was killed, and a friend, Urieco Rincon, 25, was shot, both by a .40-caliber gun.

Why haven't they asked him? They are claiming to be asking all these people and his name was never mentioned again. If he was there and was shot also, don't you think that HE would know who shot him or at least make a more credible witness than some dude that was at the store and thinks that he saw some man and his son at the studio?

[FeeFee]

Tracy Morgan Leaving 'SNL'
Jul 29, 10:14 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tracy Morgan is taking his act from late night to prime time.

The comedian recently left "Saturday Night Live" after seven seasons to star in "The Tracy Morgan Show," a proposed comedy about a hardworking family man that isn't yet on NBC's fall schedule.

Morgan recalled how his big break on "SNL" affected his family and friends in the Bronx.

"My whole life became a series of calming everybody down," he told the Television Critics Association last week. "They were on my front door. It was like hitting Lotto.

"I had to really get my family up out of the 'hood first. With the second check, we were gone. We live in a nice Jewish neighborhood. Quiet with our music, no gunshots, all that stuff. It's a positive effect on us. Some people tripped, but they're all right now."

Morgan recently moved his wife and three sons, ages 17, 16 and 11, to Los Angeles, where the new show is taped.

His character runs an automotive repair shop, a change from the outrageous characters and celebrity impressions he did on "SNL."

"This character gets to show people in the public that I'm a dad. They get to see the struggle," he said. "I grew up in a broken home, so this is what it would have been like if my dad would have stayed with my mom. This is what I wanted to see and I'm proud of it."

[toocute]

Originally posted by abaici
NO NO NO!!!!!!!!

I'm about to go Florida Evans over here in a minute!

Whatever girl...we have


KEITH VAN HORN

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by toocute
Whatever girl...we have


KEITH VAN HORN

As I said, I didn't think that Knick fan would like that.