News:Soror Star Jones Proposed to @ NBA All-Star Game!

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by Afrochic
411 for the week of February 9th, 2004

Star Jones from the ABC Show The View is learning how to strip. Star has been taking lessons with Puffy's mom Janice Combs learning how to pole dance and do the booty shake. ( Ok why? )

BARF! Why Star, why? And why is Puffy's momma giving lessons?

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
BARF! Why Star, why? And why is Puffy's momma giving lessons?

Maybe Star's trying to strip for her new MANfriend, Al Reynolds? And no comment on Janice Combs, who really needs to discard the blonde wig.

[AKA2D '91]

I told ya'll she was preggers. But the baby daddy? LOL

[abaici]

Puffy mama needs to sit her butt down somewhere!

As for Ms. Badu...um, what happened to my man Common?

[Kimmie1913]

Close up on Kelis' ring.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by Kimmie1913
Close up on Kelis' ring.

Yeah, I'm still hating!

Originally posted by Afrochic
Star Jones from the ABC Show The View is learning how to strip. Star has been taking lessons with Puffy's mom Janice Combs learning how to pole dance and do the booty shake. ( Ok why? )

From my understanding, "stripping" is the latest craze in fitness these days. They did a feature on this on our local news one night. It's mostly "seasoned" (trying not to say old ) women that are taking the classes. I thought that it looked like fun, but I don't think that I would want to be in the same class with Star and Janice. *cring* Janice needs to face reality.... YOU ARE NOT LIL' KIM!!!!!

[DELTABRAT]

Where's the Badu photo?

[CrimsonTide4]

Native Americans Rap OutKast
Wed Feb 11, 7:45 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!


By Joal Ryan

You know when OutKast's Andre 3000 hopped around onstage at the Grammys in front of a bright-green tepee--his backup dancers (barely) clothed in feathered headbands and matching fringed hot pants--and you thought to yourself, "Ooh, somebody is not going to like this"?

Well, somebody didn't like it.


As CBS' corporate boss got chewed out Wednesday in Washington, D.C., for airing Janet Jackson's bare right breast during the Super Bowl, the San Francisco-based Native American Cultural Center called for a boycott of the network for airing OutKast's "racist" "Hey Ya!" production number during the Grammys (news - web sites).


"We're not attacking OutKast as artists," the group's chairman Andrew Brother Elk said Wednesday, "They can go out and make fools of themselves if they want to, but we are going to question the commercialization of our symbols."


Specifically, the group is taking issue with the "fake tepee," the headdresses, the braided wigs and the "war paint" as smeared on the faces of the University of Southern California marching band, whose members also took part in the number.


Brother Elk cited the use of feathers, sacred symbols of Native Americans, as a particular abuse. He said he understood if a majority of Grammy viewers missed the distinction.


"If people were wearing yarmulkes and the Hasidic dress and bumping and grinding, we would see that as ridiculous, but for some reason we don't see what OutKast did as ridiculous," Brother Elk said.


The group is questioning why under-fire CBS didn't see the routine as "ridiculous," or worse.


"Our point is: How could no one...say, 'This is not entertainment, this is racism?' " Brother Elk said.


The Native American Cultural Center has called for a boycott of CBS, the Grammy organizers at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and OutKast's label, Arista Records.


In reports published Tuesday, a CBS spokesperson was quoted as saying the network was "very sorry if anyone was offended." There has been no word on the subject from the Recording Academy or Arista.


CBS' apology, which was not formally extended to Brother Elk's group, wasn't good enough anyway, he said. He wants one directly from CBS CEO Les Moonves.


Moonves is a man with a lot on his plate these days--not much of it good.


On Wednesday, Moonves' boss, Viacom President Mel Karmazin, apologized to Congress for Jackson's breast and pledged to make live TV a little less live in order to prevent further bust-outs.


Earlier, Federal Communications Chairman Michael Powell (news) testified the Jackson affair was "just the latest example in a growing list of deplorable incidents over the nation's airwaves."


Brother Elk's group is looking to add OutKast's Grammy performance to that tally. He said he has lodged a formal complaint with the FCC (news - web sites). No word from the commission Wednesday on its status.


And there was a blanket "no comment" Wednesday from the office of the Tennessee attorney who helped a woman file, and withdraw, a class-action lawsuit against Jackson and Justin Timberlake (news), et al., over their Super Bowl display. In dropping the suit, the egregiously offended woman vowed to monitor CBS and see if it was serious about changing its ways.

OutKast won three Grammys, including Album of the Year (Speakerboxx/The Love Below), on Sunday's CBS telecast.

The duo is up for a leading six awards at next month's 35th annual NAACP Image Awards--unless the Native American Cultural Center gets its way. Brother Elk said he's calling on the NAACP to drop OutKast from its roster of potential honorees.

A NAACP spokesman said he wasn't yet familiar with the complaint, but noted that no nominee had ever been nixed from the show. In addition to OutKast, this year's contenders include the under-indictment R. Kelly.

Janet Jackson (news), meanwhile, steered clear of the Grammys and is steering clear of this latest broadcast controversy.

"If there's anything demeaning with what happened at the Super Bowl it demeaned only Janet Jackson," Brother Elk said. "In the case of the Grammys, the performance demeaned a whole group of people."

[AKA2D '91]

I KNEW IT WAS COMING!

What's next?

[CrimsonTide4]

Erykah Badu Is Pregnant
(LAUNCH, 02/12/2004 6:00 PM)

By LAUNCH Radio Networks

Singer Erykah Badu, who is currently touring with Floetry, is expecting again, according to New York's WQHT. The station reported that Badu was expecting her second child and that the father-to-be was none other than The D.O.C. I had forgotten all about him.


The D.O.C. released his critically acclaimed platinum debut, No One Can Do It Better, in 1989 but shortly thereafter the rapper suffered a near-fatal car accident that crushed his larynx and severely damaged his voice.


The rapper re-grouped and was instrumental in the formation of Dr. Dre and Suge Knight's Death Row Records as a ghostwriter. The D.O.C. attempted to revive his career in 2003 with the release of his third album, Deuce.


Calls to Badu's label, Motown Records, were not returned at press time.


Badu already has a 6-year-old son, Seven, by Andre 3000 of OutKast. The singer has also been romantically linked to Common in the past.


ERYKAH BADU/FLOETRY remaining tour dates (subject to change):

February 12 - San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall

February 13 - Oakland, CA - Paramount Theatre

February 14 - Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues

February 17 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre

February 18 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium

February 20 - Saint Louis, MO - The Pageant

February 21 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theatre

February 22 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre

February 23 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre

February 25 - Milwaukee, WI - Northern Lights

February 26 - Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre

February 28 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre

February 29 - Cleveland, OH - State Theatre

March 2 - Baltimore, MD - Meyeroff Symphony Hall

March 4 - Newark, NJ - New Jersey Performing Arts Center

March 5 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre

March 6 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall

March 7 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre

March 10 - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall

March 12 - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre

March 14 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House Of Blues

March 17 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium

March 18 - Memphis, TN - Sam's Town

[abaici]

By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Just like J.Lo and Ben, the romance is over for Barbie and Ken. After 43 years as one of the world's prettiest pairs, the perfect plastic couple is breaking up. The couple's "business manager," Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, said that Barbie and Ken "feel it's time to spend some quality time — apart."


"Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end," said Arons, who quickly added that the duo "will remain friends."


Truth be told, the announcement was prompted by the fact that Mattel is releasing the Cali (as in California) Girl Barbie, arriving in stores now. Ken will still be in the picture — only now he's "just a friend," Mattel claims.


Whatever. The important news is that to better reflect her single status, Cali Barbie will wear board shorts and a bikini top, metal hoop earrings, and have a deeper tan.


This new style already has attracted a new admirer, Blaine the Australian boogie boarder.


Barbie — the most popular fashion doll in the world, according to Mattel — met Ken on the set of a TV commercial in 1961, and they have been inseparable ever since.


Arons hinted Wednesday that the separation may be partially due to Ken's reluctance to getting married. All those bridal Barbie dolls in toy chests around the globe are really just examples of Barbie's wishful thinking, she explained.


Another possible factor is Barbie's career. The doll who was "born" Barbie Millicent Roberts in 1959 has been everything from a rock star to military medic, and she's currently marketed in more than 150 countries. According to Mattel, every second, three Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.


So where does that leave Ken? Said Arons: "He will head for other waves."

[RedefinedDiva]

WTH? How are they gonna break up Barbie and Ken? That's just downright unacceptable.

[kiml122]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
[B]Erykah Badu Is Pregnant
(LAUNCH, 02/12/2004 6:00 PM)

By LAUNCH Radio Networks

Singer Erykah Badu, who is currently touring with Floetry, is expecting again, according to New York's WQHT. The station reported that Badu was expecting her second child and that the father-to-be was none other than The D.O.C. I had forgotten all about him.

You better stop playing...THE D.O.C. I totally forgot all about that guy. Ok when she and Common broke up, what did she immediately hop in bed with The D.O.C.

[kiml122]

Has anyone else heard this.......

I heard this morning on the radio that Marques Houston of Immature and Imx fame was turned out by Chris Stoke the manager of Imx and B2K...has anyone else heard this.

[UpPinkies]

Originally posted by kiml122
Has anyone else heard this.......

I heard this morning on the radio that Marques Houston of Immature and Imx fame was turned out by Chris Stoke the manager of Imx and B2K...has anyone else heard this.

Naw, that is one I have not heard. But dang, what radio station was that? Is it Wendy Williams?!