Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Faith Evans has a new reality show


Biggie's estranged widow, Faith Evans has new reality series, “It’s All About Faith.” The series is co-producecd by Evans and Ten2One Entertainment and will explore Faith’s five year absence from the music industry,and her life with her husband Todd Russaw and their children.


Now, his teeth have been messed up all this time...


A Manhattan judge granted a request by Lil Wayne's attorney to postpone his sentencing on gun charges so he could travel to Florida to have dental work done.  Wayne has previously plead guilty to felony gun charges stemming from his arrest outside a night club in 2007 on possession of a 0.40 caliber pistol.  His sentencing has been pushed back to March 2nd.  He still faces felony drug possession and gun charges in Arizon in an unrelated case.

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30 Rock Star is waiting for a kidney transplant


Grizzwald "Grizz" Chapman, member of the Emmy winning "30 Rock" cast, is on the waiting list for a kidney
transplant.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Lil Wayne had to report to the pen


Lil Wayne had to report for his one year prison sentence today.  He spent his last night of freedom communicating with his fans on Ustream.  During his broadcast he had a visit from Fat Joe and took an emotional phone call from Drake.  He had this message for his fans:
“To all my real fans, I really, really really really love you. I love you with all of me for real. I love you all so much, thank you from the bottom of my heart. And do not forget about me, because I will never forget about you. And i cannot wait for you to see me again. I’m out.”

No word on how his children or babymamas are coping.

Chelsea Handler ain't afraid of y'all






Late night talk show host Chelsea Handler went in on Beyonce's Grammy performance and asked tongue-in-cheek why Beyonce hasn't taken the 'break' she promised (and we all so sorely need, including Bey).  The Knowles camp released her army of stans from the weave crypt to unleash a can of whoopass on Chelsea via Twitter.  Undeterred, Chelsea read some of the tweets on her show, Chelsea Lately, making fun of the stans' inability to spell or write a grammatically correct sentence.

Tila Tiquila's fiancee died of natural causes

Tila Tequila's fiancee, Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, died of diabetic ketoacidosis according to the Los Angeles County coroner.  The 30-year-old socialite and friend of Paris Hilton was found dead at home on January 4.  She is survived by a young daughter.




Reggie Bush's side piece gets outta pocket



Amidst all the Superbowl furor, rumors swirled that Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints was supposed to pop the question to on-again off-again girlfriend Kim Kardashian.  The Saints pulled off a sweetheart of a win Sunday night, but the weekend was less-than-perfect for Kimmie.  Reggie's alleged side piece, "model" Carmen Ortega released a video of her showing off what is purportedly Reggie's crib.  No word on the erstwhile Mrs. Bush's reaction.

Monday, February 8, 2010

S-O-S: Saving Ourselves, Help for Haiti




BET held its S-O-S: Saving Ourselves, Help for Haiti in Miami on Friday.  The concert was broadcast live on BET, VH1, Centric, and MTV and featured performances by Chris Brown, India.Arie, Damien Marley, Jazmine Sullivan, Ludacris, Nas, Robin Thicke, Mary J. Blige, Akon, Monica, Keri Hilson, Kirk Franklin, Busta Rhymes, and Wyclef Jean.  All the money raised from the concerts will benefit organizations working on Haiti Earthquake relief, including Wyclef's Yele Haiti, Project MediShare, and C.A.R.E.

Beyonce: I'll Tumble For Ya Part 2

Apparently, Florida just isn't her state.



Here is Part 1 from her concert in Orlando, Florida two years ago, if you missed it:

Diddy's babymamas have beef



Diddy's first babymama Misa is fed up with one of his other babymamas Kim Porter refusing to accept and welcome his other babymama Sarah Chapman, and her daughter with Diddy, Chance:

“Sarah is really sweet but Sarah and Kim don’t get along. I get along with everyone. With both of them. Kim and I go back for years now. We were friends at one point. I was like “you wanted him, you got him now baby“. So she’s gotta go through all the bs I had to go through back in the day.
Sarah has been around as long as Kim, alot of people don’t know that. Puffy was cheating on me with both of them. This is over 15-16 years ago so we’ve all been around a long time. I joke around sometimes and say “They are like my sister-wives.” I try to keep everything good and we want Kim to accept Chance but she’s not ready yet………but I accepted Christian.

Kim fired back through Blackarazzi, saying “I don’t want to respond to anything Misa could ever say. She’s not even on my level.”

Costa Rica elected it's first female president

Costa Rica elected its first female president last night, with the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.  Laura Chinchilla garnered 46.8% of the vote with 84% of the polling locations reporting.
"I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica," Laura Chinchilla said Sunday to flag-waving supporters in the capital, San Jose. "My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith."

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Tyler Perry sued

Tyler Perry is being sued again. Songwriter Johnny Tyrone Stringfield filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday claiming Tyler Perry used lyrics from his song, “I Got Away” in a 2009 episode of “Meet the Browns”.

The Best Superbowl Ads

Betty White has a great sense of humor.


The Simpsons are still fresh after over 20 years. Add in a Coke, and you have a winner.

Now that was a bachelor party!

Pass the guacamole

WTH?

Budweiser usually has the best Superbowl ads

I could have done without Jim McMahon in a thong.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Michael Jackson's This Is It #1 in video sales


According to Home Media Magazine, Michael Jackson's This Is It rocketed to the number one position on national home video sales charts in its first week of release selling 1.2 million copies in the U.S. alone. This is a record performance for first week sales of a music film. According to Nielsen VideoScan, the film was also the number 1 seller in the Blu Ray format for the week ending January 31, 2010. Fully 21% of sales of This Is It were on the Blu Ray format, which is also a record for a release of any type.


This Is It chronicles the exhaustive rehearsals leading up to what would have been the largest concert tour ever. The documentary provides a glimpse of the creative genius that was Michael Jackson and offers the viewer the opportunity to meet the dancers, musicians, and crew behind the massive production. This Is It earned over a quarter of a billion dollars in its limited theatrical release worldwide.


Saturday, February 6, 2010

Spike Lee wrote a letter to Michael


Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee, directed two controversial videos for Michael Jackson as well as the eulogy on film to accompany the posthumous single "This Is It". Jackson and Lee collaborated on both videos for "They Don't Care About Us. The first version was filmed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and featured local residents and the cultural music group Olodum. It showcased the both the crushing poverty and resilient spirit of the area. The second video depicted Jackson as a prisoner in a prison filled with discontent inmates. Scenes of Jackson handcuffed and protesting in the mess hall were interspersed with images of police brutality, genocide, execution, and bigotry. This duo of videos remains among Jackson's most powerful in his catalogue.


Lee continued his support of Jackson by staging a community-wide birthday party in honor of Michael in Brooklyn last August 2009. At the beginning of this year, Lee released a touching music video ode to Michael to accompany the single "This Is It." The video featured scenes from Michael's life and his hometown of Gary, Indiana. Now, Lee has penned a letter to his friend for the luxurious coffee table book, Opus: Michael Jackson. The Opus is a massive 26 lb. book containing photos, drawings, letters, and more celebrating Michael. He had considerable input into the work and it is the last official book to gain his approval before his passing.


Read the text of Spike Lee's touching personal letter to Michael below:



October 10, 2009

Dearest Michael,

Last week I made a pilgrimage to your birthplace, Gary, Indiana. I stood
inside your family’s modest three-bedroom home on 2300 Jackson Street. I felt
the magic. It started there, nine kids plus your parents, jam packed, livin’ on
top of each other pursuing The American Dream. For this alone 2300 Jackson
should be declared a National Landmark. One has to go back to the beginning to
clearly see the entire journey. Gary, Steel town, Midwest, blue collar, hard
workin’, hard livin’, great work ethic and simple basic values. It’s there early
where you learned ‘you had to sing and dance like your life depended on it’
which it did. You and your family made the dream a reality. But as we all
finally learn (sooner or later) dreams have costs and costs have consequences. I
truly cherish the short time we worked together, visiting my home in Brooklyn,
huggin’ and kissin’ my newborn daughter Satchel, as if she was your own
daughter, our fantastic journey to Brazil to shoot the video for ‘THEY DON’T
CARE ABOUT US.’ I regret never getting to inform you that our video was directly
responsible for the great film CITY OF GOD being conceived and made. Michael,
your life touched people the world over you will never know. Michael, I’m one
year older than you, we grew up together. I had my Afro just like you. I wanted
to be like you. Wanted the cute girls to fawn over me the way they did you (the
girls were not going for it. They’d rather make goo-goo eyes at your pictures
plastered all over their bedroom.) At that young age I had no notion of what I
wanted to do in my life. You made me see the possibilities even though I could
not sing or dance a lick despite coming from a musical family. You, Jermaine,
Tito, Jackie and Marlon showed us the way. You guys were young Black boys like
us. Upon us was a new day, a new world and it’s on us to make the most of it. In
closing Michael, you checked out of here way, way too soon but while you walked
this earth in your physical form you changed it. You changed the World, changed
the Game forever.

May you rest eternally in Peace.

Love,
Spike Lee

P.S. Brooklyn luvs ya!