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May 22, 2012

Herbie Hancock to Write Memoir

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*Popular award-winning Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is getting ready to pen a memoir, expected to be released in 2014. “Quincy Jones is a dear friend of mine and he keeps saying to me, ‘You’ve got to do a book,’” Hancock said Tuesday during a telephone interview with TheAP  from Shanghai, where he is currently on [...]

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Cissy Houston Shopping Book about Daughter Whitney

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*Cissy Houston is reportedly planning to write a book about her late daughter, Whitney Houston, The New York Times reports. According to the paper’s sources, the 78-year-old Grammy-winning gospel singer met with publishers in a suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City this week to discuss the project, referring to her daughter [...]

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‘Think Like a Man’ Box Office Reign Boosts Book Sales

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*With “Think Like a Man” currently No. 1 hit at the box office, the film’s source material, Steve Harvey’s advice book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” just saw its paperback version rise to No. 40 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. “The movie is selling books because we all want to believe [...]

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Rodney King on Trayvon: ‘Luckily My Attack was On Tape’

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*Rodney King says he hopes Trayvon Martin’s family will eventually get justice in court, but says the case makes him realize how lucky he was to have a bystander capture his beating on tape, reports TMZ. Just days before the 20 year anniversary of the L.A. riots, King was in NYC promoting his new book [...]

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Sony Wants Jaden Smith for Teen Assassin Role

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*Sony Pictures and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment are in early talks to acquire film rights to Allen Zadoff’s novel “Boy Nobody,” with plans to develop it as a starring vehicle for Jaden Smith. “Boy Nobody” is the first in a planned young adult trilogy about a brainwashed teenage assassin who starts to regain his emotions. [...]

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EUR Book Look: ‘Image Matters’ (by Tina M. Campt)

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*Imagine  photos of black soldiers in the Third Reich of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, especially after what we were led to believe about Hitler’s disdain for American track star Jesse Owens! Tina M. Campt, Director of the Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, and author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, [...]

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Darryl Littleton Writes the Ills of ‘Pimp Down: Katt Williams’ (Audio)

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*Comedian, writer and former Katt Williams associate Darryl Littleton has taken the task of spelling out the frequent self defeating elements that underlie the rich and famous in the book titled “Pimp Down: The Rise and Fall of Katt Williams.” Darryl (known on the comedy circuit as “D’Militant) worked for Katt for two years and [...]

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Oprah Winfrey Considered for ‘Waiting to Exhale 2′

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*Acclaimed author and “Waiting to Exhale” extraordinaire, Terry McMillan, recently told the Huffington Post that she is happy Oprah is being considered for a role in the book-to-film sequel. After Whitney Houston passed away, both McMillan and her screenwriter partner Lor Lakin Hutcherson had to take some time to rework the storyline and had to [...]

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Loretta Devine: ‘Waiting to Exhale 2′ Could Be A Tribute to Whitney (Video)

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*After the death of singer Whitney Houston, plans could be changing for the “Waiting to Exhale” sequel. According to co-star Loretta Devine, the new movie may look more like a tribute to the singer, rather than a pick up where we left off kind of thing. “They’re trying to put together ‘Waiting to Exhale 2,’ [...]

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The Pulse of Entertainment: Mayim Bialik’s New book on Child Rearing: ‘Beyond the Sling’

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*Mayim Bialik, PhD is best known as Pumkinhead in the ‘80s “Facts of Life”, as Blossom Russo in the ‘90s NBC sitcom “Blossom” and on the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” as Amy Farrah Fowler, PhD. Well this veteran actress is now an author with the release of her parenting book “Beyond The Sling” [...]

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Anguilla Hosts ‘First Annual Literary Fest’ with Terry McMillan, Other Authors

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*(New York, N.Y.) – The Anguilla Tourist Board will host its first annual literary festival May 24th through May 28th at the statuesque, Paradise Cove Resort. Best-selling authors, publishing industry power brokers, celebrity notables and book enthusiasts will converge on the peerless Caribbean destination, known for its buttery soft vanilla sand, beautiful people, rich history [...]

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Lenny Kravitz on Hunger Games’ 99 Percent Factor

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*Any film as pervasively popular as “The Hunger Games” will inevitably be infiltrated by politics. The movie raked in more than $155 million in its first weekend, but some conservatives circles are already shunning the story as pro “99 Percent” – the moniker taken on by a grass roots movement of U.S. citizens who are [...]

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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West Write a Book on Poverty; Set Tour to Promote

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*Tavis Smiley is more than serious about his campaign to end poverty in America. The talk show host and author, along with his partner in action, Cornel West, have written a book about the terrible reality across the nation called, “The Rich & the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto.” The book challenges everyone to [...]

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Steve McQueen’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ Gets a Distributor

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*New Regency is in talks to co-finance and distribute the Steve McQueen-directed “Twelve Years A Slave,” an adaptation of the Solomon Northup memoir originally published in 1853. As previously reported, Chiwetel Ejiofor will play Northup, Michael Fassbender will play a plantation owner and Brad Pitt will play a Northern lawyer who helps free Northup. Pitt [...]

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Pam Grier Biopic Optioned; She wants Halle Berry to Play Her

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*It was just in 2010 when the book about Pam Grier’s life was published and there was some interest in turning it into a film. Now the talk is manifesting a walk with a coming biopic based on her autobiography “Foxy: My Life In Three Acts.” RELATED: Pam Grier Gets Candid About Black Shortage in [...]

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