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*When Mick Jagger held out his mic to the President of the United States during a Black History Month blues jam at the White House last night, the audience in the East Room got another dose of Barack Obama carrying a tune. Obama’s surprise performance came at the end of the playlist when the concert [...]
*After two girls from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Fla., posted a nearly 14-minute-long racist rant on YouTube, the girls have been kicked out of school and the object of death threats that have their families asking for mercy. Last week, eight police officers were brought to the campus in light of death threats the [...]
*Mariah Carey stopped by “Good Morning America” today to discuss her Jenny Craig weight loss gig, her forthcoming album and the health problems of her husband, Nick Cannon. “Nick is doing well. It’s a very complicated thing and I know he spoke on it himself,” she told Robin Roberts. “I feel a little bit awkward [...]
*TMZ has uncovered film of Whitney Houston partying and singing along to Madonna’s Super Bowl performance just days before her death. The singer joined family and friends in a lounge bar at the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. 5 to watch the big game, as well as the Material Girl’s 12-minute [...]
*Early Monday Chris Brown sent an all-caps “HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN!” tweet out to Rihanna (a.k.a. Robyn Fenty), and Rihanna replied with a “Thanks!” Then all hell broke loose. The exchange immediately drew heated responses from folks both for and against the former couple’s communication with each other. For example: “BREAKING: Rihanna to have Chris Brown [...]
*OWN has announced that its breakout reality hit “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” and new series “Beverly’s Full House,” following two strong modern matriarchs and their families, will premiere back-to-back on Saturday, March 31. “Sweetie Pie’s” airs from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by “Beverly’s Full House” from 10-11 p.m. ET/PT. [Scroll down to watch promos.] Returning [...]
*Maya Rudolph will be back in familiar territory this weekend. The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member returns for the first time as host, and NBC has released her series of promos for the appearance. [Scroll down to watch.] Rudolph, daughter of the late Minnie Ripperton, has popped up in several sketches since leaving the [...]
*In January, Bravo’s cocktail-driven talk show “Watch What Happens: Live” expanded to five nights a week – 11 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays – with a wider variety of guests invited on to imbibe, play party games and dish on episodes of “Real Housewives” and other celebrities – in addition to whatever project they’re supposed to [...]
*Lil Kim was a guest on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” Wednesday night and was asked her thoughts about the religious-themed performance of her rap foe Nicki Minaj at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. “I don’t know what that was. I’m pretty sure I feel the same way everybody else feels right about now,” Kim, 37, told [...]
*Fox News commentator Eric Bolling insists he was kidding when saying Thursday that Rep. Maxine Waters should “step away from the crack pipe,” reports Politico.com. “What is going on in California? How’s this? Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston. Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from [...]
*The grand irony behind the PBS film “More Than a Month,” about a black man’s effort to get rid of Black History Month, is that it makes its television premiere during Black History Month. Shukree Hassan Tilghman – the documentary’s 29-year-old writer, director and producer – feels that black history should not be held apart [...]
*Deadline Hollywood is reporting that TBS has ordered 35 additional episodes of Tyler Perry’s latest sitcom, “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse,” which revolves around three couples at various stages of their relationships. The comedy, produced by Tyler Perry Studios and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, premiered on TBS on Nov. 25, 2011 and averaged 2.9 million [...]
*Chaka Khan understands the term “the show must go on,” but cannot fathom how Clive Davis could go ahead with his annual pre-Grammy party just hours after Whitney Houston’s death, particularly considering that her dead body was just four floors above in the same hotel when the gathering got underway. “I thought that was complete [...]
*Over the course of a year, filmmakers shadowed three ex gang members in Chicago known as Violence Interrupters, whose sole purpose is to sense when violence is about to jump off, then, step in and stop it from happening. Filmmaker Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) and author Alex Kotlowitz (“There Are No Children Here”) embedded themselves [...]
*The supermodels appearing in the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue were revealed during Monday night’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” and among the 21 chosen were Adaora, Kirby Griffin and Ariel Meredith. Adaora was photographed by Walter Iooss Jr. in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The swimsuit is by Anna Kosturova. Watch her video below. Kirby [...]
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