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*Will.i.am says Google’s attempt at sharing music is wack. The artist, who serves as the creative director at Intel, says the new music service has some issues and isn’t really a great model. Called the Google Play Music All Access, it’s a paid subscription to music-streaming, something like Spotify. “Honestly, I don’t really know what [...]
*Just when you thought the Vanessa Williams series “666 Park Ave” was dead and buried, ABC has announced it will bring back the supernatural drama and run out the remaining episodes this summer. The cancelled series will return on Saturday, June 22, with the unaired episodes slated to run in the Saturday 9 p.m. slot [...]
*The film conquered Sundance earlier this year, winning the festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. On Thursday (May 16), director Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” unleashed its charm on the Cannes Film Festival, where it is competing in the Un Certain Regard competition – a section of the festival introduced in 1998 to recognize young talent [...]
*Giancarlo Esposito understands that some of his diehard fans — who have shown support ever since his breakout role as Buggin’ Out in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” may not be checking for him in his current gig on NBC’s “Revolution.” The freshman drama had decent enough ratings for NBC to renew it for [...]
*It was a bittersweet night for the Biebs at the Billboard Music Awards. Justin Bieber got lots of love from the trade magazine itself, earning two trophies on Sunday, including the evening’s final Milestone Award – beating out Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. However, he got considerably less love from Billboard’s live audience, where boos [...]
*Miguel appeared to nearly decapitate a woman at the Billboard Music Awards last night (May 19) when he jumped into the crowd while attempting a James Brown split. Performing the hit song “Adorn” from his album “Kaleidoscope Dream” in the first half of the show, the singer was trying to jump from one platform to [...]
*Documentarian William Miles, whose films include 1981’s “I Remember Harlem” and 1992’s “Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” died May 12 in New York, according to the NY Times. He was 82. In 1977 the Harlem native made his first documentary “Men Of Bronze,” about the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment sent to [...]
*Oxygen has brought back 14 standouts from its “Bad Girls Club” franchise to battle each other in a series of over-the-top challenges – to test both brain and braun – for a $100,000 prize and the title of “Baddest Bad Girl of All Time.” All this – with Ray J serving as the host. “You [...]
*After her name was called as the winner of “American Idol,” Candice Glover headed to the backstage press area and faced a swarm of reporters. According to Billboard, the South Carolina native took the podium to discuss overcoming her nerves of singing with Jennifer Hudson, performing her new single in tears, and her plans for [...]
*In his latest rant, Kanye West said he wasn’t doing an skits on the “Saturday Night Live” season finale this weekend, where he is the musical guest, but he showed that he definitely has a sense of humor in spots promoting the show. Ye cracked a few jokes alongside this week’s host Ben Affleck and [...]
*Aretha Franklin provided an awkward moment during Thursday’s “American Idol” finale when she referred to finalist Candice Glover as “a winner,” before she was officially announced. “Candice, you’re a winner,” the legend said from a huge screen in LA’s Nokia Theater. The Queen of Soul immediately followed it up with, “Win or lose – you’re [...]
*Haven’t watched one episode of “Scandal,” but don’t want to be left out of tonight’s season finale hype? ABC today released a season two recap, just in time for tonight’s 10 p.m. episode – which star Kerry Washington said was so “shocking” that she had a hard time just speaking the last line of the [...]
*Allure editors received backlash from readers this week over its June 2013 cover girl Zoe Saldana – not because she’s completely nude in the editorial spread, but because her weight – all of 115 pounds – was mentioned in the cover tease of her article. The headline reads, “Zoe Saldana: 115 pounds of grit and [...]
*Choreographer Wade Robson went on the “Today” show this morning to discuss claims that he was sexually abused by Michael Jackson and his request for compensation from the King of Pop’s estate. Wade said he “was scared psychologically and emotionally completely unable and unwilling to understand that it was sexual abuse.” “This is not [...]
*Beyonce said she defied doctors’ orders to return to the stage in Belgium on Wednesday night (May 15), just one day after she scrapped a gig in the same country due to illness The singer axed her concert in Antwerp on Tuesday citing dehydration and exhaustion, but she promised to be back onstage Wednesday. She [...]
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