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April 7, 2008

JAY-Z BACK ON TOUR AFTER REPORTED MARRIAGE: Mogul performs with Mary J. Blige in N.C. 24 hours after apparent nuptials.

 *Jay-Z was back on the road with Mary J. Blige Saturday and was not wearing a wedding ring despite multiple reports that he finally married his longtime girlfriend Beyonce Knowles the night before.

       During his sold-out concert in Greensboro, North Carolina, the rapper made no mention of the rumored nuptials that took place at his Tribeca apartment Friday night. But Mary J. couldn't resist giving her co-headliner a shout-out.
      
       Congratulations to my man, Jay-Z, and my girl B," she told the sold-out Greensboro audience before starting her set with "You're All I Need."

       The Web sites of celebrity magazines People and Us Weekly reported the couple married and threw a party at the apartment Friday, citing unnamed sources who are friends with the pair. Guests included Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles, her father/manager Mathew, her sister Solange and her Destiny's Child band mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

       Meanwhile, Live Nation, who last week signed Jay-Z to a deal worth $150 million, is reporting that his Heart of the City tour with Blige has sold out seven of the first eight dates on its North American trek, grossing more than $9.1 million dollars thus far and averaging more than 12,000 music fans per night.
      
       Highlights from the tour thus far include Wednesday night's $1.5 million gross at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, nearly $1.7 million at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center, and $1.8 million in ticket sales at East Rutherford's Izod Center.
      
       In addition the "Heart of the City" stop in Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena was the second highest grossing concert of all time for the venue, topped only by the Rolling Stones.


CHRIS ROCK ON THE WITNESS STAND: Comic testifies in Hollywood wiretap case.

       *Chris Rock said he had no idea that private investigator Anthony Pellicano was involved in alleged dirty tricks while investigating a woman's claim that Rock had fathered her child.
      
       The actor and co-creator of "Everybody Hates Chris" made the statement while testifying in the trial of Hollywood's so-called private eye to the stars, who is charged with bribery and wiretapping on behalf of dozens of Hollywood celebrities and movie executives.
      
       According to Reuters, the comedic actor appeared nervous during his 20 minutes on the witness stand. Rock, 43, told the federal court jury in Los Angeles that he hired Pellicano in 1999 to probe the background of model Monika Zsibrita because he felt he was being shaken down when Zsibrita accused him of fathering her child after a one night stand at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
      
       "Someone who is not pregnant with my child claims to be pregnant with my child and requested large sums of money," Rock said, according to Reuters.
      
       Prosecutors allege that Pellicano paid a Los Angeles police officer to run unauthorized background checks on Zsibrita. Tests showed later that Rock was not the father but the actor said he again hired Pellicano in 2001 after Zsibrita accused him of raping her during their hotel tryst.
      
       Rock, who is not charged with any crime, denied knowing Pellicano was involved in illegal activities. He testified that Pellicano read him police reports reflecting that Zsibrita claimed she had been assaulted. He said Pellicano told him: "I'm going to read it to you but I'm not supposed to have it."
      
       The comedian is among about 100 witnesses, including actors Sylvester Stallone, Farrah Fawcett and Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey, called to testify for the prosecution. Pellicano, 63, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.


NAOMI CAMPBELL OUT ON BAIL: Supermodel released Friday after charged with assault on a police officer.

 *Naomi Campbell was freed on bail Friday following her arrest the day before at London's Heathrow Airport.

       The supermodel had just boarded a British Airways flight headed to Los Angeles when she was told that one of her two checked bags at the new Terminal 5 had gone missing. According to witnesses, Campbell had a fit and allegedly spat on a cop that was called to the scene.
      
       She was escorted off the plane and arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. The runway diva was released shortly after midnight on Friday and told to return in late May.
      
       "So far as we are aware, BA has still failed to offer any explanation as to why her bag went missing at Terminal 5," said Campbell's rep.

 BA has been beset by problems with the high-tech check-in and baggage handling systems at the 4.3 billion pound terminal, reports Reuters.
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and tens of thousands of bags have gone missing, costing the airline about 16 million pounds since the
terminal's opening last month. 


UK CHALLENGES SNOOP'S LIFTED BAN: Border Agency appeals court's decision to allow rapper into the country.

 *Britain's Border Agency said Friday it will appeal a court's decision that allows Snoop Dogg back into the country after he was banned in
2007 following an incident at London's Heathrow Airport.

 The rapper successfully appealed the ban and received entry clearance from an asylum and immigration tribunal in January. But the Border Agency said it plans to challenge the ruling at a hearing this week.

       In March 2007, Snoop had to cancel a tour of Britain with fellow rap icon Sean "Diddy" Combs after authorities denied him a visa. The decision was sparked by the artist's 2006 arrest on charges of violent disorder and starting a brawl at Heathrow in which seven officers were injured. Trouble flared when some in his party were denied entry to British Airways'
first-class lounge at the airport.
      
       In April 2007, Snoop Dogg was refused entry into Australia, with then-Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews saying the rapper "doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country."


MICHAEL JORDAN ASKED TO TAKE 3RD PATERNITY TEST: Woman claiming he fathered her son also wants TRO lifted.

 *A woman who claims Michael Jordan is the father of her 4-year-old son has asked a judge to order the former NBA star to take a third paternity test.

 Lisa Miceli, 35, is also requesting that the court lift a temporary restraining order imposed after Jordan filed a harassment suit against her, reports the Associated Press.

       Miceli continues to insist that Jordan is her son's biological father, but the basketball legend's lawsuit says a pair of 2005 paternity tests rules him out.

 Jordan's attorney Frederick J. Sperling participated in a hearing by phone Friday, denying Miceli's claims that the restraining order prevents her from negotiating a child-support agreement settlement with Jordan, reports the Associated Press.

       "There is not going to be a settlement," Sperling told Crawford County Judge Gordon Miller. "Mr. Jordan is not the father of her child, and we're not going to engage in any discussions on that."
      
       Miller did not immediately rule on Miceli's request for a third test.


MORE DROPPINGS FROM BOBBY BROWN'S TELL-ALL: Fox columnist talks with book's co-writer; plus press reps have pitched Oprah for interview.

 *Fox411 columnist Roger Freidman spoke with the co-writer of Bobby Brown's upcoming autobiography to get even more information on revelations featured in the May 13th release.

       Self-published with distributor Atlas Books of Ohio, "Being Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But…" is co-written with Derrick Handspike, an Atlanta hip-hop producer and author of several books, notes Friedman.
      
       When asked the motive behind dishing dirt on ex-wife Whitney Houston, Handspike answered: "We are very wealthy from this already." Handspike intimated that there are "investors," adding, "It’s a joint-venture kind of thing."
      
        In addition to chapters about his cocaine use, which were excerpted in New York newspapers last week, Handspike says that Brown has also overdosed on heroin.
      
       "No one knows that," he told Friedman. "He had a stroke. They said he had a heart attack but he had a stroke."
      
       In the book, Brown says his heart stopped three times and he had to be revived with shock paddles.
      
       According to Handspike, Brown also admits to hitting Houston. "He considered it horse play," he said. "The reason Whitney called the police was that he laughed at her and then left. She said, 'You think you’re going to just walk away from this?' Then she called the police."
      
       Brown's publicists are said to have adopted an aggressive game plan to promote the book.
      
       "Brown's press reps are approaching all the shows and made an inquiry to Oprah," Friedman wrote in Sunday's column. "The angle is gong to be that this is Brown’s way of telling his story, and that there’s very little about Whitney — at least not enough for which to sue him."
      

THANDIE NEWTON TO PLAY CONDI RICE IN 'W': Oliver Stone casts British actress in his film about Bush administration.

 *Thandie Newton is in final negotiations to play National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the upcoming Oliver Stone film "W."

 The movie will look at Bush's formative years and path to the presidency as well as his life inside the White House.

       As one of the few cabinet members to serve during both Bush terms, Rice's role in the Bush White House is seen as pivotal. According to those who've read the "W" script, Rice is said to be in a key first scene as well as a number of scenes connected to the Iraq war, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
      
       Ioan Gruffudd is in final talks to play former British prime minister Tony Blair. Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks and Ellen Burstyn had previously been cast as George W., George Sr., Laura and Barbara Bush, respectively.
      
       Newton is currently on the big screen in "Run Fatboy Run" and stars in Guy Ritchie's upcoming mob flick "RocknRolla."


SPIKE LEE EXPLAINS CHOOSING OBAMA OVER CLINTON: 'Sniper fire' lie too much for the director.

 *In an interview with New York magazine, Spike Lee explained the reasons behind his decision to support Sen. Barack Obama for president over his hometown senator Hillary Clinton.

 "The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles," he said of the New York senator and her husband, former president Bill Clinton. "Snipers? That's not misspeaking; that's some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that's over with."

       Meanwhile, Obama may have told Lee just "the right thing" to earn the filmmaker's support.

       "Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was 'Do the Right Thing,'" noted Lee, who says he told the Illinois senator, "Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to 'Soul Man.' Michelle would have been like, 'What's wrong with this brother?'"


REMY MA PREPS FOR RIKER'S ISLAND NUPTIALS: Rapper's lawyer stresses how much she loves her some Papoose.

       *Jailed rapper Remy Ma can't wait to marry her fiancée Papoose at her current place of residence inside New York's Rikers Island jail.
      
 "They're much in love," Remy's lawyer Ivan Fisher told the Associated Press. "They're very committed to each other, and they had intended to marry one way or another."

 Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was convicted last month of assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion in the July 2007 shooting after a party at a Manhattan nightclub.

 The 26-year-old performer is being held without bail until her sentencing, set for April 23. She faces the possibility of up to 25 years in prison.

 About 200 weddings are performed each year at Rikers Island, which offers chaplains and chapels, said city Department of Correction spokesman Stephen Morello. Only two guests will be permitted, and the couple won't be allowed to wear rings with protruding gems.


AARON NEVILLE INCHING BACK TOWARD NEW ORLEANS: Relocated in Tenn following Katrina, Bayou native buys new house near hometown.

       *New Orleans native Aaron Neville, who moved to Tennessee after his home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, is about to close on a new house located about 40 miles from his hometown.
      
       It's nice," he told The Times-Picayune newspaper of his purchase near Covington, across Lake Pontchartrain. "I can sit outside and watch the sun go down, then drive on in to New Orleans."
       
       Neville was on tour with the Neville Brothers when Katrina hit in August 2005, leaving much of the city immersed in flood water. Though he watched the disaster unfold from a distance, he couldn't see himself returning. The singer moved north and purchased a house in Brentwood, Tenn.
      
       Now he says he wants to be nearer to his children. He hadn't returned to New Orleans until last year, to fulfill his wife's wish to be buried in her hometown, and he has visited family and friends in New Orleans several times since then.
      
       His new place is built on higher ground. "I don't want to run every time a hurricane comes," he said.
 

BUZZ PUTS DENZEL IN MGM'S 'CIRCLE': Word has it that actor is attached to play hero in film based on 1979 Robert Ludlum book.

       *Hollywood is all atwitter with rumors that Denzel Washington is attached to star in MGM's upcoming adaptation of "The Matarese Circle," a
1979 book by Robert Ludlum.
      
       MGM purchased rights to the literary thriller after winning an intense bidding war that included Universal and several other studios.
Sources placed the book deal in the vicinity of $3 million, with another $2 million for screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (remake of "3:10 to Yuma").
        
       Set during the Cold War, the book pairs rival spies, one from the CIA and the other from the KGB, who bury the hatchet for the moment because only they possess the smarts and killing abilities to go up against an international circle of killers called the Matarese.
      
       Relativity Media will partner in the deal with MGM. While numerous studios were circling, the proceedings were controlled by ICM, because the agency represented the Ludlum estate. The project was shopped for franchise potential, and there was a sequel book, "The Matarese Countdown," which could serve as the template for another picture.
      
       The Ludlum estate has also profited handsomely from the trilogy of hit films based on the author's amnesiac assassin character Jason Bourne.
      

VING RHAMES JOINS BRUCE WILLIS IN 'SURROGATES': Sci-fi thriller reteams 'Pulp Fiction' stars.

 *Ving Rhames will reunite with fellow "Pulp Fiction" veteran Bruce Willis in the sci-fi thriller "The Surrogates," which begins filming later this month under director Jonathan Mostow.

 According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Disney film is set in a world where humans live risk-free lives through robot surrogates that are eternally young, perfect-looking versions of themselves.

        Rhames plays a charismatic cult figure who disdains the use of surrogates and tries to lead an uprising against the "new world order."
Willis plays a cop who, through his surrogate, investigates the murders of others' surrogates.

       Based on a graphic novel, the film also stars Australian actress Radha Mitchell ("Silent Hill") as Willis' professional partner, and British thespian Rosamund Pike ("Fracture") as his wife.


DIONNE WARWICK SAYS WHITNEY 'IS BACK': Cousin 'thrilled' over Houston's return to the studio.

 *Dionne Warwick is cheering on her cousin Whitney Houston as she puts distance between her troubled past and works to complete a long-awaited new album.

  "Whitney Houston is back!" Warrick, 67, told People magazine before performing at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XIV event in Phoenix on Friday night. "I'm thrilled that she's in the studio and working on her new album. No doubt she's overcoming everything that has been put in front of her even this week."

       Warwick was referring to recent excerpts released from her ex-husband Bobby Brown's new tell-all book, one of which claims that she led him to drugs.
      
       Music mogul Clive Davis, who is shepherding Houston's album, told
People: "She was just in the studio this week working on a song called 'Nothing But Love' when she heard of all this mess in the papers. I'm sure that this week has been traumatic but she's committed and looking forward to her new life."


OBAMA'S INDIANAPOLIS CAMPAIGN OFFICE VANDALIZED: Barricade was tossed through front glass window.

 *A man was arrested for criminal mischief Friday after he admitted to pushing an orange barricade through the front glass window of Barack Obama’s campaign office in downtown Indianapolis.

       According to a police report, authorities arrived on the scene to find 32-year-old Robert Bailey shouting: “I did it. I threw the barricade through the window! Take me to jail!”
      
       Bailey told police he dragged the barricade down the block in order to throw it into Obama’s campaign office, but that he would have done so “even if it was Hillary Clinton’s offices,” reports WXIN-TV in Indianapolis.
       .
        “It’s not about race — it’s about selling out,” he told police, according to the report. He also said, “John Lennon would be proud of me.”


LIL JON SAYS 'YEAH!' TO NEW WINE COMPANY: Crunk creator to begin selling Cali-produced vino.

 *The king of crunk and founder of Crunk!!! Energy Drink is reportedly throwing his time and money into another venture – selling California-produced wine.

       "We were just going to do some private label stuff (for parties) and we did it, and people was like, 'Hey, it's pretty nice,'" says super producer Lil Jon, whose real name is Jonathan Smith. "I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude. I'm not like an expert, so don't ask me no questions ... I just like the taste."
      
       Lil Jon says his product will target consumers who are serious about
their choice in wine.  
      
       "The wine is more nature," he says. "I wanted to not just have a direct connection, but make it just a little bit more upscale than regular Lil Jon. This is not no ghetto Boone's Farm; this is some real wine."


DIDDY DISCUSSES LIFE AFTER LA TIMES STORY: Mogul says accusations in the flawed article 'really hurt.'

 *Sean "Diddy" Combs is trying to move past false allegations leveled by a story in the Los Angeles Times that stated he and another man had prior knowledge of a plan to ambush Tupac Shakur in 1994.

 The newspaper and writer Chuck Philips have since apologized for the story and admitted it was based on falsified documents. Still, the Bad Boy CEO said the ordeal hurt his feelings.

       "I've been through so much; hip-hop has been through so much; Biggie's, Tupac's [families] have been through so much," he told MTV News at the glitzy introduction of his newest protégé Janelle Monae. "To rehash the lies and just rumors like that, I didn't understand where that was coming from. I knew that I would never — me and Biggie would never be involved, or even have any knowledge of that. Because if we have knowledge of something, we the type of people that's gonna warn somebody, we're gonna tell somebody.
It just really hurt."
      
       Diddy said he did admire how quickly the Times came forward to apologize for getting the story wrong.  The power of one article to change his perception so quickly was frustrating, he said, but it caused him to think about advice once given to him by his grandmother.
      
       "Just knowing how people in this day and age, what they read online and what they see in the papers, they just take it as fact," Diddy explained. "It's like, come on, I been working so hard to rise above all of this stuff, and to see it now trying to pull me back down."
      
       "[But] I stayed focused," he continued. "I was still. My grandmother told me, 'Be still.' No matter what it feels like, be still. And I was still and then the truth came out the way it was to come out. I didn't jump up and down about it. I let them give the apology and let people go back to the things they need to be focusing on about me, which is the No. 1 albums I'm dropping with Danity Kane and Day26, No. 1 fragrances, Janelle Monae, making this black history. And that's what it's about. But it's important to really deal with things however they come at you. And I've always done that my whole life and just always told the truth."
      
       Unlike Jimmy Rosemond, who was accused in Philips' story of plotting Tupac's shooting, Diddy isn't calling for the Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer to be fired.
      
       "It's so ridiculous for me, I'm not even giving no energy to it,"
Diddy said. "I don't wish anybody no ill will. I'm just glad the truth came out. I can't even really justify it with no more energy, so I don't even wanna talk about it no more."
      
       As far as legal action, Diddy said: "I don't know what I'll do; I can't say what I'll do. I'm just moving on."


ITTY BITTY BITS: Tracy goes 'Deep'; Ike Turner's ex files claim; Tony Parker gets an apology.

 *Tracy Morgan had folks amused on the set of his adult-film spoof, "Deep in the Valley," according to his co-star Chris McDonald. "Tracy plays a reigning porn star in the '80s," McDonald told the New York Daily News.
"Tracy would push the envelope in every scene, and almost everything is improvised in the moment. I will never forget how hard I laughed when he made a joke about a woman who could carry shot glasses in her top cleavage and bottom cleavage." The film also stars Kim Kardashian and Denise Richards.

       *Ike Turner's ex-wife Jeanette Bazzell Turner has filed a claim against the late singer's estate, reports TMZ.com. The former 'Ikette" says she has a right to his property and has requested that the courts investigate her case. Bazzell Turner married the musician in Las Vegas in 1995. They divorced five years later.

 *Celebrity Web site X17 has apologized to Tony Parker and Eva Longoria for an article last December that claimed the NBA star had a post-marriage affair with model Alexandra Paressant. The apology posted to its Web site read in part: "X17online.com and X7, Inc. regret having been misled by Ms. Paressant and her representatives and apologize to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife."
      

SPORTS BITS: Serena wins in Miami; Cleveland Browns' Wright arrested; Bengal Chris Henry out of jail.
 
 *Serena Williams successfully defended her title at the WTA Sony Ericsson Open in Miami by beating fourth seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 5-7,
6-3 in Saturday's final, reports the AP. The 26-year-old captured her second title of the season and the 30th of her career. The eighth seeded Williams also won her fifth Sony Ericsson championship, having won last year in addition to claiming three straight titles from 2002-04.

       *Cleveland Browns defensive back Kenny Wright was arrested Thursday after police in Pearland, Texas said he led them on a quarter-mile foot chase that began in the parking lot of the police station. The 30-year-old faces a misdemeanor charge of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor charge of evading arrest and a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana. Pearland police said officers were investigating a disturbance in the police station parking lot around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. When officers approached Wright, he took off running and was eventually caught in a nearby subdivision. Police said they found 1.875 ounces of marijuana in Wright's vehicle.
      
       *Former Cincinnati Bengals player Chris Henry was released from jail Friday, spending an extra night there because no one was available to provide a court-ordered monitoring device, reports the AP. He was released from the Hamilton County jail Friday, although his $51,000 bond was posted Thursday night. The 24-year-old was cut by the Bengals on Thursday, a few hours before he was arraigned on charges of assault and criminal damaging. A man accused Henry of punching him in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle on Monday night. Henry has been arrested five times since December 2005. He is due back in court on the latest charge on April 15.


JESSE JACKSON WANTS MORE 'BLACK-BROWN' UNITY: Civil rights leader calls for more dialogue between African Americans and Latinos.
      
       *Rev. Jesse Jackson and Latino Immigration activists have announced the joint launch of a "black-brown coalition" to push for Immigration reform, school safety and other issues, reports the Chicago Tribune.
      
       The announcement was made Saturday inside Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH headquarters on Chicago's South Side. The group used the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to call for greater unity between the two communities and put aside racial tensions.
      
       "How do you honor Dr. King's legacy 40 years later?" Jackson asked.
"We go to schools together, we work in hospitals together, we vote together, we raise our youth together. So we must learn to live together."
      
       The first order of business will come May 1, when activists will again take to the streets to call for legalizing the country's 12 million undocumented immigrants.
      
       Organizers have been strategizing for weeks inside PUSH headquarters, which has a Latino chapter, to boost African-American interest in the march.
Plans include radio interviews and announcements during church services and union meetings.
      
       PUSH also recently launched Spanish classes.


EUR FILM REVIEW: Leatherheads
Clooney Courts Zellweger in Screwball Comedy Set in the Roaring Twenties
Film Review by Kam Williams


       *It is the height of the Roaring Twenties, an era generally associated with overindulgence and irrational exuberance in spite of Prohibition and the specter of the Great Depression looming over the horizon.

      The decade also signaled the introduction of professional football in the American heartland, and this is where we meet Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly (George Clooney), the owner/captain/coach of the Duluth Bulldogs.

       While most folks fail to see much of a future in a game being played on turnip fields by miners, farmers and shell-shocked veterans, Dodge can already envision the fledgling league's potential as a popular spectator sport.

     Plus, the aging star is still a kid at heart, who would rather continue playing indefinitely than make any concessions to Father Time.


       But with his Bulldogs enjoying more of a reputation for brawling in speakeasies than for greatness on the gridiron, they find themselves without a sponsor and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. So, in order to save his team from financial collapse, Connelly comes up with an inspired idea to bolster his flagging franchise's box-office receipts.

     The plan is to offer a record-setting contract to Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), provided the Princeton University sensation is willing to abandon plans to attend Yale Law School and turn pro instead. For the 6'3"
Golden Boy offers the added bonus of being a celebrated World War I hero who single-handedly captured a platoon of German soldiers during the Battle of the Argonne Forest in Northern France.

     Carter signs up and, sure enough, the gamble works. Sportswriters covering the Bulldogs begin writing articles recounting the veteran's exploits and enormous crowds start flocking to the team's games. However, a fly in the ointment arrives in Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger), an up-and-coming investigative journalist looking to make a name for herself.

     She suspects that the patriot's war record might have been a bit embellished, so she sets about doing a little digging to elicit the truth.
Meanwhile, she simultaneously finds herself being courted by both Carter and Dodge, and a love triangle ensues.

     Written and directed by George Clooney (for Syriana), Leatherheads is an old-fashioned screwball comedy cut from the mold of a Preston Sturges farce. Half slapstick, half romantic romp, the picture is at its best when indulging in witty repartee between Clooney and Renee Zellweger. Reminiscent of Tracy and Hepburn, the two Academy Award-winners again prove their worth, generating an endearing chemistry while delivering their every line with perfect aplomb.

       If only the rest of the script measured up to their inspired exchanges, the movie might have added up to something more memorable than a momentary diversion. Instead, what we have is a pleasant period piece harking back to days of yore, but one so superficial that it's likely to be forgotten by the time you file up the aisle.

Good (2 stars)
Rated PG-13 for brief profanity.
Running time: 114 minutes
Studi Universal Pictures


EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
 
       "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." — Tom Blandi


CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
 
       April 7: Singer Charlie Thomas of The Drifters is 71. Singer Mark Kibble of Take 6 is 44. Actor Bill Bellamy ("Last Comic Standing,"
"Fastlane") is 43.


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BLACK HISTORY
  
  Apr. 7, 1867: Johnson C.Smith University is founded in Charlotte, N.C. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)