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VICTOR FIELDS: 'Thinking of You'
Smooth jazz artist releases fourth disc
-- by Kenya M Yarbrough
*There are reasons why it's called smooth jazz. One is the smooth sound of sultry vocalist Victor Fields. With his fourth album in stores, the artist, called a "soulful singer with a jazzy feel," has got the genre covered - literally.
The new disc, titled "Thinking of You," is a collection of covers and features a dynamic list of musicians and producers, including Chris Comozzi, keyboardist Jeff Lorber, saxophonist Richard Elliot and flugelhorn player Rich Braun.
This album is more than a remake of classic soul hits, though. It's an enlightening piece of work that led the veteran singer to find his own identity. After creating his first through third albums with certain goals in mind, Fields said that this was the first time he just walked in the studio and laid down a record with no agenda.
"The very first record I started out with, Kashif was the producer. It was a very Urban AC (Adult Contemporary) CD," he described. "The second project, I moved back to the Bay Area. It was something that I didn't plan, but something that felt natural. I wanted to be more grounded, so I went into more of a jazz thing. But I think there is still a lot of soul still left in me and I didn't really understand that until we were talking about the next album."
What Fields referred to was the development, or lack of development to some degree, of this project. He sat down with his producer who simply suggested that he "have some fun" in doing the new project.
"Having fun equated to some classic R&B tunes, like 'Lovely Day'; songs that I just thought were great songs," Fields explained. "I think that you can take a writer like Bill Withers and can put him on the same level as Paul McCartney and Leonard Bernstein. He's one of the most underrated contemporary songwriters."
Fields continued that the disc made him feel like he was coming into his own because of the energy in creating the disc.
"You can feel it in the new CD; you can feel the energy," he said. "The way people stretched and contributed on this record ... it's like everyday was fun. The first day we went in and did 'Lovely Day' and it had so much beautiful energy. This is the kind of music I like."
Since he's now coming into his own, EUR's Lee Bailey asked the singer how he would describe his sound:
"I'm just a student of voice," he said modestly. "I got into this thing; I took some voice lessons and got very serious about singing all types of music; from Negro spirituals to jazz to R&B to pop. The word eclectic has been used and I understand that because of the diversity of my repertoire and all the types of music that I've done. I've done all that. I'm very much into melody. I'm kind of a classic. I just really paid attention and respect a lot of the real classic singers and try to incorporate that into my [music]."
No matter what he considers his genre, the Brooklyn-born singer, who considers himself both an R&B and smooth jazz artist, said he realizes his sound is shaped by listeners and his fans.
"In the bio, I'm trying to describe where I'm going, but my audience is telling me where I need to be. That's what I mean when I say that I'm evolving and I'm fitting into a spot, I'm in a natural place. I mean that I didn't do anything for radio; I didn't do anything for marketing. I'm just doing fun."
Fields promised that his next project would probably be more original material, but said that the style would stay the same - a hybrid of R&B and jazz. But he is definitely content with his current project's stylings.
"It just felt freer, lighter. At the end of the day I liked every song. I didn't analyze, I didn't think, I just sang. And I said, 'This feels good and this is where I need to be.'," he said.
To get more on Victor Fields and check out the music from "Thinking of You," visit his website at www.victorfields.com.
EDDIE MURPHY'S REP ADDRESSES OSCAR NIGHT EXIT: Actor bounced after losing award; critics call him 'sore loser'; rep doing damage control.
*Eddie Murphy's publicist has come forward to address the criticism surrounding his decision to leave the Oscar ceremony once he lost the supporting actor award to "Little Miss Sunshine" star Alan Arkin.
As viewers may have noticed, the "Dreamgirls" actor and his date, Tracy Edmonds, were nowhere to be seen in audience shots following the announcement of his category. Only co-star Beyonce and director Bill Condon were seen looking on as Jennifer Hudson accepted her award for supporting actress.
"Eddie had always planned on leaving after his category was announced to spend the rest of the evening with his family," Murphy's rep Arnold Robinson said, according to People magazine. "He did the same thing following the Golden Globe Awards," where Murphy actually won his supporting actor category.
Robinson was responding to the criticism received by his client from such outlets as TMZ.com and the New York Post's Page Six, both of whom labeled Murphy 'a sore loser' for refusing to stick around.
While the couple may have bolted from the auditorium, witnesses tell People that "the pair was spotted just outside the theater doors in heavy conversation - and in a group-hug - with studio head Harvey Weinstein."
MIJAC RESPONDS TO FLURRY OF RUMORS: Statement released addressing 'American.
Idol'; NBA All-Star Game; family tour; Vegas gig and leaked single.
*In one fell swoop, Michael Jackson's rep Raymone K. Bain is hoping to squash a number of rumors that have involved her high-profile client in the past weeks.
Bain's statement denies Fox411 columnist Roger Friedman's report that Jackson will reluctantly go on tour with his family members, including Janet, because he is low on cash.
The release also addresses rumors of Jackson trying to mount a Las Vegas show, trying unsuccessfully to score tickets to the NBA All-Star Game, the leaked single from DJ Tempamental and attributed to Jackson and Pras entitled "No Friend Of Mine (Gangsta)," and much more.
Here is the statement, verbatim:
**Mr. Jackson is not planning a concert tour with members of his family.
**Mr. Jackson has been presented numerous proposals…proposals which he has not solicited, but were presented to him, several of which include
performing in Las Vegas. Mr. Jackson is currently reviewing and evaluating
each proposal. He does not believe that he is under any time constraint for making his decisions. Therefore, reports that he has "been unsuccessful in finding a Las Vegas casino for his show, resulting in his having to turn to his family" are false.
**Mr. Jackson did not move to Las Vegas to shop a Vegas show. Mr. Jackson is in Las Vegas because he likes the city, and found it a convenient location to record with the artists, songwriters and producers who are working with him in the studio.
**Mr. Jackson has no current plans to appear or perform on "American Idol."
**Mr. Jackson did not either solicit, ask to be given, or attempt to buy tickets to the recent NBA All-Star Game, as has been widely reported. Mr.
Jackson was invited by several owners of NBA teams, as well as players, to attend the game as their guest. However, Mr. Jackson declined these kind invitations. Widely spread reports that Mr. Jackson sought tickets, and was denied his request, are completely false.
**Mr. Jackson never leased property from Michael Flatly in Ireland.
Therefore, reports stating that he was "evicted" from property owned by Flatly are erroneous and defamatory.
**Mr. Jackson has not recently released or recorded a single with Pras.
FOXY BROWN EXPLAINS LATEST ARREST: Rapper says she was dragged out of store half naked and racially harassed by cops.
*"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman," said rapper Foxy Brown, addressing her Feb. 15 arrest at a beauty supply store in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
The artist, born Inga Marchand, spoke publicly about the incident for the first time Monday at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn.
Brown is accused of spitting on store owner Hayssam Ghoneim after he asked her to leave the restroom so that he could close the store. She is also accused of getting into a scuffle with a police officer in the parking lot.
Brown said she was only going to the bathroom, but the store owner would not let her finish and began dragging her out while she was still half-dressed.
"I was exposed from the waist down on the toilet," she told reporters.
Ghoneim says Brown spat on him, and that a surveillance video shows that the rapper left the restroom door open the entire time.
Brown, 27, is due back in court this week on charges of resisting an officer and simple battery, police said. She could end up behind bars if a judge decides that her latest offense violated probation given in her 2004 cell phone assault on two manicurists.
JENNIFER HUDSON'S OSCAR DRESS DEBACLE: Fashionistas weren't feeling it and neither was J-Hud, according to one report.
*That infamous brown Oscar de la Renta dress worn by Jennifer Hudson at the Academy Awards Sunday has been the object of ridicule by several members of the fashion police, but word has it that the "Dreamgirls" star was bullied into wearing it by her new fashion consultant, Andre Leon Talley.
The New York Post's Page Six says Hudson felt pressured to wear the dress against her wishes because of Talley, Vogue's editor-at-large who took the young starlet under his wing for her cover-shoot and photo spread in the current issue.
"Jennifer was kind of sponsored by Talley and Vogue," a source told Page Six. "Andre insisted she wear that hideous Oscar de la Renta dress with the awful, awful gold python bolero.
"Jennifer really didn't want to, and so [stylist] Jessica Paster got her a beautiful gold Roberto Cavalli custom-made. But when Andre found out, he went ballistic. Moments before she left for the show, there was a power struggle and Jennifer ended up putting his outfit on."
"I love you, but there's too much going on here," said "America's Next Top Model" star and E! fashion commentator Jay Manuel as he used a telestrator to deconstruct Hudson's bolero jacket John Madden style.
New York Post fashion editor Serena French said the dress made Hudson look "lost in space."
*In other Andre Leon Talley news, the diva can't get over the fact that a character based on him in "The Devil Wears Prada" was played by actor, Stanley Tucci.
Although Talley has yet to see the movie - which features Meryl Streep as a character patterned after his boss, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour - he says: "I was offended that they got a little, tiny, bald-headed man to play a character that was based on me. Whether he did a good job or not is not the point."
JANET JACKSON TO STAR IN NEXT TYLER PERRY FLICK: Singer joins Jill Scott, Sharon Leal in 'Why Did I Get Married.'
*Last seen on the big screen opposite Eddie Murphy in 2000's "Nutty Professor II: The Clumps," Janet Jackson will return to movie theaters as the star of Tyler Perry's next feature, "Why Did I Get Married."
Also starring Sharon Leal and singer Jill Scott, the film is based on Perry's stage play about a couple who goes away with friends every winter to examine their marriages in a group setting. One of the wives brings along a sexy young temptress who causes plenty of trouble for the couples.
Shooting is set to begin March 5 in Whistler, British Columbia; Vancouver; and then Atlanta, where Perry recently opened his own studio, reports Variety. The filmmaker is writing, directing and producing the picture for Lionsgate.
Perry is currently in theaters with "Daddy's Little Girls," which has grossed $25.1 million since its Valentine's Day release.
JAMES BROWN'S DNA DRAMA SORTED OUT: Agreement reached over how to collect the samples.
*A lawyer for James Brown's partner Tomi Rae Hynie says an agreement has been reached regarding the manner in which DNA samples will be collected from the late entertainer's body.
According to the Associated Press, Hynie didn't approve of the way trustees wanted to obtain the samples. Both sides were scheduled to hash it out in a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday, but it was canceled after the agreement was finalized.
Instead, the lawyers planned to present an order for the judge to sign, said Hynie's lawyer, Robert Rosen.
Lawyers for Brown's trustees wanted DNA samples from the Godfather of Soul to help sort out several paternity claims made against the singer since he died two months ago.
ICE CUBE TRADES 'FRIDAY' FOR 'SUNDAY': Actor-rapper stars in directorial debut of playwright David E. Talbert.
*Ice Cube has signed on to star in the Screen Gems film "First Sunday," which marks the feature directing debut of successful playwright, David E. Talbert.
The actor-rapper plays one of two men who botches an attempt to rob a church. They wind up taking its parishioners hostage, and those churchgoers slowly convert the robbers to see the error of their ways.
Production is scheduled to begin May 14 in Los Angeles and Baltimore. Screen Gems plans to put the film in theaters during the next Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
Following in the footsteps of fellow playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry, Talbert is currently weighing offers to adapt several of his plays for the big screen, reports Variety. Like Perry, Talbert has written dozens of gospel-themed productions that have generated tremendous box office for the past 15 years. His latest, "Nick of Tyme," is currently on tour with Morris Chestnut in the lead.
Cube returns to theaters this spring with the Steve Carr-directed "Are We Done Yet?," a sequel to his hit comedy "Are We There Yet?" The rapper is also developing "Welcome Back, Kotter" at the Weinstein Co.
LAPD EYEING SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS: He's under investigation for assault and battery
*According to TMZ.com, Sean "Diddy" Combs is living up to his bad boy alter ego again. The website says the LAPD is currently investigating him because he's being accused of attacking a man Sunday night at an Oscar party in Hollywood.
The story goes that Gerard Rechnitzer was with his fiancée at a post Oscar party held at Teddy's in the Roosevelt Hotel. At around 2 AM Monday morning, Rechnitzer, 27, saw his fiancée surrounded by six men, including Combs.
After observing Combs mack his girlie down for about 5 minutes, he told her it was time to go.
At that point, reports the website, Combs allegedly told the woman he was having a party and invited her to come. Rechnitzer persisted and asked said girlfriend again to leave with him. It was at that point that Combs allegedly said hello to Rechnitzer with his fist.
Rechnitzer then called 911 and the LAPD came and took a report, but Combs was long gone. By the way, Rechnitzer declined treatment after the ambulance arrived.
TMZ is also reporting that as many at five witnesses observed the incident.
OK, but what we wanna know is did Rechnitzer's "fiancée" stick by her man or did she leave with the bad boy?
BLAIR UNDERWOOD TO DIRECT VING RHAMES: Film centers on four men who create an elite escort service.
*Actor Blair Underwood will step behind the camera to direct "The Bridge to Nowhere," an indie drama starring Ving Rhames in the story of four blue-collar men who team with a destitute prostitute to create a high-priced escort service.
Underwood's feature directing debut is scheduled to begin next month in Pittsburgh with Kristoff St. John of the CBS soap "The Young and the Restless" as one of the film's producers. The project is under Smithfield Street Productions, headed by Mike Wittlin and Brian Hartman.
Underwood has previously directed five music videos and a short called, "The Second Coming." He's producing and starring in supernatural thriller "My Soul to Keep" for Fox Searchlight and producing the TLC series "Easy Money" with his partner Tommy Morgan Jr. for their company, Intrepid Inc.
Underwood's currently in CBS' "The New Adventures of Old Christine"
and is slated to star in the upcoming HBO series "In Treatment."
SHARPTON WANTS DNA TESTING ON THURMOND LINK: Rev wants to see if they are
related; Thurmond's black granddaughter speaks out.
*Fallout continues to drop from last weekend's bombshell revelation that an ancestor of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist, owned a slave who was found to be the great-grandfather of civil rights activist, Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sharpton now says he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is linked to the late senator through blood lines as well.
"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," Sharpton told the Daily News, which on Sunday reported the link based on genealogists findings.
The folks at Ancestry.com found that Sharpton's great-grandfather Coleman Sharpton was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
Ancestry.com's chief family genealogist, Megan Smolenyak, said Sharpton would need to match his DNA with a present-day descendant to see if they are biologically related.
"I think the odds are slim he would match," Smolenyak told the Daily News.
Meanwhile, Thurmond's black granddaughter, the child of a biracial daughter he fathered with the family housekeeper, said Monday that Rev.
Sharpton should try to make peace with the fact that his family is linked to the Thurmonds.
"We made our peace with ours," said Wanda Terry, whose mother is Thurmond's biracial daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams. "My mother addressed that. She has a relationship with her family members, and she's moved on. There's no animosity, and there's no point in having all this resentment because it's not healthy and it's not doing anyone any good."
WHITAKER'S EX-GIRLFRIEND DISHES IN LONDON TABLOID: Mother of son Ocean says she wants Oscar winner back.
*London tabloid News of the World is trying to rain on the parade of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker with the recent interview of Monique Miller, the actor's ex-girlfriend and mother of his 16-year-rold son, Ocean.
In the article, Miller makes wild claims about the film star and offers up lurid details of their sex life. Miller says she met Whitaker when she was a publicist, 11 years before his 1996 marriage to current wife Keisha.
"He was not the best looking man in the world. He was hardly a typical movie star-slightly overweight and with a lazy left eye," Miller told the tabloid. "But he made up for it with his magical personality."
Miller, a former model, says of her relationship with Whitaker: "I idolized him and I still do. I long for us to be a proper family even though he is married and has children with another woman."
Whitaker - who has two daughters, Sonnet and True, with wife Keisha - was described by Miller as a school nerd, unsuccessful with girls and shy in the bedroom, until she showed him the ropes.
She said: "He was a quick learner. It was amazing. He made every inch of my body tingle with lust. Forest was incredibly romantic. Many nights I'd come home to find he had run me a bath, put rose water in it and lit candles. We'd strip off, slide in together and make love in the water."
"Forest was with me when I gave birth to our son and both of us shed tears of joy," she continued. "He said it was the happiest day of his life.
He picked the name Ocean because he said he wanted his first son to be called something bigger than a forest."
Miller said their relationship soured once Whitaker became famous and began receiving amorous attention from lots of women.
"Suddenly all these women were throwing themselves at him. He'd never experienced being an object of lust before. He was like a kid in a toy shop," she said.
"So I sat and waited, hoping he would get it out of his system and one day be mine for ever."
Read the entire News of the World article here:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/forest_whitaker.shtml
ITTY BITTY BITS: 'Dancing' book; Santa Monica buses drop 'Top Model'; Diaz and Tyrese?; Keith Sweat Hotel; Oprah wants Kidman's man.
*ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" will soon be available as a coffee table book that will chronicle the fitness regiment involved in getting celebrity couples in top ballroom dance form. According to the HarperCollins imprint behind the project, the book will also feature instructions for dance moves, healthy recipes and never-before-seen pictures and quotes from the stars and their ballroom partners. The show's fourth season begins March 19 with boxer Laila Ali and former NBA star Clyde Drexler among the contestants.
*Folks in Santa Monica, California will no longer see ads for tonight's season premiere of "America's Next Top Model" on the city's Big Blue Buses. The company that runs the line has snatched them down after a number of folks complained about the models being too scantily clad, reports Variety. "It's a matter of public taste," said Stephanie Negriff, director of transit services for the city. "We try to be sensitive to the community."
The "Model" ads ran for two weeks before being pulled, however, the Big Blue Bus decided to refund the entire check paid by CW for the ads. The Tyra Banks-hosted show kicks off its 8th cycle in a two-hour premiere beginning at 8 p.m.
*Cameron Diaz has apparently moved on from actor Djimon Hounsou and is now on the arm of Tyrese Gibson. According to gossip columnist Janet Charlton, witnesses spotted the two dancing together all night Saturday at after-hours club Xenii in Hollywood. Charlton wrote in her column: "We wonder if she's hanging out with sexy black guys to get back at her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake - because he always wanted to BE a sexy black guy."
*R&B veteran Keith Sweat's new syndicated radio show, The Keith Sweat Hotel, made its debut on 12 stations this week via Premiere Radio Networks, among them, WMXD-Detroit, WMIB-Miami and WKUS-Norfolk. Sweat commented, "Radio is one of the reasons I wanted to be a singer, so I've always had an interest in that part of the business. And now, the timing is right for me to add something different to my legacy and to take a chance in sharing who I am on a more intimate level with those listeners checking into the Sweat Hotel." The program airs Sunday through Friday from 7 p.m. - midnight.
*While holding court at the Sunday's Vanity Fair party at Mortons with Mary J. Blige, Oprah Winfrey was reportedly working overtime to try and land the first post-rehab interview with Nicole Kidman's husband, Keith Urban, reports the New York Post. Shortly after his marriage to the actress, the country star entered a treatment facility to address his alcohol demons.
EVENT CALENDAR: Soul Music Summit in ATL; Patti Austin in Culver City; Kindred at D.C.'s Breaking the Chain concert.
*The International Soul Music Summit (ISMS), the largest music conference dedicated to the soul genre, returns to Atlanta July 25 through
29 with a new theme (Underground Meets Mainstream: It's Time to Connect), more artists, networking and nightlife activities. Events include panels, performances, acoustic jam sessions, themed networking sessions, an unsigned artists showcase and The Angel Awards. "My goal is to educate people about this music and do everything possible to get this scene and the music to the next level," says the event's executive producer/creator, Terry Bello. "Like jazz and hip-hop before us, this music is underground now but is poised to be the next big thing." Hotel and registration specials are now available for a limited time online at www.soulsummitonline.com.
*Legendary entertainer Patti Austin will make a special appearance at Circuit City in Culver City, Los Angeles on Tuesday (March 6) to meet fans and sign copies of her new album, "Avant-Gershwin," due in stores that day.
Festivities begin at 7 p.m. at the store's location at 5660 Sepulveda Blvd.
"Avant-Gershwin" is a new and adventurous big band rendering of George Gershwin songs that celebrate the Gershwin jazz connection.
*Hidden Beach recording artist Kindred The Family Soul and Baltimore-based Fertile Ground are featured performers in the first of a four-part event dubbed Breaking the Chain Concert Series, to be held in Washington D.C. The evening will be hosted by Educational Support, Inc.
(CES), a non-profit organization that provides supplemental educational services to students enrolled in public schools that are in need of improvement. The concert will take place March 1 at 8 p.m. at the historic Lincoln Theatre (1215 U Street, N.W.). Proceeds from the Breaking the Chain Concert Series will support the Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program, which provides external support for children of prisoners. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com for $50. For more information on sponsorships or to learn more about the Series please visit www.breakingthechaincs.com.
SHARPTON WANTS DNA TESTING ON THURMOND LINK: Rev wants to see if they are
related; Thurmond's black granddaughter speaks out.
*Fallout continues to drop from last weekend's bombshell revelation that an ancestor of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist, owned a slave who was found to be the great-grandfather of civil rights activist, Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sharpton now says he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is linked to the late senator through blood lines as well.
"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," Sharpton told the Daily News, which on Sunday reported the link based on genealogists findings.
The folks at Ancestry.com found that Sharpton's great-grandfather Coleman Sharpton was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
Ancestry.com's chief family genealogist, Megan Smolenyak, said Sharpton would need to match his DNA with a present-day descendant to see if they are biologically related.
"I think the odds are slim he would match," Smolenyak told the Daily News.
Meanwhile, Thurmond's black granddaughter, the child of a biracial daughter he fathered with the family housekeeper, said Monday that Rev.
Sharpton should try to make peace with the fact that his family is linked to the Thurmonds.
"We made our peace with ours," said Wanda Terry, whose mother is Thurmond's biracial daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams. "My mother addressed that. She has a relationship with her family members, and she's moved on. There's no animosity, and there's no point in having all this resentment because it's not healthy and it's not doing anyone any good."
'WHY I HATE BLACKS' ARTICLE BLASTED: News outlet and its editor apologize.
An article/opinion piece by Kenneth Eng, a 23-year-old New York-based science fiction writer called "Why I Hate Blacks" is raising the ire of not just African Americans, but Asian Americans as well.
AsianWeek, a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper is being roundly criticized by a coalition of Asian American groups for publishing the piece in the first place. The uproar has caused the outlet to delete the article from its website and issue a statement that it "sincerely regrets any offense caused."
In the column, which appeared in the Feb. 23 edition of AsianWeek, contributor Kenneth Eng lists reasons why he supports discrimination against blacks, writing, among other things: "I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years."
That's only the beginning. He also wrote:
"Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious:
"Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us."
The Associate Press reports that leaders at the Asian American Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans and other groups are circulating a petition denouncing the piece as "irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans."
The petition calls on AsianWeek to cut ties with Eng, issue an apology, print an editorial refuting the column, and fire or demote the editors who published it.
"Something like this should never have been printed," said Vincent Eng, deputy director of the Asian American Justice Center in Washington, who is not related to the columnist. "Deliberate action needs to be taken to make sure this type of hate speech doesn't continue."
To read the article in its entirety via Richard Prince's "Journalisms" site, click HERE:
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/070225_prince-hateblacks
EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous patience." - Hyman Rickover
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Feb. 28: Actress Rae Dawn Chong is 46. Actor Bobb'e J. Thompson ("The Tracy Morgan Show") is 11.
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Here's a political blog with insightful, irreverent take on international affairs from a progressive, leftist perspective:
www.ebeefs.com.
Submit your favorite Web site to us along with a 15-20 word (or less) description to info@eurweb.com.
BLACK HISTORY
Feb. 28, 1984: Musician and entertainer Michael Jackson wins eight Grammy Awards. His album, "Thriller," broke all sales records to-date and remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
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