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*A Sanford, Florida pastor and Disney employee has been accused of downloading and watching child porn while working at Disney’s Port Orleans resort. Cedric Eugene Cuthbert (pictured) was arrested last week on multiple child pornography charges. The 49-year-old has worked at the Disney resort for over seven years and is a pastor at St. James [...]
*Newly out NBA center Jason Collins and his twin brother Jarron will be guests on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on May 15. Collins became the first openly gay NBA player when he came out in a Sports Illustrated article last week – and ABC has been on him ever since, with “Good Morning America” scoring [...]
*Disney has announced Cedric the Entertainer among the vocal cast of its next big animated film “Planes,” described as an airborne version of “Cars.” Dane Cook leads the vocal cast as an afraid-of-heights airplane that aspires to be a racer. Ced will play “a puttering old biplane,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Rochelle, “a tough and confident [...]
*The March 29 issue of The Hollywood Reporter details an internal study commissioned by producers of “The View” that showed co-hosts Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck – on the political left and right, respectively – were too “polarizing” for audiences. “They’re out of sync with the audience,” notes one source. The study, conducted earlier this [...]
*New music from Mariah Carey will hit both radio and iTunes on Tuesday, Feb. 19. “Almost Home,” from the forthcoming movie “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” was co-written by Carey with Simone Porter, Justin Gray, Lindsey Ray and co-produced by Stargate (Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen). “It’s a feel-good record,” Carey said in a [...]
BET set to air UNCF Evening of Stars, an explosive night of performances *Multi-NAACP Image Award nominee Anthony Hamilton (NBC’s “Guys with Kids”) does a wonderful job hosting this year’s “UNCF (United Negro College Fund) Evening of Stars” televised scholarship fundraiser to air on BET Network January 26 and 27, 2013. Taped previously in December, [...]
*President Lincoln will be back inside of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. today. The White House said Wednesday that President Obama will host the cast and crew of Steven Spielberg’s biopic “Lincoln” today for a special screening. The Disney release, produced by DreamWorks and Fox in association with Participant Media, will screen in the evening, after the [...]
*Were you one of the first in attendance when Star Wars hit theaters? Did you dress up as R2D2 or C3PO for Halloween? Or how about Darth Vadar? That had to be the #1 costume for Halloween until the trilogy ended in 1983 with Return of the Jedi. If you have the nostalgic attachment to [...]
*“Tim taught me that everyone is not a nobody, no matter who you are, you can make a difference in the world,” said 11 year-old actor C J Adams about his starring role in the new Disney movie release The Odd Life of Timothy Green – in theaters August 15, 2012. Adams stars in the [...]
*Tevyn Cole is one of the newest members of the Disney cast. He recently relocated to Orlando to work in the merchandising department for the next eight months as a college intern. Cole, who is a junior at Eastern Michigan University, is no stranger to Disney. He was a member of the 2008 inaugural class of the [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Many people will walk in and out of [...]
*A new dipping candy featuring the first black Disney princess, Tiana, is under fire for the type of candy she’s peddling. Tiana is on the cover of a wrapper of watermelon flavored dipping for candy. The other candy being promoted, by a white princess, has a vanilla flavor. It kinda makes you wonder if they [...]
*The first full trailer for “The Avengers,” featuring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, was released today by Disney. [Scroll down to watch.] There was some fan backlash around the Super Bowl spot for being too short, for making fans go online to see more, and for not showing enough. Written and directed by Joss [...]
*The spanish-speaking population is climbing to the top. They have surpassed African Americans in population numbers and they have cable channels just for them on all the premium movie channels including Telemundo and Univision. But now, it seems their may be strides to have an English-speaking channel within Univision. (more…)
*A committee working on behalf of both President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee is offering an array of novel fundraising “packages” to the incumbent’s deep pocketed Hollywood supporters, according to the Hollywood Reporter. An invitation being circulated this week by the Obama Victory Fund, which splits the contributions it receives between [...]
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