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*Hmmmmm, we must admit we always wondered if MJ was “a little less than present” as he got off that bus and headed towards his press conference for the “This Is It” concert back in 2009. Remember? He was wearing his trademark shades, with the black suit accentuated by silver thread embroidery. There was something about [...]
Mike Melvoin The landscape of the music world is ever changing and so rapidly. The singers and musicians who so brilliantly and unselfishly performed the soundtracks of our lives – who were institutions and the thread that brought us together if but for a spell – are leaving one by one. We’re still reeling from the shockwave [...]
*(Via LA Times) – In the film “This Is It,” the late Michael Jackson is shown as agile and energetic as ever, on the cusp of possibly the greatest comeback in music history. “We’re all here because of him,” director Kenny Ortega said in the documentary, between images of Jackson lithely floating across the stage [...]
*The LA Times‘ Greg Braxton has written an interesting piece on the disappearance of black family sitcoms from network TV since ‘The Cosby Show” back in the eighties. One of the few exceptions is BET’s “Reed Between the Lines.” Braxton points out that despite hundreds of new TV channels and the popularity of “The Cosby [...]
*It was 20 years ago today when LA Lakers superstar guard Ervin “Magic” Johnson announced to the world that he was HIV positive. Along with everyone else, Bob Costas, the TV sports commentator and play-by-play man remembers being rocked by the news that the magic man was had AIDS. “I was stunned,” Costas said, “and [...]
*A really bad idea goes down the drain, fortunately. It seems that Bank of America, bowing to nationwide protests, is calling off its plan to charge customers $5 a month for using its debit cards to make purchases. As the bank found out, it was a strategy that proved to be a public relations disaster [...]
*First things first. President Obama is in LA to pick up about a milli in campaign funds from Big Willies like well, Big Will Smith, Magic Johnson and actor Antonio Banderas, among others. But on the way to those events, the prez made an executive decision to stop off in the ‘hood at Roscoe’s House [...]
*Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc. and driving force behind a string of products that revolutionized the consumer-electronics industry, stepped down as chief executive on Wednesday. His departure from the CEO post had been widely anticipated ever since Jobs took an extended medical leave earlier this year to attend to undisclosed health reasons. [...]
*It looks like a punk move by The Game is coming back to bite him in the butt. The rapper sent a tweet to his followers to call him about an intern position he had. Here’s the punk move: he gave out the phone number of the LA County Sheriff’s Compton office! Needless to say, [...]
*He may be young, rich and famous, but Lakers forward Lamar Odom cannot shake his worst nightmare-death. “Death always seems to be around me. I’ve been burying people for a long time,” Odom revealed during a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. Odom said he first encountered death at the age of 12, when [...]
*The NFL and players have reached an agreement to end the lockout. The sides worked through the weekend, finally finishing the deal Monday morning, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press. If players sign off on the agreement Monday, NFL clubs would be able to start signing 2011 draft picks and rookie [...]
*Whoa, this is deep. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago – before his first run for office – with a longtime member of their household staff, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Shriver moved out of the [...]
*One of those other films opening this weekend against the powerhouse “Thor,” “Jumping the Broom,” the African American comedy about two socioeconomically opposite families who clash when they meet at a lavish wedding appears at first glance to be a lightweight contender. The low-budget Tristar Pictures release has no A-list stars, is not in 3-D [...]
*In Los Angeles this morning, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced a complete overhaul of the Grammy Awards, including the ways in which academy members vote for nominees, the process by which the academy categorizes nominees and the ways in which it adds and eliminates categories. The academy’s vice president of awards, [...]
*In Los Angeles, police are searching for two Dodgers fans responsible for assaulting and critically injuring a man wearing San Francisco Giants apparel following Thursday night’s season opener. “The man suffered a serious head injury during the assault after the game,” said LAPD Sgt. Sanford Rosenberg, watch commander at the Northeast Station. Rosenberg said the [...]
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