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*It’s not right, and apparently it’s not okay for a passenger to belt a Whitney Houston song over and over again during a cross-country domestic flight. The six-hour American Airlines flight from LAX to New York’s JFK Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after a woman refused to stop belting [...]
*Three extraordinary documentaries will be presented: “Robert Mugabe: Villain or Hero?” an epic personal journey by filmmaker Roy Agyemang who found himself in Zimbabwean President Mugabe’s entourage, on Colonel Gaddafi’s private jet, and among a host of prominent African leaders; “Voices of Love: Whitney Houston and Her Family,” by filmmaker Gary Keys, a look into [...]
*Pat Houston’s family called emergency services on Monday, believing she was about to commit suicide after she posted a troubling message on Facebook. TMZ reports that the sister-in-law of late singer Whitney Houston, posted the message: “Sometimes you just feel like giving up on life and its many challenges. And for the first time in [...]
*Wendy Williams has incensed a lot of celebrities during her career as a radio DJ and TV talk show host. The most well known dispute that seemed to catapult her from a local New York radio show host to a household name, is her infamous beef with Whitney Houston. But, even Whitney’s tirade on her [...]
*Director Salim Akil knew he was stepping into some delicate territory when he agreed to take on the remake of “Sparkle,” the 1976 musical film starring Irene Cara and Philip Michael Thomas that went on to become a cult fave. “Black folk love this movie,” the filmmaker said of the original in an interview alongside his [...]
*Bobbi Kristina marked her 20th birthday on March 4 with the above photo of herself and a small note to her late mother, Whitney Houston, on Instagram. In it she writes, “I pray I’m growing into the phenomenal woman you always knew I’d become mommy, I love you and miss you immensely and I always [...]
*The FBI – which had an 11-year file on Whitney Houston, covering threats against the singer from 1988 to 1999 – has released 128 pages of the heavily-redacted documents, revealing details of an apparently successful blackmail plot, as well as an investigation into an obsessed fan. Released in response to a freedom of information request, [...]
*Since it came out that Clive Davis is bisexual, rumors resurfaced about Whitney Houston being experimental also started circulating. But he’s sort of clearing that up in his book, “The Soundtrack of My Life.” In the early days of Whitney’s career, she hung tough with her assistant Robyn Crawford, which sparked the lesbian rumors. “I [...]
*Landon Brown, Bobby Brown’s oldest son, is still living with the nightmare of a false reality that a tabloid painted of his life. In 2008, he interviewed with the National Enquirer about life with step-mom Whitney Houston, following his appearance on an MTV reality show competition. The quotes used for the story were used in a [...]
*Today is the 1-year anniversary of the death of Whitney Houston. The internationally known music icon died on this date as the result of a drug overdose in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. To commemorate her death, Tyler Perry wrote the missive below to his followers and Whitney’s fans. [...]
*Mary J. Blige, a self-confessed born-again Christian, says Whitney Houston’s death in February 2012 hit her hard, and made her realize it was time to seek spiritual help in an effort to cut out her binge drinking. “I didn’t want to go to rehab,” she tells Los Angeles Confidential magazine. “I believe that anything man [...]
*TMZ paps caught Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina and her “friend” Nick Gordon sharing a hand-rolled cigarette in Atlanta yesterday, nearly one year to the day her mom died from a drug overdose. No word on what was in the rolling paper. To see the photos, go HERE. TMZ reports: It’s interesting, considering Whitney’s mother [...]
*Whitney Houston died just hours before mentor Clive Davis’ annual Grammy party last year — and in the same hotel where she was scheduled to appear at the gala hours later. As the one year anniversary of her death approaches, Davis has invited Whitney’s mother Cissy Houston and the rest of her family to this [...]
*Madame Tussauds has turned its attention to Whitney Houston, remembering the legendary singer who died last year with not one, but four separate wax figures. “We were extremely honored when Madame Tussauds approached us about doing four figures of Whitney from different points in her 30-year career,” Houston’s manager and sister-in-law Pat Houston said in [...]
*Whitney Houston’s memory still lives on a year later. The Grammy committee has decided to celebrate the life and legacy of the beloved diva, who unexpectedly passed away last year in a hotel in Beverly Hills. The event will include an hour-long special called “The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family,” and [...]
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