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Congrats To Actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer! They were big winners at the recent SAG Awards. Winning top actress honors for the roles in the movie The Help.
Will Smith and his son Jaden are filming Director M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth, a futuristic thriller. In the movie, which is filming in the area, Jaden plays a teen stranded on an abandoned planet. Will plays his dad. Filming is happening now through April. Will and Jaden last appeared together on screen in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. Look for Will Smith in March as host of The 25th Annual Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon.
Yes I’m complaining about the entertainment business. What are you trying to feed the public? Stop insulting our intelligence with no talent folks. Here we are Kim K now getting a divorce. She has no talent just pretty looks, which will take you how far darling. First of all these “K” girls rode in on their Fathers coat tails for fame. There Dad was not even the primary in the OJ case, Johnnny Cochran was.
Seriously how far do you have to gap your legs to become famous in Gollywood. Also I’m sick and tired of all the Reality Shows. Especially all the “Housewifes of ???” shows. Really? Why are you even married or better yet friends not equal to yourself. Trust me hear when I tell you this, it is not all reality base, a lot of the interaction we see is stage, to keep the viewers tuned in.
I now truly understand why Actors/Actress that have paid dues in the industry to perfect there craft, get mad when – so called rappers, fly by nights, no talents come along and make millions off talentless, folks that should have kept there days jobs. Everybody can not act, just like everybody can not sing.
Years ago I told my youngest daughter that Janet Jackson can not sing, her voice is engineer with the mike. Yet she has a smokey sexy speaking voice. Man, my daughter was psst with me. I told her when you see an artist come on stage with a mike, with no backup band, singers, or engineered panel board, that is a true talented individual. Not many young folks can sing on a raw mike and sound very good.
I also told her Beyonce can not act, stick to singing her day job, lol lol. At least she agreed with me on that illustration. Folks work hard in a very competative industry, to reach a goal of Oscar, Grammy, Tony or Emmy awards. And then again some folks never get the credit they deserve.
Movie industry – to you stop making movies that insult our intelligence, this is 2011, we have grown up since the 70′s and 80′s. Some movies are for children and I find them more enjoying then the adult dramas, or comedies, they actually make sense.
CBS is set to announce that conservative comic Sheryl Underwood and Kardashian mom Kris Jenner will serve as co-hosts of the CBS daytime show “The Talk,” reports Deadline.com. Underwood, a former staple on the Tom Joyner Morning Show and the Jamie Foxx channel for Sirius XM satellite radio, is now a weekly contributor on radio’s Steve Harvey Mornin g Show. A former member of the U.S. Armed Forces, Underwood likes to call herself “a sexually progressive God-fearing black Republican.” This latest move by “Talk” producers follows months of apparent behind-the-scenes drama that culminated in the reported exit of co-hosts Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini. Their options were not renewed. Sharon Osbourne, who said she wanted to scale back her appearances on the show, will return this fall, but only for six non-consecutive weeks. Sara Gilbert, one of the creators of the show, and Les Moonves’ wife Julie Chen are still on board in front of the camera. Chen, the wife of Moonves and host of CBS’ “Big Brother,” is rumored to have been too overbearing behind the scenes, prompting tension between the ladies. Below are just some of the “Chenbot” rumors that have surfaced since “The Talk” began:
From Zap2it.com (July 19, 2011): “Sara may be executive producer, but Julie is definitely the Queen B,” says one mole. “The reason [former executive producer] Susan Winston was fired following only two weeks on the job was because she changed something during a segment that made a guest uncomfortable,” says the insider. Allegedly, when Chen informed her husband, Les Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corporation, of the incident he reportedly watched the segment in question and had Winston fired on the spot. Prior to that development, I reported last January that Barbara Bloom was relieved of her duties as Senior Vice-President of Daytime following alleged run-ins with Chen.
From New York post’s Page Six (Aug 16, 2011): Julie Chen’s “queen bee attitude” is forcing the ladies of CBS’s “The Talk” to flee the daytime gab-fest after just one season. Sources say fed-up Leah Remini plans to quit on the heels of Sharon Osbourne’s bombshell that she’s taking a break. Co-host Holly Robinson Peete last week said she will not return for Season 2. The last straw for Osbourne and Remini was Chen’s order, passed down from her master-of- the-universe husband, CBS President Les Moonves, following their South of France break, that the women were not allowed to discuss the Casey Anthony case without her because she’s the only host with journalistic credentials. “[Julie] said, ‘My husband feels strongly that you should not be talking about news [without me], you are not news people,’ ” our source told us. “Sharon just said, ‘I don’t know about this.’ She’d had enough. ” Despite the friction, one program insider called Chen “the glue that holds the show together” and firmly placed the blame on Remini. “[Remini] was a disruptive force,” the source said. “She had a huge morale problem,” adding that Remini often brought her mother on set, who refused to follow studio rules. “Her mother never parked in her assigned space,” the insider said. “She was told not to park in the lot anymore. ” Two executive producers have abandoned the show since it began last fall. But co-host Sara Gilbert is slated to return. A CBS spokesperson told us, “ ‘The Talk’ just finished a strong first season . . . The producers are currently working on a creative game plan for Season 2, which launches on Sept. 6.” Osbourne’s rep said she was “not reachable .” Remini’s agent said, “I don’t believe anyone’s option has been picked up. Her mom does go to the show every day as does Sara’s mom and Holly’s mom.” He declined to comment about the parking-lot matter because Remini couldn’t be reached by deadline.
Squeezed between a Ben & Jerry’s cart and a booth selling rolling papers, two naturopathic doctors worked briskly through a line of patients.
The patients — old and young, stooped and tattooed — had been funneled to the doctors’ white tent by a blizzard of fliers handed out at the entrance of Seattle’s Hempfest, the three-day festival of all things marijuana.
The ads, by a clinic called 4Evergreen Group, offered authorization to use medical marijuana for one year for $150 if the patient had medical records; $200 with no medical records.
I was one of the first in line Friday, no medical records in hand but curious about how the process worked. After watching a short instructional video and meeting with a naturopath for 11 minutes, I joined the uncounted but growing number of Washingtonians able to legally posses 1-½ pounds of cannabis and 15 plants.
Throughout the 13-year history of the state medical-marijuana law, the issue of how patients get authorized has been overshadowed by battles between advocates and law enforcement over rules for possession.
But the Legislature’s 2010 expansion in the type of medical professionals able to authorize marijuana, and the emergence of specialty authorization clinics, helped stoke a boom in the medical-cannabis industry. That pushes the issue of authorizations to more prominence, none more visible than 4Evergreen’s Hempfest tent.
The authorization process appears to largely comply with state law, even if I might not be the type of patient voters had in mind when they passed the law in 1998.
“The intent of the law is to treat people with terrible, serious, even life-threatening conditions that may be helped with medical marijuana,” said Donn Moyer, a spokesman for the Department of Health. “Ask yourself, is that what’s happening out there?”
(Thank you Jonathan Martin)
MARISKA HARGITAY has paid tribute to her longtime LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT co-star CHRISTOPHER MELONI as he prepares to leave the TV show after 12 years.
Meloni recently confirmed he won’t be returning to the hit cop drama for the upcoming 13th season, leaving his onscreen partner Hargitay to continue without him.
The pair’s co-star Ice-T recently spoke of his “surprise” and sadness following news of Meloni’s departure, and Hargitay has now revealed she will miss her pal “terribly”.
She tells TVLine, “For the past 12 years Chris has been my partner and friend, both on screen and off. He inspired me every day with his integrity, his extraordinary talent and his commitment to the truth. I love him deeply and will miss him terribly – I’m so excited to see what he’ll do next.”
Hargitay, who recently adopted a baby girl, is expected to cut back her role in upcoming episodes so she can spend more time with her family.
The 2011 Billboard Music Awards are Sunday, May 22nd. Beyonce will be honored with the Millennium Award for her career achievements.
Singer Lauryn Hill is currently on tour, and she has been hinting that she has a big secret. What’s the secret? Hill is expecting her sixth child.
Rapper/Actor T.I. is expected to be released from prison in late September.
It’s been almost a year since the death of Gary Coleman, and he has yet to be buried. Legal issues between Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price and his parents are keeping him from being buried. The former child star died last year at the age of 42 after a fall in his home.
It was an amazing movie weekend for Jumping The Broom. To date, the movie has taken in almost $16 million. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, go see it. It’s excellent. Laz Alonso, Paula Patton, Loretta Devine, Angela Bassett, Mike Epps, Romeo Miller, Tasha Smith and Meagan Goode star.
Check out who’s coming to TV in the fall. Damon Wayans has signed on to the CBS comedy show about a sports radio station. He’ll co star with Eliza Dushku, the real life girlfriend of former L.A. Laker Rick Fox. Wayans is best known for his roles on My Wife & Kids and In Living Color. Cedric The Entertainer will be doing a comedy show for NBC, and Boris Kodjoe returns to TV on ABC’s Georgetown about young staffers on Capital Hill. Kodjoe was recently on the cancelled NBC show Undercovers that co-starred Gugu Mbatha-Raw and was created by J.J. Abrams. Abrams is producing Taraji P. Henson’s new CBS drama Person Of Interest. Donald Faison of Scrubs fame will be one of the stars of the TV Land show The Exes with Tichina Arnold (“Pam” from Martin, “Mom Rochelle” from Everybody Hates Chris). Arnold will also be starring with Fran Dresher on the show Happily Divorced which is also on the TV Land cable network.
Congrats to Tia Mowry-Hardrict (Sister, Sister; The Game) and her husband Cory Hardrict! They are the proud parents of a baby boy
It’s not over between Gabrielle Union and Basketball Superstar Dwayne Wade….. just low key. The two had not been spotted together because Union has been busy working. She will be one of the stars of the Tyler Perrymovie Good Deeds. The two are very much together and very much in love. They’re just taking a quiet approach to their relationship. Union is looking forward to being Mrs. Dwayne Wade.
Speaking of Gabrielle in Tyler Perry’s movie Good Deeds, it also stars Thandie Newton, Brian White, Phylicia Rashad, Beverly Johnson and Eddie Cibrian, opens in theatres February 24th. In other Tyler Perry news, his latest Madea project, A Madea Christmas, will be out on DVD just in time for the holidays.
Will it be babies or movies? Beyoncehas been touring and promoting her latest CD entitled 4. Clint Eastwood wants her to star in a remake of A Star Is Born, while her hubby wants her to start a family as she gets ready to turn 30.
Kevin Hart is on the cover of the latest edition of Jet magazine.
Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx is teaming up with Quentin Tarantino for the spaghetti western Django Unchained. Foxx will play a freed slave.
Actress Viola Davis will be teaming up with Tyler Perry for the movie Steel Town. This summer, Viola will be starring in the movie The Help with Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney.
Tom Cruise returns in Mission Impossible IV, which opens in theatres December 16th.
The Temptations: The Musical is also coming to Broadway. A musical based on the popular TV mini-series about the legendary Motown group is scheduled to debut in 2013.