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Jada Pinkett Smith returns for a third season of Hawthorne, the show airs on TNT. Marc Anthony, who joined the show last year, has been named the show’s musical producer. The new season kicks off June 14th and will include a wedding. Along with smith and Anthony, the cast also includes Lauren Velez, Derek Luke and Michael Vartan.
Congrats to Rapper/Actor Bow Wow. He just became a dad with a former girlfriend.
Robert Redford is going ahead with plans to do a movie based on the life of Baseball Great Jackie Robinson. Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier. Redford would play Branch Rickey the man who made it happen. There is no word yet on who will play Robinson
Jennifer Hudson is ready to tell all about her weight loss. The book comes out next January, and she talks about her 80 pound weight loss. She says she grew up in an environment where healthy eating was not a priority. In her book, Hudson will be sharing tips for losing and maintaining weight and how exercise can be fun. Hudson has also signed on for the new Three Stooges movie.
Faith Evans may be divorcing her husband Todd Russaw, but he is going to remain her manager. The couple has had a rocky relationship, but Faith Evans feels he is the best person to guide her career. Evans is currently working on a reality TV project.
Is Fantasia pregnant by her married boyfriend Antwuan Cook? Sources say Fantasia is due in December, and she has been hiding her stomach. Last year, Fantasia was caught up in a scandal with Cook. His wife took them to court blaming Fantasia for the breakup of the marriage. Cook abandoned his wife and two kids when he started his affair with Fantasia. The drama proved to be too much for Fantasia, who overdosed on pills and had to be admitted to the hospital.
The First Lady is coming to Nickelodeon. First Lady Michelle Obama will be on the TV show iCarly. She’s teaming up with the cable network to promote her Joining Forces initiative which seeks to increase awareness and support for military forces.
There will be no Jennifer Lopez sex tape. Lopez’s first husband, Ojani Noa, has been trying to make money off of her since their 1998 divorce. He had a tape of him and Lopez from their honeymoon. There was no sex on the tape, just some nudity and spanking. Noa sold the tape to his girlfriend for a dollar. The girlfriend proceeded to sell the tape to a distributor, but a judge has blocked the release of the tape.
The NBC network has won the rights for the Olympic Games through 2020. In a fierce bidding war with ESPN and FOX, NBC won the rights for the 2012 games in London, the 2014 winter games in Russia, the 2016 summer games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 games with the host city to be announced.
Lauryn Hill is pregnant with baby number six, but who is the father? Hill has five children by Rohan Marley. Everyone assumed Marley was the daddy of baby number six, but recently Marley put Hill on blast. He said she may be pregnant, but he is not the father.
Is it over for Evelyn Lozada and Chad Ochocinco Johnson? I always thought this relationship was fake. Lozada is riding high with Basketball Wives, but Ochocinco’s career is on the decline. Lozada is looking for steady money, and she realizes that Ochocinco is looking for ways to stay relevant, make money and take care of his kids. Lozada wants another child, but does Ochocinco have enough money for more children? The relationship has been strained for a while. Lozada wants to go in another direction so she can make some money and continue her reality TV career.
‘Lady Marmalade’ singer and R&B queen Patti LaBelle has been accused of ordering the beating of a West Point cadet at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas on March 11. According to the Houston Chronicle, Richard King, 23, was talking to his brother on his cell phone while approaching the airport’s passenger pickup area where Labelle’s limousine happened to be parked.
In security-camera footage of the incident, King is suddenly struck and thrown against a concrete pillar by LaBelle’s body guards and an unidentified woman. King subsequently tries to get up and leave the area but he falls continuously.
“Apparently, defendant LaBelle believed King was standing too close to her (no doubt expensive) luggage, even though he was oblivious to her presence and the danger he was in,” King’s attorney John Raley said in the lawsuit filing. “LaBelle lowered the window of her limousine and gave a command to her bodyguards. They sprang into action.”
SIDEBAR: If you get a chance watch the video, Patti’s bodyguards where a bit to zealous
in their job of protection.
Angela Bassett is the new cover girl of Essence magazine. Bassett just signed on for the movie This Means War, which is being produced by Will Smith. Bassett will star alongside Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon. Bassett will also be starring in the new ABC cop drama One Police Plaza. Plus, she’s got two other films on the way: the T.D. Jakes’ movie Jumping The Broom with Paula Patton in May and the action movie Green Lantern in June
Are the rumors true? Is Beyonce pregnant? If so, she’s due in April. This would her first baby with hubby Rapper Jay-Z. Beyonce is also set to unveil her second fragrance, Heat Rush, next February. Baby fever is definitely in the air! Last week, Alicia Keys gave birth to a baby boy with hubby Swizz Beatz. Their son’s name is Egypt Daoud Dean.
You pleasure diva or guy you, lol lol. All right let’s get serious, you are just so cute Scorpio. Planned to spend the holidays away from home. Could be a pleasure trip or visiting relatives. Money will be coming in and going out, but your savings will be intact so not to worry. There will be awards, and honors coming your way prior to December 31st. Smile and say thank you, why – because you deserve them all! To bad other folks don’t see or care to understand hard work does pay off, and you definitely have put your time in this year. You will be saddened about a close friend moving away, and it kinda abruptly, had no choice.
Get all your holiday shopping done prior to December 1st, because we will be entering Mercury Retrograde and no one like to see that Scorpion sting out – feel me. There will be a fund raiser coming up for the holidays and you will do an outstanding job, just one of your many awards and rewards. Holla!
In a recent interview for “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” he was still in a good mood and had high hopes to defeat the cancer he had just been diagnosed to have. In fact, I did not expect him to show up to do interviews. “This is unfortunate timing,” Douglas declared, “but I’m doing fine.
“I’m very proud of the picture. My doctors are optimistic. I’m optimistic and obviously a combination of radiation everyday and chemo limits a full day but everybody did a fantastic job and life goes on. This is just another chapter. I’ve had a pretty good run of it and this was a pretty bad year. It’s going to be topped off with a really good movie.” It’s actually a great film that is the epitome of the greed that put this country in a tailspin the current administration is trying to bring us out.
Douglas plays the iconic character Gordon Gekko who went to jail in the 1987 “Wall Street” film for securities fraud. Gekko’s mantra back then, “Greed is Good,” not only toppled this country’s economy, but is the concern of many in all walks of life.
Greed was the subject of Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III (Abyssinian Baptist Church) a weeks ago and he also referred to the book, “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream.” If advice is to be given out to young people branching out during this iffy financial period, is it, “Keep your day job,” Douglas chuckled.
Amen my brother, amen!
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.