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Summer was one of disco’s biggest stars and also had a huge influence on the synth pop and dance music scenes.
Her family said they were “at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy”.
Stars including Kylie Minogue, Sir Elton John and Mary J Blige have paid tribute.
R&B singer Blige said on Twitter that Summer was “truly a game changer”, while producer Quincy Jones said her voice “was the heartbeat and soundtrack of a decade”.
Summer’s is known for the global hit I Feel LoveMinogue described her as “one of my earliest musical inspirations”, while Dionne Warwick said she was sad to lose a great performer and “dear friend”.
Summer, who was reported to have had cancer, had been living in Florida with her husband Bruce Sudano.
A statement from her family said: “Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith.
“While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can’t express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.”
Elton John said Summer was more than the “queen of disco”, adding: “Her records sound as good today as they ever did.
“That she has never been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted.”
Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes said: “It’s extremely rare that you hear one song that completely changes the way you perceive music. I Feel Love achieved that.”
Singer Marc Almond recalled how Summer’s work with Italian synthesiser pioneer Giorgio Moroder had “changed the face of music and changed my life”.
Summer performed on American Idol in 2008“I Feel Love was a truly original and barrier breaking record, and Now I Need You and Working The Midnight Shift are simply some of the best euphoric electronic tracks ever,” he said.
BBC Radio 2 presenter Paul Gambaccini said I Feel Love was “one of the key records in the history of electronic dance music and will always be recognised as such”.
Summer grew up in Boston and started singing in her church’s gospel choir before starting to perform in stage musicals.
It was her work with the Moroder that led to her pop breakthrough with Love To Love You Baby in 1975 – the first of 29 UK top 40 singles.
In addition to his men’s line at the K&G Fashion Superstore, Blair Underwood will be introducing anew cologne and candle line calledInterconnected. Underwood is also currently on Broadway in A Street Car Named Desire. The cast also includes Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell is coming to TV in a new reality competition show. On the show, The Face Campbell, will serve as a judge. The show will air on the Oxygen channel.
Actor Jaleel White has a new show on the SCI-FI Channel. It’s an extreme game show which airs on Wednesday nights. White was recently bounced from Dancing With The Stars. Many feel his personal life got in the way of his dancing abilities on the show. His baby momma went to the press about past abuse from him. White also in got to an altercation with his dance partner Kym Johnson on the show. I think this hurt his public perception on the show and he got bounced. White is best known for his work as “Steve Urkel” on the show Family Matters.
Towanna Iverson has filed a restraining order against her husband former NBA Superstar Allen Iverson. Mrs. Iverson says her hubby has been harassing her. The Iversons have five kids. Towanna also says Iverson has been hiding money from her, and she can’t afford to feed her family.
No more Khloe and Lamar Odom on the E network! Their self-titled reality show is not being renewed. Odom is now trying to concentrate on his NBA career, and Khloe is in talks to do her own spinoff show minus Odom. In other E network news, get ready for Mary J. Blige. She’s going to be one of the stars of the talent series Opening Act. It’s a talent competition show where they search for talent on the internet. The winner will open up for an A-list music star. The show debuts July 9th.
Will there be a sequel to Steve Harvey’s hit movie Think Like A Man? The movie took in over $60 million at the box office. The movie, based on Harvey’s best-selling book, claimed the no.1 spot at the box office two weeks in a row. I hear they may be a sequel which will focus on marriage and a trip to Las Vegas.
John Legend is replacing Lionel Richie on the ABC singing reality show Duets. Now that Richie will be on tour to promote his number one album Tuskegee, Legend will join Kelly Clarkson and Robin Thicke as they go across the country searching for the perfect duet partner. The show premieres May 24th on ABC.
The Soul Man is the name of Cedric The Entertainer’s new TV Land sitcom. He stars along with Actress/Comedienne Niecy Nash, and he plays Reverend Boyce, an R&B singer turned preacher. The show debuts later this year.
Remember the 1974 movie Uptown Saturday Night with Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte (plus a who’s who of cameos)? Well a remake is in the works with possible stars Denzel Washington and Will Smith. Smith bought the rights to remake the three movies Poitier/Cosby films made in the 1970’s. Let’s Do It Again and A Piece Of The Action are the other two.
Cissy Houston is planning on writing a book about her daughter Whitney Houston. Cissy, 78, says she plans to write about the good and the bad with her daughter. Gospel Star BeBe Winans is also writing a book about his friendship with Houston. In other Whitney news, her ex-husband Bobby Brown sat down with Matt Lauer of The Today Show. Brown says he is not the reason for Whitney’s downfall. Brown says he has been clean and sober from narcotics for seven years. He says he saw his ex-wife a week before her death, but didn’t know she was still struggling. He also says their reality TV show, Being Bobby Brown, was a wakeup call for them. Brown says the show made them realize how their drug use was affecting their lives.
Author Toni Morrison is getting a new honor. She is going to be awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. The 81-year old author just released a new book called Home. Morrison is best known for the books The Bluest Eye, Song Of Solomon and Beloved.
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It’s happened to every great team. The Yankees had their dry spell in the 1980s, the Celtics in the 1990s, the 49ers in the mid-2000s, the Montreal Canadiens right now. Bad drafting, bad trades, bad signings, bad ownership … one or more of them will come back and bite every team sometime.
For Los Angeles Dodgers fans, the last few years must have seemed like an endless parade of eye-gougings. Lost in the wilderness? They were on a different planet. Owner Frank McCourt’s very public, very messy imploding marriage bankrupted the team and crippled their baseball activities (despite having Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw and shoulda-been MVP Matt Kemp, L.A. finished third in their division last year); if that weren’t enough, a Giants fan was nearly beaten to death at Dodger stadium. The damage to one of baseball’s most historic franchises was catastrophic – and it proved to be a real black eye for baseball. America’s second-biggest market deserves better.
The good thing is they got better, real quick. What better person to turn the Dodgers around than the man who absolutely epitomizes Los Angeles sports – the architect of the “Showtime” Lakers and one of the towering figures of 20th century sports, Magic Johnson. Johnson and his partners paid an astonishing two billion dollars for the Dodgers, the highest price for any sports franchise. Ever.
It’s a lot of money, but we all suspect that Magic will get his money’s worth out of that cash. Of course, he can’t fill out the rotation, bat cleanup or bring back James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to run the fast break from the owner’s box and distract the opposing team – but what he will bring to the Dodgers is his astonishing business acumen and a sense of credibility that the franchise had been lacking. Check out this Times article; the man’s been a creative, brilliant businessman since he left the game in the 1990s. He’ll back make all the bucks he laid out for the franchise soon enough.
More important than that, though, is the credibility factor. The first image of Magic’s smiling, jovial face at Chavez Ravine will wipe away all those ugly memories of McCourt and the team’s off-the-field mess. It’s something that Los Angeles deserves, and it’s something that baseball fans everywhere should feel good about; a strong franchise in the City of Angels helps the game immensely.
The media has been on top of the Trayvon Martin case by covering it from various angles and bringing out as much information or evidence as quick as possible. Most agree that there is a severe injustice within the justice system and George Zimmerman should be arrested and put on trial. But one well known journalist took away from that focal point and took to Twitter to berate and belittle another over who he chose to interview about the case and his line of questioning.
On Piers Morgan’s show Friday night it was like watching a verbal assault akin to one of the best Floyd Mayweather fights. Piers Morgan and Toure’ battled it out via satellite because Toure’ took to Twitter in an effort to discredit Morgan and the interview he did with George Zimmerman’s brother Robert Zimmerman, Jr., the night before. Toure’ took issue with the interview because he said that Morgan didn’t “challenge” Zimmerman enough. He then continued with some rather scathing and immature remarks regarding his cronies taunting Morgan at NBC saying:
“in the hallways (at NBC) we were laughing at you. We wouldn’t take him. Standards and Practices at NBC wouldn’t let (Robert Zimmerman) get through the door.”
Well, there’s a flaw in Toure’s argument right there. If you are a true professional in journalism, you invite anyone to the table and can handle them accordingly. That was evident when MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell invited not only Joe Oliver, but also his attorney (which ran away) to have a platform that allowed them to speculate on the crime just as Piers Morgan invited Zimmerman’s brother into his studio.
But if Piers Morgan didn’t do his job with Zimmerman, he certainly made his case with Toure’. The suggestion that Morgan acted “unprofessional” and is too far away from the heart of the issue because he’s from England, turns the issue on its ear and adds to the problem. Toure’ while struggling to make his case against Morgan’s journalistic fervor and/or lack of professionalism came off quite juvenile and unprofessional himself. Remember we reported the mess he made while trying to weigh in on Whitney Houston’s life during a Lawrence O’Donnell interview that included Al Sharpton, Kelly Price, and Ricky Minor? That panel of Whitney’s friends may accuse Toure’ of the same thing that he’s accusing Morgan of; he’s simply not close enough to the issue to properly report on it.
Morgan also took Toure’ to task on a little “joke” he came up with in the beginning of the Martin case:
Piers: “You tweeted this on the 19th of March. New slang. You’re Zimmermaning me equals you’re killing me.’ That’s a pretty serious responsible piece of journalism, isn’t it, Touré?”
Toure: “In the first days, in the first weeks of the situation, what I was trying to do is to pile on and to say ‘Hey, look, this guy is not doing the right thing. This guy has harmed somebody in our community.’ Some people misconstrued that. But this is an incredibly serious situation.”
Piers: “So serious that you felt the need to throw out jokes.”
The ridiculous back and forth over such a serious issue made for good TV, but failed to be a respectful, informative moment on the very person that deserves the attention, Trayvon Martin. Toure’ was treated like a child and his argument was lost in his emotional tirade. Media attention is media attention and the last thing we want to see happen is the story fade away like so many others. In fact, many were thankful for getting the opportunity to get some inkling of what Zimmerman’s family is like, what they’re thinking, and just how hard we need to rally against them.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 361,750, also lowest in four years. The average has fallen nearly 13% in the past six months.
When unemployment benefit applications drop consistently below 375,000, it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.
On Friday, the government issues its March jobs report, which is expected to show a fourth straight month of strong hiring. From December through February, employers added an average 245,000 jobs per month. That has pushed down the unemployment rate to 8.3%, lowest in three years.
Hiring is picking up as the economy is showing signs of steady growth. Consumer spending jumped in February by the most in seven months, the government said last week.
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