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Congrats to Octavia Spencer and Idris Elba. They both kicked off awards show season with big wins at The Golden Globe Awards. Spencer won Supporting Actress for her role in the summer blockbuster The Help, and Elba won Best Actor for the title role of Luther in the BBC drama series.
Is Jennifer Hudson A Diva? The Oscar winner pulled out of a Michael Jackson benefit concert, taking the money and never showing up. Hudson says the producers didn’t give her enough time to rehearse, so she refused to show up. But, why keep the money? There have also been reports that the newly slim songstress has been less than kind to those around her. Then there’s her finance David Otunga, who refuses to sign a prenup before he marries her. Is Hudson being affected by this?
James Brown wasn’t lying when he said “This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be anything without a woman or a girl.” That lyric sums up American culture better than any other. Men set things into motion and women allow them to let it function. Now if the woman gets hell in her and sees things differently, her crusade to change things usually gets results.
So, in saying all that, Chris Brown and Steve Harvey better cross their fingers and hope that their obvious reconciliation that has blossomed into a working relationship goes over well with the ladies. So far….not looking good. Clutch magazine printed a scathing “review” of the upcoming project “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man” which hasn’t been released on film yet. But, “Clutch” has taken issue with the fact that “Chris Brown has been announced as one of the film’s stars.”
This gives us little information and if they have so little information on the film, they should’ve maybe kept it hush until they knew what he was being selected to do in the film. He could be in a humiliating role that brings out how he feels about the incident with Rihanna and also gives us insight into why Steve Harvey chose him for the film. There was a time that Steve Harvey publicly decried Chris Brown’s actions and let it be known that he wasn’t one of his favorite people because of it. But it’s obvious that Harvey has changed his thinking toward the pop star.
But there are some things in Clutch’s argument that are valid. The male celebrities tend to get away with murder. Well Chris brown didn’t kill her, but you know what I mean. The culture throughout the world does not tend to be hard on men for their crimes against women. But some women have helped make that possible. A lot of women misrepresent the issues of women by not holding men’s feet to the fire for their crimes against them. Some women, when given the opportunity to press charges, have a voice, or simply walk away from mistreatment, do not choose to defend themselves for various reasons. Even Clutch said:
“I don’t believe that Brown should have been stripped of the opportunity to have a career once he completed his sentence following the 2009 assault on his then-girl. He has technically paid his debt to society, despite whatever his actions thereafter have said about his character. Let him sing, let him dance.”
Kobe Bryant has been trying to keep a low profile during the off season and the NBA lockout, but his sloppy cheating keeps getting in the way.Bryant is currently being sued by an Ohio prostitute. She claims that she has been seeing him for years, and he promised to buy her a ring. Where is Bryant’s wife Vanessa you may ask? Why she’s playing the role of the quiet wife who will do anything for the right amount of diamonds and money.
Is the Tyler Perry film For Colored Girls a man-bashing movie? The movie, based on the stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, did well at the box office taking in over $20 million, but a lot of men claim they felt insulted that there was only one positive male character. I loved the movie. I thought the performances were outstanding, and I didn’t feel it was a male-bashing movie. This is a woman’s movie. It tells a woman’s story of hope, abandonment, survival, struggle, abortion, rape and depression. I’m sure if the shoe was on the other foot and I was a man, I may have felt the same way. But, I don’t think male-bashing is the intended theme.
The soundtrack for Tyler Perry’s latest movie For Colored Girls will feature the music of Gladys Knight, Lalah Hathaway, Leona Lewis, Estelle, Laura Izibor, Macy Gray, Janelle Monae and the late Nina Simone. The soundtrack comes out on November 2nd. The movie with Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad and Thandie Newton opens in theatres on November 5th.Tyler’s newest project will involve The Rock, a.k.a. Actor Dwayne Johnson. In the movie, Take My Wife, Perry plays a divorced man who doesn’t want to pay alimony to his ex-wife so he goes about finding her a new husband. When he finds the perfect suitor for his ex, he realizes he still loves his wife and wants her back.
Nelly is coming back full force with his upcoming album “Nelly 5.0.” as he has on the line-up, T.I., Diddy, Akon and several others. He also mentioned working with Taraji P. Henson on a track.
But the St. Lunatic may have jumped the gun on this one. The track never got laid. “A lot of times, you work on a record and try to get things to come to fruition,” he told RapRadar.com.
“Sometimes as an artist, we tend to speak too soon because we think it’s going to happen.”
However, “Nelly 5.0,” does include the track ’1,000 Stacks’ featuring Diddy, where the two take turns rhyming over a vocal sample of the Notorious B.I.G. It will be out Nov. 16.
Beyonce may be teaming up with Tom Cruise for her next movie role. Cruise’s name is being attached to the movie A Star Is Born to be directed by Clint Eastwood. Filming is supposed to start later this year, but they need a leading to star with Beyonce. This will be the fourth time this movie has been made: the 1937 original with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason and 1976 with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. In other Tom Cruise news, his new movie, with Mary J. Blige, Rock Of Ages opens in theatres on the first of June.