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The tabloids are coming after Raven-Symoné. The former child star, best known as “Olivia” on The Cosby Show, is being outed as a lesbian. According to published reports, Symoné is living her life as a gay woman, and they have the pictures and stories of her live-in lover. Symoné is currently starring on Broadway in Sister Act, and, so far, she has had no comment.
At press time, jury deliberations are underway for William Balfour, the man charged with murdering the mother, brother and seven-year old nephew of Singer/Actress Jennifer Hudson. Hudson, who attended and testified at the trial, was there for closing arguments. If found guilty, Balfour faces life in prison.
Gary Coleman’s exes are fighting over his estate. Coleman is best known for his role as “Arnold” on the TV sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. He died in 2010 of a brain hemorrhage. Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price and his jumpoff Manager Anna Gray are fighting over his estate and property. Each woman claim he left it to her. Hmmmmmmmmm!
Tracy Morgan’s health issues have his managers concerned. He recently got ill in Denver. Earlier this year, he collapsed at the Sundance Film Festival. A couple of years ago, Morgan got a kidney transplant donated by an ex-girlfriend (Tanisha Hall) shortly before they broke up.
Can Oprah Winfrey’s OWN make a turn around? So far, the cable network has lost $330 million since its debut January 2011. Can the OWN survive another year? The top bosses feel the network will make a turnaround next year with its latest programming.
The music world is mourning the loss of Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Yauch, 47, was a self taught vocalist and bassist. In the 80’s, he ruled the charts as a member of The Beastie Boys with hits like Brass Monkey, Hey Ladies, Get It Together, Sure Shot and (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party). In 1986, their album Licensed To Ill was the first hip hop album to top the albums’ chart. Yauch died after a more than three-year battle with cancer and a month after The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
We remember famed Hair Stylist Vidal Sassoon. The 84-year old died of natural causes. He opened his first hair salon back in 1954 and became a stylist to the stars. His styling alone for Mia Farrow in the 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby made him an icon. He later sold his name to Proctor & Gamble and launched the legendary international line of Vidal Sassoon hair care products.
In more realty show news, get ready for Basketball Wives…. the movie! Shaunie O’Neal, the force behind the VH1 reality show, is in talks with Producer Tracey Edmonds (Soul Food) to do a basketball movie. O’Neal is under pressure because of the criticism surrounding her Basketball Wives shows, so she is looking in a new direction. The reality show has come under fire because off all the negativity and fighting. There is already a petition 7,000 strong calling for a boycott of the show and star Evelyn Lozada, who is seen as the main bully on the show. Tami Roman also stars on the show, and she says it’s the producers’ fault because of how they edit the show. Roman’s exploits on the show (fighting and drinking) are well documented. Don’t be surprised if Basketball Wife Jennifer Williams is dropped from the show. Williams is suing the show’s producers regarding an incident where she was slapped on camera by Lozada’s assistant, Nia Crooks. The producers may counter sue Williams regarding her lawsuit because they feel her badmouthing the show is hurting the brand.
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The Republican party is distancing themselves from one of their own this morning as his mouth got ahead of his brain over the weekend. The Trayvon Martin case is steadily forging ahead all over the country as one of the republican presidential candidates rebukes the president’s heartfelt comments in support of the family last week.
After Newt Gingrich visited a radio station over the weekend and spoke out against President Obama, his campaign is pretty much dead in the water. Gingrich ran off at the mouth saying the President’s remarks were “disgraceful”:
“It’s not a question of who that young man looked like,” he said. “Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who’d been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn’t look like him? That’s just nonsense.”
Yeah, it is nonsense and you can exit left from the presidential campaign! The president’s adviser, David Plouffe spoke out against Gingrich saying HIS remarks were “reprehensible.” How ludicrous can a person be to translate the president’s words: “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” into something racist? See where your mind went Newt? The president can never be the racist that you are! Stop thinking like a racist and maybe you’ll be able to benefit from the president’s words like the rest of us.
SIDEBAR: Newt sit the fuck down and shut the hell up!!!
The Trayvon Martin story has gathered steam all over the country with outrage that has sparked online petitions and planned protests in Miami-Dade, Florida.
Not only that, the FBI investigation that the Martin family has been pleading for has been granted. But, is all of the nation’s efforts, including those from residents living in the community where Trayvon Martin was killed, enough?
Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, pointed out on Monday night the many people who have gone scott free because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. This law is the very reason why George Zimmerman has not been arrested yet. The man should have been considered a threat and detained because of his past with the Sanford police department if nothing else.
Schultz mentioned Zimmerman’s past arrest for resisting arrest, but he also mentioned that he assaulted an officer. Not only that, Zimmerman has placed 47 calls to Sanford police department prior to this incident. There are plenty of factors present, without an FBI probe, that any second grader could assess and find suspicious enough to call for an arrest warrant on this fool.
The Trayvon Martin story has gathered steam all over the country with outrage that has sparked online petitions and planned protests in Miami-Dade, Florida. Not only that, the FBI investigation that the Martin family has been pleading for has been granted. But, is all of the nation’s efforts, including those from residents living in the community where Trayvon Martin was killed, enough?
Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, pointed out on Monday night the many people who have gone scott free because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. This law is the very reason why George Zimmerman has not been arrested yet. The man should have been considered a threat and detained because of his past with the Sanford police department if nothing else.
Schultz mentioned Zimmerman’s past arrest for resisting arrest, but he also mentioned that he assaulted an officer. Not only that, Zimmerman has placed 47 calls to Sanford police department prior to this incident. There are plenty of factors present, without an FBI probe, that any second grader could assess and find suspicious enough to call for an arrest warrant on this fool.
But, the law in place protects jerks like Zimmerman stating:
“A person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if…he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.”
The other shocking element of this law is that just five months after its implementation October 1, 2005, there were 13 self-defense shootings and only one of the individuals that were shot was armed. Six of the people in those shootings were killed.
The national rifle association was somehow able to get this law passed against lawmakers that were against it. Let’s get aware and get busy. There are surely other loophole laws like this one in other states that are keeping criminals like Zimmerman on the street. But, for the Martin case, specifically, use this info to get active on this young man’s case. We couldn’t defend Trayvon, but we can stand up for him and his family now. Use these resources to speak out against this crime and get Zimmerman arrested:
Sanford, FL Police Department
815 W. 13th Street
Sanford , Florida 32771
Phone: 407.688.5070
Fax: 407.688.5071
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/action/actionrequest_police.aspx
Seminole County State’s Attorney
101 Bush Boulevard
P.O. Box 8006
Sanford, Florida 32772-8006
Phone: 407-665-6000
FAX: 407-665-6004
Email: cir18@sa18.state.fl.us
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Office of the Attorney General
Eric Holder, Jr., Attorney General
(202) 514-2001
(202) 353-1555 Public Comment Line
U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division
Criminal Section
Mark Kappelhoff, Chief
(202) 514-3204
(202) 514-8336 FAX
Tamar Braxton is getting ready for her new reality show with her husband Vince. Tamar was the breakout star of the Braxton Family Values show, and now she is getting her own spinoff, which will show her as a successful wife. She is also embarking on her solo career. She just signed a deal with a record label for her own album. Tamar’s husband Vince is a very successful producer. He is the force behind Lady Gaga.
Idol Winner Ruben Studdard is back with a new album called Letters From Birmingham. The first single, June 28th I’m Single, is causing quite a stir. Is there a message in the music? Studdard is no longer with his wife of three years Surata Zuri McCants. Studdard wants a family, but she didn’t want any more kids. This has been a tough time for Studdard. He is working out his tax troubles and is trying to lose the weight he regained. Yes! He lost weight and gained it back. He blames it on eating out and stress. Studdard says he is losing weight and happily single.
Lionel Richie is coming to TV. Richie will be one of the hosts of ABC’s new reality singing show Duets. Richie will star along with American Idol Winner Kelly Clarkson and Singer Robin Thicke. They will be traveling across the country looking for undiscovered talent. The show debuts this summer. This summer is going to be exciting for Richie. He is also being inducted into the Apollo Theatre Hall Of Fame. The late Etta James will also be inducted with Richie. They are in good company with previous Inductees Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and Patti LaBelle
Football Star Deion Sanders is teaming up with Producer Tracey Edmonds for a new reality show. Sanders is building a charter school, and he wants to show his life as a single dad. Sanders wants to be known for the good that he is doing and not the nasty divorce he is going through with his current wife Pilar. Pilar has accused Tracey Edmonds, the former wife of Babyface and former fiancée of Eddie Murphy, of having an affair with Sanders.
Fresh from the Broadway stage, Angela Bassett is set to return to TV. Bassett will be one of the stars one of a new spy drama on FOX. Bassett was last on TV in the final season of ER in 208-2009.
The Steve Harvey talk show will be filmed in Chicago. The show debuts in the fall. Alex Duda will be the executive producer. He formerly worked on The Tyra Banks Show, the Style network show Jerseylicious and its spinoff Glam Fairy.
It’s official! Halle Berry is getting married for a third time. Is the third the charm after failed marriages to Baseball’s David Justice and Singer Eric Benet? Berry is engaged to Actor Oliver Martinez. Her previous mates have all cheated on her. Let’s hope Martinez will stay faithful. Berry’s baby daddy Gabriel Aubry thinks the marriage is a ploy to get Martinez to adopt his daughter.
Usher says he will not pay his ex-wife’s lawyers’ fees. Usher is involved in a nasty custody battle with his ex-wife Tameka Foster. He has already paid $25,000 for her lawyers’ fees, and now she is looking for an additional $50,000. Usher says no way because enough is enough. Usher has had trouble with this woman from day one, but now the future of their two children is at stake.
The wedding is on for Football’s Chad Ochocinco and Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada. Their reality show for VH1 is getting them a lot of money: $300,000 each for two months’ work.
Roland is back! Roland Martin returns to CNN after a long suspension following tweets he made during the Superbowl that were called homophobic. The GLADD organization came down hard on him, but they have since met and had discussions. The CNN network subsequently suspended him for his remarks, but now his suspension has been lifted. Martin is known for his candid off the cuff remarks, and we will see a lot of him during the political season.
We remember Singer Jimmy Ellis. Ellis was the lead singer of the group The Trammps. It’s Ellis’ voice on their hits Love Epidemic, Where Do We Go From Here, The Night The Lights Went Out In New York City and their smash Disco Inferno. Ellis was 74-years old, and died after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
Raven-Symoné is headed to Broadway. Raven best known for her Disney hit That’s So Raven and for getting her start on The Cosby Show. Raven is joining the cast of Sister Act staring in the lead role. She takes over on March 27th. Raven started on Broadway with The Boys Choir Of Harlem at the age of five.
In more Broadway news, Blair Underwood makes his debut on the Great White Way in A Street Car Named Desire beginning April 3rd. The cast also includes Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris.
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There are five natural emotions
Grief, Anger, Envy, Fear, and Love
Grief allows you to say goodbye
Edify your love that is nearby
Anger repressed become rage
Why do you place yourself in a cage
Envy becomes jealousy
People, wars, and nations have fallen
Rerun, rerun, and rerun
Fear is a natural emotion
From breastbone to backbone
Fear that is continually repressed becomes panic
Love is a natural emotion
Love without limitation or condition
inhibition or embarrassment requires nothing
Love that is conditioned, limited,
warped by rules and regulations,
rituals, restrictions, controlled
manipulated, and withheld is unnatural
Love repressed become possessiveness
By Lennis
From the book – Are YOU Ready?
A teenager described as an outcast at his suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said.
A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table and that the one who was killed was trying to duck under the table.
Panicked students ran screaming through the halls after gunfire broke out at the start of the school day at 1,100-student Chardon High in this town of 5,100 people 30 miles from Cleveland. Teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do during drills, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear.
One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom for protection. Another chased the gunman out of the building, police said.
The suspect, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested near his car a half-mile away, the FBI said. He was not immediately charged.
FBI officials would not comment on a motive for the attack. And Police Chief Tim McKenna said authorities “have a lot of homework to do yet” in their investigation. But 15-year-old Danny Komertz, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied.
“I looked up and this kid was pointing a gun about 10 feet away from me to a group of four kids sitting at a table,” Komertz said. He said the gunman fired two shots quickly, and students scrambled for safety. One of them was “trying to get underneath the table, trying to hide, protecting his face.”
Other students disagreed that the student was a victim of bullying or an outcast, saying he was just quiet.
“Even though he was quiet, he still had friends,” said Tyler Lillash, 16. “He was not bullied.”
Long before official word came of the attack, parents learned of the bloodshed from students via text message and cellphone and thronged the streets around the school, anxiously awaiting word on their children.
Two of the wounded were listed in critical condition, and another was in serious condition.
The slain student, Daniel Parmertor, was an aspiring computer repairman who was shot while waiting for the bus for his daily 15-minute ride to a vocational center. His teacher at the Auburn Career School had no idea why Parmertor, “a very good young man, very quiet,” had been targeted, said Auburn superintendent Maggie Lynch.
“We are shocked by this senseless tragedy,” his family said in a statement. “Danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him.”
Officers investigating the shooting blocked off a road in a heavily wooded area several miles from the school. Federal agents patrolled the muddy driveway leading to several spacious homes and ponds, while other officers walked a snowy hillside. A police dog was brought in. It wasn’t clear what they were looking for.
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