Who wore it best?
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Forbes Top 10 Ballers In Hollywood
1. Angelina Jolie $27 mil
2. Jennifer Aniston $25 mil
3. Meryl Streep $24 mil
4. Sarah Jessica Parker $23 mil
5. Cameron Diaz $20 mil
6. Sandra Bullock $15 mil
7. Reese Witherspoon $15 mil
8. Nicole Kidman $12 mil
9. Drew Barrymore $12 mil
10. Renee Zellweger $10 mil
I should have been an actress instead of a blogger.....
Kanye West Interning for the Gap?
Reports are circulating that Kanye is t
Us Weekly Reports that ""He works all the time, and one Friday night recently, he stayed until 12 am. He's learning the fashion business from the inside and trying to do it quietly."
Debbie Rowe " I want my Churn'ren"
Beside the fact that Debbie Rowe admitted to being a horrible mother (Source). Debbie wants her
"I want my children," Rowe said during a 90-minute phone conversation Thursday morning with NBCLA's Chuck Henry.
Rowe said she was willing to submit to any testing, including DNA to prove that she is the children's true biological mother. Rowe also said she would submit to psychological testing.
She also said she would seek a restraining order to keep Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, away from the children.
The agreement does allow for visitation, but Rowe said it's a very difficult process.
"I am stepping up," Rowe said. "I have to."
Rowe said she was still grieving. She said she decided she had to seek custody after Jackson's death.
Source LA News
$25.00 To Attend MJ's Funeral
Fans who wish to attend Michael Jackson's star-studded memorial service at Staples Center will have to shell out $25 to sit in the stands, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Family, friends and VIPS will have seats on the main floor for The Tuesday, July 7th Staples service, first reported by RadarOnline.com, while the general public will be plucking down $25 to sit in the stands.
The memorial service will feel like a concert production featuring guest speakers, a lot of music and video screens inside and outside of Staples, a source close to the planning tells RadarOnline.com.
Michael Jackson's close friend Elizabeth Taylor is expected to attend, along with Diana Ross.
T-shirts that were going to be sold on Michael's upcoming "This Is It" tour will not go to waste. They will be sold outside Staples to people entering the service.
The service will be held between 10am PST and noon PST. The Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus will be on standby, literally. The circus act just happens to be in town and is slated to begin their run at the Staples Center from July 8 to July 11.
"We will not be taking part in the memorial service," spokesperson Stephen Payne confirmed. "We are prepared to make any logistical changes with equipment and such to help out."
Confiscated From Radar Online
Dear BET
Thanks Byron
June 29, 2009
Dear Debra Lee,
Sunday night's BET Awards show was a disgrace. It's sad and unfortunate that your network, owned by Viacom, continues to crank out mediocrity and perpetuate negative stereotypes of black men, women, and children. Although you likely received high ratings for the awards show, there is no honor in reinforcing the status quo's opinion of black people. Your tribute to Michael Jackson and the overall show had its great moments, however, BET failed to deliver a solid, quality show. Rather than "raising the bar" and presenting African-Americans as a creative, proud, dignified people, BET lowered the bar for the entire world to see. The BET Awards drew a huge audience to watch a tribute to Michael Jackson, but left millions of viewers feeling disappointed, embarrassed, and reduced to classic stereotypes.
During the most blatantly sexist performances of the night, the executives at BET failed to act and display intelligence, courage, and leadership. Show executives watched, approved, and applauded as artists Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Cash Money brought young, under-aged girls onto the stage to dance and serve as window dressing while they performed "Every Girl," a song that reduces girls and women to sex objects. In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted - and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry - it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen. BET owes its entire audience - particularly girls and women around the world - an apology for its failure to intervene. BET should also take immediate steps to ensure that this kind of sexist performance does not happen again. Sunday night's show epitomizes why so many black people worldwide are fed up with BET and feel strongly that your network inaccurately represents black men and women.
Please take my letter and criticism as one that represents millions.
Sincerely,
Byron Hurt
http://byronhurtblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/dear-bet.html
Other People are Upset About Lil Wayne & Drakes BET Performance.
It's about time someone with a voice complained about BET. I am not a fan of BET, nor do I agree with the messages they send out to our younger generation. Ever since Bob J sold it and the overseer Debra Lee took over it has taken a turn for the worse. All the shows in my opinion have negative undertones that portrays African Americans in a negative light.
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt has become the latest figure to address BET for their airing of Lil Wayne and Drake's "Every Girl" performance at the 2009 Awards ceremony.
Directing an open letter to BET President Debra Lee, Hurt focused on Weezy's set and his reaction to the Michael Jackson tribute.
"BET failed to deliver a solid, quality show," he wrote. "Rather than 'raising the bar' and presenting African-Americans as a creative, proud, dignified people, BET lowered the bar for the entire world to see. The BET Awards drew a huge audience to watch a tribute to Michael Jackson, but left millions of viewers feeling disappointed, embarrassed, and reduced to classic stereotypes...Show executives watched, approved, and applauded as artists Lil Wayne, Drake, and Cash Money brought young, under-aged girls onto the stage to dance and serve as window dressing while they performed 'Every Girl,' a song that reduces girls and women to sex objects. In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted - and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry - it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen. BET owes its entire audience - particularly girls and women around the world - an apology for its failure to intervene." (The Urban Daily)
Journalists covering the event also expressed their reactions to the set.
Overrall, the show was a big downer because...many things just seemed out of place. For example, Drake's performance had Lil Wayne and his pre-teen daughter with other young girls on stage rapping along to "Every Girl in the World," which is a song about having escapades with all the girls in the world. (Examiner)
Reports have also spread online which claim the young girls' on-stage appearance was unplanned.
According to my source, what happened was Wayne's daughter Reginae, 9, was upset that she didn't get the chance to accompany her father, Lil Wayne, to the stage to accept his award because she was sitting too far back in the audience. Once backstage, the youngster began to cry. And Wayne, who they say is a great dad, hated to see his little girl cry. So he told Reginae she could come out onstage during his performance with Drake. Reginae, being the team player that she is, asked the other members of her group to go out on stage with her. (Sandra Rose)
Byron Hurt is known for his documentaries including Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.
Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It was later broadcast nationally on the Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, drawing an audience of more than 1.3 million viewers. To date, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (BBR) has been selected to appear in more than 50 film festivals worldwide and The Chicago Tribune named it "one of the best documentary films in 2007." (Byron Hurt)
Via Sohh
Usher is Questioning 2nd Childs Paternity
According to the National Enquirer Usher is asking for a paternity test for his second child with Tameka Foster....
"The first thing Usher said was, 'How did that happen?' — because he was gone a lot, and their sex life was very, very limited," a friend of the star reveals. "He's determined to get truthful answers."
When Naviyd was born last December, Usher and Tameka, 38, were already separated. The "Confessions" star became concerned that Tameka had been unfaithful to him after friends confessed that the former celebrity stylist had "got with another man" in the early stages of her rough patch with Usher.
It is a claim Tameka vehemently denies. In fact, the soon-to-be two-time divorcee insists her younger hubby is the father of her infant son and she's ready to take the star to the cleaners for even suggesting otherwise.
"She says that although they weren't spending that much time together, they did get together for one night of passion. And that's when she got pregnant," the snitch whispers, adding that Tameka is "going to fight for what she thinks she should have."
Go Away Debbie Rowe
According to Eonline, Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex wife is sending her lawyer to next Mondays custody hearing for Prince and Paris. In a previous interview Debbie gave the Jackson family her condolences and stated that she would not seek custody of the children. (Click here for story).
Debbie Rowe has also stated that I was never a good mother, I never felt any attachment to them. It was a better feeling giving them to him than it was keeping them as my own. I know I will never see them again. I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good. I don't want these children in my life. My children are my animals now." (Source). So if she considers her animals her children and that she was never a good mother, why does she want custody of the children now? I think the will and his 500 million dollar estate has a lot to do with this.
Quincy Jones Interviews with Mens Mag About MJ
There are a lot of people with opinions of MJ, but I think Quincy should have waited until he was buried to do this interview. Honestly, for him to be a friend he should have kept some of this to his self. Do you see "Dirty Diana" Ross doing interviews, do you see Elizabeth Taylor doing interviews... NO because they are mourning and they are true friends. Not opportunists that sees this as a chance to get a little bit of camera time.
Interview Highlights
Q: Did you believe him about the disease?
A: I don't believe in any of that bullshit, no. No. Never. I've been around junkies and stuff all my life. I've heard every excuse. It's like smokers—"I only smoke when I drink" and all that stuff. But it's bullshit. You're justifying something that's destructive to your existence. It's crazy. I mean, I came up with Ray Charles, man. You know, nobody gonna pull no wool over my eyes. He did heroin 20 years! Come on. And black coffee and gin for 40 years. But when he called me to come over to see him when he was in the hospital on his way out, man, he had emphysema, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, and five malignant tumors. Please, man! I've been around this all my life. So it's hard for somebody to pull the wool over my eyes. But when somebody's hell-bent on it, you can't stop 'em.
Q: But it must've been so disturbing to see Michael's face turn into what it turned into.
A: It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be black.
Q: Is that what it was?
A: Well, what do you think? You see his kids?
Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, "Michael, don't you want to be a black man?"
A: No, no, no, please. That's not the way you do it.
Q: At root, what do you think killed Michael Jackson?
A: I don't know, man. I'm a musician. I'm not a psychiatrist. I would think that the pressure of the concerts and the debt and everything else . . . look, I've been in the hands of Nobel doctors for the last five years, in Stockholm, at the Karolinska hospital, which you can't even pay to get in. I've learned so much about the human mind and the body, and the doctors talk all the time about how you become your thoughts. It's true. With one thought it starts, you know, and if you sit there and just stay hung up on one negative thought, you will become that thought. I know that Lisa Marie Presley said that she always thought he was going to die like Elvis. You sit and think about that stuff, it'll happen to you. If you start thinking about darkness instead of light, or fear instead of love, you'll get in trouble. I really believe that.
For the entire interview click!
2009 Essence Music Festival - July 3-5 New Orleans
The ESSENCE Music Festival®, began in 1995 as a celebration of the 25th birthday of ESSENCE Magazine, July 4th weekend in New Orleans. Three days of cultural activities and three nights of performances by some of our greatest African-American artists made the Festival a success.
The Festival has grown in stature and attendance every year and is an annual destination. It is the largest African-American music and empowerment event in the country, with more than 270,000 attendees enjoying evening performances, plus free daytime sponsored activities, empowerment seminars and celebrity meet-and-greets.
With the best musical artists, the most powerful speakers and the biggest national brands, the ESSENCE Music Festival is three days of unparalleled music, celebration and community.
For More Information about the Artists Click Here!
Essence Music Festival After Parties Click Here!
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Hip-hop site served child porn, police say
Police in Switzerland have uncovered a child pornography ring that secretly used a hip-hop website to distribute illegal images to some 2,300 computers in 78 countries.
The videos depicting minors engaged in sexual acts were hidden in the unidentified site where the principal content was "perfectly legal," Jean-Christophe Sauterel, a police spokesman in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, told Reuters. Those accessing the illegal material paid $10 to download one video and $500 for the full collection of 101 titles, with proceeds going to operators in Russia.
The discovery has prompted arrests in the US, Poland, Greece and other countries. The investigation was prompted by a tip from Interpol. The site was devoted to hip hop music but was used to stash child pornography that could be accessed with secret codes. The site operator was unaware of of the illicit activity, police said.
Kanye West's Louis Vuitton Sneakers Sold Out!
Kanye West's much anticipated sneaker line sold out this week. Priced at $1,140 a pait there are a couple folks walking around on their mortgage. If you want a pair make sure you are on the waiting list next time.
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