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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Bored? Let's Watch Videos (part VI)
Since MTV is really goign through with this "ban" (more like blacklisting), Janet was "forced" to premeire "So Excited" on Access Granted. Its much better executed than "Call on Me" which lacked the one thing we all want from a good Janet video--dancing. Khia who guess..umm...talks on this track only made a minimum appearance thank goodness.
Janet Jackson-So Excited ft Khia and Jermaine Dupree More for you're viewing pleasure... Cassie-Long Way to Go ft Ryan Leslie Looks like she finally realized that singing wasn't going to cut it and decided to just talk. Rhianna-We Ride (The Return of Mini B.!)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
It's really over. After months of speculation and rumor and 14 years of marriage, Whitney Houston has officially filed for divorce from the man she once called, "the king of R&B", Bobby Brown.
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 13) - Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston has filed for divorce from her husband Bobby Brown, her publicist told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Publicist Nancy Seltzer declined to reveal where or when the Grammy-winning singer filed the divorce papers, and said the singer had no statement to make.
"I can just confirm that she has filed for divorce," Seltzer said. Whitney and Bobby, who married in 1992, have had a sometimes tumultuous marriage, and rumors of their breakup have surfaced often over the years. The couple have one child, 13-year-old daughter , Bobbi Kristina. [ source]
 Since seeking help for a much publicized drug addiction (crack might be wack but something was definately good to Nippy) Whitney is reportedly working on a new album with career long mentor Clive Davis.
After speculation that Spears/Federlines were balancing out there brood with a girl, Britney Spears gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. Spears gave birth shortly after 2am on Tuesday to a 6-pound, 11-ounce bundle of joy. Rumors are that the baby will be names Jaelyn after her mother Lynn and sister Jamie.
Now if we can just locate Sean Preston's missing twin...
No Need for Hateration, but...
We fall down, but we get up! It was time for B. to take the l. There's always next week.
Beyonce's sophmore album, B'Day, which release was preceeded with harsh criticism for her first two tracks, went on sale Sept. 5. According to Billboard, the highly anticipated album only took #47 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop chart. Her first album, Dangerously in Love, on the other hand debuted at #1 in 2003.
The news gets alittle worst for fans that have been totting her first week sales at a predicted 600, 000. With 60% of records counted, Soundscan is showing B'Day at just 557,209 units - far less than Mary J. Blige's The Breakthrough which sold over 700,000 during it's first week of sales.
Oh well, let's look at the brightside Letoya is still at #11.
Another one taken, but always remembered
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.
Daniel Wayne Smith was visiting his mother in her room at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he died Sunday, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, told The Associated Press. He said an autopsy was under way.
Smith arrived Saturday night in the Bahamas, and apparently went directly to the hospital where he spent the night in his mother's room, Ferguson said.
"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep," he said. "She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive, and she sounded the alarm."
Medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Ferguson said. Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital Thursday, her Web site said.
"Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being," a statement on the site said. It said that drugs or alcohol were not believed to be a factor.
Her son had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister," the statement said. "Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace."
Daniel Smith was the product of Smith's 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987. Daniel Smith had small roles in his mother's movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit."
Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for Trimspa, the diet products company that has been endorsed by Smith, said she did not know the name of the baby girl's father.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year.
She then feuded with Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, over her entitlement to the tycoon's estate before he died in June at the age of 67.
In the long-running dispute, Smith had won a $474 million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million and eventually reduced to zero. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could continue to pursue the fortune in federal courts in California despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir. [source]
Love her or hate her, this has to be the hardest thing in the world to deal with especially when you were supposed to be celebrating. I can't not fathom Ms. Smith's agony. Therefore, in respect to her wishes published on her official website, I will not post anymore information about the death until her representatives release a statement, which shouldn't be until after the funneral.
Oh Hell to the Naw!!!!!!!!
Good lawd, I mad this might be the last thing I see before I go to bed to night. I'm going to have nightmares.
Paris Performing at a VMA Afterparty Paris Hilton is really tempting me to bestow upon her the honor of the Hoe Sit Down Award of the Year. What is this mess? Girls Gone Wild:VMA Edition? And after all that hype about "she doesn't sound all that bad" and "surprisingly she can sing" why is it that she has to lip sync for every preformance? I mean she even lip synced at her album release party! She could afford to shut down the Las Vegas Strip but she couldn't afford a voice coach (a life coach for that matter)? *shakes head while wrapping scarf around hair*
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Fierce to the Last Moment
R.I.P. Willi Willi Ninja, the Godfa--er-mother of Voguing surcame to AIDS related illness last night in a New York Hospital.
"Willi Ninja--An Icon, Legend and Friend"
Monday, September 11, 2006
Taking the Wire to School
Let me start by echoing the sentiments of every other television critic that has taken the time to review this fall's line up: The Wire ( HBO) is the best show on television. Created and written by the duo (David Simon and Ed Burns) that brought us The Corner (lawd knows that I can't fathom using crack after watching that mess), HBO's award winning drama returns after an uncertain hiatus, for a fourth season. It's my belief that part of what makes The Wire so endearing is the fact that it ends each season so smoothly that you never know whether it's coming back. There's never a cliffhanger, just the satisfaction of knowing that you witness some of most beautifully scripted and throughout portrayals of real life issues. After each season finale Wire fans are left wondering how the story can continue and worrying that HBO might not bring back the series at all. Therefore, the series built up just as big of a fan base in the off-season as it does during the season. And when HBO announces that a new season will be premiering, the speculation of how the writers will reopen the story that had so clearly been closed begins to swirl. The answer is usually unforeseen yet, just as satisfying as the previous story. This season, after tackling the drug trade, sex slavery, and the incorporation of drug money into legitimist business, The Wire, is now taping into the inner city school system. Previously, only playing side characters and extras, the hoppers (young low level drug dealers), are now at the forefront of this case study into the formal and informal education of four Baltimore eighth graders. As sensitive of a subject as the drug and prostitution issues previously addressed, the Wire is set to educate the masses with an unadulterated look into what makes inner city schools function and dysfunction, while the plot will not point a finger of blame, it will expose a system that is complex in it's faults and desperately caught between surviving and succeeding. Check out http://www.thehowardinsider.com/ in the coming weeks for a weekly synopsis of past episodes. With commentary from me, Miss Joi, and my parents (who are both educators in the inner city schools) these updates are sure to be funny and insightful.
Catch the Wire on HBO on Sundays at 10PM EST or anytime OnDemand (This year HBO will be offering OnDemand customers the opportunity to see every episode before it's Sunday premiere.)
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