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*Gabourey Sidibe has joined the cast of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film “Tower Heist,” Deadline.com reports. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=59277
TV Guide’s popular Cheers & Jeers section gave pop star Jason Derulo a big ol’ “Jeer” for his performance of “Georgia on My Mind” this week on “Dancing With the Stars.” He’s no Ray Charles, but TV Guide’s Bruce Fretts expected a better take on the classic than what Derulo delivered. He wrote in Thursday’s […]
Via Newsone.com: Last week, a YouTube video called “Black Marriage Negotiations” spread like a forest fire among the African-American middle class set. With posts on Facebook, Essence.com and many sites in between, the 3-minute-plus animated video, where a professional black woman dictates what she requires in a mate to a professional black man, has elicited […]
Instead of balling all out in the club, for her 41st birthday Nia Long threw an intimate get-together in the famed neighborhood West Village in New York. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=59118
Tyler Perry appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show today and cried after sharing the details of his horrific childhood and abusive father. In addition to being beaten by his father (once, so badly that he blacked out for three days), Tyler Perry was also sexually abused by four different adults when he was a child. […]
Eddie Murphy has just signed on to star in “Tower Heist,” the crime caper that he was originally going to lead when the project was first conceived in 2005 as an all-black version of “Ocean’s Eleven.” According to EW.com’s “Hollywood Insider,” the original idea of an African-American “Ocean’s Eleven” was […]
*NBC is giving “Undercovers” four more chances to boost its ratings. While the network on Monday announced full season pickups for “The Event,” “Law & Order: Los Angeles” and “Outsourced,” and today announces full orders for “Chase” and “Chuck,” it has decided to order just four more episodes of its struggling Boris Kodjoe thriller. […]
Venus Williams isn’t satisfied with just being a Grand Slam champion, an interior designer, a clothing designer, an author and a commercial pitchwoman. As if she didn’t already make most mortal women feel like complete underachievers, Williams now has a new venture. Her computer game, “Venus: The Case of the Grand Slam Queen,” is now […]
K-CI & JOJO…COME CLEAN is a nine-episode docu-series that follows the lives of two international R&B superstars and original members of the chart-topping R&B group Jodeci. In an attempt to save their lives and careers, brothers Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey and Joel “JoJo” Hailey have agreed to live together for the first time in over a […]
Our good friends over at Eurweb.com covered our very own TV One network’s “Fall for TV One,” a stunning event at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood on October 14 that premiered the upcoming sitcoms like “Love That Girl” and “K-Ci and JoJo Comes Clean”. A red carpet report also gave juicy details on K-Ci and JoJo’s […]
*It’s about time. Tyler Perry is cancelling some dates of the “encore leg” of his “Madea’s Big Happy Family” tour due to fatigue. A source traveling with the show said the large production is being pulled off the road after several performances this weekend in the New York City area. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=58203
BET is reporting that Morgan Freeman’s ex-wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, is writing a tell all book stating that she received $400 million in their divorce settlement. Now, I must say, does Morgan Freeman even have $400 million to give away? It was originally speculated that Myrna would receive a $170 million settlement, but the source says […]
