http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/24031 R&B music sure has taken its share of blows in the last few years. Singers were out, rappers and recycled beats were in, and songwriting seemed more like an anachronism than anything current artists were interested in preserving. Musicians were putting more creativity into their red carpet appearances than their often subpar CDs.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23993 The O’Jays have long been one of soul music’s most enduring groups.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=69132 *Winner of the 2005 NAACP Image Award as the “Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture” for Ray, Kerry Washington is a versatile, talented and fearless actress who has built an impressive list of credits over the course of her relatively brief career. She has also garnered critical acclaim for recent roles in Mother and […]
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68863 Aretha Franklin is out of surgery and has calling the undisclosed procedure “highly successful.”
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68617 *This month, “Desperate Housewives” actress Vanessa Williams graces the cover of Ebony magazine, accompanied with a saucy feature about how she passed up a $600,000 tell-all-book deal.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23895 If there has ever been a more amazing comeback in modern R&B history than that of El DeBarge, we don’t know what it is.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68575 *A rep for the Boyz II Men said that a technical glitch was to blame for one of the group’s songs being played twice during last night’s NBC Christmas special — once when the band wasn’t on stage — and that the band was not lip-syncing during its performance.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68442 *On Tuesday EURweb.com was on the scene at an event sponsored by Belvedere Vodka. It seems as though those cats are sponsoring something every time you turn around. Anyway, as the drinks were following, and New York City’s beautiful people began to pile into the confines of the Gilda Hall downtown, we found ourselves […]
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68183 *Angela Bassett is back in action and ready to put on her womanly swag in the upcoming film Will Smith-produced film “This Means War.” The actress joins Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, and Reese Witherspoon in the drama, which focuses on two best friends who both are international spies. However, when they both fall in […]
*Barbara Walters’s interview with the president and first lady did well on Friday night, early viewing figures indicate. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68354
*One time dramatic actor, turned legendary funny man, Leslie Nielsen died today according to his agent. He was 84. His agent, John S. Kelly, told the Associated Press that Nielsen died Sunday at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=67824
Veteran Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Albert “Little Smokey” Smothers has died, his record producer said this week. He was 71. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23767
