Book illustrates 'Lil Oprah'

March 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Humble beginnings from the richest woman in entertainment led a New York artist to draw a whole book about her.London Ladd’s latest tome is called “Oprah the Littler Speaker” and describes the multimillionaire media queen’s early life in the backwoods of the Crooked Letter.While he didn’t have pictures of Oprah as a child, Ladd ...

Is Everybody a Model Now?

March 1, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Just a few short years ago you had to actually be working for a talent agency to be considered a model. I mean, you had to actually have face shots, and in most cases, a real, live, walking, talking agent. But along came Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Black Planet, and Xango, or whatever. “Models” exploded ...

Does Naomi Campbell still have it?

February 22, 2010 No Comments

Tweet After an unusually quiet 2009, supermodel extraordinaire and resident-bad-girl Naomi Campbell has yet to sign any major endorsement deals, or do any big projects for 2010. After more than a decade of ascension in the modeling world, and headlines, some of which unfavorable, Campbell deserved some time off last year. And she got it, ...

Bria Murphy: Eddie’s little girl a model chick

December 7, 2009 No Comments

Tweet When your father is the biggest comedian of the past quarter century, and her uncle is “Chollie” Murphy, it probably would have been kind of hard to keep a straight face growing up. But Bria Murphy, the 19-year-old first born of Eddie and Nicole Murphy, has mastered a straight face and level head. Bria ...

Rihanna: I Miss Chris

November 18, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Prepping for a new album and trying to focus on her music, Rihanna, in an interview published in The Sun, says she when she hears ex-boyfriend Chris Brown’s music she won’t turn it off, rather, just the opposite. “I don’t snub or turn it off; I listen. I like his music.” When asked if ...

Hey Tyra, Meat us Half-Way

November 12, 2009 No Comments

Tweet In the wake of a nmodel’s Photoshop disaster from clothier Ralph Laure last month, there’s only one way to stop young girls who aspire to be models from trying to look anorexic: Tyra Banks must gorge herself on a whole rump roast on her show. Banks, who’s known to stand her ground when it ...

TV's top prime female: Tyra is No. 1

October 28, 2009 No Comments

Tweet First of all, we can’t count Oprah Winfrey, because her show is not considered “primetime.” If it did, then this wouldn’t even be close. But Tyra Banks is the No. 1 earner among women on primetime TV, according to Forbes. While there are other aspiring media moguls out there, none of them have pulled ...

Tyra for Halloween: Pepa???

October 28, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Tyra Banks, illustrating her addiction to all kinds of wigs, called herself trying to dress up for Halloween as Kim Kardashian this week. The only problem is that she inadvertently pulled a dead ringer for Pepa of Salt and Pepa. To call the similarities stunning would be an understatement. I halfway expected Tyra to ...

Did Toccara sell out?

October 20, 2009 4 Comments

Tweet A few years back when she first appeared on Tyra Banks’ “America’s Next Top Model,” the volumptuous plus-sized Toccara took it hard when she was seen as too big, “fat,” to many of the show’s contestants (and even Tyra herself) to make it to superstardom. But my have things changed. Toccara is looking slim ...

'Good Hair': Is Chris Rock's Wife Unbeweavable?

October 13, 2009 7 Comments

Tweet As the audiences hee and haw at Chris Rock’s “Good Hair,” a look inside the hairstory of black women, many are taking aim at someone on the sidelines: Chris Rock’s wife.Malaak Compton-Rock has been scrutinized heavily (and that’s putting it nicely) since her husband’s film came out. She’s notably absent from the documentary, many ...

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