August 1, 2011
Tweet The first stills that actually show Rihanna in “Battleship” were released by the studio yesterday. Riri is wielding a bazooka-like hand cannon for the scene. And she actually looks like she can act, judging from the expression on her face. Music star Rihanna makes her big screen debut in the movie “Battleship,” a massive ...
May 13, 2011
Tweet “I usually play the metaphor: The arch-type and the function to bring about some emotional change to the lead character,” says blactress Viola Davis in explaining her roles. And she’s been getting a lot of them, it seems. Over the past 10 years, Davis’ star has risen as she’s blended seamlessly between TV and ...
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April 21, 2011
Tweet Reality TV vixen JWoww is evidently J-Deranged and violent. According to her former boyfriend, she stabbed him and it took 37 stitches, according to Radar Online, who told the internets. JWoww has not been the most popular temptress on “Jersey Shore” but she has been the most complex, exhibiting bouts of rage one minute and ...
April 21, 2011
Tweet Catherine Zeta Jones has spoke out a week after the news emerged that she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, saying there is “no shame” in seeking help. The statement shows what kind woman Zeta Jones is, and how her husband Michael Douglas who is contending with throat cancer, are both fighters. “If my ...
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April 14, 2011
Tweet It’s okay and it’s going to be alright. Actress Catherine Zeta Jones has disclosed that she has been admitted to a mental health institution for bipolar disorder or manic depression. The illness is characterized by extreme lows — depression — and euphoric highs, which is where it gets it’s bipolar name from. For Jones, ...
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March 24, 2011
Tweet Breezy 15m of FAME by yardie4lifever2 The F.A.M.E. monster is at C Breezy. Again. Christopher Maurice Brown has been the poster boy for black male angst of late: After he tore up a “Good Morning America” studio room by hurling a chair through the window, the internet exploded with calls for him to be ...
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February 9, 2011
Tweet For Nia Long, it’s been a long time since “Boyz in the Hood”. Back then the cherubic brown skin 21-year-old was cast in John Singleton’s inner city masterpiece as a young actress new to Hollywood. In the mid-1990s, network television viewers got to know Long, hilariously, as she played Will Smith’s girlfriend and fiancée Beulah ...
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December 16, 2010
Tweet This season’s dead memory, “Undercovers” featured eye candy like never before on prime time: For the fellas, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, a British bombshell known across the pond. For the ladies, Boris Kodjoe, mostly remembered for a string of roles in black films in the 1990s. “Undercovers” itself, a show about a spy couple, itself went under. According ...
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November 25, 2010
Tweet “There is a sisterhood, a real sisterhood in this industry among black women,” actress Sanaa Lathan says in a “Behind the Cover” clip from Essence Magazine. “It’s real, it’s not for press,” Lathan says of the bond the women share. Lathan, Nia Long and Gabrielle Union all got to play dress up amid the ...
November 24, 2010
Tweet She’s got all the pedigree: a former Miss America. Actress. Model. She runs the Kenya Moore Foundation. And she’s from the D. Since her hey day in the 1990s, Moore has continued to move and shake as a Hollywood socialite, but the big screen is beckoning once again. Refusing to be pushed aside in ...
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