THE ROUND UP: DA BRAT ASSAULTS WAITRESS WITH A BOTTLE OF RUM / TASHA SMITH TO PLAY DONNA SUMMER / BEYONCE & JAY-Z DO IT BIG FOR NEW YEAR’S?

Thursday, November 1, 2007

According to the AJC, Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris was arrested early Thursday morning after allegedly hitting a waitress in the face with a rum bottle during an altercation at a Jermaine Dupri’s Studio 72 nightclub.

DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said the 33-year-old rapper, got into an “altercation involving pushing” with the waitress. Read on:

“According to witnesses, after the pushing, the waitress walked away, and a short time later, that’s when Harris picked up a bottle and hit the waitress in the face with it,” Parish said.

Parish said the rum bottle broke, causing a “deep laceration” to the 23-year-old woman’s cheek. The waitress also had swelling to her forehead, and was taken by friends to a local hospital. [READ MORE]

Damn Da Brat!! That’s serious right there. Somebody might be doing some time and you know the chick is going to sue too.

Word is Tasha Smith is going to play Donna Summer is a movie biopic of the singer’s life. She told the BV Buzz that:

“It’s a movie we’ve been working on and we’re excited,” she revealed. “We’re still in the development stages of it but I will be playing Donna Summer, it’s just telling her life story.”

Summer, the legendary Academy Award winning singer known as “The Queen of Disco,” catapulted to the top of the 1970s pop music stratosphere with hit songs such as Last Dance, I Feel Love, McArthur Park, and Love to Love You Baby.

“It will show the transformation of her life,” Smith added about the film, which may or may not be adapted from Summer’s 2003 autobiography Ordinary Girl. “A lot of people don’t really know all that she has gone through from a young girl to teenage moving to Europe and trying to start on her career, and her different marriages and the drugs and her transformation with Christianity and all of that.”

According to our friends over at Just Jared, Beyonce and Jay-Z are planning to perform together for a New Year’s Party.

What’s shaping up to be the hottest ticket for New Year’s Eve weekend?

The Las Vegas opening of Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club, reports Life & Style! The first couple of hip-hop, Beyoncé, 26, and Jay-Z, 37, will perform together around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 30.

“Jay wants his club to be the ultimate in entertainment. He knows the buzz is going to be huge,” says a friend of the couple.