GUESS WHO: AT SHOWTIME EVENT IN L.A.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
Guess who attended the premiere Of Showtime’s “Secret Diary Of A Call Girl” in Los Angeles on Wednesday night?
COUPLED UP: MEAGAN & THOMAS / MALINDA & D-NICE / KIMORA & DJIMON
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
Meagan Good and boyfriend Thomas Jones were spotted outside the Crown Bar in Los Angeles. She really loves those YSL pumps, doesn’t she?
ROUNDUP: HUDSON TO RETURN AT SUPERBOWL / KELIS & NAS EXPECTING? / CHRIS ROCK’S NEW BOOK
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
Jennifer Hudson announced that she plans to return at 2009’s Superbowl and will be singing the National Anthem:
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday that the Dreamgirls Oscar winner, 27, will deliver “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Tampa, Fla., event on Feb. 1.
Her Super Bowl honor will come just days before Hudson is also scheduled to sing the songs of Neil Diamond at a Feb. 6 MusiCares Person of the Year gala in Los Angeles. SOURCE
Hudson has avoided the spotlight due to her terrible family tragedy that occurred last year.
KELIS & NAS EXPECTING?
According to a family friend and US Weekly, Hip Hop couple Kelis and Nas are expecting a little one to join them this year:
“It’s all they are talking about. She is carrying hip-hop royalty!” says the insider, who adds Kelis — currently in her first trimester — already has a little bump. “They are so excited.”
A rep for the singer had no comment. SOURCE
If true, the two have another thing to celebrate this month.
Their Wedding Anniversary is also in January - they wedded this month in 2005.
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BARACK OBAMA WAX FIGURE UNVEILED
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
A wax figure of President-elect Barack Obama was unveiled at London’s Madame Tussauds Museum on Thursday. I guess it looks like him. What do you think? Peep more photos below.
NEWS: BART OFFICER ARRESTED
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
( Photo by Cathleen Allison / AP )
Former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot Oscar J. Grant III, appeared in the East Fork Justice Court on Wednesday in Minden, Nevada.
Mehserle waived extradition to California and was being held without bail on a warrant charging homicide. According to reports, Mehserle was in Nevada because he feared for his safety after death threats were made against him.
Grant’s family has filed a $25 million legal claim against BART, signaling an intention to sue for damages. The family’s attorney, John Burris, said that he was pleased to hear of Mehserle’s arrest:
“If it’s true, the family is delighted, and it will really help with the healing process,” Burris said. “This is also very important for the community. This had to occur; it was almost a no-brainer. I think the district attorney ought to be commended for moving (the case) expeditiously.”
Continue to view CNN video of the district attorney’s briefing.
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: GUION BLUFORD JR.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
GUION BLUFORD (1942-) is NASA’s first black astronaut in space.
Bluford was born in West Philadelphia on November 22, 1942. Bluford loved finding out how things were put together, but what amazed him was how things flew.
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MUSIC NEWS: INDIA.ARIE REVEALS ALBUM COVER / PRINCE PLAGIARIZED? / WHITNEY PREPS ALBUM FOR MARCH RELEASE
Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
Two-time Grammy Award winner India.Arie reveals the cover for her new album, Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics. This album is the follow up to Arie’s 2006 album, Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship, which debuted at #1 on Billboard Top 200 in 2006. The album is set to hit shelves and online February 10th and is lead by first single, “Chocolate High.”
PRINCE PLAGIARIZED?
An Italian court has ruled that Prince’s 1994 hit “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” was plagiarized from a song by two Italian writers. If this is your first time hearing about the case, but this has been an on-going trial. It could take several years for a definitive ruling in the case, which has already dragged on since the 1990s.
According to a sentence by the Court of Appeal in Rome, the song borrowed heavily from “Takin’ Me to Paradise,” written by Bruno Bergonzi and Michele Vicino.
Under the ruling, Prince must stop distributing the song on Italian territory. He also faces paying royalties he has so far accumulated to Bergonzi and Vicino and their publishers, but only if a final hearing confirms the Italian songwriting duo was plagiarized.
“Our song was first released in 1983, at the height of the Italian dance boom and it appeared on assorted compilations that were distributed internationally,” Bergonzi tells Billboard.com. “When we first heard Prince’s song we immediately took action, but this case has been dragging on for 15 years and it isn’t over yet, such is the slowness of the Italian legal system. We only decided to go public with our story now.” [SOURCE]
