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No, that’s not Beyoncé and Bo dog, but Bey and First Dog Sunny posing for a pic she posted on her Tumblr page *For whatever reason the White House has yet to release official photos of Mrs. Michelle Obama‘s 50th birthday bash. But that hasn’t stopped stars like Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson […]
*Jimmy Fallon announced that Will Smith and U2 will be his first guests when he takes over NBC’s “Tonight” show next month. Jay Leno will wrap his two-decade run at the helm on Feb. 6 with Billy Crystal and Garth Brooks as guests. Fallon takes the baton on Feb. 17, debuting a week of […]
*This is how the organization sees itself, not how I may assume or romanticize its mission statement. Accordingly, if we can agree this is how the NAACP Image Awards bills itself, then we should be in agreement that on these merits it should be judged and measured. In 1942, NAACP Executive Director, Walter White, […]
*Chiwetel Ejiofor‘s Best Actor Academy Award nomination may have marked a professional high point for the “12 Years a Slave” entertainer, but there is someone else who was just as happy. Ejiofor’s sister, CNN correspondent Zain Asher, was emotional on-the-air while sharing the news of her brother’s Oscar nomination on Thursday. “Everyone is so […]
*Corey Clark just won’t go away. Just when you think you’ve broken away from the former “American Idol” contestant’s beef with the hit show, he decides to sue “AI” for $250 million. Clark is suing “Idol” for allegedly not being forthcoming with information about a prior arrest. In an interview with Rumor Fix, Clark […]
*Olivier Martinez is following his wife Halle Berry to series television. The actor has been tapped to play the father of Margaux on ABC’s “Revenge,” according to Deadline. Martinez will recur as Pascal LeMarchal, Margaux LeMarchal’s (Karine Vanasse) media magnate father. He is a cutthroat businessman and has a competitive history with Conrad (Henry […]
*Oprah Winfrey insists she wasn’t “robbed” of an Academy Award nomination yesterday after failing to secure a Best Supporting Actress nod for “The Butler.” Oscar buzz had surrounded the TV titan for her role in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” however, she didn’t make the cut when the nominations were announced yesterday. Oprah says she […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police have opened an internal affairs investigation into statements made by a police officer who responded to reports that…
The 2014 Academy Award nominations were announced today with two prominent Black films–”Fruitvale Station” and “The Butler” noticeably missing from the ranks. While “12 Years A Slave” dominated nominations, we can’t ignore the Academy’s consistent disregard of Black films even if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences elected, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, its first […]
News of the films being missed out comes as a shock to the public and those in the film industry. On Thursday morning, the nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced and there was one huge snub that shocked movie critics world wide … Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Not only was […]
“12 Years a Slave” among the films with the most nominees, coming in with nine. (CNN) — “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth joined Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on Thursday to announce the nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards. The Academy Awards will air live on […]