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17
Nov
09
Where You At, Boo?
22
Sep
09
Is Eminem Suing Dr. Dre?
The AP is reporting that Eminem’s music publisher Eight Mile Style is suing Apple for selling his music on iTunes without proper permission. Apple is basically telling Em to holla at his boy, claiming that Dr. Dre’s Aftermath gave the company all the permission they needed. Now Aftermath is also being sued by Eight Mile Style for “wrongfully collecting” $4 million from the songs that were placed on iTunes.
If all sides don’t reach a settlement by Wednesday, a trial will begin in Detroit on Thursday.
Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon stepped out a few days ago and something was very different yet very familiar about Mariah.
Mariah’s back to rocking the same darker curly hair she had when she released her debut album, Mariah Carey. The tight black dress is also a throwback look. Did she do it “for the nostalgia?” (one of her catch phrases)
I’m hoping she’ll keep this look for all of her appearances promoting Confessions of an Imperfect Angel. And speaking of her promo appearances, Mariah will be sitting down with Oprah on September 18 during her first week back!
A while back I blogged about Project Runway’s Chris March and his working relationship with Thierry Mugler and Beyonce.
Chris March
March, working as Mugler’s assistant, helped create Beyonce’s hottest Sasha Fierce looks for her tour. Now he says Mugler hasn’t paid him for the work he did.
Beyonce and Mugler
Perez Hilton recently wrote on his Coco Perez website that March was suing Beyonce. The designer quickly got a statement to Perez through a spokesperson making it clear that his lawsuit was against Mugler, not the singer. Check the statement:
“Chris March’s lawsuit is not against Beyonce, but rather against Thierry Mugler and Tancrede Prinz, who owe Chris money for having designed and fitted Beyonce’s costumes. Beyonce paid them, but they in turn have not paid Chris.
Chris continues to be a fan and great admirer of Beyonce who looks beautiful in everything she wears, especially Chris’s costumes.”
Side note: What was up with Chris sleeping through most of the Project Runway: All-Star Challenge?
Ryan Jenkins, a contestant on VH1’s Megan Wants A Millionaire, is a “person of interest” in the case of murdered model Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins reported Fiore missing, but hasn’t been seen or heard from ever since making the call. She was found strangled to death Saturday morning. She was 26.
Megan
Details are sketchy – it appears that Jenkins and Fiore may have been married, before or after the show began taping.
Sources told TMZ that Ryan was one of the finalist on the show and perhaps even the winner. VH1 has stopped airing the show indefinitely. Check out their statement:
Ryan Jenkins was a contestant on Megan Wants A Millionaire, an outside production, produced and owned by 51 Minds, that is licensed to VH1. The show completed production at the end of March. Given the unfortunate circumstances, VH1 has postponed any future airings. This is a tragic situation and our thoughts go out to the victim’s family.
Way to distance yourself from the situation VH1! Not that it had anything to do with you anyway.
Megan Hauserman is a VH1 favorite. She started out on Rock of Love and has also been a contestant on I Love Money and Charm School. Tidbit: According to her Wikipedia page, Megan has a degree in accounting! Interesting given her blonde bimbo persona.
07
Jul
09
“We Had Him” – Maya Angelou
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing, now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind.
Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace. Sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the moon.
In the instant that Michael is gone, we know nothing. No clocks can tell time. No oceans can rush our tides with the abrupt absence of our treasure.
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
We had him, beautiful, delighting our eyes.
His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us.
And we laughed and stomped our feet for him.
We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing. He gave us all he had been given.
Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana’s Black Star Square.
In Johannesburg and Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham, England
We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.
- Maya Angelou
07
Jul
09
Love Lockdown
Last week, in a 105-page decision, the Delhi High Court decriminalized homosexuality in India’s capital city. Yes, deCRIMINALIZED.
The country’s ban on homosexuality had been in place for almost 150 years. As the decision was announced, LGBT activists celebrated in the streets.
Click on the map for a survey of laws outlawing homosexuality worldwide from The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
Yesterday I came across this headline on CNN’s website, Single Black Women Choosing to Adopt. Interesting, I thought. Black women are disproportionately unmarried and a disproportionate number of black children are “in the system.” “Kudos, CNN,” I thought, “for exploring these issues.” And then I read on.
Somewhere between the plight of black women and the frank talk about single motherhood, there was this bit about color issues and black adoption:
“There are some single African-American women who are not emotionally ready to adopt an African-American child who is too dark, some adoption agency officials say.
Fair-skinned or biracial children stand a better chance of being adopted by single black women than darker-skinned children, some adoption officials say.
“They’ll say, ‘I want a baby to look like a Snickers bar, not dark chocolate,’ ” Caldwell, founder of Lifetime Adoption, says about some prospective parents.
“I had a family who turned a baby down because it was too dark,” she says. “They said the baby wouldn’t look good in family photographs.”
Now, it’s no secret that the black community has some color issues. But, I’m going to need more than one woman’s (granted, horrifying) anecdote and “some officials say” to understand, what, if any, impact this really has on adoption.
And as for Ms. Caldwell’s statement, “They’ll say, ‘I want a baby to look like a Snickers bar, not dark chocolate’” – Who is they? Has she actually heard this disturbing chocolate bar analogy from more than one person? I find that hard to believe. Clearly “they” don’t all say that, as evidenced by the photo of the beautiful brown-skinned woman and her beautiful brown-skinned daughter who were matched through Caldwell’s agency.
Maybe it’s just me but, I like my broad characterizations of any community QUANTIFIED or at least not attributed to “some” unidentified “adoption officials.”
If we’re talking about a few isolated incidents, it is not significant enough to be included in this short piece. If it is a bigger problem, then it needs to be actually explored and get its own piece.
27
Jun
09
Well, What Have We Here?
After his infamous f-bomb on the set of Grey’s Anatomy, many will write this off as an attempt to change his image but, kudos to Isaiah Washington for posing for the NO H8 campaign.
