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August 31, 2006 Volume 52 1. MUSINGS Funny Signs
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In closing, I don't think there is anything wrong with plastic surgery. However, I do think there is something wrong with bad plastic surgery...and excessive plastic surgery.
James Dean, not to be confused with Jimmy Dean (the sausage), and Brad Pitt look alike. They also have the same facial expressions.
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Flashback Pics:
He totally looks like a Brad in that pic. It’s a Valley name. You expect to see someone with a surf board with that hair. He is totally having a Fabio moment in these pics:
Pitt Pilot
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sure seem to be flying a lot, which isn't always the safest thing in the world. History has shown, little planes and celebrities don't always mix. They need to be careful.
Angelina In Trouble With Black Audiences Over Marianne Perl Role
She's got black lips and a black baby, but some black audiences are saying no to Angelina playing a black woman in the movie role of French black woman Marianne Perl, the widow of late journalist Daniel Perl.
I was wondering if they were
gonna give Angelina a curly perm or dry wave like Puffy has
Side bar: is it a requirement that if you sign with Badboy Records you have to get a dry wave. A lot of non-K-Fed white people are reading that and wondering, "What is she talking about?" Those are hair products and applications used by some members of black society.
Regarding Angelina, I was wondering how they were gonna pull that off - or if it was gonna be a Cleopatra thing.
CELEBRITY Teen Choice Awards
Jason McElwain was the highlight of the show. Great speech, great kid.
Other than that, I found the show to be highly sexually suggestive for teen audiences. Host Dane Cook kept making double entendres, vulgar sexual jokes and crude sexual gestures. What was that? Did you not read the sign that said "Teen Choice."
Then again, some adult Hollywood stars probably saw the "Teen Choice" sign and thought, time to find a new girlfriend.
Is Hollywood that perverse that it can't even behave for a teen show. And they wonder why kids today have such issues about their self-image, sexuality, have low self-worth and act out the way they do.
The theme of the night was you must be a bikini clad bimbo (the three bikini clad girls in the hot tub by the stage), outrageous, promiscuous or you're not hot/popular. Nice thing to teach the kids, Hollywood.
Nelly Furtado performed her track "Promiscuous Girl," that really:
a.) should not have been on the ballot at a teen awards show.
b.) should not have been performed at a teen awards show.
K-Fed made his debut, and well, it didn't get rave reviews in papers or on blogs:
K-Fed Reviews
“You just knew K-Fed was doomed when the cameras caught him striking a pre-performance gangsta pose. He looked dangerous as he gazed with the menace of a deadbeat slacker now obsessed with rhyming couplets. (Well, as dangerous as anyone can look when his posse includes fifth graders.)
The song was called "Lose Control," not to be confused with "Lose Yourself," the Eminem hit that's clearly simmered in K-Fed's creative subconscious. He mumbled his rhymes, taking slow, high-knee steps like he was sneaking up on a bunny only he could see.
Then, mercifully, it was over. So now, some free advice for Kevin and Britney: stay away from television cameras. No, stay away from all cameras. They are destroying you both.
Britney & Kevin: The E! True Hollywood Story (Citytv, 8 tonight) provides ample background about the young couple. But it doesn't cover an idea that's become obvious: Britney and Kevin are outliers on the fame bell curve. They are anomalies who disprove the maxim that says all publicity is good publicity. The more we see of them, the less we care.” - thestar.com
Paula Abdul: I Feel Sorry for Britney Spears
"Britney Spears walked on stage at the Teen Choice Awards like she was headed to a Matt Lauer interview as she was again smacking her gum with cleavage popping. But the former pop star did look good this time and she was only there to introduce her husband Kevin Federline.
Paula Abdul: I Feel Sorry for Britney Spears. Paula Abdul even gave her American Idol opinion and it wasn't her usual; 'you're a star.' Abdul said she heard a little of Federline's song. But the American Idol judge said she had heard from others that it wasn't that good. She said, "The person I feel saddest for is Britney."
Then came Federline. Ugh. He's being ripped on the blogs for a performance that was indeed less than stellar. Need more proof? TMZ has a poll noting that K-Fed made his live world debut at the Teen Choice Awards last night on FOX.
The poll is titled 'How Badly Did K-Fed Suck?' The short item says, "TMZ is still shaking its inanimate head at K-Fed's performance. Watch 30 seconds -- trust us, it's more than enough." - Tina Sims writes from Miami, National Ledger
K-Fed and singer Jessica Simpson:
...speaking of that, articles came out that Britney Spears wasn't so kind to Simpson back stage:
"Britney must really be tired of being pregnant like she says because at Sunday's Teen Choice Awards she bumped into fellow pop tart Jessica Simpson backstage and was rather rude. Jessica reportedly asked if she could give Britney's very pregnant belly a kiss. "He*l, no!" responded Spears, according to Us Weekly.
A witness adds: "Jessica was really insulted, but Britney refused to let her do it." Now I ask you, Is that any way to treat a fellow vapid buxom blond performer? – Post Chronicle
CELEBRITY Justin Timberlake
Timberlake said he’s bringing “Sexy Back” but Justin should have left sexy alone (after all, it wasn't bothering him).
Did Justin Diss Miami?
Did Justin “Michael
Jackson Michael Jacksome Moves” Timberlake diss Miami
in the following statement:
The Bible says, let he who is sinless cast the first stone. Let's look into Justin's freshness factor, shall we.
Mick Jagger once said upon seeing Timberlake perform, "I've seen all his dance moves before." And Jagger was right.
Random thought hits Aisha (light bulb): Angelina Jolie and Mick Jagger have the same lips!
Back to what I was
talking writing about...I searched the net and with my
trained eyes
Lets look at MJ and JT
corner column we have Michael years prior and in the right
corner column we have Justin years after:
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Justin, back away from the Michael Jackson VHS tapes. Put the 1985 Victory Tour tapes down.
Maybe you're not bringing Sexy Back. Maybe you're just bringing Michael back.
- Aisha waiting on Justin to Moonwalk...and since little sister said she would beat her down if she wrote about JT in the Column again, also waiting for that beat down - but the joke was worth it for him saying that about Miami).
And his foot is still in his mouth...
“People think he looks so normal, and he's so sweet and he's so earnest, but he can't carry a tune in a bucket." - Justin Timberlake
He has a stronger voice than you.
Timberlake Slams Rapper Kanye West
"Hicks isn't the only artist Timberlake has been bad-mouthing. During an interview with the LA Times, he was quoted "discrediting Kanye West's originality" when he said, "Kanye? Has he ever had a song that wasn't already a song before he did it?" He later claimed that the statement was meant to be a small joke, but we all know Mr. West ain't having it." – Nah Right
"Justin Timberlake slams Britney Spears in new song? Justin Timberlake says his new song “What Goes Around Comes Around,” is not a slam against his ex - Britney Spears.
He adds, "I get approached a lot about her and it's such a part of my life that is so long ago to me that I prefer not to talk about it anymore because it's giving it too much weight and it's always misconstrued."
On the other side, Justin Timberlake dissed Britney Spears in the Fashion Rocks magazine, a fall supplement to Vanity Fair.
“I dated Britney half my life, but I don’t know that person anymore. I’m not sure I knew her before. If I was writing an article about her, I would not be able to fight the urge to write every dirty thing about her.” – The Bosh
Timberlake Slams Lindsay Lohan
"Lindsay Lohan has been banned from a Justin Timberlake concert - because he doesn't want her ruining his image. The 'SexyBack' singer's management have reportedly turned down Lohan's request to be put on the VIP guest list for the Los Angeles showcase on Saturday night.
Lohan's professional reputation suffered a blow earlier this month when she was issued a letter from film producer James G. Robinson, calling her "irresponsible and unprofessional" after she didn't turn up for work on her new movie Georgia Rule.” - Pr Inside
Apparently I Was Right Again
Remember back in the April 2006 Column I wondered out loud about why Janet Jackson's career was harmed by the Super Bowl incident and Justin's wasn't:
Apparently, this month, Mr. Timberlake has amazingly concluded the same thing of it being due to sexism and racism:
"If you consider it 50/50 - I probably got 10 per cent of the blame and that says something about society. I think that America's harsher on women and I think that America's unfairly harsh on ethnic people." Timberlake tells MTV News he accepts he didn't deal with the aftermath of the breast-baring incident well and now he feels he shouldn't have been so quick to distance himself from the scandal - and from Jackson.
He adds,
"I didn't handle it the best way I could have but you get your bumps and bruises
from it and you learn." Contact Music August 8, 2006
Hey,
last month I voiced my disapproval of his track as well.
Put it this way, even though everyone’s
slamming K-Fed's track as not
Wack
“Mcfly Label Timberlake's New Song A Joke - British pop act McFly have ridiculed heart-throb Justin Timberlake's new song and branded the singer "lazy". The cheeky boy band claim when they first heard Timberlake's single Sexy Back, they thought it was a joke. Bass player Dougie Poynter says, "What is going on with Justin's new song Sexy Back?
"I spent the first two days after hearing it laughing and when I found out it wasn't a joke I spent the next two crying in the room. Just because you know what Britney Spears and Cameron Diaz look like naked now, it gives you no right to be lazy, but please don't sue me, Justin." – Contact Music August 23, 2006
Timberlake Slammed By Blog
“Why Music Sucks: Diddy, Justin Timberlake And Paris Hilton"
Taylor Hicks isn't the only artist Timberlake has been bad-mouthing. During an interview with the LA Times, he was quoted "discrediting Kanye West's originality" when he said, "Kanye? Has he ever had a song that wasn't already a song before he did it?" He later claimed that the statement was meant to be a small joke, but we all know Mr. West ain't having it." - Hip Hop RnB Soul
Britney Spears @ the Teen Choice Awards looking like she's just happy to get out the house
In last month's Column I said Britney and K-Fed would be broke if they keep spending the way they do. This month K-Fed said he is broke:
"I'm almost broke. I don't get any money from my wife. "As a man, a male figure and a father, I wouldn't be happy sitting back and living off my wife's fortune. I have to provide for my family. "People gotta understand that I'm working, too. She's not the only one that's got things to do."- Contact Music
Spears and Federline's house
Britney...still
“The Newark Bears, a minor league baseball team, are hosting a Britney Spears Baby Safety Night to spread the message about keeping babies safe in vehicles. The event was inspired by criticism drawn by the pop star when she was photographed with her baby son, Sean Preston, sitting on her lap as she drove, and later, in a car seat facing forward rather than facing backward, which some safety regulations say is best.
Fans attending tonight's game will receive information on baby car seat safety and a chance to win a free car seat from the American Automobile Association.” - Canada.com
Poor baby. That was wrong. It's his mom who did this. He’s such a little cutie pie, but he was voted worst dressed because of his mom’s taste in clothes. But you know what’s even scarier; Britney says she’s working on a clothing line for kids.
“Okay, now this is just wrong, y’all. It’s not the kid’s fault his parents buy his accessories at Pimps ‘R’ Us. The September issue of Esquire has named little Sean Preston Federline the “Worst Dressed Man in the World” on its annual best and worst dressed men list.
Regarding Britney Spears‘ less than stellar wardrobe choices for her son the magazine says that “being the offspring of a hyper fertile backup dancer and prematurely wilted flower is no excuse, but being 12 months almost is…As soon as you gain some dexterity, straighten out your hat.” – US Weekly
“The 'Toxic' singer is eight months pregnant with her second child and has cravings for Sean Preston's organic baby food. Last month the 24-year-old singer was rushed to hospital, when she suffered false labour pains, seven months into her pregnancy." – Music Rooms
In the video (which is a must see), Spears appears very spaced out. At one point she enters into a conversation about the possibility that Back to the Future and Time Travel are real. She ponders if time travelers are among us, but in secret. It's hilarious for all the right and wrong reasons.
So the new question is: Britney Spears: High or Just Stupid?”- Slash Film
Do we have to pick just one?
“The clip shows an unscripted Spears doing…well…nothing. Britney simply rants, hits a table a few times and eats. It's really quite disturbing.
Our pals at TMZ, mainly Editor Harvey Levin, have this to say: I wonder if Lindsay Lohan has looked at the video and if it had an impact on her? Maybe all of us end up reflecting about our lives at the kitchen table. It just seems like this one is so much more of a train wreck than most. I've always rooted for Britney. What I love about her is that she is so unaffected by her stardom and wealth. As crazy as things got for her over the last year, I still thought she'd have a huge comeback. I still hope that, but now I am not so sure.'
Neither are we. Britney appears to be high out of her mind” – Post Chronicle
I saw the video and it's pretty out there. Federline had more sense in the video than she did. This means he’s got the brains in that family. Take what you will from that.
Britney looking like her mom in this pic.
“She is caught in an unscripted moment and at times sounds very 'off.' It is unclear when the tape was filmed but the former pop star basically sits and talks with K-Fed about nothing and her most used phrase is 'huh?'
Spears was lampooned just last night by the minor league baseball team the Newark Bears who hosted a Britney Spears Baby Safety Night in an effort to spread the message of keeping babies safe in vehicles.
This video will likely bring more Britney bashing.” – National Ledger
In a recent clip that's making the online rounds, Britney seemed, well, disoriented as she talked about life and got metaphysical.
"Have you ever seen Back to the Future?" Britney asked her husband.
"Mmhmm," came Kevin's wordless reply.
"Is that possible?" she asked, "To time travel?"
"No."
"Yes, it is Kevin."
Poor Britney. Even she would like to go back a few years, back to a happier time, before television showed that she had finally lost control. – The Star, Canada
Almost Tripped
EXCLUSIVE: Trouble in Popoparadise?
Y'ALL BE HATIN'
Add another name to the list of people embarrassed by
Kevin Federline's performance at the Teen Choice Awards - Britney Spears! Yes,
the Britney we ran into yesterday (at the ritzy restaurant Chin Chin) was
certainly in a foul mood, stomping out to her car without so much as a smile to
the cameras - she'd actually worked herself into such a state that she nearly
tripped over her heels!-
Britney: "I almost tripped again. Who put the street there!"
Britney: "well, I almost tripped walking, maybe I won't trip if I run."
Kevin: "did she almost trip...again!?"
And the good
bad publicity just keeps rolling in...
"Can Britney Spears Make It Into The Guinness Book Of Records? For her lovely burps?...
Britney Spears may be entering the Guinness Book of Records for her extremely loud burps.
Recent video footage of Britney circulating the internet featured the former pop princess eating and burping loudly…she impressed bosses at the book of records so much that they asked if they could record her.
Britney is hoping to be able to break the record for the loudest burp recorded…which is currently held by Londoner Paul Hunn who six years ago burped a 118.1 decibel burp. Hopefully Britney will not burp that loudly…" The Star
Lindsay Lohan Photo and caption from PITNB
Last month it was Morgan Creek, this month its a crew member from the movie Herbie:
So I see that Ms. Lohan is refuting the accusations made against her. It sounds to me that her behavior is exactly the same inconsiderate **** she pulled on the Herbie production. She stayed out all night, and then the doctor announced that Ms Lohan had asthma the next day.
She played the exhaustion card a couple of times. Too tired from shooting to bear another day of shooting. She calls in sick one day and we find out she is across town shooting a day with her then-boyfriend on That 70's Show. Another day she has the "doctor" call in Ms Sickie's fake ailment, because she was shooting her own music video the night before.
Many mornings during the Herbie show were rescheduled according to the Puffy Face Report. The Princess was able to make the production [crew] recreate the desert race sets closer to the Four Seasons. She said she had signed on "to do a film in Los Angeles" and El Mirage was too hot and too far. She is a brat. One day she comes storming up the Team Payton driveway, followed by the producer.
It seems he had to insist that Lindsey play her off-screen lines for Michael Keaton. This common courtesy she could not afford her fellow actor. Funny she seemed to have no trouble with those other off- screen lines." – Herbie: Fully Loaded crew, World of Wonder
Veteran character actor William H. Macy says he respects Lindsay Lohan's talent, but not her behavior.
"You can't show up late," Macy, 56, told reporters Thursday at a Los Angeles on a junket promoting his new movie, Everyone's Hero. "It's very, very disrespectful."
Macy, who shares a scene with Lohan, 20, in the upcoming Emilio Estevez-directed drama Bobby, called the actress a "huge talent," but echoed the sentiments expressed in a letter sent to her recently by a studio chief who blasted her work ethic.
The letter came from James G. Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, which is producing Lohan's film Georgia Rule. Macy's wife, Felicity Huffman, also stars in the movie.
"I think what an actor has to realize (is that) when you show up an hour late, 150 people have been scrambling to cover for you," Macy told reporters Thursday. There is not an apology big enough in the world to have to make 150 people scramble. It's nothing but disrespect. And Lindsay Lohan is not the only one. A lot of actors show up late as if they're God's gift to the film. It's inexcusable, and they should have their **** kicked."
When asked about Lohan's work on Bobby, Macy paused and said, "She was pretty late." - Los Angeles Times
“She says, "I started getting prank calls from them on my voicemail. They'd be screaming and saying stuff that was said in the video." But it's Hilton who gets a verbal slap from loose-lipped Lohan - for her part in the footage.
The actress adds, "Obviously, she's very comfortable making videos" - a catty reference to the hotel heiress' controversial 1 Night In Paris sex tape.
Their last nightlife encounter, at New York's trendy Butter, almost ended in a fight after Hilton accused Lohan of trying to steal her on/off boyfriend Stavros Niarchos II. Lohan reveals, "She went off on this Stavros thing, grabbing my arm, saying, 'I can't believe you ******* called Stavros." - IMDB
Real nice Paris. Grabbing people by the arm – how abusive.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Tom Cruise was given the boot from his 14 year studio home Paramount Pictures, by the company's owner Sumner Redstone. Smart move. Redstone rightfully sighted Cruise's "erratic" and inappropriate behavior. However, Tom's ever-talking lawyer Bert Fields called Sumner's conduct "disgusting."
Sumner Redstone
Oh shut up, Bert. Like if Redstone hadn’t said Cruise was cuckoo the rest of us wouldn’t have caught on. Like it was some big hidden secret. Like it took Jacques Cousteau to dig that little doozey up. Like it took Freud to make that analysis. Everybody knows now.
What you need to do is stop encouraging your clients like Tom and Madonna in their cult lunacy, because they are sending the entertainment industry straight downhill in the sight of audiences, who have been commenting on it in droves.
A quote from The Independent:
“There is no question that Cruise's strange behaviour has been a public relations disaster for him. As The New York Times put it, he has somehow managed to "morph into something no movie star can afford to be: a guy you wouldn't want to know". That translates into lower tickets sales.
Redstone believes that, were it not for Cruise's antics, Mission: Impossible III, released in May, would have made $100m to $150m more than it did. Even for Redstone that is a lot of change to lose, so he did what he does always, he protected his business." - The Independent UK
Paramount has signed one of Cruise's main Hollywood adversaries the week he was fired:
"Cruise Out Matt Stone Trey Parker In At Paramount"
Paramount Pictures has announced the end to its 14-year-old
relationship with Tom Cruise's production company because of his off-screen
behavior but at the same time Matt Stone and Trey Parker sign a two picture deal
with the company.
1. Promiscuous Girl by Nelly Furtado
Promiscuous girl
You're teasing me
You know what I want
And I got what you need
2. Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
3. Me & U by Cassie
Baby, I'll love you all the way down
Get cha right where you like it,
I promise you'll like it
4. Deja Vu by Beyonce Knowles
Boy, I try to catch myself
But I'm out of control
Your sexiness is so appealing
I can't let it go oh!
5. London Bridge by Fergie
I'm such a lady but I'm dancing like a ho
Because you know what, I don't give a ****
So here we go!
How come every time you come around
My London London Bridge want to go down
6. Buttons
by The Pussy Cat Dolls
I'm telling you loosen up my buttons baby (Uh huh)
But you keep fronting (Uh)
Saying what you going do to me (Uh huh)
But I ain't seen nothing (Uh)
7. Goin Down by Yung Joc
B****** in the back
Black beamer coups
Girls like girls time to recruit
If ya got a problem say it to my face
We can knuckle up any time any place
8. Ain't No Other Man by Christina Aguilera
You got soul, you got class.
You got style with your bad ***- oh yeah!
Ain't no other man its true -- all right
Ain't no other man but you.
Do your thang honey!
9. Over My Head (CableCar) by The Fray
Everyone knows I'm in
Over my head
Over my head
With eight seconds left in overtime
She's on your mind
She's on your mind
10. Hips Don't Lie by Shakira
And I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see baby, this is perfection
Lyrics were taken from www.azlyrics.com
All the hypocrisy in Hollywood is adding up to consumers not believing celebrity endorsements. I wrote about this months ago in the Column as well. Some celebrity endorsements just aren't believable.
"A-list celebrity endorsements are failing to dazzle consumers. A recent consumer survey has shown that celebrity endorsements are one of the least trusted means of conveying product information, only just faring better than door-dropped leaflets. This is bad news for advertising agencies, which have been devoting increased energy to signing up everyone from bona fide A-list stars to Z-list reality show contestants to help sell products and services.
'Content A new survey published by the AccountAbility think tank and the National Consumer Council (NCC) questioned consumers over their shopping habits and how they judged manufacturers' products and ethnical responsibility.
Celebrity product endorsement fared particularly badly - an outcome that producers and marketers will need to take heed of at a time when their reliance on such methods of promotion is extremely strong; one-in-four advertisements currently features a celebrity, versus one-in-eight 10 years ago." – Food Business Review
MUSIC Bob Dylan Slams Modern Music
“Bob Dylan Rips Paris Hilton (And Every Other New Artist)"
On the day Paris Hilton released her first album that she said made her cry, Bob Dylan she a tear as well. The legendary folk singer ripped into everyone (Paris included) and revealed that he believes that the quality of modern recordings is "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.
But Dylan wasn't finished. Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."
"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."
Everyone's a critic - just ask Kevin Federline. In Dylan's defense for those of us old enough to recall the birth of rock and roll much of this is pure garbage and indeed just noise.” – National Ledger
His statements are correct. Most of what's on mainstream radio right now is garbage. You needn't be able to sing anymore and some of those who can sing are singing some pretty horrible songs with no life to them.
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As if she didn't have enough to worry about. Now she's got Osama professing his feelings for her.
The first line in the proceeding article is kind of funny. Back in the November 2005 Column, under the FBI section of said Column, I joked that sending an attractive woman over there would make Osama come out (not out of the closet, I mean out of the cave).
So that's all that was needed to catch Osama bin Laden - a good old honey trap? No need for air raids over Tora Bora and bunker-buster bombs. Just call Whitney Houston.
In one of the more bizarre stories to emerge from the war on terror, Kola Boof, a self-advertised former sex slave of the al-Qa'ida leader, claims in her book, Diary of a Lost Girl, that bin Laden was obsessed with the singer of I Will Always Love You.
In an excerpt to appear in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine, Boof writes that bin Laden "told me Whitney was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen".
"He said that he had a paramount desire for her and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of some day spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting," she writes.
Boof, born Naima Bint Harith, is a 37-year-old Sudanese poet and author who now lives in California. She has said previously that she was repeatedly raped and intimidated into cohabiting with bin Laden for six months in Morocco in 1996.
Her writings have led to a fatwa being issued against her. That hasn't stopped comedians having a shot at her, wondering if the fatwa has more to do with some of her other work, which included, until recently, a writing job on the US soap opera Days of our Lives.
But when it comes to bin Laden's obsession with Houston, Boof says she's not making it up. "He said he wanted to give her a mansion he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He would say how beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed." - The Australian
There was something written about Osama having some color issue with her, but liking her anyway, therefore he would make an exception (uh, please, don't do her any favors) but he isn't much lighter than she is, thank you very much. Especially after him bouncing around on a camel in the sun all day.
Rihanna (left) Beyonce (right).
People all over the internet and in the press have been
speculating that 25 year old singer Beyonce's new song "Ring The Alarm" is about
her boyfriend's rumored affair with 18 year old
Left to right: Rihanna, Jay-Z, Beyonce
Christian women should really pay attention to this story. Getting used by a man who is cheating and not showing you any loyalty for all the compromises you've made against your beliefs, often happens when you put a man before your faith.
God doesn't want you in some dysfunctional, promiscuous relationship with a man who doesn't appreciate you or treat you well. Treating you well is not cheating on you and being abusive, but takes you to expensive resorts, stores and furnishes you with expensive gifts.
That is never God's plan, but sometimes women get in too deep, don't know how to extricate themselves from bad non-marriage relationships and make concessions on conduct that really shouldn't fly, as it is not acceptable nor is it kind.
God wants you (women in general) to be with a good, decent man who will be
loyal to you and treat you with
camel man and yet his
conduct isn't right. It gives a certain impression"
And true to form Beyonce has shown herself to be quite materialistic, as "Ring The Alarm" released this month and currently being slammed all over the net by way more people than the number that signed that petition, is about a cheating boyfriend she stays with because he gives her expensive things. From a blog site:
Ring the alarm
I been going too long
But I’ll be damned if I see another chick on your arm
She go be rockin’ chinchilla coats
If I let you go
She gone have the house by the coast (?)
If I let you go
She go take everything I own
If I let you go
I can’t let you go
Damned if I let you go
She gone rock them VVS stones
If I let you go
In the ‘Bach or the Rolls
If I let you go
She go pocket everything I caught (profit everything I bought?)
If I let you go
I can’t let you go
Damned if let you go
Above: captioned photo of Rihanna from YBAF blog reads, "Aye Bee, I'm already wearing your Chinchilla!"
Beyonce reading? Judging by the lyrics to that song, one has to wonder - but do dust off those books
Furthermore, w
From other web sites:
"Speaking of Rihanna, rumors are swirling that she was the inspiration behind Beyonce’s new single “Ring The Alarm.” On the track, Beyonce shouts: “Ring the Alarm! I’ve been doin’ this too long. But I’ll be damned if I see another chick on your arm.”
Jay And Rihanna To Tour
Rihanna
Yea, and just to kill the rumors that something's going on with the two, Jay-Z is going on tour with Rihanna (didn't that negro say he retired):
Yea, ok, just as long as nothing is going on, then. Why didn't you tour with Beyonce. Her career not hot enough for you anymore.
Seriously though, it is her worst work yet.
A few random news clippings:
Yea work a little harder at jacking stuff...
I don't believe that. One, she knew and said the exact number of people who signed the petition against that lackluster song and video, when said news item blew up in the urban press. Two, she knew the contents of the petition, stating the names of the signers were made up, such as people using her family members' names. Three, this month, a site posted where a fan site owner said you said in an interview that you read his site.
“SOHH, let's get to the matter at hand. Is MTV really music television? No, I am not referring to all of the youth oriented scripted reality shows that have replaced much of the landmark music related programming. I am referring to what one Janet Jackson fan describes as "MTV still being salty with Janet."
According to TMZ.com and a load of Janet Jackson fan sites, Janet has seemingly been black listed at MTV. *clutch the pearls* Fans allege that MTV has shown blatant lack of support to Miss Jackson, MTV's very first recipient of the MTV Icon Award, as she promotes her new album.
Apparently MTV has not premiered Janet's new video for "Call On Me" directed by Hype "Not Worth the Bullet" Williams nor have they made any announcements as to when it will begin to play on MTV. The video for "Call On Me" debuted on BET last Wednesday.
Janet's fans have flooded MTV's message boards however many of they comments were deleted by a MTV moderator due to Janet's fans calling them everything but a child of God.
I guess it does seem quite odd that Janet's video hasn't even broke ground at MTV. As you recall, MTV produced the famed half time show where Miss Jackson experienced a wardrobe malfunction. Allegedly they feel burnt by Damita Jo and they are like...
Having Janet only on BET is like punishment…Would MTV be this shady is that was Madonna? She’s had her fair share of run-ins with MTV and they play videos from her flopped album. – SOHH
Tell me, really, how often do you see Aretha Franklin on MTV in any capacity, but every five minutes they are pulling Madonna out their butt.
Much like them welcoming Justin again with open arms, whose new song is subpar (black and white people are saying this about said song), while Janet, whose song and video are far better, was snubbed to the point her fans started complaining. They were both equally responsible for the Super Bowl Incident, so why weren't they both snubbed then.
There's your proof right there. They've shown this bias time and time again. I don't know why anyone would be surprised at this. From negative cartoons inappropriately depicting black women as subhuman to handing out the least amount of awards to black artists and actors at their award shows.
My mom watched the MTV Music Awards tonight and was shaking her head at how few black artists won anything. Some of the projects that won awards didn't even sell well or achieve critical acclaim, but won anyway.
Even the wedding reality shows that became their main programming staples were about white couples and families (The Newlyweds, The Barkers, Carmen and Dave), not black ones.
But that's MTV. It is what it is. Positive black portrayals need not apply.
"The New Yorker's Funny Anthony Pellicano Story"
The current New Yorker had Ken Auletta's piece about Anthony Pellicano, or more specifically Bert Field and Michael Ovitz who are under a cloud in the scandal in which Anthony Pellicano was indicted, along with six associates, on charges that include wiretapping, racketeering, bribery and perjury. Anthony is a thug.
I confess that I'm an extremely minor footnote to this story, having been named as one of the numerous people whose backgrounds were illegally checked or phones were tapped. In my case, it came after Anita Busch and I were writing stories about the business failures of Michael Ovitz. I spoke to Ken Auletta while he was reporting his article. But I don't think I told him too many jokes.
But the article is really funny. For one thing, we have a portrait of Bert Fields, the toughest litigator in Hollywood for decades, a man who has represented Rupert Mudoch, Tom Cruise, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Madonna. Clearly Fields gets the job done. He has employed the disreputable Pellicano since 1989. That's a long time. In 1993, a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times exposed Pellicano's alleged mob links in Illinois and the way he physically intimidated people. Yet Fields, who claims he never lost a case in his life and has a steel-trap mind, told Auletta that "I'm not sure I read it."
Yet Fields and Ovitz are such pussycats here. They are shocked, shocked that their friend Anthony would have done all those terrible things that the prosecutors said he did. They had no idea that Anthony was a bad guy. And they are being victimized. Susan Estrich, a Fields loyalist, goes so far as to say that the Bush Administration may be going after Fields. What?
In the meantime we have a portrait of Fields being chauffeured in his Bentley to his home in Malibu from Century City to prepare a salad and take a 20-minute nap for what the Japanese call "wa time," or peacefulness or spirit, before returning to his office to behave, as one Fields client told Auletta, like "a pr**k."
And several miles away in Santa Monica, we have Ovitz, in some weird concrete bunker with exposed pipes and German art, letting his hair grow long and wearing jeans and sneakers without socks, babbling incoherently about Perry Mason, saying how Anthony Pellicano was not at all like Tony Soprano or the Corleones and he had no idea (unintentionally, do we not think of Howard Hughes?).
And he was so hurt -- Ovitz is always hurt and victimhood -- that his former partner, Ron Meyer, said nasty things about him. And then Ovitz tells Auletta, straight-faced apparently, that he should not have been as tough as he once was. And we are supposed to believe this bull?
It's all so bizarre. So delightful. Now, unfortunately,
it's back to the Middle East. – Huffington Post
More details on the case in the next month's Column, where I will post the Supreme Court filing. But for now, here is a post I made a few days ago on the lawsuit page, that I have updated today:
For new article about Madonna's many thefts, an updated, condensed one, please click here
Material Girls and Paris flops. Material Girls made $4,600,000 on its opening weekend, which is a major bomb for a widescreen release (it would be a bomb for certain indie films as well, actually), debuting at #9 on the Box Office Charts.
Then sales plummeted in the second week (as if the first week wasn't bad enough). Considering the film cost $20,000,000 to make, plus millions more in release prints, marketing and advertising, and that the theatres get roughly half of the $4,600,000 the film grossed, this movie is a total creative and financial failure. They will not even...break even.
Preliminary reports from Hits Daily Double show that Paris' debut CD (Warner
- Madonna's labelmate) will sell 75,000 the first week, which for a major label
release that they spent millions on, had to do a video re-shoot for, bribe,
um, hire journalists for reviews, make a zillion pricey promo appearances
worldwide, with that huge, costly advertising push, is a big flop. They are not
gonna make their money back off that atrocity of a record.
To put Paris' numbers in perspective, Christina Milian sold 56,000 during the first week and got dropped by her label for poor sales. But Milian, unlike Paris, has talent.
Christina Aguilera's CD released the week before, sold a moderate 320,000 copies in its first week, which her producer, Scott Storch, dropped her in favor of working with Paris (how does one choose Paris Hilton, who can't sing to save her life, over Christina Aguilera, who can sing very well).
CGS
I'm sure you've heard of CGI (Computer Generated Images) used in film. Well, clearly Storch has come up with CGS (Computer Generated Singing).
Paris "Autotune" Hilton with her producer Scott Storch
Make it worse, Hits Daily Double Chart estimates show Aguilera's CD is on course to sell more/place higher in its second week than Paris' CD will in its debut week (ouch!). Looks like somebody picked the wrong project to produce, which won't help his credibility as I wrote two months ago.
Make matters worse, Paris' CD, a major label release, totally bombed in the UK, selling 2,000 copies (double ouch!).
Also, news reports indicate both Warner Bros and Warner Music aren't having a good year, particularly the former, who have hit a big sales slump, which I write about further in the Column.
AOL
Not to mention, this month AOL, owned by Warner Bros, trampled on the privacy of their customers in making public over 600,000 customers' personal identify data and search queries. I wrote in my lawsuit that they don't care about your privacy, as I was speaking from experience - they allowed their artist Madonna and her commissioned hacker full access to my computer when I was with AOL, which is how they nabbed a copy of my unreleased copyrights and illegally started using them, in addition to the released copyrights many people had already heard that they started using as well.
Said hacker further committed identity theft, trying to spend all the money in my account via my Visa Debit Card that was on file with AOL to pay for my monthly internet fees, the week I announced the pending release of my CD, to leave me and the CD marooned with no funds to promote it and pres
