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Film director extraordinaire Antoine Fuqua is teaming up with Denzel Washington again, this time, for the action-filled thriller, The Equalizer. Fuqua who also directed Brooklyn’s Finest, is working with Washington for the second time. Their first film could certainly be considered a success – Washington won his second Oscar for his portrayal of an amoral cop […]
Anthony Anderson says that Black-ish came out of his own life experiences as a Black man raising an affluent Black family in Hollywood. The show, which has already gotten one of the biggest buzzes of the new fall season, is premiering tonight on ABC after their hugely popular Modern Family sitcom at 9:30 p.m. “It […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A former West Point cadet has lost a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against members of R&B singer Patti LaBelle’s entourage whom he accused of beating him as he waited for a ride outside a Houston airport terminal. In his lawsuit, Richard King alleged he was attacked without provocation by LaBelle’s bodyguard and two others […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The pot wasn’t real. Neither, admitted Floyd Mayweather Jr., was much else that went on in the cable television shows promoting his latest fight. Not the joint rolling parties with a bevy of female friends in his Las Vegas mansion. Not the 31 minute fights without a break in the “Dog […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tracee Ellis Ross delivers perhaps the funniest line you’ll hear on a sitcom this fall. The character she plays on ABC’s comedy “black-ish” is, like Ross, an appealing mix of beauty, smarts and zaniness. She is totally plausible as a savvy mother of four and the loving wife of an […]
Thanks to the sale of his little headphone company, Dr. Dre’s annual salary has stomped on and vaporized the competition on Forbes’ new list of highest paid hip hop artists…aka The Cash Kings List. The 49-year-old veteran producer/rapper earned an obscene $620 million in pre-tax earnings for the 12 months between June 2013 and 2014. […]
Can a 140-character tweet get you sued? If you’re Marlon Wayans, it can. The comic found himself slapped with the suit after an ill-advised tweet about actor Pierre Daniel who was hired to be in Haunted House 2 and then fired. The Hollywood Reporter says that Daniel believes that a tweet from Wayans intended to […]
Gladys Knight will soon be part of an empire. The iconic singer has signed on to play herself on the upcoming Fox series Empire, starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. Created by Lee Daniels, the show focuses on a record label run by Howard’s character that has to shift gears once Henson’s character is […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Prolific writer J. California Cooper, who was writing plays until Alice Walker suggested she switch to short stories and novels, because they were an easier path to a paycheck, has died at age 82. Her daughter Paris Williams said Cooper died early Saturday after experiencing several heart attacks over the past few […]
Another Chris Brown event has ended with someone going to the hospital A person was stabbed following his performance Monday night at the Supperclub in Hollywood. According to TMZ, the incident took place at an afterparty for the Drake/Lil Wayne concert. Several people who were leaving got into a fight and one of them ended […]
Whoa. Shut the front door! That’s all we could say when we heard this news. According to gossip site Bossip, at a birthday party Tyler Perry threw for his 45th birthday, the entertainment mogul announced that he’s expecting his first child. An exclusive source, who attended the event, told Bossip that Perry did not reveal who […]
Songstress Tamia could be on either R&B Divas or Basketball Wives. After all, she was a hitmaker in the 90’s and 2000’s with songs like “Stranger In My House,” “I’m So Into You” and her sultry duet with Eric Benet “Spend My Life With You.” And for the last 15 years, she’s been married to […]
