Ashanti and her main man Nelly made a cute couple at Nelly’s 3rd Annual Black & White Ball in St. Louis last night.
Here’s Beyonce looking casket fresh at the NY premiere of Cadillac Records. I don’t know what Bey is wearing, but blame her mama Tina Knowles for that frightful mess. Beyonce has nothing on Morticia Adams or Marilyn Munster, both of whom could take a curtain and make it look like a haute couture dress.
Gabrielle Union and her mom walked the red carpet at the NY premiere of Cadillac Records. I can’t say anything bad about a woman who has such great taste in bags!
Sean Combs stylist Andre Leon Talley went for a conservative, grown up look for Sean who attended the Cadillac Records NY premiere last night. Andre picked out this 3/4 length wool coat with a faux fur-lined collar and a cashmere turtleneck sweater to complete the trendy Metrosexual look.
Akon did his thing onstage during his Myspace concert at Club China in NYC following the Cadillac Records premiere last night. Atlanta was definitely representing in NY last night.
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BEYONCE IS A BAD B.I.T.C.H
GOOD MORNIN’N
i loveeeeeeeee beyonce’s dress…gabby looked nice as well…puffy looks like a fruitcake…ashanti and nelly look nice…i see they’re hanging in there…i wonder why him and eve didn’t make it work…oops…i forgot she’s into “something new” now…
atl was representing in ny? you only mentioned akon…did i overlook someone else?!
Everyone looks nice.
Imma need to borrow Sean’s fur collar to put on me a leather trench with a belt. Thank you very much!
I second that, the bych is bad, like it or not. Why does Ashanti’s accessories always look too beauty supply-ish? And her lashes look like they weigh her eyes down. Diddy is slowly coming out from that “dark and lonely place”
- Damn, Nelly is FINE!
-Sandra, you need to check your eyes! Beyonce’s dress is pure elegance. I love it. The hair, not so much!
- I love Gabby but that bag is HORRIBLE! And why would you drag your bag on the photo op side of the red carpet, can’t someone hold it for her?
- I don’t like Puffy, he repulses me!
- Why do people like Akon?
Bey’s dress is okay…the cut, silhoutte and color is PERFECTION…the garish fabric design…not so much…
BUT THAT HAIR?!?!? What’s with the HUMP IN THE FRONT OF THE HEAD?!?! That is NOT a good look on ANYBODY!!! It makes her head look more “wiggish” than anything else…and a dress like that should have an upsweep or maybe a long, flowing one-sided hairstyle…JUST NOT THE HUMP…LEAVE THE HUMP ALONE…AIN’T NOBODY HUMPIN’ AROUND…
Love the Dress ..
Hate the squirrell on Puffy’s collar ..
Hate the Sheep on Gabby’s Bag.
Akon yuck.
Ashanti needs a make UNDER … her jewelry looks like it came from Dots or Rainbow.
Nelly - Yum!
Go BEY….
Hate the furrrr too.
The dress is straight up FUGLY.
Everyone looks good even Ashanti with her too much make-up on.
Now ya’ll know Ashanti loves her some Wet Seal leave that girl alone lol. Beyonce’s dress would be cute with different fabric at the top and removal of the cape. Diddy’s collar looks like the inside of my fake fur real leather coat. I guess since he has on faux fur PETA won’t be throwing any flour. I wonder have they ever threw flour on any black folks?
yall wrong about ashanti and her accessories from rainbow or the korean beauty supply store…yall oughta be ashamed.
loves bey’s dress. auntie is delusional.
pshytty. please return rocky back to his home. (of rocky and bullwinkle…rocky was the squirrel)
Mrs. Carter looked simply stunning in this Zuhair Murad gown. NOT A TINA KNOWLES CREATION.
WAIT, SANDRA WHY DIDN’T YOU POST A PHOTO OF BEYONCE WITH HER HUSBAND? HE CAN’T GET HIS SHINE ON THIS MORNING?
And why would you drag your bag on the photo op side of the red carpet, can’t someone hold it for her?
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not everybody can have a purse holder/carrier sister hermosa.
as i stated before…only beyonce has one.
LMAO. don’t get me stans i SAID her dress was nice. sheesh.
and why do ashanti and nelly look like they going to their high school winter formal? i am gonna need them to step it up about 10 notches. that dress she got on look like it came from the formal rack in ross : (
Ok so since I am the lookup queen, I tried to find if any black folks have been floured by PETA and all I could find was a comment on there website where some guy said people and fur do not go together like blacks and whites don’t. When will the racism ever end?
i think the 3 piece is a little out of style.
I’m mad that Akon looks like a uncircumsized penis - yuck yuck double yuck!
OOOOOHHHH I just noticed that Nelly got his grill fixed!!!!!! Ashanti should do the same.
BEYONCE IS KILLIN IT! THE DRESS IS BANGIN!!!
Diddy’s coat is so ugly! Where is PETA when you need them?
@shunda i for one am glad they don’t flour black fur wearing folks. can you imagine them throwing flour on big azz aretha franklin? that is a whole lotta flour. with all those rolls she got she may have flour stuck in some of her rolls for MONTHS.
and i would hate to see mary blige catch a charge for beasting out on somebody for flouring her. she has already been through so much.
and patti. lord. she is gonna take her shoes off and chase somebody the hail DOWN if she were to get floured.
no ma’am. they need to leave the flouring of fur wearing celebs with the white celebs.imo.
Why Auntie turn off the comments on the thread above ^ ..
we can be nice ..even tho I don’t know who dude was .. and that the Giants whopped the Cardinals tail a coupla weeks ago
i saw that about the comments kymy.
@kwall
You just made me laugh at the thought of flour on Retha haha.
@Kymystry
I wondered the same thing. I am not sure who the guy is either. We haven’t been that bad with comments
*I think Bey looks nice! minus the hair
*Ashanti and Nelly looks nice I love her dress, the hair & make-up
*Gabby had on a dress from what I saw on another blog
*I see Akon is everywhere since his album comes out tomorrow. *** blank stare ***
I know not everybody has one, Kwall, but that looks tacky. You know she don’t need that big ol’ bag to a movie premiere. It looks like she’s smugglin’ hot chips and a 2 liter pop.
I know I sneak sh!t in to the movies. . .f*ck the bullsh!t, lol.
Morning All…
Beyonce’s dress is beautiful. I love every detail of it. Nelly…sexy as usual, Akon’s lil get-up is stylish…lub it. Why the eff does Gabriel look so blah, nothing is working for her style-wise…a black outfit with a brown Louie??? Guess with money, you can do that.
@ Hermosa ..i JUST dreamt last night that I was sneakin a MEAL into the movies … stoppin by the dolla store and ‘ery thang … lol … I told my son to go in my closet and get my “movie” purse . cause I ain’t ABOUT to put all this junk in my coach bag … lol .. lol
Heyyyyyyy Suave .. miss ya chick !!
Hey my Kymy!!! Miss ya, too!
@kwallace - if they did flour Retha, she could remain dry under those rolls for a while…that is if flour is anything like talcum powder …
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW @ ecstracy …. think about flour when it gets moist … it’s basically PASTE …
dayum .. i just threw up in my mouth a lil ….
U off today Suave ? ? ?
hey suave…
i so mad at kwallace…i am sitting here cracking up laughing…oh lawdy flour on aretha…so basically she’ll end up looking like paper mache LAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…
@ Shunda - didn’t somebody throw red paint on Grace Jones back in the ’80’s? I *wish* somebody would throw something on my fur….I *wish* they would..
@ Hermosa
Don’t you know that is how the rich stay rich lol. I bet she sneaks more stuff in the movies than you do. That candy costs way too much. I can put popcorn, candy bars, and hot dogs for the kids in my coach duffel lol and some capri suns if we get thirsty.
if it got moist that is…reading kym’s comment (along w/ kwall) made me think of that…
We could just cut out some newspaper strips and start covering her Kym…it’ll be fun!
i don’t buy sh!t from the movies EVER…it’s either snuck in or my date is paying for it…hermosa, once i went to amc 21 and the guy is like “if you go get me some doritos i will hook both of us up: lol…you know there’s a walgreen’s on the corner!
@ecstracy
That is what I was trying to find. Ya’ll know those PETA supporters are nuts. To look at it Puffy’s collar looks kind of real. I wonder how they know the difference?
@ecstracy: we’re thinking alike! can you imagine the amount of candy that’ll fit!!!
Can Nelly-n-Ashanti look any FAKER (Just Plain SAD)
At least Jay-n-Bey have a Real Relationship ;-)
And Morning SR Peeps !!!
I think I have worked a total of 20 minutes today - I have crossed the line into bloggerhell. I have arrived at the DARKSIDE (*twlight music playing in the background*)
@bloogergirlz - we would need one helluva stick…
@bloogergirlz - we would need one helluva stick…
@ Kym…nah, I wish. Using my phone today.
Hey Bloggergirlz. Hey Kweezy. Holla’n at flouring black folk…*in Cedric’s voice*…Man, I wish a mutha phucka woulddddddddddddddddddd
lol .. lol @ a Paper Mache Ree-Ree .. hysterical ..
I found a leather coach lookalike .. and thats my ‘movie’ bag .. i’ve gotten a wendy’s meal in it .. complete with chewy lemonheads and carmel bullseyes for dessert … lol
i tend to go to the AMC in the mall .. they don’t check for bags at the door since it’s in the mall and odds are you’ve been shoppin …
Shhhhhheeeeeeeeit .. I got a Blue Iris mink and a lil cute beaver .. LET someone LOOK like they ‘finna (my country venacular) throw ANYTHING on me .. and it’s ON !!
I saved for YEARS to get my mink… and I’d seriously catch a case …
NOBODY HAD ON JEANS AND WHITE SNEAKERS…… THANK THE LORD.
I stay sneaking in sh!t. I remember one time sneaking in McDonalds with the barbecue sauce.
Blogger- I want me some Doritos with hot sauce, thanks for the craving!
My dude’s little sister works in the amc theater in Maywood, she said they can’t kick you out if they catch.
@Shunda - I was through with PETA when they asked Ben and Jerrys to use breastmilk in their ice cream…. UGH!
beyonce’s dress in so ugly, the cape, the garbage bag looking material, the hair, the make-up.She looks not cute. Gabby the purse is ugly, and the jumpsuit is not killing em. puffy don’t like the fur collar, but i love puffy’s style. Akon same style, ashanti and nelly look ok, i don’t like ashanti’s make-up, and I also dislike her lashes.
Did anyone google the critics opinion of the movie and actors and actresses?
- Why do people like Akon?
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because he’s sexy chocolate! i’m probably the only one that thinks akon is sexy, but he has sex appeal to me. maybe because i like chocolate men. and ummmm um @ nelly! him and ashanti always looks so happy together. i’m glad they are hanging in there.
i like bey’s dress and i like diddy’s “grown man” look.
oh … how can I overlook … (in my seductive voice)
Moaning ELove(her) ;-)
what is wrong with this site? everything that is right is wrong and what’s wrong is right on this site. beyonce looks great and puffy looks ridiculous…like nene says…you look ridiculous…lol!
ROTFLMAO @ THESE COMMENTS!
I never buy from the movies, matter of fact i don’t know the last time I went to the movies, When i was going I always end up having drinks first and end up sleep in the movies.
@kat
nelly and ashanti look like they have fun together, I have always thought that about them, and he said it. I like them together. Also akon is sexy to me , i love a chocolate brother.
Gabby looks fab!
Bey’s dress is fierce…hate the hair…and the hairy armpit.
Puffy…corny as usual.
Akon…next!
ashanit & nelly are so cute together.
DAMN @Kym… I FELT that S-H-I-T (Throbbing…)
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=10925626
i was just about to question someone’s post about “hairy” armpits, but i just saw the “pic” on Y B F…beyonce has too many people in her camp for this type of stuff to happen…
It’s unfair to blame all of Cadillac Records’ failings on Beyoncé, given the draggy pace of the script and the movie’s general unwillingness to deviate from general music biz stereotypes. But the movie might have retained its shaggy charm, and been able to make up for its many flaws, had it not morphed into yet another star turn for an actress who has yet to prove any real charisma onscreen.
also
And Beyonce Knowles doesn’t seem to have splurged on acting lessons since her wooden turn in “Dreamgirls.” From the second she enters the film as the tempestuous James, you want to see her sing “At Last,” then get out. No amount of wigs and padding can transform her.
The music itself is the most reliable star of all; Knowles does knock it out of the park a couple times, particularly on James’ signature song, and Mos Def is insanely charismatic as Berry, though he doesn’t appear in the film nearly as much as the ads would lead you to believe and when he’s gone you want him to come back.
here are a couple of reviews i have read
they really all say the same that the movie was not all that, not just because of beyonce, they also mention the narrating.
Bey looks nice. She and Jay look relaxed together since the marriage.
Ashanti and Nelly look like they enjoy each others company.
I like Gabby’s jump suit the bag not so much.
Diddy sityoassdownsomewhere
Akon looks good but I still don’t like him. Womanizer, Womanizer, Womanizer
I still want to see it, I like movies like this! I enjoyed dreamgirls
@candi apple
I love that britney song.
Yeah, Kevin much… I like the song too. I also like her last album call me crazy..
The best movies I’ve seen were slammed by the critics. They are always harsh when judging black movies anyway…
I will have to see it to make my own judgement.
I really like Nelly & Ashanti together, they’re so low key.
Akon makes me moist
Oh and I am LOVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Gabby’s pantsuit
@candi
I liked the last one too, I really like britney, and I been rooting for her to get it together, now do you believe the rumor that her and kevin might be getting back together?
@ Candi Apple I loved Blackout, too. I still listen to it a few times a week. Love Britney. Everyone in the post looks nice as well.
WHATEVER Sandra:-) Beyonce’s dress is GORGEOUS and she looks beautiful in it.
@toosexy - Nah, I don’t believe that rumor. K-Fed is a mess and enjoying spending Brits money too much. He used her for a come up from the beginning. She is aware of his intentions now. She actually begged him to come back and he refused. He was with Shar J. for security until she told him to get a job. Well he got the best job ever Brit Baby Daddy. He better put some of that money in savings because the kids don’t stay young forever.
I have a confession.. I have always been a Brit fan.
hey suave. dayum i missed her.
@candiapple, yea I think he thought about a comeup, but in britney’s defense, and i’m black, kevin is a hottie, he is fine, i can see one slipping on him especially if the sex was on point, gotta be more careful next time brit. I have always been a brit fan too!
@ toosexy and candiapple Have any of you heard the Circus album, yet?
@toosexy- Yeah, Brit enjoyed the sex because many of the pictures had her grabbing his crotch. LOL He always had that Dirty Jim Jones vibe to me. I never found him attractive he didn’t even clean up well with all Brit’s money.
@Shintrell, I heard some of the cuts and the songs are true to Brit. I forget the title but one of the songs is hot to death while another speaks true to her situation. Did you catch her special the other night?
@shintrell and candi
I haven’t heard all of it, but i’m sure it’s hot, I plan on getting it this weekend,
are their any sites where you can download or hear the entire cd?
Cadillac Records
By JOHN ANDERSONRead other reviews about this film
Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating ’50s biopic “Cadillac Records” — mostly because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess, Muddy Waters and the birth of the Chicago blues. Jeffrey Wright’s Waters is unforgettable, Eamonn Walker gives an unnerving performance as rival bluesman Howlin’ Wolf, and Beyonce Knowles’ Etta James should put bottoms in seats.
The second feature this year to focus on the same musicians, “Cadillac Records” takes a far broader approach than Jerry Zaks’ “Who Do You Love,”‘ which concentrated more on the conflicted character of Chess than on the artists he hired, promoted, profited from and, some say, exploited. In “Cadillac Records,” Adrien Brody cuts an appropriately oily figure as the man who founded Chess Records in 1956, while Wright delivers a performance of eloquent, simmering dignity as Waters — the first Chess star, one of the great vocalists in American music and the dramatic engine of Martin’s film.
Working off her own well-researched screenplay, Martin goes so far as to have Chess’ path crossed by shadowy, muttering figures. “I’ve lost daughters to bluesmen,” they warn him outside the black nightclub he plans to open. “It’s a dangerous business you in.” No kidding: At the Club Macambo, where Chess starts booking local talent, the so-called Headhunters barge in — Waters, harmonica virtuoso Little Walter (Columbus Short) and guitarist Jimmy Rogers (Kevin Mambo). They take over the stage, fists are thrown and someone pulls a gun. Chess does the smart, politic thing and hires the invaders.
He also starts recording Waters, whose “I Can’t Be Satisfied” puts them all on the map. Bookending narration provided by Cedric the Entertainer, seriously miscast as the great songwriter Willie Dixon, tells the story of Chess’ expansion, his paying off of disc jockeys, his fostering of the unstable Little Walter, Waters’ marriage to steady, long-suffering Geneva Wade (Gabrielle Union), the clash between Waters and Howlin’ Wolf (by all accounts one of the most ferocious blues performers ever — and Walker makes you believe it), and the eventual signing of the troubled James (Knowles), whose “At Last” becomes one of the label’s real crossover hits.
One suspects Martin is a convert, one who might have come to the blues unconvinced but came away a fire-and-brimstone evangelist for the music and its people — which is good, because an overfamiliarity with the minutiae might have strangled what is, on a very basic level, a solid story. Most of the details are right-on in “Cadillac Records,” though the director’s efforts to sell it sometimes steers the film into mawkish or hokey territory.
Where it’s dead serious, though, is as a racial parable that couldn’t be timelier. Chess Records was a mixed marriage — the owner was a Polish immigrant, his artists were African-American, and much of the America they inhabited was hostile to any such arrangement. This all comes to a head after Chess signs Chuck Berry (a dryly funny Mos Def), whose hybridized pop sound had some promoters thinking he was a white country singer.
Berry is the guy who puts Chess over the top; as someone says, they’re not sure what he’s playing, but it’s not the blues. But it sells, and it bridges the racial divide: In a scene duplicated in “Who Do You Love,” the velvet ropes separating whites and blacks at a Berry concert are toppled by the audience. That Martin later has Knowles reprise the entire racial psychology of America through James and her seemingly insoluble identity problems, by contrast, is overkill; Knowles gives a soulful portrayal, but her part of the movie seems to exist in another dimension entirely.
As Waters’ self-destructive protege, Short brings blood and soul to a classic role — a kind of prince of the blues who eventually becomes torn over whether to revere the king or dethrone him.
The music — most of it performed by the actors themselves — has a real richness to it, if not quite the muscle of the Chess records themselves. Recording sessions are shot like live concerts; the club gigs feel sweaty and smoky. And Def’s Berry performances succeed in capturing what it felt like when the blues had a baby and they named it rock ‘n’ roll.
“Cadillac Records,” a sleeper musical from Sony/Tri Star about the early days of Chess Records and the mainstream emergence of such blues artists as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Etta James, had SAG nominating committee members whooping it up at the Fine Arts on Sunday, applauding performances by Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Columbus Short and others. Costar and producer Beyonce couldn’t make the Q&A, as she was performing at the AMAs that evening. The execs behind the entertaining picture are hoping for some serious love from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. in its Golden Globe comedy/musical categories. Beyonce as Etta James, Mos Def as Berry, Wright as Muddy Waters, Eammon Walker as Howlin’ Wolf and newcomer Columbus Short as L’il Walter tear up the screen and deliver sizzling performances that merit the attention. Beyonce shows “Dreamgirls” was no fluke. She’s the real triple threat: singer, dancer, actress.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2008/11/season-heating.html
I go to the moview on $5 Tuesday and I buy the kid snack box which is $5 for a soda, popcorn & candy. That’s a total of 10 dollars.
$10 I won’t be paying to see this made for BET movie.
@toosexy…. Brit’s team is tight this time around no leaks.
Lol @ Iscream. The movies are getting expensive. It has to be something I really want to see. @Candi and Too Sexy, I have only heard a few songs too. I think I may get it this weekend.
Lol @ Muncho did you just post the movie script. Oh & I saw ya girl Bey on Tyra. Wanted to ask you why was she crying on if I was a boy song?
I’ve never brought a Britney album b4 but I do like her music and her realness. No matter how she is viewed by the outside world she stays true to herself. The media trys to paint artist n a certain light be it crazy, sluts, saints but its up to the artist to actually show their true self & she proved to me in her special she isn’t as crazy as they make her seem. (Or it could be bc her meds are working)