Their Words, Not Mine…
The legendary actress Lena Horne passed away last night at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center following a long illness. She was 92.
I wasn’t a Lena Horne fan (she was way before my time), but what I remember most about her (actually, the only thing I remember about her) was back in 2004 when she threw a fit after hearing that Janet Jackson would play her in a made-for TV biopic based on her life.
Horne got ABC’s top brass on the phone and she loudly demanded that they drop Janet, who earlier that year had exposed her breast in a near career-ending publicity stunt that she has never fully recovered from. The network initially resisted Horne’s request, but Janet gracefully backed out of the plum role to spare herself any further embarrassment.
Here’s what Janet (or whoever updates her Twitter page) had to say about the great lady’s passing:
There’s one more ‘Word’ after the break!
Celebs Out & About
Right off the bat, new mommy Christina Milian is showing her tendency to be a hands-off mom by using a nanny. A lot of new moms are timid like that. Plus, Christina has a fading music career to resurrect (if that’s at all possible).
Christina is looking fine as I don’t know what with all that white on. While shopping yesterday, I picked up a few all white outfits for myself. LisaRaye is starting a new trend!
Celebs Out & About
Burlesque dancer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay Z, sat courtside at the Cleveland Cavaliers vs the Boston Celtics Game Three at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday (May 7). Bey looks tired and worn out like maybe that time off from the music biz and all those vacations on tropical islands isn’t doing her a bit of good. Is she sick?
Remember when I told you that those ‘slave plantation’ images from Kobe Bryant’s LA Times photo shoot were racist? Well, the Utah Jazz fans were probably thinking along those lines too. Kobe can expect to see a lot more of this as his Lakers team advances in the NBA playoffs.
Jay Z and Betty White On SNL
I missed Jay Z and Betty White on Saturday Night Live over the weekend (I don’t watch much TV), but I hear the ratings for the 35th anniversary of SNL was through the roof!
I’m sure the ratings weren’t affected in the least by Jigga’s appearance on the show — though he may think he had something to do with it. No, the ratings bonanza was all Betty White’s doing. SNL’s execs caved under the pressure after legions of Betty’s fans signed a Facebook petition to get the 80-year-old “Golden Girls” star on the show.
Past SNL alumni also returned to make this episode one of the most watched in years!
Watch Betty’s hilarious skits after the break!
Remy Ma Live from Prison
Aside from looking pretty good without makeup, rapper Remy Ma looks like she’s put on a few pounds while inside the rock. As you know, Ma was sentenced to 8 years to life at Bedford Hills Correctional facility for shooting a former acquaintance in the abdomen outside a Manhattan nightclub in July 2007.
The friend survived the shooting, but Remy (at least in this video) still does not express remorse.
Prison life has been good to the rapper and she says things have calmed down considerably since she first arrived there in March 2008. Remy, who married her boyfriend Papoose while in prison, said she misses her son and her family the most.
She also touched on the beef with rapper Nicki Minaj, who allegedly had a lesbun relationship with Remy which Remy denies.
The 28-year-old Bronx native is scheduled to be released in 2013.
When I Was 17: Ludacris
Chris “Ludacris” Bridges is featured in this clip of MTV’s “When I Was 17.” Ludacris got his start in the music biz as an intern and then a DJ at Hot 97.5, which later changed it’s call letters to HOT 107.9.
After radio programmer Chaka Zulu was fired from the station for allegedly taking payoffs in a Payola-type scandal, Chaka was offered a job at Def Jam and he took the young upstart rapper with him to the label. The rest is history.
The Kiss Seen Around Twitter
Hopefully all of my SR moms had a wonderful Mothers Day.
Yesterday I took my mom to Phipps Plaza across the street from Lenox Mall to buy a couple of outfits. I LOVE Phipps Plaza because you can shop and star gaze in peace while avoiding the hordes of young thugs at Lenox Mall wearing saggy jeans with their hair twisted up in multi-color braids.
Of course, when you shop at Phipps, there’s always that danger of running into the likes of Tameka Foster who also loves to shop there. I try my best to avoid her because certifiable loons are very unpredictable.
But this post is not about Trampeka Foster.
It’s about the “kiss” seen around the world yesterday on Twitter.com. Young Quincy Brown, the spawn of singer-turned-radio jock Al B. Sure and socialite Kim Porter, posted this pic on his Twitter page as a way to honor his mom on Mothers Day.
But the pic had unintended consequences on Twitter. Instead of giving people a warm, fuzzy feeling inside, it set off red flags.
In my opinion, Quincy is too old to be kissin’ on his mother like that. A peck on the cheek would have been more age appropriate. But I could be wrong.
Shout out to loyal reader ashland for the tip!
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