Mariah Carey‘s new CD E=MC is available for preview at Amazon.com. So far it sounds pretty good to me. (Source)
Angela and Vanessa Simmons Meet & Greet, 4/3
Photos by Freddyo Exclusively for Sandrarose.com
Millionaire entrepreneurs Angela and Vanessa Simmons stopped through Atlatna yesterday to promote their wildly popular Pastry shoe line at Stonecrest Mall. Over 1500 Run’s House fans packed the mall to meet the sisters. The last time the ladies came through Atlanta for a meet & greet at Underground Mall, only about 300 fans showed up.
It must be the shoes!
Angela and Vanessa have managed to parlay winning smiles, hard work and determination into a multi-million dollar enterprise. Look for the Pastry clothing line coming soon!
Don’t forget Angela and Vanessa will be hosting a star-studded party at Compound tonight. Maybe Bow Wow will stop through and shout at his ex-girlfriend, Angela. To see who Vanessa is currently boo’d up with, click here.
Oprah puts on a freak show
Oprah Winfrey featured transsexual Thomas Beattie, who is 5 months pregnant, and his “wife” on her show yesterday. I shook my head as Oprah fed into the couple’s delusions that Beattie was a pregnant man. Over and over Oprah repeated (for the benefit of Beattie’s psyche) that Beattie was a man and she incorrectly stated that Beattie had a penis.
In fact, Beattie’s vagina is intact as are her female reproductive organs. Beattie has no penis.
We learned a lot from Oprah yesterday – and I hope your kids were watching because it was monumental. Oprah basically taught us that all it takes to be a man is some facial hair and no breasts. Did anyone mention that to God? It seems to me that God went to all that trouble of creating two separate sexes for nothing.
Video: Polow Da Don’s beat making skills exposed?
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Some kid figures out where producer Polow Da Don found his beats for his #1 song “Love in this Club.” So let’s see if I got this right: a producer takes sounds from the established works of others and incorporates the sound into their own tracks? Is this something new? Maybe for a young kid who’s never heard of sampling before.
Anyway, “Love in this Club” is a horrible song and now we know why.
Whitney responds to Bobby’s nonsense
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Whitney responded via a written statement to the nonsense spewed by her ex-husband Bobby Brown in an upcoming book he’s supposed to be paying somebody to write for him. I don’t even know what he said because I don’t care.
Whitney shouldn’t even be wasting her time with Bobby. We need her to get in the studio and finish that multiplatinum album because I’m getting tired of making excuses for her. We’ve been patiently waiting for too long.
“Miss Houston is sad that Bobby feels the need to say such things but she chooses to take the high road and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it’s to set the record straight.” (Source)
PICS: On the set of Rihanna’s new video
Rihanna looked racy on the set of her new video for “Take a Bow” yesterday. These were the best pics I could find and they are not very good at all. But considering the circumstances, the paps probably couldn’t get any closer to the set than half a mile away. Click to see more pics.
Seperated at Birth
According to TMZ.com, Chris Henry, 24, of the Cincinnati Bengals was arrested for the fifth time in 14 months. But the bigger story here is his striking resemblance to a Gremlin. If a Gremlin mated with the NBA’s Ron Artest, Chris Henny is what their spawn would look like.
The 24-year-old wide receiver turned himself into police yesterday after an 18-year-old guy accused Henry of hitting him in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle.
A spokesman for the team said they are aware of the incident, but had no comment. Henry’s agent said Henry had a different account of what went down, but wouldn’t say more.
UPDATE: Mission accomplished — the Bengals have cut Chris Henry. Bengals president Mike Brown said in a statement, “Chris Henry has forfeited his opportunity to pursue a career with the Bengals. His conduct can no longer be tolerated.” (Source)
This IS Naturi from 3LW
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I don’t know why people have a problem believing Naturi Naughton, who plays Lil’ Kim in the new flick “Notorious”, is the chick from 3LW. Just because she’s flyer now than she was before? I’m posting these pics of her so you can make a side by side comparison.
Monica: Alter Ego by Derek Blanks
(Photos by Derek Blanks for DBlanks Photography)
From the moment I saw the “alter ego” photo of Monica taken by celebrity photographer Derek Blanks for his book, Celebrity Alter Egos, I was intrigued. As a photographer I could appreciate the intricate detail, set up and lighting angles in the photo.
Yesterday, word reached my ears that press photos from the same shoot were circulating the Internet. So I searched DBlanks sites and Monica’s fan sites but none of them had the images.
I finally found the pics online at a site featuring the Alter Ego images. According to the press release online, the photos show Monica as she appears in every facet of her day to day life.
In DBlanks’ Alter Ego photograph, Monica plays every role in her life from (left to right) the hot nanny (who is pushing baby Romelo in the car seat), two spectators, the paparazzi, the superstar mom (whose son Lil’ Rocko walks all red carpets with her), and the no-nonsense manager overseeing everything and everybody.
The backdrop is Photoshopped with the logo for Monica’s clothing line for boys called Regions of Rock. The other photos of Monica sporting a hot short asymmetric cut are beautiful.
In the press release accompanying the alter ego photo, Monica explained she wanted to show how it is for every mother who works and juggles different positions. “As a mother, I wanted my picture to reflect how you really feel like you’re 6 or 7 different people all the time.”
This is not a man
For the past two weeks, headlines about a pregnant man have appeared in many mainstream media outlets. The world is already a confusing place without the mass media adding to the confusion.
Thomas Beattie was born a female. Due to her gender identity crisis, she identifies more with being a man.
Some women who struggle with gender identity are satisfied with cutting their hair, wearing men’s clothing and affecting male mannerisms. This one decided to take it a step further by taking male hormones which ceases menstruation and causes male characteristics such as excess facial hair and a deep voice in women.
Beattie also had surgery to remove her breasts but left her female reproductive organs intact. This makes her a female with no breasts.
When Beattie and her “wife” decided to have a child, Beattie stopped taking the male hormones. The only man involved in this situation that I can see is the one who donated the sperm.
Gender identity crisis is a mental disorder no matter how you look at it. Sure, it’s politically correct to refer to Beattie as a man, but the bottom line is that she is a biological female. No amount of male hormones is going to change that fact.
Shout out to Mz Shyneka!