First there was Star Jones. Now Rene Syler, left, has gotten the axe. Julie Chen married management and remains safe during each purge. Okay. So the ratings are the rifle in the hunt for a hit. And CBS morning talk has been in the cellar forever. Not even Bryant Gumble could pull it out after he came out of retirement following his successful run at NBC.
New York graffiti 'artists' vandalized 162 subway cars in 2005, including spray-painting train exteriors, scratching messages on train windows or otherwise damaging equipment. It costs millions of dollars to repair the damage.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Wendell Mortimer Jr dismissed 12 lawsuits brought by Erin Brockovich-Ellis' law firm (Masry & Vititoe in Westlake Village) against Beverly Hills, its school district, Venoco (owner of the oil rig) and Sempra Energy (owner of a power plant near the rig) alleging that an oil well at Beverly Hills High School caused cancers in students between 1975 and 1997.
Code, Joe and Max are black religious superheroes in The Guardian Line of of comic boiks published by Milestone Media. Milestone Media joined forces with Chicago-based Urban Ministries Inc to increase market penetration. Urban Ministries Inc, founded in 1970, is an independently owned and operated African American Christian media company with a distribution network of 40,000 churches and 1,500 bookstores for its books, CDs and DVDs.
Okay. It is a very small thing, but we are here to nitpik. The film is minimalist and great. Go see it. The Three Wise Men provide comic relief in the film. When they are expressing concern about traveling for months to visit baby Jesus the black Wise Man expresses concern for his food and spices.
We agree with The Washington Post reporter Richard Cohen who writes, "We have come so far that it is not the vilified group that's hurt by the insult but the person making it. Richards fights for his professional life, Gibson licks his wounds, Allen lost the election - and a durable cliche is stood on its head: In America, injury gets added to insult."
Hollywood Climate Change Diva Laurie David, left, wants DVDs of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" in schools. Unfortunately, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) disagrees. The NSTA does not want every interest group in America to use this as a precedent to hoist their propaganda on school kids. David criticizes ExxonMobil even though they support distribution of the DVD to schools. (Wash Post)
The AAEA press conference in Malibu received significant media coverage in Los Angeles. The press conference was held on the pier patio on a beautiful day. The television coverage included background footage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers and storage facilities, diagrams of LNG facilities and file footage of the celebrity protest three weeks earlier.
A UCLA study has concluded that Hollywood is a big air polluter. Hollywood produces more smog gases than are produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semi-conductor manufacturing. Hollywood must do something about this besides buying a Prius as the 6th car and bragging about it. Or sending out emails claiming some victory or movement.
Is it us or do the brothers 'play' the bluetooth more than others? The only people we see walking around with the bluetooth, for the most part, are the brothers. Of course, it does make sense as a fashion statement. And the brothers are into fashion. You know. Cool. So maybe the brothers see it as cool. Or maybe it makes some feel or look more important. Maybe it is the appearance of being busy. Wheeling and dealing. Working hard. Nothing wrong with that.
Sumner Redstone fired Tom Cruise becaue he knew Cruise was negotiating to gain control of his own studio. Redstone was insulted and pretended to be angry about Cruise's behavior over the past year. Cruise's behavior has been mildly amusing at best. Don't mess with Sumner's money though. And Tom decided to break out and compete with his boss. So now Tom Cruise and his partner, Paula Wagner, willl take charge of United Artists, which is owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, (MGM) Inc., which is owned by Comcast Corporation and Sony Corporation.
According to the Nielsen ratings, nearly 7.5 million viewers tuned in for the October finale of VH1's "Flavor of Love." It is the highest rated show in the history of VH1. This is Flav's second, third or fouth successful act. He was the comic relief for the dead serious globally successful rap group Public Enemy. Flavor Flav, left, hit with VH1's "Surreal Life," where his romance with Sylvester Stallone's ex-wife Brigitte Nielsen wowed viewers. He joined with Nielsen for the hilarious "Strange Love," and now "Flavor of Love" is a super hit.
A new climate change film called The Great Warming will be coming out in selected Regal theaters on Nov 3rd in 34 US cities. The Great Warming is neither political nor pessimistic; instead it goes beyond the science to look at an array of solutions that can be implemented by individuals and communities. It presents climate change as a moral, ethical and spiritual issue. It also features leading African-American climate scientist Dr. Warren Washington, as well as civil-rights leader Dr. Gerald Durley speaking about the relevance of this issue to African-American communities.
Release Date: October 27, 2006 Distributor: Nu-Lite Entertainment. Synopsis: This movie examines the final 48 hours of Jesus Christs life before his capture at Mount Gethsemane. By portraying Jesus as a black man, this movie may appear controversial to some. However, it stands to be the single most positive image of a black lead character in a film to date.
MTV and the Chinese internet service Baidu.com have agreed to a joint venture that will distribute videos via the internet. About 15,000 videos and some shows such as "Pimp My Ride" will be shown in the People's Republic. MTV is a division of Viacom Inc. Baidu.com is China's biggest search engine. About 70 percent of the MTV videos on Baidu will be by Chinese performers.
He is living near St. Louis, Missouri in a suburban home and has a 155 acre spread in Wentzville, Missouri called Berry Park. He still performs at Blueberry Hill one night a month and has since 1996. People from all over the world travel to see him perform.
Leonardo DiCaprio plans to be the co-creator and executive producer of a new television show that will focus on the environment and will chronicle the eco-friendly reconstruction of an American town as it is transformed into a "'green' utopia of tomorrow." The project is currently being shopped to broadcast networks.
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, founders of YouTube, finally hit real pay dirt by enticing Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, to purchase their two year old company for $1.6 billion. AAEA uses YouTube too. But like any site that becomes popular, think the internet, it becomes a black hole because of its populartity. But lightning can still strike if you come up with something really unique to upload.
It is being reported that The Material Girl is planning to donate $3 million to drill wells in Malawi, Africa to provide water to orphans. She will also promote her Kaballah religion, calling the water "Kaballah water."
It took a month for CBS News anchor Katie Couric (7.5 million) to move to third and last place against ABC's Charles Gibson (7.6 million) and NBC's Brian Williams (8.2 million). At least she is still close to ABC.
The Washington Post ran a tongue-in-cheek piece on the possibility of Rupert Murdoch, right, expanding the distribution of the New York Post in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Evidently Murdoch is printing copies of the NYP at local printing presses owned by the Baltimore Sun. Interesting.
The black folk on "Desperate Housewives" did not work out while the black folk on "Grey's Anatomy" are thriving. What is the difference? We believe no blacks had input at "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" is produced by a black woman, Shonda Rhimes. Does this mean whites cannot write black parts or create real black characters? Probably not. But it probably depends on which whites are writing and creating. Just as Shonda Rhimes writes very well for the white characters in "Grey's," whites familiar with the black experience can easily write for blacks and create realistic black characters. However, blacks are more familiar with white culture than whites are with black culture. Whites just do not like crossing the tracks too much. And we have to go to work.
Warner Music Group will distribute and license its copyrighted songs and videos through YouTube in a revenue-sharing deal that will inject needed capital into the young, money poor company. YouTube wants to cut similar deals with other media outlets and already has a deal with NBC to promote television this fall.
The Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility is being proposed by BHP Billiton, which wants to locate the terminal 15 miles off the coast of Malibu. Opponents are trying to kill the project by complaining that the terminal fails to meet federal clean air requirements. Pierce Brosnan, Barbra Streisand, Cindy Crawford, Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Sting and Charlize Theron and other celebrities are protesting plans to build the liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility. The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing a draft air pollution permit for BHP but is still reviewing public comments and will make a decision in 2007. The Malibu City Council passed a resolution opposing the project.
Definitively proving that blacks are lower on the evolutionary scale, the first episode of "Survivor," showed that the black tribe could not build a boat or start a fire. Boat building is clearly a chore for the group that came down out of the trees the earliest in the Darwinian view. Thank you Mark Burnett for clearing this up for America.
They were the guitar players and vocalists for two of the greatest sibling bands of all time. Chuck Berry introduced dance to the guitar player so Freddie and Tito danced too. Their brothers were the stars of the acts, but their contributions were vital to the success and image of the bands.
One of our favorite movies has a horribly racist scene inserted right in the middle. It is of a black man in a small boat. He 'bugs out his eyes' like they did in the early racist depiction of blacks in movies. Either the director is racist or one of the producers insisted on this intentional insult to black people. And we enjoy the movie so much. It is probably the perfect golf movie comedy. Shame, shame, shame on the racist idiot for placing this little piece of racism in an almost perfect film.
Vivendi Universal Music Group has won the bid to buy Bertelsmann's BMG's Music Publishing Group for $2.1 billion. If approved by USA and European antitrust officials it will add 1 million copyrights to Vivendi's 1 million copyrights, making them the largest music copyright holder in the world.
So what did the governor of Cal - Lee - fornia mean when he said Latinas are 'hot?' Did he mean they are hot blooded? Hot headed? Or sexy hot? Probably all of the above. Some Latinos have complained that it is insulting to be considered hot headed. Point taken. But was Arnie giving a compliment here? He seemed to be saying that he likes the 'hot-ness' of Puerto Ricans with some 'black blood' in them.
Celebrity Fit Club should have several shows in New Orleans and invite contestants from the evacuees. We know you noticed that many of the people, particularly some of the women, at the Superdome and the Convention Center had not missed a meal or a snack. New Orleans is known for its Cajun and Creole foods. Louisisna gumbo has nourished an obese population.
There is a fine line between celebrating your race and taking it to that perverse place Hitler chose. But whites, blacks, Asians and Latinos should be proud of their races. Humans are competitive even to the point of war. Humans are violent even to the point of murder. But perversity and evil-doing are not unique to interracial and inter-ethnic conflicts. Man and woman's inhumanity to man and woman are not limited to race or ethnicity. So racial pride does not have to be evil. As Jim Greene wrote to the New York Daily News, "Competing by race is not racist; it's the same as the Irish cheering St. Patrick's Day, Puerto Ricans cheering their parade, Harlemites cheering Harlem Week, etc."
By Norris McDonald. I went to the awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, its Red Carpet at Rockefeller Plaza and the U.S. Open on the same day. What a great day. Watched Nadal and Serena win in Arthur Ashe Stadium, left, and Layton Hewitt in the Louis Armstrong Stadium. The facility was named the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Always wanted to attend this event in Flusing Meadows, New York.
Instant replay made its debut at the U.S. Open this week. And it was great. It made tennis matches much more exciting. Now if they would just get rid of lets. The 10 small cameras tracking shots measure marks within three millimeters. Only the Ashe and Armstrong stadiums have the system because it costs $300,000. Players get two challenges per set plus another one for tiebreakers. If the call is reversed, the player keeps the challenge.
