I am an only child, so I have no clue about the sturm und drang of siblings.
But the Sunday night finale (as it turned out) of Kisha and Jen, the sistah sisters on reality TV show “Amazing Race” was a pisser – literally. Blame it on cry baby Kisha, who’s been playing the drama card since last week when challenged to swim 400 meters. She cried through that, which put them in last place.
They were saved by the fact that the pit stop wasn’t the end of the challenge and lived to take the second half that involved deciphering Chinese dialect and eating strange fruit. Kisha washed down the eels and tempura starfish with water – lots of it. By the time they made it to the final location, they were neck-and-neck with the cheerleaders from hell for a shot at last place or as one of the final three teams who will go on to compete for $1 million.
So what does L’il Keesh do? Hit the port-a-potty. No joke. With everything hanging in the balance, she does the unthinkable and they reach host Phil a split second too late.
Remember that stalker astronaut who drove across three states wearing Depends? It’s all about focus.
This Just In: At the Turks & Caicos Music Festival this weekend, Rosci from 106 & Park was seen getting thisclose to T&C Premier Michael Misick — you know, the dude currently under investigation for allegations of corruption and rape (redundant, I know) AND the husband of actress LisaRaye McCoy-Misick. Word is that the missus was away in NYC while Miss 106 stayed at the mansion and hosted guests as if she were lady of the house. C’mon, who’s with me — LisaRaye: win, place or show?
Except for the rumors dogging him about the dissolution of his marriage, and his car accident involving family friend Demaris Myers a couple of days ago, actor Morgan Freeman is said to be fine. The 71-year-old Freeman, was initially reported to be in serious condition following the ’round midnight roll-over on a Mississippi Road while he was driving his companion’s ‘97 Maxima. A follow-up statement from his publicist said Freeman, who was joking with paramedics at the scene, escaped with “a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage.”
His reputation, however, could suffer far more serious internal injuries.
Rumors have circulated for years that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett have an open marriage — meaning it’s OK to follow through on their sexual attractions to other people. His recent red-carpet nuzzling of Hancock co-star Charlize Theron started the buzz anew. Now, on the UK-based Female First, Will goes into more detail on the arrangement.
Smith says he and the missus have researched the subject by meeting with divorced couples to find out what went wrong. Not your garden-variety divorced couples, mind you, but the beautiful people who, on the face of it, should have nothing to complain about. The Pinkett-Smith’s met with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (presumably not at the same time) and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, spending “hours” in discussion on the subject.
Not clear whether the ex’s recommended this approach, but Smith says the perspective in his marriage is not to avoid what’s natural. “You’re going to be attracted to people. In our marriage vows, we didn’t say ‘forsaking all others.’ If it came down to it, then one can say to the other, ‘Look, I need to have sex with somebody. I’m not going to if you don’t approve — but please approve.”
Lest you think Will is shortchanging his wife by chasing strange, he assures: “I don’t let a day go past that Jada doesn’t feel like the Queen of the World.”
Snoop’s made a couple of moves lately that suggests he must be in search of new cross-over audiences.He recently did an extended cameo on ABC soap “One Life to Live,” performing two singles from his latest project, “Ego Trippin’” as well as his remix of the soapy theme song. Now comes the news of the music video he shot with country boy Willie Nelson for his “My Medicine” single. The two bonded over smoke and KFC during production in Amsterdam and Nashville.Snoop told MTVNews “I’ve made so many records that were true to hip-hop, true to Snoop Dogg, true to the West Coast and gangsta rap genre, now it’s time for me to make records that feel good to me and venture out.” Like the way you thinkin’. In case you were at work or something:
So Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon jumped the broom. Guess Cannon took that “Touch My Body” single to heart.
I have to say, that’s one hook-up I never saw coming. Nothing in either of their dating histories would have suggested it: Cannon, of course, most recently made headlines when he and his Victoria’s Secret fiancee, Selita Ebanks called off their engagement.
1) Rachel “Miss USA” Smith
2) Eva “America’s Next Top Model” Pigford
3) Kim “I Got the Hook-Up” Kardashian
4) Meagan “It’s All” Goode
5) Christina Milian
6) Layla “Who??” Kayleigh
Possible divas-in-training, sure, but no match for Mimi. Cannon’s no slouch, though. The junior husband (by 11 years) reportedly gave his wife a 17-carat bauble to declare his devotion. Then again, coming behind music mogul Tommy Mottola, he had to step up his game.
Carey’s date M.O. is equally, uh, varied:
1) Derek Jeter
2) Grant Hill
3) Eddie “Getting Engaged. Back in 15″ Murphy
4) Marcus “Pam Anderson” Schekenberg
Rick FoxTyreseEminemLeo DiCaprioLuis Miguel… you get the idea.
The two, who met when Cannon starred in Carey’s “Bye, Bye” video, have been dating for several weeks…More than enough time to know it’s true love.
Despite his attempt to make nice with the feds by writing a “good faith” check, Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in the big house for a $13 million tax evasion charge.The judge in the case disagreed with the defense assessment of Wes’ transgressions as “garden variety tax offenses,” citing his decade long maneuvers of depositing money off-shore and his refusal to file income tax returns from 1999 through 2004.
Snipes attorneys plan to appeal. Though the 600-page document he sent to the IRS (after his indictment in 2006) warning them of “increased collateral damage” if they continued to pursue his case won’t score many points for the home team.
The plot outline for Tropic Thunder sets up the situation thusly: “Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.” Freak occurrences, eh. Like the one that has Robert Downey, Jr. in blackface? The motion picture industry satire has Downey’s character, Kirk Lazarus, cast to play a black soldier. In a fit of (excessive? misguided?) commitment, Lazarus assures his director that he can convincingly play a brother.
The Dreamworks Pictures comedy isn’t slated to open until late summer, but
co-writer/producer/director Ben Stiller says he’s already gotten two snaps up from the Drop Squad: “I had no idea how people would respond to it,” he told Entertainment Weekly. He went on to say that, at a recent screening, black viewers liked the film.
Stiller was careful to note he was pushing the boundaries with the intent of satirizing “over-the-top actors, not African-Americans.”
As for playing the role, second lifer Downey said he “dove in with both feet.”
“If I didn’t feel it was morally sound, or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I’m just C. Thomas Howell, I would’ve just stayed home. If it’s done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago. If you don’t do it right, we’re going to hell.”
Is that sulfur I smell?? Check out the trailer and let me know what you think.
If there is such a thing as karmic balance (and, yes, Tawana, I believe there is), all is right with the fact that Kanye West resolved his intellectual property dispute with stunt meister Evel Knievel just days before Knievel died of a heart attack. The two daredevils were at odds over West’s reenactment in his “Touch The Sky” video of Knievel’s 1974 attempted jump over Idaho’s Snake River Canyon and his use of the name “Evel Kanyevel”. Not believing in imitation as the sincerest form of flattery, Knievel went on a public rant about the evils of Kanye’s “filth” (aka, rap) and its responsibility for the decay of American morality, inflamed, no doubt, over the high-school dropout’s on-camera fondling of that bastion of blonde virtue, Pamela Anderson.
While it is most definitely pleasing to think that young blood West has that kind of juice, methinks Knievel drank too deeply of the right wing kool-aid being served down at the grand lodge. In the end, Knievel was man enough to admit his initial impression of West was off, that dude was a “wonderful guy and a gentleman,” and they were both able to walk away from the encounter better men for it.
Old white women are making a run for the border – the Kenyan border, that is. Reuters reports that women (primarily English) in their 60s are traveling to the motherland to get their swirl on with young Kenyan men who are 30 years younger. The “escorts” are wined and dined and lavished with all kinds of gifts by the women, who come specifically for the hook-up opportunities. What do the women get out of it? If you have to ask…
