18th November, 2008
ERYKAH BADU LANDS MOVIE ROLE
Erykah Badu is taking her brand of 'honey' to the box office again, this time she's starring opposite Mos Def. According to Blackvoices, Badu has picked up a leading role in the indie film, 'Bobby Zero.' Starring opposite Mos Def, Badu will portray the 'Cadillac Records' star's lady friend in the film due to start shooting next year. Mos Def will play the romantic lead in the story of a 'down on his luck' social satirist who gives up his artistic aspirations to work at an advertising agency where he is confronted with his past. Stepping outside the box, Bobby (Mos Def) discovers the world is not as it seems.
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18th November, 2008
THE WAYANS BROTHERS ARE BACK!
They've lampooned blaxploitation films and horror movies. Now the Wayans family's spoof factory is reaching for its most sacred target yet: Zac Efron? The latest Wayans Brothers project will be appropriately called "Dance Flick" starring Damon Wayans, Jr. and Essence Atkins. It will spoof movies like "Save the Last Dance," "Hairspray," "You Got Served," "Step Up" and, yes, "High School Musical." Check out the trailer below, it looks hella funny!
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18th November, 2008
Mark Cuban buys SEC after being charged with insider trading
Just one day after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant and billionaire Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur has purchased the SEC. The agency accused Cuban of using confidential information to dump 600,000 shares of Mamma.com, the Internet search company. But this morning, Cuban bought the SEC.
"These are tough economic times. Under normal circumstances, the SEC, which is a government agency, would never have been sold," explained Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox. "But Mr. Cuban made us an incredible offer for the agency. The government badly needs funds to deal with the economic crisis and we all agreed this made sense at this time."
Since acquiring the agency, Mark Cuban has dropped all charges against Mark Cuban.
"I am glad the SEC came to their senses and dismissed all these charges," said Cuban in a statement.
"If I had known that this was possible, I would have bought the SEC years ago," said Martha Stewart.
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18th November, 2008
Justin Timberlake drops new single, can’t find it anywhere
Singer Justin Timberlake says he is devastated today after dropping his new single somewhere and he hasn't been able to find it somewhere.
"I told my manager that I dropped my new single, and he congratulated me," said Justin. "Then I had to explain that I literally dropped it. It was on a CD, and it was the only copy. We did that to make sure the single did not leak on the internet."
Timberlake says he has been retracing his steps all day long and can't find it anywhere. He has offered a $500 reward for information leading to the single. The single is being described as sounding exactly like every oher song Timberlake has ever recorded.
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18th November, 2008
GAME CHANGER OF THE YEAR
GQ named President-elect Barack Obama one of its “Men of the Year” and called him “Game Changer of the Year” in the December issue, which went to print just before the election.
The issue includes an article written by Sen. Ted Kennedy. Check out a snippet below:
Whether he wins or loses, Barack Obama has ushered in a new era of American politics with a limitless vision of a better future that will endure for many years to come. Through his candidacy, Obama has provided a glimpse of a stronger, better, fairer America, where change comes from the bottom up, where we all come together to meet the great challenges of our time. He has inspired millions of new voters of all ages, races, and incomes to lend their voices for real change. For in this man, Americans can see not just the audacity but the possibility of hope for the country that is yet to be.
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18th November, 2008
Hijacked Ship Holds $100 Million in Oil
What does a modern day pirate look like anyway? In my mind, pirates are the characters of fables.. you know patch over the eye....like Captain Hook. How ignorant is that? lol
The owner of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates over the weekend said the company is working to win the release of the crew and vessel, which is carrying about $100 million in cargo.
Dubai-based Vela International Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of Saudi oil company Aramco, said in a statement Monday that company response teams have been created. The MV Sirius Star is the largest ship ever taken by Somali pirates, according to the U.S. Navy.The statement gave no further details. Employees who answered the phone said no one was immediately available to comment and that Vela executives were meeting to discuss the situation. They declined to give their names.
The Navy said the brand-new MV Sirius Star, with a crew of 25, was seized far off the coast of Kenya on Saturday and the bandits were taking the ship to a Somali port known as a hub of pirate activity. It announced the hijacking on Monday when it first received the information.
The statement posted on Vela's Web site late Monday said the ship was hijacked Sunday. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.
Attacks by Somali pirates have surged this year as bandits have become bolder, better armed and capable of operating hundreds of miles from shore. A coalition of warships from eight nations and from NATO and the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet is patrolling a critical zone in the Gulf of Aden leading to and from the Suez Canal. The gulf is where most of the more than 80 attacks this year have taken place.
The Saudi tanker, however, was seized far to the south of the patrolled zone, about 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya, according to the U.S. Navy. Maritime security experts said they have tracked a southward spread in piracy over the last several weeks into a vast area of the Indian Ocean, noting with alarm that the area would be almost impossible to patrol.
The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet said Tuesday it was monitoring the situation but did not expect to send warships to surround the vessel as it has done with a Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and other weaponry the was seized off the Somali coast on Sept. 25 and remains in pirate hands.
"I don't anticipate any U.S. ships on station," said Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the 5th Fleet, speaking from its headquarters in Bahrain.
He would not elaborate on how the Navy was watching the hijacked tanker.
"We remain deeply concerned because this attack represents a fundamental change in pirates' ability to hijack bigger vessels farther out at sea," he said.
The Sirius Star is the "largest pirated vessel in the region" to date, Christensen said.
At 1,080 feet, the Sirius Star is the length of an aircraft carrier and can carry about 2 million barrels of oil.
"We are very concerned that a (ship) of this size has been hijacked. We have safety concerns, security concerns, environmental concerns," said Noel Choong, the head of the International Maritime Bureau's regional piracy center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"Of course, as long as there is no firm deterrent, pirates will continue to attack. The risk is low and returns are extremely high. You will see more and more of such attacks," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Somali fishermen and witnesses on shore said the pirates apparently anchored the ship last night in Harardhere, a pirate stronghold some 265 miles by land from Eyl. The Saudi tanker was just a few miles from shore Tuesday morning, said Abdinur Haji, a fisherman.
"As usual, I woke up at 3 a.m. and headed for the sea to fish, but I saw a very, very large ship anchored less than three miles off the shore," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
He said two small boats floated out to the ship and 18 men — presumably other pirates — climbed aboard with ropes woven into a ladder.
"I have been fishing here for three decades, but I have never seen a ship as big as this one," he said. "There are dozens of spectators on shore trying to catch a glimpse of the large ship, which they can see with their naked eyes."
Vela, the ship's owner and operator, says it is one of the largest crude oil tanker companies in the world. Including the Sirius Star, Vela owns and operates a fleet of 19 vessels classed as Very Large Crude Oil Carriers and five product tankers of various sizes. It transports supplies primarily between the Middle East, Europe and the U.S. Gulf Coast, according to the company's Web site.
The Sirius Star was sailing under a Liberian flag and its crew includes citizens of Croatia, Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia. A British Foreign Office spokesman said there were at least two British nationals on board. (From AP/AOL News)
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