10th February, 2009
Nas Announces Collaboration with Damian Marley
I wonder how this will turn out. These collaborative efforts don't always translate into record sales or even much recognition, save a little drama here and there. "Best of Both Worlds," anyone? How about "Face Off?"
Grammy-nominated rapper Nas has announced plans to release an upcoming collaboration album with singer Damian Marley. The Queens, New York-bred emcee confirmed the forthcoming project at Sunday's Grammy Awards.
"Right now, I'll tell you first, I'm working on an album with Damian Marley, and we tryin' to build some schools in Africa with this one, and trying to build empowerment," Nas said. "We're tryin' to show love and stuff with this album. So, the record's ... all about really the 'hood and Africa also as well. That's coming out real soon...Too early to tell the title or anything like that," he said. "Shout out to my man Jr. Gong, we getting it in right now." (MTV News) (Excerpt Courtesy of Sohh.com)
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29th December, 2008
Runway judge Britney Spears
Heidi Klum wants Britney Spears to be a judge on 'Project Runway'.
The supermodel - who hosts the hit US TV style show - reportedly thinks an appearance from Britney would dramatically increase the programme's popularity.
After meeting up with Britney at her 27th birthday party in New York's Tenjune nightclub this week, sources say Heidi is keen to ask the singer to appear on an upcoming episode of the series, which sees keen style designers compete to win a contract with a leading style store.
A source said: "Heidi is smart - she knows that Britney can do wonders for a show's ratings, there's been a lot of drama at 'Project Runway' - it would be huge for her to get Britney."
Previous guest judges on the show include Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalie Portman and Victoria Beckham.
Jennifer Lopez was also scheduled to judge an episode of the series, but pulled out after reportedly injuring her foot.
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4th November, 2008
Britney Spears prepares for mental breakdown next month
With Britney Spears on the cusp of a full blown comeback with a No. 1 single on the charts, a hot new video, a revamped body and a highly anticipated album due just in time for the Holidays, the singer has announced to close friends that she will have a complete mental breakdown in November.
"I don't think she's happy with the media coverage even though things are going great. The number of paparazzi has dramatically decreased since she pulled herself together," said an insider. "She's no longer the top story on entertainment news shows and even traditional news media. Even the tabloids have barely covered her over the last few months. She needs to do something to change all that."
Insiders say Spears has already made an appointment at Esther's Hair Salon in Tarzana, California to have her hair extensions taken out by shaving her hair completely off. Spears has also purchased a brand new umbrella to attack the paparazzi. The singer also had a Brazilian wax as she plans to expose her vagina again starting next month. She also placed a call to LAPD to reserve one of the county's nicest ambulances to take her to the hospital when she calls 911 next month after breaking down completely.
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12th October, 2008
Controversy: "W." movie features President Bush in grassy knoll scene
Oliver Stone's film portrait of President George W. Bush is stirring up a major controversy as it features a scene with President Bush with actor Josh Brolin in the title role riding in a limousine in Dallas near the famous grassy knoll. The movie is part drama, part satire, yet the director of "JFK" and "Nixon" argues it is not a hatchet job on Bush.
But "W." also features a scene where Brolin's character orders the burglary and bugging of the Democratic Party's headquarters. Even stranger is the middle part of the film where Bush leaves the U.S. and becomes the King of Macedonia and leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire.
Stone says audiences will not find the partisan portrait his critics might expect from the director of Vietnam war film "Platoon" and Cuban documentary "Looking for Fidel." "It was not our intention to bring malice or judgment on George W. Bush and his administration."
Although Stone refused to talk about the dream sequence where Bush and First Lady Laura travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks.
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2nd October, 2008
4 Super-Hero Show Ideas the CW Rejected Before Picking up its New Robin Series
Many comic book fans were surprised when the CW announced it is picking up a new series called "The Graysons" that chronicles the life of Dick Grayson (known on TV as "DJ") before he became Batman's sidekick Robin. Is Robin a compelling enough character to carry his own TV show? And just how much will the network have to change the Batman mythos in order to create a dramatic series that works in the year 2009?
As it turns out, those are easy challenges compared to the other unlikely comic book characters the CW was considering adapting. Dateline Hollywood has obtained an exclusive development report from the network containing the top four super-hero concepts it almost approved before picking up "The Graysons":
4. Beppo's Laboratory: This proposed series would have focused on the civilian life of Beppo, the Super Monkey. Bepp, of course, stowed away on Kal-El's spaceship as Krypton exploded and gained super powers on Earth. "What's it like for a monkey with super strength and heat vision who has to live as a test subject in a laboratory to hide his secret identity?" asks the series proposal. "Rather than showing another monkey's super feats, we'll focus exclusively on Beppo's efforts to live a normal life: His struggles to learn sign language, his uncertain romance with fellow captive monkey Lana Langur, and his efforts to hurl his own feces without using super strength, which might cause death upon impact." The writers proposed waiting until season five or six to introduce Streaky the Super Cat and Comet the Super Horse as supporting characters.
3. Sub-Heroes: Rather than focus on the powerful and revered Legion of Super-Heroes, DC Comics' teenage super-team from the 30th century, "Sub-Heroes" tells the tale of the kids who didn't quite make the cut. This dramatic take on the characters whose powers were judged completely useless by the Legion. How does Porcupine Pete, whose body is covered in razor sharp quills, handle his first sexual encounter? How does one of Double Header's heads react when the other admits that he is gay? Note: In order to make the characters more appealing, CW executives wanted the subs to work as models and alternative rock band members in order to pay the bills on their clubhouse.
2. Ego, the Living Planet: Network TV has brought us hundreds of doctors, lawyers, and police officers, but never a living planet. "Ego" details the loves, loneliness, and tribulations of the universe's only sentient planet. "Ego is constantly bugging Thor and the Fantastic Four and whoever else he can find, but all he really wants is somebody to care about him," the network's notes explain. CW executives were said to be high on Brian Dennehy or Kirstie Alley to play the part of Ego.
1. Lightning and the Panther: This series would have brought together trailblazing super-heroes Black Lighting and Black Panther, who come from the DC and Marvel universes respectively, as roommates! In a hilarious sitcom billed as "Smallville meets Sanford and Son," the two aging heroes run a junk shop together and reminisce about their days as the first Black super-heroes. The only these cantankerous coots agree on is that modern day African-American heroes who don't use "Black" in their code names have lost their sense of racial pride!
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1st October, 2008
Ira Glass dies! Exclusive 9-1-1 recording
Dateline Hollywood has obtained this exclusive recording of a 9-1-1 call placed recently by Ira Glass in which the "This American Life" host appears to die. Fans of the popular NPR show will surely want all the details on this dramatic development, which also provides an insight into the inner life of the country's most popular storytelling geek:
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