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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

JACKIE CHAN SNEAK PEEKS HIS REALITY MOVIE.

Jackie Chan's Stunt-Filled Family Action Adventure CHINESE ZODIAC Opens October 18 At AMC Theatres®

 Jackie Chan broke two Guinness World Records® for "Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor" and "Most Credits in One Movie" From PR Newswire Jackie Chan's stunt-filled family action adventure CHINESE ZODIAC comes to guests at AMC Theatres in the United States and Canada beginning October 18.
Filmed on location across five continents and seven countries, the movie features some of Chan's wildest and most breathtaking stunts ever – including a hillside chase with our hero in a skate suit and an aerial landing on top of an active volcano.
During the making of the film, Chan broke two Guinness World Records for "Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor" and "Most Credits in One Movie" (15), which includes Actor, Director, Producer, Fight Choreographer and Composer. One of the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time, CHINESE ZODIAC has earned over $160 million worldwide.
JC (Jackie Chan) leads a team of treasure hunters (Kwon Sang-Woo, Liao Fan and Zhang Lanxin) who travel the world in search of ancient relics. When JC is given his toughest challenge yet, acquiring 12 mystical artifacts that comprise the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, he enlists the help of archeologist Coco (Yao Xintong) and French heiress Katherine (Laure Weissbecker).
 Together, JC and his group must locate the priceless relics before they fall into the wrong hands and are lost forever. Loaded with Jackie Chan's trademark brand of action and humor, Chinese Zodiac features the martial arts comedy icon performing his own death -- and gravity -- defying stunts.
Shot on location in China, France, Australia, Latvia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the South Pacific, the film features an international cast that includes leading actors and actresses from China, France, Korea and the United States. The film is also one of Chan's most ambitious -- one of the major fight scenes in the movie cost more than $10 million.


Tuesday, September 24, 2013

EMMY WINNER STEVEN COLBERT AND CHRISTINA HENDRICKS- LEAD ALL STAR "COMPANY" MUSICAL ON PBS.

From PR Newswire




An all-star cast in a staged concert production conducted by Paul Gemignani:

Great Performances   presents the New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical Company with an all-star cast including (in alphabetical order) Craig Bierko (as Peter), Stephen Colbert (as Harry), Jon Cryer (as David), Katie Finneran (as Amy), Neil Patrick Harris (as Robert), Christina Hendricks (as April), Adam Lazar (as Paul), Patti LuPone (as Joanne), Jill Paice (as Susan), Martha Plimpton (as Sarah), Anika Noni Rose (as Marta), Jennifer Laura Thompson (as Jenny), Jim Walton (as Larry), and Chryssie Whitehead (as Kathy).




Captured from the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the musical will air Friday, November 8 at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN's Great Performances , as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival. (Check local listings.)

Sondheim specialist Paul Gemignani conducts Jonathan Tunick's original orchestrations arranged for a 35-piece orchestra. Lonny Price — who directed SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert on Great Performances , directs; Josh Rhodes is the choreographer.   Ellen M. Krass produced this concert production for broadcast.

Set in a swinging New York City evocative of the time of the show's 1970 Broadway debut, Company follows perennial bachelor Robert (Harris) on the occasion of his 35th birthday as his five married couple friends gather to celebrate and offer varying degrees of relationship advice.   Their interactions are presented in a series of vignettes, primarily through Robert's eyes. The show's many Sondheim standards include "Company," "Side by Side by Side," "The Ladies Who Lunch," "Another Hundred People," "Barcelona" and "Being Alive."  In assessing the performance, Stephen Holden in The New York Times praised "the suave, dynamically subtle contribution of the mighty Philharmonic" as well as "the witty musical staging."  
With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George FurthCompany first opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on April 26, 1970, produced and directed by Harold Prince. The show ran for 705 performances and received the 1971 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Lyrics, Best Set Design, and Best Direction of a Musical, among 14 nominations. It has returned in various revivals, most recently in 2006 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, with Raúl Esparza as Robert, in a production that was also broadcast on Great Performances .
Paul Gemignani has been the music director of more than 40 Broadway and West End shows, includingFollies, Pacific Overtures, Candide, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Dreamgirls, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, On the Twentieth Century, Sunday in the Park with George, Jerome Robbins's Broadway, Crazy for You, Passion, High Society, and Kiss Me, Kate. In 2004 he was the music director for Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, The Frogs, and the Japan National Theatre Company's production of Pacific Overtures.

In 2006 he received a Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Musical Direction for a Great Performancespresentation of South Pacific; Mr. Gemignani served as the music director of the New York Philharmonic's concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in September 1985 (which was the basis of a Great Performances broadcast); and in March 2010 he conducted the Philharmonic's production of SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert, which aired on Great Performances .
Company marks Lonny Price's return to the New York Philharmonic, where he had directed and co-produced SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert. His previous Philharmonic collaborations include Candide,starring Paul GrovesKristin Chenoweth, and Patti LuPone in May 2004 (broadcast on Great Performances , Emmy nomination); he directed Sweeney Todd with the San Francisco Symphony (also broadcast on PBSEmmy Award) and helmed the previous telecast of Company in 2006, all of which were also produced by Ellen M. Krass. In March 2014 Lonny Price will direct and co-produce the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and conducted by Alan Gilbert. In his early career as an actor, Price originated the role of Charley Kringas in the Prince/Sondheim showMerrily We Roll Along on Broadway.

Over the course of its four decades, Great Performances has provided a national stage where popular artists not only reveal the surprising dimensions of their creative gifts but often surpass expectations.Great Performances has also offered artists the opportunity to celebrate and pay homage to the influential figures in their lives and careers, as well as be the first to spotlight emerging artists with their feature-length television debut. 

Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. Throughout its 40 year history on public television, Great Performanceshas provided viewers across the country with an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America's most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming.  Over the course of its four decades, the series has been the home to the greatest artists in the areas of drama, dance, musical theater, classical and popular music, providing many with their very first television exposure.

Newly married Zoe Saldana sells LA love nest, she shared with her EX, Bradley Cooper.

The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons: "Finally,the world is going to see the really TALENTED Cuoco (Sister.)"

Monday, August 26, 2013

CELEBRITY Q AND A: SIGOURNEY WEAVER.



Data Hard:Wow, you look like Sigourney Weaver.

Sigourney Weaver: (she smiles knowingly)

Data: It's probably because of your hair (Weaver's quintessential red-haired, sophisticated, exec look.) 

Weaver: It's probably because...I'm so tall (she's 6 foot even.)

Hard nods head in agreement

Weaver: Or the fact that I usually have Aliens around me. Or monsters (an illusion to her recent hit Cabin in the Woods.She played a Catherine Parker (Working Girl) type gal-trying to save the world,through murder.)

 
We both laugh at her gracious sense or humor.

Weaver: What's favorite movie of mine?

Data: I loved her Galaxy Quest. (Note: I'm so nervous, I start referring to her in the third person.)

Weaver: (confused, but intrigued) Why?

Hard: It's the only time in career, she went blond.

Weaver: (The queen of Sci-Fi blushed a bit.) The Star Trek fans are the best and most loyal in the world!
Are you a Trekker?

Data: Yes

Weaver: Oh,who was my co-star in that one? 

Hard: Tim Allen.

Weaver: That's right. Hey I know what you'd like to do? Hi-Ya!




Weaver (in jest) strike a karate ready pose.We both both laugh charmingly.

Weaver: We had a great time making fun of it.

Hard: For Trekkers: You guys did with love.You didn't go in with a ,here's why Trek sucks attitude.You respected us and that made it possible- to laugh at the show's silliness and structure (60's era mainly.) 

Weaver: (impressed) My favorite of hers (mockingly) is Gorillas in the Mist.

Data: She almost won an Oscar for that,didn't she?

Weaver: (She shoots back sullen and angry eyes at me) Yes, She almost did. (Flares nostrils)

Weaver did win two Golden Globes (no pun intended) for both ...Mist and Working Girl,back in 1988.
The first actress to win twice in one year.

Weaver: I really admire her strength and determination... to do the right the things for those Gorillas.

Data: That was Dian Fossey wasn't it?

Weaver nods approvingly.

Weaver: Well, times flies when- you're being talked about, like you're not even there. (smiles) I hope to see this at your website. You did a good job.

Data is shocked that she's even heard of me.

Weaver: I'm paying you compliment.

Hard smiles and nods thankfully.

Weaver: (magnanimously) I've got to go, (wide smile) Good Bye.


Factoids: WikiPedia.






LILO GETTING HER OWN SIT-COM, TOO.

Friday, August 16, 2013

SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS GETS MORE DESCRIPTIVE, ON NEW REVOLT NETWORK.

From PRNewswire -Val Boreland, executive vice president of programming and strategy, provided a glimpse today into the on-air talent lineup for one of the largest independent network launches in cable history: "We're thrilled to welcome Amrit and Sibley to the REVOLT family; their body of work and perspectives on music today represents the level of depth we plan to deliver on-air on a daily basis to our viewers." Amrit Singh has been named as music and culture editor and host being joined by Sibley Scoles as host on the new music network. This announcement falls on the heels of the recently appointed REVOLT TV executive team that includes Keith Clinkscales as CEO, Andy Schuon as president, and Val Boreland as executive vice president of programming and strategy.

Amrit Singh comes to REVOLT TV from Stereogum where he served as executive editor for seven years, elevating the Website into a leading voice in independent music. Called a "global citizen to watch" and a "generational voice" by The Huffington Post, Amrit's video journalism has appeared on ABC, MTV, and Fuse. The NY State Bar certified attorney turned music expert is a Queens, NY native of Indian descent. As REVOLT TV's music and culture editor and host, Amrit will write programming and editorial content for all REVOLT platforms as well as serve as an on-air host.
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World known rapper, MC Sibley, also known as Sib Vicious, will also serve as an on-air host. A Bay Area native, Sibley has toured with Taio Cruz in the UK, has recorded with DMC from the pioneer hip hop group Run-DMC, and has performed during Paris Fashion Week. Her music is currently licensed by fashion icon Stella McCartney.
Through curated music videos, performances, interviews, and news, this team of experts will deliver the best of the best in music to the first multi-platform network for artists and fans – all live, on-air, and at the speed of social media.

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

VH1 TURNS LEANN RIMES AND EDDIE CIBRIAN, INTO A REALITY SHOW.

LeAnn Rimes And Eddie Cibrian Are Bringing What You Think You Know -- And What You Don't -- To VH1

Gurney Productions Of 'Duck Dynasty' Fame Will Produce The Series Which Is Set To Premiere Fall 2013/Winter 2014 With 6 Episodes.

               
From PRNewswire-- LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian have both been famous in their own right for years, but it wasn't until they were a couple that the tabloids became enamored with their every move. Joining forces with VH1, their new show will bring the truth and make fun of all the gossip. "LeAnn & Eddie" (working title) is set to premiere on VH1 in the Fall 2013/Winter 2014 with 6 half-hour episodes.

Multiple Grammy Award-winning artist LeAnn Rimes first burst on the music scene at the age of 13. Since then she has gone on to sell more than 40 million albums, has scored 13 Top10 hits and has won numerous music awards. Her latest album, the critically acclaimed "Spitfire," debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Country Charts and number 4 on iTunes. Eddie Cibrian is a versatile actor who got his start in daytime television but moved to primetime with the hit series "Third Watch."  Since then he has gone on to star as a lead actor in various television series, including "Invasion," "The Playboy Club," "CSI Miami" and "Tilt" among others.  Mr. Cibrian has also starred in numerous films including "Living Out Loud," "Good Deeds," "But I'm A Cheerleader," "The Cave," and the upcoming movies "Single Moms Club," and "Best Man Holiday."

Inside the sanctity of their world they are a typical normal modern family -- a married couple, who both have careers and are also learning how to navigate the co-parenting of Eddie's two sons. Life outside the home for them is very different because they live in a fishbowl where the paparazzi stalk them, the tabloids report on any detail and the public gets only part of the real story.  With "LeAnn & Eddie," they look forward to sharing a bit of their world and poke fun at what it's like to be a high-profile couple with more than a little misinformation out there about them.

"We are really excited to be working together on a unique show that will give you a glimpse into who we really are or better yet who we're really not.  We're thrilled to partner with VH1 and The Gurneys to put our spin on a project full of love, humor and music," said LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian.

"LeAnn and Eddie are both talented entertainers who have really captured the public's imagination in the last couple of years, but there is so much more to them than what you read in the tabloids," said Tom Calderone, President of VH1.  "This is going to be a really fun show in which we hope to reveal what their lives are really like - from the normalcy of their home life, to what drives them artistically, to the chaos of their celebrity life."

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian will also serve as executive producers for Country Cuban Productions, Inc.  Also serving as executive producers are John Ferriter for Octagon Entertainment and Scotty Abrams for Maniac Filmworks and Music.   Executive producing for VH1 is Jill Holmes.

Monday, July 29, 2013

SPREAD THE LUV ON BET, WITH MEAGAN GOOD AND DENNIS HAYSBERT!

BET Networks Announces World Television Debut Of LUV Starring Common And Introducing Michael Rainey Jr. Wednesday, August 7, 2013 At 9 PM ET/PT

Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Dennis Haysbert, Lonette McKee and Meagan Good Also Star In The BET Premiere Cinema Film

Exclusively Sponsored By The 2013 Toyota Avalon, BET Presents LUV Will Air With Limited Commercial Interruption

NEW YORK, July 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of the wildly successful debut of BET PREMIERE CINEMA'S original movie, BEING MARY JANE , the Network is announcing the world television broadcast premiere of LUV starring Common and introducing Michael Rainey Jr.  In addition to original BET-created films, BET PREMIERE CINEMA introduces audiences to critically-acclaimed independent films and documentaries – both never-before-seen and those that have completed their theatrical run.  Exclusively sponsored by the 2013 Toyota Avalon, LUV debuts on August 7 th at 9PM ET/PT with limited commercial interruption.


Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, LUV stars hip-hop icon Common ( New Year's Eve, Hell On Wheels) and is a dramatic crime thriller that plunges audiences into a world of hope, violence and self-determination. Common plays Vincent, a recent parolee and uncle to Woody Watson, a timid, orphaned eleven-year old boy from Baltimore who dreams of a better life. But Vincent's former life and criminal past soon comes back to haunt them both. Written and directed by Sheldon Candis, the film is produced by Jason Michael Berman, Joel Newton, Common, Derek Dudley, Datari Turner and Gordon Bijelonic; and co-written by Justin Wilson. Michael Rainey Jr., Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Dennis Haysbert, Lonette McKee and Meagan Good also star in the film.

For more information on LUV, go to the newly designed BET.com home page that now features a fully responsive design across all electronic devices, increased social media integration, a unique & user-friendly video experience and striking visual designs. Viewers can also find show updates on Facebook by liking the fan page at Facebook.com/BET. Also, join the conversation on Twitter by using hashtag: #LUV.

Monday, July 15, 2013

CELEBRITY HOMOPHOBIA: NICK CANNON! (EXCLUSIVE!)

A recent episode of Real Husbands Of Hollywood, is entitled Riding in Cars with Boys. At the end of the show, The America's Got Talent host ,refereed to allegedly gay contortionist as a "faggot in a box" and laughed deliriously.

All I was trying to do was walk across the street to the Pasadena Gold line station, in late March 2013. The alleged Wankster dressed (all in black, down to his trademark- backward child like cap) was walking from behind some signs near the entrance, walking with someone looks like Kevin Hart, who would be a silent enabler of his friend.

The monomaniac loudmouth, then takes one look at me (dressed from security work garb) and launched into a tirade of quick gay jokes, as it has been already decided, by his ignorant ass. I just stare- at the intolerant liars. 

Then, he jumps in my face and threatened to  hit me (or kiss, he chose to be so close),if I did anything. As he turned away, he attempted to flinch me. When  he turned away, I hit him with pepper spray.

I tried to get down some stairs and he tried to push me down them. I had to threatened to mace him again, and walked back up. He claimed "You WON'T do THAT again, fag!" and of course I did. I told him that I WASN'T GAY and that he was bigot. This impressed the allegedly smiling Hart, who was impressed that I rhymed of the Full F word. 

Cannon then tried to call me fat repeatedly, in place of the f word. He then, dared me to mace him ,so I did. I tried to run down a ramp in front of the signs, where the extremists emerged. Somehow, Cannon got in front of me and forced a fist-fight. 

I tried to use my coat as a distraction, to get by the homophobic punk. He caught it and begins whipping it at me. I try to karate kick him and barely missed. This enrages the All That bastard, who stomps my Nikes (The Boondocks' Riley Freeman was right!) My right ankle and foot collapses in massive pain.

Cannon throws my jacket over my head and says "Is that what you trying to do?!" and pushed me down to the ground. Then, he kicks me in the middle of my back and the back of the head.
Luckily, Cannon hits like a bitch, so they almost didn't hurt. The thickness of my jacket, might saved me from severe damage.

Still, I couldn't get up and then Cannon starts jumping in air -like a prize fighter- claiming "I won!" He ran off happy  and both leave the scene. On pure adrenaline, I get  up and chase Cannon down the street, catch up and start pepper spraying him again.

Hart starts laughing again- I was so angry that I shot pepper spray at him, but it fails to go off.
Hart then claims that "Nick, He's out! (of spray)."

Cannon stops running and tries to fight me again. Then, I take the spray bottle and place into my huge right hand for leverage and wait. After quite a few seconds, Cannon face turns from anger to confusion and runs claiming "I ALREADY BEAT YOU!"

I briskly walk (in noticeable pain) to collect my jacket, back at the station. Then, I notice he's trying to make his way ,back down toward me. I finally call the cops, with my cell phone & three police cars arrive in  seconds of the my call.

The cops catch Cannon and we each try to have  the other arrested. Cannon & Hart start yelling that
"I blew it," like this whole thing was a job offer or something.

Ranking Officer Paul Lee tells me, that it was mutual combat and we would both have to be arrested to file a police report, even though I was the only one hurt and did NOT initiate this entire scenario. 

Cannon hears this and immediately drops his charges. He leaves with Hart. I start to realize my foot is in such pain, I can't stand without leaning on the wall and a ambulance takes me to the hospital. Since that night, I haven't been able to walk properly without a crutch and I'll need surgery once the bones finally heal.  



PARAMOUNT GETTING TREK 3:SEE YA JJ- TOGETHER.


Friday, July 12, 2013

FOR COMEDY CENTRAL, BILL COSBY IS FAR FROM FINISHED.


         

          
          
Bill Cosby Concert Special, "Far From Finished," To Air On COMEDY CENTRAL® November 24, 2013

 

"Far From Finished" Is Cosby's First Televised Concert In 30 Years

"Far From Finished" Is Directed By Robert Townsend

PR Newswire
NEW YORK, July 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Cosby's first television concert special in 30 years, "Far From Finished," will air on COMEDY CENTRAL November 24, 2013.  Robert Townsend directed the show, which will be compiled from material that Cosby performed at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center earlier this summer.
Darryl M. Bell, Judi Marmel, Robert Hartmann and Stu Schreiberg are Executive Producers of the concert event, a production of Levity Productions.
"Bill Cosby Himself" aired three decades ago and is considered one of the landmark comedy specials of all time.  "The Cosby Show" was in part an evolution of the "Himself" routines. 
Commenting on his return to the form, Cosby said, "Because . . . funny is funny."
One of America's most beloved comedians of all time, Cosby has captivated generations of fans with his comedy routines, iconic albums and best-selling books such as "Fatherhood."  His comedy transcends ages, genders and cultures.  Cosby went around television's racial obstacles with "I Spy," becoming the first African American to costar on a weekly, dramatic television series while winning three consecutive Emmys®.  Cosby created and produced the Emmy Award®- winning cartoon series "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids," which began airing in the 1970s and was made into a film in 2004.  The show, based on Cosby's childhood in Philadelphia, was designed to educate and entertain.  Perhaps Cosby's greatest contribution to American entertainment and culture is  "The Cosby Show," about a close-knit, upper middle income Black family.  Cosby has received the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (America's highest civilian honor), the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and the Marian Anderson Award.
COMEDY CENTRAL is the number one brand in comedy.

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

CHRIS TUCKER'S SILVER LINING AT THE BET AWARDS '13

From PR Newswire. 

CHRIS TUCKER HOSTS BLOCKBUSTER SHOW WITH ALL-STAR LINE-UP OF PERFORMERS, PRESENTERS AND SPECIAL APPEARANCES

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, JAMIE FOXX, SNOOP DOGG, STEVIE WONDER, PHARRELL AND INDIA.ARIE SALUTE CHARLIE WILSON IN THE CADILLAC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT TRIBUTE

ACADEMY AWARD-WINNERS FOREST WHITAKER, JAMIE FOXX AND STEVIE WONDER ATTEND BET AWARDS '13

MARIAH CAREY PERFORMS HIT NEW SINGLE #BEAUTIFUL FEATURING MIGUEL AND YOUNG JEEZY

KENDRICK LAMAR, DRAKE AND OLYMPIC MEDALIST GABRIELLE DOUGLAS EACH WIN TWO BET AWARDS

MIAMI HEAT STAR DWYANE WADE RECEIVES HUMANITARIAN AWARD PRESENTED BY STATE FARM

Live from Nokia Theatre: L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 30 th, the BET AWARDS '13 kicked off with an electrifying performance by Chris Brown .  Brown performed a medley of hits including his current single "Fine China" and a special performance of "Don't They Know" with vocals from Aaliyah.   Nicki Minaj made a surprise performance by flying onto the stage and joining Brown for an energizing performance of "Love More." BET AWARDS '13 Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Olympic medalist Gabrielle Douglas all took home two awards. This year marked Chris Brown's fourth year in a row winning the Fandemonium Award.
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"House of Lies" and "Iron Man" actor Don Cheadle presented the evening's first award for Best Male R&B/Pop Artist to Miguel. Miguel played double duty as he performed his solo number "How Many Drinks" with Kendrick Lamar and joined Mariah Carey during her performance of #Beautiful featuring Young Jeezy.
 Notable performances of the evening were Robin Thicke , who performed his new hit single "Blurred Lines" with Pharrell and T.I.  Ciara and Nicki Minaj debuted their new single "I'm Out" on the BET Awards '13 stage. BET Networks surprised the audience with a Caribbean music tribute featuring reggae artists Beenie Man who performed his hit "Who Am I," Dawn Penn's club anthem "No, No, No" and reggae classic "Murder She Wrote" by Chaka Demus and Pliers. As if that wasn't enough, Elephant Man jumped on stage for the finale singing "Pon Di River," which had Nicki Minaj jumping out her seat to dance.  
Best New Artist and Best Hip Hop Artist winner Kendrick Lamar hit the stage three times performing his songs "M.A.A.D City" and "B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe" featuring Erykah Badu and "Problems" with A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz.
One of the most unforgettable performances of the night began with Justin Timberlake presenting R&B legend Charlie Wilson with the Cadillac Lifetime Achievement Award.  India. Arie opened the moving tribute to Wilson with "There Goes My Baby" while Jamie Foxx blessed the crowd with the favorite "Yearning For Your Love."  The legendary Stevie Wonder then took the stage and energized the audience with the funky "Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)." Wilson joined Timberlake,Snoop Lion and Pharrell for 2003's "Beautiful," a hit that reintroduced Wilson to a new generation of fans along with knock-out renditions of "Signs," "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" and "Girl You Knock Me Out," bringing the crowd to its feet.
This year's show brought out nine Oscar-nominated actors, including winners, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Stevie Wonder Hollywood showed up for the BET Awards '13, including the cast members of the upcoming "The Best Man Holiday," Morris ChestnutNia Long, Sanaa Lathan,Terrence HowardRegina HallMelissa De Sousa and Harold Perrineau Forest Whitaker andMichael B. Jordan presented the award for Best Collaboration and spoke about their Sundance Film Festival winning, "Fruitvale Station." Kevin Hart Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good and Gabrielle Union , stars of the highly anticipated "Think Like A Man 2" also hit the BET Awards '13 stage.
The moving In Memoriam tributes during the live BET Awards '13 broadcast included Kris Kross' memberChris Kelly and blues singer Bobby "Blue" Bland.
The King of R&B, R. Kelly, surprised fans with a choir singing his hits acapella along the aisles of the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. He sang a medley of his songs including "I Wish," "When a Woman's Fed Up," "Ignition (remix)" and more.
Q.U.E.E.N. of the night, Janelle Monae closed the show with a hot performance of her hit single with sultry singer Erykah Badu for a black and white fantasy, accompanied by a snow-white poodle.
In addition to all of these spectacular moments, the full list of BET AWARDS '13 winners are:

Best Female R&B/Pop ArtistRihanna
Best Male R&B/Pop ArtistMiguel
Best GroupMacklemore & Ryan Lewis
Best CollaborationA$AP Rocky f/ Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – Problems
Best Male Hip Hop ArtistKendrick Lamar
Best Female Hip Hop ArtistNicki Minaj
Video of the YearDrake – Started From The Bottom
Video Director of the YearBenny Boom
Best New ArtistKendrick Lamar
Best Gospel ArtistMary Mary
Best ActressKerry Washington
Best ActorJamie Foxx
YoungStars AwardGabrielle Douglas
Best MovieThink Like A Man
Subway Sportswoman of the YearGabrielle Douglas
Subway Sportsman of the YearLeBron James
Coca-Cola Viewers Choice AwardDrake – Started From The Bottom
Centric AwardTamar Braxton – Love and War
Best International Act: Africa Ice Prince (Nigeria)
Best International Act: UKEmeli Sande

Friday, June 28, 2013

CELEBRITY Q AND A: MATT DAMON.

A Downtown Los Angeles Hotel waiting room, with a big flat screen TV.


Matt Damon: Who's winning? (NBA Finals Game 3)
Data Hard: Miami is ahead by 8 pts.

Damon: Really?!

Data: Yeah, they were ahead by- almost 15 at one point.

Damon uses his smart phone, to confirm the statement.

Damon: That is amazing. I heard the Spurs were on fire.

Data: In the fourth quarter, the Spurs just got tired...gave up or something.

They both watch the game, for few minutes.

Damon: Oh, I gotta go...I'm Matt Damon,by the way.

I nod knowingly, as Miami has scored- another impressive 3 pointer.

Damon: (as the ball is slam dunked) Damn. See Ya!

Data: Take Care.

Data Hard continues watching the game, glad he didn't bet anything Spurs.
 

JASON STATHAM TRIES FOR- AN ACTING REDEMPTION.


Later.