(Akiit.com) LOS ANGELES – Snoop Dogg’s home and work lives will be on display in a new reality series, E! Entertainment Television said Friday. The series, scheduled to debut in late 2007 and described by the cable channel as “hilarious and heartwarming,” will show the hip-hop heavyweight trying to balance ...
(Akiit.com) Ike Turner spent a night in jail after he was arrested on a 1989 narcotics warrant that turned out to be invalid, police said. The 75-year-old musician and ex-husband of Tina Turner was spotted on Interstate 405 in the San Fernando Valley about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police officers saw ...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No, it’s “de plane, de plane!” (Akiit.com) Eddie Murphy is set to star in a big-screen adaptation of Fantasy Island, the Aaron Spelling-produced primetime soap that ran from 1978-1984 on ABC and made a white-suited star of Ricardo Montalban, who played the island’s mysterious ...
(Akiit.com) A disk jockey filed a misdemeanor battery complaint against comedian Tracy Morgan, saying the NBC sitcom star inappropriately groped her at a South Florida radio station Friday morning. Yuleika De Castro told police that Morgan smelled of alcohol as he touched her shoulders and arms, kissed the back of ...
(Akiit.com) They were flat and off key. I expected that. Musically, things aren’t what they used to be. But there’s simply something wrong about a platinum male vocal group being onstage looking as if they’d just traipsed in from McDonald’s. Sagging jeans and designer sneakers, however coordinated, don’t exude much ...
Whatever She Wants, starring Vivica A. Fox, is the latest work in a growing genre (Akiit.com) Not long ago, Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut were among the top stars of a modestly successful movie subgenre — the all-black romantic comedy — that seems to have lost some of its ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Akiit.com) — The Queen of Soul is looking for a few good subjects. Auditions for singing and non-singing parts in a musical production based on music legend Aretha Franklin’s autobiography have been scheduled for May 1-3 in suburban Detroit. The musical based on the 1999 best-seller “Aretha: From ...
‘Somebodies,’ based on ’06 Sundance film, is about group of black slackers (Akiit.com) NEW YORK – BET is making the first scripted series in its 28-year history, a sitcom about a group of black slackers. “Somebodies†is expected to premiere in October, Reginald Hudlin, BET’s entertainment president, said Wednesday. As ...
A $120 million lawsuit has been filed against Janet Jackson over claims that her two bodyguards grabbed him and choked him. (Akiit.com) Leonard Salati says the alleged assault occurred at Club Marquee in February 2004. According to the lawsuit, Salati attempted to slip Jackson a note when her security team ...
(Akiit.com) If at first you don’t succeed in Georgia, try again in New York. At least, that’s what a woman who claims that Chris Rock is the father of her 13-year-old son is planning to do. Kali Bowyer told Georgia’s Statesboro Herald Thursday that she will be refiling a paternity ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK, April 13, 2007 (UPI) — Dakota Staton, a 1950s jazz and blues singer known for her sassy style, has died in New York at the age of 76. Staton, in declining health for years, entered the 1957 music scene in a big way with a debut album, ...
(Akiit.com) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81. Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the ...