Saturday, December 22, 2007

NEW CANDID PICS: MARLON WAYANS IN NEW YORK CITY (12.21.2007)

Look at my baby boo Marlon looking like he's up to something devious, bless his everloving heart! I know I'm not the only one who thinks he's the funniest (and cutest!) brother in Wayans clan! I just hope Keenen and Damon's male-baldness pattern isn't passed down to him. Anywho, here he is leaving Barney's in New York City yesterday after a day of shopping. I guess he and his family (girlfriend Angela and their two kids; son, Shawn and daughter, Arnai) will spend the holidays in Brooklyn, the Wayans' hometown.



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PHIL SPECTOR ATTEMPTS TO REVEAL THE SOFTER SIDE OF IKE & THE SHEISTY SIDE OF TINA @ IKE'S FUNERAL.

Music legend and murder suspect, Phil Spector, isn't trying to make friends or curry favor with old pals while he waits for a second trial. The thin and frightful-looking music producer turned up at reviled R&B legend Ike Turner's Los Angeles funeral on Friday and gave an impromptu speech that laid into both Tina Turner and Oprah Winfrey. And for someone who 'wasn't prepared to say anything,' he sure did say a lot. "Nobody had told me that I was going to speak. This is a very sad occasion for me," said Spector. Below are several detailed excerpts taken from his impromptu semi-eulogy about his Grammy Award-winning brother from another mother:

"First of all, the things that were said about Ike, that were in that piece-of-trash movie they made about him were ... (applause), it was a piece-of-trash movie. I haven't seen the movie but it was told to me, and [Barney] Kessel was the world's greatest guitar player in the world and the only reason that Ike didn't play on 'River Deep, Mountain High' was because Ike was the second greatest guitar player in the world. I treasured him and everybody knew it except Ike. That's how good he was.

"Ike made Tina the jewel she was. When I went to see Ike play at the Cinegrill in the '90s after his absurd reason for being sent to prison for no reason other than being a black man in America, there were at least, and I counted them, five Tina Turners on the stage performing that night, any one of them could have been Tina Turner."

"And sell-out, whom you really love and respect but I have an ambivalence towards Oprah Winfrey. She made Tina Turner's book into a bestseller, which demonized and vilified Ike. The book wouldn't have sold 10 books. It was badly written. It was a piece of trash and because Oprah idolized Tina, she didn't feel it wrong to vilify a 'brother.'"


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"Other black sisters did the same thing to Ike and there was a very famous story about Whoopi Goldberg, who had a television show for about five minutes, interviewed Ike. Ike had called me and said, 'Shall I do the show?'

"I said, 'You can't get hurt.' And he said, 'OK, I'm going to do it.' And we figured it would be good because it's Whoopi and Whoopi asked him, 'I understand before you were married when you were living together, you beat the hell out of her and she tried to commit suicide because she was so terrified of you and she tried to jump out of a window,' and Ike said, 'Yeah, but it's hard to jump out of a window from a basement floor.'"

"It was only one Ike. I learned more from Ike than any professors I've been around. He never, ever bothered me. He never interfered with me. He never got in my way."

"When we did 'River Deep Mountain High,' people said you can't put Ike and Tina Turner's name on that record. It won't sell because they are rhythm and blues and it's a pop record. I said I signed Ike and Tina Turner, it won't even say featuring Tina Turner; it's Ike and Tina Turner."

Spector said part of the reason he became disillusioned with the record business was because he could not make Ike and Tina as big of an act as he wanted.

"I wanted them to be the biggest revue in America. They were the first act that I recorded that ever could play big-time and break it in Vegas and America."

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'THE STUPID SHIT CELEBS SAY': JAHEIM ON LESS-TALENTED SINGERS & WHY GOD CREATED HIM.

"I don’t think they have more success than me. Some of those people you might not see next year. You never know who is on their knees doing what they have to do to get to the next step. You see, I’m not good at ass kissing. When I first came out, I was a child; I’m a grown ass man now. My way of thinking is a lot different. My approach to music is pretty much the same. But you know, I stepped up. It’s Jaheim the superstar now. I’m 30 years old, and there comes a time in your life when you have to make physical changes (sidenote: peep the pic of dude at the 2006 Essence Music Fest) and mentally change. You got some guys that want to be boys for the rest of their lives.

I think that is the reason that God created people like me, to bring back the life of R&B. Because it is kind of dead. It is a good direction that music is headed in, but it isn’t about talent anymore. So anybody can make a record now."

--Jaheim dishes to Allhiphop.com on artists (such as Ciara and Rihanna) who are less talented than him but yet acheived more mainstream success; and how he's grown as a person and an artist.

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LIL KIM: FROM RAPPER TO ENTREPRENEUR: NEW FUR LINE, NEW BOOK, NEW MIXTAPE.

According to People.com, Lil' Kim is releasing her own range of fur. The hip-hop star - who is risking the wrath of animal rights group PETA (Here's my 2 cents: I bet they won't attempt to throw shade at Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle or Aretha Franklin! PETA is crazy...but they ain't that crazy!) with her latest career choice - is naming her new line Royalty Fur, a range of clothes and accessories all made from animal pelts. Lil' Kim - real name Kimberly Denise Jones - attended the New York premiere of family film The Perfect Holiday on Monday night (10.12.07) wearing a $5,000 brown fur coat with white fur trim from her collection. [see photos below.]

The 33-year-old rapper is also releasing a new mix album called Ms. G.O.A.T. this month. G.O.A.T. stands for 'Greatest Of All Time' and includes a cover of Britney Spears Gimme More, called Kimme More, which opens with line "It's Lil' Kim, ho," instead of "It's Britney, b***h". Kim said: "I always wanted to do a mix record. I did this for my fans. It's been 18 months since I got out of jail, I felt I owed them something. Although Kimberly Jones was getting her business straight and Kimberly Jones was getting herself straight, my music was my love."



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According to a spokesperson for Lil Kim, the petite rapper is in the process of adding writer to her resume after signing on to pen a novel, called The Price of Loyalty. Publishers St. Martin's Press have signed a secret deal with the controversial star and she's furiously scribbling the paperback. A spokeswoman for Lil' Kim claims she'll write under her real name and the new tome won't be a biography. No details about the book have been revealed, but Lil' Kim is expected to recall her recent prison experience in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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CANDID PICS: MICHAEL JORDAN IN NEW YORK CITY

Basketball legend Michael Jordan was spotted leaving his hotel in New York City last week. Jesus! Dude looks faded than a mug! Peep the pics below.



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