Archive for August 5th, 2008

WASHINGTON - Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Obama is ahead of his Republican rival 47 percent to 41 percent, The Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed. The survey was taken after the [...]

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Rapper free from TVT Records

NEW YORK - Lil Jon, who was in musical limbo after his longtime record label TVT Records went bankrupt earlier this year, has reached an agreement that frees him from his TVT obligations while entering into a new venture with digital entertainment company The Orchard, which is purchasing TVT’s assets.

Lil Jon will work with the [...]

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Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins, her rep confirms to CelebTV.com.
“She is, yes,” Cindy Guagenti said in a statement Tuesday.
Presley, 40, announced in March that she and her husband, guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood, were expecting a baby in the fall.
Elvis’ daughter lashed out at the time on her MySpace page, saying that she [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered John A. “Junior” Gotti held without bail after the man who insisted he had retired from a life of crime was arrested on charges linking him to three killings and large-scale cocaine trafficking.
Earlier Tuesday, federal prosecutor Robert O’Neill announced the indictment in Tampa, Fla., of [...]

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Charlie Sheen may not be the greatest husband on earth, but he’s close to the best actor…that is, if talent is measured by money.
Sheen is the highest paid actor on TV, according to a new TV Guide poll.
The actor, who stars in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, brings in $825,000 per episode. [...]

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Diddy is also a mainstay in tabloids over rumored relationships, but the hip-hop mogul doesn’t like it. In fact, he claims all the media attention surrounding his person life puts a damper on love life.
The 38-year-old hip-hop mogul has been linked to everyone from Cameron Diaz to Sienna Miller in the rumor mills.
It’s because [...]

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Picture of the Week

Beautiful twin baby boys Ryan (L) and Leo Gerth rest in a Berlin hospital. They were born to a mixed-race couple.

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Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband. “Barack and I - as partners, as friends and as lovers - we accessorize each other in many ways,” said Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“The best thing I love having on me is Barack on my arm and vice versa, [...]

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Morgan Freeman remained in serious condition at a Memphis hospital Monday following a car accident in Mississippi that flipped the vehicle multiple times and required the “jaws of life” to free him from the wreckage.
“He has a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage but he is in good spirits,” his rep Donna [...]

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*Michael Kenneth Williams will go from playing a homosexual thug on HBO’s “The Wire,” to a character steeped in the world of drag queens in the new Off-Broadway play Wig Out!
Passing Strange’s Rebecca Naomi Jones and drag performer Daniel T. Boothe (aka Sweetie) are also in the production, which will serve as the season [...]

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Teen rap sensation, Soulja Boy Tell’em, recently turned 18. Now that’s he legal, he’s allowed to do a few things he wasn’t before, and one of them is vote.
The rapper recently told MTV that’s he’s picked the candidate he will give his first vote too, and it’s not surprising that the candidate is Barack [...]

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THE JACKSONS TO GET BMI HONOR

*The Jacksons will be honored as BMI Icons at the 8th Annual Urban Music Awards scheduled for Sept. 4 in Los Angeles.
Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael and, joining in 1976, younger brother Randy, will be saluted with an all-star musical tribute during the ceremony to be held at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills. [...]

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Gotti, 44, was arrested by the FBI at his Long Island home. Federal authorities in Tampa, Fla., are expected to announce a racketeering indictment, charging Gotti with murder conspiracy in connection with killings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because [...]

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Ame Van Iden, publicist for the 36-year-old actress, released the following statement late Saturday:
“Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery.”
Applegate has [...]

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The former child-star, famous for playing Michelle Tanner on “Full House,” was a close friend of Ledger’s and the first person called after her masseuse discovered Ledger’s body in his Soho apartment in January, The Post said.
But federal officials could force the actress to tell them details on the “Dark Knight” star’s drug use and [...]

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