Diddy Actin’ and Sangin’

Diddy is really taking his acting craft really seriously.  We saw him on last weeks episode of CSI: Miami where he played a defense lawyer and we always see him actin a fool on MTB4.  I guess he likes acting a fool so much that he decided to test his comedy chops:

 Diddy told late night talk show host Craig Ferguson, “I just signed on to do a comedy, as a matter of fact. I can’t announce who it’s with, but it’s with some definitely comedy heavy hitters.”

Also on last week’s premiere episode of “Making the Band 4,” Diddy announced that his new album will be titled Last Train to Paris. The project is on track for a September release.

“T-Pain gave me permission to use the vocoder, the Auto-Tune, and he showed me various tricks that nobody knows but him and myself.” 

 

50 Cent and Rick Ross Take Beef Too Far Then Bring It Back

The ’80s classic film Scarface starring Al Pacino provided a blueprint for would-be drug kingpins and one the main character’s mantra was to keep women and children out of whatever violence and criminal behavior was afoot. Both 50 Cent and Rick Ross violated the cardinal rule but both men were then big enough to do the right thing.

50 Cent released a video titled, “I Wanna Tell You What A Psychic Told Me,” of himself and/or his associates in a Florida retail store owned by DJ Khaled’s mother. The video suggests that the woman may be in danger and is a warning to Ross and DJ Khaled that he knows where Khaled’s mother lives and works.

Many fans thought the G-Unit general had taken it too far by bringing DJ Khaled’s mother into it but according to 50 Cent he was only responding to Ross who posted a picture of his son, Marquise Jackson, on his recently launched Thisiscurly.com website on Sunday, February 8th. The caption under Marquise’s picture said, “Lil Monkey.”

50 Cent told Hot 97FM’s Miss Info,

“How come everyone hears the shot, but nobody sees the slap that comes before the shot? You push, I punch, you stab, I shoot!”

Ross denied having anything to do with the thisiscurly.com site but as a temporary truce 50 Cent removed the video from his website and the photo of Marquise has been removed from thisiscurly.com.

Weekend Chrianna Updates

It’s taken almost a week, but Chris Brown has finally spoken out about the incident that landed him in hot water the night before the Grammys. In an official statement, Brown said

“Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired. I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God’s help, to emerging a better person. Much of what has been speculated or reported on blogs and/or reported in the media is wrong. While I would like to be able to talk about this more, until the legal issues are resolved, this is all I can say except that I have not written any messages or made any posts to Facebook, on blogs or any place else. Those posts or writing under my name are frauds.”

Meanwhile, Rihanna is back at home with her family in Barbados. Her dad, Ronald Fenty, told People magazine, “There is some bruising. She will be all right. I think so.” So far, Rihanna has not spoken publicly about what may have happened with Brown last week, but her father said, “At some point, she will speak out. I hope she will stand up for women all over the world.” Of Brown, Fenty said, “You think you know somebody, but you really don’t.”

Chris Brown’s camp may be looking for a crisis expert to help rebuild his image. Multiple sources confirm to Entertainment Weekly’s website that nobody has been hired yet, but Alan Nierob, who helpedMel Gibson after the actor’s anti-Semitic ouburst in 2006, and Howard Bragman, who advised Isaiah Washington following his homophobic confrontation with castmate T.R. Knight, have both been recommended to Brown’s reps. Earlier this week, Bragman told EW.com that he thinks it could take Brown years to rehabilitate his image, even though he hasn’t even had a trial — much less been convicted of anything — yet. 

Howard Bragman

“What he is accused of doing is a bad thing — and I’m talking about that in the court of public opinion. The only thing probably worse is murder, rape, and hurting an animal.” Bragman added that Brown is young, talented and likable, which could help him. But, it’s going to take time. He added that Brown has to “strap himself in and be ready for a long ride. It’s not a comfortable ride.”

Tameka Recovering After Cardiac Arrest

Usher’s wife, Tameka Raymond, is still in the hospital and continuing to recover after going into cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery last week. According to the Associated Press, doctors say she “was revived in less than a minute by heart massage.” She was then placed in an induced coma before being taken to the intensive-care unit. Raymond was reportedly going in for liposuction in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There’s no word on when she’ll be released.

Again why would Tameka go to Brazil for what seems to be a routine surgery as liposuction. Stay in the good old United States when you are getting that Baby Fat sucked out.

Denzel and Tom Cruise Teaming it in Spy Thriller

Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise are coming together in the upcoming movie, The Matarese Circle. A rep for MGM confirmed to E! News that the Hollywood heavyweights will star in the spy thriller based on the novel by the same author who wrote Bourne Identity. The two are set to play mortal enemies — Cruise a Russian spy and Washington, an American intelligence officer — who are forced to team up in the wake of a political conspiracy. If the film sees box office success, a franchise could be in the works.

My only problem is we dont know if this will reignite Tom Cruise’s career or hurt Denzel Washington’s.  But hell Jamie Foxx landed an Oscar Nomination when he teamed up with Tom Cruise and I support everything Denzel does anyway. 

Usher and Stevie Wonder

Here is the President Obama’s speech after the concert

These are one of the events where you just wish you were there.  Check out more pictures and Beyonce’s performance when you continue reading…

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Let me start this off by saying no disrespect to Heath Ledger. But does he really deserve an Oscar for his role of The Joker? Now i know we are a week or so away from the nominations coming out but this has been coming up for a while now and as we get closer to the date i felt the need to think about it for a bit

Was The Dark Knight a good movie? yes.. Did it change the way we look at superhero movies? once again yes.. Did Heath ledger put on a great performance? yes .. and no.. This is a classic case of us using death to overblow what someone was or were to become.

Ill admit when i first heard he had been cast for the role i was shocked. No way could he be the best choice for the role. But when the movie came out and i saw it I felt not only did they make the right choice but with his death it made it clear that we will never see the joker on screen again. I say that partly because he gave an awesome performance but also because once he passed away it become an all time great performance. Anyone that would try to play the role after him would be unfairly held to a standard that would be highly overvalued because of Heath’s Death.

This has been great for not only for the team behind The Dark Knight, but The Academy Awards as well. The Dark Knight went from just being a summer blockbuster to damn near Titanic based off of his death and the added buzz that it added to his performance. And The Academy well they havent had this kind of buzz in the mainstream since maybe Denzel and Halle both took home Oscars back in 2001. Lets be real can anyone out there name who won the past few best actors other than Jamie Foxx for his role as Ray Charles? Ratings have been down cause no one has heard of the movies, and even after they win nobody really cares to see the film.

Its almost the perfect storm for him to win. In this internet day and age we have all become prisoners of the moment. By that i mean that the latest thing is the greatest thing. I knew when i saw Training Day that Denzel had nailed it. His character was complicated. Was has he bad? Yes, but you also saw a lot of layers in his perfomance. He was conflicted in the movie went through some things. With Heath’s performance you just got crazy from begining to end, which he did a good job at, but it was straight forward no depth as they say. Yeah i said depth.

Bottom line is if he is nominated i will root for him to win, hell just so i can say i saw one of the movies that won a damn award. But would i put it up there as one of the greatest performances of all time?…..No.. If we are gonna judge the Dark Knight as a normal film, which is something we have to do when we start talkin oscars ,then it falls well short on what other actors brought to the table. Cant put it up there with Denzel in Training Day, doesnt come close to Sean Penn in Mystic River, Tom Hanks in Forest Gump, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Hell anything Daniel Day-Lewis has done.

I could go on and on so while Heath Ledger put on a good performance and is this was a tragic story lets not let that get in the way of reality. But i cant blame the Academy if they do give it to him because its good for business and it gives us regular folks a chance to tune in and actually care about the Oscars again. As for the next Batman villian i guess we can always dust off The Govinator as Mr. frezze!!!