So, I finally got a chance to catch, yet another reality show…I Want To Work for Diddy…Damn, can I be down???? Well, Diddy has his own BBW version of New York ( ILove New York & Flavor Of Love)…This girl Kim has the drive and the heart to be on top, but her size won’t be the only thing crushing the competition…( Don’t take it personal…I always like to joke, new readers) Her attitude sucks!!! Period, point, blank. She and another competitor caught my attention…My girl Laverne, whom I will be speaking of shortly, but from what I’ve viewed so far, there is an uptown and a downtown team. I can’t remember everyone’s name yet, but it will stick within a few more viewings. Now they had two eliminations so far, Rob from the second show and some girl from the first. The first episode was about multi-tasking…these two teams had 24 hours to complete tasks assigned by his truly, and from the gate, Kim was making it known that she is the boss…loud talking, demanding, and controlling…all of my favorite qualities in a reality tv show “B@*ch”…one girl fired back…well kind of. She couldn’t really make eye contact with Kim…I’m guessing she was a little intimidated, but didn’t want to seem like a punk on national television. They had to clean cars, make food runs for people working at Daddy’s House, buy socks, walk, run…etc…you get the picture! Remember “Making The Band” and Juniors…that’s all I have to say…Anyways, The next episode was a navigational competition…they were dropped out in the woods and had to use a compass and count steps to get to a clue that could help them to the end. Kim already knew she wasn’t going to participate…she said she had an asthma reaction to the pollen??? She was able to speak loud and clear in between coughing…but her team lost again, and this time Rob was sent home, simply because he was in the Army and should’ve been able to lead his team to victory…but not before revealing the night before that he is gay, along with…my favorite person Laverne…She made it known to the house that she is a transgender female, and boy can she dance her butt off. Now whoever the chubby guy is didn’t know she was a man…he said that he’s used to seeing large women??? Come on, she looks good, but no one is stupid! So now…he is acting funny towards Laverne…I know one thing…she is the cutest female on there and they better treat her with respect…She used to be a hostess for the one and only Lucky Cheng’s in New York…a transgender friendly, cabaret, dinner, theatre…Now as for the show, I can see it as being an entertaining one…maybe even better than the flavor of Love…who knows???? Catch it on VH1….and as always...”Once Upon A Time In The Bricks” by LeighAnne Boyd on Amazon.com, WaldenBooks and so me Barnes and Noble booksellers…find it in a bookstore near you or order it if they don’t carry it…it will be worth the wait!
Archive for August, 2008
I Want To Work For Diddy…My new favorite show
August 14, 2008
Bernie Mac dies at the age of 50 Sat Aug 8, 2008
August 9, 2008
Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper “Ocean’s Eleven” and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom “The Bernie Mac Show,” died Saturday at age 50.
Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,” his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.
She said no other details were available and asked that his family’s privacy be respected.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body’s organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.
Recently, Mac’s brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.
Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama’s campaign.
But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.
“Wherever I am, I have to play,” he said in 2002. “I have to put on a good show.”
Mac worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago’s South Side. He began doing standup as a child, and his film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans comedy “Mo’ Money” in 1992. In 1996, he appeared in the Spike Lee drama “Get on the Bus.”
He was one of “The Original Kings of Comedy” in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience.
“The majority of his core fan base will remember that when they paid their money to see Bernie Mac … he gave them their money’s worth,” Steve Harvey, one of his costars in “Original Kings,” told CNN on Saturday.
Mac went on to star in the hugely popular “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
His turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005’s “Guess Who” topped the box office. It was a comedy remake of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn drama “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” — with Mac as the black dad who’s shocked that his daughter is marrying a white man.
Mac also had starring roles in “Bad Santa,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Transformers.”
In the late 1990s, he had a recurring role in “Moesha,” the UPN network comedy starring pop star Brandy.
The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series “The Bernie Mac Show,” which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.
The series about a man’s adventures raising his sister’s three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending “race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool.”
The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac.
“But television handcuffs you, man,” he said in a 2001 Associated Press interview. “Now everyone telling me what I CAN’T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, `Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?’”
He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his “The Original Kings of Comedy” co-stars, Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.
In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show” that he planned to retire soon.
“I’m going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit,” Mac told Letterman. “I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977.”
Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city’s South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.
In his 2004 memoir, “Maybe You Never Cry Again,” Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.
“I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy,” Mac told the AP in 2001. “I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn’t a lot of things to laugh about.”
Mac’s mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up.
“Woman believed in me,” he wrote. “She believed in me long before I believed.”
Spotlight nightclub worker arrested in murder at Lil Kim Party
August 8, 2008
“Once Upon A Time In The Bricks” debut novel by LeighAnne Boyd…get it in Amazon.com…..A New York City nightclub worker has confessed to beating a woman to death during a Sunday night birthday celebration for rapper Lil’ Kim, the police commissioner said.
Rahman Syed, 24, was arrested at his home on Thursday after the body of Ingrid Rivera, also 24, was found stuffed in a rooftop utility room on Wednesday afternoon.
No charges have been laid but Syed, a bartender’s assistant at the Spotlight Live club in Times Square, admitted killing Rivera, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Rivera was last seen at Spotlight Live, where bouncers kicked her out because she was drunk. Police said that was when Rivera met Syed, who offered to take her to find a friend.
Syed hit Rivera with a metal pipe in the building’s elevator shed in the early hours of Monday after she refused his advances, police said.
When Rivera did not come home, her family filed a missing persons report. Police were unable to find the woman, despite searching the club, until a maintenance man discovered her body in the rooftop room more than two days after her death.
Spotlight Live representatives did not return calls for comment.
“We will be taking a very focused look at that club,” said Kelly. “These are advertised events. It was not a private party.”
Kelly estimated about 500 people were at the club at the time of Rivera’s death.
Lil’ Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, celebrated her 34th birthday with fellow celebrities including Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Lamar Odom and Wyclef Jean, according to the New York Daily News.
Kelly said the Grammy Award-winning rapper will not be interviewed in connection with the crime. Lil’ Kim’s publicist was not immediately available to comment on the woman’s death.
Lil’ Kim served a year and a day in prison in 2005 when she was found guilty of conspiracy and perjury after lying to a grand jury about her friends’ involvement in a 2001 shooting.
