PATTY JACKSONS 4-1-1 WEEK ENDING: November 29th, 2013 Congrats tp Dancing with The Stars Champion Amber Riley. The Glee actress, Reality TV Star Jack Osbourne and High School Musicals Corbin Bleu took it right down to the finals with Riley emerging victorious. She dedicated her win to women of all sizes and reminded them they can achieve whatever they want. Riley did feel some wear from the rigorous 17-week dance regiment. She began having trouble with her knees and walking was becoming a problem. In the end, she and partner Derek Hough stuck it out and took home the mirror ball trophy. The Soul Train Awards air this Sunday, December 1st.Actor Anthony Anderson is hosting and the nights special honorees include Dionne Warwick and Keith Sweat. Performances that night will include Ron Isley, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson, Gladys Knight, Tamar Braxton, Ruben Studdard and Eddie Levert. The Soul Train Awards airs 8pm on the BET and Centric networks. Morris Chestnut is coming back to TV on the TNT drama Legends. You can also check him out on the latest issues of Muscle & Performance and Upscale magazines. Nia Long will be one of the stars of the Tyler Perry movie Single Moms Club, which opens in theatres May 9th. Taye Diggs returns to TV in the TNT drama Murder In The First. Regina Hall has starring roles in About Last Night with Kevin Hart, which opens in theatres February 14th, and Think Like A Man II, which opens June 20th. Harold Perrineau and Terrence Howard team up with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Sabotage, which comes out April 14th. Finally, Sanaa Lathan will team up with Forest Whitaker and Anthony Mackie for the movie Repentance, which opens in theatres February 28th. Dr. Conrad Murray is out of jail and talking. Dr. Murray, who continues to proclaim his innocence, is very bitter about his jail time resulting from his manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson. The doctor says The King Of Pop was a drug addict who accidentally killed himself, and toward the end, even needed the doctor to hold Jacksons “member” for the singer to relive himself. Murray also claims that Jackson was not the biological father to his three kids Blanket, Prince Michael and Paris. The 60-year old doctor says Jackson confided having never been intimate with Debbie Rowe, the childrens mother and Jacksons ex-wife. Published reports say Rowes response was shed buy the bullet for the Jackson fan that wants to shoot Murray. Hot on the heels of The Best Man Holiday success, Writer/Director Robert Townsend is ready to bring a sequel to another classic movie. 1991s Five Heartbeats was directed and co-written by Townsend, and he says hes ready to bring the story of the five-man R&B groups rough rise to success back to the big screen. The original movie co-starred Leon, Michael Wright, Harry J. Lennix and Tico Wells. Get ready for a Best Man III! The movie Best Man Holiday, the long-awaited sequel to 1999s The Best Man, opened big. To date, Holiday has made making over $50 million on its opening weekend. The movie cost $17 million to make and has turned a tidy profit very quickly. Writer/Director Malcolm Lee is already in talks to continue the franchise and helm another movie. So what’s next for Taraji P. Henson after the CBS show Person Of Interest? Her character, supercop “Joss Carter” was killed off the show. Word has it, the Oscar-nominated actress may return to the big screen in the James Brown bio-pic Get On Up. The movie, slated to arrive in theatres on October 17th, 2014, already stars Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in the hit movie 42, Viola Davis and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, who both starred in the movie The Help. Henson will be back in Think Like A Man II, which opens June 20th. Shonda Rimes, the writer/creator/producer of Scandal, Private Practice and Greys Anatomy, is ready to tell all in a new book scheduled for release in 2015. Rhimes wants to talk about being a single mom while striving for professional success. Tia Mowry has another hit on her hands. The actress who previously starred in Sister, Sister and The Game has a new hit in the form of the Nickelodeon sitcom Instant Mom. The show also stars Sheryl Lee Ralph and Michael Boatman, and has been renewed for a second season. Eddie Murphy is thinking about a return to stand up comedy in a mockumentary featuring Stevie Wonder. Haunted House II with Marlon Wayans opens in theatres March 28th 2014. The movie also stars Cedric The Entertainer and Jamie Pressley. First Lady Michelle Obama is on the cover of Ladies Home Journal, and she talks about Christmas at the White House. Ricky Minor is returning as musical director for American Idol. The new season, with Judges Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick, Jr. and Keith Urban, returns in January. Minor returns to Idol after a two-year absence to do The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Has Ahmad Rashad found a new love? The four-times divorced Rashad was most famously married to Actress Phylicia Rashad of The Cosby Show. Ahmad Rashad was recently just divorced from Sale Johnson, the ex-wife of Woody Johnson of the billion dollar Johnson & Johnson company. The ex-NFL player and TV broadcaster is now rumored to be dating Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. Kevin Owens, the former background singer for Luther Vandross, is writing a book about Vandross called So Amazing. Owens, who used to sing with the group Ray, Goodman & Brown, says his book will detail his 32 years on the road, Luthers hit songs and the late singers devotion to his fans. Oscar Winners Halle Berry and Sidney Poitier are on the cover of The Hollywood Reporters Hollywood Legens issue. Chilli of TLC is taking it all off....... for PETA! Chilli is speaking out against the abuse of animals in the circus, particularly tigers. This is all about what they call the training of tigers for circuses, which is beating them into submission. Chilli and PETAs campaign is called “Boycott The Circus.” Brandy will team with Tyler Perry for a new TV Sitcom being pitched to OWN, BET and TBS. Brandy last worked with the writer/producer/director/actor in Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor. In other Tyler news, hell be joining Oscar Winner Ben Affleck in the movie Gone Girl. Perry will play a lawyer assisting Affleck. Filming starts next month. Meanwhile on December 13th, get ready for Tyler Perrys A Madea Christmas starring Anna Marie Horsford (Amen) and Tika Sumpter (The Haves & Have Nots). Perry is also working on new DVD projects: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned and Madeas Neighbors From Hell. Congrats to Kin Zolciak of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. She is now the proud mother of twins. Zolciak gave birth to a boy and a girl .
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:42:23 +0000
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