Monday, June 16, 2008

Amy Winehouse Faints After Greeting Fans


Amy Winehouse fainted in her London home and was hospitalized on Monday after signing autographs for fans who had traveled from Canada to see her.

After going back inside, the 24-year-old passed out. As a precaution, Amy’s father, Mitch, made sure she made it to the hospital. The Doctors are unsure of the cause of the incident and Amy is currently undergoing tests. It is expected that she will remain in the hospital overnight for observation.

According to Amy’s rep:

She’s fine. It was a brief thing and they took her in as a precaution. Her Dad drove her to a private hospital, but they’re unsure what caused it so aren’t taking any chances.


Last year, Amy Winehouse was hospitalized for severe exhaustion, although sources claim it was a drug overdose.


UPDATE: AMY WINEHOUSE DIAGNOSED WITH IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Shante Broadus Arrested For DUI | Snoop Dogg's Wife

According to reports, Snoop Dogg's wife, Shante Broadus, 32, was stopped by police at around 12:15 a.m. on Saturday in Fullerton, CA and was arrested, booked, and later released with a citation. She was arrested for suspicion of drunken driving.

In 2004, Snoop Dogg filed for divorce from his wife citing irreconcilable differences and sought out joint custody of their three children, Corde, Cordell, and Cori. The two high school sweethearts later reconciled.

On January 12, 2008 the Snoop and Shante renewed their wedding vows for their 10th anniversary, which was aired on his reality show Snoop Dogg's Father Hood on E!.

Shante Broadus is called the "Boss Lady." She has her own label Boss Lady Entertainment which is home to artist Lady of Rage.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Jury Acquits Singer R. Kelly | Not Quilty


Jury Acquits Singer R. Kelly. After less than a day of deliberation, the jury reached a verdict, just a few minutes ago, in the R&B singer R. Kelly's pornography trial. The verdict is Not Guilty on all 14 counts. R. Kelly is a Free Man.

Kelly was charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. He was facing up to 15 years in prison.

Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday.

At one point, Sam Adam Jr., Kelly's attorney, referred to a defense argument made repeatedly during the trial that a mole on the singer's back proved he simply can't be the man in the video. After displaying a freeze frame of the man's back in the video -- with no apparent mole -- Adam said this:

The truth be told, there is no mole. That means one thing... It ain't him. And if it ain't him, you can't convict.

During the trial, Kelly made a good impression on jurors simpy always standing straight and folding his hands in front of him whenever they entered the courtroom.

Also, the jurors made a good impression on Judge Vincent Gaughan. He repeatedly praised their attentive service. All members of the jury took meticulous notes, even when testimony became highly technical.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee To Shut His Face


Clint Eastwood said that a guy like Spike Lee should "shut his face." Eastwood told the UK's Guardian just that in an interview last Friday.

While Spike Lee was on hand at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his new movie "Miracle at St. Anna", a film about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, he criticized Clint Eastwood and his film "Flags of Our Fathers" for not having a single African-American in the movie.

There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one in 'Flags' or 'Letters From Iwo Jima.' That was Eastwood's version: The Negro soldier did not exist. I have a different version,
Lee said recently at the Cannes film festival in France.

This was Clint Eastwood's response:
He [Spike Lee] was complaining when I did 'Bird' [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.

As for "Flags of Our Fathers," Eastwood says there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. The story is 'Flags of Our Fathers,' the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people would go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate."

After Spike Lee heard about Eastwood's comment, "Lee Should Shut His Face," this is what Lee told ABC News:
First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either. He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.

Note: We agree with Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Needs To Shut His Face! Get a life Spike...sales must be down.