It’s hard to believe that twenty years have passed since the release of Janet Jackson’s ‘Velvet Rope.’
Steeped in tales of love, loss, lies and loneliness, the moody R&B album saw Jackson launch one of the biggest promotional efforts to support it and the monumental tour she built to deliver it to her fans live.
One of the era’s highlights?
Her tell-all conversation with Oprah Winfrey.
Yet to see it?
Press play for a moving conversation on life beyond an icon’s ‘Velvet Rope.’
The internet is losing its sh*t right now as Marvel Studios has finally unveiled the long-awaited ‘Black Panther’ trailer.
Michael B. Jordan and his collaborator Ryan Coogler continue to add thought-provoking projects to their brilliant filmography.
The name of their latest release? ‘Wrong Answer.’
The movie will tell the true story of a teacher who, in a bid to save the underprivileged school he taught in from being shuttered, joined a scam to ensure that its students received high grades.
At the end of the testing week, Lewis went back to the testing office with Crystal Draper, a language-arts teacher. For about an hour, they erased wrong answers and bubbled in the right ones. They exchanged no words. Lewis couldn’t even look at her. “I couldn’t believe what we’d been reduced to,” he said. He tried to stay focussed on the mechanics of the work: he took care to change, at most, one or two answers for every ten questions. “I had a minor in statistics, and it’s not that hard to figure out windows of probability,” he told me. Many students were on the cusp of passing, and he gave them a little nudge, so that they would pass by one or two points.
New Regency will fund the project and will join Coogler and Jordan to bring it to fruition following the end of the pair’s commitment to Marvel’s ‘Black Panther.‘
Oprah Winfrey has revealed why her OWN network rejected the offer to pick up the series ‘Underground.’
Fans of the groundbreaking series will know that it was pulled off the air after its home network WGN revealed it was moving away from scripted content.
Said fans had hoped the series would find another homes swiftly as they anticipated its next season.
Why Oprah decided to turn it down?
I can’t afford Underground. It cost twice as much to make as Queen Sugar. As a matter of fact, my dear friend John Legend called me personally and asked me about it, but we’d already been talking about how we could make it work […] it’s like $5 million an episode, so we can’t afford it. It’s not cheap, I think because it’s a period piece.
She revealed the above during a recent interview launched to promote the aforementioned ‘Sugar.’
As Nicki Minaj’s fourth studio album glides closer to its release date the rapper continues to give the world good reason to anticipate it.
In an interview with her old friend DJ Whoo Kid, the entertainer revealed that the set will be classically Hip-Hop and how her fan base, The Kingdom, have inspired its stories.
She shared:
My fans are a different level of die-hard. I always feel like I gotta make them proud. I gotta go hard. I gotta impress them. They always waiting for me. That’s a blessing in itself.
I know it’s going to be my best body of work and I always love to be in real time, see my fans reacting to something. That’s what I’m looking forward to now. Obviously, I’m not telling them when my album is coming out, but I know that it’s gonna be amazing because I want to thank the people who’ve rocked with me for all of these years.
The Star Jones-produced daytime talk show spoof, ‘Daytime Divas,’ is off to a solid start we must say.
The series, loosely based on ABC’s ‘The View’ and toplined singer/actress Vanessa Williams and veteran TV actress Tichina Arnold, made its premiere on VH1 last night with numbers that helped assist the network win cable ratings overall. Thanks, in part, to an impressive lead-in from the highly rated ‘Love & Hip Hop’ and ‘Basketball Wives’ franchises, ‘Divas’ fared well (especially for its 10p timeslot).
Curious to see just how many tuned in? Tuck in below:
Today’s King of Comedy Kevin Hart stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning and, as ever, made for a memorable guest.
The funnyman was in the house to promote new autobiography ‘I Can’t Make This Up,’ but spoke on a range of topics.
Included in the candid chat were his thoughts on Bill Cosby‘s current rape case, Bill Maher‘s controversial use of the “N” word, his wife’s pregnancy, and much more.
Check out Hart chop it up with Charlamage, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee below…
In 1998 Oprah Winfrey led the film adaptation of Toni Morrison‘s horror ‘Beloved’.
In it, with support from Kimberly Elise and Thandie Newton, Winfrey told the tale of an enslaved African woman who- after escaping the horrific plantation she was enslaved in- murders her baby to stop the child from being enslaved when she is close to being captured.
This year, Winfrey and Newton reunited for ‘Actors on Actors’ to discuss the craft of acting, their history and their respective careers.
Watch below…
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.
As the breakout star of Oxygen’s ‘Bad Girls Club‘ empire Natalie Nunn‘s hilarious, witty and endearing personality sees her stand as one of reality television’s more sought-after stars.
Now it seems that ‘Love & Hip Hop’ maitre’ d’ Mona Scott-Young hopes to welcome Nunn to the fray by placing her in its Hollywood edition.
Alas, she’s been rejected.
Why?
Natalie explains it all below…
News of Natalie’s meeting comes after fans of ‘Love’s ‘Atlanta’ offering learned that its leading lady Joseline Hernandez had left the show following a long-running feud with Mona who used to manage Missy Elliott.
Quite interestingly, a YouTube channel housing key moments from ‘Love and Hip Hop’ lore began to post clips unveiling Mona’s supposedly problematic history with the show’s cast.
When she isn’t guiding a new generation of aspiring models to glory via ‘America’s Next Top Model‘, Tyra Banks can be found standing tall as the host of the hit series ‘America’s Got Talent’.
As we all know, her time on the series got off to a rocky start when she was accused of assaulting the daughter of two contestants weeks ago.
How she feels about the role and its demands?
Find out below…
Banks replaced Nick Cannon as the show’s host and shares the screen alongside Mel B, Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel.
As for the next season of ‘Top Model’?
Hit this link to learn all about it.
‘Wonder Woman‘ is scorching the box office and shaming the critics!
Following talk of on-set drama, reshoots and bombing fears, the Gal Gadot-fronted movie has risen above the flames and is expected to generate $101.4 million by the end of the weekend.
Patty Jenkins directed the action offering on a budget of $149 million and celebrates its success the latest version of the Wonder Woman character was introduced in the critically-panned ‘Batman vs Superman‘.
Want more movie news?
This summer will see Will Smith make his way to the U.K. to start work on Guy Ritchie‘s ‘Aladdin‘ for Disney.
Sans Orlando Brown, Disney will revive its hit series ‘That’s So Raven’ this year much to the delight of TV buffs everywhere!
This time around, the show revolves around Raven’s son as he learns, that like his mother, he has psychic abilities.
Hilarious mayhem ensues as he learns to deal with his newfound power with the help from old and new faces.
Your first look at ‘Raven’s Home‘ below!
Catch its opening episode when spins into homes on July 21st!
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