TheWrap.com By Tim Molloy Posted February 3rd 2012   Bounce TV will honor Don Cornelius with a seven-hour “Soul Train” marathon Saturday. The marathon will begin with the show’s first episode and conclude with his final episode as host. It will be hosted by TLC‘s Chilli. Cornelius, 75, was found dead of a gunshot wound [...]

Associated Press By Davide Germaine Posted January 30th 2012   LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Deep South drama “The Help” won three prizes Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer. “The Help” also claimed the guild’s ensemble award, the show’s equivalent of a [...]

Stylist.com By Dana Oliver Posted January 29th 2012   Last month, when I was invited by Pantene to an unveiling of their new celebrity spokeswoman who has “ethnic hair,” I could barely contain my excitement. Someone who looked like me would finally front the brand. After exchanging countless guesses with other beauty editors, my girl [...]

TheNewYorkPost.com Posted January 27th 2012   Don’t ask Chris Rock about Newt Gingrich. The comic destroyed a videographer’s camera at Tao at Sundance, the scene of a Google bash and Jonny Lennon’s 4am Funday soiree, in the early hours of Monday when he was ambushed with a string of political questions after being asked to [...]

Associated Press Posted January 26th 2012   (AP) — Oprah Winfrey says she is confident that President Barack Obama will win another four-year term in this year’s U.S. election. The talk show host was addressing a literary festival Sunday in the northwestern Indian town of Jaipur. Winfrey praised Obama’s handling of the presidency. She said [...]

Essence.com By Derrick Bryson Taylor Posted January 24th 2012   Brandy and Kim Kardashian, BFF’s? Hard to believe, but that’s exactly how it was before Kim’s much talked about sex tape with Brandy’s brother, Ray-J in 2007. The two had a falling out shortly afterwards, but on the  “Wendy Williams Show” Brandy extended an olive [...]

mxoentertainment.com By Ms. Osupa Nia Posted January 23rd 2012 (PHOTO CREDITS: ROGER MASTROIANNI)   Cleveland Play House has introduced the newly constructed ‘Second Stage’ theatre to Greater Clevelanders with the grand opening of Jeffrey Hatcher’s ‘Ten Chimneys,’ the personal and artistic retreat for the legendary husband and wife theatrical acting team Lynn Fontanne and Alfred [...]

MSNBC.com Posted January 23rd 2012   Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was hospitalized on Sunday night in Park City, Utah, where he was attending an awards ceremony as part of the Sundance Film Festival. The “30 Rock” star was taken to the Park City Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Amy Roberts confirmed to NBC News. Actor Tracy [...]

Moviefone.com Posted January 22nd 2012   One of the perks of being president is the opportunity to live in the White House, a 132-room mansion — complete with bowling alley and private movie theater. So what’s it like to actually attend a screening there? According to “Red Tails” director, Anthony Hemingway, the theater could use [...]

NPR.com By Neda Ulaby Posted January 22nd 2012   The “Matriarch of the Blues” has died. Music legend Etta James died Friday morning at Riverside Community Hospital in California of complications from leukemia. She was 73.   ETTA JAMES ‘AT LAST’ She was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938. Her first manager and [...]