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Face Facts: It’s Over October 20, 2008
By The Fly Guy
I didn’t want things to reach this point, but you’ve forced my hand. It’s over between us. There I said. It’s not like I haven’t said this before … you just refuse to listen. So that’s why I’ve decided to take the drastic step of saying it in front of the entire world. Now there’s no longer room for debate. Do I still love you? Yes. Would I like us to continue to be friends? Of course. But this back and forth about us giving things another shot is just not a plausible possibility.
Listen, the last thing I wanted to do was go here with you. We’re both better than this. You think there’s a chance to revive our lost love. I just don’t see it. So let’s just agree to disagree and move on. Please?
The Fly Question of the Day:
Have you ever experienced an ex that just didn’t want to let go? If so, how did you handle the situation?
By contrast, have you ever been in a position where you refused to let a relationship go? Why did you keep fighting for it?
DIDDY EYING ‘T LA ROCK’ FILM? October 20, 2008
Sean “Diddy” Combs was spotted at New York’s Nobu 57 last week with execs involved in a film about old-school rapper Terry “T La Rock” Keaton.
The project was written by Antwone Fisher and will have Oscar winner Denzel Washington in the director’s chair. According to the New York Post, the rap mogul dined with stage director Jerry Zaks and casting director Bonnie Timmerman.
The story follows the life of the Def Jam star through 1994, when Keaton suffered a traumatic brain injury while breaking up a fight in The Bronx. Keaton eventually regained his memory and motor skills.
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Terry ‘T La Rock’ Keaton
In other Diddy news, cops in Miami Beach cited him for blasting his music too loudly while driving his Jeep.
According to TMZ.com, the music was so loud that Diddy didn’t hear initial orders to turn it down. When he didn’t comply with the command, police pulled him over and gave him a ticket of about $100.
SYL JOHNSON SUES CYPRESS HILL OVER SAMPLE October 20, 2008
Cypress Hill is being sued for $29 million by legendary blues singer Syl Johnson, who claims the rap group sampled his 1969 record “Is It Because I’m Black?” on a track from their 1993 album “Black Sunday.”
Johnson, the father of R&B singer Syleena Johnson, says the song was used on the group’s track “Lock Down (Interlude).” He’s suing Cypress Hill – recent honorees of VH1’s Hip Hop Honors – as well as a number of record and publishing companies for the brief soundbyte.
In January, TMZ reported that Johnson sued a long list of artists – including Michael Jackson, Will Smith, Tupac Shakur and KRS-One – claiming they stole his 1967 single “Different Strokes” without attributing him or paying for the sample.
FOXX’S ‘SOLOIST’ MOVED OUT OF OSCAR WINDOW October 20, 2008
“We decided it’s a commercial movie that will play well in the spring, and we’ll give it an aggressive wide release then,” Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore told Variety.
According to the trade, DreamWorks producers had high hopes for its film starring Foxx as a homeless schizophrenic musician who dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The film is based on a series of L.A. Times columns by Steve Lopez, played in the film by Robert Downey Jr.
DreamWorks wouldn’t comment, but insiders tell Variety that bosses are very disappointed by Paramount’s decision, while conceding that it might benefit the film’s box office prospects due to the competitive field of year-end films.
U.K.’s Working Title, also a producer on “Soloist,” and director Joe Wright were also reportedly taken off guard. Paramount risks tainting the movie’s profile with this move, which the industry and media will read as a vote of no-confidence. It had built positive buzz during long-lead screenings.
With “The Soloist” moved to March, Paramount is clearly throwing its Oscar campaign money at Sam Mendes’ “Revolutionary Road” starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, and David Fincher’s “The Curious Life of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt as a man who ages backward.
SPRINGSTEEN, JOEL ROCK FOR OBAMA October 20, 2008
Music heavyweights Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel shared a New York stage Thursday night to drum up financial support for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Party.
The singers alternated between each other’s songs and clearly had fun, noted the Associated Press. India.Arie, John Legend and Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, joined in to perform the pair’s biggest hits. When they launched into “Born to Run,” Springsteen said, “This is for the senator.”
Obama appeared at the end of the historic concert at Hammerstein Ballroom, calling the event “a magical evening.” He said he wouldn’t ruin the moment with a long speech, then proceeded to make a speech comparing the struggling, everyday people in Joel’s and Springsteen’s songs to the people he’s met on the campaign trail, reports the Associated Press.
He warned supporters not to get too cocky because he leads in the polls. “Don’t underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Don’t underestimate our ability to screw it up,” Obama said. “I want everybody running scared.”
Obama also offered a new explanation for his decision to seek the White House. “I was sitting offstage with (his wife) Michelle, and I … said, ‘Honey, the reason I’m running for president is I can’t be Bruce Springsteen. I can’t be Billy Joel,’” Obama said.
Springsteen hugged Joel during “Spirit in the Night,” then ended up laying across the piano as he sang. Joel left the piano and picked up a guitar for “Glory Days.” They even stuck a bit of the Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night” into the middle of Joel’s song “River of Dreams.”
Tickets for the “Change Rocks” concert ranged from $500 to $25,000 each.
Performance clips:
“Spirit in the Night” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYne9E4LL0c
“Allentown” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POFZsRuVtQM
“Born to Run” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zreaj4hrTo
VENUS WILLIAMS WINS ZURICH OPEN October 20, 2008
Venus Williams got the best of unseeded Italian Flavia Pennetta to win the Zurich Open women’s final Sunday 7-6 (7/1), 6-2, earning her second title of the year, reports the Associated Press.
Pennetta was looking for her fourth consecutive win over Williams, after beating her in Bangkok in 2007 and at Roland Garros and Moscow this year. But Venus, playing in her 60th final, took home her 38th title and added to the Wimbledon trophy she earned in July.
The Italian appeared to be the stronger player in the opening set, but showed signs of weariness in the second. Neither player faced a break point in the entire first set, although Williams was taken to deuce five times. But having held serve more easily, only going to deuce once, Pennetta was totally overwhelmed in the tiebreak, dropping the first six points.
In the second set, a slightly tired-looking backhand into the net gave Williams a break for 2-1, and the American held her next service game with four consecutive aces.
Williams thought she had won when a ball from Pennetta was judged to have landed right in the corner of the court, a dispute that brought Venus’s father and coach Richard to his feet. That brought the score to deuce, but the contest was over two points later.
WYCLEF GETS B’DAY WISHES IN HAITIAN SLUM October 20, 2008
In Cite Soleil, a sprawling seaside shantytown in the capital, several young artists took turns rapping in Haiti’s Creole language and said they wanted to follow in Jean’s footsteps.
“I want to become somebody. I want to make myself known and earn my living through hip-hop,” said Josue Morancy, a 12-year-old who called himself “Mr. Jo.” “Wyclef was also poor like us, but he made it. We can do it too. You never know.”
Jean — who was not in Haiti for the birthday celebration — born on October 17, 1972, in the Haitian town of Croix-des-Bouquets, moved to New York as a child. He rose to fame as a member of the Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Fugees.
He has become a hero in his Caribbean homeland for his efforts to bring peace and education to the poorest country in the Americas, where malnutrition is rampant and most people get by on less than $2 a day.
Several of the children who gathered on Friday sang some of Jean’s songs and rapped their own lyrics.
“My name is MC Mike and I am from the ghetto. I am broke and poor and I go hungry for days. But I won’t lose hope,” said Ronald Michel, 14, in his native Creole. “My dream is to become a Wyclef. Then I’ll say bye, bye misery and welcome the good life.”
Jean said recently he would set up a recording studio in Cite Soleil to promote and assist young rappers who want to record in Creole. “I want no guns, I want no violence. Give me a guitar, a beat and a mike and I’ll rap for peace and a better tomorrow,” sang another young artist known as “Jah.”
CASH MONEY’S BABY, SLIM PLEAD NO CONTEST October 20, 2008
Cash Money CEO Bryan “Baby” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams were sentenced to probation Friday (Oct. 17) after pleading no contest to marijuana possession.
The Williams brothers and 12 of the 13 other co-defendants entered the same plea, which stemmed from a November 2007 incident in which a pound of marijuana was found inside their RV, according to Allhiphop.com.
The charges were dropped to misdemeanors because prosecutors believed the pound of marijuana was for their own use, and not redistribution.
The siblings were sentenced to 11 months and 29 days of unsupervised probation. If they manage to stay out of trouble, the charges will be wiped off their records for good.
“If you get in any trouble and the state finds out about it then your subject to having this probation revoked and you could serve 11 months and 29 days in jail,” Judge Toohey warned Bryan Williams.
Two of the Williams brothers’ entourage failed to show at yesterday’s hearings, resulting in each man being issued two separate felony failure to appear warrants.
DANITY’S DAWN DENIES SOLO RUMORS October 20, 2008
During Tuesday’s live finale of “Making the Band 4,” Diddy fired Aubrey O’Day and D. Woods from the group, leaving speculation over the fate of remaining members Richard, Shannon Bex and Aundrea Fimbres.
She told Essence magazine: “It’s so interesting how the media chooses to interpret or report things. I have never said that I was pursuing a solo deal. I told someone that I have waited so long for my dream, and singing is my dream and has been for so long. I have done nothing on the side as far as solo projects. I’m not sidestepping.”
Instead of asking her about solo projects, “Everyone should ask Puff if that’s what he has in line for me,” she suggested. “If he does, then I’m honored and I will work hard, as I’ve always done. Who knows what can happen, because Puff changes his mind every five seconds. I’m going to work hard. I’m going to be the same person I was in the beginning.”
Richard says she has always remained loyal to the group, even when other members were actively pursuing other endeavors.— most notably O’Day.
“I have totally been supportive of the group — that’s my priority,” she said. “We had shows where Aubrey didn’t show up, and we had her back and no one wrote about it or said anything.”
“Some of the other girls have pursued their interests, and I have sat back and supported them in their individual pursuits,” she continued. “It truly hurts my feelings, because I work so hard, and I’ve been so honest from the beginning. Again, my priority has always been Danity Kane. I’ve never missed a show or meeting, so it’s just interesting how people perceive things. I can only put it in God’s hands.”
