Andrew Mackey
Male
22 years old
New York, New York
Weekly Lovescopes December 1, 2008
ARIES (March 20 – April 19)
Recent events leave you somewhat at a loss. Don’t make a decision immediately. Give yourself a chance to ponder what has happened before you decide what to do.
Key word for the week: understanding
Your luckiest aspect this week: romance
Who to spend time with: Sagittarius
TAURUS (April 20 – May 20)
You are in fine form and looking like a million bucks. This should push you to socializing more and chose places that make you look and feel even better.
Key word for the week: compromise
Your luckiest aspect this week: family
Who to spend time with: Virgo
GEMINI (May 21 – June 20)
Something happens to make you see red. Your anger rises and you are ready to strike out. Take a deep breath and try not to get carried away. Wait until the storm has passed.
Key word for the week: self-expression
Your luckiest aspect this week: finances
Who to spend time with: Libra
CANCER (June 21 – July 22)
SYour glowing smile and sunny personality goes down very well in social situations, and you can pour oil on troubled waters when necessary.
Key word for the week: discovery
Your luckiest aspect this week: home life
Who to spend time with: Scorpio
LEO (July 23 – August 22)
Far from being discouraged, you are full of enthusiasm and ready to take a big bite out of life as you see it. Don’t let friends’ pessimism get you down.
Key word for the week: imagination
Your luckiest aspect this week: career
Who to spend time with: Capricorn
VIRGO (August 23 – September 22)
You have been under too much pressure recently and you are taking things too seriously. Take a break. Give yourself a chance to relax in entertaining company.
Key word for the week: originality
Your luckiest aspect this week: travel
Who to spend time with: Taurus
LIBRA(September 23 – October 22)
No matter what kind of ups and downs may await you, your job is to ensure that you raise your life onto a higher level overall. You can make headway in this.
Key word for the week: patience
Your luckiest aspect this week: finances
Who to spend time with: Gemini
SCORPIO (October 23 – November 22)
You need distraction. Seek out exciting and interesting places and people who have adventurous tales to tell. Forget your worries and dream of far off places.
Key word for the week: originality
Your luckiest aspect this week: social life
Who to spend time with: Aries
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 21)
Take care of your own physical and spiritual wellbeing, as well as your personal appearance. This can only do you good, and don’t let others make you feel guilty.
Key word for the week: creativity
Your luckiest aspect this week: romance
Who to spend time with: Cancer
CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 19)
Your charms will not go unnoticed at a social event and at last you feel recognized for your true worth. It feels good to be appreciated and even adored!
Key word for the week: honesty
Your luckiest aspect this week: finances
Who to spend time with: Leo
AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18)
Romance picks up and the stars are smiling down at you. It’s all hearts and flowers for you, but at times you may wonder just how long this will last.
Key word for the week: flexibility
Your luckiest aspect this week: friendship
Who to spend time with: Virgo
PISCES (February 19 – March 19)
It’s time to think about playing and having fun. You’ve been serious enough this month, and you really should lighten up and start thinking of love and romance.
Key word for the week: harmony
Your luckiest aspect this week: romance
Who to spend time with: Gemini
CABLE ASSN VS. ROBERT JOHNSON December 1, 2008
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Multichannel.com is reporting that BET founder Robert Johnson has run into static regarding his recently-filed FCC petition to force cable and satellite distributors to carry his new urban-targeted TV network under “share time” licenses.
According to the Web site, Johnson’s RLJ Companies Tuesday announced it is teaming with ION Networks to launch Urban Television LLC, a new African-American targeted network that would take over one of ION Network’s digital channels in 42 markets.
According to the two companies, the proposed share-time agreement would allow Urban Television to operate “a continuous television program service aimed at serving the needs and interests of urban viewers and traditionally underserved minority communities.”
But, Nationasil Cable Televion Association spokesman Brian Dietz said Johnson’s proposal is “nothing more than a plea for multicast must-carry rights and should be rejected.”
“This appears to be a request for multicast must-carry rights in all but name only,” Dietz said in a statement. “The full Commission has repeatedly rejected multicast must carry because it is unconstitutional and unnecessary. Broadcasters with compelling content can, and do, obtain carriage for multicast programming but mandating carriage of those signals should again be rejected.”
Harold Feld, senior vice president of the consumer activist group Media Access Project, said Johnson’s proposal may find a sympathetic ear within the new administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
“I think a lot depends on who the commissioners are,” Feld told Multichannel.com. “Certainly the environment will be generally more receptive to these types of arguments, but that is no guarantee that the argument will prevail.”
MIKE TYSON GETS A TICKET FOR THANKSGIVING December 1, 2008
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Mike Tyson is back in the headlines, this time for impatiently ramming his car into the visitor’s gate of a private community in Las Vegas on Thanksgiving morning.
According to local ABC news affiliate KTNV, the retired boxer pulled his late-model black Escalade up to the southern part of Valley at Monarch Estates at around 7:45 a.m. Thursday.
“He went to the visitor’s gate, but instead of driving through the gate when it opened, he veered off and hit the closed resident’s gate,” said Action News reporter Rikki Cheese. “Tyson reportedly backed up and ripped the gate down. Metro was called, and Tyson got a ticket.”
Las Vegas Police were called to investigate and gave him a breathalyzer test, which he passed. They then dismissed the entire incident as an accident and Tyson escaped with a fine before being allowed inside of the gated community to visit his friend.
AKON ON OBAMA, MIJAC AND MORE December 1, 2008
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Singer-producer Akon sat down with People magazine recently to promote his upcoming album, “Freedom,” due tomorrow (Dec. 2), and also touch on his recent collaborations with Michael Jackson and his thoughts about President-elect Barack Obama.
You did some work with Michael Jackson earlier in the year with 25th Anniversary of Thriller. How did you riff off each other musically?
Akon: The collaboration was incredible. From the first moment we actually met each other face-to-face it seemed like we had know each other for years. I was always a big fan, I knew everything about him. It was just astonishing to me that he knew a lot about me, and he was a fan of me as well. We clicked instantly.
What surprised you the most about him?
Akon: How humble and how smart he was. Sometimes you get a certain perception from how the media portrays him, but [working with him] was completely opposite. An artist of that caliber and as big as he is, you would think he would have certain qualities that you probably wouldn’t like, such as being very arrogant or stuck up. With him, it was like he had never put out a record before – he still had that hunger.
Spin reported that you, T-Pain, Nelly and Pharell united to form a supergroup. Is that true?
Akon: This is something that we wish we could do. If it happens, that’s great for the music industry because we’re trying to bring fun back. Whether it can happen realistically, without politics getting in the middle of it, is the question. If it were up to us, the artists, it would have been done already.
Outside of music, what else have you been pursuing?
Akon: Outside of music, I’ve been doing a lot of the label exec thing [at] Kon Live Distribution. The clothing line, Konvict Clothing, is urban streetwear. Then we have Aliaune, which is the more upscale corporate look. Then there’s the Konfidence Foundation where we’re giving back to Africa, creating a better environment for the children of Africa.
Which celebrity would make a good president and why?
Akon: Celebrity? Obama! He’s the biggest celebrity I know. He’s gonna make an incredible president.
COBSY GEARS UP FOR BIG 2009 TOUR December 1, 2008
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Bill Cosby will take his comedy act on the road for the bulk of 2009, beginning Jan. 16 in Elizabeth, IN, reports Live Daily.
The veteran comedian/actor/author will continue on through late April, with one-off stops in May, June and September. Nearly all of the engagements include two performances.
Cosby said in his bio that he focuses on making his concerts as intimate as possible.
“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy,”. “While I’m up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and timing to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I’m trying to do.”
Here is Bill Cosby’s tour schedule:
January 2009
16 – Elizabeth, IN – Horseshoe Casino Southern Indiana
18 – Flint, MI – Whiting Auditorium
24 – Washington, DC – Kennedy Center Opera House
February 2009
14 – Oakland, CA – Paramount Theatre of the Arts
21 – Worcester, MA – Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
28 – Austin, TX – Bass Concert Hall
March 2009
6 – Hamilton, Ontario – Hamilton Place Theatre
7 – Evansville, IN – The Centre
13 – Houston, TX – Jones Hall
14 – Fort Pierce, FL – Sunrise Theatre
21 – Omaha, NE – Orpheum Theater
28 – Denver, CO – Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
29 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
April 2009
11 – Madison, WI – Overture Center for the Arts
25 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
26 – Englewood, NJ – Bergen Performing Arts Center
May 2009
7 – Santa Ynez, CA – Chumash Casino
June 2009
27 – Minneapolis, MN – Orchestra Hall
September 2009
27 – Cerritos, CA – Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
STEPHON MARBURY SUSPENDED, FINED December 1, 2008
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New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was suspended for a game and docked about $400,000 in salary after claiming he refused a request to play in a game Wednesday against the Pistons.
Marbury, however, insisted Friday he never told coach Mike D’Antoni “no” and plans to appeal.
The New York Post reported Saturday Marbury, Knicks president Donnie Walsh and players’ association lawyer Hal Biagas are set to meet today (Dec 1) to try and reach a buyout agreement.
“Of course I want something resolved,” Marbury told the paper. “I want to go forward.”
D’Antoni wouldn’t go into detail about their conversation that took place before Wednesday’s loss in Detroit, though he made it clear he asked the point guard to play because the Knicks were short-handed.
Marbury was not paid for Saturday’s home game against Golden State and will lose an additional game’s pay for Wednesday’s actions. He earns about $21 million in salary this year, drawing about $190,000 a game.
TYRA REJECTS ‘MOGUL’ TITLE – FOR NOW December 1, 2008
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In the new issue of Ebony magazine, Tyra Banks says she’s flattered when referred to as a media mogul in the press, but hesitates to embrace it completely – insisting she is not yet worthy of the title.
“Don’t get me wrong, ego-wise, when I see the cover of the magazines and they say that (I’m a mogul), I’m like, ‘Oh, that looks popping and it looks hot,’ but it ain’t true,” she tells the magazine.
“Oprah’s been doing this for 30 years. Mogul? That’s like Martha Stewart. That’s like going public. Mogul? Not yet,” she says.
The Emmy-winning celeb has scored TV hits with “The Tyra Banks Show” and her reality program “America’s Next Top Model,” which has spawned international versions across the globe.
Banks says her sights are actually set higher than the “mogul” status. She adds, “I think I’ll have an empire.”
DIDDY STILL TRYING TO BE FIRST BLACK 007 December 1, 2008
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is using the promo for his new I Am King fragrance as an audition tape for producers of the James Bond franchise, hoping that the footage will sway filmmakers to consider casting him as the first black 007.
“This is my audition tape for the next James Bond,” he says of the I Am King mini-movie in his video blog. “There is a black president, and it’s time for there to be a black Bond.” [Scroll down to view film.]
The rap titan reportedly spent $750,000 making the King promo/Bond audition tape, which he filmed in the South of France near the location of recent Bond film “Casino Royale.”
The rapper is seen in the clip wearing a tuxedo, flying in a helicopter, riding a jet ski and surrounded by women.
According to Britain’s Daily Mirror, Diddy is facing competition from R&B hitmaker Akon and Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx in the push to become the first black actor to play the legendary secret agent.
Diddy Blog #35…I Am King – Mini-Movie/James Bond Audition Tape
FUNERAL SERVICES SET FOR MC BREED December 1, 2008
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A funeral for rapper MC Breed will take place tomorrow (Dec. 2) in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, the family stated.
Services will be held from 12 to 2 p.m. at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church (1851 West Carpenter Rd.).
The artist, born Eric Breed on June 12, 1971, died on Nov. 22 from kidney failure. The family has asked fans of the late rapper to support kidney research by donating atwww.kidneyfund.org.
MC Breed, 37, is survived by his parents, Roy LeEster and Willie Breed. He also leaves behind five children: Kiara Monique, Erica Ariel, Alexis Cymone, Marco “MC” Chene, and Eric Jalen and three siblings: Pete, Kevin and Bridgette Breed.
