Reports are swirling that Eddie Murphy and his fiancee Tracey Edmonds will wed in a private ceremony in Tahiti today. Tracey celebrated her upcoming wedding with a bachelorette party on Dec.8 at TAO Asian Bistro in The Venetian Hotel and Casino. Eddie bought his wife to be an 8-carat yellow diamond.
Sources say that they will wed in an intimate ceremony with just a few close family members and friends. Congrats to the both of them!
is reporting that the above picture of Kenya Moore and the unnamed guy who we titled 'lucky bastard' is not a real wedding picture well at least not their's (a lot of guys can put those Kenya Moore posters up again...hold on ok our's is back up) anyway.
She is saying that this picture and the rumor that , and KenyaMoore did not jump the broom in a Caribbean wedding. (Yes! with the Michael Jordan fist pump!) She is saying that the is starring in a movie called "Haitian Nights" currently being filmed in LA and Haiti.
Here is the press release:
"Kenya will play the role of Nadine Casey, a beautiful and accomplished MBA who has developed her own cosmetics line. She captures the heart and eye of Rudolph Lézard, a high-powered and successful Haitian American Attorney and business man. Once married, Nadine discovers Rudolph was unfaithful during their courtship with the daughter of a Voodoo Priest. Although kind, strong, and compassionate, Nadine’s love for Rudolph is tested as she battles for her life and her love for her new husband when they try to destroy the couple.Director Marc Cayce adds, “I’ve been trying to get Miss Moore on one of my films for years now. As our leading lady, Kenya brings a certain unexpected refinement and dignity to the character and to the film. She has fierce drive and determination to take direction well and make great choices that drive the character. She loves creating many complicated and interesting layers for her role. I believe this project will really highlight how much she has grown as an actor. She’s amazing!”
Went to see The Great Debaters the day after Christmas rather than on the 25th as planned. As good as the previews made it out to be. Very few people in the audience and we all laughed at one scene. Coming upon a lynch mob the debaters had a narrow escape. The lynched guy was not all too gruesome to look at~I have seen worse. Still not for the youngsters me thinks.
What I liked about the film is how words are said without being spoken. The youngest debater played by Denzel Whitaker, who is no relation to either Denzel Washington or Forest Whitaker who also starred in the film, is superb in using facial expressions to convey thoughts going on in his head. Of course the director and film editors play a large part in making those scenes work.
What I do not like about the film is what I read after watching it. I considered doing a movie review and was checking out news articles about the story. I feel betrayed by Denzel, Washington, that is. The film is based on a true story. Only Denzel's (Whitaker that is) character was actually one of the real life debaters. The others were composite figures of debaters from Wiley College's debate team. Washington's character was also real as were others. At the end of the film the characters lives after the last great debate~another fallacy, Wiley never debated Harvard~scrolled the screen as images from the movie quickly replayed. Composite figures do not "go on to become" anything.
If I had not read those news articles, I may have some where down the road been telling lies that I assumed were facts given in the film. Movie worth watching; there are grains of truth to the tale as it was told and the composite stuff gives a good look at how things were and might actually have happened with the Wiley great debaters and team.
What do I think of when I hear the name Brendan Behan?
* Drink
* Fighting
* IRA
* Dylan Thomas
* Woolly jumper
* Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Drink:
By all accounts the man was an alcoholic for years. It certainly done him in. He described himself as "a drinker with a writing problem" (not quite Oscar wit, but amusing enough).
Fighting / Woolly jumper:
He looks like a brawler in the photos, even with those 50s Irish woolly jumper and tie arrangements. I’m not sure how much fighting he actually did – suspect most of it was with himself.
IRA:
He seems to have got caught a lot but I suppose at least it gave him raw material for his writing. His first stretch, the time he did in borstal, was for republican activities, specifically a half-baked attempt to blow up Liverpool docks. His first writings, poetry and prose, were published in Fianna, the magazine of Fianna Eireann, the youth organisation of the IRA. (My first published photos were in [it's a long story] but from there, besides our shared wild&windswept hairdo, our lifestories diverge.) I get the impression he eventually grew out of the IRA and came to doubt political violence.
Dylan Thomas:
There appears to be a number of close parallels between Dylan and Brendan - lionised to death in the US, hounded by the media, the drink, the woman they couldn’t live with or without (Caitlin and Beatrice respectively), the woolly jumper with tie look, money worries, New York, the White Horse Tavern on Hudson St. in Greenwich Village. My sister-in-law Bronagh is arriving from Dublin this evening and she knows about these things so hopefully I’ll be a bit more clued up about these connections by the time I hit the pit tonight. Poking around on the web I came across in the mid-60s on this very point between Conor Cruise O’Brien and a certain Constantine FitzGibbon (a biographer of Thomas) - O’Brien made connections between the two and FitzGibbon denied them.
I stumbled across this rather neat link last night: "Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood, Brendan Behan wrote under Littlewood" - referring to Joan Littlewood whose Theatre Workshop put on The Quare Fellow at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1956, transferring to the West End and ultimately to Broadway, establishing his international rep.
It’s the last commonality on the list above – time spent in New York – which gives rise to this posting. A new play entitled is coming up this month at the Riverside in Hammersmith (starting 15th January) written by Behan’s niece Janet and starring (The Crying Game, The General, My Left Foot, Hear My Song – who co-directs) and Brid Brennan (Dancing at Lughnasa, Topsy-Turvy).
It’s set in the 60s in the "legendary bohemian bolt-hole", The Chelsea Hotel (where Dylan Thomas checked out of this world in 1953 with alcohol poisoning – hang-out also for that other poet who adopted Thomas’ name, Bob Dylan, and his buddy Allen Ginsberg, not to mention writers ranging from Eugene O’Neill to Arthur C. Clarke [who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey there], and musos including Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, and of course the ungrateful dead, Nancy Spungen, who had no fun in a room there with Sid back in 1978). So, fellow playwright Arthur Miller is just across the hall, the grooves of free jazzer Ornette Coleman are drifting down from a floor above and Brendan’s in his room, short of dough and inspiration – he’s hung over and way past the delivery date of his next book, not a line written. He’s been told to stop drinking or he’ll be dead in six months – and that was two years ago….
So all set for a lively night on 23rd Street. I’ll report back when I’ve seen it and if you fancy a night of drama, drink and the fascinating interaction of human Behans, you’re just …
Dexy's Midnight Runners:
I remember buying their first single Dance Stance and being intrigued by the litany of literary Irish (including Brendan who I hadn't read but if he was in the same list as Oscar Wilde that was good enough for me)
Never heard about Oscar Wilde
Don't want to know about Brendan Behan
Don't think about Sean O'Casey
Don't care about George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett
Won't talk about Eugene O'Neill
Don't know about Edna O'Brien
Won't think about Laurence Sterne
Shut it
You don't undertand it
Shut it
That's not the way I planned it
Shut your mouth til you know the truth.
Charlotte Church playing chess with a tramp in Hereford. Hugh Grant buying Anusol in the Wigan branch of Boots. David Soul whistling at swans in Hyde Park. Anneka Rice shopping for mittens.
Here's the press release from CES about the celebrities that will be there in official capacities. I'm under the impression that a lot of celebrity folks also attend just to see what's up in technology:
What?! No ?!
Arlington, Va., December 28, 2007 –
Award winning actors, musicians, comedians and sports stars all come together at the 2008 International CES® to experience the hottest products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.
The 2008 International CES, the world’s largest technology tradeshow, runs January 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Monday appearances feature Yoko Ono and Sony recording artists Natasha Bedingfield, will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas and Pat Monahan of Train to unveil an all new John Lennon Educational Tour Bus at an invitation only press reception to be held in the Concierge Center from noon-1 p.m. Bedingfield will also perform in the Concierge Center at 4 p.m. that evening.
Indy Car driver and 2005 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, Danica Patrick, will race into the GoDaddy.com booth on Monday along with wrestling’s very own Candice Michelle. Both women will be at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), Central Plaza, CP2.
Science Fiction buffs can’t afford to miss XENA, live at noon as part of the CES conference session: Science Fiction’s Influence on Technology. Kevin Costner and his band will be performing that night at CEA’s Wireless Communications Division reception in the LVCC, Gibson tent from 6-7 p.m. followed by Rocco Deluca from 7-8 p.m.
Academy Award winning actor and producer Michael Douglas, best known for his dramatic acting (Fatal Attraction and Wall Street) and his powerful presence as a producer (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Romancing the Stone), will be at XStreamHD’s invitation only press conference on Tuesday, January 8 at 11 a.m. in The Venetian, Casanova 503.
If you are a fan of the world champion Boston Red Sox – get ready. Big Papi, David Ortiz, will make an appearance at the SHARP booth, LVCC, Central Hall, 11024 from 2-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. GoDaddy.com will bring in another big name on Tuesday -Olympic gold medalist, Amanda Beard, will visit Central Plaza, CP2.
Tuesday night will wrap up with the much anticipated Monster Cable concert at the Paris Hotel. Mary J. Blige will headline with Sheila E., Prince solo artist, and Joe Jackson, father to Janet and Michael Jackson, expected to be in attendance.
Mad Mike from MTV’s Pimp My Ride will be at Mitek’s booth, LVCC, North Hall, 2401 on Monday, January 7 from 1-2 p.m. and 4-5 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday from 10-11 a.m., 1-2 p.m. and 4-5 p.m. MTX’s Mixed Martial Arts Team also be with Mitek for all show days from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Graham Rahal, the son of U.S. motor racing legend Bobby Rahal, will for the first time get a taste of driving the BMW Sauber F1 Team racing car in the BMW Sauber F1 Team Pit Lane Park. Rahal will be at the LVCC, Gold Lot Exhibits, Gold-1 for all show days.
For more information about the 2008 International CES before, during and after the show, including celebrity appearances and special events, visit
In no particular order except for #1 Britney, here is a list of epic failures for 2007.
Britney Spears
This girl has reached a level of failure so high that a separate scale needs to be made. After her epic failed marriage with Kevin Federline, she's gone apeshit crazy. From reckless driving, to horrendous parenting, to random self punishment, she has been on a rollercoaster ride of MASSIVELY epic failure.
Jamie Lynn Spears
Pregnant at 16? This is actually not uncommon, but only dumb shitty people get pregnant at 16. It's not like she couldn't afford birth control. Jamie Lynn was supposed to be a role model for young teens, and different from Britney Spears. The rumored father might not have been her 19 year old ex-boyfriend, but a much much older Nickelodeon studio exec. Epic Fail.
Vanessa Hudgens
The nude picture of her that floated around the internet is actually pretty disturbing...and it may or may not qualify as child porn since her age is questionable. She once was a rising music star and a Disney star appearing in the widely praised High School Musical. Now she's just lame and dating Zac Efron. That guy literally wears makeup and is so gay that it makes me want to kick small children.
Paris Hilton
I hope no one forgot about Paris because she made headlines in the first part of 2007. She was sentenced to jail for an extraordinarily brief amount of time for serious repeated offenses. She was mocked by Sarah Silverman at an Awards show as well as laughed at by almost everyone. After her release, she claimed to be a changed person which of course is a crock of epic failure. Recently, her grandfather has left just $5 million out of his $2.3 billion fortune for her inheritance. This may still seem like a lot, but it's Paris Hilton we're talking about.
Playstation 3
Instead of being called Playstation 3, it should be called Playstation Fail. After debuting at the end of last year with much success, Sony has completely bombed 2007. Some of the things that have contributed to this failure are terrible games such as "Lair", multiple confusing versions of the PS3 with minor differences, and a high price tag. Meanwhile, the Nintendo Wii is still sold out everywhere despite being on the market for a year.
Financial firms / Subprime mortgages
The credit crisis has been covered more times than I can count by every news outlet. The list of affected companies include investment banks like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup. Mortgage lenders like Freddie Mac and Countrywide Financial have been getting hammered. Furthermore, failed CEOs like Chuck Prince left Citigroup with a golden parachute while the company took heavy losses. The 'R' word (Recession) has been used a number of times. This meltdown defines epic failure.
Amy Winehouse
Pretty much the ugliest woman I've ever seen, her horrifying pictures qualify her to be of epic failure quality.
Jessica Simpson
Her romance with Tony Romo has been annoying football fans. Her latest album blows. Her movie career is bombing faster than I can type this. Case in point, her most recent movie theatre opening grossed $384 in its opening -- $48 per screen, 6 people per showtime, and a total of 48 viewers. Even her line of cosmetics have been moved into discount stores. Washed up hack and EPIC FAIL!!!
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
The firing of Gamespot's veteran reviewer Jeff Gerstmann has been linked to this game by Eidos Interactive. He had given the game a "Fair" rating which was apparently undesirable. Users on the popular site DIGG would later expose faked ratings by Eidos to make the game appear better. The subsequent coverup could only be described as an epic failure.
Tom Cruise
A bit of a stretch but his foray into Scientology and marriage of insanity with Katie Holmes has still been leaving me speechless. Any stories about Tom Cruise now are generally about how he has epicly failed.
