1- After public outcry (and the withdrawal of some advertising dollars as a result of the public outcry), BET decides to "revamp" the title of their newest and most controversial show "Hot Ghetto Mess: We Got to Do Better", opting to use only the second half of the title. Given the the number of programming missteps that the network has made SINCE ITS INCEPTION with regard to what should be a positive representation of black people in this country, shouldn't "We Got to Do Better" be their mantra? Isn't BET-J sooooo much better than their parent network?
2- Beyonce tumbles head first down a flight of stairs during her concert in Orlando this week. After videos showing the fall receives 90,000 hits in less than a day, Youtube takes the footage down citing "terms of use violation". Kelly Rowland passes out while performing onstage in Nigeria. Youtube takes that footage down as well. Destiny's THIRD child, Michelle, bites it during a performance on BET's 106 and Park a couple of years ago. Once again,Youtube has removed THAT footage, citing a copyright claim by Sony BMG. Why is it that we can have access to Johnny Knoxville and his gang of Jackasses risking life and limb for shits and giggles, but the idea of seeing BEYONCE busting her well-toned ass onstage immediately elicits a "terms of use violation"? Shouldn't her record company make the same claim for all of her music videos (which, incidentally, are STILL accessible on youTube)?
(By the way, here is the ONLY footage available online of Ms. Knowles eating stagedust...But like the trooper she is, she quickly recovers...)
3- Speaking of YouTube...wasn't it a broadcasting coup for YouTube to align itself with CNN to produce The CNN/YouTube Democratic Presidential debate? Didn't it seem to make the debating process much more dynamic? Also, why- only 4 days after the Democratic debate- have only 2 of the nine projected Republican candidates confirmed their attendance at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate in September?
4- Speaking of debateable behavior...This week, former porn siren Heather Hunter writes and releases Insatiable- a novel, she says, "about a girl named Simone Young. She runs to the world of fame, because she has this insatiable desire to be famous and at the same time to be loved. She winds up in porn--pretty much fulfilling people's desires--and through porn she goes through these trials and tribulations of trying to find love in all the wrong places. At the same time she becomes an amazing, big, top adult star and breaks into the mainstream entertainment business"...Aren't novels supposed to be fiction? Does she know the difference between a NOVEL and an AUTOBIOGRAPHY ? Moreover, once someone buys the film rights to the book (because inevitably someone WILL), which blactress would want to play "the main character"?
5- On the soft side of porn, wasn't Garcelle Beauvais' spread in Playboy both erotic and tasteful?
6- Both 50 Cent and Kanye West are both due to release their latest CDs on the same day- interestingly enough, on September 11th. Will Kanye's sales "Touch The Sky"? Will Curtis Jackson's sales yield him more than just 50 Cents?
7- Even while doing her perp-walk into court this week to face sentencing for her DUI conviction, doesn't (a supposedly NOT pregnant) Nicole Richie look STUNNING? And since Ms. Richie is STILL one of THE REAL RE-EDIT's obsessions, don't we want her to get her SH*T together?
8- Speaking of which, with her LATEST bust and arrest for drug possession, will La Lohan EVER get her sh*t together, or will she die young as she herself has predicted? The person she is referring to in the title of her new movie "I Know Who Killed Me" seems to be obvious, no?
9-Hasn't psuedo-photog and media whore Larry Birkhead (you know, Danielynn's daddy) used up every last second of his 15 minutes of fame?
10- With President Bush handing Scooter Libby (the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney who was convicted of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI) HIS freedom in the form of a presidential pardon, does Def Jam have a chance of success with its campaign to get Ron Isley pardoned on his conviction for lying to the IRS by way of tax evasion? Is Libby's pardon a double standard, since Lil Kim went to jail after she was convicted of the same exact charges that Libby has been pardoned for (perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal investigators)?
11- OK, who feels cheated that they didn't plop down six hundred bucks for the IPhone?
FLASHBACK...
This week's flashback is courtesy of Lil Kim, who should be singing this to our President. "No Time for FAKE ones..."
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