The Daily Roundup for Sept 16

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SO, Jackie Kennedy Onassis not a fan of Martin Luther King Jr.

The former First Lady said King had made derogatory remarks about JFK's funeral. | AP Photos Close
Jacqueline Kennedy expressed disdain for Martin Luther King Jr. on newly released tape recordings - saying she couldn’t look at a picture of him “without thinking…that man’s terrible” - but later came to admire the civil rights leader.

Kennedy called King a “phony” and “tricky” during hours of chatty, never-before-revealed interviews with the historian Arthur Schlesinger that he tape recorded.
The interviews took place in 1963, shortly after Kennedy had been assassinated.

The former First Lady said on the tapes that King had made derogatory remarks about her husband’s funeral and the Cardinal who celebrated Mass at the event, according to a report on the tapes by the
“He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk at it [the funeral],” Kennedy said. “And things about they almost dropped the coffin. I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible,” Kennedy said in a newly-released book featuring transcripts of the Kennedy tapes.
According to ABC, which has obtained the audio tapes and is hosting a two-hour Jackie Kennedy special, the former first lady said King had arranged for an “orgy in the hotel” while in town for the March on Washington in August 1963.
Kennedy said that her husband, President John F. Kennedy, had urged her not to be judgmental about it.
“If you asked her what she thought of Martin Luther King overall… she admired him tremendously,” Caroline Kennedy told ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
“Obviously, J. Edgar Hoover had passed on something that Martin Luther King said about my father’s funeral, to Uncle Bobby and to Mommy. And obviously, she was upset about that,” Caroline Kennedy added. “It shows you the poisonous … activities of J. Edgar Hoover.”
Jacqueline Kennedy became friendly with King and his family and attended the civil rights leader’s funeral in 1968.

In the tapes, Jacqueline Kennedy also says that the president was anxious to dump FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
In the interviews, the former first lady said her husband openly ridiculed the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him as president.

“Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, `Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon were president?’” she said, according to the AP. “And Bobby told me that he’d had some discussions with him …do something to name someone else in 1968.”
Johnson became president after JFK’s assassination and was elected to a full term in 1964. He decided not to seek re-election in 1968.
The Daily Mail reported last month that she believed that Vice President Johnson was behind her husband’s assassination. ABC contended then that the Daily Mail’s report was inaccurate.

No wonder she never showed up at an Civil Rights events!

OMG!!! How SICK! A 101-year-old Detroit woman evicted and her belongings thrown in the dumpster

101-year-old Texana Hollis can't stop crying because she's been evicted from the Southwest Detroit house she has called home for 58 years.

All her belongings were put in three dumpsters on the street because her 65-year-old son who also lives with her failed to pay taxes for several years.
Warren Hollis says he feels like kicking himself. He says he did get several eviction notices, but never told his mom.

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Hollis says she only found out about the back taxes last night. 

A neighbor is letting Texana and Warren stay in a rental house she owns across the street. A few hours after we talked to Texana, EMS came and took her to the hospital. The whole ordeal of the eviction and the lack of medications at the right time made her a little disoriented. EMS workers said she was ok, but needed to be checked out. In the meantime, a local businessman came by and said he will check on the back taxes and pay them if he can so Hollis can move back to her home.

UPDATE!!!

There's been a positive development in the story of Texana Hollis, the 101-year-old woman evicted from her home . She will now get her southwest Detroit home back after a heartbreaking ordeal.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD asked a 36th District Court Officer to go to the home and remove the locks that were put on the house on Monday. Texana will now be able to return to her house on Carbondale.
The 101-year-old is, however, currently in the hospital. She was rushed by ambulance to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on Monday night. She was suffering from severe anxiety after being evicted from the home she had lived in for 58 years.
Earlier on Wednesday, Call for Action reporter Bill Spencer began digging for information in this case. He talked with Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnne Watson, who promised she would do whatever she could to help Texana.
Watson visited Texana in the hospital, knelt by her bed and prayed with her. Watson then went to talk directly to the Detroit Director of HUD, the agency that took posession of the home.
Action News also found out the background on what really happened and why Texana and her son Warren Hollis were evicted from their home.
At first, it was thought that Texana’s son had signed a reverse mortgage on the house or that maybe it was a back-taxes issue.
It turns out that Warren took out a second mortgage on the home in return for $32,000. He claims the money was spent on repairs for the house. He also admits to buying a car with the money and donating some of the money to his church.
He says the remaining $5,000 was used to pay a number of other expenses. Warren Hollis defaulted on the second mortgage and never told his mother what was going on or that he was receiving eviction notices and warnings. The news broke her heart and she had no time to prepare for being evicted.
The house no longer belonged to Texana Hollis or her son Warren - who had been living with her. It belonged to HUD. The agency had asked for a court order to have the occupants removed from the home.
One of the judges from the 36th District Court granted that order several weeks ago and the order was carried out on Monday.
Marilyn Atkins, Chief Judge of the 36th District Court, told Action News that the court officer who evicted Texana talked to her son repeatedly for a solid week telling them they had to find a place to go. They were reportedly told that they were going to be evicted in a matter of days.
The Chief Judge says that her court did everything legally possible to alert Texana and her son that they were coming to padlock the house and say they followed the law to the letter.

Texana Hollis was completely broken-hearted and couldn’t stop crying when we talked to her on Monday night.
Neighbors say court officers carried her out of her home and left her sitting in her wheelchair on the sidewalk, alongside all of her furniture and belongings.Neighbors eventually put Texana into a vacant rental home on the same block and she sat there all day.
A close friend and neighbor couldn’t believe what was happening. “We don’t even treat animals like that in the city of Detroit,” said Laurie Ridgell.
The saddest part of the whole situation was that Texana and her late husband Ira Sr., owned this home outright. It was bought and paid for.
Meantime, several organizations offered to help Texana and we’ve received calls from all over the country on this story.

Remember TRUTH HURTS? She's Back...And In PENTHOUSE Magazine!

Remember singer Truth Hurts? The 2002 "Addictive" Truth Hurts? She's back. And with a spread in Penthouse. See what she's up to now inside....
Interestingly enough, not much has changed about the chick. Other than the fact Shari "Truth Hurts" Watson posed for the September 2011 issue of Penthouse Magazine (Austria).
Peep the pics:

Maybe these are the more tame pics they could release so far.
By the way, she recently signed a new deal with "The Publishing Department" and is preparing for an album release in early 2012. Oh....

Charlamagne Tha God's Dad Attacks Fans With Taser At Jets V.S. Cowboys Game 

Charlamagne Tha God was a little embarrassed today after his dad was caught on camera attacking fans at New York's MetLife Stadium.
Tha God's dad was spotted watching the Jets take on The Dallas Cowboys when things suddenly got out of hand and he pulled out a weapon--a taser.

He was later arrested and released on 22,000$ bond, but not before his son could share his story on Twitter.

DUMB ASS!

Say What?: 4-Year-Old Wins Contest Wearing Fake Breast and Butt Pads on Toddlers and Tiaras

On the controversial reality show “Toddlers and Tiaras,” 4-year-old contestant Maddy Jackson, channeled Dolly Parton to win a beauty competition wearing bust and butt enhancement pads. The enhancements gave the toddler an hourglass figure.
To make matters worse, Lindsay, the mother of the young beauty contestant, defended her daughter’s enhancements saying, “To some people, it’s over the top, to us it’s just what happens… It’s just normal. When she wears the fake boobs and the fake butt, it’s just like extra bonus.”
And get this: Maddy’s mom passed the butt and breast pads along to her from when she wore them as a toddler during her pageant days.

Are the mothers of these young girls, like Maddy’s mom Lindsay, trying to relive their youth vicariously through their daughters?

While many of us have mimicked our moms by wearing their clothes and high-heeled shoes around the house, Maddy’s ‘Dolly’ beauty look is a grown-up aesthetic that doesn’t belong on a toddler—for play or for show.
Quite frankly, there is something terribly wrong with a young girl trying to imitate the post-pubescent look of a grown woman in my opinion.
How young is too young for a girl to wear fake breast and butt pads? Should these kind of antics be frowned upon?

UMMM Alicia time to get some your Medicine:Is Swizz Beatz already creeping out on Alicia with some 23-year-old girl? Well this is shocking. NOT (as Goop would say). Bossip is reporting that Swizz Beatz has been messaging (“sexting”) another woman. Bossip doesn’t have many details, like who this other woman is, but the site does have a photo of the Blackberry screen, which includes a message allegedly from Swizz writing that he wants to “f–k the sh-t out of you asap make it happen wow!” Also, they’re sending each other photos and trying to coordinate their schedules so this girl can fly out to meet him, I guess.
Meanwhile, Tale Tela seems to have more details about the alleged cheating, and the girl. According to their sources, the girl’s name is Christina Elizabeth, and she’s 23 years old. Also, Christina and Swizz met in 2007, back when she was… 19?!? And the source says that Swizz and Christina have been in contact with each other all of that time. Apparently, Christina lost her Blackberry, and someone found it and figured out that she’s been sexting Swizz for years. Or more.

Now, who would have predicted this turn of events, if this story is true? Oh, right. EVERYONE. Swizz has four baby-mamas that we know of - and he was fooling around on his now ex-wife Mashonda with both Alicia and his British bird Jahna Sebastian, who still isn’t getting any child support from him. The man just has issues.

These are photos of Swizz and Alicia during Fashion Week, over the weekend. We told you, ‘Licia. We told you he was a dog. You knew he was a dog too - but you wanted him anyway.

Down in Atlanta, Chanita Foster And Jason Terry Put On ‘Concert For A Cause’

Chanita Foster of Football Wives and Jason Terry of the Dallas Mavericks presented the first annual “Concert For A Cause,” which brought together fans, celebrities and athletes to raise money for Beyond The Game Foundation. The money will go towards a care mission to Swaziland to help families affected by HIV/AIDS.

Check out Kandi Burruss of Housewives of Atlanta rocking them red bottoms and she know what she’s doin in them jeans.

Chanita Foster went off on Eddie Long’s son, Edward long Jr. while he was singing. She thought he was singing about sex, turns out ol’ boy was singing a gospel song! Once she realized she was wrong, Chanita came out and apologized 

I love a black woman who can come out and admit when she’s wrong! I mean fa real, you only hear about black women that get angry and think they are always right, but Chanita did the opposite. I respect it. You can download Edward’s music on ITunes.

There were a slew of performances by RL from Next, Q from 112, Nicci Gilbert from Brownstone.

Atlanta Hawks player Josh Powell and Sacramento Kings player Marquis Daniels came through, as did Terri Vaughn and her husband, The Steve Harvey Morning Show co-host Sheryl Strawberry, actress Kesha Knight-Pulliam, V103 DJ Ramona Debreaux and singer Tiffany Bleu.

Too short for morning TV? George Stephanopoulos may be out of the job - over his height

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos is facing the ax because he's too short for the show, sources claim in a shocking report.
Sources tell TMZ that Josh Elliot, a former sports anchor at ESPN, impressed execs last week when he filled in on World News Tonight.
Mr Elliot, 40, who won an Emmy Award-winner with ESPN, joined GMA in May after seven years with the all-sports network.
Rumours are swirling that ABC could do an anchor swap for Mr Elliot, who at 6'3", towers over the diminutive Mr Stephanopoulos (5'6" and a half).

Despite the The show’s possible need for a change, GMA's ratings are up, but still second to NBC's Today show.
Too short? Sources tell TMZ that ABC execs want to get rid of George Stephanopoulos, left, over his height
TMZ reported that Mr Stephanopoulos would be reassigned back to his anchor desk with This Week, replacing Christiane Amanpour.

When contacted about the report, an ABC News spokeswoman told TMZ: 'This is Total Nonsense.'
A veteran newsman, Mr Stephanopoulos, 50, has covered everything from major political figures to the 9/11 attacks.
Before joining ABC, Stephanopoulos served as a top adviser to President Bill Clinton on policy and strategy.

Adele Makes Billboard History

Powerhouse singer Adele makes Billboard history as 'Someone Like You' reaches the number one spot even though it was never officially released as a single.
Adele makes Billboard chart history this week, as "Someone Like You" flies to the top spot on the Hot 100 -- even though it wasn't officially released as a single, it's still all over Denver radio.
Adele deserves this, though. Girl has had a huuuuuge year in music. First "Rolling in the Deep" sells five million copies, then 21 becomes the year's biggest album, with 3.3 million copies sold, then she stops the show at the VMAs with her performance of "Someone Like You."
Is there anything this woman with a broken heart can't do? She's on top of the game right now, at a time when none of her contemporaries are even coming close.
The thing about Adele that clicks with people is her relatability. She deals with heartbreak. So do we. She sings her heart out about an ex, and we belt out trashy karaoke at a bar in LoDo to appease our broken hearts. Really, you can't help but root for the woman even more when you find out how young she is (23) and feel how much age rings through in her voice. She's like a wine that America is drinking by the carafe. Keep the hits coming, Adele.
And remember back when Adele started? She and Duffy -- or that one chick that sang "Mercy" -- entered the scene after Amy Winehouse had blazed the way for their retro-soul sound in the 21st century. Critics were slow to take on Adele, but now they're quick to pass on Duffy, as the latter has declared a hiatus from music.
If you're one of the millions who has purchased 21, you know that Adele has more hits up her sleeve -- whether she opts to release them as singles or not. Apparently it doesn't matter; they'll still chart. That's how powerful her voice is. Ain't no man gon' stop her, either!

Lil Hot A***No Bite Marks No Scratches and No Hickies

Nas' daughter Destiny is 16-years-old and according to her Twitter page more than a little hot in the pants...

WTH??? ..Now I have also heard that the page is a fake but we shall see!

New York Fashion Week FABULOSITY!

New York's Fashion week turning it come.see the latest roundup of fab looks inside....

Nicki Minaj sat front row at the Spring 2012 show for Carolina Herrera's collection.

And VOGUE editor Anna Wintour was clearly thrilled with her seatmate.

Not.

Then Nicki found her soul sister backstage.

Just jokes.

And backstage Corinne Bailey Rae posed with Olivia Munn.

Then, Corinne did a few changes and attended several more shows.

Tika Sumpter was spotted on the way to the Tracy Reese show...looking fab as always.

Selita Ebanks was also spotted walking through Lincoln Center.

Samuel Jackson was seen at the Y-3 show.

Omarion was there too. Sigh.......this jacket?

And Dwight Howard represented for Y-3 in the front row, wearing one of their shirts.

Angela Simmons was spotted at several shows including Tommy Hilfiger and Custo Barcelona.

Tina and Solange Knowles attended a fashion party to benefit Gabrielle's Angel Foundation.

June Ambrose attended several shows, including Zac Posen.

And Genevieve Jones sat front row at her good friend Zac's show as well. Notice her signature GJ clutch on the seat next to her.

Carmelo Anthony attended several shows including Simon Spurr and Tommy Hilfiger.

Later at the Hilfiger show, Carmelo posed with Christine Teigen, Melissa George, Russell Simmons and Angela Simmons.

Andre Leon Talley sat next to Lorenzo Martone at the Hilfiger show.

Naomi Campbell kicked it with Sting and Christy Turlington at the Edun presentation.

Oh..somebody tried something new with their makeup.

Also at Hilfiger, Corinne Bailey Rae posed with Christine Teigen.

OVAHNESS!

Paul Wall and Baby Bash Arrested

Rappers Paul Wall and Baby Bash got arrested for drug possession and broadcast the play by play on Twitter!
Nothin' like getting arrested—and then bragging about it on Twitter!
Rappers Paul Wall and Baby Bash (real names Paul Michael Slayton and Ronald Ray Bryant) found themselves in hot water on last Saturday night when they were arrested for marijuana possession in a—wait for it!—drug-free zone in El Paso, TX.

El Paso County Jail Records show the two were arrested at 1:30 a.m. and were released around 1:30 p.m. after posting $300 bail. They were charged with possession of marijuana in a quantity of less than 2 oz.
So what did Mr. Wall have to say about the arrest on Twitter?

It looks like the rappers received a music history lesson during their jail stay as Paul tweeted, "Fresh out the El Paso County jail wit @BabyBash @BIGGROY in the same tank they held Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash."
He also posted pictures of the two of them in handcuffs in the back of the police car. Maybe they can use one of the pictures for a future album cover?

Thankfully, Paul found something good in all of this: "The good news is the Texans won," he tweeted.
However, Baby Bash didn't seem as thrilled with the arrest as his buddy. "Ain't 2much worse than a " HOE ASS PUNK EL PASO COP that abuses his authority, just cuz me and Paul wall are artists!"
he tweeted. "Only GEEKS and fools who don't have any spine abuses AUthority! But I'm back in the FLESH feelin so FRESH, out the tank mang!"

In case you didn't understand that, Baby Bash then posted another message clarifying his previous tweet. "I'm not here to diss ALL police, they have a tuff gig and I respect that! BUT u have the ONE or TWO that will disrespect & abuse the power cuz maybe they got picked on in high school alot and now have a chip on they're shoulder, and that's exactly wut happened to Us, all we did was SMELL like weed and wen he couldn't find it and we didn't snitch on who sparked it he got overdramatic and took us in! He found out who we were and really got big shot on us! Haha even his partner said he's a dick."
We sincerely look forward to a song that uses this experience as inspiration.

Jennifer Aniston heals rift with her mother at hospital bedside after 75-year-old suffers a serious stroke
EXCLUSIVE

Jennifer Aniston rushed to be by her mother's hospital bedside after the 75-year-old suffered a stroke over the weekend, the MailOnline can reveal.
Nancy Dow, a former model, is understood to have been in a serious condition at a Los Angeles medical centre.

Aniston's boyfriend Justin Theroux accompanied the former Friends star to the hospital, but a source says he waited outside.

There were grave fears for her elderly mother, who is thought to be unable to speak.
A neighbour at Nancy's modest North Hollywood apartment block told Mail Online: 'She's in the hospital. She's fabulous, a very nice lady. She's also very private.
The neighbour was not aware of any prior health problems.
Jennifer and her mother were estranged for more than a decade after Nancy gave a television interview about their relationship in 1996.
Jennifer called her afterwards in a rage and allegedly told her: 'I'll never forgive you. Never.'
Her mother later wrote a revealing book, From Mother And Daughter To Friends: A Memoir, about their problems, absolving herself from blame.
In 2001, Jennifer said: 'This is my last chunk of disease in my life - my mom.'
She did not invite Nancy to her 2000 wedding to Brad Pitt, which she described as a 'tortuous decision'.
Difficult relationship: The actress didn't speak to her mother for more than a decade
Her mother brought her up alone after her actor father John Aniston walked out on the family when Jennifer was nine.
They finally ended their bitter rift in 2008.

Jennifer discussed the reconciliation in 2009, telling the New York Post: 'It's good. It's OK. Things are now fine between us. All of that is over, and we're in touch with one another. We speak, and it's all over.'
A spokesperson for Aniston declined to comment today, saying: 'This is a private family matter.'

AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
“Granny’s Caboose”

Once again it’s on like Donkey Kong! In this edition of “Who Wears It Better?”, we’ve got the battle for grandma’s booty! So who ya got, the eldest member of the Bad Girls Club or Blow Me Where The Pampers Is?

MAY YOU AND YOURS HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!
EFREM