Jay Z, Will Smith, Calvin Harris Team Up for EDM Comedy on HBO
EDM is on the verge of totally taking over-from the dance floors to prime-time! Calvin Harris has teamed with Will Smith and Jay-Z for Higher, a half-hour comedy series that has been set up at HBO for development.
DEADLINE reports HBO is working on an Electronic Dance Music comedy written by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and developed with Harris’ help, the fictional comedy is set in the world of electronic music. It comes from Overbrook Entertainment, Three Six Zero Group and Marcy Media, with Overbrook’s James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith and Miguel Melendez serving as executive producers alongside Three Six Zero Group’s Mark Gillespie and Dean Wilson, along with Harris and Marcy Media’s Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Jay Brown, and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith.
Harris is a Grammy award winning songwriter and producer, who was the first DJ to win the Ivor Novello Songwriter Of The Year Award.
Will Smith and Jay Z are currently working on their Annie film starring Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis.
Kim Kardashian Hires ‘Booty Tailor’ for a Reported $5k a Day
Yep, it’s crazy, but true! Supposedly.
Kim Kardashian‘s “assets” are that important to her. She’s decided to hire a booty tailor, Cornelius Clay.
And she’s spending a pretty penny to make sure her booty tailor keeps her behind looking perfectly curvy in her clothing.
She’s reportedly paying Clay $5k a day to alter any pair of jeans she wants.
Yet she has a great body, which she has a… “no carbs, workout and dedication!” routine to keep her bootylicious physique.
“It means Kim can buy jeans, have them altered and be photographed in them within a matter of hours,’ revealed the source,” a source told the Daily Mail.
The source continued with, “Kim has a size 4 [UK size 8] waist and size 10 [UK size 14] bottom, so she often has to buy a size up and have jeans taken in at the waist for a snug fit. She’s only 5ft 2in, so they’re often taken up a few inches, too.”
But Clay’s hiring should come at no surprise. He was the personal stylist of Kanye West, which he dropped out of Yale to pursue.
But being a school rebel must have came naturally (and fashionably) for Clay.
“My school had a dress code of khakis with collared shirts for the younger boys. Dissatisfied with the informality of khakis, I adopted a personal uniform of exclusively white turtlenecks, grey flannel trousers, and black & white spectator shoes,” he said.
Tracee Ellis Ross, NeNe Leakes, Laverne Cox & More Attend ELLE’s Women in Television Celebration
Some of your favorite ladies got jazzy and hit up the ELLE’s Women in Television celebration in West Hollywood.
Tracee Ellis Ross, NeNe Leakes, Laverne Cox, & several of our favorite ‘Orange is the New Black’ actresses were on hand to celebrate.
Justin Bieber Blames His Mom For Drugs?
Did Justin Bieber just snitch on his drug supplier? WAIT, he told the police that one of his drug suppliers is HIS MOM!!!
She is the one who gave him the prescription medication he took shortly before his DUI arrest.
According to TMZ, the cops grilled Bieber on what substances he had ingested before his arrest. He admitted that he was under the influence of Rx meds for anti-anxiety. Justin also admitted to being under other influences like weeds and alcohol too.
See Justin has been giving the police several reasons to invade his house, and that’s exactly what they did.
When the police asked Justin what did he take, his response was that he didn’t know because he just takes whatever his mom Pattie gives him. If Bieber does have a valid prescription , the presence of the substance in his system probably won’t be held against him.
Video: Jennifer Hudson – “I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel)” [Ft. T.I.]
Jennifer Hudson heats up the screen in the visuals to her single “I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel),” featuring T.I. The Grammy Award winning singer flaunts her figure wihle rockin’ various looks; including one with a pair of little black shorts, teamed with a half-buttoned tuxedo top.
She calls on a few shirtless male dancers, who can’t keep their eyes and hands off her – while T.I., suave in a suit and bowtie, is surrounded by the ladies - and even gets his own private dance from one of them.
The track will appear on Jennifer’s forthcoming third album.
Check out the Anthony Mandler-directed clip :
HOT!
Lupita N’yongo gives SLAYAGE at The NY Knicks game
She doesn't just slay red carpets every single day....she can also look like polished perfection while kicking back courtside at a Knicks game. Check out Lupita Nyong'o having some fun at Madison Square Garden,
Lupita's been getting all the perks of being this Award season's It-Girl. The 12 Years A Slave star was spotted laughing it up courtside next to Spike Lee, actress Edie Falco, her son and actor John Leguizamo
She was fresh from a taping of "Jimmy Fallon", but still made this purple on purple Cushnie Ochs look a casual chic one for the game. The gorgeous SAG Award winner is set to co-star in the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop on February 28th.
Love ‘Knocked Them Down’: Keri Hilson & Serge Ibaka Break Up
Love must have ‘knocked them down’ because Keril Hilson and Oklahoma City Thunder basketball pro Serge Ibaka have broken up.
Reportedly, things haven’t been going well for the ex-couple and they broke up around New Year’s — guessing it’s a new year and new them… separately.
Although the break up was on the low, sort of, Hilson is not wasting anytime expressing herself about the break up.
She took to Twitter to emote about what seems to be about the break up situation.
“Sometimes God answers your prayers with an unfavorable outcome. Thank him for those too! You don’t know what He’s doing!” she tweeted, adding days later, “I’m tired of talking. My gift speaks louder.”
HipHollywood is reporting Hilson did make Ibaka a priority in her life, but things must just have fallen apart for the two.
No exact word has been released as to what caused the break up. But it feels like someone’s artistic juices are flowing, which could result in a new album or singles about her break up.
Michael K. Williams felt the REALNESS of 12 Years A Slave on Arsenio
There are some heart-wrenching and disturbing moments in the Oscar Award nominated film, ‘12 Years A Slave.’
While visiting the Arsenio Hall Show, actor Michael K. Williams shared one moment that actually happened when the cameras stopped rolling. His description was so graphic, it brought Arsenio Hall tears. He explained,
There was a scene unfortunately it didn’t make the film…We were shooting this scene where my character Roberts is being dragged to the slave ship and he was revolting, he was trailing, he was going crazy. Around the fifth time that we shot it Steve [McQueen, the director] yelled cut and something came over me I don’t know what it was..I fell to the ground, I couldn’t stop crying and screaming..I couldn’t even get up off the floor.
The stunt coordinator, he got on the floor with me, white man and he cradled me in his arms, and he rocked me and he kept saying, ‘It’s okay Mike let it out, let it out.’ And I screamed at the top of lungs, for what must’ve seemed like 15, 20 minutes.
Like a cloud passed over me and I got up..I was like okay let’s go. I think what happened to me was that I was given a glimpse into what out ancestors must’ve went through.
Watch the full clip.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave received nine nominations on the film’s strong showing with the Academy. Starring Oscar nominee Chiwetel, it grossed $1.515M in 761 theaters, averaging a decent $1,991.
The Ladies come out for The ESSENCE Black Women In Music Event
The 2014 ESSENCE Black Women in Music celebration honored emerging artist and songwriter Emeli Sandé. And we've got all the fabulous folks who came out to celebrate
Singers Chrisette Michele and Michelle Williams put on a few cute looks to hi up 1Oak in West Hollywood for the big ESSENCE Black Women In Music event,
Kelis is looking fabulous as usual these days as she made her way to the event in a red shaggy fur--like only she can.
Singer Emeli Sandé, who's also featured in Lincoln Motor Company’s “Journey” campaign, arrived in the 2014 Lincoln MKZ.
And celebs posed it up in front of sponsor Lincoln's all-new Lincoln MKC:
Vivica Fox put on her sparkling best and thigh high boots for the occasion.
Eddie George, who was there with his wife Taj of SWV, both looked pretty damn good.
Tank and his blue dress shoes popped up.
Goapele served up some major face in this red dress.
Leona Lewis made an appearance.
Michelle Williams rocked a cute black and white jumpsuit.
And Ledisi brought her mirrored gold pumps to the carpet.
SWV posed it up--and hopefully showed a few of these chicks what true music is.
Sevyn Streeter took a bold risk with matching red shadow with her sexy red gown look.
Former "R&B Diva" Nicci Gilbert was there to shine....in her own way.
The sangin' Kelly Price hit up the event.
Is Eugenia Washington from "Top Model" Chef Roble's new chick? Hmmm. He posted plenty of pics of them together--with kissy faced emoticons--on his IG last night. And he does have a thing for models...
Fab chick Mechelle Epps (comedian Mike Epps' wife) showed off how much fun she had at the event.
Bridget Kelly, Malinda Williams and Kelly Price all snapped a cute pic together.
And the H-Town homies "Girl Code" chick Alesha Renee and Beyonce's stylist Ty Hunter posed it up before heading out. Looking great guys!
Forbes Top Earning Players In The NBA , Lebron and Kobe Take Lead
Forbes dropped their list of the top earning players in the NBA and Kobe Bryant leads, especially with him being in the final season of his three year 83.5 million dollar contract with the Lakers back in 2010. He is the first player since Jordan to top $30 million with his playing salary. The NBA’s 10 highest-paid players will collectively bank $358 million this year, including $149 million from sponsors. Check out the list inside….
5 . Dwayne Wade – $30.7 Million
4. Kevin Durant – $31.8 Million
3. Derrick Rose – $38.6 Million
2. Lebron James – $61.1 Million
1. Kobe Bryant – $64.5 Million
D.Rose is making all of that money to do nothing …. Rose’s salary is inflated because it was locked in before everyone realized his knees were made of glass. James is the King, Wade is a 3x champion and Kobe is that man so their wages are justified. Carmelo is on the list but he is #6, I think Melo thought Lebron’s formula would work for him. However, putting the right people together is not that easy, and not everyone can do it.
Richard Sherman Receives Support from Hank Aaron
Richard Sherman may be on a lot of people’s hate list, but there’s at least one person standing in his corner.
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron has voiced his support of Sherman via Twitter. As we’ve reported, Sherman has come under serious fire since his rant against San Francisco receiver Michael Crabtree following Seattle’s victory over the 49ers in Sunday’s NFC championship game went viral.
Despite all the criticism, Aaron tweeted Sherman on Tuesday, telling the Seahawks cornerback to “hang in there & keep playing as well as you did Sunday. Excellent job – you have my support.”
Upon seeing the baseball legend’s tweet, Sherman thanked Aaron in a tweet, saying “your support is greatly appreciated and very humbling.”
The cornerback has written for mmqb.si.com for most of the season, and on Monday wrote that he’s not a villainous person and that his postgame interview with Fox reporter Erin Andrews stemmed from adrenaline and his dislike for Crabtree.
The day after reaction to the rant exploded on the Internet, Sherman wrote on mmqb.si.com that he’s not a villainous person. The athlete went on to explain the motivation behind the rant, writing that his postgame interview with Fox reporter Erin Andrews stemmed from adrenaline and his dislike for Crabtree.
Eva Marcille & Kevin McCall Welcomes Baby Marley AnyDay Now!!!
It’s almost time! America’s Next Top Baby is almost here!
The well known America’s Next Top Model alum Eva Marcille and singer/boyfriend Kevin McCall are prepping for the arrival of their first child together. Earlier this week McCall wrote on Instagram, “Anyday now… literally… (bitesnails)”
The couple celebrated the pink themed baby shower with family and friends in December. They also revealed their baby girl’s name Marley on a Big Pink Bellycast with two owls hanging from Kevin’s Neck.
Special Guest noted to be in attendance was Eva’s cousin, makeup artist (and Tamar Braxton’s Creative Director) Terrell Mullins, along with model Natasha Ellie, and friend Leslie Rosales.
AND FINALLY FROM THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART FILES
‘Words Of Wisdom’
Some excellent advice and motivation to help you get through the rest of your week.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AHEAD EVERYBODY!!!
EFREM
