It's a scenario every parent of a teenager will recognise: the bedroom door closes, a volume dial is rotated clockwise and loud music fills the room for hours at a time. But there is some good news – this routine might actually make your child more caring and socially responsible.
After years of studies purporting to show the harmful effects of young people listening to songs with violent or misogynistic themes, a psychologist has concluded that music containing a positive message has a beneficial impact on listeners.
Dr Tobias Greitemeyer from the University of Sussex carried out a series of tests on groups of students in which those exposed to so-called pro-social music – one example was Help! by the Beatles – later acted in a more considerate and empathetic way than peers who had listened to songs containing a neutral or apparently meaningless lyrical message.
His experiments took groups of students and split them at random into those who listened individually either to socially-conscious songs or those with a neutral message, and then used various ways to measure the apparent effect. In one, after the music had stopped, a researcher "accidentally" knocked a cup of pencils from a table and paused briefly before beginning to collect them.
On average, those who had heard songs like Michael Jackson's Heal the World responded more quickly and picked up almost five times as many pencils as people in the other group.
Other volunteers were asked, after listening to the music, whether they would help with a separate research project. Almost three times as many in the "pro-social" group said they would. "It's a very consistent effect. I did not expect it would be so significant," Greitemeyer said.
Source: Guardian UK
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Tiger Woods' scorned wife is telling pals that her philandering husband left a cool $300 million in her Christmas stocking - as reporters played a cat-and-mouse game hunting for him in New York Sunday.Elin Nordegren held her head high skiing in the French Alps over the weekend - and a stunning new report reveals why.
Asked by pals what her tomcatting hubby got her for the holidays, Nordegren coolly declared, "Three hundred million dollars, thank you very much."
The report, in Britain's News of the World, said it's all part of her plan to get hers - and keep their two kids in comfort - in a coming divorce battle.
"She's 100% determined to split with Tiger," the source told the tabloid. "When she boasted of the '$300 million Christmas gift' and then laughed, it was clear to everyone around her that she's more focused than ever about moving on with her life."
Woods has not seen his two children - Sam, 2, and 10-month-old Charlie - for more than a month and had to mail them their Christmas presents, the source said.
"Elin feels that Tiger isn't mentally well enough to spend time with her or the kids," the source said. "Tiger wanted to see them for Christmas, but Elin went away skiing at a secret location in California and then fled to France for more snow and space."
Photographs in Sunday's Daily News capture a carefree Nordegren hitting the slopes at France's Chamonix ski resort, where she celebrated her 30th birthday Friday inside the $8,000-a-night hideaway.
While Nordegren is away, sources suggest her hubby is in New York to play.
A source told The News that Woods was staying in the Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, showing up Saturday accompanied by a leggy blond woman. The source said Woods was staying in a $2,200-a-night, seventh-floor suite.
The spy also said Woods ordered 16 cases of Red Bull and 20 bottles of Absolut Vodka delivered to his room.
Woods has not showed his face in public since before Thanksgiving, when he crashed his car in front of his Florida mansion, triggering the almost daily revelations about a bevy of mistresses.
Photographers and reporters swarmed the Trump hotel hoping for the first post-smashup photograph of Woods.
Staff insisted that Woods was not a guest - and the NYPD wasn't informed of any Woods-related activities, two sources said.
The only famous face seen going in and out of the hotel over the weekend was ABC's George Stephanopoulos,the new host of "Good Morning America." The network said he was not there to interview Woods.
Another source close to Woods trashed the reports Sunday.
"He's not as flashy as the person who is doing all that ordering of vodka ..." the source told The News.
Source: NY Daily News
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If you thought 2009 was a big year for music, just wait until you see what 2010 has in store. While the past 12 months were all about Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the comeback, the sequel and the new look, with anticipated discs on tap from a reunited Blink-182, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Diddy, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Usher, MGMT and the soundtrack to the third "Twilight" film, "Eclipse."Pop
Perry has been "spilling out material" for the follow-up to her breakthrough, One of the Boys, citing such über-pop acts as Ace of Base and the Cardigans as inspiration. She's worked with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Rihanna collaborator Tricky Stewart so far, but hasn't really nailed down a release date.
While we know Britney Spears has also been in the studio, working on the sequel to Circus, its unknown if the back-on-track pop diva will finish up the disc in time for a 2010 release. Former rival Christina Aguilera, though, has reportedly started her electro-influenced follow-up to 2006's Back to Basics with an eclectic group of women, including M.I.A., Sia, Santigold and Ladytron, but has seemingly put it on hold until she finishes filming her bit for the movie "Burlesque."
Also potentially on tap for 2010: a new album from Madonna, troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse's long-awaited follow-up to her Grammy-winning Back to Black breakthrough, and the second album from She & Him, featuring actress Zooey Deschanel and singer/songwriter M. Ward.
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Unlike Green Day, My Chemical Romance are not planning to do back-to-back concept albums. The band is prepping a more aggressive return after the high-concept The Black Parade, with superstar producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen) helping them stay on track.
Seven years after their last effort, reunited pop punks Blink-182 are expected to release their first album since 2003's self-titled affair. Drummer Travis Barker is also wrapping work on his solo debut but said the plan is to write and record the Blink disc in the first part of the year.
Other releases on tap include: the much-anticipated second album from former buzz band Vampire Weekend, a new disc from Canadian collective the Arcade Fire, a potential release from Radiohead, a second album from Jack White's Dead Weather, a possible get-back from the Strokes, a new Fleet Foxes effort, Kid Rock's latest, the sophomore disc from Grammy nominees MGMT, and a new Gorillaz album featuring vocals from Lou Reed, Mos Def and the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb. Though no information is available yet, we can only assume that the soundtrack to the third "Twilight" movie, "Eclipse," will be a monster.
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He broke his long silence with Relapse and Refill in 2009, but Eminem has more in store for 2010, as he's promised to drop the second half of his recent fruitful spurt of creativity, Relapse 2. While we're not holding our breath for the epically delayed finale from Em's mentor, Dr. Dre, there's a possibility that Detox will also finally hit shelves this year.
One album we know is coming out is Lil Wayne's rock-tinged Rebirth. After moving around more than a half-dozen times in 2009, the disc is now due February 1, just a week before Wayne is slated to go to prison for a year on gun charges. Of course, due to that Amazon.com slip-up, 500 lucky fans already have the disc, which quickly became readily available online, so it's possible the official release will change the track list up a bit.
It's also possible T.I. could drop his next album very soon after being released to a halfway house following his 366-day sentence on federal weapons charges, and imprisoned rapper Gucci Mane recently said he already has his next album, The State vs. Radric Davis: The Appeal, ready to roll.
Another CD everyone is holding their breath for is Drake's debut, Thank Me Later, which is expected to deliver on the hype created by his mixtapes and EP. After a few delays, Usher's Raymond vs. Raymond is now slated for a March release, with hype already built thanks to the hit single "Papers."
Nas' former wife, Kelis, is promising a "futuristic disco" sound on her upcoming disc, Flesh Tone. N.E.R.D. will have a new, "very 3-D" sound, thanks to the recent addition of female vocalist Rhea, and Erykah Badu will finally drop New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) in February, promising a less politically driven effort this time around.
We could finally get a listen to Missy Elliott's first album in five years, Block Party, as well as solo discs from Big Boi — his long-delayed Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty — and Andre 3000, as well as a possible new Outkast collabo.
Though he's been laying low since his VMA stage rush on Taylor Swift, it's possible Kanye West will have some new music for us this year. We know Diddy is on tap to unleash his concept dance album Last Train to Paris, and Travis McCoy is prepping his solo debut as well as a new album from Gym Class Heroes.
After promising a swan-song, three-disc set called LupE.N.D. last year, and then having second thoughts, Lupe Fiasco has reportedly been working on a CD called Lasers that could see light in 2010. Also bumped to the new year is the ninth studio album from hip-hop iron men and Jimmy Fallon house band the Roots, with How I Got Over, as well as Ludacris' Battle of the Sexes, a reported duet album with DTP home girl Shawnna.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, because with all this action, we might also get a new one from Lady Gaga, which could really be a monster.
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Sometimes there are those news events that take place which are so bizarre that you wonder why some people engage in such stupid and idiotic behavior.
A good example of this can be seen South Dakota when state troopers arrested Marguerite Engle for having a blood alcohol level of .708.
What happened was a stolen van was spotted on the side of the road on December 1st. When officers approached the vehicle they found Engle passed out and behind the wheel of the vehicle.
After giving her a blood alcohol test it was determined that her blood alcohol level was nearly nine times that of the legal limit for South Dakota (which is .08) and is above the safe limit for safely consuming alcohol of .40.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of the story was that she was even alive. Levels of .40 are considered lethal.
“She was almost double that,” Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal told the Daily News Thursday. “The BAC is almost incomprehensible.”
The highest blood-alcohol level previously recorded in South Dakota was .56, reports the Daily News.
To make matters even worse when Engle was out on bail she was found again in another stolen vehicle, with her passed out behind the wheel. The blood alcohol level of the latest incident is still yet to be determined.
What this shows is that some people engage in such irresponsible behavior that they take some of the most dubious honors, in the case of Engel hers is having the highest blood alcohol level ever recorded.
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Curvy Kate Winslet has topped a national poll to find the perfect celebrity body of 2009.
The Oscar-winning actress, who has been praised for promoting a more realistic body shape, took the top spot with 16% of the overall votes - narrowly pipping shapely Kelly Brook into second place with 15%.
Kelly Brook
And super thin celebrities Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss finished bottom of the poll carried out with 2,000 respondents by Slimming World and YouGov, scoring just 1% each of the votes.
Kate Moss
Former Casualty actress and Slimming World Woman of the Year, Rebecca Wheatley, who herself lost over 12 stone with the slimming club, believes this marks a shift in people’s perception of what is attractive – especially for women, with whom Winslet scored two thirds of her votes.
“It’s fantastic to see that finally women seem to be aspiring towards a healthy body shape that is realistic and achievable,” she says.
“Kate Winslet has always spoken out about the importance of accepting your body. After all, healthy women come in all sizes. It’s definitely a step forward that rather than persuading women to set their sights on being super thin, which can lead to misery when they fail to achieve their target, more celebrities are encouraging inner confidence and a positive body image and showing women how they can be happy with their shape. I found my positive body image at my Slimming World group, where you’re able to choose the weight you want to be without fear of judgement. I’m now a healthy size 12, and loving it.”
Dr Jacquie Lavin, Slimming World’s Head of Nutrition and Research, added: “It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham and perhaps suggests that it’s not being ‘skinny’ that’s most important to them anymore, it’s being healthy.
“However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85% of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight. By helping women to improve their self confidence and giving them the freedom to set the target weight that they feel most comfortable with, as we do at Slimming World, we can help thousands of women to discover their own perfect body shape – just like Rebecca Wheatley has.”
Halle BerryPerfect celebrity body table*Kate Winslet – 16%
Kelly Brook – 15%
Halle Berry – 12%
Cheryl Cole – 10%
Beyonce – 6%
Megan Fox – 5%
Lily Allen – 4%
Keeley Hazell – 2%
Sienna Miller – 2%
Kate Moss – 1%
Jordan – 1%
Victoria Beckham – 1%SlimmingWorld
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Tracklist:
01. Skillz - The Wrap Up 2009
02. Lil’ Wayne - Burn In Heaven (Feat. Drake)
03. Juelz Santana - Move The Damn Thing (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)
04. Lil’ Wayne - Dance Floor
05. Lil’ Wayne - It’s All 4 You
06. Cassidy - Freestyle
07. Cassidy - Rock Right Now (Feat. Jag)
08. Styles P - I’m A Soldier
09. Styles P - Kick Doors (Feat. Pokerface)
10. Jadakiss, Styles P, Busta Rhymes, And Rakim - Euphoria
11. Lloyd Banks - The Power Pack
12. Cassidy, Lloyd Banks, And Trav - Baby Ride The Wave Pt. 2
13. Hell Rell - Criminal Minds (Feat. A-Mafia)
14. Hell Rell - It’s Ruga
15. J.R. Writer - Whiteowl Drop That
16. J.R. Writer - Freestyle
17. Cam’ron - Dedicated 2 My Boo
18. Drake - My Pleasure
19. Jay-Z - This Is The Life
20. Nas - The Essence Pt. 2 (Feat. AZ)
21. Nicki Minaj - Come On Whiteowl
22. Lil’ Wayne And Nicki Minaj - Knock Me Out
23. Nicki Minaj - Whiteowl Interlude
24. Lil’ Wayne - I’m Runnin’
25. Lil’ Wayne - Paradise City
26. Styles P - Don’t Be Scared Freestyle
27. A-Wall - Get It Poppin’ In The Club
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With all the controversy surrounding the latest video from Jay-Z "On To The Next One" and its supposed blasphemous images. This is bound to make some people feel uncomfortable as well.
According to a story reported by HipHopWired. New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne will appear in an Adult Swim cartoon titled "Freaknik" as Jesus Christ
The name "Freaknik" is taken from a former annual event held in Atlanta for mostly African American college students from around the country.
Adult Swim is known for edgy cartoons generally geared for audiences 18 years of age and older. If the creators of "Freaknik" were looking to get a buzz then this should do it. The only question is, will it be a positive or negative buzz?
The cartoon which also features T-Pain and David Banner will air on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim March 1st.
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Chris Brown never turns down an opportunity to party.
The R&B star hosted the 400 Club At Play party in South Beach, Florida Friday (December 1). A Lot of industry cats were in the building including The Snowman Young Jeezy, Bow Wow, E Class, Terrance J, Flo Rida & Lil Wayne.
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Call the RZA hip-hop's foremost alchemist. The self-professed former drug dealer-turned-Grammy-winning rapper-producer has defied all odds to spin not lead into gold, but démodé pop culture and arcane philosophical beliefs into platinum disc upon platinum disc.
And now, after spending years under the tutelage of several high-profile filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, he's preparing to unleash his unique mash-up sensibility on the big screen, in a project that will be part chop-socky flick, part spaghetti western and all RZA.
As founding father of the hard-core Staten Island rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, RZA (pronounced "rizza," given name: Robert Diggs) conflated the spiritual enlightenment found in '70s kung fu movies with racially incendiary teachings from the Five-Percent Nation of Islam, adding to the mix references to Taoism and comic books, numerology and snippets of mafia don movie dialogue, articulating a plaintive yet hard-bitten ghetto cri de coeur.
The upshot was an almost unparalleled string of hits that started with the Clan's epochal 1993 debut LP, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," and encompasses such releases as Method Man's multiplatinum-selling "Tical," Raekwon the Chef's "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx . . ." (widely regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest albums) and Ol' Dirty Bastard's gold-selling "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version," another ranking rap classic.
But after the Wu's tightly knit fabric started to unravel around 2004, RZA began to focus more on film. In recent years, he has been scoring such movies as "Blade: Trinity" and making cameo appearances in Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" and other films. His encyclopedic knowledge of Hong Kong cinema notwithstanding, the producer didn't have any particular ambition to set moviedom on fire. Until, that is, he got a fateful phone call from then-Miramax Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.
"Hey RZA, it's Harvey," the RZA recalled, lapsing into a raspy imitation of Weinstein's cigarette-seasoned growl. "I want you to be in my movie. You got a new career now."
Since that appearance with Clive Owen in 2005's "Derailed," RZA has built a respectable filmography with small roles in a number of high-profile, big-budget studio movies, among them Judd Apatow's "Funny People" and Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," as well as a turn in "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips' upcoming comedy, "Due Date," and Paul Haggis' "The Next Three Days" -- a role that reunited him with "Gangster" co-star Russell Crowe.
"I'm working up in the movie business," RZA said. "Maybe in the movie business, I'm working down. How long are you going to be a celebrity? I like the art. I like how it feels to act."
So do such other rappers-turned-actors as LL Cool J, Common, Xzibit, Ludacris, DMX, Ice Cube and even Snoop Dogg. But befitting the producer's magpie ability to glean and repackage cultural stimuli from across the high-low divide, RZA says his acting efforts are in the service of his next career act: a move behind the camera.
With no small amount of backup from a cadre of top-flight filmmakers -- including independent cinema luminary Jarmusch and Hong Kong action movie ace John Woo, but most significantly, Tarantino -- the RZA-rector, as he is sometimes known, is now in final preparations for his debut as a writer-director, "The Man With the Iron Fist." And unlike the fates of some musicians' directorial efforts (say, Madonna's "Filth and Wisdom" or Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's "The Education of Charlie Banks"), RZA's movie industry backers swear he has the right combination of creativity, chutzpah and discipline to achieve liftoff at the box office.
Planned as a genre-busting opening salvo to the industry, the movie is being produced by "torture porn" poster boy Eli Roth, the writer-director of such low-cost, high-yield horror films as "Hostel" and "Hostel: Part II."
RZA and Eli Roth
(For the time being, though, both filmmakers prefer to remain mum on specific plot points, although Roth allows that "Man With the Iron Fist" should appeal to "an audience that's hungry for kung fu but not grindhouse. Something that's modern, like 'Blade.' ")
"RZA is such a creative fountain. The script is great, he's got characters, jokes. What he does with lyrics, he does with dialogue," Roth said. "And he's done such a great mix: spaghetti western, kung fu, modern fighting infused with hip-hop and multiculture. He has this whole comic book universe figured out. I know he's going to make a brilliant film."
Of course, none of it would be possible without Tarantino, who godfathered Roth's "Hostel" into production as an executive producer and introduced the filmmaker to RZA. A longtime admirer of Wu-Tang Clan's sonic mélange, with his own deeply felt appreciation for the Shaolin monk movie cannon, Tarantino first hired RZA to create the electro-ambient, quasi-hip-hop score for his two-volume kung fu drama " Kill Bill." But their working relationship didn't end there. Tarantino has allowed the RZA to soak up production know-how on the set of every movie he's done since 2003.
Tarantino said he identifies with the hip-hop producer's skill in macromanaging the nine Clan members' unwieldy energies into a cohesive form. "You have to understand that even though they're very different, being a producer on a record is not too different from being a director of film -- especially with something like Wu-Tang Clan," Tarantino said. "All these guys have their different contributions. Everyone has a say. But ultimately, the album is RZA's decision. That's very similar to what a director does. It's a lot like how I was influenced by Phil Spector."
Still, RZA says he would not make the move into filmmaking without Tarantino's explicit blessing.
"Tarantino is my teacher," RZA said solemnly, echoing -- whether intentionally or not -- the kind of dialogue you'd hear in a martial-arts film. "I've watched hundreds of movies with him and spent hundreds of hours learning craft from him. I'm a disciple of Tarantino."
He continued: "When Eli said, 'I want to help you make your movie,' we had to go to Quentin. The teacher. He said, 'You and Eli are ready. You have my blessing.' "
Kanye West's image may have taken a couple of L's in 2009, but the Chicago rapper's ego didn't suffer one bit.
In his latest blog, Kanye reports that he's happy to be back in the studio recording new music "with the same dedication that Kobe (Bryant) has on the court".
West later compares his artistry to two of America's greatest African American poets and one incredible singer/songwriter, writing:
"We will follow in the footsteps of Maya Angelou, Gil Scott Heron and Nina Simone. Their work improved with time."
If Yeezy is to be believed then his future work will sound more like 'The College Dropout' and a lot less like '808's and Heartbreak'
At least we can hope.
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Video After The JumpSnoop D-Oh-Double-G hit up the Chelsea Lately show to talk about everything he's been up to recently.
The hilarious talk show host,(who seems to have a "thing" for rappers) congratulated the rap superstar on getting his Medical Marijuana Licence and asked how she might get one for herself
Chelsea also got the Doggfather to talk about his love for soap operas, the youth football league he sponsers and the possiblity of working with Susan Boyle.
Video After The JumpJamaican sensation Sean Kingston helped ring in the New Year by performing a medley of songs on Billboard's New Year's Eve Special.
Sean got the crowd excited by singing his biggest hit to date "Beautiful Girls" followed by "Take You There" and "Fire Burning"
Tuesday morning, I received the Golden Ticket of journalistic invitations: a summons to Prince's mansion, high atop Mulholland Drive, to hear the new music he'll be releasing sometime after the holidays. At 8 p.m. that evening, I drove my dirty Mazda past the fountain in his courtyard, parked by the limo in the back, and entered his manse. The man himself greeted me in a candelit study, where he was laboring over a laptop with his Web designers, Anthony Malzone and Scott Addison Clay.
The next five hours took me from that room to a car Prince referred to as "Miles Davis," where we listened to one set of songs; into a back room furnished with a round bed, faux-fur carpeting and a plexiglass Rhodes piano, where he played cuts by his new protege, the comely Bria Valente; and into that white limo, where the entirety of "Lotus Flower," the album previewed earlier this month on Indie 103.1, boomed through the speakers as we drove through Hollywood.
Needless to say, it was an amazing experience. After the jump, a few tidbits, including Prince's promise of three albums in 2009 and his thoughts on Proposition 8.
Prince will release not one, but three albums in the new year. He's in final negotiations with "a major retailer" to distribute the music in physical form, and a highly interactive website will also provide an opportunity to buy. He's not working with a record label. "The gatekeepers have to change," he said several times throughout the evening.
He's found his way back to the sound of "When Doves Cry." The first disc, tentatively titled "MPLSOUND," is an electro-flavored solo effort recorded at Paisley Park Studios. Prince experimented with Pro Tools and "new ways of recording" on these trippy, experimental pop songs. One features a Q-Tip rap; another calls a "Funky Congregation" to worship and may become a live set piece.
He's ready to revive the Quiet Storm. "We got sick of waiting for Sade to make a new album," he said, introducing Valente's new album, "Elixir." The tracks are chill, with Valente's buttery voice melding with beats by Morris Hayes and Prince's guitar lines. Some are explicitly sexual. "This music is nasty, but it's not dirty," Prince said, explaining how sensual music fits in with his much-discussed faith -- he's a Jehovah's Witness. "There's no profanity. It isn't promoting promiscuity. She's singing about her lover, who could be her partner for life."
He loves his guitar. As the tracks played on Indie 103.1 indicated, "Lotus Flower" is rooted in the instrument. Prince said he refocused on his playing while performing live dates with the singer Tamar Davis in 2006; with the spotlight trained on someone else, he could fall back in love with solos and riffs. "Lotus Flower" is a varied album, featuring cuts recorded over the course of two years, but standout tracks include some heavy rockers -- especially the apocalyptic "Dreamer," which Prince said was partly inspired by the radical black comedian Dick Gregory.
He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn't vote at all. "I didn't vote for Obama either," he explained. "Jehovah's Witnesses haven't voted for their whole inception." The controversy over a recent New Yorker "Talk of the Town" item, which Prince feels implied he supported the gay-marriage ban, has upset him. It's the first thing he wanted to discuss when the Web geeks had gone and we were alone. "I have friends that are gay and we study the Bible together," he said. He added that two sides fighting "only benefit the third person" who instigated the fight.
Source: L.A. Times
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Videos After The JumpMs.Keri Baby indeed, being the protege of super producer Timbaland can't be an easy thing but, Keri Hilson has proven she is up to the challenge.
Keri dropped her critically acclaimed as well as fan favorite debut cd "In A Perfect World" in March 2009 and hasn't looked back since.
The Interscope songbird made an appearance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest special and performed two of her biggest hits "Turning Me On" and "Knock Me Down"
Robin Thicke also made an appearance, performing his new single "Sex Therapy"
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A Florida inmate is demanding he be allowed to receive his smut behind bars, damn the rules.
Jorge Niebla, is currently serving 13 life sentences for six counts of kidnapping with a weapon, two counts of armed robbery, one count of carjacking, one count of burglary with assault and six counts of attempted second degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
He filed the two page lawsuit against Penthouse Magazine in handwritten block letters, complete with misspellings to Manhattan Federal Court.
“I would like to purchase the magazine but staff are being predjudice (sic) and don’t have respect for my basic rights.” Niebla wrote, also adding that Penthouse is not allowing him "access to the media"
The New York Post reports Niebla claims he never heard back after he wrote the company in August 2008 and asked for the price and ordering instructions for its April 2007 issue, which features a nude pictorial of burlesque star Dita Von Teese.
Niebla was ordered by a Florida judge to fill out a form to get a waiver of the $350 filing fee
Penthouse couldn't be reached for comment.
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Rapper Bow Wow isn't "lil" any more, and now that he's of legal drinking age, he seems to think it's cool to drive after a night of getting his drink on.TMZ reports that Bow Weezy partied it up in Miami with Akon and Chris Brown for New Year's Eve, and as they club hopped, he tweeted all about it.
In one Twitter update (@bowwow614), the young rapper said he was a "tipsy as f***", but still drove his Lamborghini after drinks at LIV nightclub at the Fontainbleau in Miami.
"Face numb Im whippin the Lambo. Tispy as f*k. Just left @livmiami," he wrote.
Then just minutes later, he continued, tweeting: "Im f**ked up!!! Ohhhh damn. Y i drive the lambo. Chris might have to drive after next spot."
Those tweets were deleted as of press time. Bow Wow has since apologized, calling his previous updates "immature."
"Apologize for that tweet," he wrote. "It was stupid and immature. Not a way i want to kick my #2010 year off. I got too much good stuff lined up. my bad."
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