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Rihanna Concert Brings Kanye West To Tears "It Was A Very Emotional Moment For Me"

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 15, 2010 at 7:54am

Seeing Rihanna in concert makes Kanye West feel sensitive. The Louis Vuitton Don caught RiRi's show at Madison Square Garden last Thursday (August 12) and got caught up in the moment according to Rap-Up. “So I went to Rihanna’s concert tonight and when I saw her do ‘I’m so hard, eh eh eh,’ I’m not gonna lie to ya’ll, I might of actually started crying—just to see my little sister onstage with her production and her outfit and her song and rocking Madison Square Garden at her own show sold out,” he said. “It was a very emotional moment for me and I’m just so proud of her.” Rihanna is definitely spreading her wings and making major moves these days. She's wrapping up her first headlining gig, 'The Last Girl On Earth Tour' and is set to star in her first movie, 'Battleship'.

Actress Blake Lively Bares Cleavage, Talks New Green Lantern Movie At Comic-Con [Video + Pics]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on July 26, 2010 at 8:30am

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SAN DIEGO — It's only been six and a half months since the world was introduced to the idea of Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, the romantic interest of Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan in "Green Lantern." But Lively used her time well, becoming well-versed in her character's mythology and backstory. Her enthusiasm over her role shone through at San Diego Comic-Con, where she shared some details about her character with MTV News.

"She's [Jordan's] boss and she's also a fighter pilot," Lively said. "She's only second to him. They're the [top] two pilots in the world. So she's also his rival, and so it creates a really interesting dynamic and a cool tension."

Lively, best known for her work on "Gossip Girl," is making her first foray into superhero films with the "Green Lantern" role. She has had Reynolds' support since she was cast, but her appearance at the "Green Lantern" panel on Saturday (July 24) should cement fan support as well.

One of the aspects of the film that most excited Lively was the way its setting moved between Earth and outer space. "That's what's so nice about it," she said. "Superhero movies, [you're] either in a specific city on planet Earth, or in space. But the fact that you get to go back and forth [in "Green Lantern"] is a unique thing that you haven't seen in many movies."

Source: MTV

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Rihanna 'Last Girl On Earth' Tour, Behind The Scenes [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on April 16, 2010 at 10:30pm

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Rihanna's 'Last Girl On Earth' world tour kicked off Friday (April 16) in Antwerp, Belgium.

Despite losing one of her opening acts in Nicki Minaj, Riri is hitting the road at just the right time.

Her single "Rude Boy" is sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the fifth week.

Check out the behind the scenes footage of Rihanna preparing for the tour and the dates she will be back in North America with opening act Ke$ha.

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Friday, July 2 – White River Amphitheatre - Seattle, WA
Sunday, July 4 – General Motors Place – Vancouver, Canada
Tuesday, July 6 – Pengrowth Saddeldome – Calgary, Canada
Friday, July 9 – ARCO Arena – Sacramento, CA
Saturday, July 10 – Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
Monday, July 12 – USANA Amphitheatre – Salt Lake City, UT
Wednesday, July 14 - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque presents The Pavilion – Albuquerque, NM
Thursday, July 15 – Comfort Dental Amphitheatre – Denver, CO
Saturday, July 17 – Mandalay Bay Events Center – Las Vegas, NV
Wednesday, July 21 – Staples Center – Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, July 22 – Cricket Wireless Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ
Sunday, July 25 – AT&T Center – San Antonio, TX
Wednesday, July 28 – Philips Arena – Atlanta, GA
Friday, July 30 – Ford Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL
Saturday, July 31 – American Airlines Center – Miami, FL
Tuesday, August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center – Indianapolis, IN
Thursday, August 5 – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre – Toronto, Canada
Saturday, August 7 – Bell Center – Montreal, Canada
Sunday, August 8 – Comcast Center – Boston, MA
Wednesday, August 11 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
Thursday, August 12 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Sunday, August 15 – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY
Wednesday, August 18 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
Friday, August 20 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA
Saturday, August 21 – Hersheypark Stadium – Hershey, PA
Sunday, August 22 – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Detroit, MI
Wednesday, August 25 – United Center – Chicago, IL

The black girl who turned into a white woman after vitiligo changed color of her entire body

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 26, 2009 at 5:46pm

Darcel De Vlugt DailyMail UK Reports Her skin is so pale that she wears Factor 100 sun cream on even a dull summer day. Yet, incredibly, 23-year-old Darcel de Vlugt was born black. In a case of extreme rarity, the skin condition vitiligo has taken the pigment from her entire body. Experts say they have never come across such a striking change and she says: 'I have a hard job convincing people that I was actually born with dark skin.' Darcel's parents Peter and Charmaine, both from Trinidad, noticed white spots on her forearm and forehead when she was five. Doctors diagnosed vitiligo, the same condition said to have affected Michael Jackson. By the age of seven, white patches had appeared on her legs along with white spots on the rest of her body.

Darcel Age Seven These gradually grew bigger until, when she was 17, the transformation was complete. 'My father worked for the United Nations and we travelled the world a lot with his job,' said Darcel, now a fashion designer in London. 'My family believe the stress of moving at such a young age brought on the condition. None of my direct family have ever suffered with the condition, although several relatives by marriage have had it in a less serious form than me. ‘When I was first diagnosed at the age of five, we didn’t take it too seriously. The doctor gave me medication to try and stop it spreading, and we thought that it wouldn’t get any worse.' But by the age of seven, white patches had started to appear on Miss De Vlugt’s legs, and then by the time she was nine, it had spread up her arms too. A year later it had started to spread up her neck and up to her nose. She said: ‘We tried all the treatment we could to try and stop it spreading, but nothing seemed to work. The doctors told me to sunbathe for ten minutes each day which I did for a year, then I took medication for five years. 'At the age of 12 I tried UV laser treatment, but it didn't work and by then, 80 per cent of my body was white so I decided to leave it. There was nothing I could do.’ Vitiligo causes the immune system to attack the pigment cells which give skin its colour. It affects one person in 100 of any age, race or colour although it is normally more noticeable in those with naturally dark skin. Darcel has a brother Dion, 29, who is unaffected. Their father still works for the UN and is now based in Africa. Because it has no melanin, Darcel's skin is vulnerable to sunburn, and she has to constantly wear suncream with a sun protection factor of 100. She said: ‘I was very badly burnt at the age of nine, to the extent where my skin looked like it had been burnt in a fire. ‘I was covered in fluid filled blisters and it took weeks to heal. It was so painful.’

Darcel's Parents, Peter And Charmaine Miss De Vlugt was given the option of bleaching the remainder of her skin as her body started to change colour, but she decided against it. She said: ‘I believe that Michael Jackson had vitiligo and had patches of it on his body, then he bleached the rest so it had an even look. ‘But I didn’t want to bleach it as it would mean it was irreversible, and I had hoped that all the treatments I had been having would work instead. ‘But now my body is completely white all over, with not a patch of brown left, so I wouldn’t have needed to bleach any remaining skinanyway.’ Last month in the Mail, Luke Davis described how he had changed from black to white apart from a circular patch on his back. But a spokesman for the Vitiligo Society said it was 'extremely unusual' for the entire body to change colour.

It was her destiny to live: 8 year old Bronx girl Destiny Antonio survives seven-story plunge from window

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 20, 2009 at 10:00pm

Family photo of Destiny Antonio, 8, who fell from her 7th floor apartment window and survived. New York Daily News Reports It was her destiny to survive. An 8-year-old Bronx girl aptly named Destiny survived a seven-floor plunge from her bedroom window early Thursday. Destiny Antonio landed on a 10-foot swath of grass in front of the Castle Hill Houses, narrowly missing a paved roadway when she fell around 1:30 a.m. "When somebody after that stays alive, it's a gift from God," said neighbor Juanita Candelare, 64. "I'm gonna' thank God all day that she's alive." Friends said the family was sleeping when Destiny somehow tumbled out of the window in the bedroom she shares with some of her 11 siblings. The little girl is undergoing surgery at Jacobi Medical Center, said longtime family friend Paul Miller. She suffered a broken hip, shattered pelvis, broken leg and trauma to her intestines and liver. "Doctors are saying the first six hours are the most important," Miller said. Authorities are still trying to determine how the child got out of the window, which has a visible window guard. Miller said the window also opens from the top and believes the child squeezed herself through that. He said Destiny's mom had complained to building management recently about the gap and that it had been fixed. A NYCHA employee said the top of the window should only open four inches.

Scene at 2140 Seward Avenue, Destiny Antonio, fell. "She might have lifted the window up and climbed over the window guards?" neighbor Cecilia Colon, 52, speculated. "It's a mystery. I can't figure it out." Luis Guzman was hanging out with friends when he heard the girl hit ground and said she was "moving around, like when you're having a nightmare." "It sounded like you threw something very heavy," he said. "When we looked it was a little girl right there." Guzman sat by the girl, dressed in her pajamas, and told her, "Mama, don't move." The girl's mom ran outside immediately. "Oh, my baby!" the mother cried. Guzman said the woman almost fainted. Relatives were keeping vigil Thursday at the hospital as Destiny underwent surgery. "A miraculous kid," Miller said of Destiny. "God had his hands on her," he added.

Jamie Foxx - "Digital Girl" (Remix) feat. Drake, The-Dream & Kanye West (Official Music Video)

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 20, 2009 at 6:00pm

Man Or Woman ? Rising Track Star Forced To Take Gender Test To Prove She Is A Female

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 20, 2009 at 4:00pm

The Guardian Reports The father of a women's world champion athlete today angrily denied accusations that the teenager was secretly born a man, insisting: "She is my little girl." Caster Semenya, 18, is undergoing a gender test to prove she is female after beating her rivals by a huge margin to win the gold medal in the world championship 800 metres in Berlin. Family, friends and teachers at her home in South Africa recalled how Semenya played football with boys, wore trousers instead of skirts and endured teasing by her peers. But all asserted that she is definitely a woman. Jacob Semenya, her father, told the Sowetan newspaper: "She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times." He attacked his daughter's critics, saying: "For the first time South Africans have someone to be proud of and detractors are already shouting wolf. It is unfair. I wish they would leave my daughter alone." Semenya, who has a muscular build and deep voice, aroused suspicions recently with a dramatic improvement in performance. She went from a virtual unknown to the world's fastest woman over 800m this year when she clocked 1:56.72 at the African junior championships in Mauritius. She sliced more than a second off that with her winning time of 1:55.45 in Berlin on Wednesday.

Athletics' world governing body has asked South African officials to conduct a "gender verification test". The test, which takes weeks to complete, requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynaecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender. There is bewilderment and indignation over the controversy in Fairlie, the impoverished village in Limpopo province where Semenya practised her running on dirt roads and poorly kept playing fields. She lived with her grandmother while at secondary school and grew up without electricity or running water. Her grandmother, Maphuthi Sekgala, said: "I know she's a woman – I raised her myself. She called me after [the heats] and told me that they think she's a man. What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way." The 80-year-old added that Semenya had been teased when growing up because of her boyish looks. "If the teasing hurt her, she kept the hurt to herself and didn't show what she was feeling," she told South Africa's Times newspaper. The athlete's mother said doubts about her daughter's gender were motivated by jealousy. Dorcus Semenya told the Star: "If you go to my home village and ask any of my neighbours, they would tell you that Mokgadi [Caster] is a girl. They know because they helped raise her. People can say whatever they like but the truth will remain, which is that my child is a girl. I am not concerned about such things." A picture emerged of Semenya as a tomboy who transgressed the rigid gender roles of South Africa's traditional rural communities. Her mother said Caster's first love was football. "Often I would ask her why she kept playing soccer, and with boys. All she said was, 'It's because I like it.' With her, everything was about soccer, soccer." Semenya was the only girl in the football team in Fairlie. Her former teachers spoke with pride about her prowess but admitted they had not always been certain of her gender. Eric Modiba, head of the Nthema secondary school, where Semenya was a pupil from 2004 until last year, said: "She was a happy child – I never saw her angry. She had a lot of friends, both boys and girls. She excelled at sport, especially athletics and football, which she played very well. "I have never seen her in a skirt or dress, always trousers. Initially we doubted her gender but eventually we realised she's a girl. We've seen her birth certificate and her file from primary school. At about the age of 16 she started to associate with other girls and try different hairstyles. But she never developed breasts." Morris Gilbert, a spokesman for Pretoria University's sports department, where Semenya is now a sports science student, said the issue of her gender had not been raised. "We are all very proud of her and of what she's achieved," he said. "The university stands behind her all the way." The runner's coach, Michael Seme, laughed off the allegations, saying that Semenya fielded constant questions about whether she was a boy from younger athletes when training. "Then she has to explain that she can't help the fact that her voice is so gruff and that she really is a girl. The remarkable thing is that Caster remains completely calm and never loses her dignity when she is questioned about her gender." Semenya had been "crudely humiliated" a few times and the closest Seme said he had seen her to anger was earlier this year when some people wanted her barred from using a women's toilet. "Then Caster said, 'Do you want me to pull down my pants that you can see?' Those same people came to her later and said they were extremely sorry." Semenya also received the backing of the governing African National Congress, which called on South Africans to rally around "our golden girl". The ANC said: "We condemn the motives of those who have made it their business to question her gender due to her physique and running style. Such comments can only serve to portray women as being weak." The ANC's youth league condemned the "racist agenda" of "imperialist countries", while the Young Communist League argued: "This smacks of racism of the highest order. It represents a mentality of conforming feminine outlook within the white race." Semenya herself is said to be bemused by the speculation. Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane, the South African team manager in Berlin, said: "She said to me she doesn't see what the big deal is all about. She believes it is a God-given talent and she will exercise it."

Ex "The Apprentice" bad girl Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth attends Ohio seminary to become a minister

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 18, 2009 at 10:38am

NY Daily News Reports Hey, Omarosa - you're inspired? The reality show bad girl, best known for her appearances with Donald Trump on "The Apprentice," began studies this week to become a minister. The swap of reality for spirituality began Monday at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Omarosa is studying for a doctorate of ministry. When Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth arrived at the seminary, President Wendy Deichmann greeted her with a gift: A mustard seed. The present referred to the biblical Parable of the Mustard Seed, where Jesus Christ compares the kingdom of heaven to a tiny seed that blossoms into something much bigger. "Very few people have faith in my transformation, so this is a wonderful gift," Omarosa told her. The doubters may have caught her villainous act on "The Apprentice" or another reality show, "The Surreal Life." And even Omarosa herself was a little nervous about the move. "First day of school jitters," she wrote on her Twitter page. Omarosa is studying the Old and New Testaments, along with the history of Christianity. Her education also requires field work among the sick and dying at local hospitals.