Jessica Alba's new movie 'Little Fockers' is flying high at the box office, but according to the star we almost didn't get the chance to see her in it.
After filming 2007's 'Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer' the 29-year old beauty almost gave up acting.
Director Tim Story was especially tough on the actress during the shoot, causing her to question whether or not she was good enough.
“I wanted to stop acting. I hated it. I really hated it. I remember when I was dying in Silver Surfer. The director was like, ‘It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica.’ He was like, ‘Don’t do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.’ It all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don’t want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work?"
Luckily Jessica got over her bout of self doubt and we'll be seeing a lot more of her on the big screen in the future.
She will next star in 'Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World', which is due out later this year.
(CNN) -- A federal judge was killed and a congresswoman gravely wounded Saturday in a shooting outside of a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store, according to police and government officials.
In all, six people died and 12 were wounded in the shooting, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, according to Rick Kastigar, bureau chief for the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
President Barack Obama later said Chief Judge John Roll of the U.S. District Court for Arizona was among the dead.
A 9-year-old girl also died in the attack, according to authorities. The child, whose identity had not been released, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
An Arizona law enforcement source and a federal law enforcement source identified the suspect as Jared Lee Loughner. Other law enforcement sources put his age at 22. U.S. Capitol Police said the suspect was in custody.
Police recovered a 9mm Glock handgun, according to senior law enforcement sources.
Dr. Peter Rhee of University Medical Center in Tucson, said Giffords, 40, had undergone surgery for a single gunshot to the head that passed through her brain. Giffords was among five patients listed in critical condition, Rhee said.
At least two victims with gunshot wounds were transported to another hospital, Northwest Medical Center, according to spokesman Richard Parker.
Kastigar declined to comment on a possible motive for the attack. Police have set a news conference to discuss developments in the case for 6 p.m. (8 p.m. ET).
Tucson police Chief Roberto Villasenor said his department had secured the homes and offices of some unnamed federal officials as a "precautionary measure."
Although U.S. Capitol Police said there was no evidence of a broader threat involving federal officials, the agency said it had advised other members of Congress to take "reasonable and prudent precautions regarding their personal safety and security," the agency said in a statement.
Obama said he had directed FBI Director Robert Mueller to travel to Arizona to support the investigation. An FBI spokesman said the agency was sending agents to the scene,
Rhee, in a brief news conference at the hospital, said that Giffords had been moved to intensive care from surgery and said he was "very optimistic" about her recovery.
"I'm about as optimistic as it can get in this situation," he said.
He said the next 24 hours will be key for determining the extent of her recovery.
Giffords, a Democrat, was first elected in 2006. She has served as chairwoman of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee and also holds seats on the House Science and Technology and Armed Services committees.
She won her third term in a closely contested race against a Tea Party-sponsored candidate and was one of three Democratic legislators who reported vandalism at their offices following the March vote on health care reform.
She is married to Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, a NASA astronaut who is scheduled to lead a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
Roll was a 1991 Bush appointee to the federal bench. The chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, he was originally from Pennsylvania.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said the attack was committed by a "wicked person who has no sense of justice or compassion."
"Whoever did this, whatever their reason, they are a disgrace to Arizona, this country and the human race, and they deserve and will receive the contempt of all decent people and the strongest punishment of the law," he said.
Obama called the attack an "unspeakable tragedy."
"We do not yet have all the answers," he said. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society."
House Speaker John Boehner said he was "horrified" by the shooting.
"An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve," he said. "Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society."
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts issued a statement decrying the shootings and the loss of Roll, whom he called a "wise jurist who selflessly served Arizona and the nation with great distinction."
"Chief Judge Roll's death is a somber reminder of the rule of law and the sacrifices of those who work to secure it," Roberts said.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said an incident like this could have a chilling effect on the frequent weekend listening post sessions many members of Congress have with their constituents. "It does give you pause," Pingree said.
Multi-talented singer/actor/comedian Jamie Foxx stopped by the Tonight Show With Jay Leno the other night.
As always Jamie had jokes. Before he even sat down he was vibing with the band singing the old school cut "Bustin Loose", hyping the crowd, he even managed to get Leno to bust a couple dance moves.
Of course Jamie has a couple of movies in the works. He talks to Jay about the upcoming comedy starring himself, Martin Lawrence and George Lopez.
In the movie Foxx and Lawrence reprise their roles as Wanda Wayne and Sheneneh Jenkins. The pair hook up and start robbing banks.
Lopez plays the detective trying to track them down. No word yet on a release date for the film.
Jamie also performs "Fall For Your Type" and "Yep Dat's Me" from his new album 'Best Night Of My Life.'
Jamie Foxx Interview With Jay Leno
Jamie and Martn Lawrence as Wanda and Sheneneh robbing banks
Jamie Foxx Performs "Fall For Your Type" x "Yep Dat's Me"
A couple of days ago a video surfaced of an uncle teaching his nephew a lesson about e-thugging.
The nephew had been making fake gang threats on facebook, so the uncle made him get on camera and admit it was all fake. Then he whooped his ass with a belt for the whole world to see.
Broken Equipment wasted no time in making a new spoof with Birdman as the angry uncle/daddy and Lil Wayne as the knucklehead fake gang banger.
Hilarious......
Birdman whooping Lil Wayne's ass for being a fake gang banger
Real ish: Uncle beats his nephew's ass for e-thugging
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The Bad Boy Records CEO got some much needed downtime over New Years as he cruised to St. Barts in an $850,000 a week, iPad operated yacht dubbed Solemates.
Diddy was joined by girlfriend Kim Porter and their twin daughters Jessie and D’Lila Combs.
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Eminem is back on top of the album charts, and now Vulture has learned exclusively that he's headed back to Hollywood, too: On Wednesday, his Recovery was officially confirmed as last year's biggest-selling album; now this blog hears that the rapper intends to star in a new crime thriller at 20th Century Fox called Random Acts of Violence.
Insiders tell Vulture that Eminem’s Shady Films comrades Paul Rosenberg and Stuart Parr — who also produced his 2002 feature debut 8 Mile, as well as 50 Cent's semi-autobiographical 2005 movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' — would produce Acts of Violence.
What's Random all about? Well, a few years back, the script was essentially a poor man’s version of video game Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games’s global megahit. But insiders say the financial incentive was decidedly limited for Rockstar, and the downside massive, and the company declined to sell Fox the rights. (Even as a first-dollar gross participant in an adaptation, Rockstar stood to make only a small percentage of the film's grosses for licensing GTA. Considering that the games in the GTA series have sold a combined 100+ million copies around the world, that’s chickenfeed hardly worth risking a franchise over.)
At first, the studio tried to make Random with a plot that was just thisclose to that of GTA: A June 2008 draft has an ex-con named Emile trying to save his failing repo business and pay for his uncle's botched coke deal by stealing a string of sports cars (Here's "Emile" stealing a Shelby Mustang! Now he's stealing a Porsche! Uh-oh, now he’s stealing a Ferrari 599! etc.) But the script more or less read like a video game, so Fox shifted gears.
The studio brought in writer-director David Von Ancken, who for the last few years has been directing Showtime’s Californication, but who’d also directed the 2006 Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan revenge Western, Seraphim Falls. Von Ancken quickly scrapped the auto eroticism: Out went the car thievery; in came the grit and realism of 8 Mile.
The result, say people familiar with Random's current draft, is a thriller more akin to The Town or The Departed: An ex-con smarter than his past is fresh out of prison and trying to stay legit — but his efforts are complicated by his old gang, who want him back on the job. So, too, does the FBI, which hopes he’ll wear a wire and bring down the crime syndicate. The ex-con, meanwhile, tries to play both sides against each other long enough to exact revenge against those — on both sides of the law — who sent him to prison in the first place.
Insiders tell Vulture that the studio will make one last pass at the script with another writer while Von Ancken is off directing episodic TV, but will likely bring Von Ancken back to direct the film when the screenplay is polished and ready later this year.
Random is an interesting project, not just because of its material or its star, but also because of the sagging fortunes of the recording industry: When Eminem starred in 8 Mile in 2002, he’d just released the 8 million-selling The Eminem Show. By comparison, last year's Recovery has sold “only” 3.3 million copies since its release last June. Has Eminem's box-office pull waned along with the record business's fortunes? Possibly, but Fox is betting that you’ll lose yourself one more time.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- A task force made up of local and federal law enforcement agencies is actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of hip hop artist Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
According to one law enforcement source, the investigation into the 13-year-old unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago as a result of new information, but the source would not elaborate further because of the ongoing investigation that includes the Los Angeles Police Department, L.A. County District Attorney's Office and the FBI.
On March 9, 1997, Wallace, 24, was shot and killed while riding in a Suburban that was driving away from a music industry party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police said a lone gunman in a Chevy Impala pulled alongside the Suburban and opened fire on Wallace, who was in the passenger seat. Witnesses described the suspect as being an African-American man wearing a suit and bow tie.
The main theory behind shooting was payback in a so-called rap war between East and West Coast hip hop artists and their record companies -- Bad Boy Entertainment in New York, which represented Wallace, and Death Row Records, headed by Marion "Suge" Knight, in Los Angeles.
Six months earlier in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire on a car driven by Knight, killing one of his top artists Tupac Shakur. That murder remains unsolved also.
"East Coast was Biggie, West Coast was Tupac," Wallace's mother Voletta Wallace told a filmmaker in the 2002 documentary "Biggie and Tupac."
"Come on now, you're messing with lives here and that's exactly what happened. Two lives were lost as a result of what? Stupidity?" Voletta Wallace told the filmmaker.
Retired Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, who worked on the Wallace case, told CNN that he believes Knight was behind the murder, even though the Death Row Records' boss was serving time on a probation violation at the time.
Russell Poole
"Suge Knight ordered the hit," Poole said, adding that he believes it was arranged by Reggie Wright Jr., who headed security for Death Row Records.
Reggie Wright Jr. told CNN he had nothing to do with the murder, and Knight has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with the crime. Poole said he retired early from the LAPD, in part, because he was thwarted in following leads in the Wallace case involving police officers, some of whom worked off-duty for Death Row Records.
"I think I was getting too close to the truth," Poole said. "I think they feared that the truth would be a scandal."
One of the officers Poole said was involved is David Mack, a rogue policeman tied to the LAPD Rampart Scandal, who was sent to prison for robbing a bank in 1997, the same year Wallace was killed.
David Mack
Poole said Mack owned the same type of car driven by the gunman who shot Wallace, and Poole said a friend of Mack's resembles a police sketch of the shooter.
CNN was unable to reach Mack for comment, but when allegations of his involvement in Wallace' slaying originally surfaced more than a decade ago, his criminal defense attorney Donald Re called the claims ridiculous.
Poole also assisted Wallace's family in their wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department alleging a cover-up in the investigation.
Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks was the chief of police when Poole was investigating, and he told CNN the accusations about a police cover-up are "absurd."
"We would have never ignored a lead that could have helped us solve that murder," Parks said.
Perry Sanders, Voletta Wallace's attorney, told CNN the family's lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2002, was put on hold in April after Los Angeles police said turning over evidence from the case would interfere with a beefed up investigation.
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(Reform Agency) - An autopsy revealed that Elizabeth Muniz Gabriela Tamez, "The Redhead", was alive on Friday, 31 when she was hung from Gonzalitos Avenue pedestrian bridge in front of the Cologne Mithras Norte in Monterrey, where he was found dead life.
Doctors found evidence to determine that the alleged kidnapper was a victim at the scene.
A source from the State Attorney General reported that the medical report confirming the suspect was alive and that the murderers had made their final preparations at the top of the pedestrian bridge before killing Muñiz Tamez.
Although doctors found bruises on the women in various parts of the body, the opinion found that "The Redhead" died of asphyxia by hanging.
The source mentioned that we now know that the killers tied the woman's neck with a type of rope used for climbing, and the other end of the same rope was tied to the railing of the bridge, then drop the body.
The crime was reported Friday at 6:00 pm in the bridge at Gonzalitos, at the height of the street Tuxtla.
The alleged kidnapper was being transported by three guards in a vehicle from the Penal del Topo Chico to a University Hospital when the vehicle was intercepted by gunman.
T.I. attempted to sneak in some XXX time with his wife Tiny during a visit over the weekend, but was caught by prison officials.
Rules at Arkansas State Prison state that inmates are allowed to kiss and embrace at the beginning and at the end of a visit as well as hold hands. But "the inmate’s hands must remain in plain view of Visiting Room staff at all times."
T.I. was evidently doing a little bit more than kissing and hugging.
TMZ reports that the rapper has been reprimanded and sent to a "Special Housing Unit" with stricter rules.
Tiny won't be allowed to visit her husband until he is out of the unit. No word yet on how long that will be.
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