(Akiit.com) Dave Chappelle was hospitalized over the weekend for exhaustion, his publicist said Tuesday. The 33-year-old comedian checked into an emergency room on Saturday and was released a few hours later, publicist Carla Sims said. “It was exhaustion; he had been traveling,” she said. “He’s fine.” Sims declined to say ...
(Akiit.com) _ Beverly Hills–Black Entertainment Television is exploring the launch of several new linear and broadband channels for distribution as early as next year, BET president Debra Lee told Akiit News Sunday. Lee, who spoke to Akiit News immediately after the network’s Television Critics Association tour session here, said the ...
(Akiit.com) Star Jones Reynolds says she will address speculation about her dramatic weight loss in a story for Glamour magazine. “I wrote an article because I really wanted to go as in-depth as possible about the way I’ve changed physically over the last 10 years on the air,” Reynolds, 45, ...
(Akiit.com) BET executives Sunday defended their upcoming program “Hot Ghetto Mess,†which has already had advertisers pull out because of claims that it features negative depictions of African-Americans. BET Entertainment president Reginald Hudlin, speaking Sunday at the Television Critics Association meeting in Los Angeles, said BET was going forward with ...
(Akiit.com) LOS ANGELES – Snoop Dogg’s home and work lives will be on display in a new reality series, E! Entertainment Television said Friday. The series, scheduled to debut in late 2007 and described by the cable channel as “hilarious and heartwarming,” will show the hip-hop heavyweight trying to balance ...
(Akiit.com) Ike Turner spent a night in jail after he was arrested on a 1989 narcotics warrant that turned out to be invalid, police said. The 75-year-old musician and ex-husband of Tina Turner was spotted on Interstate 405 in the San Fernando Valley about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police officers saw ...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No, it’s “de plane, de plane!” (Akiit.com) Eddie Murphy is set to star in a big-screen adaptation of Fantasy Island, the Aaron Spelling-produced primetime soap that ran from 1978-1984 on ABC and made a white-suited star of Ricardo Montalban, who played the island’s mysterious ...
(Akiit.com) A disk jockey filed a misdemeanor battery complaint against comedian Tracy Morgan, saying the NBC sitcom star inappropriately groped her at a South Florida radio station Friday morning. Yuleika De Castro told police that Morgan smelled of alcohol as he touched her shoulders and arms, kissed the back of ...
(Akiit.com) They were flat and off key. I expected that. Musically, things aren’t what they used to be. But there’s simply something wrong about a platinum male vocal group being onstage looking as if they’d just traipsed in from McDonald’s. Sagging jeans and designer sneakers, however coordinated, don’t exude much ...
Whatever She Wants, starring Vivica A. Fox, is the latest work in a growing genre (Akiit.com) Not long ago, Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut were among the top stars of a modestly successful movie subgenre — the all-black romantic comedy — that seems to have lost some of its ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Akiit.com) — The Queen of Soul is looking for a few good subjects. Auditions for singing and non-singing parts in a musical production based on music legend Aretha Franklin’s autobiography have been scheduled for May 1-3 in suburban Detroit. The musical based on the 1999 best-seller “Aretha: From ...
‘Somebodies,’ based on ’06 Sundance film, is about group of black slackers (Akiit.com) NEW YORK – BET is making the first scripted series in its 28-year history, a sitcom about a group of black slackers. “Somebodies†is expected to premiere in October, Reginald Hudlin, BET’s entertainment president, said Wednesday. As ...