(Akiit.com) Former “The Parkers” star Mo’Nique went to prison to do a comedy show — and says she found the experience more profoundly affecting than she could have imagined. “Don’t misunderstand me. Most people who are in prison, should be. But, some who are there are not bad people. They ...
     (Akiit.com) Denzel Washington has agreed to produce and possibly star in “Journal for Jordan,†a film based on the letters of a soldier killed in Baghdad during the Iraq war.      The project is based on a New York Times essay written by Dana Canedy, who described a 200-page ...
    (Akiit.com) Halle Berry returned to her hometown of Valley View, Ohio Thursday night to attend a special screening of her new film “Perfect Stranger,†a thriller co-starring Bruce Willis.      Under a steady drizzle, the 40-year-old Academy Award winner greeted fans, posed for pictures, stopped for interviews with local ...
     (Akiit.com) The Miss USA tiara has seen some rough days in the past 12 months. But it all came to an end Friday as the crown waived buh-bye to the sex scandals, club hopping and rehab stint endured under the reign of Tara Conner and found itself atop the ...
(Akiit.com) SANTA MONICA, Calif. – A judge ordered the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department on Friday to set a date to auction the rights to O.J. Simpson’s book, “If I Did It.” The book, in which Simpson explains how he might have committed the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson ...
(Akiit.com) NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has started production on an animated musical fairy tale called “The Frog Princess,” which will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio’s first black princess. The company unveiled the plans at its annual shareholders’ meeting in ...
(Akiit.com) 10:50 am PDT March 21, 2007 Museum Planned In Fredericksburg, Va. RICHMOND, Va. — If you’ve ever dreamed of quipping alongside Bill Cosby, now’s your chance. A YouTube-inspired campaign will let Web surfers create homemade videos featuring America’s funniest dad, as he urges them to donate toward building a ...
(Akiit.com) Thu Mar 22,12:11 PM ET Vivica A. Fox was released from jail early Wednesday after she was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence, authorities said. The 42-year-old actress was pulled over late Tuesday after her vehicle passed a patrol car on the Hollywood Freeway at 80 mph, ...
(Akiit.com) Wed Mar 21,10:48 AM ET Boxing great, ordained minister and grilling guru George Foreman has added another job to his resume: reality TV judge. Foreman, 58, will be one of four judges on ABC’s “American Inventor” when it begins its second season June 6, FremantleMedia North America Inc. announced ...
(Akiit.com) – On Wednesday night, a record number of viewers tuned-in to watch music and fashion collide on the catwalk with RIP THE RUNWAY. Produced by Cossette Productions and BET, the sexiest hour of cable television garnered an impressive 1.8 BET coverage rating (1.5 million households and 1.9 million total ...
(Akiit.com) Nothing has changed for Halle Berry since appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show†in 2004, fresh from the philandering of husband Eric Benet and boldly proclaiming that she will never, never get married again.      “I will never, never get married again,” Berry said for the bajillionth time in ...
Says she’s more than ‘just a rapper’ and a larger destiny is waiting March 19, 2007 Lil’ Kim is having none of that kind of talk. The notorious rapper, known for her tight-fitting, showing-nearly-everything outfits almost as much as her music, clams up about her 2005 prison stint. (She was ...