Remember last week we told you about Superman (OK, a man in a costume) and Batman (again, a man in costume) getting busted for fighting with NYC cops in busy Times Square? Superman must have made bail because he was in Columbus Circle (a few blocks north of Times Square) last night performing and taunting police officers. And guess what? He was arrested again.
The album cover art has been released for her Whitney's first album in seven years, "I Look to You."
She has always been a gorgeous woman. Yes, even during that time she was smoking crack and even at Michael Jackson's 30th anniversary celebration in 2001 where she appeared emaciated, but: Did she hire Mariah's retoucher or did Whitney get surgicalized?
This blog's favorite housewife, NeNe Leakes, learned from her mistake (or did Wendy have a change of heart?). Whatever the case, the fabulous NeNe showed up on Wendy's show this morning. The two drank and gabbed. As Wendy plied her with the "truth serum," NeNe spilled the T on her relationship with her husband, Greg, and with her "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast.
On Kim: "People thought that we were best friends. We weren't. We were associates. We talked from time to time. We weren't best friends although I love her kids... Listen, I'm not friends with any of those girls on the 'Housewives' show, OK? We have a business relationship. That's where it starts and that's where it ends.
Wendy: And the business is Bravo? "The business is Bravo," NeNe replied.
On Kandi Burruss, the newest person to join the cast: Wendy: She's got money. "Oh, really? I'm just saying, oh, really. I don't know her like that," NeNe said.
You been to her house? "No, I've never been to her home."
Is she fabulous? "She aiight," NeNe said with a shrug of the shoulders.
On Xscape, the R&B group Kandi was a member of: "I don't know who they are." Maybe NeNe doesn't know anything about Kandi, but a lot of men do.
"Listen, it's not that I don't like the girls," NeNe added. "I like the girls. I talk to Lisa the most and um, Sheree and I, in the first episode, you see us try and mend our relationship. But what I'm saying is I think people get confused about what friendship is. Friends don't do what we do - talk bad about each other, be very negative toward each other... We're associates. We hang out from time to time. If I was really in a situation I wouldn't call them up. I have good friends and i have a new sister - you."
NeNe also addressed these juicy rumors that she and Gregg have split. She says throughout their almost 13-year marriage, they have never separated.
And oh, yeah, she joked that she was a drag queen and a man in her former life. As the show wrapped, NeNe dropped down and got her eagle on. Wendy, as she tells us, can't dance, so she just stood there.
It seems that Jada Pinkett Smith is always talking about her supposedly wonderful sex life with hubby Will Smith. Always. Maybe because people ask her about it, but she can politely tell them it's none of your business. All of this talk leads us to ponder: she doth protest too much. Why? It's been long rumored that both Will and Jada are gay. Or bisexuals. Or something.
She tells Shape magazine:
"When you have three kids, you've got to take your opportunities when they come. In a limo, on the way to the Academy Awards this year, Will started looking at me in this way that drives me wild. We started kissing passionately, and the next thing I knew, well, let's just say we missed the red carpet and I ended up with almost no makeup on."
Ne-Yo was partying it up in London with Michelle Williams, Keri Hilson and David Hasselhoff (hmm, what?) last night.
But two clubgoers wanted a piece of the singer.
"Two guys thought it would be hilarious to try to get Ne-Yo's hat," an onlooker said. "But when they tried, security stepped in and they were quickly dispatched from the club.”
Maybe their actions was payback for what Ne-Yo did to hundreds of fans a few days prior.
According to reports, Ne-Yo was booked to play a club gig in Norwich, England last Sunday, but he arrived hours late and - get this - then performed just one song before walking off stage.
In preparation for her highly-anticipated album, Whitney Houston is across the pond. She's in London to play tracks from ‘I Look To You’, her new album September 1, for the first time at an exclusive listening party. The crowd was overjoyed and loved it; she received a standing ovation. The first single has already leaked and is getting positive reviews.
Similar listening parties are scheduled for July 21 in New York and July 23 in Los Angeles.
Whilst in London, Whitney revealed that she was thisclose to retiring from music, that's was until her mentor, Clive Davis, called her about this album.
"When Clive called me I was pretty ready to buy my island home (and retire), but he said, 'No, you're going to sing again, people want to hear you.'" she said.
Clive managed to convince Whitney to return to the recording studio, and she's glad she did because the album fast became her "labor of love".
Sidebar: Have you noticed how Wendy has been begging cajoling Whitney to appear on the TV show? Insiders say it probably won't happen, but Wendy as trying as hard as she might anyway. The show desperately needs some star power and the stars don't brighter than Whitney.
Beyoncè may be one of the most talented entertainers in the biz, but a serious actress she's not.
Nia Long (where has she been?) is coming for somebody in an article in the July edition of Pride magazine.
Nia doesn't name names, but the inference is enough to gather that she's calling Beyoncè a bad actress.
I didn’t see ‘Obsessed,’ so I can’t comment, but it’s just not about how talented you are anymore. It’s about, ‘How much box-office revenue will this person generate?’... When you see certain people – we won’t name names – they just don’t have the skill, and no one in their team has said, ‘You need acting classes’…If you take time to develop your craft, God bless you....If you’re a singer not an actress, you should sing....Jamie Foxx is an example of both [actor and singer].”
In case you didn't know: Beyoncè starred in Obsessed which was released last April.
Blogger Perez Hilton has not been having a good time lately. It all began in Canada where he was punched in the eye by will.i.am's manager after he called the Black Eyed Peas frontman a "faggot."
In an interview with the Advocate, Perez said he contemplated calling will.i.am the n-word (yes, that n-word) instead, but he "thought the f-word was even worse."
Now N.O.R.E. is taking Perez to task, calling him a "faggot" and a racist.
He tells DJ Vlad: “To be perfectly honest with you, I was appalled. I was real upset he could admit that because at the end of the day, we have a black president. We’re moving on in this world, we have black governors… And the fact is, we still deal with that regular racism that’s going on. Now here's a guy who's a Cuban guy. For the record Cubans are considered blacks...I respect gay people, I hate f*ggots. This guy is a f*ggot. And the difference is a f*ggot is a person who hates everyone else who isn’t gay. A gay person is just happy to be gay. So when he has the audacity to admit that he wants to use the n-word, it was just like the most disrespectful thing in the world because even for him thinking like that, thinking to say that, he shouldn’t have even admitted to that. At the end of the day man, this sh*t needs to be addressed.... If he had ran across me during a time when were beefing and he would just say n. I would just punched him in his mouth...”
An 84 year-old Russian man has paid $4,000 to regain his sexual potency after falling in love with a young woman. However, disappointed with the results, Georgy Kolkov, pictured, has decided to file charges against the manufacturers of the expensive drugs.
Not long ago Kolkov met young beauty Marusia and immediately felt in love with her.
“The moment I set eyes on her I realized that she was my destiny,” he said. “I wanted to win her heart by any means possible. Round about that time I noticed a TV commercial for the miracle cure, restoring lapsed virility.”
He ordered the expensive drugs and completed the prescribed course of treatment. But after taking the drugs he did not feel any difference, apart from a terrible headache.
“I even bought special electric band for my penis. But what is the use? I have had only high-tension impact injuries, not at all the result I wanted,” Kolkov complained. After weeks of fruitless trying to recapture his youth, the old-man filed charges against the producers of the drugs.
“Put the swindlers into prison please! They have destroyed my private life! There is only one hope. Maybe, Marusia will love me such as I am,” Kolkov added.
Scientists are working on an anti-obesity pill that could reduce the fat stored by overweight people by almost a half in a week.
Tests on mice have shown that the drug could decrease body weight by a quarter and their fat content by 42 percent after seven days.
After a month, the weight of the mice had been reduced by 28 percent and their fat mass by 63 percent.
But experts warned that it could take a decade for the potential wonder drug to be developed for use by patients. The researchers, whose findings are published online in Nature Chemical Biology, say further research is needed before the drug is tested on humans.
But they say the results point to a new approach for the treatment of obesity and adult-onset diabetes.
The drug is an artificial hormone that regulates glucose metabolism.
Previous studies have found this substance can suppress appetite or lead to weight loss by increasing the body's calorie usage.
Dr Richard DiMarchi and colleagues at Indiana University created the synthetic hormone and carried out the trials on mice.
"Obesity and its associated consequences, including adult-onset diabetes, remain a primary health and economic threat for modern societies," he said.
At the moment surgical interventions such as gastric bypass remain the only therapeutic options with the potential for a cure.
Dr DiMarchi said acute glucagon administration reduces food intake in animals and in humans, and may also promote weight loss.
"Pharmacological treatment of obesity using single agents has limited efficacy or presents risk for serious adverse effects," he added. "No single agent has proven to be capable of reducing body weight more than 5 to 10 per cent in the obese population.
"Combination therapies using multiple drugs simultaneously may represent the preferred pharmaceutical approach to treat obesity, and there is ample precedent for combination therapy in treatment of chronic diseases.
"Here we present results that prove the principle that single molecules can be designed that are capable of simultaneously activating more than one mechanism to safely normalize body weight."
