Jay-Z Sued Over Using His Own Roc Nation Logo Jay Z is getting sued for using his own brand’s logo on MLB merchandise. Iconix Brand Group says they bought the official logo of Roc Nation for $204 million…so Jay legally can’t just slap it on merchandise without their permission. Jay recently placed the logo for his company on several new merch items for the San Francisco Giants, including Major League Baseball hats and shirts to name a fe. The problem is, Iconix didn’t have any knowledge of the deal or approval of the designs. The company is suing Jay Z personally, in addition to Roc Nation , MLB, New Era, Lids and the San Francisco Giants, for moving forward on the shirts and not letting them know. The company is known for owning major logos, as they are the owners for logos for Ed Hardy, Marc Ecko, and Ed Hardy as well. Why would Jay sell his logo to another company that can come bring him lawsuits for using his own stuff? SMH. It will be interesting to see how the trial turns out. Splash
NBC airs the season finale of “Taken” tonight at 10PM and we really wanted to urge you all to watch! If you haven’t tuned in so far, the show is an origin story that finds the protagonist of the “Taken” film Bryan Mills in his days as a young secret agent acquiring essential experience to add to his very lethal special set of skills. There’s a lot to love about the show. It’s fast paced with plenty of fight scenes, a body count that has continued to climb each episode and a cast that’s diverse without being extra or obvious about it. Standouts are Jennifer Beals — who is head chick in charge Christina Hart, Asha Flynn (Brooklyn Sudano) — Mills’ love interest (who happens to be black) and fellow agent John, played by Gaius Charles. Since the series’ start earlier this winter Charles has made himself available for weekly recap calls that include a little foreshadowing into the next week’s episode. When BOSSIP joined Charles on a recap call last week, he praised the episode for it’s strong female characters. Another aspect of the show that we love. Specifically the Black Girl Magic that’s evident in Beals, Sudano and Amanda Ware’s performances. Ware was a standout in last week’s episode “Gone,” playing an agent named Marie Salt, who finds herself compromised when her husband is taken. But it’s the threat against Sudano’s character Asha, that most compels us to watch tonight. “I like seeing Brooklyn Sudano’s character getting some time to shine,” Charles said of the episode. “I really like that relationship becoming so much more relatable, you see even in the struggles, in the fight, this isn’t just a cookie cutter TV show. Their relationship is more than a superficial piece of the episode, it’s really something that’s part of the humanity of their experiences.” The finale is LITERALLY the moment that we’ve been waiting for all season. A moment that should be so obvious, given the show’s title and the premise for the movie. The woman who is most important to Mills, his love Asha, has been “Taken” by the cartel leader who has been grappling with Mills for revenge since the first episode, a plot twist so obvious we could have kicked ourselves when it happened. But it snuck up on us, much like the show itself. @JaneeTMB @TakenNBC Yeah… I'm worried too #taken — Brooklyn Sudano (@BrooklynSudano) April 25, 2017 So if you haven’t already guessed we will be tuning in for the season finale. We urge you to do the same, and if you can’t catch it tonight be sure to catch up on the whole season on NBC.com or On Demand. This show definitely deserves to get a second season. Panagiotis Pantazidis/NBC | 2016 NBCUniversal Media, LLC
We’ve got a nice mix of skin classics and newer flicks you might not have heard of before in this week’s edition of Nudeworthy on Netflix! Last year’s criminally underseen The Overnight is now streaming, featuring boobs and bush from Judith Godreche , who also shares a steamy sapphic smooch with co-star Taylor Schilling ! Speaking of sapphic action, there’s plenty of that in 2006’s Loving Annabelle as stars Diane Gaidry and Erin Kelly bare plenty as a pair of lusty lesbians! Another overlooked indie gem is When Animals Dream , featuring the fantastic fun bags of star Sonia Suhl ! The third highest grossing film of 1983, Flashdance still packs a punch thanks to the sexy stylings of Jennifer Beals , Monique Gabrielle , and Sunny Johnson ! Finally this week is 2001’s Rock Star , featuring Jennifer Rovero and Natalie Raynes as Topless Cuties 1 & 2, as well as a sapphic smooch for star Jennifer Aniston !
It’s an excellent week for streaming on Netflix, with House of Cards ’ second season debuting to eager subscribers. Our favorite scene has got to be Rachel Brosnahan and Kate Lyn Sheil getting sticky in a topless lesbo romp. That’s our kind of congress! Elsewhere in skintast gratification, Brian De Palma ‘s erotic thriller Passion (2012) has Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams locked in a psychosexual competition, and Sofia Coppela’ s Somewhere (2010) has CC Sheffield , Laura Ramsay , and Nicole Trunfio all getting bare. Jennifer Beals gets sexy, but not naked, in Flashdance (1983), instead fellow strippers Monique Gabrielle and Sunny Johnson do the honors. Finally, you can enjoy the majesty of Elizabeth Hurley ’s tight, British Tea&A as she slinks around a yacht in The Weight of Water (2000). See pics after the jump!
Over 50,000 runners turned out for the 2013 New York City Marathon this week, and amongst them was the ever bouncy Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson . Pam may have a slight advantage thanks to all those slow-mo jogs she’s taken along the beach, but there are plenty of other titillating trotters achieving their personal breast, er… best with competitive running. The form is fine and the boobage is bouncy when sexy stars like Eliza Dushku , Jennifer Beals , and Katie Holmes hit their stride!
Ahem. So, if you could just take your eyes off Noomi Rapace’s naked breasts for a damn second, I’d like to ask you a question. Is it me or is the Prometheus star a terrible dancer? Compelling actor, yes — with a face that demands my attention every time she’s on screen. But check out that weird kind of heaving motion she makes when she’s imitating Mick Jagger in Jonas Akerlund’s music video for “Doom and Gloom.” What the hell is that? I mean, every two-bit stand-up comic beginning with Richard Belzer (remember when he was funny?) can imitate Jagger’s rooster strut, but Rapace seems to be having a hard time even getting in sync with the music. (In a way, I don’t blame her. This song may be on the band’s latest greatest hits collection, but it ain’t great, even if it becomes a hit.) And then there’s that Flashdance -like scene where you can’t really tell if it’s her or a stand-in. (Have You Seen Your Stand-In Baby, Standing in the Shadow?) Maybe that’s some kind of ironic take on the fact that Jennifer Beals had a stand-in for her dance scenes in the original. The quick-cutting is another clue. You would think that shots of Rapace dancing in a Stones video would be a selling point. Okay, maybe not as big a draw as her bare breasts, but sensual enough that the camera would be lingering a little longer as she lets her freak flag fly. Unless it was a little too freaky. What do you think? Let me know in the comments section. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Now that over 1 trillion pilots have been picked up for the fall season, it’s time for us to jump back from the onslaught, find our bearings, and realize we have a choice in this monstrous free-for-all too. While some pilots star bankable talents like Jimmy Smits and Matthew Perry and others are created by the Svengalis behind Grey’s Anatomy and Two and a Half Men , the rest seem more doomed than a six-hour episode of Romantically Challenged . Here they are, the five pilots already flying on fumes.
