Atlanta’s impact on entertainment and music constantly is moving the culture and Viceland featured A-Town in it’s latest edition of Noisey! Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Noisey host Zach Goldbaum posted about the documentary to his Twitter account. “Atlanta is on top because artists make it, stay, and give back. Other cities could learn from that […]
The eight-year old daughter of Jamie Lynn Spears is reportedly fighting for her life. According to TMZ, young Maddie Spears was on a hunting expedition of some kind on Sunday when she was badly injured in an ATV accident. The accident took place in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana. While details are still coming in, sources tell the website that Maddie was riding a Polaris off-road vehicle when it flipped over. She was submerged under water after for several minutes, losing consciousness in the process. Jamie Lynn Spears was NOT with her daughter, who was air-lifted to a local hospital, at the time of the crash. TMZ has described Maddie’s condition as “extremely serious.” However, a representative for the family of Jamie Lynn and Britney Spears contradicts this report, although it remains clear that something happened to Maddie. “The details the media are reporting surrounding the incident regarding Jamie Lynn’s daughter Maddie are incorrect,” this rep says, adding: “Right now the Spears family asks that everyone respect their privacy during this time and appreciates all the prayers and support for their family.” Jamie Lynn and then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge made major headlines when they welcomed Maddie into the world in 2008. Spears was only 16 years old at the time. She was best known as the younger sister of Britney, of course, but also for her role as Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon sitcom Zoey 101, on which she starred from 2005 to 2008. Shortly after giving birth, however, Jamie Lynn largely disappeared from the spotlight in order to focus on being a full-time mother. She quietly got married to Jamie Watson in 2014. And she opened up last June to People about raising Maddie in Louisiana. “She’s got such a sweet little heart,” Spears told People Magazine at the time. “I feel like I’ve raised her with a lot of honesty, but I’ve also raised her with a lot of love. She’s a very happy, content little girl, and there’s nothing more a parent could ask for. “That’s my most proud accomplishment out of anything and always will be.” Spears spoke at the time in promotion of the documentary Jamie Lynn Spears: When the Lights Go Out on TLC. The special chronicled her life as a parent and former celebrity over the past few years. Please join us in sending thoughts and prayers to Jamie Lynn Spears, Maddie Spears and their loved ones.
KKK Members Say A&E Producers Paid Them To Fake Scenes We recently reported A&E canceled its controversial KKK docuseries . As previously reported Generation KKK was to air in January and document about KKK members trying to “rebrand” the Klan’s vile, racist image. According to Variety , members of the KKK claim they were paid to fake scenes on the canceled show. Some KKK leaders divulged that they were paid hundreds of dollars in cash each day of filming to compel them on camera to distort the facts of their lives to fit the documentary’s predetermined narrative: tension between Klan members and relatives of theirs who wanted to get out of the Klan. The KKK leaders who were interviewed by Variety detailed how they were wooed with promises the program would capture the truth about life in the organization; encouraged not to file taxes on cash payments for agreeing to participate in the filming; presented with pre-scripted fictional story scenarios; instructed what to say on camera; asked to misrepresent their actual identities, motivations and relationships with others, and re-enacted camera shoots repeatedly until the production team was satisfied. The KKK members claimed they were “betrayed” by the producers after being paid for their services… The production team even paid for material and equipment to construct and burn wooden crosses and Nazi swastikas, according to multiple sources including Richard Nichols, who is one of the featured subjects of the documentary series as the Grand Dragon of a KKK cell known as the Tennessee White Knights of the Invisible Empire. He also said he was encouraged by a producer to use the epithet “nigger” in interviews. “We were betrayed by the producers and A&E,” said Nichols. “It was all made up—pretty much everything we said and did was fake and because that is what the film people told us to do and say.” WELP IT’S CANCELED SO WHO CARES!
Even cable networks get scammed sometimes. That was the case for the A&E Channel who cancelled their upcoming KKK documentary which was intended to serve as a close look at anti-hate extractors focused on helping people leave the Ku Klux Klan. In a statement released over the weekend, the network said that they’ve decided not to air […]
Tom Cruise, the Master of Scientology , has broken his silence and talked about Scientology for the first time … Well, in a long time. Like, a really long time – a couch-jumping kind of long time, honestly. Cruise opened up in an interview during the promotion of his new film, Jack Reacher 2: Never Go Back , and had a fair amount to say about the controversial cult religion organization. When a reporter surprised him and dared to ask what he thought about the anti-Scientology propaganda films that have emerged over the last few years, Tom, ever the PR-pro, spun it and said, “It’s something that has helped me incredibly in my life.” “I’ve been a Scientologist for over 30 years,” he continued, essentially avoiding the question altogether. “It’s something, you know, without it, I wouldn’t be where I am.” No doubt, son. “So it’s a beautiful religion,” Tom continued. “I’m incredibly proud.” He’s got a pretty valid point when he says that he “wouldn’t be” where he is today if it weren’t for Scientology, because all of the CoS leg-breakers back him in whatever he does. Yeah, Jack Reacher isn’t exactly Mission Impossible (except for that it really is, just with less hot women and a different name than Ethan Hunt) or even Top Gun … But this old man’s still getting roles upon roles heaped upon his pile so much, that his alien cup runneth over. Basically, Cruise gets away with whatever he wants. Then, of course, there’s his obvious exoneration from having to care for his daughter, Suri Cruise , since she’s affiliated with her SP mother, Katie Holmes. We’d say it’s a safe bet to make that he wouldn’t get away with half of the stuff that he does now if it weren’t for his “religion.” When you’re Tom Cruise, though, you can do all sorts of wonky things like audition girlfriends and put years-long gag orders on your ex-wives to prevent them from making money off of your neuroses. It must be hell for those you leave in your wake of terror, but jeez. When you don’t have any responsibilities to anyone or anything other than a Thetan spaceship, there’s a lot of free time on your hands in which you can learn the art of mastering manipulation. Life’s good when you’re a top-ranking member of Scientology, yeah?
Regardless of your feeling on the man’s guilt or innocence, if you watched the incendiary Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer you know that Steven Avery hasn’t led the easiest life. The 54-year-old Wisconsin native was falsely convicted of rape and attempted murder in 1985 at the age of 22. He served 18 years of a 32-year sentence before being exonerated on the strength of new DNA evidence. He had been free for just two years when he was arrested for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Avery was convicted of murder in 2007, and he’s been serving time at Waupun Correctional Institute ever since. Many believe that Avery was framed by vengeful authorities who were humiliated by his exoneration and stood to suffer further embarrassment if his lawsuit against the Manitowoc County Police Department went to court. Avery’s first wife divorced him during his first stretch in prison. His fiancee at the time he was arrested for the Halbach murder left him after his conviction. There had not been much to smile about in Avery’s life, but these days, he has two bright spots on the horizon. For one thing, the documentary about his trial has attracted the interest of a new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, who is currently at work on Avery’s wrongful conviction case. On top of the hope that he’ll soon be exonerated a second time, Avery is once again engaged, this time to Las Vegas legal secretary Lynn Hartman. Zellner confirmed the engagement in a press release issued this morning: “Steven Avery’s engagement to Lynn is one bright spot in an otherwise unbelievably tragic and unfair life story,” Zellner wrote. “Cheers to both of them.” Avery himself hinted at the engagement during a recent phone interview with the Daily Mail : “She’s going to be my future wife. We’ll be laughing forever,” he said of Hartman. “I’m happy. She treats me decent, she loves me. She’s kind of spoiling me right now. I just want to be happy and enjoy my life. I think I did enough time.” Avery filed an appeal for a re-trial back in January, and these days, it’s looking as though he has ample cause to be optimistic. According to a judge’s order, Avery’s nephew, Brendan Dassey, will be released from prison after serving nearly a decade behind bars. Dassey was convicted of being an accomplice in Halbach’s murder back in 2007. Video of his coerced confession is often cited by Making a Murderer fans as the most glaring evidence of police corruption in the investigation. It may be quite some time until a verdict is reached in Avery’s new trial. But if things go his way in court, he’ll have at least one person eagerly waiting for him at the prison gates.
Before he was Prisoner No. 0264892, O.J. Simpson was a star. In ESPN’s five-part 30 for 30 documentary about “The Juice,” the story takes a look at where he grew up and went to school