Kobe stay swirlin’!! Serial cheater Kobe Bryant still may have to jump through some hoopsbefore he wins back estranged wife Vanessa. Although they smooched at a Feb. 14 Lakers game, the NBA great, 33, locked lips with Dancing With The Stars’ Cheryl Burke, 27, just days before, a source reveals. Then “he stopped calling. Cheryl was a little bummed, [but] she moved on quickly.” She must not have gotten the memo about Kobe promising Vanessa he’d never EVER EVER EVER cheat again. Poor thang. Source More On Bossip! EXCLUSIVE: Mike Epps’ Daughter Bria Monae Speaks To Bossip About Her Father’s Threats, Drug Use, Deadbeat Steez, And His OTHER Secret Love Child!!! Exhibitionists PT 2: The Most Revealing Celebrity Twitpics Of All Time Stop The Violence: Ex G-UNIT Member Young Buck Shot At 11 Times In Homicidal Drive-By Bling Bling For Love: 10 Huge And Unforgettable Celebrity Engagement Rings
Kaley Cuoco’s engagement has come to an end, as the CBS star has confirmed that she is no longer set to marry boyfriend/addiction specialist Josh Resnik. What happened? The actress is keeping that information to herself, but confirmed to Entertainment Tonight this week that she was no longer altar-bound. The subject came up when The Big Bang Theory star was asked if she took inspiration from the recent wedding of costar Kunal Nayyar. Her response: “I’m not engaged anymore, so no. But in general, yes. For my future wedding, yes!” That clears that up. As it were, the 26-year-old actress had never publicly declared any wedding date and only announced her engagement to Resnik last October. It’s unclear when the engagement was called off, but her show is still going strong. Just follow this link for a virtual library of The Big Bang Theory quotes !
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake ‘s recent engagement spawned the obligatory rumors of when and where the gorgeous couple will tie the knot. To wit … The uber-private couple is staying mum on the details . Big surprise. Still, some tidbits are getting out, since as who Biel’s eyeing as a dress designer and when exactly the big day’s going down. Approximately, at least. According to insiders, the wedding will take place this summer at a private estate. The quiet couple will have a small, secret ceremony with no press. Again, major shocker there. As for the dress, Jess has her eye on Monique Lhuillier – one of the premiere designers for A-listers – as her “number one choice” for her wedding gown. Not that there are photos to prove it, but Jessica Biel finally debuted the engagement ring at a Saturday Night Live after-party in NYC last weekend. One source who laid eyes on it at the party says the engagement ring actually “wasn’t huge” and “looked vintage and might have been custom made.” Hmm. Once worn by Justin’s grandma perhaps?
Uma Thurman is pregnant with her third child! This will be the first for the actress and boyfriend Arpad Busson … who called off their engagement in 2009, but recently got back together. In a big way, it appears! “She’s excited,” a Thurman pal said. “She’s happy; just a few months along right now.” The 41-year-old actress already has two children, 13-year-old daughter Maya and 10-year-old son Levon, with her former husband, Ethan Hawke. Her ex-spouse also has two children with his second wife, Ryan. Congratulations to Uma and Arpad “Arki” Busson! [Photo: WENN.com]
Tons of celebs were in Orlando this weekend for NBA All-Star Weekend, including sports fanatic Lil Wayne . In addition to performances from Nicki Minaj and Pitbull , who brought out Chris Brown and Ne-Yo , Weezy also performed. Check the video from his pre-game performance: RELATED: Nicki Minaj Performs At 2012 NBA All-Star Game [VIDEO] Pitbull, Chris Brown & Ne-Yo Perform At NBA All-Star Halftime Show [VIDEO] Lil Wayne Reportedly Fought NFL Player Dez Bryant At Miami Nightclub Lil Wayne Shoots Down Engagement Rumors
In The Vow , Rachel McAdams plays Paige, a Chicago sculptor who’s wife to Leo (Channing Tatum), the owner of a recording studio. The two are talking about starting a family, clearly giddily in love, when they get into a car accident that results in Paige taking a slow-motion header through the windshield. She sustains a brain injury that leaves her with amnesia, losing all memory of meeting and having a relationship with Leo. He finds himself having to convince the woman he married of the depth and strength of their connection when to her he might as well be a stranger. While all of the above is true of the film, the second from Michael Sucsy (who also directed the 2009 Drew Barrymore/Jessica Lange Grey Gardens ), it buries the lede, which is that Paige is missing everything that happened in the last few years — not just Leo, but moving to the city from the upscale suburb of Lake Forest in which she grew up, leaving law school to become an artist, breaking off her engagement with smarmy attorney Jeremy (Scott Speedman) and cutting ties with her family after a giant fight, the details of which we don’t learn until late in the film. She’s shocked to find that she gave up straightening her hair, that she lives in a funky loft and wears boho clothing, that she’s become a vegetarian and, if the gasp she gives when told that Barack Obama is president and she voted for him is any indication, that she only relatively recently became a Democrat. Indeed, Paige has forgotten how to be a hipster. Post-trauma, to Leo’s bemusement, she orders blueberry mojitos, wears prim dresses, gets highlights and declares her favorite book to be The Beach House by James Patterson. Leo first encountered Paige after a series of major life changes (we see, in flashback, how they met at the DMV) and had never met her parents, played by Sam Neill and Jessica Lange, before their arrival at the hospital shortly after she comes out of her coma. Stuffily dressed and taut faced, they have a campy suburban gothic air to them, and are delighted to be able to welcome their daughter back into their lives as if they’d never fought in the first place — which they essentially didn’t, since she has no memory of it. The two parties wage cultural warfare over the dazed Paige, one side offering the comforts of the familiar, including her family and posh childhood home, the other the urban life and love she chose instead. These themes of what makes up one’s identity, and whether Paige is still the woman with whom Leo fell in love without the experiences that came to define her, are a lot more solid than the romance aspects of The Vow . McAdams can turn up the charisma and make (almost) any role grounded and watchable, even multiple ones involving time travel and memory loss. Tatum is like a very handsome steak. Unfortunately, he’s the one saddled with the swoony, Nicholas Sparksesque burdens in the story, from a voiceover about love and fate delivered in an earnest monotone, to spelling out “MOVE IN?” in blueberries when serving Paige breakfast, to accidentally complementing the aesthetic merits of her scrap pile instead of the sculpture in progress she’s working on. He just isn’t expressive enough an actor to carry all of Leo’s pining and heartbreak, as he suffers through Paige’s unintended cruelty as she tries and fails to connect with him and the person she used to be. “I’m so tired of disappointing you,” she tells him after he reacts with exasperated sadness to her inability to remember their past, and it’s an unintended consequence of the casting that she seems reasonable and right in considering moving on, and that one doesn’t feel the need to blubber in response, “But you’re meant to be together !” The Vow, which is based on the story of real-life couple Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, doesn’t turn out to be as gauzily sentimental as its beginning (or its marketing materials ) suggests; though this probably isn’t intentional, it ends up making the argument that one’s romantic memories don’t tend to translate well when shared, as Leo walks Paige through the things they used to do as a couple, from the restaurant in which they used to eat (named, heh, Cafe Mnemonic) to the lakeside spot where they would skinny dip. But the most loving gesture in the film is its consideration that what may be best for someone’s happiness is letting them go, no matter how painful that may be. The ending is — spoiler alert? — an upbeat one, but it’s one the film drifts into, no last-minute gallop through an airport or desperate clinch in the rain. It’s a more grown-up conclusion than you’d expect, but feels anticlimactic when taken in the context of the story’s wobbles between realism and glossy, larger-than-life love story. Seriously, couldn’t he have restored a house for her or something? Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. His grandmother raised him until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University. During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. Hughes’s first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in Montage of a Dream Deferred. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other notable black poets of the period—Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen, Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. In his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York City, has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission, and East 127th Street has been renamed “Langston Hughes Place.” In addition to leaving us a large body of poetic work, Hughes wrote eleven plays and countless works of prose, including the well-known “Simple” books: Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Stakes a Claim, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple’s Uncle Sam. He edited the anthologies The Poetry of the Negro and The Book of Negro Folklore, wrote an acclaimed autobiography, The Big Sea and co-wrote the play Mule Bone with Zora Neale Hurston. A Selected Bibliography Poetry Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961) Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994) Dear Lovely Death (1931) Fields of Wonder (1947) Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) Freedom’s Plow (1943) Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) One-Way Ticket (1949) Scottsboro Limited (1932) Selected Poems (1959) Shakespeare in Harlem (1942) The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932) The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967) The Weary Blues (1926) Prose Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes (1973) I Wonder as I Wander (1956) Laughing to Keep From Crying (1952) Not Without Laughter (1930) Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 (2001) Simple Speaks His Mind (1950) Simple Stakes a Claim (1957) Simple Takes a Wife (1953) Simple’s Uncle Sam (1965) Something in Common and Other Stories (1963) Tambourines to Glory (1958) The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters (1980) The Big Sea (1940) The Langston Hughes Reader (1958) The Ways of White Folks (1934) Drama Black Nativity (1961) Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move (2000) Don’t You Want to Be Free? (1938) Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963) Little Ham (1935) Mulatto (1935) Mule Bone (1930) Simply Heavenly (1957) Soul Gone Home (1937) The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000) Poetry in Translation Cuba Libre (1948) Gypsy Ballads (1951) Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (1957) Translation Masters of the Dew (1947)
Last night, the candidates running for the nomination of the Republican party met for the last time in a forum in Jacksonville, Florida. Republicans will go to the polls this coming Tuesday and this is a must win for Newt Gingrich. This may have been the most important debate of the primary cycle and the full video of the engagement is below. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Thunder Pig Discovery Date : 27/01/2012 05:03 Number of articles : 2
It’s game over for Drew Carey and Nicole Jaracz. The Price Is Right host and his fiancee have ended their nearly five-year relationship. “He and Nicole still have a great deal of love and affection for one another,” Carey’s rep said. “He will still be very involved with their son’s life.” Drew Carey, 53, and Nicole Jaracz announced their engagement in October 2007. At the time, Jaracz had recently graduated from culinary school. “They are both very happy and excited about their future together,” Carey’s rep said at the time, adding that no wedding date had been set then … or ever. In 2010, Carey dropped 80 lbs., and attributed his significant weight loss to the strong inspiration of his fianc
For those you with Armed Forces friends and family, please pay attention… Violent sex crimes committed by active U.S. Army soldiers have almost doubled over the past five years, due in part to the trauma of war, according to an Army report released on Thursday. Reported violent sex crimes increased by 90 percent over the five-year period from 2006 to 2011. There were 2,811 violent felonies in 2011, nearly half of which were violent felony sex crimes. Most were committed in the United States. One violent sex crime was committed by a soldier every six hours and 40 minutes in 2011, the Army said, serving as the main driver for an overall increase in violent felony crimes. Higher rates of violent sex crimes are “likely outcomes” of intentional misconduct, lax discipline, post-combat adrenaline, high levels of stress and behavioral health issues, the report said. There is no excusing this kind of behavior whatsoever, but as we saw last week, soldiers may be dealing with mental health issues that may severely affect their judgment and attitude. The top five violent felony offenses committed by soldiers in 2011 were aggravated assault, rape, aggravated sexual assault, forcible sodomy and child pornography. Soldiers suffering from issues such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury, and depression have been shown to have higher incidences of partner abuse, according to the report. Soldiers with PTSD are up to three times more likely to be aggressive with their female partners than those without such trauma, the report said. This is as sad as it is disturbing. If you have Armed Forces members amongst your family or friends, encourage them to seek counseling and treatment if they appear to be having trouble readjusting to civilian life. Source More On Bossip! Get Your Life Together: 10 Classic Junk Food Snacks That Will Turn You Into A Paula Deen Chubby-Lumpkins Visitation Hours: Famous Dads That Are Always With Their Kids Even Though It Didn’t Work Out With Mommy X-Rated Bangers: The Hottest Black Adult Movie Stars In The Biz…Would You Wife Any Of Them? Part 3! Beautifully Coupled Up: Look At This Atlanta Falcons Player And His Boo’s Engagement Pics
