Source: Prince Williams/Wire Image, WENN.com / Prince Williams/Wire Image, Getty Images, WENN.com Eva Marcille Says Michael Sterling Is Her Daughter’s Real Dad, Blasts Kevin McCall Eva Marcille is once again speaking on her ex whose erratic behavior has made headlines. The newest addition to RHOA was on Wendy Williams this week and spoke on a number of topics including her Bravo debut and her fellow housewives. Things got especially interesting however when Eva spoke on her “ Deuces” baby daddy Kevin McCall whose been an absent father in her daughter Marley Rae’s life. Eva once again affirmed that Marley’s real dad is her new husband Michael Sterling. “What’s amazing to me is that he thinks that biology is more important than being present,” said Eva. “Like, Marley knows her dad [Michael]. He picks her up from school. He gives her her life lessons. That’s her dad.” Not only that she also added that because of his “extremely dysfunctional behavior”, he’s not in a safe space for himself or others so he shouldn’t be around their baby girl. Back in January Eva told Essence that she has no relationship with Kevin and is keeping it that way. “We don’t have a relationship. He’s blocked on all my social media. I have full custody of my daughter and her dad is Michael Sterling, so he is a blast from the past and a memory. I do not let him affect my day-to-day in any shape, form or fashion, but I do pray him success, and moreso than anything, peace of mind. Marley is the priority, the biggest priority of my life, outside of my newest child and my fiancé. And at the end of the day, despite personal feelings, she deserves a level of stability, tranquility, and sanity. And [that’s] my job as a parent, no matter how hard it is for me to provide that for her, but that’s my job.” Source: David Livingston / Getty Eva makes a good point, Kevin isn’t very stable. Remember when he hinted that he was disowning little Marley? Do what’s best for your daughter, sis. See more of Eva on Wendy below.
5 Seconds Of Summer’s Calum Hood shared a public Spotify playlist titled, “For You, From Me” featuring songs from The Maine, All Time Low, Bob Marley, Walk The Moon, and more.
Tuff gong would be proud… Bob Marley’s Family To Launch Marley-Brand Cannabis Line Via NYDN : The family of reggae icon Bob Marley and a Seattle-based private equity firm said Tuesday they were launching the first global cannabis brand with marijuana products sold under a name long tied to a plant he lovingly called “the herb.” The brand, dubbed Marley Natural, marks the first time the family’s name will adorn packages of cannabis products. They’ll range from strains similar to those Bob Marley might have smoked in his homeland, Jamaica, to concentrates, oils and infused lotions sold in countries and U.S. states that have taken steps to decriminalize and legalize pot use and sales. Marley, credited with helping to spread Jamaican music to a worldwide audience with hits like “No Woman, No Cry” and “I Shot the Sheriff,” died of cancer in 1981 at age 36. “He viewed the herb as something spiritual that could awaken our well-being, deepen our reflection, connect us to nature and liberate our creativity,” Cedella Marley, Bob’s daughter, said in a statement announcing the deal. The agreement came weeks after two states voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Retail shops selling such products already operate in Colorado and Washington state. The sale of cannabis remains illegal in much of the world, but countries mainly in Europe and the Americas have decrminalized it by varying degrees. The Netherlands permits the sale of marijuana in “coffee shops.” Israel, Canada and nearly half of U.S. states have allowed its medicinal use. And Uruguay has legalized its use. Blaze up, then!
Eva Marcille and Kevin MCcall’s little doll baby Marley Rae is loving the camera… Eva Marcille Shares New Pics Of Newborn Daughter Marley Rae Top Model diva-turned-mommy-banger Eva Marcille is basking in the joy of motherhood and sharing plenty of pics of her new precious princess Marley Rae in the process. Eva recently shared a host of flicks featuring 3-month old Marley Rae, who is Eva’s first child with boyfriend Kevin McCall . Too cute, riiiiigght? Peep a few more of the latest cutesy candids courtesty Eva and her little mini-me on the flip. Continue reading →
Despite the candor, honesty and genuine emotion she showed, some of Rihanna’s recent confessions to Oprah did not go over well with people. Joan Rivers pointedly criticized her interview Sunday on Oprah’s Next Chapter , in which she wept talking about how she still loves Chris Brown . Rivers weighed in on this surprising revelation as only she can … and Rihanna wasted little time firing back at the outspoken TV personality: Rihanna also told Joan to “slap on some diapers.” Nice. Mind you, in the interview, the singer alluded to the fact that Chris is in a relationship with Karrueche Tran , and said they are NOT back together. Rihanna’s comments were more about wanting to help Chris with his obvious problems and the pain of losing someone she called her best friend. Is there something more between them? Will there be? Chris’ mom Joyce Hawkins might think so, but we’re skeptical. Not that it’s any of her business regardless, but if they’re not even dating again, why is Joan so pissed? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
Adam Lambert did his own version of Bob Marley this week. But the real question is this: Did he do the reggae legend proud? Down Under in Australia to promote his album “Trespassing,” Lambert performed inside Sydney’s Top 40 Live Lounge and surprised those in attendance with his cover of “Is This Love,” a Marley favorite from 1978. Give it a look and a listen now and prepare for Lambert to soon hit the States with a tour :
Toronto rapper tells MTV News he wants to have ‘a real impact on the world’ with his follow-up to Take Care. By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Sway Calloway Drake Photo: Every once in a while, Drake will remind us that he “got rich off a mixtape,” but now that the YMCMB rapper is coming up on his third album, he’s focused on sharing his evolution as an artist. Some of that change is a result of his experiences over the past couple of years, and his headline-making club brawl with Chris Brown this week should certainly factor in. The two entertainers clashed in a messy fight at a New York City nightclub on Wednesday after exchanging heated words. It seems fair to say that Drake, who tends to address the ups-and-downs of fame in his music, will have plenty of new material when he starts recording this third album. “I feel like with every project we do there’s growth and with every project I do, I become more comfortable with the artist I am,” Drake told MTV News’ Sway Calloway backstage at a recent stop on his Club Paradise tour . ” Take Care solidified a lot of things for me. [It’s] a list of things that would probably be too immense to go through, but it solidified a lot of things and let me know what I want to do, and who I want to be.” The Toronto rapper, who has clearly reflected on the scope of his music, added that he’s pushed boundaries way past the standards. “The music that I make is bigger than the box people try and put rappers [in],” he said. “People always try to draw me back to just rap. And — nah, I’m good. I like what I do. Period. That’s how I feel. Nobody can really do what I do or what we do, including 40 and all the producers that I’ve worked with.” Drake has already revealed that his third album will be very much influenced by recent events in his life, including his move to Los Angeles, but he also hopes it will have a lasting effect on people. “[It’s interesting] to see artists that have a real impact on the world,” he said. “We live in a generation where there is nothing necessarily to fight for politically, whereas in the Marley documentary [for example] he was fighting for peace in Jamaica. [There’s] nothing necessarily for me to step up and say I want to fight for, but there is a way for me to give moments to the world, and to bear my emotions and hope that I’m remembered as that guy who was able to bring people together. I want to be that guy. I want to bring people together.”
Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and ex of Lauryn Hill, has gotten engaged to Brazilian Sports Illustrated model Isabeli Fontana. Fontana said the couple plans to wed in Ethiopia, where the Rastafarian movement was founded. According to Contact Music, she told Veja magazine: “Rohan told me we have to return to the roots so the marriage will last forever.” Fontana, 28, has been divorced twice, to model Alvaro Jacomossi and actor/model Henri Castelli. The model has a son from each of those marriages. Marley, 39, dated former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill, 36, from 1996-2011. Hill often referred to him as her husband, though their relationship status was never revealed until they broke up. The couple had five children together. He also has two children from his previous relationship with Geraldine Khawly, who he married during college and was still married to when he met Hill. He made headlines last year when it was reported that Marley left Hill for Fontana while Hill was pregnant with another child , allegedly to another man. “Contrary to the numerous reports, Mr. Marley did not abandon me while pregnant with his child. We have had long periods of separation over the years but our 5 children together remain a joy to both of us,” Hill said, refuting that rumor. Congrats to Rohan and Isabeli!
The best documentaries tell you more than you think you’d ever want to know about a subject, perhaps fulfilling a curiosity you didn’t know you had. That’s the case with Kevin Macdonald’s Bob Marley documentary Marley , which stretches out at a languorous two hours and 24 minutes without dragging or getting bogged down in extraneous details. Everything in it – from interviews with the singer’s bandmates and his widow, Rita, to vintage and contemporary images of his hardscrabble birthplace of St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, to live-performance footage that captures his extraordinary charisma – feels essential, albeit in a relaxed way. By the end you feel you’ve learned something about the man, yet his mystique emerges intact. Robert Nesta Marley was born in 1945, to an Afro-Jamaican mother, Cedelia, and a much older white Jamaican father, Norval Sinclair Marley, who was of English descent and who barely played a part in young Robert’s upbringing – he’d visit the family occasionally, but he was a shadowy figure who, as it turns out, also fathered a child by another Jamaican woman. Macdonald grounds Marley’s story firmly in a sense of place, using simple images for whopping impact: A black-and-white still photo shows Marley’s childhood home, which is essentially a shack with a few windows. When Marley was 12, his mother moved her little family to the Trench Town area of Kingston, in an effort to build a better life. One of Marley’s childhood friends recalls that that type of “better life” often included going to bed hungry. Kids heard the words “Drink some water and go to bed” a lot, simply because there was nothing else their parents could do for them. Despite growing up amid that kind of hardship — or maybe partly because of it — Marley always loved music and always found ways to make it, and Macdonald does a superb job of outlining a mini-history of ska and reggae, musical forms built in the early 1960s from the spontaneous mingling of Caribbean rhythms and American pop music. One of Marley’s childhood friends described the home-made instruments used to make this music in its most rudimentary form: A box with rigged with strings known as a rhumba box; drums made from cow skin; and the instrument referred to by this fellow as the “shake-shake,” which really needs no explanation. Marley and his friends listened to American acts like the Platters, the Drifters and the Temptations, and after Marley made his first recording, in 1962 – a pseudo-spiritual called “Judge Not” – he became part of the band that came to be known as the Wailers. The group rehearsed for two years before the producer at their local recording studio allowed them to make a record: In the meantime, they played not just in town squares but also in cemeteries, to ward off evil spirits – if you could placate those guys, you’d be able to perform without fear in front of anybody. Macdonald arranges his material in a way that’s chronological though not strictly linear, covering a lot of territory with an easygoing cross-thatching of stories of interviews: Marley’s gradual but steady rise from ambitious, talented writer and musician to revered cult figure; his embrace of Rastafarianism; his association with legendary producer Lee “Scratch” Perry (shown, in contemporary footage, looking and acting extremely wiggy) and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell; and, last but not least, his propensity for consuming somewhere near a pound of marijuana a day. (Did I dream that, or is it actually in the documentary? Either way, he smoked a lot .) Most illuminating are the interviews Macdonald conducted with Bunny Wailer, founder and original member of the Wailers (who holds court before the camera, resplendent in dark glasses and a puffy zebra-striped hat), and Rita Marley, who tells how, at the height of her husband’s fame, she’d sometimes be called in to dispatch his extracurricular girlfriends from his dressing room. (She’d march in, announcing to everyone that it was time for bed.) Marley had a lot of extracurricular action, including a longtime relationship with former Miss World Cindy Breakspeare, who’s interviewed at length in the film. We learn that he fathered 11 children by seven different mothers during his lifetime. (One woman interviewed in the film is identified only as “Baby Mother.”) He died of cancer, in 1981, at age 36 – Macdonald handles the details of his death so matter-of-factly that it might not hit you until later how poignant they are. At one point his daughter, who clearly harbors a lot of resentment toward her free-spirited absentee father, remarks on his appearance after the progression of his illness required him to cut off his heavy dreadlocks: “He looked, like, so tiny.” If Marley lived the high life, sometimes at others’ expense, it’s worth noting that the women around him who lived to tell the tale – Rita Marley, Breakspeare and backup singer Marcia Griffiths – look remarkably youthful: No wrinkles, no cry. Macdonald clearly has a great deal of respect for his subject, and maybe even some reverence. But he doesn’t pretend that Marley’s great talent and charm existed in a vacuum – every minute, he’s finding a new context for the man’s career and life, and the portrait he ultimately comes up with is prismatic and fascinating. With pictures like The Last King of Scotland and State of Play , Macdonald has proved such an adept fiction filmmaker that it’s easy to forget he made documentaries for years, including Touching the Void and the Oscar-winning One Day in September . In that respect, Marley is a homecoming of sorts. It’s at once leisurely and controlled, like a Bob Marley song, with fresh secrets in every groove. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Each year SXSW plays host to a slate of risk-taking fare of all kinds, from true indie offerings to upcoming studio releases geared to a slightly more open crowd, and the 2012 film line-up features no shortage of movies poised to earn that precious film festival commodity: Positive buzz. But some projects have more at stake than others — say, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s long-awaited Cabin in the Woods , Will Ferrell ‘s Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi Padre , or the directorial debut of actor Matthew Lillard . On the eve of SXSW 2012 (which runs March 9-17 in Austin, Texas), check out the ten SXSW titles with the most to prove going into their festival debuts. Click to launch the gallery! Want more? Read all of Movieline’s SXSW 2012 coverage and follow us on Twitter .
