Mary Jo Buttafuoco married Stu Tendler in Las Vegas Saturday. MJB, who was infamously shot in the face by her husband’s teenage lover, Amy Fisher, nearly 20 years ago, used her maiden name in the ceremony (Connery). Stu Tendler reportedly manages a print shop in Vegas. Long divorced from Joey Buttafuoco, Mary Jo underwent numerous surgeries and lost her hearing in one ear as a result of the shooting. She later wrote a book about the ordeal entitled, “Getting It Through My Thick Skull.” At least she has a sense of humor. Amy Fisher served seven years in prison for the shooting, then went on to become an amateur porn star. Joey Buttafuoco did six months for statutory rape. Congrats to Mary Jo and Stu! [Pnoto: WENN.com]
Adam Sandler has set a new high mark for low brow comedy. The actor picked up 11 Razzie Award nominations last night, shattering the previous record (five) held by Eddie Murphy and setting himself up as the clear favorite for these anti-Academy Awards, as the ceremony honors the very worst in movies each year. Overall, the film Jack and Jill garnered an impressive 12 nominations, including worst film, actor and actress for Sandler; worst supporting actress for Katie Holmes. and worst supporting actor for the great Al Pacino. Check out the full list of Razzie nominees – which includes Sarah Palin! – below. WORST PICTURE • Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star •New Year’s Eve •Transformers: Dark of the Moon •The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 WORST ACTOR • Adam Sandler, Just Go With It & Jack and Jill • Nick Swardson, Bucky Larson • Russell Brand, Arthur • Taylor Lautner, Abduction & Breaking Dawn • Nicholas Cage, Drive Angry 3-D, Season of the Witch, & Trespass WORST ACTRESS • Adam Sandler, Just Go With It & Jack and Jill • Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin: The Undefeated • Sarah Jessica Parker, I Don’t Know How She Does It & New Year’s Eve • Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 • Martin Lawrence, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR • Al Pacino, Jack and Jill • Patrick Dempsey, Transformers: Dark of the Moon • James Franco, Your Highness, • Nick Swardson, Jack and Jill & Just Go With It • Ken Jeong for four movies—Big Mommas,The Hangover: Part II, Transformers & Zookeeper. WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS • David Spade, Jack and Jill • Martin Lawrence, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son • Nicole Kidman, Just Go With It • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Transformers: Dark of the Moon • Katie Holmes, Jack and Jill WORST SCREEN ENSEMBLES • The Entire Cast of Bucky Larson • The Entire Cast of Jack and Jill • The Entire Cast of New Year’s Eve • The Entire Cast of Transformers • The Entire Cast of Breaking Dawn WORST SCREEN COUPLE • Nicholas Cage & “anyone sharing the screen with him in any of his three 2011 films” • Shia LaBeouf & Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Transformers • Adam Sandler & Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker, Just Go With It • Adam Sandler & Katie Holmes, Al Pacino or himself, Jack and Jill • Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson, Breaking Dawn. WORST PREQUEL, SEQUEL, REMAKE OR RIPOFF • Arthur • Bucky Larson • The Hangover: Part II • Jack and Jill • Breaking Dawn WORST DIRECTOR • Michael Bay, Transformers • Tom Brady, Bucky Larson • Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn • Dennis Dugan, Jack and Jill & Just Go With It • Garry Marshall, New Year’s Eve WORST SCREENPLAY • Bucky Larson • Jack and Jill • New Year’s Eve • Transformers • Breaking Dawn
With “Laugh At My Pain” Kevin Hart joins Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Martin Lawrence as one of the few Black comedians to have a stand up comedy concert turned into a movie released in theaters. Hart has been paying dues for some time now, both on the stand up circuit and the Black movie circuit. Will this movie put him in the ranks of the Black comedy greats? Hart is an extremely funny story teller. The title “Laugh At My Pain” is extremely descriptive as Hart’s self deprecating humor is evident in the stories he tells. Like Murphy and Prior Hart turns his family and personal life into tales of amusement. While many in the hip hop generation generate their personas from bragging about how tough and how rich they are, Hart tells tales of being too short, too soft and too broke. Like Prior, Hart uses the tragedies like his father’s drug abuse to create humorous tales. Like Bill Cosby, Hart uses tales of fatherhood to make us laugh. Hart uses tales of his celebrity life and tales of growing up much like Eddie Murphy did in Raw. Hart’s comedy is not so much a series of jokes, but tales that remind you of one of your funny friends telling stories about his life, his family and his past. His personal style of story telling makes it seem as if he his talking directly to you and not to a crowd. When I talked to Kevin Hart, he seemed humble yet extremely ambitious. He says he can talk about his father’s drug abuse because today, his father is sober and healthy. He says he’s confident in his material and lets his young children watch his movies and that they know that “that’s just daddy doing his job.” Hart’s comedy idols, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy have called him to give him praise and like most great comedians, Hart studies the legends that have come before him. Hart seems posed to make the transitions from Black movies to mainstream movies. While he may be known for slapstick parody movies like “Soul Plane” and “Scary Movie 3,” he is transitioning to romantic comedies like “35 And Ticking” and “The 5 Year Engagement,” in which he the only African American character. So far the writing for Kevin hart’s movies have not matched his own talent and joke writing ability so Kevin is writing movies and TV pilots with his own production company, HartBear. Hart also has been utilizing technology and has created his own Iphone app , a video game that also allows access to news on Hart and his stand up comedy. Judging by the bootleggers, barbershops, and the stand up comedy circuit, Kevin Hart is the number one comedian for urban America. If Hart’s movies or TV show can receive the same writing that he puts into his stand up, he can join Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor as one of the few Black comedians who transitioned from stand up comedian to movie and TV star. Kevin Hart Talks Divorce & Why Comedians Love Leather On Gangsta Grillz [EXCLUSIVE] Did Kevin Hart Blow His Entire BET Awards Check In Las Vegas? Kevin Hart Says No One Is Safe At BET Awards [VIDEO]
The first official trailer for Halle Berry’s thriller Dark Tide was released earlier this week. Filmed on location in South Africa, Dark Tide stars Berry as a diving instructor who is drawn to close encounters with Great White sharks. Olivier Martinez (Halle’s real life squeeze) plays her husband, whose own ambition threatens their marriage, as well as Berry’s safety. Check out trailer below: No official release date has been announced for Dark Tide . Berry will be appearing in the upcoming Skank Robbers with Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx in August, and in the Garry Marshall directed rom-com ensemble New Year’s Eve in December with Robert DeNiro, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Ludacris. Halle Berry Makes Debut On Red Carpet With New Beau, Olivier Martinez Did Eric Benet’s Friends Call Halle Berry “Halle Scary?” Salli Richardson-Whitfield Performs At Jenesse Gala In Tribute To Halle Berry
I’ve never heard of this Jennifer Lawrence before, I just assumed she was related to Martin Lawrence and Joey Lawrence, riding her last name to the top, but it turns out she’s already got an Oscar nomination under her belt, and I’m just too ignorant and not into movies called Winter’s Bone, even though you think that’d be the first movie I bought tickets to, if I bought tickets, based on the name alone…and now she’s in something called The Beaver, another movie you’d think I’d see based on the name alone, leading me to think she’s onto some clever scam to get perverts into her based on the movie she’s been choosing… and luckily for you, you can see the outline of her beaver in a bikini for GQ….obvious tie in, but what the fuck do you want from me, all this celebrity shit is like a horrible re-run that never ends, different name, different pussy, same hustle….luckily it is half naked. It keeps me watching… To See The Rest of the Pictures FOLLOW THIS LINK
Great black comedians are among the most astute business people in the nation. They have amassed some of the largest fortunes in entertainment, and have done so for more than a century. Their secret: wise brand management. Like many successful CEOs, they know just how to broaden their base, widen their appeal, and extend their “product line” to become hot commodities in an otherwise cold market. “A-list comics … are the commodity that people are buying into,” said Dionna Griffin-Irons, director of outreach and diversity for The Second City, the legendary improvisational comedy company that served as a training ground for Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and many “Saturday Night Live” cast members. “You want that revenue success — sold-out houses. What you see comics doing is recognizing that their name is a brand. It brings people to the audiences. It fills seats, and so that brand translates into other areas — film, TV, CDs.” Continued at The Atlanta Post
If you are not familiar with Dragon Fly Jones… You Are In For A Treat His loyal servant runs up on him at Nipsey’s. And this is when Dragon Fly was hired by Stan to come over and give Gina and them Martial Arts lessons. SMH@Cole and Tommy not being able to stop laughing during this skit… And finally his loyal servant gets beat when he runs up on Dragon Fly at Nipsey’s…
I think it was Abraham Lincoln who said, “A man in a frock is a box-office lock.” Or was that Franklin Roosevelt? I get them confused sometimes. I do know that our current president Barack Obama famously uttered the enduring proverb, “Holy Christ, they made another Big Momma movie? Michelle, hide the girls!” And you don’t even want to know what he said about the rest of the President’s Day weekend’s multiplex line-up. Let’s break it down as quickly and painlessly as possible:
No other award show in the music industry holds quite the prestige of the Grammys. Though there is everything from the MTV Awards to the American Music Awards, the Grammys stand out as the Academy Awards of music. The show is not just a showcase of talent but a determining factor in the evolution of an artist’s career. After all, once a musician wins just one, the term “grammy-award winning artist” comes to forever precede his or her name. Like most award shows, the Grammy Awards is big business, for the producers as well as the nominated guests of honor. But just how much can the award boost the earnings of an artist? With the music industry struggling to reinvent its business model and fewer musicians being able to earn enough revenue from album sales, winning an award is more important than ever. Continued at The Atlanta Post
No other award show in the music industry holds quite the prestige of the Grammys. Though there is everything from the MTV Awards to the American Music Awards, the Grammys stand out as the Academy Awards of music. The show is not just a showcase of talent but a determining factor in the evolution of an artist’s career. After all, once a musician wins just one, the term “grammy-award winning artist” comes to forever precede his or her name. Like most award shows, the Grammy Awards is big business, for the producers as well as the nominated guests of honor. But just how much can the award boost the earnings of an artist? With the music industry struggling to reinvent its business model and fewer musicians being able to earn enough revenue from album sales, winning an award is more important than ever. Continued at The Atlanta Post
