Geraldine , the first woman to ever run for Vice President of the United States, passed away today. She was 75. A family spokesperson confirms that Ferraro succombed to blood cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital around 10 a.m. In 1984, the three-term congresswoman from Queens joined Walter Mondale’s Presidential ticket in an election against Ronald Reagon and George H.W. Bush. The latter duo won 49 out of 50 states to retain the White House. Soon after her passing, Mondale paid tribute to his former running mate, remember her “a remarkable woman and a dear human being” and adding: “She was a pioneer in our country for justice for women and a more open society. She broke a lot of molds and it’s a better country for what she did.” Sarah Palin , who followed in Ferraro’s Vice Presidential footsteps in 2008, also released a statement on her Facebook page: “She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. May her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women.”
Serena Williams has been deemed too sexy for television. A few days after a link to the tennis star’s new 2K Sports video game commercial was Tweeted, the company received enough backlash over the spot – which features a scantily-clad Serena taking on a scantily-clad model – to announce it would not air on TV. Banned Serena Williams Ad “As part of the process for creating marketing campaigns to support our titles, we pursue a variety of creative avenues,” 2K Sports wrote in a statement. “This video is not part of the title’s final marketing campaign and its distribution was unauthorized.” But it was clearly meant to hit the airways, as Serena Tweeted last week to be on the lookout for “awesomely sexy video.” And, come on, 2K Sports, billboards of Rafael Nadal shirtless are all over Europe. What do you think? Should the ad have been pulled?
This can’t be a good idea. Just a few weeks after rumors of a cocaine scandal broke out around Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 18-year old daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston says she might soon anchor her own reality show. “Guess what?!” she Tweeted yesterday. “We are currently in the process of meetings about starting my very OWN! Realityshow!!” After denying chatter that she has a drug problem – and blaming an ex-boyfriend as the source of such talk, saying “God will smite them” – this celebrity offspring apparently yearns for viewers to see the true Bobbi Kristina. “The world needs 2know me 4who I REALLY am. U all will get 2 see my every day living, walk with me thro startin my career..EVERYTHING… I would only want to do this reality show so THEWORLD can know me for me. The GODfreaing young, classy. outgoing, sill, REAL women iAM.” If such a series is based around Bobbi attending English classes, we might be on board. [Photo: WENN.com]
Q-Tip tells MTV News documentary director Michael Rapaport mismanaged group’s travel plans. By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Sway Calloway A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip Photo: MTV News A Tribe Called Quest say they’re not the bad guys. Two of the four members of the esteemed rap group, Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, recently sat down with MTV News — a third, Jarobi, spoke with us during the sit-down by phone — to elaborate on their issues with the Michael Rapaport-directed documentary , “Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.” Although the film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Phife Dawg was the only ATCQ member to attend. The group did, however, issue a press release at the time expressing their support of the film . According to ATCA, the statement was to help counter any impressions that the group was not involved with the documentary. “We were being made to look like we weren’t a part of the process,” Ali told MTV News. “And we’ve been a part of the process from day one, when we were like, ‘OK, Mike, we cool with you being a director and telling the story of A Tribe Called Quest.’ We’ve always wanted everything to flow from beginning to end in a successful manner. Unfortunately, he was not playing along. There was no script; he had a ‘purpose.’ But it seems like the purpose he delivered to us verbally wasn’t what was being displayed.” Q-Tip then chimed in, citing an MTV News story in which Rapaport expressed disappointment about the full group not being at Sundance, even after the director said he’d allocated money to pay for their travel and lodging. Q-Tip insisted Rapaport “came out of his pocket for $5,000” in order to cover travel expenses for ATCQ and their managers, a figure he implied was particularly low for a week-long stay in Park City, Utah. Moreover, according to Ali, Rapaport misconstrued the situation by failing to reveal certain details. “It’s a deceptive way to tell what really happened,” Muhammad said. “Our management, they’re thorough and they capture things right away. They didn’t need five days to book a ticket; they were on top of it for months to get it covered. Why if he’s being asked the question to take care of the travel of the group that you need their support [for], why wait till the last minute to take care of it?” Ali was not at Sundance because he was on a tour that he told MTV News had been booked three months earlier, a fact that the documentary’s producers were aware of, he said. The ATCQ DJ expressed further dismay about all the promotion being done for a film the group had not properly vetted. “Before we go and do all of that rah-rah, can we even get the film correct?” Muhammad said. “We can’t even have conversations with you and your legal department to take care of other business. Not only can we not do that, we can’t even simplify a travel answer in a reasonable amount of time. It was so disheveled. How could we not be frustrated? But here we are moving forward, trying to be positive about the thing and he’s playing his PR game. At this point, here we are.” Q-Tip also dismissed any notion that he was apprehensive about the film’s content. “He’s out there saying quotes like, ‘I think they’re scared,’ ” Q-Tip said. “He singled me out saying that I was scared because the film was this open thing. I lived it, what am I going to be scared about? There’s not a big reveal in it that I didn’t know. I’m a human being, these are my brothers. What am I fearful about?” However, Q-Tip did express concern that the film might be imbalanced due to lack of context. After viewing a first edit of the film, Q-Tip, Ali, Rapaport and others went over the material to make suggestions. “After we worked on the edit I was like, ‘Yo, Mike, see? This is good. That’s how we supposed to do,’ ” Q-Tip recalled. ” ‘You still got your stuff, we got our stuff.’ We went over it, it’s great.” According to Q-Tip, Rapaport flew back to Los Angeles to implement the changes and piece the documentary together. But when the group received a second edit, they noticed they weren’t listed as producers on the film. After the group’s management asked that this be corrected, Rapaport admitted that their lack of a “producer” credit was no oversight. “Mike sends an e-mail saying why we shouldn’t be producers,” Q-Tip said. “Because it’s viewed as propaganda [if the featured artists are also producers], it would be biased and the public wouldn’t go for it. That’s what he said.” When MTV News’ Sway asked if they agreed with Rapaport’s reasoning, Jarobi responded, “I don’t buy it because I just watched that ‘Fab Five’ [documentary on ESPN] and Jalen Rose is an executive producer, so it doesn’t make sense to me.” Q-Tip added, “This is hip-hop, this is music, nobody writes the ironclad rules. This is what it is.” Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: A Tribe Called Quest
‘She took it to the next level … and kicked ass in the process,’ BreatheHeavy.com’s Jordan Miller says on MTV News’ live stream. By James Dinh Britney Spears in her “Hold It Against Me” video Photo: Jive The Internet is abuzz over Britney Spears’ high-tech video for “Hold It Against Me.” And after the Jonas
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena topped itself (from the bottom) with a heaping help of threesomes, full body inspections, and sweaty slave sex. First we get to see Lucy Lawless get it on (again) with a fully frontal Jaime Murray , but this time there’s a lucky dude and an even luckier bottle of wine involved. What a raucous caucus in the name of Bacchus! Then slave girls Lesley-Ann Brand t and Jessica Grace Smith both bare boobs and butt for inspection before Jessica gets picked to the be the meat in a two-dude sandwich, giving us great looks at her fully frontal frame in the process. The gods are pleased!
On Monday, Eben Pua Kok Kiang, 20, admitted to having had s-ex with the underage girl in late 2009. He will be sentenced next month. FOR a month, a full-time national serviceman had unprotected s-ex with a then 14-year-old girl, likely passing a s-exually transmitted disease to her in the process. The girl went to a doctor on Dec 30, 2009, complaining of pain when urinating. When the doctor heard from her about her multiple s-exual encounters, he arranged for her to undergo urine and pregnancy
Filed under: Lil Wayne , Celebrity Justice Lil Wayne looks kinda carefree in his latest mug shot … It’s no biggie for Lil …. when he left Arizona last month — where he’s on felony probation — for Florida, he was required to register with the Sunshine State and part of the process is… Read more
I know we’re all quick to judge these days, but come on: Who hasn’t gravely misspelled an A-list movie star and eventual Oscar nominee’s name in the process of tweeting about his rumored third nipple?
The actor Ryan Reynolds, 34, filed for divorce from Scarlett Johansson, 26, Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, documents show. Johansson filed her divorce response simultaneously. Just a few weeks after their separation was announced, Ryan Reynolds has begun the process of officially ending his two-year marriage to Scarlett Johansson. Both sides cite Dec. 14 as their date of separation. Neither is seeking spousal support. A source told us recently that the couple grew apart under the str
