‘It’s serious being a hip-hop rapper and being a father in the real world,’ Fat Joe tells MTV News. By Rob Markman T.I. and his son Domani Photo: MTV News Jay-Z isn’t the first rapper to become a dad, not by a long shot. But now that he and wife Beyonc
Comedienne and actress Chelsea Handler is finally opening up about her brief romance with 50 Cent . Although the pair denied their relationship while it was in progress, Handler went on the Howard Stern Show and told the shock jock she broke up with him because one of his ex-girlfriends was coming on her late night talk show. She says she called 50 “the worst thing you can call a black person, just short of the N-word.” Chelsea then went on to blast Mariah Carey . She feels that Carey is worse than Elizabeth Taylor and doesn’t know what planet Mariah Carey lives on. We all know how protective Nick Cannon is of his wife, so we expect a Chelsea Handler diss track in the near future. What do you think of Chelsea Handler and her brand of comedy? RELATED POSTS: 50 Cent Bets On The New York Giants & Wins $500,000 Well Apparently: Nick Cannon “I’m Not Dead!” [VIDEO] Mariah Carey Flaunts Her Post Pregnancy Body in Jenny Craig Commercial
Mitt Romney was likely never as much of a lock as the mainstream media seems to believe, but Saturday’s South Carolina primary results still came as a surprise. Newt Gingrich rose from the political ashes for the second time with two strong debate performances this week and pulled off an unlikely win in the Palmetto State. With 40 percent of the vote to Mitt’s 27, and nearly all precincts reporting, Newt won big and turned the fluid Republican presidential race on its head once again. Only a week ago, Romney seemed likely to win all three of the initial contests, a scenario that would have put him on a relatively clear path to the nomination. But with Thursday’s announcement that Rick Santorum actually won Iowa , followed by today’s results, Romney is now a front-runner who has lost two of three. The result marked a swift, extraordinary turnaround in Gingrich’s fortunes, after he finished well out of the top three in both Iowa and New Hampshire. So maligned was his candidacy that Newt himself had conceded his campaign might be over for good by tonight if he failed to turn in a strong performance. He did turn in such a performance, and as such, the quest to represent the GOP against President Barack Obama in November is quite far from over. This marks the first time that three different Republican candidates have won the first trio of contests in what has been an unpredictable race from the start. Since 1980, every South Carolina GOP primary winner has gone on to win the nomination, but whether Gingrich can continue that streak is far from certain. Romney has by far the most formidable financial resources and organization, giving him a big edge Florida, which holds its primary January 31, and beyond. Santorum finished third and Ron Paul fourth in South Carolina. The candidates square off in a debate once again Monday night in Tampa. Stay tuned … Newt South Carolina Victory Speech Clip
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the all-time Division I leader in wins, and who resigned amid the university’s child molestation scandal just months ago, is reportedly near death due to complications from lung cancer. On Saturday, as friends and family were being summoned to State College, Pa., Hospital, a family spokesman said the coach had taken a turn for the worse. Penn State student website Onward State reported that PSU team members were notified of Paterno’s passing via email. However, a Paterno family spokesperson denied the report and his son tweeted that his father “continues to fight.” Known for his “success with honor” motto, thick glasses, rolled-up pants and black cleats, Paterno left an indelible mark on Penn State and college football in general. Joe, 85, has five children with wife Sue and 17 grandchidlren. A Brooklyn native and Brown University graduate, Paterno began coaching the Nittany Lions in 1966 and his tenure stretched to October of this year. In his 46 years as head coach, Paterno holds the all-time Division I record for football coaching wins with a 409-136-3 record and two national titles. After a highly celebrated career and iconic status, Paterno’s career as coach ended as a result of a scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky . Sandusky allegedly sexually assaulted young boys, including a 10-year-old. Paterno was fired over his handling (or lack of handling) of the scandal. Announcing his retirement, he said, “This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.” “I’m sick about it. I didn’t know exactly how to handle it, and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was.” “So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn’t work out that way.” In November, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and his health rapidly deteriorated. Though the scandal sullied Paterno’s image in his final days, the coach enjoyed decades of success and reverence on the campus he and his wife helped build. That’s not likely to change anytime soon.
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, the all-time Division I leader in wins, and who resigned amid the university’s child molestation scandal just months ago, is reportedly near death due to complications from lung cancer. On Saturday, as friends and family were being summoned to State College, Pa., Hospital, a family spokesman said the coach had taken a turn for the worse. Penn State student website Onward State reported that PSU team members were notified of Paterno’s passing via email. However, a Paterno family spokesperson denied the report and his son tweeted that his father “continues to fight.” Known for his “success with honor” motto, thick glasses, rolled-up pants and black cleats, Paterno left an indelible mark on Penn State and college football in general. Joe, 85, has five children with wife Sue and 17 grandchidlren. A Brooklyn native and Brown University graduate, Paterno began coaching the Nittany Lions in 1966 and his tenure stretched to October of this year. In his 46 years as head coach, Paterno holds the all-time Division I record for football coaching wins with a 409-136-3 record and two national titles. After a highly celebrated career and iconic status, Paterno’s career as coach ended as a result of a scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky . Sandusky allegedly sexually assaulted young boys, including a 10-year-old. Paterno was fired over his handling (or lack of handling) of the scandal. Announcing his retirement, he said, “This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.” “I’m sick about it. I didn’t know exactly how to handle it, and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was.” “So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn’t work out that way.” In November, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and his health rapidly deteriorated. Though the scandal sullied Paterno’s image in his final days, the coach enjoyed decades of success and reverence on the campus he and his wife helped build. That’s not likely to change anytime soon.
‘I love everything that they do and just want to be a part of everything,’ Cannon tells MTV News By Nadeska Alexis Nick Cannon Photo: MTV News During his recent hospital stay for treatment of kidney failure, Nick Cannon got plenty of support from his wife, Mariah Carey — he referred to her as his “angel” during our interview — but his twins Moroccan and Monroe were also a key part of the entertainer’s decision to adapt a healthier lifestyle . During his first day back at the office on Tuesday, Cannon told MTV News that his health scare intensified the way he feels about his family. “Right now my kids are everything — they’re always going to be everything, but when something like this happens to you, everything else is shut out and you’re just focused on them,” he said. “So every second you just notice so many things … it just makes it so much more poignant. I love everything that they do and just want to be a part of everything.” Cannon, who has temporarily adapted a strict renal diet, said that his time in the hospital made all of the important things very clear. “There’s a second where you’re thinking, ‘What if I’m not able to instill the things I want to instill into my children?’ It just makes you think, like, ‘I need to give them everything I could possibly give them right now,’ and obviously it starts with love.” The radio and stand-up comedy host was hospitalized during a vacation with his family in Aspen, Colorado, after experiencing severe pains in his lower back. Doctors initially suspected kidney stones as the culprit, before more tests showed that his kidneys were shutting down due to an overdose of protein, medication he was taking and a lack of proper sustenance. “I always considered myself as someone who was in great shape, but I was doing too much [to my body] so my immune system got confused and just started attacking my kidneys,” Cannon told MTV News. “You look at my Twitter picture and I look like I’m in shape, but I was putting the wrong stuff into my body, speeding all the time, not sleeping and eating properly. It’s all about taking time and really caring about yourself and how you fuel yourself.” Related Artists Nick Cannon
Remember awhile back ol’ girl from “Tough Love” revealed she was Shawn Stockman’s sidepiece for NINE YEARS??? Well he’s not the only Boyz II Men member who has been smashing other broads while married. Bossip received an exclusive tip from a well placed source who says Wanya Morris is also a big time cheater who has been carrying on with jump-off Dora Gutierrez (pictured above) aka “Lady Liason” from Australia. Wanya wed Traci “Toi” Nash May 11, 2002 and the couple has a large family (at least four kids). Toi is also the owner of Toi East Designs in Philadelphia (the least we can do is send her some business since her dirty dog of a hubby ain’t ish!). Wanya has been carrying on with Dora for quite some time now, you’ll even see him pictured with him on the web at various events in Australia and homegirl was in attendance at the Hollywood Walk of Fame induction two weeks ago. Our source says the couple shares a condo in Los Angeles. Here’s the catch though. Just like Shawn, Wanya is a devotee of the Hebrew Israelite faith which allows its male members to have more than one “wife”. So like Avonte did with Shawn, Dora likely holds the “spiritual wife” title with Wanya. Ain’t that cray??? Do you think these guys are really into their faith or is it just an excuse to get it in all over the place with more than one jawn??? Check out the pictures of Wanya with his wife and sidepiece below. More On Bossip! Gettin’ Served: A Look At Celebrity Owned-Restaurants Making It Rain And Others That Failed Miserably Living Like Rih-Rih: A Gallery Of Other Celebrities Spotted Rolling Up That Bud Wanna Get Away? A List Of The Best 10 Beaches In The World!! Happy MLK Day: 10 Interesting And Surprising Facts You May Not Know About Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are Black celebrities becoming too rich to have their own kids? In the wake of rumors that a certain high profile couple used a surrogate to carry their very popular offspring, now reports are coming in that NBA player Chris Bosh and his wife Adrienne are doing the baby by proxy method as well. Last November the newlyweds announced that they were expecting their first child . However, sources are telling Bossip.com that Mrs. Bosh is trying to preserve her figure and has taken some extreme steps to make sure it stays that way. GET MORE DETAILS AT BOSSIP.COM RELATED POSTS: Chris Bosh & Wife Adrienne Are Expecting A Baby Boy! Chris Bosh Gets Huge Tattoo On His Back
Kate Major is an out-of-control mess who needs help ASAP. That’s the main takeaway from a police report filed after her arrest in Boca Raton, Fla., this weekend. If you missed it, Jon Gosselin’s and Michael Lohan’s ex-GF was jailed for battery after she was seen BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF A GUY AND HIS WIFE. Police say Major allegedly had to be restrained on the ground by several people who saw her attacking and screaming at Rosario Tapia and Juan Jimenez. The officer who wrote the report says, “I attempted to speak with [ Kate Major ], who was screaming and yelling obscenities at Tapia, calling her a ‘fat f**k’ and a ‘b*tch’.” Jimenez told police he and Tapia pulled into the parking lot and noticed someone had parked in their assigned space, so they were waiting for another spot to open. That’s when Kate Major, allegedly, came bolting toward the car out of nowhere. Jimenez claims Major opened the door and went crazy, calling him and his wife “several racial names” before attacking his wife in the hands, breast and face. When cops tried to arrest Major, police say she resisted arrest and tried to kick the officers. After she was arrested, she continued to act belligerently. Officials say she yelled at police and tried to make a break for it. At one point, cops say, she slapped the arresting officer and called him a “fat f**k.” She was since been released, but we have a hunch this isn’t over.
In a career spanning three decades Michael Biehn has notched a number of iconic roles in beloved genre fare, from future freedom fighter Kyle Reese in The Terminator to Corporal Hicks in Aliens to one of his personal favorites, Tombstone villain Johnny Ringo. And that work has borne him witness to his share of tense, chaotic sets under some of the strongest personalities in the business. But no shoot of Biehn’s was as intense as the friction-filled production of this week’s The Divide , Xavier Gens’ bleak horror tale about strangers trapped in a basement after the apocalypse, which Biehn says was fueled by the “hatred” and “bitterness” of combative actors turning on each other under claustrophobic conditions. “The actual film shoot was absolutely brutal… the actors hated each other,” Biehn admitted to Movieline in Los Angeles, describing a set atmosphere seemingly designed by director Gens, Biehn says, to encourage conflict among performers. (Among Biehn’s castmates: Milo Ventimiglia , Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance, Ashton Holmes, and Michael Eklund, who play an assortment of neighbors in an NYC apartment building that quickly lose their humanity, and their sanity, down below.) Bickering over script changes, on-the-fly adjustments, and dueling egos all factored into the strife, which got so heated the actor says producers had to be called to intervene. “I’ve worked with [William] Friedkin , I’ve worked with Michael Bay ,” Biehn said pointedly, “and there was more tension on this set than any set that I’ve ever been on.” Yet it all worked out in the end — at least for Biehn, who’s proud of the film and happy that Gens allowed his actors to help shape their characters extensively, even if that’s what led to clashing interests on set in the first place. For Biehn that meant having the freedom to give his bigoted antagonist character Mickey a 9/11-themed backstory and a shot at redemption — not to mention a relatability in the face of what Biehn perceives as real-world terrorist threats. (“I think something like this could happen very easily, in my lifetime, where something bad happens… I mean, go on YouTube and look at the video of what they were doing to Qaddafi.”) And ultimately, Biehn says, the final film was satisfying enough that all the bitter infighting, stress, manipulation, and conflict was worth it. “It worked,” he smiled. “I think it worked — and I enjoyed it.” You’ve played so many iconic characters over the years, but at any point did you feel like you needed distance from Kyle Reese or Corporal Hicks? What’s your relationship to those characters now? I didn’t realize they were really iconic until recently. I now have 15-year-old boys and girls that approach me and go, “Johnny Ringo is my favorite character of all time,” or “Hicks is my favorite character,” or “I’m in love with Reese” –- and they weren’t even born when I made the movie. So I’ve come to realize that those three movies are, call them what you call them, they’re classics. My son, who is eight years old, and his boys the other day, at school they were playing The Terminator ! One was the Terminator, one was Kyle Reese, one was Sarah Connor. And he went over and said, “My dad was in The Terminator !” Does that mean he automatically gets to call dibs on Kyle Reese? [Laughs] Yeah! It’s just kind of rewarding to have a young kid come up and say that, so it’s not something that I shy away from at all. They’re great movies and I owe a lot to Jim Cameron and I’m proud to be in them, and they’ll always be around. Do you have a favorite? I have two favorites, and that’s Kyle Reese and Johnny Ringo. Kyle Reese to me is the great hero because he not only was a hard-fighting tough guy, he was also a lover at the same time, so much in love with Sarah. And Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I’ve ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get. There’s this moment I have with Val [Kilmer] at the end of the movie where he says he’s serious, and I look at him and say “All right,” and there’s a look in my eye which I think is one of my best moments on film. Like “Oh, this is exciting. This is going to be fun.” It’s not sitting around a bar drinking, it’s not cows, it’s not women, it’s just excitement. From that great antagonist to your latest, your character in The Divide is the firebrand who ratchets up the tension from the start – and this is a movie that gets intense immediately, from the start, as doomsday erupts outside this apartment building. How do you view your character in moral terms? First of all, Xavier [Gens] let us do whatever we wanted with our characters, so I wrote that character. What was on the page to begin with? A bad guy, a crude guy, a racist who’s racist against all creeds. Very negative, cursing all the time. Just a pig who ends up being the antagonist and ends up doing bad things to other people and so forth. Xavier basically brought all of his actors together at the beginning of the making of this movie and said, “You can do whatever you want. This is a sandbox for you to play in.” You could do improv, you could write scenes, you could change your characters -– you could do anything you want. I made that character go from a guy –- everybody was losing their humanity, and I wanted to take this character who originally had no humanity and try to give him back a little humanity. That’s what I tried to do. Basically I wrote with a writer that was helping all the actors write for about three or four days, a week or so, and I kept sending back material. He finally said, “Michael, just write it yourself.” So I basically kind of wrote the character, created the whole back story of the wife and 9/11 and the firemen and all that kind of stuff. That’s an element that I feel is significant, because we open on the New York cityscape being destroyed in a fiery attack. From the very first seconds the film triggers a visceral familiar reaction, and then we find out that Mickey’s a former NYC fireman who’s lost his way. Yes. Basically it’s post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a guy who took one of his teams into the Twin Towers and it came down and he was the only one left standing. He loses, like a lot of men do who are under such wartime circumstances, and he loses his wife and children and starts drinking. He loses his job and turns into this paranoid survivalist and that’s where we find him at the beginning of the movie. You have some understanding of why he’s a racist and why he is the way he is, because of what happened to him. That was his back story, and he is a guy that really down deep was a good person but circumstances just destroyed him. Do you see The Divide as a bleak film, ultimately? Yeah, it’s bleak! It’s about as bleak as it could possibly get. I call it dark, I call it a psychological horror movie. I think what we’re looking at in life right now is bleak. I think everybody should open up their eyes, because this country and this world is not the same one that I grew up in. There’s a lot of stuff going around that is scary, and the world is getting smaller and smaller. I think something like this could happen very easily, in my lifetime, where something bad happens. So I think people should be aware. Is there any way, do you think, to truly prepare oneself for what would happen if placed in the situation characters face in the film? No. No, not really. You could move to Idaho and build yourself a bunker but sooner or later somebody’s going to get you and your family, or your children or your grandchildren, or your grandchildren’s children. It’s crazy to think how entirely possible it feels for human beings to devolve so extremely under circumstances like these. It is, and I think we’re this close. I mean, go on YouTube and look at the video of what they were doing to Qaddafi. I can’t even bring myself to do that. Well, it’s pretty nasty stuff. When you see that, you see what mankind is capable of. That was in the spirit of anger pent up for years and years and years, but they were raping him with a fucking metal rod and shit. Mankind, you know. And it’s not just there; it’s Afghanistan, it’s Pakistan, it’s Africa, it’s in a lot of places that stuff’s going on. And North Korea -– who knows what’s going on with that situation. Do you feel like films like these are a necessary reflection of life? I think that they’re not necessary, but to look at a movie like this and go ‘My God, that was horrible – nothing like that would ever happen’… I think something like that could happen very easily and you have to be prepared to know how you would react, and try to go out with a little bit of humanity. Did the actual film shoot mirror this sort of tension? The actual film shoot was absolutely brutal. The actors hated each other. Why? Was that a product of the filming environment, being stuck in a bunker for so long? It was a product of the fact that Xavier basically said, “If you want to improv something, you can improv something; if you want to write something, write something.” Basically, people would do improvs and somebody would be doing a scene that they thought was their scene for the day and somebody else would be doing an improv and the camera would move over on them and the other actors would get mad. Some actors were more physical than other actors and the other actors were upset with that. Some people felt like their roles were being taken away from them, that they were being upstaged, and they absolutely hated each other. They broke into groups. I’ve worked with [William] Friedkin, I’ve worked with Michael Bay, and there was more tension on this set than any set that I’ve ever been on. Producers were continually called down to the set to break up fights -– not fistfights, not real fights, but it got close. Were you involved in any of this? Well, no. The thing that was good about me is that I didn’t take sides. I didn’t have any sides, I was my own person. So basically I as an elder actor on this set tried to keep some peace between the other actors, and said, “Listen –- just fucking calm down, it’s just a movie.” But there was a lot of hatred and a lot of bitterness on that movie. It was nasty, and we were working in a confined space and everybody stayed in that space because they wanted to be there. These guys, like Michael [Eklund] and Milo [Ventimiglia], they went for it, man. They lost weight; they lost 20 pounds because they didn’t eat, they didn’t shave, they didn’t shower. And they were, you know… you look at Milo’s performance and it’s out of this world, I think, to see the breakdown of his character. And Rosanna [Arquette] is so good in it. It’s just the best ensemble movie I’ve ever been in. So despite the chaos, do you think the final film was worth all of that trouble? Yeah, I do. I think that basically Xavier was smart enough to set it up that way. I think he realized from the beginning that if he did this, he was going to piss off some actors and turn some actors against other actors. I think he knew from the very beginning that the actors weren’t going to get along very well and it went downhill from there. The producers kept having to be called down to set… it was crazy. As a performer, how do you feel about that kind of directorial manipulation? It worked. [Smiles] I think it worked, and I enjoyed it. I was given full freedom to take a character and do anything I wanted with him. He basically said, “Michael, if you don’t like what’s written you write what you want to write,” and I wanted to show a guy that was not just a bad guy all the way through. Michael Eklund, who basically didn’t have hardly anything in that movie -– there was nothing really written in the script for him, not much, maybe a few lines here and there –- was so good that he ends up kind of turning into the bad guy. That was from doing improvs, from writing stuff, and from Xavier just loving his work so much that he ends up turning into the antagonist. Then I was able to take my role and turn him from being the antagonist into somebody that had kind of redeemed himself. And it happened while we were shooting -– I mean, the movie was moving off in different directions as people were improvising and doing different things, and nobody knew what was going on from day to day. That’s somewhat fascinating as a deliberate choice on Xavier’s part, but it seems like it might be scary… It was scary! It wasn’t scary to me, but there were people on set that were scared, that’s for sure. Did you ever worry about how the film would end up? Well, I never worry. It could be either good, or it could not be so good. People like it or they don’t like it. But I’ve done like 60 to 70 movies, and some are good, some aren’t. This one I’m pretty proud of. I like the comparison of the Divide set as being more tense than any you’ve been on, considering the directors you’ve worked with. Yeah, and that’s Billy Friedkin. That’s Jim Cameron. That’s Michael Bay! Speaking of directors, you’ve recently made a foray into directing. What’s the latest with your film The Victim ? We just got picked up by Anchor Bay today, so we’re real excited about that. We were talking to a few different companies for a while and negotiating, then Anchor Bay stepped up and they gave us a deal we’re really happy with. We’re going to release the movie on 50 college campuses; every college has got a movie theater. It’s getting a lot of attention! Congratulations! You’ve described it as a sort of grindhouse movie. Can you elaborate? It’s basically a little grindhouse movie I shot in 12 days, wrote it in three weeks, and did pre-production, cast it, crewed up, went to the Screen Actors Guild, did locations -– did all that stuff in three weeks while I was writing it, then we rolled it into a 12-day shoot. And we got The Victim ! I think we got lucky, people seem to be enjoying it. Now we’ve got people that are going to sell it for us, and that are happy to sell it for us. Lastly, I’ve wondered — of all of the iconic and memorable roles that come up for you with fans, does anybody ever bring up Coach [Biehn’s 1978 starring debut, about a high school athlete who has an inappropriate love affair with his lady coach]? No! I mean, people talk to me about Coach , but not as an iconic piece. Well, consider this a first. There’s something about Coach that is so great, so of an era… [Laughing] These days, she’d go to jail for that! The Divide is in limited release this Friday. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . 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