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Ne-Yo seeing green, not red, over R. Kelly
Ne-Yo would like to set the record straight.
"I don't hate R. Kelly," the R&B superstar insists.
Yes, Ne-Yo did sue Kelly's tour promoter, Rowe Entertainment, after he was booted off Kelly's 2007 tour (allegedly for upstaging the so-called star of the show). But, having just won $700,320 in damages, Ne-Yo can feel magnanimous."It wasn't even really a feud," he told us over dinner at Philippe. "It's all in the past. I think I'm going to use the money and open up a club or a cigar bar in Atlanta."
The Grammy winner did confirm that Jay-Z and Sean (Diddy) Combs gave him a hip-hop hazing. "We were all in London a while ago, and I ended up doing so many shots of Patrón because I thought everyone else was," he recalled. "But they were just putting them down without drinking! So nine shots later, and I'm hanging out of Jay's Maybach, losing my lunch! He called and joked he was going to send me a cleaning bill for the carpeting." And Ne-Yo would've paid it. Given his new album's title, "Year of the Gentleman" - out Tuesday - he prides himself on his manners.
"Guys aren't as respectful or courteous as they once were," he declared, "so I want to bring that back."
While his CD is stuffed with hooks and grooves, he has enough to share. He's working with Michael Jackson and Michael Bolton. And don't be surprised if he cooks up a campaign anthem for the Democrats. Jokes Ne-Yo: "Barack or die!”
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/09/16/2008-09-16_neyo_seeing_green_not_red_over_r_kelly.html
IT'S PLAYOFFS OR BUST: King City volleyball focused on keeping postseason streak alive
Inevitably it's going to end.
It has to. Right?
The past reminds us that all streaks are stopped — even King City's streak of 25 straight volleyball playoff appearances. "Not on this team's watch,'' setter Megan Muniz said.
Warranted or not, King City's past success on the volleyball court creates high expectations. Even in a so-called rebuilding year, the program is a measuring stick for its rivals.
That will happen when you have double the number of league titles (17) as the rest of the Mission Trail Athletic League combined. In fact, the last time King City missed the postseason, Ronald Reagan was the president, Joe Montana had just one Super Bowl ring and Michael Jackson's song "Billie Jean" was No. 1.
Full story http://www.montereyherald.com/localsports/ci_10476601?nclick_check=1
Richard Wright dies at 65; founding member of Pink Floyd
Wright had no explanation for the astonishing longevity of the "Dark Side" album -- it spent more time, 741 weeks, on the Billboard album chart than any other in history -- or the extraordinary following the band inspired. The 1979 album "The Wall" spent 15 weeks at No. 1 and has been certified for worldwide sales of 23 million copies by the Recording Industry Assn. of America, putting it third on the list of all-time best sellers, behind "The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Full story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-wright16-2008sep16,0,7349427.story
Seattle 'zombies' to tackle 'Thriller' record again
SEATTLE -- Grisly ghouls from every tomb are rising again to take another shot at dance history in Seattle and around the world, following the footwork of the King of Pop.
For the second straight year, thousands of people in the Northwest and across the globe will be trying to set the Guinness world record for the most people doing a dance at the same time.
And once again, they’re doing it to Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller.” Unfortunately, it was a far cry from the world record for most people doing the same dance simultaneously. That’s held by about 200,000 Canadian school children doing the “Hokey Pokey.”
Currently, practices for “Thriller” are planned throughout September and October, with the actual performance set for October 25 at 11 a.m. in Seattle.
A Web site is set up where potential dancers can get more information on rehearsals leading up to the event. It takes about three hours to learn the modified dance. The dancing in the original music video only lasted about three minutes, but because Guinness requires a minimum of five minutes, some of the steps are repeated several times.
In Seattle last year, about 100 dancers did their part at the downtown YMCA for the official performance and then proceeded to take the show to Westlake Center and Pike Place Market.
The so-called “Thrill the World” movement originated in Toronto.
Last year on the weekend before Halloween, 1,722 people in 52 cities on five continents rose from the ground, all at the same time, to take a shot at the record. They officially set the record for the "Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance (multiple locations)" in the lesser known World Records Academy and the Record Holders Republic.
http://www.king5.com/lifestyles/stories/NW_091108LIFB_thriller_in_seattle_TP.646435ee.html
Hot and cold
Q-Tip "Gettin' Up"
From the funky bass and bright piano to the sepia-toned video, Q-Tip's "Gettin' Up" screams nostalgia. It's the kind of simple and fun hip-hop song that reminds you of the '80s or early '90s; appropriate, because it's the former A Tribe Called Quest rapper's first solo effort since 1999. And did we mention how sweet the video is - Q-Tip wears a red Michael Jackson jacket and a Davey Crockett hat. Nice.
More http://media.www.diamondbackonline....8/09/16/Diversions/Hot-And.Cold-3431906.shtml
MTV Laying TRL to Rest - It's the end of an era for MTV.
Executive producer Dave Sirulnick said Monday that the final episode of TRL will air in November.
And, considering what MTV's program schedule looks like these days, the two-hour special—which doesn't have an exact date yet but will be shown on a Saturday afternoon—will seemingly be the most time the network has devoted to music videos all at once (minus the annual VMAs) in ages.
While this won't be the last episode ever of what premiered in 1998 as the Carson Daly-hosted Total Request Live, which helped introduce über-popsters such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake (as part of 'N Sync) to the world, Sirulnick agreed that the interactive video-countdown show could use a break.
Daly left his career-making venture for NBC's late-night pastures in 2003, after which a revolving lineup of VJs, including Damien Fahey, LaLa Vasquez and Nick Lachey squeeze Vanessa Minnillo, took turns hosting.
TRL, which started taping two episodes a day last year, marked its 2,000th episode on May 22, 2007. Later that year, in a nod to the fact that the show was no longer a singular destination for fans' video-viewing pleasure, producers turned to a combination of votes, chart action, downloads, ringtone purchases, radio play and Internet streaming to determine the top videos each week.
"I'm going to miss TRL," Eminem, who graced the show's Times Square studio many times over the years, said in a statement. "Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait...the VMAs!"
Pretty much, considering MTV is known to the current channel-flipping generation more for being the home of The Hills than the network where, for most of the 1990s, you could catch the Top 100 Videos of All Time countdown (which always ended with Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the No. 1 and 2 spots).
Starting in November, new and viewer-tested videos will continue to have a home on the Pete Wentz-hosted FNMTV, featuring a pretaped combo of videos and in-studio performances, which had a successful 15-episode run on Friday nights this summer.
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b29135_mtv_laying_trl_rest.html
Project Runway 5: Meet the Designer - Terri Stevens
Terri Stevens was sent home from last week's double elimination episode of Project Runway 5, narrowly missing her chance to show a collection at Bryant Park.
For a while in this competition, Terri seemed to be a potential front runner in many viewers' minds. We won't have the chance to see what she could have done for a full collection for Fashion Week, but was can take a look at what brought this designer to
Although this experience in the world of more commercial fashion has probably helped build Terri's classic American aesthetic, as we saw in the drag challenge (which many viewers felt she should have won), Terri also clearly has access to a less conventional visual vocabulary, and music appears to be just as much of an influence on her as fashion.
“I am rock and roll,” she had said of her style, “…if you'd throw Mick Jagger, Aerosmith, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, and Madonna all up in there, funking and break-dancing.”
Michael Jackson, in fact, appears to be a major influence, and Terri actually has been a Michael Jackson impersonator. She named her higher-end line “Michael Joseph” after Jackson, and points out how he's had an impact on the world of fashion as well as music and dance.
“I do think Michael Jackson has started a lot of trends that people don't give him credit for,” she says, “like the Thriller and Beat It jackets, the military gear he rocks, and his cropped pants with dress socks.”
Full story http://www.buddytv.com/articles/project-runway/project-runway-5-meet-the-desi-22774.aspx
Mentionings
Ne-Yo seeing green, not red, over R. Kelly
Ne-Yo would like to set the record straight.
"I don't hate R. Kelly," the R&B superstar insists.
Yes, Ne-Yo did sue Kelly's tour promoter, Rowe Entertainment, after he was booted off Kelly's 2007 tour (allegedly for upstaging the so-called star of the show). But, having just won $700,320 in damages, Ne-Yo can feel magnanimous."It wasn't even really a feud," he told us over dinner at Philippe. "It's all in the past. I think I'm going to use the money and open up a club or a cigar bar in Atlanta."
The Grammy winner did confirm that Jay-Z and Sean (Diddy) Combs gave him a hip-hop hazing. "We were all in London a while ago, and I ended up doing so many shots of Patrón because I thought everyone else was," he recalled. "But they were just putting them down without drinking! So nine shots later, and I'm hanging out of Jay's Maybach, losing my lunch! He called and joked he was going to send me a cleaning bill for the carpeting." And Ne-Yo would've paid it. Given his new album's title, "Year of the Gentleman" - out Tuesday - he prides himself on his manners.
"Guys aren't as respectful or courteous as they once were," he declared, "so I want to bring that back."
While his CD is stuffed with hooks and grooves, he has enough to share. He's working with Michael Jackson and Michael Bolton. And don't be surprised if he cooks up a campaign anthem for the Democrats. Jokes Ne-Yo: "Barack or die!”
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/09/16/2008-09-16_neyo_seeing_green_not_red_over_r_kelly.html
IT'S PLAYOFFS OR BUST: King City volleyball focused on keeping postseason streak alive
Inevitably it's going to end.
It has to. Right?
The past reminds us that all streaks are stopped — even King City's streak of 25 straight volleyball playoff appearances. "Not on this team's watch,'' setter Megan Muniz said.
Warranted or not, King City's past success on the volleyball court creates high expectations. Even in a so-called rebuilding year, the program is a measuring stick for its rivals.
That will happen when you have double the number of league titles (17) as the rest of the Mission Trail Athletic League combined. In fact, the last time King City missed the postseason, Ronald Reagan was the president, Joe Montana had just one Super Bowl ring and Michael Jackson's song "Billie Jean" was No. 1.
Full story http://www.montereyherald.com/localsports/ci_10476601?nclick_check=1
Richard Wright dies at 65; founding member of Pink Floyd
Wright had no explanation for the astonishing longevity of the "Dark Side" album -- it spent more time, 741 weeks, on the Billboard album chart than any other in history -- or the extraordinary following the band inspired. The 1979 album "The Wall" spent 15 weeks at No. 1 and has been certified for worldwide sales of 23 million copies by the Recording Industry Assn. of America, putting it third on the list of all-time best sellers, behind "The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Full story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-wright16-2008sep16,0,7349427.story
Seattle 'zombies' to tackle 'Thriller' record again
SEATTLE -- Grisly ghouls from every tomb are rising again to take another shot at dance history in Seattle and around the world, following the footwork of the King of Pop.
For the second straight year, thousands of people in the Northwest and across the globe will be trying to set the Guinness world record for the most people doing a dance at the same time.
And once again, they’re doing it to Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller.” Unfortunately, it was a far cry from the world record for most people doing the same dance simultaneously. That’s held by about 200,000 Canadian school children doing the “Hokey Pokey.”
Currently, practices for “Thriller” are planned throughout September and October, with the actual performance set for October 25 at 11 a.m. in Seattle.
A Web site is set up where potential dancers can get more information on rehearsals leading up to the event. It takes about three hours to learn the modified dance. The dancing in the original music video only lasted about three minutes, but because Guinness requires a minimum of five minutes, some of the steps are repeated several times.
In Seattle last year, about 100 dancers did their part at the downtown YMCA for the official performance and then proceeded to take the show to Westlake Center and Pike Place Market.
The so-called “Thrill the World” movement originated in Toronto.
Last year on the weekend before Halloween, 1,722 people in 52 cities on five continents rose from the ground, all at the same time, to take a shot at the record. They officially set the record for the "Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance (multiple locations)" in the lesser known World Records Academy and the Record Holders Republic.
http://www.king5.com/lifestyles/stories/NW_091108LIFB_thriller_in_seattle_TP.646435ee.html
Hot and cold
Q-Tip "Gettin' Up"
From the funky bass and bright piano to the sepia-toned video, Q-Tip's "Gettin' Up" screams nostalgia. It's the kind of simple and fun hip-hop song that reminds you of the '80s or early '90s; appropriate, because it's the former A Tribe Called Quest rapper's first solo effort since 1999. And did we mention how sweet the video is - Q-Tip wears a red Michael Jackson jacket and a Davey Crockett hat. Nice.
More http://media.www.diamondbackonline....8/09/16/Diversions/Hot-And.Cold-3431906.shtml
MTV Laying TRL to Rest - It's the end of an era for MTV.
Executive producer Dave Sirulnick said Monday that the final episode of TRL will air in November.
And, considering what MTV's program schedule looks like these days, the two-hour special—which doesn't have an exact date yet but will be shown on a Saturday afternoon—will seemingly be the most time the network has devoted to music videos all at once (minus the annual VMAs) in ages.
While this won't be the last episode ever of what premiered in 1998 as the Carson Daly-hosted Total Request Live, which helped introduce über-popsters such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake (as part of 'N Sync) to the world, Sirulnick agreed that the interactive video-countdown show could use a break.
Daly left his career-making venture for NBC's late-night pastures in 2003, after which a revolving lineup of VJs, including Damien Fahey, LaLa Vasquez and Nick Lachey squeeze Vanessa Minnillo, took turns hosting.
TRL, which started taping two episodes a day last year, marked its 2,000th episode on May 22, 2007. Later that year, in a nod to the fact that the show was no longer a singular destination for fans' video-viewing pleasure, producers turned to a combination of votes, chart action, downloads, ringtone purchases, radio play and Internet streaming to determine the top videos each week.
"I'm going to miss TRL," Eminem, who graced the show's Times Square studio many times over the years, said in a statement. "Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait...the VMAs!"
Pretty much, considering MTV is known to the current channel-flipping generation more for being the home of The Hills than the network where, for most of the 1990s, you could catch the Top 100 Videos of All Time countdown (which always ended with Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the No. 1 and 2 spots).
Starting in November, new and viewer-tested videos will continue to have a home on the Pete Wentz-hosted FNMTV, featuring a pretaped combo of videos and in-studio performances, which had a successful 15-episode run on Friday nights this summer.
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b29135_mtv_laying_trl_rest.html
Project Runway 5: Meet the Designer - Terri Stevens
For a while in this competition, Terri seemed to be a potential front runner in many viewers' minds. We won't have the chance to see what she could have done for a full collection for Fashion Week, but was can take a look at what brought this designer to
Although this experience in the world of more commercial fashion has probably helped build Terri's classic American aesthetic, as we saw in the drag challenge (which many viewers felt she should have won), Terri also clearly has access to a less conventional visual vocabulary, and music appears to be just as much of an influence on her as fashion.
“I am rock and roll,” she had said of her style, “…if you'd throw Mick Jagger, Aerosmith, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, and Madonna all up in there, funking and break-dancing.”
Michael Jackson, in fact, appears to be a major influence, and Terri actually has been a Michael Jackson impersonator. She named her higher-end line “Michael Joseph” after Jackson, and points out how he's had an impact on the world of fashion as well as music and dance.
“I do think Michael Jackson has started a lot of trends that people don't give him credit for,” she says, “like the Thriller and Beat It jackets, the military gear he rocks, and his cropped pants with dress socks.”
Full story http://www.buddytv.com/articles/project-runway/project-runway-5-meet-the-desi-22774.aspx
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