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			<title><![CDATA[Autopsy confirms Don Cornelius shot himself]]></title>
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An autopsy confirmed that record producer Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running syndicated TV show &ldquo;Soul Train,&rdquo; committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in the hills east of Sherman Oaks Feb. 1.

The autopsy was conducted on Feb. 3, and toxicology tests were ordered, but the results are not yet available, said coroner&rsquo;s Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

&ldquo;The final coroner report will be available for release once toxicology testing has been completed,&rdquo; Winter said, adding that the process could take up to six weeks.

The shooting occurred about 4 a.m. Feb. 1 in the 12600 block of Mulholland Drive. Cornelius, 75, was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Record producer Quincy Jones said that day that he was &ldquo;shocked and deeply saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, colleague, and business partner,&rdquo; calling him &ldquo;a visionary pioneer and a giant in our business.&rdquo;

Cornelius was born in Chicago on Sept. 27, 1936, and grew up on the city&rsquo;s south side. In 1971, he launched &ldquo;Soul Train,&rdquo; which went on to become one of TV&rsquo;s longest-running syndicated programs. He stopped hosting &ldquo;Soul Train&rdquo; in 1993, and the show ceased production in 2006.

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			<title><![CDATA[Middle finger 'malfunction' mars Super Bowl halftime show ]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; Ahead of her Super Bowl  halftime show, singer Madonna promised there would be no &quot;wardrobe  malfunction.&quot; What she didn't guarantee was no obscene gestures.

Rapper  M.I.A. provided a middle finger salute to network cameras Sunday night  during the 12-minute extravaganza, when she joined Madonna during a  performance of the latter's new single, &quot;Give Me All Your Luvin'.&quot;

The apologies from the NFL and the broadcaster, NBC, came quickly -- they blamed each other.

&quot;There  was a failure in NBC's delay system,&quot; said Brian McCarty, the league's  vice president of communications. &quot;The obscene gesture in the  performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we  apologize to our fans.&quot;

&quot;The NFL hired the talent and produced  the halftime show,&quot; NBC said. &quot;Our system was late to obscure the  inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.&quot;

The  episode was reminiscent of the 2004 Super Bowl when singer Janet  Jackson's nipple was briefly exposed during a performance with singer  Justin Timberlake.

The infamous &quot;wardrobe malfunction&quot; episode,  as it came to be known, prompted the Federal Communications Commission  to fine broadcaster CBS $550,000. In November, a divided 3rd Circuit  Court of Appeals ruled the FCC improperly punished the network.

Since then, the NFL has maintained tight control over the show's production.

After  the Jackson-Timberlake showstopper, the halftime show largely relied on  classic rock artists such as Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, The  Rolling Stones, The Who and Tom Petty.

Fast forward to Sunday when the New England Patriots were again playing in the big game, just as in 2004.

M.I.A,  along with Nicki Minaj, Cee-Lo Green and LMFAO, joined Madonna as she  treated fans to a greatest hits medley that included &quot;Vogue,&quot; &quot;Music&quot;  and &quot;Like a Prayer.&quot;

The &quot;spontaneous gesture,&quot; as NBC called it,  came during a performance of Madonna's latest single. M.I.A not only  flipped her middle finger but uttered &quot;I don't give a sh*t.&quot;

Madonna  did not issue a comment. But on Twitter, where the halftime show  generated 8,000 tweets per second, the reaction was swift and mixed.

&quot;What  was that singer M.I.A. thinking?! Flipping off America during halftime  can't be a good career move,&quot; Will Ripley of Denver tweeted.

But Devon Soltendieck of Montreal was less concerned.

&quot;Can we all stop pretending #MIA flipping the Finger during the halftime show is offensive in 2012?&quot; he asked.

Said  Josh Jackson, editor in chief of the music magazine Paste: &quot;M.I.A.  Didn't flip us all off. She just had a middle finger malfunction.&quot;

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			<title><![CDATA[How Don Cornelius became the 'pope of soul']]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; Don Cornelius never led a  civil rights march, launched a boycott or gave a speech before a  cheering crowd of protesters.

But his impact on America was as  profound as virtually any civil rights leader, says Shayne Lee, a  sociologist who grew up watching &quot;Soul Train.&quot;

Cornelius'  groundbreaking TV show didn't just captivate African-Americans &mdash; it  tied white and black America together in a way that had not been done  before, says Lee, who teaches a course on hip-hop at the University of  Houston.

&quot;He was an ambassador, the pope of soul,&quot; Lee said. &quot;For a  lot of suburban whites living in segregated America, this was their  first exposure to this exciting new world of movement and energy. He  made black culture more accessible.&quot;

Cornelius, who hosted &quot;Soul  Train&quot; for 22 of its 36 years on the air, died Tuesday. He was 75.  Police reports indicate he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The  suave Cornelius was known by an entire generation of African-Americans  as the dapper host of &quot;Soul Train&quot; who signed off each show by blowing a  kiss and declaring, &quot;We wish you love, peace and souuuullll.&quot;

Most  of the tributes to Cornelius that poured in following his death focused  on his contribution to music. Others said his legacy was bigger than  sound.

Cultural impact of 'Soul Train'

Kenny  Gamble, co-founder of Philadelphia International Records, which  produced the theme song for &quot;Soul Train,&quot; says Cornelius was a great  contributor to American, not just black, culture.

&quot;Soul Train,&quot; like Apple and Coca-Cola, is an American brand, Gamble says.

&quot;Soul  Train&quot; traditions, like dancers gathering to cheer on fellow dancers as  they shimmied down a dance line, are now a part of pop culture.

&quot;No  matter where you go in this world, people are doing the 'Soul Train'  dance line,&quot; he said. &quot;What's a party without the 'Soul Train' dance  line?&quot;

Gamble still sounded stunned after hearing the news about Cornelius.

&quot;Unbelievable,&quot; he said. &quot;That was my man.&quot;

Singer Gladys Knight told CNN that Cornelius was an unsung hero whose show amplified the message, &quot;I'm black and I'm proud.&quot;

&quot;He encouraged us to be ourselves,&quot; she said. &quot;We're going to give you this platform and you go out and do your thing.&quot;

Sociologist  Lee said that message &mdash; be black and proud &mdash; drove the civil rights  movement. And just as the civil rights movement overturned segregation,  Cornelius erased cultural barriers that separated white and black  Americans living apart in their own cultural cocoons.

&quot;I see Cornelius as a civil rights activist,&quot; said Lee, author of &quot;Erotic Revolutionaries.&quot;

&quot;The  civil rights movement changed the legal structure; Cornelius changed  the cultural structure. Changing the culture can change hearts in a way  that protests can't.&quot;

Cornelius first changed television.

TV  had not been known as friendly terrain for African-Americans before  &quot;Soul Train.&quot; Blacks were often seen in caricatured roles &mdash; as  minstrels, servants or outlaws. They were seen through the lens of white  America.

&quot;Soul Train&quot; changed the focus. It lifted the veil on  black America and showed blacks being themselves, and not as whites  imagined them, said Lee.

&quot;The show introduced the notion that  blacks were creative, we have something to offer and we're not going  anywhere. And if you give us a chance, you might like some of our  moves,&quot; Lee said.

Cornelius offered white America a new way to see black men, Lee says. He wasn't a sidekick or servant, nor was he angry.

&quot;He  walked a tightrope,&quot; Lee said. &quot;If he was too in-your-face, he would  have been offensive on television, or too accommodating he would have  been perceived as an Uncle Tom.

&quot;He was soooo cool.&quot;

The cool apparently wasn't an act to those who knew him and knew how he launched &quot;Soul Train.&quot;

The man behind the voice

Cornelius  took a big risk to start &quot;Soul Train.&quot; He was a former insurance  salesman who entered broadcasting in the mid-1960s. He gave up a steady  paycheck as a salesman because he'd often been told he had a wonderful  voice for broadcasting.

He was inspired by another television music host.

&quot;Almost  all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned  from Dick Clark,&quot; the producer and host of &quot;American Bandstand,&quot; he  once told Advertising Age.

Cornelius was used to taking risks &mdash; he used $400 of his own money to shoot a pilot and faced skepticism at many turns.

Yet he had an edge &mdash; &quot;Soul Train&quot; was a novel idea.

There  had been any number of radio programs focusing on black music and black  listeners, but &quot;Soul Train&quot; was the first nationwide black-oriented  music-variety TV show. It was also one of the most successful TV  programs ever: To this day, its 35 years in syndication are a record.

&quot;If  you're an African-American of a certain age, 'Soul Train' was as  important to your weekend mornings as your milk was to your cereal,&quot;  broadcasting personality Tom Joyner wrote in 2010.

Cornelius also  was a shrewd businessman. He used a partnership with Sears and  Chicago-based cosmetics company Johnson Products to take the show  national in 1971 after a year's run in Chicago. He also stayed true to  his market &mdash; and by doing so helped popularize African-American artists  among a wide audience.

He gave a number of black performers  their big break, including Shalamar, Rosie Perez and Nick Cannon &mdash; the  latter two as dancers.

Soul Train's fashions

The  fashions on &quot;Soul Train&quot; were almost as important as the music. Every  Saturday, teenagers all across America tuned in to see what the &quot;Soul  Train&quot; dancers were wearing. Viewers even paid attention to the  commercials, where companies sold black beauty products such as  Ultra-Sheen.

&quot;It was appointment television in our household, and  the clothes were talked about as much if not more than the new dance  moves,&quot; said Billboard magazine editor Danyel Smith. &quot;The style of 'Soul  Train' is a book, a movie, a documentary in and of itself. It was  flashy, it was big, it was bold, it was sexy -- and frankly it was a way  that I think many in America hadn't seen African-Americans look. To  just even see people from another part of the country &mdash; people forget  how revolutionary that was back in the '70s.&quot;

No matter how  popular &quot;Soul Train&quot; became, Cornelius never forgot those who worked  behind the stage, said Christopher Lehman, author of &quot;A Critical History  of Soul Train on Television.&quot;

&quot;He wanted to make sure that he had  African-Americans involved in every level of production. He had  African-American directors, and of course he had African-American  dancers,&quot; Lehman told CNN Radio's Matt Cherry.

&quot;If there had not  been a 'Soul Train' there would not have been a whole network like BET  that tries to do on a network level what Don Cornelius did on a program  level.&quot;

In his later years, Cornelius became an elder statesman  for the black music scene. He would show up at awards shows &mdash;  impeccably tailored as usual &mdash; to receive accolades for &quot;Soul Train.&quot;

Looking at him then, it was hard to imagine the risks he took when he started &quot;Soul Train.&quot;

But  NewsOne's Don Charnas remembered. Once, James Brown &mdash; then the biggest  name in soul music &mdash; wondered how Cornelius would succeed.

&quot;Who's backing you on this?&quot; he asked Cornelius repeatedly.

&quot;It's just me, James,&quot; Cornelius answered.

Not anymore.

Cornelius' wonderful voice &mdash; like the music and style of &quot;Soul Train&quot; &mdash; is now a permanent part of America's soundtrack.

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			<title><![CDATA[On 'Tonight Show,' Michelle Obama talks first daughters, 2012 campaign]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; We're getting a glimpse into  what  life is like in the White House including mentally preparing for a  presidential  campaign and sleepovers for the first daughters from  first lady Michelle Obama  as she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay  Leno Tuesday.

The first lady is in California raising money  for  her husband's campaign at Democratic National Committee fundraisers and  also  advancing her Let's Move initiative to solve the problem of  childhood obesity  within a generation.

Appearing on The Tonight Show with  Jay Leno, Mrs. Obama confided her feelings on the upcoming  campaign.

&quot;There's  really no way to prepare  for it.  You know, you just take each day as  it comes.  I think, Barack and I,  our motto is, you try to do the best  job we can do every single day and the hope  is that will speak for  itself.  So, you know, we wake up everyday, we think  about what this  country needs.&quot;

She told Leno two of the most  important issues  she has pressed for as first lady are her initiative to combat   childhood obesity in this country and her work with military  families.

On  the subject of her own family,  the first lady said her daughters Sasha  and Malia are adjusting well to life in  the White House.

&quot;They're  doing really well and I  think that's been one of the most surprising  things about living in the White  House and probably one of the things  I've worried most about was whether we  could have a normal life,&quot;  she  told Leno in a video clip released by NBC.

&quot;The people at the  White House are  amazing, the girls are good, they're normal, we always  check in, they have a  regular life.  They've got friends and  sleepovers, and to them its home.  It's  been truly a blessing for us,&quot;  she said.

The first lady came to the Leno show  bearing gifts as  she presented the host with an apple and some White House honey  from  her White House kitchen garden.  The comedian couldn't let that pass   without a double entendre joke saying, &quot;That sounds bad...You know, with  a  different president, that could mean a whole different thing.&quot;

And  Mitt Romney's musical skills  also came up as Leno asked Mrs. Obama if  she heard the GOP candidate's slightly  off key rendition of  &quot;America  the Beautiful&quot; on the campaign trail Tuesday.   Mrs. Obama didn't miss a  beat saying she had seen the video in the NBC green  room and as the  audience laughed she hesitated only briefly diplomatically  declaring  the rendition &quot;beautiful&quot; and that, &quot;It's a song that's to be sung by   every American.&quot;

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			<title><![CDATA['Most desirable' list includes Sofia Vergara, Rihanna]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; Looking at the world's most  beautiful women, from actresses to musicians to models, AskMen.com  wanted its users to consider one thing above all else: Would you date  them?

AskMen released its list of the &quot;Top 99 Most Desirable Women  of 2012&quot; Tuesday, based on the results of polling both readers and  office staff. While Editor-in-Chief James Bassil agrees that it's not as  easy to qualify a woman you've only seen on TV as a potential  girlfriend, the list isn't just made up of gorgeous models.

&quot;Looks  are obviously a big one for guys &mdash; there's no question about that &mdash;  but other factors are where a woman is in life, the kind of career she's  in and the success or ambition that reflects. Sincerity and loyalty,  all of those values that guys appreciate. We ask them to try to really  assess the candidates as prospective girlfriends and rank them according  to that. That's what really distinguishes the list from a straight-up  'hot women list.' &quot;

&quot;Modern Family's&quot; Sofia Vergara nabbed the top honors and, at age 39, is the &quot;most senior No. 1 we've had,&quot; Bassil said.

&quot;Seeing  her in the show's family context contributes to that desirability  perception and those very criteria that we ask users to judge them by,&quot;  he said. &quot;There's no question that she's hot. She does lots of  interviews where she's funny and charming and seems easygoing -- all of  those personal characteristics that guys prize in women. It seems like  there is a sincerity there too, and that's a huge thing for guys in  relationships.&quot;

While models have their fair share of representation on the list, a few surprises also sneaked into the top numbers.

Kate  Upton, Rooney Mara, Miranda Kerr, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Scarlett  Johansson, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna and Candice Swanepoel made up the  rest of the top 10.

While Victoria's Secret models are enjoying  more visibility these days because of increased TV specials, Bassil  doesn't believe they're at the same level of supermodels from the '80s  and '90s, like Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer.

Noticeably  absent were Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. Bassil believes men are  &quot;fatigued&quot; by the two actresses. Jolie's private, reserved life makes  her too much of a mystery without allowing insight into her personality,  while Aniston has never performed well on the list, Bassil said.

Newcomers  like Lana Del Ray, Emilia Clarke, Adele, Kreayshawn, and Paz de la  Huerta edged standbys from past years aside. Kristen Wiig outranked Tina  Fey at No. 36, while Fey dropped to No. 97. Former child stars are also  being perceived as the mature young women they've grown into, like  Selena Gomez and Emma Watson, ranked respectively at Nos. 14 and 17.

Kate  Middleton, making the list at No. 11, beat her sister, Pippa, by a long  shot. The younger sibling barely made the list at No. 98, but Bassil  believes that may be a reflection of the new voting system.

The  voting, which began in October, lasted just over six weeks, with an  initial pool of 170 candidates. Users ranked their top 10 on a personal  list, and each woman received points for being added to a list, as well  as her ranking on the list. The results created one list of 99  candidates. AskMen's staff also conducted an internal vote, and the two  lists combined represent the final product.

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			<title><![CDATA['The Help' wins ... and wins again ... and wins again at SAG awards]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; &quot;The Help,&quot; a  movie about the treatment of maids in a Mississippi town during the  civil rights era, took top honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards  Sunday night, making it the movie to watch as the Oscar awards approach  next month.

Viola Davis won the best actress trophy, while Octavia  Spence was given the best supporting actress honor. Both women  portrayed maids.

&quot;The Help&quot; also won the best cast ensemble SAG award.

&quot;The stain of racism and sexism is not just for people of color and women,&quot; Davis said. &quot;It's all of our burden, all of us.&quot;

Davis'  best actress win seemed to throw the Oscar competition into a frenzy,  since she beat Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams, actresses who won  Golden Globes two weeks ago.

Streep was nominated for her  portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in &quot;Iron  Lady,&quot; and MIchelle Williams, was nominated for playing movie legend  Marilyn Monroe in &quot;My Week With Marilyn.&quot;

Jean Dujardin won the SAG best actor in a film award for his lead role in &quot;The Artist,&quot; a black-and-white, silent film.

The  win gives Dujardin an apparent edge against George Clooney and the  three other nominees in next month's Oscar best actor competition.

Spencer's  supporting actress SAG award makes her a clear frontrunner for the  supporting actress Oscar, considering she also won the Golden Globe.

&quot;These  women represent our mothers and grandmothers,&quot; Spencer said, referring  to the maids portrayed in &quot;The Help.&quot; &quot;By honoring me, you're honoring  them.&quot;

Christopher Plummer, 82, also earned frontrunner status  for in the Academy Award best supporting actor competition by winning  the SAG honor Sunday night for his role in &quot;The Beginners.&quot;

&quot;I  just cannot tell you how much fun I've had being a member of the world's  second oldest profession,&quot; Plummer said as he accepted his SAG trophy.

Hollywood's  awards season neared mid-point Sunday night with the 18th annual Screen  Actors Guild honors &mdash; the only industry awards that solely recognize  performers.

The SAG actor trophies go to both television and film actors, and the winners are chosen by their acting peers.

SAG  President Ken Howard also used the event to announce the actor union's  board approved a proposal to merge with AFTRA, another acting union,  pending approval of their memberships.

On the prime-time  television side, HBO's &quot;Boardwalk Empire&quot; won for best ensemble cast in a  drama series for a second straight year. It was also the second  consecutive time for the show's star Steve Buscemi to win the SAG best  actor in a TV drama award his role of Enoch &quot;Nucky&quot; Thompson.

Jessica  Lange won the SAG trophy for best actress in a TV drama series for her  work in the FX's &quot;American Horror Story.&quot; It is her first SAG honor.

&quot;It was a real leap of faith for me to jump into it, but it's been a wonderful ride,&quot; Lange said of her role as &quot;Constance.&quot;

In  the television movie or miniseries categories, best actress award went  to Kate Winslet for &quot;Mildred Pierce.&quot; Paul Giamatti won best actor for  his portrayal of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in &quot;Too Big To  Fail.&quot;

&quot;Modern Family&quot; won the best ensemble cast in a TV comedy series for a second year.

Alec  Baldwin won SAG's best actor in a TV comedy series for &quot;30 Rock,&quot; while  89-year-old Betty White was given the best actress in a comedy award  for &quot;Hot in Cleveland,&quot; which she won last year.

&quot;I don't think they can read,&quot; White said as she accepted. &quot;I think they made a terrible mistake.&quot;

The  show at the Shrine Exposition Center aired on TNT and TBS. Both TNT and  TBS are units of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alexa Vega takes on the role of Gabby Rodriguez in 'The Pregnancy Project']]></title>
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With shows like MTV&rsquo;s hit reality series &ldquo;Teen Mom&rdquo; and &ldquo;16 and Pregnant&rdquo; drawing in audiences every week to see what bump in the road struggling mothers will face next, Lifetime Television seems to be striking while the iron is hot by coming off the heels of its successful 2010 movie &ldquo;The Pregnancy Pact.&rdquo;

On Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times, the network will drop &ldquo;The Pregnancy Project,&rdquo; a true story based on 17-year-old Toppenish High School student Gabby Rodriguez (played by &ldquo;Spy Kids&rdquo; Alexa Vega) who fakes being pregnant as part of a social experiment for her senior project.

With only a handful of people &mdash; her mother, boyfriend and school principal &mdash; aware of the scam, Rodriguez&rsquo;s findings forces the school and surrounding community to confront their prejudices and preconceptions about teenage pregnancy when she takes the trial head-on and decides to become a temporary statistic.

As her homemade prosthetic baby bump &mdash; made out of wire mesh and cotton quilt batting &mdash; grows over a six-and-a-half month period, she records how she is treated and what is said about her both in and out of school. When she concludes her findings, Rodriguez addresses her peers and the campus faculty about the various stereotypes she endured during a special school assembly, creating further shock waves when she rips off her padded baby bump and reveals the pregnancy was a sham, leaving everyone stunned.

The story made national headlines, leading Rodriguez to later capitalize on the new-found attention by writing a book called &ldquo;The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir&rdquo; with the help of Jenna Glatzer. And with so much focus now on teen moms, executive producers Barbara Lieberman, Tom Patricia, Sharlene Martin and Anne Bremner along with screenplay writer Teena Booth and director Norman Buckley were champing at the bit to produce a Lifetime Original Movie that takes a hard look approach at how the nation views teenage pregnancy.

Young starlet Alexa Vega was running on fumes when she spoke to the media recently about the film. She had completed a long shoot for the short film &ldquo;Devil&rsquo;s Carnival&rdquo; and only had four hours of sleep. But, she was not short on her thoughts.

The 23-year-old actress grew up &ldquo;with a ton of mommy duties&rdquo; as the oldest of six siblings. Many of the struggles were the same, she said.

That was enough to lure her to the project, but not sufficient to exactly prepare for carrying out the role through Rodriguez&rsquo;s eyes.

&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize that this was a true story,&rdquo; she admitted when asked what she thought of the script. &ldquo;They told me it was a true story, but I didn&rsquo;t remember hearing about it. When they brought it up to my mom, she had seen it all over the news when it actually happened. So, I started looking it up and really researching who Gabby Rodriguez was and what her story was and getting a better idea from watching her in interviews.&rdquo;

She also worked closely with Buckley and the producers to ensure that she portrayed her character how they wanted and was appealing enough to draw a variety of audiences. It also helped that Rodriguez was on hand to answer many of the questions that ran through her head about the thoughts and feelings Rodriguez underwent prior to revealing her secret.

&ldquo;I was able to get all these little inside tips, which helped me into it a little bit further,&rdquo; Vega said. &ldquo;It was so helpful and I think that in the end we pulled it off.&rdquo;

Noting that humans by nature judge, Vega soon found Rodriguez to be inspirational. &ldquo;It [was] truly amazing to see Gabby go through what&rsquo;s she&rsquo;s gone through,&rdquo; Vega said. &ldquo;She is such a bright, smart, articulate young woman, and for her to come up with this well-thought out plan at just 17 years old, and not only convince her mother to feel comfortable to go through something as stressful and emotional as this, and to convince your principal and teachers, you have to have a really strong message that you want to send and I think she sent it.&rdquo;

The message, one Vega said rang loud and clear for her, is that &ldquo;Being a teen mom is a really difficult task, but if it&rsquo;s something that you&rsquo;ve gotten yourself into, it&rsquo;s not the end of the world for you. You have plenty of opportunities and you can still accomplish your goals. You&rsquo;re just going to have to work harder than everybody else. ... No matter how you try to prepare yourself, you are inheriting a world that you will never know until you truly experience it.&rdquo;

Reality television shows, she added, do the population a disservice because &ldquo;they are sort of glorifying it and cheapening what being a teen mom really is,&rdquo; said the Florida native. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they make it look so bad as to where you would never want to do it. Some people see these teen mom shows and think &lsquo;Oh, these women do and they are getting paid to do it, why can&rsquo;t I?&rsquo;

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s something that isn&rsquo;t right because there are a lot of hardships involved. &hellip; With this [movie], we show both sides. We show how difficult it is for a teen mother through one of our other character&rsquo;s Tyra [Laci J. Mailey]. We also show a new world, one that highlights the opportunities. That is what we are trying to show here, that you should not judge them because the reality doesn&rsquo;t go away, she is still pregnant. Why not have people who are around the pregnant teen be helpful and encouraging and find ways to motivate them and help them along in their journey.&rdquo;

And while Vega wore a furnished baby bump of her own for the film, the idea of being a young mother hit home. As the prosthetic belly grew to fit with Rodriquez&rsquo;s experience, Vega said she started to waddle and touch her stomach frequently.

&ldquo;There were some strange mommy instincts that kicked in,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It was so weird, but at the same time, it put me into the reality of the situation.&rdquo;

But don&rsquo;t look for Vega to get pregnant anytime soon. She and husband/producer Sean Covel, who married in 2010, want to continue to build upon the foundation of their relationship before having children.]]></description>
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(CNN) &mdash; &quot;30 Rock&quot; star Tracy Morgan  was rushed to the  hospital on Sunday night after collapsing at the  Sundance Film Festival.  The actor was being honored at the Creative  Coalition Spotlight Awards  and fell unconscious shortly after his  acceptance speech, according to Variety.

Morgan's rep confirmed to CNN that his client is being treated after falling ill during the event.

CNN  iReporter Chris Barrett, who captured footage of Morgan on the red  carpet at the Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards, said that he thought  the 43-year-old actor was injured. &quot;It  looked like he was limping on  the way into the venue,&quot; Barrett says. &quot;He  was being held up by  multiple people. I thought he had a sprained ankle  initially.&quot;

However,  Morgan's rep tells CNN that the actor sought medical attention thanks  to &quot;a combination of exhaustion and altitude.&quot; The rep adds  that Morgan  &quot;is with his fianc&eacute;e and grateful to the Park City Medical  Center for  their care. Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100  percent  false.&quot;

Industry trade pub Variety claims that Morgan appeared to  be  intoxicated during the ceremony, but adds that a hospital  spokesperson  has corroborated his rep's denial, saying no drugs or  alcohol were found in  Morgan's system.

Morgan suffers from diabetes and had a kidney transplant in 2010.

CNN's Matthew Carey contributed to this report.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey: India is 'greatest show on Earth']]></title>
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JAIPUR, India (CNN) &mdash; On a visit to  Jaipur, India, Oprah Winfrey called the country &quot;the greatest show on  Earth&quot; in an interview with CNN sister network CNN-IBN.

&quot;What I've  learned is, you can't see India in a week,&quot; Winfrey told the network in  an interview airing Sunday. &quot;You can't see India in two weeks ... India  is so complex, I would have to say it's the greatest show on Earth.  I've never seen anything like it. India, I'll be back again and again.&quot;

Winfrey  attended Jaipur's literary festival, and said she also wants to  interview author Deepak Chopra in his own country. Chopra, who is also a  medical doctor, popularized the idea of combining traditional Indian  medicine known as Ayurveda with Western medicine in America.

Dressed  in traditional Indian garb, Winfrey greeted a large crowd of book  lovers at the festival. &quot;This is one of the greatest, if not the  greatest, experience I have ever had.&quot;

Winfrey was asked about a  controversy that erupted over writer James Frey. Winfrey promoted Frey's  book, &quot;A Million Little Pieces,&quot; then it was discovered that Frey  embellished events about himself and other characters in the book.

Winfrey took Frey to task in 2006 over the matter. He returned to the television show in 2011.

&quot;I've  had more compassion for murderers,&quot; Winfrey told the large crowd at the  festival, referring to Frey. &quot;I was defending my turf.&quot;

The crowd at the festival was awed by Winfrey. &quot;She is the most powerful woman in the world,&quot; one attendee whispered.

CNN-IBN  also asked Winfrey about author Salman Rushdie, who canceled his  appearance at the Jaipur literary festival after he was informed of  objections from hard-line Muslims and a threat of assassination.

Rushdie,  whose book &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; is banned in India, tweeted Saturday he  now believes police lied to him about a threat to his life to keep him  away from the Jaipur festival, India's largest.

&quot;I try to stay out  of political decisions made by other people for whatever reasons,&quot;  Winfrey told CNN-IBN. &quot;It doesn't bother me, because I was coming for my  own reasons and my own agenda, and when I heard that he was coming, I  was excited.&quot;

Asked whether she supports the banning of books,  Winfrey said, &quot;I for one am not a person who believes in the banning of  literature and the banning of books ... but I also understand, as a  person who lives a very public life ... being able to keep whatever  event you're having safe.&quot;

She said she decided to come to India  in part to interview Chopra and attend the festival, but said she has a  &quot;vision board&quot; with &quot;ideas of things I want to accomplish.&quot; One picture on the board features a cut-out photo of a woman on a camel  wearing a sari, and says, &quot;Come to India,&quot; she said. &quot;I passed that  every day for three years.&quot; She said she decided now would be the right  time.

CNN's Sara Sidner contributed to this report.










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			<title><![CDATA[Anonymous strikes back after feds shut piracy hub Megaupload ]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; &quot;Hacktivist&quot; collective  Anonymous on Thursday took credit for taking down U.S. Department of  Justice, FBI and entertainment company websites, following arrests in  one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns.

Federal  agents earlier in the day arrested the leaders of Megaupload.com and  shut down the popular hub for illegal media downloads.

Hours  later, some of Megaupload's fans turned the table on the feds. Anonymous  said it set its sights on the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI.

Both  sites appeared to be back up late Thursday, but portions of FBI.gov  were not readily available. A law enforcement official told CNN the FBI  was investigating.

Anonymous said 10 websites in all were targeted.

&quot;We  Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music  industry sites. Lulz,&quot; the group said in a statement posted late  Thursday on an associated Twitter account. &quot;The FBI didn't think they  would get away with this did they? They should have expected us.&quot;

The  group also posted personal information on former Connecticut Sen. Chris  Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, one of the  targeted sites.

A Justice Department spokesperson, who did not  want to be identified, said its Web server was &quot;experiencing a  significant increase in activity, resulting in a degradation in  service.&quot;

&quot;The department is working to ensure the website is  available while we investigate the origins of this activity, which is  being treated as a malicious act until we can fully identify the root  cause of the disruption,&quot; the spokesperson said.

The website glitches came soon after various Twitter accounts associated with the collective took aim at the government.

Anonymous'  favorite weapon for these attacks is what's called a &quot;distributed  denial of service&quot; (DDoS) attack, which directs a flood of traffic to a  website and temporarily crashes it by overwhelming its servers. It  doesn't actually involve any hacking or security breaches.

&quot;One thing is certain: EXPECT US! #Megaupload&quot; read one tweet from AnonOps that went out midafternoon.

One  hour later, the same account tweeted a victory message: &quot;Tango down!  http://universalmusic.com &amp; http://www.justice.gov// #Megaupload&quot;

Speaking  of the Web attacks, an Anonymous representative said 5,635 people used a  networking tool called a &quot;low orbit ion cannon.&quot; A LOIC is a software  tool that aims a massive flood of traffic at a targeted site.

The  news comes as lawmakers have turned their attention to anti-piracy  legislation. Protests erupted both online and offline this week against  two bills under consideration in Congress: the House's Stop Online  Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA).

The  bills are aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement by  restricting access to sites that host or facilitate the trading of  pirated content. But the legislation has created a divide between tech  giants, who say the language is too broad, and large media companies,  who say they are losing millions each year to rampant online piracy.  (Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, is among the industry  supporters of the legislation.)

On Twitter, YourAnonNews said Thursday's attacks meant an &quot;involuntary blackout&quot; for sites of SOPA supporters.

Universal  Music's website went down Thursday afternoon. The music company had  been locked in a legal battle with Megaupload over a YouTube video that  featured many of Universal Music's signed artists promoting Megaupload's  site.

The websites of the Recording Industry Association of  America and Motion Picture Association of America were out of action  Thursday afternoon, but they appeared to be back up later in the  evening.

A spokesman for RIAA cast the attack as a minor hiccup.

&quot;The  fact that a couple of sites might have been taken down is really  ancillary to the significant news today that the Justice Department  brought down one of the world's most notorious file-sharing hubs,&quot; he  said.

The Anonymous attack came soon after the Justice Department  announced the indictment of seven individuals connected to Megaupload  for allegedly operating an &quot;international organized criminal enterprise  responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works.&quot;

Authorities  said the operation had generated more than $175 million in illegal  profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships.

According  to the indictment, Megaupload, which launched in 2005, was once the  13th-most visited website on the Internet, serving as a hub for  distribution of copyrighted television shows, images, computer software  and video games.

The site's popular MegaVideo subsidiary was  widely known in tech circles for its copious selection of pirated  content, including recent movies and episodes of hit TV shows.

Four  of those indicted were arrested Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand, at  the request of the United States. Three others remain at large.

The  individuals indicted are citizens of New Zealand, Germany, Slovakia and  the Netherlands. No U.S. citizens were named. However, Megaupload has  servers in Ashburn, Virginia, and Washington, which prompted the  Virginia-based investigation.

To shut down Megaupload, federal  authorities executed 20 search warrants in eight countries, seizing 18  domain names and $50 million worth of assets, including servers in  Virginia, Washington, the Netherlands and Canada.

In some of its attacks, Anonymous has targeted governments or companies it says are part of or support a police state.

The  list of police officers and agencies targeted by the collective is  long. From New York to Oakland, California, police websites have been  hacked; personal information, including the home addresses of specific  police officers, was posted online in 2011.

CNN's Laurie Segall, Terry Frieden, Amber Lyon, Steve Turnham, Carol Cratty and David Goldman contributed to this report]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['The Help' leads Image Award nominations]]></title>
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BEVERLY HILLS &mdash; The civil rights drama &quot;The Help&quot; collected eight nominations Thursday for the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards, honoring the achievements of people of color in television, music, literature and films.

The awards also honor groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors.

&quot;The Help,&quot; the story of an idealistic young writer who gets civil- rights era black maids to talk about their lives as servants in white homes, was nominated for best picture, best actress for Emma Stone and Viola Davis and supporting actress for Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson and Golden Globe winner Octavia Spencer.

Also nominated for best picture were &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; &mdash; which earned six nominations, &quot;Pariah,&quot; &quot;The First Grader&quot; and &quot;Tower Heist.&quot;

&quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; earned best actor and actress nominations for Laz Alonso and Paula Patton, respectively.

Other best-actor nods went to Eddie Murphy of &quot;Tower Heist,&quot; Laurence Fishburne for &quot;Contagion,&quot; Oliver Litondo for &quot;The First Grader&quot; and Vin Diesel for &quot;Fast Five.&quot;

Along with Stone, Davis and Patton, best-actress nominations also went to Adepero Oduye for &quot;Pariah&quot; and Zoe Saldana for &quot;Colombiana.&quot;

The Image Awards will be presented Feb. 17 and televised on NBC.

Here is a list of nominations:

TELEVISION CATEGORIES

Outstanding Comedy Series
&mdash; &quot;Love That Girl!&quot; (TV One)
&mdash; &quot;Modern Family&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; &quot;Reed Between the Lines&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;The Game&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;Tyler Perry's House of Payne&quot; (TBS)

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Dule Hill, &quot;Psych&quot; (USA Network)
&mdash; Malcolm-Jamal Warner, &quot;Reed Between the Lines&quot; (BET)
&mdash; Phil Morris, &quot;Love That Girl!&quot; (TV One)
&mdash; Pooch Hall, &quot;The Game&quot; (BET)
&mdash; Terry Crews, &quot;Are We There Yet?&quot; (TBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Tatyana Ali, &quot;Love That Girl!&quot; (TV One)
&mdash; Tia Mowry-Hardrict, &quot;The Game&quot; (BET)
&mdash; Tracee Ellis Ross, &quot;Reed Between the Lines&quot; (BET)
&mdash; Vanessa Williams, &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Wendy Raquel Robinson, &quot;The Game&quot; (BET)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Craig Robinson, &quot;The Office&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; Damon Wayans Jr., &quot;Happy Endings&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; J.B. Smoove, &quot;Curb Your Enthusiasm&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; Nick Cannon, &quot;Up All Night&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; Tracy Morgan, &quot;30 Rock&quot; (NBC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Amber Riley, &quot;Glee&quot; (FOX)
&mdash; Gabourey Sidibe, &quot;The Big C&quot; (Showtime)
&mdash; Keshia Knight Pulliam, &quot;Tyler Perry's House of Payne&quot; (TBS)
&mdash; Maya Rudolph, &quot;Up All Night&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; Sofia Vergara, &quot;Modern Family&quot; (ABC)

Outstanding Drama Series
&mdash; &quot;Boardwalk Empire&quot; (HBO)
&mdash;  &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; &quot;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; &quot;The Good Wife&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; &quot;Treme&quot; (HBO)

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
&mdash; Andre Braugher, &quot;Men of A Certain Age&quot; (TNT)
&mdash; Hill Harper, &quot;CSI: NY&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; L.L. Cool J, &quot;NCIS: Los Angeles&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Taye Diggs, &quot;Private Practice&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Wendell Pierce, &quot;Treme&quot; (HBO)

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
&mdash; Chandra Wilson, &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Khandi Alexander, &quot;Treme&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; Regina King, &quot;SouthLAnd&quot; (TNT)
&mdash; Sandra Oh, &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Taraji P. Henson, &quot;Person of Interest&quot; (CBS)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
&mdash; Corey Reynolds, &quot;The Closer&quot; (TNT)
&mdash; Ice T, &quot;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; James Pickens Jr., &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Nelsan Ellis, &quot;True Blood&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; Omar Epps, &quot;House M.D.&quot; (FOX)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
&mdash; Alfre Woodard, &quot;Memphis Beat&quot; (TNT)
&mdash; Anika Noni Rose, &quot;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; Archie Panjabi, &quot;The Good Wife&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Diahann Carroll, &quot;White Collar&quot; (USA Network)
&mdash; Loretta Devine, &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; (ABC)

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
&mdash; &quot;Five&quot; (Lifetime Movie Network)
&mdash; &quot;Hallmark Hall of Fame, Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; &quot;Luther&quot; (BBC America)
&mdash; &quot;The Least Among You&quot; (Showtime)
&mdash; &quot;Thurgood&quot; (HBO)

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
&mdash; Esai Morales, &quot;We Have Your Husband&quot; (Lifetime)
&mdash; Idris Elba, &quot;Luther&quot; (BBC America)
&mdash; Laurence Fishburne, &quot;Thurgood&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; Louis Gossett Jr., &quot;The Least Among You&quot; (Showtime)
&mdash; Samuel L. Jackson, &quot;The Sunset Limited&quot; (HBO)

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
&mdash; Anika Noni Rose, &quot;Hallmark Hall of Fame, Mitch Albom's Have a Little
Faith&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; Jenifer Lewis, &quot;Five&quot; (Lifetime Movie Network)
&mdash; Rosario Dawson, &quot;Five&quot; (Lifetime Movie Network)
&mdash; Taraji P. Henson, &quot;Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story&quot; (Lifetime)
&mdash; Tracee Ellis Ross, &quot;Five&quot; (Lifetime Movie Network)

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
&mdash; Aaron D. Spears, &quot;The Bold and the Beautiful&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Bryton James, &quot;The Young and the Restless&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Emerson Brooks, &quot;All My Children&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; James Reynolds, &quot;Days of Our Lives&quot; (NBC)
&mdash; Texas Battle, &quot;The Bold and the Beautiful&quot; (CBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
&mdash; Christel Khalil, &quot;The Young and the Restless&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Julia Pace Mitchell, &quot;The Young and the Restless&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Tatyana Ali, &quot;The Young and the Restless&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Tonya Lee Williams, &quot;The Young and the Restless&quot; (CBS)
&mdash; Yvette Freeman, &quot;The Bold and the Beautiful&quot; (CBS)

Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special)
&mdash; &quot;BET News Exclusive: The President Answers Black America&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;Judge Mathis&quot; (Syndicated)
&mdash; &quot;Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; &quot;Unsung&quot; (TV One)
&mdash; &quot;Washington Watch with Roland Martin&quot; (TV One)

Outstanding Talk Series
&mdash; &quot;Anderson&quot; (Syndicated)
&mdash; &quot;Oprah's Lifeclass&quot; (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
&mdash; &quot;The Doctors&quot; (Syndicated)
&mdash; &quot;The View&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; &quot;The Wendy Williams Show&quot; (Syndicated)

Outstanding Reality Series
&mdash; &quot;All-American Muslim&quot; (TLC)
&mdash; &quot;American Idol&quot; (FOX)
&mdash; &quot;Dancing with the Stars&quot; (ABC)
&mdash; &quot;Sunday Best&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;Tia &amp; Tamera&quot; (Style Network)

Outstanding Variety Series or Special
&mdash; &quot;2011 BET Awards&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;Black Girls Rock!&quot; (BET)
&mdash; &quot;Oprah Presents: Master Class&quot; (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
&mdash; &quot;Prince! Behind the Symbol&quot; (The Africa Channel)
&mdash; &quot;UNCF An Evening of Stars Tribute to Chaka Khan&quot; (BET)

Outstanding Children's Program
&mdash; &quot;A.N.T. Farm&quot; (Disney Channel)
&mdash; &quot;Dora The Explorer&quot; (Nickelodeon)
&mdash; &quot;Go, Diego! Go!&quot; (Nickelodeon)
&mdash; &quot;I Can Be President: A Kid's-Eye View&quot; (HBO)
&mdash; &quot;My Family Tree&quot; (Disney Channel)

Outstanding Performance in a Youth/ Children's Program - (Series or Special)
&mdash; China Anne McClain, &quot;A.N.T. Farm&quot; (Disney Channel)
&mdash; Keke Palmer, &quot;True Jackson, VP&quot; (Nickelodeon)
&mdash; Lance Robertson, &quot;Yo Gabba Gabba&quot; (Nickelodeon)
&mdash; Leon Thomas III, &quot;Victorious&quot; (Nickelodeon)
&mdash; Zendaya Coleman, &quot;Shake It Up&quot; (Disney Channel)

RECORDING CATEGORIES

Outstanding New Artist
&mdash; Committed (Epic)
&mdash; Diggy Simmons (Atlantic Records)
&mdash; Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. (Columbia Records)
&mdash; Mindless Behavior (Streamline/Conjunction/Interscope Records)
&mdash; Wynter Gordon (Big Beat/Atlantic Records)

Outstanding Male Artist
&mdash; Anthony Hamilton (RCA Records)
&mdash; Bruno Mars (Elektra Records)
&mdash; Cee Lo Green (Elektra Records)
&mdash; Chris Brown (Jive Records)
&mdash; Common (Warner Bros. Records)

Outstanding Female Artist
&mdash; Beyonce (Columbia Records)
&mdash; Jennifer Hudson (Arista Records)
&mdash; Jill Scott (Warner Bros. Records)
&mdash; Ledisi (Verve Forecast)
&mdash; Mary J. Blige (Geffen)

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
&mdash; Boyz II Men (Benchmark Entertainment/MSM Music Group)
&mdash; Cee Lo Green feat. Melanie Fiona (Elektra Records)
&mdash; Mary J. Blige feat. Drake (Geffen)
&mdash; Sounds of Blackness (Malaco Music Group)
&mdash; The Roots (Island Def Jam Music Group)

Outstanding Jazz Album
&mdash; &quot;Chano y Dizzy,&quot; Terence Blanchard and Poncho Sanchez (Concord
Music Group, Inc.)
&mdash; &quot;Friends,&quot; Stanley Jordan (Mack Avenue Records)
&mdash; &quot;Guitar Man,&quot; George Benson (Concord Jazz)
&mdash; &quot;Legacy,&quot; Gerald Wilson (Mack Avenue Records)
&mdash; &quot;Road Show Vol. 2,&quot; Sonny Rollins (Emarcy)

Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary)
&mdash; &quot;Becoming,&quot; Yolanda Adams (N House Music Group)
&mdash; &quot;Church on the Moon,&quot; Deitrick Haddon (Verity Gospel Music Group)
&mdash; &quot;Hello Fear,&quot; Kirk Franklin (Verity Gospel Music Group)
&mdash; &quot;Something Big,&quot; Mary Mary (Columbia Records)
&mdash; &quot;The Journey,&quot; Andrae Crouch (RiverPhlo Entertainment)

Outstanding World Music Album
&mdash; Afrodiaspora,&quot; Susana Baca (Luaka Bop)
&mdash; &quot;Carnival Fever,&quot; Brother B (King Chero Records)
&mdash; &quot;Live at 2011 New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival,&quot; Boukman
Eksperyans (MunckMix, Inc.)
&mdash; &quot;Sounds of Blackness,&quot; Sounds of Blackness (Malaco Music Group)
&mdash; &quot;The First Grader,&quot; Alex Heffes (Varese Sarabande)

Outstanding Music Video
&mdash; &quot;25/8,&quot; Mary J. Blige (Geffen)
&mdash; &quot;Hear My Call,&quot; Jill Scott (Warner Bros. Records)
&mdash; &quot;I Was Here,&quot; Beyonce (Columbia Records)
&mdash; &quot;Someone Like You,&quot; Adele (Columbia Records)
&mdash; &quot;Where You At,&quot; Jennifer Hudson (Arista Records)

Outstanding Song
&mdash; &quot;Best Thing I Never Had,&quot; Beyonce (Columbia Records)
&mdash; &quot;Fool for You feat. Melanie Fiona,&quot; Cee Lo Green (Elektra Records)
&mdash; &quot;I Smile,&quot; Kirk Franklin (Verity Gospel Music Group)
&mdash; &quot;So In Love feat. Anthony Hamilton,&quot; Jill Scott (Warner Bros. Records)
&mdash; &quot;Someone Like You,&quot; Adele (Columbia Records)

Outstanding Album
&mdash; &quot;4,&quot; Beyonce (Columbia Records)
&mdash; &quot;F.A.M.E,&quot; Chris Brown (Jive Records)
&mdash; &quot;I Remember Me,&quot; Jennifer Hudson (Arista Records)
&mdash; &quot;Lasers,&quot; Lupe Fiasco (1st &amp; 15th/Atlantic Records)
&mdash; &quot;The Light of the Sun,&quot; Jill Scott (Warner Bros. Records)

LITERATURE CATEGORIES

Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
&mdash; &quot;A Silken Thread,&quot; Brenda Jackson (Harlequin Kimani Press)
&mdash; &quot;Boundaries,&quot; Elizabeth Nunez (Akashic Books)
&mdash; &quot;Say Amen, Again,&quot; Reshonda Tate Billingsley (Gallery Books)
&mdash; &quot;Silver Sparrow,&quot; Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books)
&mdash; &quot;The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel,&quot; Nelson George (Akashic Books)

Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
&mdash; &quot;Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America,&quot;
Melissa Harris-Perry (Yale University Press)
&mdash; &quot;Super Rich,&quot; Russell Simmons (Gotham Books)
&mdash; &quot;The Cosmopolitan Canopy,&quot; Elijah Anderson (W. W. Norton &amp; Company)
&mdash; &quot;The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place,&quot; Hill Harper (Gotham
Books)
&mdash; &quot;Who's Afraid of Post- Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now,&quot;
Toure (Free Press)

Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
&mdash; &quot;2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors &amp;
Supporters Navigate the Healing Process,&quot; Denise Hall Brown (2Lift 1Up
Publishing)
&mdash; &quot;A Defining Moment,&quot; Patricia Duncan (IJABA Publishing Inc.)
&mdash; &quot;The Loom,&quot; Shella Gillus (Guideposts Books)
&mdash; &quot;The Strawberry Letter,&quot; Lyah Le Flore (Ballantine/Random House)
&mdash; &quot;We the Animals,&quot; Justin Torres (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Auto-Biography
&mdash; &quot;A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother,&quot;
Janny Scott (Riverhead Books)
&mdash; &quot;Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,&quot; Manning Marable (Penguin Group
(USA)-Viking)
&mdash; &quot;My Song,&quot; Harry Belafonte (Knopf)
&mdash; &quot;No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington,&quot; Condoleezza
Rice (Crown Publishers)
&mdash; &quot;The John Carlos Story,&quot; John Carlos, Dave Zirin (Haymarket Books)

Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
&mdash; &quot;A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets,&quot; Bertice Berry
(Freeman House Publishing)
&mdash; &quot;Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing,&quot; Synthia Saint
James (Create Space)
&mdash; &quot;Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, &amp; Social
Justice in Classroom &amp; Community,&quot; Quraysh Ali Lansana (Teachers &amp; Writers
Collaborative)
&mdash; &quot;The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships
from the Inspired Word of God,&quot; T.D. Jakes (Atria Books)
&mdash; &quot;Too Important to Fail: Saving America's Boys,&quot; Tavis Smiley
(Author), Juan Roberts (Illustrator) (SmileyBooks)

Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
&mdash; &quot;Afro Clouds &amp; Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems,&quot; James Golden
(iUniverse)
&mdash; &quot;Head Off &amp; Split,&quot; Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern
University Press)
&mdash; &quot;Honoring Genius: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and
Justice,&quot; Haki Madhubuti (Third World Press)
&mdash; &quot;Intimate Thoughts,&quot; Darrin Henson (Author), Anna Saunders
(Illustrator) (Godzchild Publishing)
&mdash; &quot;Last Seen,&quot; Jacqueline Jones Lamon (University of Wisconsin Press)

Outstanding Literary Work - Children
&mdash; &quot;Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band,&quot; Kwame Alexander (Author),
Tim Bowers (Illustrator) (Sleeping Bear Press)
&mdash; &quot;Before There Was Mozart,&quot; Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James
Ransome (Illustrator) (Schwartz &amp; Wade Books / Random House Children's Books)
&mdash; &quot;Heart and Soul,&quot; Kadir Nelson (Author/Illustrator) (Balzer + Bray,
an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books)
&mdash; &quot;White Water,&quot; Michael S. Bandy (Author), Shadra Strickland
(Illustrator) (Candlewick Press)
&mdash; &quot;You Can Be A Friend,&quot; Tony Dungy (Author), Ron Mazellan
(Illustrator) (Simon &amp; Schuster Children's Publishing - Little Simon)

Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
&mdash; &quot;Camo Girl,&quot; Kekla Magoon (Simon &amp; Schuster Children's Publishing -
Aladdin)
&mdash; &quot;Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary,&quot; Jerdine
Nolan (Author), Sadra Strickland (Illustrator) (Simon &amp; Schuster Children's
Publishing - Paula Wiseman Books)
&mdash; &quot;Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running,&quot; Jeff Burlingame (Enslow
Publishers, Inc.)
&mdash; &quot;Kick,&quot; Walter Dean (HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins
Children's Books)
&mdash; &quot;Planet Middle School,&quot; Nikki Grimes (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES

Outstanding Motion Picture
&mdash; &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)
&mdash; &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; &quot;The First Grader&quot; (National Geographic Entertainment)
&mdash; &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant Media/Touchstone Pictures)
&mdash; &quot;Tower Heist&quot; (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
&mdash; Eddie Murphy, &quot;Tower Heist&quot; (Universal Pictures)
&mdash; Laurence Fishburne, &quot;Contagion&quot; (Warner Bros. Pictures)
&mdash; Laz Alonso, &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)
&mdash; Oliver Litondo, &quot;The First Grader&quot; (National Geographic Entertainment)
&mdash; Vin Diesel, &quot;Fast Five&quot; (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
&mdash; Adepero Oduye, &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; Emma Stone, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)
&mdash; Paula Patton, &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)
&mdash; Viola Davis, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)
&mdash; Zoe Saldana, &quot;Colombiana&quot; (TriStar Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
&mdash; Anthony Mackie, &quot;The Adjustment Bureau&quot; (Universal Pictures)
&mdash; Charles Parnell, &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; Don Cheadle, &quot;The Guard&quot; (Sony Pictures Classics)
&mdash; Jeffrey Wright, &quot;The Ides of March&quot; (Columbia Pictures)
&mdash; Mike Epps, &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
&mdash; Bryce Dallas Howard, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)
&mdash; Cicely Tyson, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)
&mdash; Kim Wayans, &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; Maya Rudolph, &quot;Bridesmaids&quot; (Universal Pictures)
&mdash; Octavia Spencer, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
&mdash; &quot;I Will Follow&quot; (AFFRM)
&mdash; &quot;Kinyarwanda&quot; (AFFRM)
&mdash; &quot;MOOZ-lum&quot; (AFFRM)
&mdash; &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; &quot;The First Grader&quot; (National Geographic Entertainment)

Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture
&mdash; &quot;A Separation&quot; (Sony Pictures Classics)
&mdash; &quot;Attack the Block&quot; (Screen Gems)
&mdash; &quot;In the Land of Blood and Honey&quot; (FilmDistrict)
&mdash; &quot;Le Havre&quot; (Janus Films)
&mdash; &quot;Life, Above All&quot; (Sony Pictures Classics)

DOCUMENTARY

Outstanding Documentary - (Theatrical or Television)
&mdash; &quot;Beats, Rhymes &amp; Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest&quot; (Sony
Pictures Classics)
&mdash; &quot;Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey&quot; (Submarine Deluxe)
&mdash; &quot;Sing Your Song&quot; (HBO Documentary Films)
&mdash; &quot;The Rescuers&quot; (Michael King Productions)
&mdash; &quot;Thunder Soul&quot; (Roadside Attractions)

WRITING

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Arthur Harris, &quot;Reed Between the Lines,&quot; Let's Talk About Ms.
Helen's Son Part 1 (BET)
&mdash; Prentice Penny, &quot;Happy Endings,&quot; The Girl with the David Tattoo (ABC)
&mdash; Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, &quot;The Game,&quot; Parachutes....Beach Chairs
(BET)
&mdash; Vali Chandrasekaran, &quot;30 Rock,&quot; It's Never Too Late For Now (NBC)
&mdash; Vince Cheung, Ben Montanio, &quot;Wizards of Waverly Place,&quot; Wizards vs.
Angels (Disney Channel)

Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
&mdash; Cheo Hodari Coker, &quot;SouthLAnd,&quot; Punching Water (TNT)
&mdash; Janine Sherman Barrois, &quot;Criminal Minds,&quot; The Bittersweet Science
(CBS)
&mdash; Lolis Eric Elie, &quot;Treme,&quot; Santa Claus, Do You Ever Get the Blues?
(HBO)
&mdash; Pam Veasey, &quot;Ringer,&quot; Oh Gawd, There's Two of Them? (The CW)
&mdash; Zoanne Clack, &quot;Grey's Anatomy,&quot; I Will Survive (ABC)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture - (Theatrical or Television)
&mdash; Alrick Brown, &quot;Kinyarwanda&quot; (AFFRM)
&mdash; Ann Peacock, &quot;The First Grader&quot; (National Geographic Entertainment)
&mdash; Dee Rees, &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene Gibbs, &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)
&mdash; Tate Taylor, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
Media/Touchstone Pictures)

DIRECTING

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
&mdash; Jay Chandrasekhar, &quot;Happy Endings,&quot; The Girl with the David Tattoo
(ABC)
&mdash; Kevin Hooks, &quot;Drop Dead Diva,&quot; Mother's Day (Lifetime)
&mdash; Leonard R. Garner Jr., &quot;Rules of Engagement,&quot; The Set Up (CBS)
&mdash; Miguel Arteta, &quot;How to Make It in America,&quot;  Mofongo (HBO)
&mdash; Salim Akil, &quot;The Game,&quot; Parachutes/Beach Chairs (BET)

Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series
&mdash; Ernest Dickerson, &quot;Treme,&quot; Do Watcha Wanna (HBO)
&mdash; Ken Whittingham, &quot;Parenthood,&quot; Opening Night (NBC)
&mdash; Kevin Sullivan, &quot;NCIS,&quot; Tell-All (CBS)
&mdash; Paris Barclay, &quot;Sons of Anarchy,&quot; Out (FX Network)
&mdash; Seith Mann, &quot;Dexter,&quot; Get Gellar (Showtime)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture - (Theatrical or Television)
&mdash; Alrick Brown, &quot;Kinyarwanda&quot; (AFFRM)
&mdash; Angelina Jolie, &quot;In the Land of Blood and Honey&quot; (FilmDistrict)
&mdash; Dee Rees, &quot;Pariah&quot; (Focus Features)
&mdash; Salim Akil, &quot;Jumping the Broom&quot; (TriStar Pictures)
&mdash; Tate Taylor, &quot;The Help&quot; (DreamWorks Pictures/Participant
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On the TV series &ldquo;Lost,&rdquo; Jorge Garcia portrayed Hurley, who was something of the voice of all geeks on the show (after all, his first reaction to time travel was to rewrite &ldquo;The Empire Strikes Back&rdquo;).

Now, Garcia stars in the new Fox series &ldquo;Alcatraz,&rdquo; as &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Soto, a comic book store owner and expert in the history of the infamous prison. It seems that hundreds of Alcatraz inmates are wreaking havoc in the present day, not looking a minute older than they did when the prison closed (like &ldquo;Lost,&rdquo; this is also a J.J. Abrams production). Naturally, &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Soto has a few opinions on the matter.

CNN Geek Out recently spoke to Garcia about his new show, the geeky TV he&rsquo;s obsessed with, his favorite comic books and more:

CNN Geek Out: I heard that as soon as you heard that J.J. Abrams was involved with this show, you were ready to sign on right away.

Garcia: Pretty much, just (because of) my history with him. I love the guy, and I do believe he makes the TV that I want to watch. So I was pretty much in from the get-go. He was kind of courting me a little bit, when &ldquo;Lost&rdquo; was ending.

CNN Geek Out: Did the subject matter and the mystery/supernatural element make you even more interested in the show?

Garcia: Yeah. I love &ldquo;The Twilight Zone.&rdquo; I know J.J. loves &ldquo;The Twilight Zone.&rdquo; So, getting to read that first script and see the moment that goes &ldquo;gasp.&rdquo; Oh yeah, it&rsquo;s got that &ldquo;Twilight Zone&rdquo; quality to it. That was definitely a big part of the appeal. The end of the second episode gives you a very good &ldquo;wait a minute&rdquo; [moment]!

CNN Geek Out: What is it like doing a show with a little more definitive beginning and ending to each episode (as opposed to &ldquo;Lost&rdquo;)?

Garcia: With &ldquo;Lost,&rdquo; it would sometimes be your job to deliver the &ldquo;placeholder dialogue,&rdquo; just to keep everyone on the same page. Like, &ldquo;We know this, because this happened yesterday, right?&rdquo;
There are elements of this in a procedural, where there&rsquo;s certain information that has to get out because we&rsquo;re putting pieces of a puzzle together... instead of (having) a narrator.

CNN Geek Out: You mentioned that J.J. makes shows you would watch. Are there other shows that you&rsquo;re obsessed with right now?
Garcia: I got really into &ldquo;The Walking Dead.&rdquo; When they started airing new ones, I decided I&rsquo;d catch up and start watching with everybody. I really got caught up on that, and then it cut off right before the holidays, and [I was&rsquo; like, &ldquo;Aww! Now I&rsquo;ve got nothing!&rdquo;

I really like &ldquo;Fringe,&rdquo; and how that story has evolved a lot. Not to kiss the boss&rsquo;s [backside] and all.
But once [you have] that moment where you find out about Walter going to the other universe because he lost his kid, and how it was [all] driven by that. Really, the whole show took a turn for me, because of the heart in it, and the things you do, because you love someone so much &mdash; that really made it a great show.

You have to focus on that show. There are certain shows I will watch while I&rsquo;m on my iPad, catching up on &ldquo;Words with Friends.&rdquo; But you really have to turn everything off and pay attention to &ldquo;Fringe.&rdquo;
I actually ran into Joshua Jackson in an airport and said, &ldquo;When are the new ones starting?&rdquo;

CNN Geek Out: What do you like most about &ldquo;Doc?&rdquo;

Garcia: This is my opportunity to explore a new guy, and I like that this guy is really intelligent.
And, maybe he&rsquo;s not always the nicest everybody-loves-him guy that Hurley was. Maybe he has a bit of an attitude about something, and doesn&rsquo;t necessarily want to play the game like Hurley did.

CNN Geek Out: &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; is an &ldquo;Alcatraz&rdquo; expert and works in a comic book store. Do you think that many fans will be able to relate to him?

Garcia: I definitely think there&rsquo;s going to be a lot of overlap between fans of &ldquo;Lost&rdquo; and &ldquo;Alcatraz.&rdquo; They&rsquo;re not really similar &mdash; only in very broad strokes, yes there are elements of time travel, Alcatraz is technically an island &mdash; they&rsquo;re different but they have the kind of things that appeal to that Comic-Con crowd.

CNN Geek Out: Are you personally interested in history?

Garcia: I sometimes like to read nonfiction, not so much history. I like certain conceptual physics [books], and quantum theories. The physics of stuff like time travel is always interesting to me. It gets very heady, so I find that I can only read it in little bits, and then I walk away and stew on that for a moment. And then I go back, and get another tidbit.

I read that &ldquo;Robopocalypse&rdquo; book over the [holidays]. That filled that little sci-fi need.

CNN Geek Out: Do you have any favorite comic books?

Garcia: When I was younger, I was pretty huge into &ldquo;The New Teen Titans.&rdquo; And then, later on, I got into the Brian K. Vaughan stuff. I like &ldquo;Y: The Last Man&rdquo; a lot. What I want to get into reading now is the Alan Moore &ldquo;Swamp Thing&rdquo; run. I just bought the first trade.

CNN Geek Out: &ldquo;Lost&rdquo; had a very special cast. What is special about the &ldquo;Alcatraz&rdquo; cast?

Garcia: I feel lucky about this group of actors. Every once in a while, you sit there and go, &ldquo;Holy crap! Not only am I working with Sam Neill, I can say we&rsquo;re friends and hang out and can make each other laugh.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s cool from a fanboy aspect.

CNN Geek Out: What can fans look forward to on &ldquo;Alcatraz?&rdquo;

Garcia: Episode three is a big &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; episode. You see where he&rsquo;s coming from and what may have inspired this obsession that allows someone to get a Ph.D in studying criminals, and his interest in what makes these guys tick.

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			<title><![CDATA[Jon Stewart skewers Newt Gingrich over racial remarks (VIDEO)]]></title>
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&quot;The Daily Show's&quot; Jon Stewart took GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to task Thursday during a segment in which the political satirist reviewed some of the former House speaker's controversial statements on African Americans, Hispanics and women.

&quot;Newton Leroy Gingrich isn't going to let something like nobody voting for him stop him from becoming the nominee,&quot; Stewart said. &quot;He's playing a long game &mdash; the next stop is South Carolina, a state whose population is far more diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire, and Newt's decided to make a bold play to expand his base.&quot;

Stewart then played a clip of Gingrich speaking at a campaign stop in Plymouth, N.H., on Jan. 5.

&quot;Obama is the best food stamp president in American history. &hellip; I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history,&quot; Gingrich said. &quot;I am prepared &mdash; if the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.&quot;

&quot;And then I will stand there as the applause washes over me,&quot; Stewart said, wryly impersonating Gingrich, &quot;and gladly accept my new title as the king of Kwanzaa.&quot;

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(CNN) &mdash; Showtime has been promoting  &quot;House of Lies&quot; for  what seems like the better part of a year, so there  was a lot of  anticipation for Sunday night's series premiere.

But  the show, about a team of management consultants led by Marty   (Oscar-nominated actor and executive producer Don Cheadle), crammed a   lot of plot into the first episode. So much so that there really wasn't   any time left for two of Marty's employees, played by Ben Schwartz and  Josh Lawson, to  shine.

Much of the focus was on Marty himself.  It's not entirely clear from  the promos, but after watching the show,  Cheadle is perfectly cast as  the slick Marty Kaan. (Marty also appears  to be the first sitcom  character since &quot;Saved by the Bell&quot; to have Zack  Morris' &quot;time out&quot;  power.)

A lot of the show explained some of  the terminology and tricks of the  trade for management consultants.  Let's just say that this particular  occupation doesn't come off  smelling like roses.

Marty also has a complicated relationship  with his ex-wife, who's a rival management consultant. The very first  shot of the series  had him lying in bed with her, something he  immediately regrets.

Marty also has a flirtatious relationship  with his star employee,  Jeannie (Kristen Bell, in her first regular TV  role since &quot;Veronica  Mars&quot;). We only got the tiniest hint that there  may be sparks between  them in future episodes.

Two of my favorite  supporting characters, though, are Marty's father  and son, Jeremiah  and Roscoe. Jeremiah supports the cross-dressing  Roscoe, who had to  settle for Rizzo, after auditioning for Sandy in the  school production  of &quot;Grease.&quot;

In the first episode, Marty and his team have to  consult for a bank,  even after a disastrous dinner where the wife of  one of the  bank's hotshots spills their dirty laundry for all to hear,  and Marty  ended up head-butting the hotshot exec.

Marty, who  eschews the term &quot;out of the box,&quot; does indeed think out  of the box to  come up with a winning plan for the bank (and it's just  pure  coincidence that this scene sounds like it was inspired by Occupy  Wall  Street).

If every episode is about the team having to beat the  odds to win  over another company, this formula might get old quick. On  the other  hand, there are enough elements here to make an interesting,  funny show.  More than anything else, though, Cheadle's performance is  the reason to  tune in.]]></description>
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(CNN) &mdash; We'll hear from one of Michael Jackson's children on Thursday's &quot;Ellen.&quot;

According to People, MJ's daughter Paris, 13, will give a revealing interview, discussing the infamous masks she and her siblings wore, among other things.

&quot;I'm like, 'This is stupid, why am I wearing a mask?' &quot; she says of wearing the face coverings (along with her brothers Prince, 14, and Blanket, 9) for so many years. &quot;But I kind of realized the older I got, like, he only tried to protect us. And he'd explain that to us, too.&quot;

Paris, who has an upcoming movie role, says her dad inspired her desire to act. &quot;We would do improv together,&quot; she recalls. &quot;He would give us little scenarios. He would go, 'Okay, in this scene you're going to cry,' and I'd cry on the spot.&quot;

Paris will also reveal the most memorable thing her late father ever told her. &quot;He said, 'If I die tomorrow, always remember what I told you,'&quot; the teen said. &quot;I took his advice and I remembered everything he told me.&quot;

Luckily, Paris says she's adjusting to her new, more public life. &quot;I'm treated the same,&quot; she says. &quot;When I came to [school], they didn't know who I was. I was like, yes, I have a chance to be normal.&quot;

Lindsay Lohan did have an &quot;Ellen&quot; interview scheduled to tape on Tuesday to air on Thursday, but the 25-year-old actress missed her flight back from Hawaii and couldn't do the taping as planned.














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(CNN) &mdash; Ad time for next  Sunday's &quot;All-American Muslim&quot; episode is apparently sold out, despite  Lowe's decision to pull its commercials from the TLC reality series, a  TLC network spokeswoman said.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons  announced his intentions Monday to buy up any unsold commercial time on  the controversial show in response to the withdrawal of the home  improvement giant. He would use the ads to promote his prepaid Visa  &quot;Rush Card,&quot; he said.

&quot;He has tried to buy,&quot; TLC's Laurie Goldberg  told CNN in an e-mail Tuesday. &quot;We are checking inventory. Still don't  know on that one. I do think it was already sold out, but still  checking.&quot;

If any ad time is left, Simmons said he was standing by to take it.

Simmons'  website posted a statement Tuesday saying &quot;TLC has announced that Rush  Card will not be able to purchase the remaining ad space as they have  all been sold out.&quot;

&quot;All-American Muslim&quot; is an eight-part series that follows five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan.

&quot;Each  episode offers an intimate look at the customs and celebrations,  misconceptions and conflicts these families face outside and within  their own community,&quot; TLC said in the show's description.

The  controversy, and Lowe's decision to pull their spots, followed a  complaint by the Florida Family Association. The group warned Lowe's in a  letter that the show &quot;is attempting to manipulate Americans into  ignoring the threat of jihad and to influence them to believe that being  concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice  people in this show.&quot;

Lowe's, a national home improvement chain, defended its decision in a statement to CNN last Saturday.

&quot;Lowe's  has received a significant amount of communication on this program,  from every perspective possible,&quot; the company said. &quot;Individuals and  groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this  program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result we  did pull our advertising on this program.&quot;

Simmons, who is an  outspoken social activist, sent a series of Twitter messages over the  last several days urging Lowe's to reverse its decision:

&quot;Dear  @Lowes, we got over 21k signatures standing up against ur poor decision.  Do right thing: apologize &amp; put $ back in #AllAmericanMuslim&quot;

Simmons called the controversy &quot;a press nightmare&quot; for Lowe's in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

&quot;This country is built on religious freedom,&quot; he said. &quot;This is the kind of hate that tears this country apart.&quot;

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(CNN) &mdash; An American  Airlines pilot booted Alec Baldwin off a flight Tuesday because the  actor refused to turn off his cell phone after the plane's doors were  closed for departure, the airline said Wednesday.

&quot;The passenger  was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and  using offensive language,&quot; the company said in a statement posted on its  Facebook page.

Baldwin's spokesman blamed his addiction to the cell phone game &quot;Words with Friends.&quot;

&quot;He  loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it, but he  has already boarded another AA flight,&quot; spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said  in an e-mail to CNN on Tuesday afternoon.

After Baldwin refused to  turn off his cell phone, with the seat belt light on for departure, he  walked into the toilet with his phone, the airline said.

&quot;He  slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became  alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked,&quot; the airline  said. &quot;They immediately contacted the cabin crew to check on the  situation.&quot;

&quot;Given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding,&quot; the company said.

Word  of Baldwin's clash with the crew spread worldwide within minutes of his  being escorted from the New York-bound flight at a Los Angeles  International Airport gate, because of Twitter postings by Baldwin and a  passenger.

&quot;On an AA flight at LAX. Alec Baldwin removed from the  plane We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to  wait,&quot; tweeted Michael J. Wolf, a consulting firm executive who was a  passenger on the flight.

A short time later, Baldwin tweeted to  his nearly 600,000 followers: &quot;Flight attendant on American reamed me  out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving.&quot;

When  CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin &mdash; no relation &mdash; tagged Alec Baldwin in a  tweet asking about &quot;Words with Friends,&quot; the actor replied,  &quot;It's...well....addicting.&quot;

&quot;Words With Friends&quot; is a digital word-building game popular on several platforms.

Another  Baldwin tweet took aim at the crew, saying he would never again fly on  American Airlines, &quot;where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the  1950's find jobs as flight attendants.&quot;

The star of NBC's &quot;30 Rock&quot; noted in his tweets that &quot;oddly, 30 Rock plays inflight on American.&quot;

A  posting on the airline's Twitter account showed the company was trying  to reach Baldwin. &quot;Mr. Baldwin, we are looking into this. Please DM us  contact information,&quot; the company tweeted.

Despite the apparent distress, Baldwin's journey resumed.

&quot;Now on the 3 o'clock American flight. The flight attendants already look.....smarter,&quot; he tweeted.

Baldwin arrived at New York's JFK Airport on an American Airlines flight Tuesday evening.

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In an interview with the website Pitchfork, Roots frontman offered an apology (sort of) for playing the song &quot;Lyin' Ass Bitch&quot; during Rep. Michele Bachmann's Nov. 22 appearance on &quot;Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.&quot;

&quot;It deeply offended a lot of women's groups and non-Bachmann supporters,  and for that I'm deeply sorry,&quot; Questlove said. &quot;I'm not parading like I'm the poster boy  for the feminist movement, but those who truly know me know that that's  not me. I was really just going with her whole revisionist history angle, I wasn't calling it out on her being a woman.&quot;

Originally recorded in 1985 by the alternative rock band Fishbone, the song appeared on the group's debut EP.

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			<title><![CDATA[Lifetime introduces America's newest supernanny]]></title>
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We&rsquo;ve all been shopping, or have been to all types of public establishments, and have been driven crazy by the rampant screams of a child. And let&rsquo;s not forget the unattended kid who runs through isles knocking over everything in sight, including you.

With all of the behavioral issues taking place in and out of homes throughout the United States, a little guidance and assistance wouldn&rsquo;t hurt. That&rsquo;s where Deborah Tillman comes in.

Beginning Nov. 29 at 9 p.m. on Lifetime, &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Supernanny&rdquo; places Tillman in the heart of chaos, where she then uses her 19 years of experience in early childhood development to drive home best practices parents can use to get the most out of their little ones.

Not too far off from ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Supernanny,&rdquo; Tillman lends herself to families for about five days, closely observing the family dynamic in order to pinpoint problems and remedy them with a number of easy steps that, if followed, will put them on the road to happiness.

But for Tillman, the show is unique in its ability to capture the masses and relate to nearly everyone&rsquo;s story. For example, she visits the home of a lesbian couple and a family with a child who has down syndrome. She even hinted that the show may showcase single parents and teenage mothers.

&ldquo;We are getting the whole gamut of real families in America and the real problems that people can relate to,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We are pushing the envelope. We are taking risks.&rdquo;

One of the major issues she comes across in the eight episodes are dual parent households, where &ldquo;one is a very active participant and the other isn&rsquo;t. So it&rsquo;s like the mother or father isn&rsquo;t there,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve only done six tapping of the show, but in many of these households that has been the issue, where we have a mother and a father, but someone&rsquo;s passive.&rdquo;

The other comes from parents not putting rules in places and then following them up with consistency. &ldquo;They have to be on one page.&rdquo;

There is no better teacher than one&rsquo;s parent, or at least that is Tillman&rsquo;s motto. After her infant son had gone to seven child care providers, none of which provided adequate care, she decided to take matters into her own hands. In 1992, she quit her job as an accountant to start a home-based school that would offer quality daycare and instruction to her son and other children.

Through word-of-mouth, more and more families began coming, causing her to expand the business into a 5,600-square-foot facility with a staff of six and 45 children. Inundated with a six-month waiting list, she opened a second site in 1998 to house more than 100 students and 16 full-time staff members. Today, Tillman has three centers in Virginia.

Tillman acknowledges it&rsquo;s not simple to juggle work and a home life, however she said she strongly believes that parents need to make time to spend with children and instill values because &ldquo;you don&rsquo;t get those years back,&rdquo; she said, adding that by age 12 she was raised by a single mother who held down three jobs with three children. &ldquo;As long as you are willing to stay positive, be patient and persevere, every day does really get better.

&ldquo;The techniques are easy,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Once the techniques are in place, they have to do the work. I will coach them and guide them, but they must do the work in order to see the results. &hellip; It&rsquo;s not just supernanny being there for a week, the big thing for me is to empower the parents and give them tools so that when I leave, the techniques can continue.&rdquo;

And if you see a resemblance to Michelle Obama &mdash; Tillman&rsquo;s hair and attire favor that of the first lady &mdash; you wouldn&rsquo;t be the first to make that connection.

&ldquo;I hear that every day,&rdquo; said the mother of one. But &ldquo;that&rsquo;s exactly how I dress every day. Over the past 20 years I&rsquo;ve been in heels, on the ground, working with kids.&rdquo;

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(CNN) &mdash; TV show host Jimmy Fallon  apologized to GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann via Twitter  Tuesday for a song played as the presidential candidate walked on stage  for her Monday interview on NBC's &quot;Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.&quot;

&quot;I'm  honored that @michelebachmann was on our show yesterday and I'm so  sorry about the intro mess. I really hope she comes back,&quot; he wrote on  Twitter.

As the Minnesota Congresswoman walked out to greet Fallon  on stage, the show's band, The Roots, played a song by Fishbone called  &quot;Lyin' Ass Bitch.&quot;

Bachmann, while waving and smiling as she  walked out Monday night, appeared unaware of the song or its lyrics,  some of which include the words, &quot;I really thought our love was much too  strong / But that little slut just proved us wrong.&quot;

It appears  the song choice was intentional. Prior to Bachmann's arrival on stage,  the band's drummer, Ahmir &quot;Questlove&quot; Thompson, tweeted during the show:  &quot;Aight late night walkon song devotees: you love it when we snark: this  next one takes the cake. ask around cause i aint tweeting title.&quot;

Despite the song choice, the interview was quite amicable, with Bachmann and Fallon trading jokes.

But  after the show, Fallon blasted out: &quot;@Questlove is grounded,&quot; and on  Tuesday the band issued a statement saying &quot;the performance was a  tongue-in-cheek and spur of the moment decision.&quot;

As of Tuesday night, Bachmann had not responded to the song.

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			<title><![CDATA['SNL' star Kenan Thompson marries model]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; star Kenan Thompson is a married man, reports Us Weekly.

Thompson, 33, and model Christine Evangeline married last Friday in the comedian's hometown of Atlanta.

&quot;[They're]  very happy. They've lived together as a couple and were  excited to  share the moment with close friends,&quot; a source tells Us. The  lovebirds  were introduced the traditional Hollywood way: by a talent  manager.

Mariah's  hubby Nick Cannon served as emcee and D.J. at the reception,  which was  held at Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium. &quot;Being in the rented out  aquarium  made the night even more magical,&quot; reported the source.  &quot;Christine  loved the dolphins.&quot;

Kenan and Christine joined quite a few others  in marrying on 11/11/11. Fellow Atlanta celebs Kim Zolciak (of &quot;Real  Housewives&quot; fame) and Kroy Biermann said &quot;I do&quot; on the date, and Rebecca  Romijn and Jerry O'Connell renewed their vows.

Before Kenan  joined &quot;SNL&quot; in 2003, he was known as a child star,  appearing in  Nickelodeon shows &quot;All That&quot; and &quot;Kenan and Kel.&quot; The  funnyman's movies  include &quot;Good Burger,&quot; &quot;Fat Albert,&quot; &quot;Snakes on a  Plane&quot; and &quot;The  Smurfs.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Question and Answers: George Lopez]]></title>
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George Lopez is helping to create positive change for underprivileged children, adults and military families.

In 2009, he started The Lopez Foundation, which provides and supports education and health programs for those in need. The group also increases awareness about kidney disease and organ donation. Lopez underwent a kidney transplant in 2005.

CNN&rsquo;s Denise Quan recently spoke with him about CNN Heroes and his own charity&rsquo;s efforts. Below are excerpts from that interview.

Denise Quan: How do you feel about the work that the CNN Heroes are doing?

George Lopez: For people who are in show business, so many times we get rewarded for being in a movie or being in a television show. But these are the unsung heroes who are out there, rain or shine. Nothing is more powerful to them but to help.

The one thing that connects all the heroes is their intent is to help. And it&rsquo;s almost like hands across the world: You&rsquo;re touching people that need help in your area, but yet it&rsquo;s bigger than that &mdash; it&rsquo;s global. It&rsquo;s what people do to maintain our humanity.

Quan: What prompted you to start The Lopez Foundation?

Lopez: I received my kidney transplant six years ago and have been healthier than I have ever been in my life. And it&rsquo;s inspired me to give back and to create the foundation and to make a difference in the lives of those people in need.

I started The Lopez Foundation in December of 2009, and the mission is to create positive and permanent change for underprivileged children, adults and, very importantly, military families, as well as increasing the awareness of kidney disease and organ donation.

Quan: What&rsquo;s rewarding about your work with the foundation?

Lopez: When I have the kidney camp, it&rsquo;s always the highlight. I have a summer camp, and it&rsquo;s amazing to see how children will respond when they&rsquo;re given the opportunity to just be regular kids. They get to run into kids who are also experiencing the same issues that they have, whether it&rsquo;s dialysis or kidney disease.

They talk about taking their medicine. They also realize that whether they are the only person sick in their family or their school, they are not alone.

Quan: You support CNN Hero Jorge Munoz and his efforts to feed the hungry. What is it about his work that moved you?

Lopez: People who are homeless ... they&rsquo;re not all addicts. A lot of times, they&rsquo;re just people who, through something like losing their job or losing someone in their life, ended up on the streets.
So much of our time is spent in cars that sometimes you need to look out of those windows. And you see that a dollar, 50 cents, whatever you have, may not mean much to you, but it means everything to people who are hungry and who are in need.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[For worse, it's Tyler Perry's new TBS sitcom]]></title>
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If you believe the spin, Tyler Perry&rsquo;s new TBS sitcom, &ldquo;For Better or Worse,&rdquo; marks a new and more serious direction in his family-oriented television comedies.

Based on Perry&rsquo;s &ldquo;Why Did I Get Married?&rdquo; movie series, and premiering with back-to-back episodes on Nov. 25, that direction quickly takes him to rock-bottom.

A review of the first two episodes &mdash; &ldquo;A Better Me&rdquo; and &ldquo;One Last Try&rdquo; &mdash; finds the series desperately unfunny and painful to watch.

As with most of Perry&rsquo;s work, he&rsquo;s wearing the three hats: writing, directing and producing. Tweaking the original 2007 drama, which chronicled an ensemble of four upwardly-mobile couples &mdash; including Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Perry and Malik Yoba &mdash; on their annual soul-searching retreat, this looks at three couples and their various relationships.

Some of the stars of the film and its sequel are on hand &mdash; Michael Jai White and Tasha Smith as the ever-bickering Marcus and Angela &mdash; and other characters include the nominally happy twosome of Joseph (Jason Olive) and Leslie (former Miss USA Crystle Stewart), with Richard (Kent Faulcon) and his feisty mate Keisha (Kiki Haynes) rounding out the ensemble.

An ex-football player, Marcus has teamed up with Joseph and Richard to produce a new sports program, C-Sports Now, but that premise is a bit like an errant Tim Tebow pass &mdash; there&rsquo;s never any mention of a network, and the studio setting is devoid of cameras, people or any other semblance of a production operation.

Meanwhile, in the traveling sisterhood, Angela owns a successful hair salon, Leslie is a real estate agent and, as far as one can tell, Keisha is a minted divorcee.

The trigger for some truly banal plotting, awful dialogue and cringe-worthy acting  comes courtesy of a sibling spat between Keisha&rsquo;s daughter (Teka Brandon) and a character played by young performer Bobb&rsquo;e J. Thompson.

Here&rsquo;s the level they&rsquo;re working at: When, prompted by Thompson&rsquo;s tattling, Angela is smugly informed by Dominique that it was actually her momma who called Angela &ldquo;a ho,&rdquo; the two divas get primed for a hair-pulling showdown.

In particular, Perry&rsquo;s direction is palpably bad; there are several instances when the actors are quite obviously looking at one another for clues on what to do next.

Either Perry and his team simply don&rsquo;t notice, or they are taping at such a breakneck speed, in order to get enough episodes in the can to prompt a syndication order, that it just isn&rsquo;t important to them.

But the singular train wreck has to go to the kind of archetypal character that Perry is known for &mdash; a brash, loud-mouthed salon employee played by stand-up comedienne Farah &ldquo;Cocoa&rdquo; Brown.

She over-acts like her life depends on it.

I think Keisha sums up the whole experience best when she says good-bye following a meal with Joseph and Leslie: &ldquo;Thanks for dinner, b----es.&rdquo;

Photo: The TBS series, which premieres Nov. 25, is based loosely on creator Tyler Perry's &quot;Why Did I Get Married&quot; movies. Credit: TBS]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Actor Russell Hornsby soul searches in preparation for role in 'Grimm']]></title>
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After taking a small role in the lackluster film &ldquo;Woo,&rdquo; starring Jada Pinkett-Smith, in 1998, veteran actor Russell Hornsby has 34 roles under his belt, though most are in the realm of television. Yet almost 13 years later, the Oakland, CA native has no room for an &ldquo;ego.&rdquo;

The entertainment industry is fickle, and as he put it, &ldquo;one day [it&rsquo;s] ham and bacon, the next day nothing&rsquo;s shaking. It&rsquo;s just how it goes.&rdquo;

And his resume is proof of the uncertainty, for it dances back and forth between one-time television appearances &mdash; &ldquo;Grey&rsquo;s Anatomy,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Good Wife,&rdquo; &ldquo;Suits&rdquo; and &ldquo;Girlfriends&rdquo; &mdash; and others where he is a more permanent fixture &mdash; &ldquo;Gideon&rsquo;s Crossing,&rdquo; &ldquo;Haunted,&rdquo; &ldquo;Playmakers,&rdquo; &ldquo;In Treatment,&rdquo; and most recently, in &ldquo;Lincoln Heights.&rdquo;

Some might say that he has paid his dues. But, Hornsby admits he still has to audition like nearly everyone else.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not unusual. It&rsquo;s the business,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;One hopes to get offers &hellip; I&rsquo;ve attained a level of success but there is still much to be desired or there&rsquo;s still miles to go. No one is going to offer or put $20 million behind an unproven commodity. You have to go in there and prove that you can do the job with what&rsquo;s in front of you. It is a part of the process.

&ldquo;I have had to check my ego at the door. I&rsquo;ve been doing this for 12 years now as a professional,&rdquo; Hornsby added. &ldquo;When I was young, I used to get insulted and think &lsquo;Why are they making me audition? Why don&rsquo;t they offer it to me? No, that&rsquo;s not how it goes. Especially being a person of color, you know that&rsquo;s not going to happen because if you don&rsquo;t represent commerce, they don&rsquo;t owe you anything.&rdquo;

Apparently roles for African-Americans are slim pickings today. &ldquo;We had a boom in the &lsquo;90s,&rdquo; he said noting that during the era the entertainment industry was more tolerant of Blacks and created roles for the race that were diverse and portrayed them in a variety of lights. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s no longer en vogue to be Black. Now, we are not in favor. There are no more handouts, as it were. Because of my experience, because of what I&rsquo;ve been able to accomplish, they give me the opportunity to go in there and get a job. Some don&rsquo;t get the opportunity.&rdquo;

Through the sparse times, however, Hornsby has done a lot of soul searching and looking within, which he credits for shaping his career and leading to his latest role in the new NBC series &ldquo;Grimm,&rdquo; slated to premier every Friday at 9 p.m., beginning Oct. 28.

Here, he plays alongside David Giuntoli, whose character Nick Burckhardt is more than a Portland homicide detective, he is a descendant from an elite line of criminal profilers called Grimms, who are charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures &mdash; Hexenbiests, Blutbads and other ancient evils &mdash; inhabiting the world.

Based on the Brothers Grimm&rsquo;s Fairy Tales, executive producers Jim Kouf and David Greenwait, along with their team of writers, take a number of the cautionary stories and blend them with reality.

&ldquo;What we are doing is taking these fairy tales and we are sort of twisting them on their head, fracturing them a little bit. And we&rsquo;re allowing the real world to envelop the fairy-tale world,&rdquo; Hornsby explained. &ldquo;The Grimm&rsquo;s Fairy Tales were originally looked at as cautionary tales, so they weren&rsquo;t necessarily stories, they were warnings for young kids about what not to do. If you take that and you put it in the framework of a procedural detective show, you can imagine what kind of stories we are telling.

&ldquo;If you start to think about it, there are so many people in this world that have so many different afflictions that cause them to be evil,&rdquo; he said noting alcohol, food, money, sex and drugs as a few culprits. &ldquo;Whatever it is, it causes them to turn on themselves and others. What is it that afflicts our society and culture? You realize and look at what evil lurks in the hearts of men. You can find it in a Grimm&rsquo;s fairy tale and then you can put it on screen and tell it. It then becomes the modern day cautionary tale.&rdquo;

Hornsby began preparing for the role by reading the most obscure and disturbing tales created by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 1800s. Beyond that, he had to &ldquo;look within [his] soul and spirit and ask for the truth,&rdquo; he said before divulging that the writers of the show have somewhat personalized the characters by incorporating elements of the actors own personalities. &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not ready to give the truth or if you haven&rsquo;t dealt with the truth, then you&rsquo;re in trouble. My character can&rsquo;t go any deeper than who I am. If you haven&rsquo;t lived, if you haven&rsquo;t experienced joy and pain, you don&rsquo;t have anything to draw from.&rdquo;

As for any advice Hornsby can give to aspiring actors: &ldquo;Honestly, I would tell up and coming actors don&rsquo;t. Any actor I&rsquo;d meet, I would say &lsquo;stop now, we don&rsquo;t need you.&rsquo;&rdquo;

Why? According to the 37-year-old, many youngsters seeking to get into the business are not necessarily enamored with the craft, rather they are enthralled with the celebrity that comes with it and attempt to take the easy route &mdash; reality television. Instead, Hornsby encouraged people of color to become writers, directors and producers, and create projects that not only employ their race but uplift their race as well.

Those seriously contemplating the genre, &ldquo;you have to build up a tolerance that says it&rsquo;s gong to come. You have to believe in yourself and take the road less traveled by,&rdquo; he concluded. &ldquo;There is no formula or how-to book. You have to believe in your talent and your ability to make head-way to get it.&rdquo;

Caption: Veteran actor Russell Hornsby plays Lt. Hank Griffin in the new NBC series &quot;Grimm,&quot; which is slated to air this Friday. (Photo courtesy of NBC)]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama not thrilled when kids watch Kardashians]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; The Kardashians seem to be  everywhere, but don't  expect to spot them often on the White House TVs.  First Lady Michelle  Obama admits in an interview with iVillage that  her husband isn't too pleased when the couple's daughters try to turn on  E!'s first family.

As is the case with many parents, the First  Lady and President Obama  have TV viewing limits for daughters Sasha and  Malia - no Web or channel  surfing during the week, unless it's related  to homework. That rule is  let up a little bit on the weekends, when  they're allowed to tune in to  the tube.

While Mrs. Obama doesn't  specify if there are any shows strictly  off-limits, she does say that  &quot;Barack really thinks some of the  Kardashians - when they watch that  stuff - he doesn't like that as  much.&quot;

But, she continues, &quot;I  sort of feel like if we're talking about it,  and I'm more concerned  with how they take it in - what did you learn  when you watched that.  And if they're learning the right lessons, like,  that was crazy, then  I'm like, OK.&quot;

It doesn't sound like the Obamas have anything to  worry about - Mrs.  Obama says that Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, are  &quot;terrific girls. They're  poised and they're kind and they're curious.&quot;

Like with any mother, she knowingly jokes, &quot;I am just hoping that I don't mess them up.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NBC scoops up Snoop Dogg sitcom]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; Snoop Dogg is keeping the  &quot;actor&quot; part of his multi-hyphenate career alive with another TV  project. According to Deadline, Snoop has sold a family comedy pitch to  NBC.

The half-hour sitcom is about a father (Snoop, naturally)  parenting  his wayward brood. The rapper would also produce the  multi-cam comedy.

In 2002, Snoop starred in MTV sketch comedy show  &quot;Doggy Fizzle  Televizzle,&quot; and he put his own family on camera with  reality series  &quot;Snoop Dogg's Father Hood,&quot; which aired on E! from  2007-2009.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Debbie Allen settles suit with former business managers]]></title>
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																																											                                                                        <description><![CDATA[Actress and choreographer Debbie Allen has settled a lawsuit she filed against her former business managers in which she alleged they embezzled $1 million from her company, Red Bird Productions.

Lawyers for Allen filed papers Tuesday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Alarcon stating that her case against Nigro, Karlin, Segal & Feldstein, Keepers Financial Corp. and Loring Ward Inc. had been resolved.

No details of the accord were divulged.

Allen filed suit last Nov. 2 alleging fraud, deceit and negligence. She maintained that all three companies were the 'alter egos' of one another.

According to the suit, Allen hired Keepers Financial in 2005 to manage her business affairs. She learned in 2009 that Keepers employee Diane Schumacher had been embezzling and transferring money belonging to Allen and Red Bird Production for several years, the suit alleged.

Keepers Financial was managed and controlled by NKSF and both shared office space and employees, the suit stated. Allen's lawyers stated in their court papers that they believed Schumacher was an employee of both Keepers and NKSF, according to her court papers.

But NKSF lawyers stated in their court papers that Schumacher never worked for their clients even though she used an email address that contained the company's domain name and worked in NKSF's office suite.

'There is no California case or decision holding that the mere shared email address and physical address is sufficient to somehow create an employment relationship between NKSF and Schumacher,' according to the defense court papers.

The 61-year-old Allen portrayed a dance teacher in the 1980s television series 'Fame.' She is married to former Los Angeles Laker guard Norm Nixon.
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			<title><![CDATA[Mayor launches academic mentoring program at Roosevelt High]]></title>
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																																											                                                                        <description><![CDATA[BOYLE HEIGHTS — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and comedian George Lopez Friday announced the Los Angeles launch of a peer-to-peer academic mentoring program that uses visits from famous athletes and artists as incentive for kids to stay in school.

The pair visited Roosevelt High School to highlight Students Helping Our World, or SHOW. The program was launched by Chicago high school students in 2009.

Through attendance and performance, students earn credit toward a year-end concert featuring famous artists. In Chicago, rappers Kanye West, Common and Lupe Fiasco put on end-of-the-year concerts for students. Other incentives and rewards will be given at five intervals throughout the year.

SHOW is being rolled out at four high schools in Villaraigosa's Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, an independent nonprofit group that runs 22 schools in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

'SHOW is an innovative way of motivating our students and rewarding them for showing up to class ready to succeed,' Villaraigosa said. 'This program is part of our larger efforts to create an engaging learning environment where all students have the opportunity to achieve.'

The participating Partnership high schools include Roosevelt, Jordan, Santee Education Complex and the Mendez Learning Center.

Although the mayor has no formal role in education, Villaraigosa has made education one of his priorities since taking office in 2005. His goals include changing low-performing schools, giving parents a greater voice in their children's education, building partnerships and creating high-performing schools.

'Absenteeism affects not only the individual student's grades, but, if widespread, can also affect the classroom and school at large,' said Marshall Tuck, CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.

SHOW will be available at the four Los Angeles high schools from Nov. 1 to May 31, 2012.
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			<title><![CDATA[Idris Elba: I'd consider playing James Bond]]></title>
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(CNN) &mdash; As a strapping, dapper  actor with an English accent, Idris Elba is an obvious choice to play  James Bond. But the actor tells NPR that talk of him potentially landing  the part is nothing more than gossip.

&quot;It's a rumor,&quot; he said on  &quot;Morning Edition.&quot; &quot;It's a very old rumor. My dad and I were talking  about this the other day. I would do it, but I don't want to be called  the first black James Bond. Do you understand what I 'm saying? Sean  Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the  blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the  black James Bond.&quot;

As Elba goes on to explain, he didn't come to the States &quot;to play black roles. I just came to play roles.&quot;

For  example, his character on &quot;The Wire,&quot; Stringer Bell, &quot;was a smart drug  dealer, in my opinion. He's black, but that's not the point. The point  is, this is a man caught between two worlds. That complex sort of  balance that he's in is what made the drama.&quot;

The same can be said  of detective John Luther, the character he plays on BBC America's  &quot;Luther,&quot; which launches its second season tonight. &quot;Luther has this  capability to think how his perpetrators are thinking, and what they may  or may not do next. And I think Luther lives quite close to rage  himself,&quot; the actor says of his character, which earned him an Emmy nod.

&quot;The  difference between someone with a conscience and someone without is  that one person will say, 'You know what? No, I'm not going to go over  to that person and smash them in the face.' But the other person is  quite close to that decision without any remorse and just will do it.  And I think Luther is close to that mark all the time,&quot; he explains.

Both  of those roles are emblematic of the work Elba longs for, with Nelson  Mandela being another multifaceted figure he's eager to portray.

But, Elba continues, &quot;if Sony decided to call me and said hey, we wanted to do [James Bond], I'd definitely consider it.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Foxx memoir is redd and blue all over]]></title>
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Charlie Sheen was back in the headlines this week with a Comedy Central roast, an appearance at the Emmys and the off-the-chart ratings of the season opener of &ldquo;Two and a Half Men,&rdquo; now starring Ashton Kutcher.

He was fairly sanguine for a man who spectacularly blew off his nearly $2 million-an-episode sitcom in exchange for cocaine-fueled rants and the constant company of porn stars.

How he eventually checks out is anyone&rsquo;s guess, his friends must be hoping Sheen won&rsquo;t go the way of another infamous comedy entertainer &mdash; whose success led to a blur of professional acrimony, endless lawsuits, scorned women and eventually, a losing battle with the IRS.

John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, is the subject of a new and thoroughly entertaining memoir, &ldquo;Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story,&rdquo; by New York Post television writer Michael Seth Starr.

Starr will be promoting the memoir in L.A. next month with a book signing Oct. 2 at Eso Won Books in Leimert Park and taping &ldquo;The Tavis Smiley Show&rdquo; the next day.

The book will be published Sept. 27 by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, close to the 20th anniversary of Foxx&rsquo;s death on October 11, 1991, following a fatal heart attack on the set of the sitcom, &ldquo;The Royal Family.&rdquo;

In the book, Starr traces the life of the four-time married &ldquo;King of the Party Records,&rdquo; through his destitute upbringing in the slums of St. Louis, Missouri, to his hustling Harlem days with Malcolm Little (later Malcolm X) &mdash; Malcolm dubbed him &ldquo;the funniest dishwasher on earth&rdquo; &mdash; and the notoriety of becoming America&rsquo;s first &ldquo;blue comic,&rdquo; when he moved to Los Angeles and recorded &ldquo;Laff of the Party&rdquo; in 1956.

&ldquo;I just felt that his story was a story that needed to be told,&rdquo; Starr said in an interview Tuesday. &ldquo;Nobody&rsquo;s really ever told his full story before &hellip; yet there&rsquo;s so much to know; scrapping in Harlem, being relegated to the so-called chitlin&rsquo; circuit and then becoming, quote/unquote, an overnight sensation at 50.&rdquo;

Despite the fact that Foxx, who would sell millions of records and usher in the advent of mainstream adult humor &mdash; paving the way for likes of Dick Gregory, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock &mdash; he remained relatively unknown outside the Black entertainment firmament until the huge success of &ldquo;Sanford and Son.&rdquo;

That sitcom, adapted from the BBC series, &ldquo;Steptoe and Son,&rdquo; debuted in January 1972 and rocketed the nightclub comic, who was now breaking color barriers in Las Vegas, to fortune and fame.

But, as the late Notorious BIG would later declare, the &ldquo;mo&rsquo; money, mo&rsquo; problems.&rdquo;

Foxx, whose early showbiz life had given him a taste for liquor, cocaine and women, took full advantage of his $10,000 an episode salary and burgeoning nightclub fees.

There were the homes, of course &mdash; two in L.A., one in Vegas.

There were also multiple cars, expensive jewelry and a litany of failed business ventures that included his club, &ldquo;Redd&rsquo;s Place,&rdquo; on La Cienega Boulevard, where Pryor and other young comics cut their teeth.

And like Sheen, Foxx had major fallings out with his TV bosses, Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin &mdash; in fact, Yorkin was even barred from the set &mdash; mostly over money, but also over things like the size of his dressing room.

But Foxx was also known for his legendary generosity, he hired guys going back to the 1930s and 1940s on &ldquo;Sanford and Son,&rdquo; and was willing to empty his pockets for anybody who needed help.

There was the little matter of him filling, but not paying any taxes for five years from 1983 &mdash; by the time of his death he owed about $3.6 million &mdash; prompting a humiliating raid on the morning of Nov. 28, 1989, when IRS agents stormed his Las Vegas ranch house

Paintings were ripped off walls, his collection of exotic cars were loaded onto a truck and one agent literally ripped a diamond-encrusted watch Elvis Presley had given Foxx off the comedian&rsquo;s wrist.

According to Starr, Foxx, who didn&rsquo;t like authority at the best of times, would offer up an expletive-filled explanation when confiding to a good friend about his battles with the IRS.

&ldquo;F&mdash;em. I&rsquo;m not paying any more taxes to a White president,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You elect a Black president, I&rsquo;ll pay the taxes.&rdquo;

Photo: Redd teamed up with Pearl Baily for the 1976 movie Norman, &quot;Is That You?&quot; Credit: Author's Collection]]></description>
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