Mariah Carey’s a rather polarizing individual. A lot of people really, really despise her, her music, and everything she represents. Others would pretty much die for her. Check out the fans at her California fragrance launch. They are intense, to say the least.
Meanwhile, Ellen Degeneres recently made the observation that Mimi’s perfume smells like s’mores. This could quite possibly account for the enthusiasm of some of the attendees.
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Just checking in on Mel B and Eddie Murphy’s paternity saga. Hmmm, Eddie still wants nothing to do with his baby? Everything’s status quo, then.
On Wednesday the judge was forced to adjourn the visitation hearing for another three months after Murphy would not submit an offer, The Sun reported.
A source said: “Mel was furious. She had been planning to take Angel to the courthouse to meet her dad for the first time. But when she heard Eddie would only be sending along his lawyers she decided to do the same.
“She expected at least some kind of an offer. Either to arrange maintenance payments for Angel, or at least to arrange seeing her.”
In other Mel B news, she’s a finalist on Dancing with the Stars. That’s got to ease the sting a little bit.
Once on top of the world, Celine Dion now has to deal with the heavy weight of Alicia Keys’ unstoppable awesomeness on her shoulders. The two singers went head to head with their album debuts last week, and Alicia crushed all competition by selling 742,000 albums, the second highest album debut for a female artist since Norah Jones sold a million in 2004. Jay-Z slid from #1 to a less-than-impressive #8. Nothing lasts forever. []
Hell, if Coolio and Luke Campbell are good enough for family reality shows, then Snoop certainly is. But can we get some table manners, please?
Lindsay Lohan* spent just 80 minutes in jail for her DUI and minor cocaine charges, but Mike Tyson just did his entire 24 hour bid in an Arizona jail for similar charges. He suffered through it by reading American Gansta and eating Sloppy Joes. What a soldier! I say we march to the Arizona Department of Justice and demand answers. [TMZ]
*For the sake of the joke, forget about Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton’s sentences. It’s the day before Thanksgiving.
After perusing Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Things — thousands of dollars worth of high-quality merchandise she gave away to a trembling-with-excitement-and-awe audience in Macon, Ga. yesterday — I have discovered one reason not to envy those lucky ladies in Macon. The Rachel Pally Swing Turtleneck and Sailor Pants combo. Had I been in the audience, that would be the first thing going on eBay. Then again, they also all got HDTV refrigerators. So it more than evens out.
I imagine that Kimora woke up yesterday morning and came up with a brilliant idea while she was waiting for her royal bath to be drawn and her servant girls to sprinkle rose petals along the path from her bed to her palatial bathroom.
“Ming, darling! Aoki, dear,” she cried, wiggling her diamond encrusted fingers in excitement. “We are going to share our fabulosity with the little children at St. Vincent’s Hospital today!”
And then she had to go and ruin it all when she told her assistant to make sure there was a photographer waiting. Oh well, a good deed is a good deed. Happy Thanksgiving, Simmons family!
Debbie Allen’s all-black, Broadway production of the Tennessee Williams play (turned classic Paul Newman/Elizabeth Taylor movie), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, finally has a cast. LL Cool J was mentioned months ago as a contender for the role of Brick, an injured ex-football player who won’t have sex with his wife, but, thankfully, that’s not happening.
Terrence “T.P.” Howard has been given the roll (ha! get it?). Although I’m not his biggest fan, at least he has Broadway-caliber acting chops. Other confirmed cast members are Phylicia Rashad, Giancarlo Esposito and James Earl Jones. The lead female role will either go to Anika Noni Rose or Kerry Washington. I’m sure you know who I’m rooting for. []
Dr. Jan Adams’ visit to Larry King Live last night was as brief as it was pointless. The scandal-plagued doctor, who had the distinct misfortune of performing plastic surgery on the mother of one of the world’s most beloved recording artists the day before she died, went on the show simply to tell Larry King that he was “wasting air time” and would not discuss the case out of respect for Kanye West and his family.
“Out of respect for the West family” might be a nicer way of saying that one of the West lawyers sent his lawyer a letter stating that if Adams went on Larry King the West family would lobby the California Medical Board for his decertification. So big bust for Larry! He probably wouldn’t have said anything we didn’t know, anyway.
• As you settle down for Thanksgiving dinner, think of Malinda Russell, who wrote the oldest-known cookbook by a black author in 1866. Incidentally, she didn’t include any recipes for fried chicken. [NYT]
• If you’re black and Hispanic and even thinking about majoring in computer science, do it. Bill Gates wants you too. [IW]
• New Orleans shifting racial population plays out in the new, majority-white City Council. [NYT]
• Ian Smith, the last white ruler of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is dead. [LAT]
• Critics are saying that Barry Bonds should have an askerisk next to his home run record because of his steroid use. But where are all the asterisks on the records won by the white old-timers when blacks were surpassing them in the Negro Leagues? [USAT]
