Lisa Raye had a 41st birthday bash in Beverly Hills over the weekend, and I’m just going to give some (they know who they are) of her guests the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were not aware photographers would be in attendance. Looking a hot mess on Wire Image can’t be good for your career, and, I’ll tell you, the careers of some of these attendees need work. Check out the revelers after the jump.
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Tisha Campbell on the Duane Martin and Will Smith gay rumors:
When two brothers are successful or have influential and powerful friends, we have to emasculate them. On the real, we even did it to Oprah and Gayle. We have to get over that because at the end of the day who really cares? We have Katrina, autism and children killing one another in my hometown of Newark. I don’t know what the obsession is with celebrities, but maybe it helps people feel better about their own situation. We just know that it’s something that comes along with being in front of the camera.
Will Smith and Duane Martin, who worked together on the recently canceled All of Us, are not having a gay love affair, says Tisha Campbell, who I guess is in a position to know (but certainly not to tell if it were true). And furthermore, rumors of her separation from Martin aren’t true either.
The 38-year-old insists there are “no problems” in her marriage and that the reports are “completely made up.”
And Campbell, Martin, Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinkett Smith recently got together to share their amusement with the far-fetched story.
Campbell says, “They laughed. Will was like, ‘Yo, how great is this?’”
It is great, isn’t it? Kanye West should start approaching his gay rumors with the same good humor.
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• Are Tisha Campbell and Duane Martin getting divorced or not? And is he gay? [CL]
• Deion Sanders gets his own reality show on Oxygen? I don’t understand what TV execs have been smoking lately. [EUR]
• I can’t imagine Vanessa Huxtable faring well in the Australian Outback. [SP]
• It turns out the Newark murders were not black on black crime after all. [CNN]
• And the advertising industry sinks even lower… [Racialicious]
Taking a page out of Diddy’s book, Tisha Campbell is smiling through the pain (of her separation from Duane Martin) at the DesignCare fundraiser benefit in Malibu Saturday. Sports stars and other celebs (from A-D list) were in attendance, including Mike Tyson, who seems to be on the scene again. Shudder. Pics after the jump.
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They were a match made in sitcom heaven.
Duane Martin and Tisha Campbell’s 10 year marriage has come to an end, according to web rumors. Say it ain’t so!!!! Who’s next, Puffy and Kim Porter?
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I hadn’t thought about School Daze until recently, when a producer from Don Imus’s radio show brought up this dance number from the 1988 film in reference to the NCAA Women’s Championship game between Tennessee and Rutgers. Apparently, Rutgers was fighting for the jiggaboo side, because, as Don Imus put it, “they are some nappy-headed hoes.” Now, both of their careers are over and a national discourse has begun about the appropriateness of his comments and his producer’s (and hip hop lyrics). Why is discourse necessary, exactly? The words were not only inappropriate, they were racist and sexist. End of story.
For me, this song and dance number is classic because of the dance skills of Whitley Gilbert and Gina Waters Payne, but also because the good or bad hair/dark or you’re fair issue is one that I grew up with and pretty much every black person I know has grown up with. A white man can’t even pretend to understand what these words truly mean, nor is it acceptable for him to use a black movie directed by Spike Lee to add heft or validity to his uninformed remarks. This story is quickly fading into obscurity, but I’m obviously still a little perturbed, particularly since the focus has been so brilliantly shifted to hip hop. So, my “wannabes” and “jiggaboos”, watch this clip and pour out a little liquor for Don Imus’s career — that’s something nappy-headed people do, right?
