Tracy L. Bell, Author/Host
Jennifer Hudson made it clear she wasn’t happy about being patted down by a TSA officer as she went through LAX Airport on Tuesday. But welcome to the real world JHud.
The 30-year-old singer and Oscar-winning actress stuck out her tongue in a facial expression better suited for her 2-year-old son David. However, I’m sure that tongue action was because the paparazzi was watching her every move.
When it comes down to safety in the sky, celebrity status is secondary.
The self-proclaimed neighborhood watch killer had a hearing in Seminole County Florida this morning, where a judge set his bond at $150,000.
Clad in a dark suite and a crisp white shirt and tie, Zimmerman appeared in court looking like a choir boy; as he apologized to Tracy and Sabrina Martin for killing their son Trayvon.
Zimmerman’s bond comes with the following stipulations: he must seek permission to travel out-of-state for his safety, when in my opinion, he’s safe nowhere at this point. Zimmerman has to have GPS monitoring system, no possession of firearms, no use of controlled substance and no contact with the victim’s family.
He must also meet with the state to be fitted for a GPS ankle bracelet, which means he most likely won’t be released until Monday. However, Zimmerman can be released by paying at least 15,000 which is 10% of his bond.
Author Terry McMillan, in a recent interview with The Huffington Post, gave her thoughts on the “Waiting To Exhale” sequel and whether Oprah Winfrey would be playing Whitney Houston’s role (as rumored), when and if the story hits the big screen.
McMillan said “she’s thinking about the best way to proceed”.
Myself and [screenwriter] Lori Lakin Hutcherson wrote drafts for the film and then Whitney passed away. And so now the studio is trying to take a moment to think about how best to proceed. They’ve made it crystal clear that they want to proceed, but it’s just a matter of how.
I have mixed feelings about which way might be best to tell the story. I have critics who feel like they are casting directors, and they know more about what should happen. You have no idea. People have said that we should just kill off the Savannah character, or have her go get a job somewhere and move out of the state. I mean, all kinds of things. And then I have people who think they have in mind who should play Savannah. And right now I’m not in a position to be an advocate one way or the other, with the exception of the fact that it’s hard to imagine the story without the Savannah character in it.
Even though I know how other people may feel the opposite. I feel terrible about Whitney, just like everybody else, but there’s a part of me that also feels that she would want the film to go on. That’s just my gut feeling. And it has nothing to do with me not having an allegiance to her or respect for her. I just have a feeling that Whitney would love from heaven, to sit up there and watch who else can do the character.
What do you all think should happen to Whitney’s character Savannah? Sound off with your opinion, I’d like to know.
Now I know I’ve blogged about this player before….Antonio Cromartie, 27, (pictured here with his wife), who had ten (10) kids with seven (7) different women in six states; New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas and California, where he used to play for the Chargers.
Cromartie is now married and have 2 children with his wife, she has one kid from a previous relationship and he has custody of his first son, making it 4 children at home.
Well anyway, he’s in the news again because his other baby mama’s, all seven (7) of them (except for his wife), have banded together in a type of camaraderie that is highly unusual.
Cro’s seven baby mamas have pitched a reality Television show, and all they need is his blessing so they can all get paid but he won’t give his consent.
The leader of the pack is the mother of Cromartie’s oldest son Alonzo, Rosemita Pierre, of Tallahassee, Fla. Pierre lost custody of Alonzo to Cromartie, so she may be a bit bitter as well as penniless. “He’s supposedly a role model, but he’s not doing what he should be doing as a father, or as a man,” she told the NY Post.
She says Cromartie continues to defy a court order that allows her to speak with her son three times a week. “They don’t answer the phone,” said Pierre, who’s called the cops in Randolph, New Jersey, to knock on Cromartie’s door. “It’s a hurtful situation” she said.. “it’s like he’s trying to erase me.”
Pierre, who gets no child support from Cromartie, wants desperately to do the reality show because she wants her son to know all his half-siblings.
Even though they all (his kids mamas), split the $500K evenly amongst them, the women from California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey want more.
Cromartie, who signed a four-year, $32 million contract with the Jets last fall, received a $500,000 advance up front to pay his delinquent child support to his seven baby mamas.
The NY Post put together a graphic (here) that makes it easier for you to match the children to their mothers. This is a real mess!
When President Obama’s secret service detail arrived in Cartagena, Columbia ahead of his visit for an international summit, instead of focusing on securing his safety they ordered up prostitutes for pleasure. At least twelve (12) secret service agents took prostitutes back to their hotel rooms.
The hotel requires that all guests leave an ID at the front desk and when one of the women and agent had not retrieved their ID, a hotel employee went to the room to find them fighting over her fee.
On Sunday, President Obama called for a “thorough” and “rigorous” investigation following the scandal surrounding the Secret Service officials tasked with his protection.
“What happened here in Colombia is being investigated by the director of the Secret Service. “I expect that investigation to be thorough and I expect it to be rigorous,” the president told reporters in his first public reaction to the controversy.
But according to Ron Kessler, the author who broke the Secret Service prostitution story in the Washington Post over the weekend, “There’s nothing to wait for, the action that’s needed is replacement of the Secret Service director because it’s really President Obama’s life that is at stake.”
I agree don’t you?
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