After precious endorsements with Versace, Marc Jacobs and other top designers, Lil Kim is the latest ambassador for Rihanna‘s Savage x Fenty lingerie brand. Queen Bee lit up the Internet this week wearing a Savage x Fenty pink fishnet one-piece outfit.
Rihanna is a longtime admirer of the legendary rapper. In 2017, RiRi praised Kim as a major fashion influence during an interview with Vogue Paris.
“Powerful, creative, without any taboos, Lil’ Kim has pushed the limits like no other black artist. Her world is colorful, fun, pop, rich, and coded. She has fun. I am happy to see a phenomenon like [her] in my life,” Rihanna told the magazine.
Last month, Kim joined Ja Rule, Mase and Jadakiss as the featured performers for DJ Cassidy‘s first live “Pass the Mic” event, which closed out the 2022 Pegasus World Cup horse race in Miami.
The Scorpions have released another advance track from their their forthcoming studio album, Rock Believer, which is due out next Friday, February 25.
The new tune, titled “Shining of Your Soul,” is available via digital formats now, and is one of the few love songs on Rock Believer. Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine, who wrote the lyrics for the track, says it’s about the intensely passionate attraction that one person can sometimes feel for another.
Meine notes that “Shining of Your Soul” is about that emotion you may experience “[w]hen someone enters the room and you sense an aura that makes everything else fade into the background. When the atmosphere changes inexplicably, and one is enveloped in a warm glow. The shining of a soul.”
Musically, the song features verses that offer up a taste of reggae, while the choruses burst forth with the German rockers’ trademark melodic metal sound.
“Shining of Your Soul” is the fourth advance track from Rock Believer that the Scorpions have released, following “Peace Maker,” the album’s title track and “Seventh Sun.”
As previously reported, The Scorpions will kick off their 2022 tour in support of the Rock Believer album with a nine-date Las Vegas residency at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, running from March 26 to April 16. Visit The-Scorpions.com for more info.
Marry Me webcomic creator Bobby Crosby achievedsomething few have accomplished — he turned his original story into a blockbuster starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. Speaking to ABC Audio, Crosby offered advice to his fellow creatives who also dream of turning their work into a movie.
“My main advice is to be original. It’s all about the concept,” he stressed, “The cheat code is an original concept. If you have something that, when people hear it, they laugh or they’re intrigued, you [want them to go] ‘Wow… I want to read that.'”
Crosby also dismisses the principal of “write what you know,” saying, “That’s not writing. That’s transcribing your life. Write an autobiography if you want to write what you know, otherwise make something up. Be a writer… Write whatever you want all day long and have fun with it.”
The best way to create a movie-worthy story, says Crosby, is to “take a lot more time on that concept and make sure it’s very intriguing.” The creative confesses, “I don’t really want to write something until I have the idea.”
Crosby adds his journey in turning his story into a movie is on the unconventional side because he didn’t pitch it to production companies — they “came to me.” In that case when the studios aren’t making the first move, Crosby advises, “Get an agent. He also stressed the importance of making one’s work as visible as possible to grab attention and encouraged, “Put it out there.”
For Crosby, he increased his comic’s visibility by hiring Malaysian artist Remy “Eisu” Mohktar to illustrate it. Crosby chose Mohkhtar because his style complimentedMarry Me‘s vibe. “It’s clean and solid and fun,” said Crosby, adding he knew it would also “make the readers smile.”
After announcing in 2019 that he was retiring Madea, Tyler Perry is back with A Madea Homecoming, debuting February 25 on Netflix.
Perry says the pandemic and racial tension from the Black Lives Matter movement inspired him to bring the hilarious character out of retirement.
“Everything we have been through during the last few years I thought, you know, ‘I just really want to laugh. What do I have that can make people laugh?’ And it is totally Madea,” the actor/producer/director/writer told Entertainment Tonight. The film adaptation of Perry’s stage production Madea’s Farewell Play follows Madea planning a celebratory dinner for her great-grandson’s graduation, but family secrets threaten to ruin the event.
In other news, Ava DuVernay is joining the Spotify boycott. Following India.Arie, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other recording artists who pulled their music from the streaming platform, the Emmy-winning director will no longer produce podcasts for the company, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Last year, DuVernay signed a multiyear contract to produce scripted and unscripted podcasts with Gimlet, the studio owned by Spotify. The boycott is in response to Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan being accused of using racist language, and spreading false information about COVID-19.
Finally, The Hollywood Reporter also announced that Amazon Studios has renewed the series Harlem, starring Megan Good, for a second season. Pharrell Williams joined the cast members on Instagram to celebrate the news.
“When I walked into a bar in Harlem and overheard folks excitedly discussing the show, I knew we had a hit,” said creator and executive producer Tracy Oliver. “Harlem has resonated with so many people, and I’m beyond grateful to Amazon for giving it a second season. Most of all, I’m excited to reunite with the beautiful cast.
(NOTE LANGUAGE)Actor Scott Eastwood confirms that a fight he had with Shia LaBeouf during the filming of their 2014 movie Fury got so bad that Brad Pitt had to physically break it up.
Eastwood, the Suicide Squad star son of Clint, tells Insider, “[Shia] got mad at me, and it turned into a volatile moment that Brad Pitt ultimately got in the middle of.”
At issue was Eastwood’s spitting tobacco inside the World War II tank that was their very cramped primary shooting location in the period film.
LaBeouf’s on-set hijinks were already well documented — like forgoing showers because their characters couldn’t shower, having one of his teeth pulled because dentistry would be scarce on the battlefield, and actually cutting his own face to simulate war wounds.
Eastwood confirmed his part in the spit-induced scrap.
“This is make-believe, it’s fun, and at times it’s serious, and you’re doing emotional work, and you give people space to do that in, but everything has to have its parameters,” he noted.
For his part, Pitt told GQ back in 2014 that there were fights on set “every day.”
And for the record, Pitt was no fan of Eastwood’s spitting either, even if it was in the script.
“I’m starting to get hot, because this [tank] is our home, he’s disrespecting our home, you know?” Pitt explained. “So I said, in the scene with the cameras rolling, ‘You’re going to clean that s*** up.'”
Eastwood told Insider that regardless of an actor’s “process,” it “should never hinder how people are treated on set.”
He added, “It should always enhance the production, not…put people in a situation where it’s a s****y work environment, or you’re rude or people have to be in an uncomfortable situation.”
Paul McCartney just announced a 2022 U.S. tour today, which should help him offset the big loss he recently took on the sale of a New York City penthouse he owned with his wife, Nancy Shevell.
The Wall Street Journal reports the the former Beatles star and his spouse sold their luxury apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking the Big Apple’s Central Park for $8.5 million, which is $7 million less than they purchased the residence for in 2015.
According to the newspaper, the duplex apartment initially was listed at $12 million in June of 2021, then was reduced to $10.5 million in September.
McCartney and his wife bought the apartment, located at at 1045 Fifth Ave., for $15.5 million, which is about 40% less than they sold it for.
As reported by the Street Easy real-estate website in 2015, the co-op residence boasts wraparound balconies, a living room, library, master bedroom, and master sitting room that all face Central Park above the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir, plus a formal dining room and “a double height gallery.” The duplex also boasts floor-to-ceiling windows that are 40 feet high.
The New York Post reports that the building was built in 1967 by late developer Manny Duell, who created the duplex for his wife. She lived there until her death in 2014.
McCartney’s upcoming trek, dubbed the Got Back Tour, is scheduled to run from an April 28 concert in Spokane, Washington, through a June 16 show in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Kevin Hart teamed up with Olympic Jamaican bobsled team as part of his Winter Olympics Tailgate Party, chatting with the team via remote from Beijing.
Shanwayne Stephens, a groundbreaker as the team’s female driver, joined Hart along with her teammates Rolando Reid, Ashley Watson and Matthew Wekpe for the remote segment.
It’s Jamaica’s first Olympic bow in 20 years — so who better to join Kevin and the team than Leon Robinson, the actor who helped tell the Cinderella story of the 1998 Jamaican Olympic Bobsled team in the 1993 movie Cool Runnings?
The team shared with Kevin that, like their predecessors — and their movie counterparts — tropical Jamaica proves challenging to train for a winter sport. So without sleds to train on, they push cars.
Hart surprised the team with Leon’s appearance. For his part, he said, “We’re so proud of you! It’s not just Jamaica who loves you, everybody loves you!”
The actor was so inspired, he joked, that he tore off his stylish trench coat to reveal an official Jamaican bobsled uniform.
“One love!” Hart and his fellow actor told the team.
(WASHINGTON) — The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) confirmed on Friday that some of the Trump White House documents recently recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort were marked classified, and that the agency had referred the matter to the Justice Department.
In a letter sent Friday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, National Archives officials said that among the 15 boxes of records retrieved last month from former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were “items marked as classified national security information within the boxes.”
As a result, the National Archives staff “has been in communication with the Department of Justice,” David Ferriero, the national archivist, wrote in the letter.
Among those items that were not preserved, NARA said, were records related to social media accounts.
“NARA has identified certain social media records that were not captured and preserved by the Trump Administration,” Ferriero wrote.
Trump White House staff also “conducted official business using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts,” according to the letter.
The National Archives said that they it has already “obtained or is in the process of obtaining some of those records.”
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It’s been nearly a year since Kim Kardashian filed for divorce, but her soon-to-be ex, Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, has some objections to her recent request to the court to declare her legally single.
According to court documents obtained by ABC News, Kanye has filed an opposition to Kim’s request, stating that it should be denied without prejudice so that Kim can refile it with Ye’s “corrections and requested conditions.” Essentially, Kanye is arguing Kim didn’t tick all of the legal boxes in submitting his request, though he also has some other concerns.
Among the things that Ye is requesting: He wants Kim to “waive marital privilege” until they’ve reached a final custody agreement concerning their four kids, as well as a finalized property agreement. Waiving that privilege means that all communications between her and Ye would be part of court record.
Ye also wants Kim to waive marital privilege if she remarries, so the court would be able to access any conversations they might have about custody. Additionally, he wants his assets to be safeguarded, and he’s concerned about what would happen if Kim remarries before the divorce is finalized.
A hearing has been scheduled for next month to address Kim’s legal marital status.
Luke Bryan kicked off his Las Vegas residency last week, and he’s got shows booked for Friday night as well as through the weekend.
There also will be a VIP guest in the audience for his upcoming dates: His mom, LeClaire, is officially in town, according to the singer’s social media.
“The eagle has landed,” Luke captioned a recent post, along with an image of his mother with a beer in front of her and a cigarette in hand.
Over the years, LeClaire has become a star in her own right, becoming the beloved “Mama” to Luke’s enormous fan base, thanks to her hilarious social media presence and frequent participation in family pranks.
In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America earlier this month, Luke confirmed that his mom would indeed be joining him in Vegas. “What’s the big shopping center out here? Crystals and all that? Yeah, my credit card will be in flames come Friday,” the singer joked.
Luke’s residency is taking place at the city’s Resorts World Theatre. He’s booked throughout February, with another batch of shows scheduled for June and even more dates into the early fall of 2022.
