There’s no doubt about it and you have to hand it to Salma Hayek. When it comes to convo of her breasts, she’s certainly ready to talk about them.
In the upcoming issue of Allure, the curvy Latina explains her upper half is not as good as it was 10 years ago. We should all have such problems.
“They’re not bad … I’m not complaining about them,” the 44-year-old actress says.
This isn’t the first time she’s spoken up about what’s up top. In a 2007 interview, Hayek explains that they were actually an act of God.
During a vacation in her native Mexico with her mother, Hayek said the two stopped at a church. That’s when The Almighty stepped in.
“When we went inside, I prayed for the miracle I wanted to happen. I put my hands in holy water and said: ‘Please God, give me some breasts,'” Hayek said. “And he gave me them!”
In the Allure interview, the Oscar-nominated actress also seems to like being the wife of a multi-billionaire — French businessman François-Henri Pinault.
“I never understood the point of being privileged if you don’t get to have the privileges,” she says. (Not mentioned: The battle Pinault is currently engaged in with model Linda Evangelista over child support for their 4-year-old son.)
Not much has been seen of comedian Chris Tucker in recent years. He burst onto the movie scene in the late 1990s with “The Fifth Element,” “Rush Hour” and “Rush Hour 2,” then mostly disappeared, only appearing recently in the 2007 movie “Rush Hour 3.”
He says it was largely due to being disappointed with the roles offered to him. They were too similar to the “Rush Hour” role, Tucker tells the New York Times, and “frankly, just weren’t good enough.” So he took a break
But now he’s back, with a new comedy tour that he tells the Times is a mark of bigger things to come.
“It would only make me better to be more patient,” says Tucker. “I was fearless with that. Because I believe in myself. And I believe that I can always come back in the business.”
He also says his current stand-up routine is a lot different from the one he performed when he was a 22-year-old nobody. Now, it’s more about the pitfalls of fame.
Tucker’s stand-up tour starts Friday night (Aug. 19) in Long Beach, CA and criss-crosses the country until ending in Oakland, CA on Nov. 26. Tickets can be bought here
On Tuesday, the Bob Marley estate, Simon Fuller, and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell globally released a new video for Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1973 song “Hide Tide Or Low Tide.”
Edited by Kevin Macdonald, director of “Last King Of Scotland” and the forthcoming “Marley” documentary, the “Hide Tide Or Low Tide” video includes recent footage of expressionless mothers caring for their children, oblivious toddlers playing amidst skeletons of wildlife, and numerous frail, sick babies.
In one of the more poignant images, a mother draws a bucket from a well only to find it filled with dirt and not one drop of water.
It’s fitting that this song from Bob Marley & The Wailers’ debut album would be selected to help raise awareness of the tragedy.
The “High Tide Or Low Tide” lyrics still provoke chills nearly 40 years after the song’s debut. Marley, a late icon, who used his music to encourage social change, sings about one of his mother’s prayers.
“A child is born in this world, he needs protection,” Marley sings, quoting his mother. During the song’s chorus, he pledges unconditional friendship: “In high seas or-a low seas, I’m gonna be your friend.”
Partnering with Save The Children, the Marleys, Fuller, and Blackwell are hoping to make an impact. Universal Music Global has agreed to donate all profits from the video.
The Marley family wrote a letter asking the public to support the effort:
To Friends,
We are reaching out to you today to ask a favor. We believe that you can help us stop children dying [in] the most devastating food crisis happening today in East Africa.
Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer from the conflict caused by grown men. Over three million woman and children are suffering. They are innocent. They are not political. They are starving. Bob Marley, then and now, stands for an Africa united, for one love, for the protection of children worldwide. Please join us as we, along with Save The Children, stand up together as friends to put a stop to this needless waste of life, to feed our children and to save their lives.
We are asking you to please post our video message to your Facebook page. This generous act will help us reach through your friends and ours over two hundred million people worldwide.
One love,
The Marley family
More than 150 of the world’s biggest stars have joined the cause and are encouraging their fans to watch the video and donate.
Below is a list of the celebrity supporters:
Eminem
Jay-Z
Lady Gaga
The Rolling Stones
Robert Plant
Kanye West
Rihanna
Coldplay
Shakira
Beyoncé
Justin Bieber
Sting
Cristiano Ronaldo
David Beckham
Brian May
Victoria Beckham
Jennifer Lopez
Carrie Underwood”
Gwen Stefani and No Doubt
Ryan Seacrest
Lewis Hamilton
Elton John
Andy Murray
Enrique Iglesias
Scotty McCreery
Annie Lennox
Queen
Emma Bunton
Lauren Alaina
Jamie Murray
Britney Spears
Bruno Mars
Madonna
Muse
Muhammed Ali
U2
AC Milan
Charlize Theron
Conan O’Brien
AT&T
Felica ‘Snoop’ Pearson who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to distribute heroin, caught by a wiretap in a joint federal-state drug probe of an alleged drug gang.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, a day before her trial was set to begin. Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill accepted the plea, suspending a seven-year sentence with credit for time served and ordering three years of supervised probation with provisions for out-of-state travel for work.
The plea allows Pearson to move on with her acting career, instead of spending more than a year with charges hanging over her, attorney Benjamin C. Sutley said outside the courthouse.
“I can’t say she would have been found not guilty,” Sutley said. But Pearson interrupted, saying “I would have been found not guilty.”
Pearson was one of 64 people charged in March in “Operation Usual Suspects.” The federal indictment states that since 2008, members of the conspiracy bought heroin from New York and marijuana from California and sold the drugs on the streets of Baltimore. As part of the conspiracy, the indictment alleges, members discussed how those who failed to perform required tasks were dealt with violently.
Pearson was caught on a wiretap conspiring with Shawn Johnson and Jeff Gibbs, who bought heroin in bulk from New York and distributed the drugs in Baltimore, according to a statement of charges read aloud in court by prosecutor Rebecca Finn. Johnson paid Pearson to store drugs and money, including drug proceeds, at her apartment in the city, Finn said.
When another member of the alleged conspiracy was kidnapped by rival dealers, Johnson told him to go to Pearson’s apartment to get money pay a ransom, Finn said. Police interrupted the abduction outside Pearson’s apartment and found heroin in the abducted man’s car, she said. Informants also told investigators that Pearson occasionally sold heroin for Johnson, Finn said.
Some of the people involved in the wider case helped take care of Pearson when she was a teen, but she has now “learned a valuable lesson about how some loyalties you keep and others drag you down,” Sutley said.
Pearson said she knows everyone in Baltimore. Asked how she’ll avoid falling into the same situation in the future, Pearson said, “I’m moving to L.A.”
Snoop, who wore retro-style glasses with a black-and-white checked shirt and a red paisley bow tie to court, said she is working on two movies. She later updated her followers on Twitter, “I’m FREE.”
“The Wire,” which ran from 2002 to 2008, was filmed in Baltimore and put a spotlight on the city’s struggle with poverty and drug violence through the stories of the city’s police, drug organizations, schools, politicians and media. Pearson’s character, which shares the nickname “Snoop,” knocks off several people for the fictitious Stanfield drug gang.
This was not Pearson’s first brush with the law. She was convicted of second-degree murder in a slaying committed when she was 14. She served five years of an eight-year sentence and was released in 2000. Pearson was arrested on a minor drug charge in 2008 when police went to her home to pick her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial. She was found not guilty.
Rihanna is enjoying her break at home in Barbados this week. She had some grind fun for the Kadooment Day festivities over the past weekend and Thursday she hit the beach with family and friends wearing a cute “stringy” two piece suit as she hit the beach and rode jet skis around. LAWD! RiRi
Nicki Minaj took the stage early Friday in New York’s Central Park for “Good Morning America’s” summer concert series and grabbed attention not only for her punchy mini-concert but for a wardrobe malfunction. Her punchy mini-concert included her verses to Britney Spears’ “Till the World Ends,” David Guetta’s new single, “Where Them Girls At” and her own hits “Moment 4 Life” and “Super Bass,” but the rapper’s performance couldn’t upstage the nipple slip.
View the “MOMENT OF LIFE HERE (18 OR OLDER ONLY)”
Looking as animated as ever in a blond wig, plastic tutu, pink jacket and colorful leggings, the rapper popped out of her bright green top during “Where Them Girls At.” Of course she caught it but not quickly enough for the East Coast not to get a glimpse before it was digitally blocked and for photographers to snap a ton of pics. The nipple even became its own trending topic shortly thereafter.
Unfazed by the incident, the show went on without a hitch.
[Updated, 11:30 a.m., Aug. 05: ABC is offering an apology in case any viewers were offended by the accident, and said they won’t be posting video of any portion of the performance on the website for “Good Morning America.” Minaj’s official website has a streaming video of part of the performance.
“Although we had a five-second delay in place for the Nicki Minaj concert on ‘GMA,’ the live East Coast feed of the concert regrettably included certain fleeting images of the performer that were taken out of later feeds of the broadcast in other time zones. We are sorry that this occurred,” read a statement from the network.]
Check out a clip from the interview (the network has yet to offer any of the performances on their site, and the best quality one we’ve found isn’t safe for work):
Before heading back into the studio to record her sophomore album, Minaj will lend her voice to the latest “Ice Age” installment alongside labelmate Drake as well as an episode of “The Cleveland Show” with frequent guest Kanye West and will.i.am, and ?uestlove.
Bubba Smith, a football star who went on to play a lovable lug in the Police Academy films and Miller Lite commercials, was found dead Wednesday at his Baldwin Hills home in Los Angeles. He was 66.
Smith’s body was discovered by a caretaker, police said. Officials believe he died of natural causes.
The 6-foot-7 Charles Aaron Smith was a defensive lineman and future College Football Hall of Famer at Michigan State, then played nine seasons in the pros with the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers from 1967-76.
In the slapstick Police Academy films of the 1980s, Smith’s character, the aptly named Moses Hightower, hovered over his fellow misfit cadets in the franchise’s first film in 1984 and its five sequels. A florist joining the academy, Hightower had immense strength but was the most soft-spoken of all the characters that included Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Eugene Tackleberry (David Graf), Larvelle Jones (Michael Winslow) and Zed McGlunk (Bobcat Goldthwait).
Smith also starred in the short-lived television series Blue Thunder, partnering with Dick Butkus, another former NFL defensive star, and had regular roles in such other series as Semi-Tough, Open All Night and Half Nelson. He appeared in Blood River, a 2010 indie film.
In the 1970s, Smith appeared in several Miller Lite commercials alongside the likes of Butkus, Rodney Dangerfield and Larry Csonka. In one memorable spot, he rips off the top of a beer can and he says, “I also love the easy-opening can.”
As a senior with Michigan State, Smith played in a legendary November 1966 game against Notre Dame in which Fighting Irish coach Ara Parseghian elected to run out the clock in a 10-10 tie, thus preserving his team’s No. 1 ranking. Both teams finished the season undefeated, but the Spartans finished second in the polls.
In East Lansing, Mich., Smith was extremely popular, with fans chanting, “Kill, Bubba, Kill.” Michigan State retired his No. 95 jersey in 2006.
The first overall selection in the 1967 NFL draft by the Colts, Smith, a native of Beaumont, Texas, won the Super Bowl V with Baltimore two years after losing the title game to the New York Jets and Joe Namath in a memorable upset.
Rihanna was going hard in her native Barbados on Monday, where she showed off nearly every luscious inch of her body in the annual Kadooment Day parade.
The hip-hop beauty queen, clad in a red, barely-there costume, showed off her flat tummy, mile-long legs, tiny tattoos and a tush that holds up from California to the Caribbean.
Kadooment Day, according to Barbados.org, “can be traced back to the 1780’s, a time when Barbados was the world’s largest producer of sugar. At the end of the sugar season, there was always a huge celebration to mark the culmination of another successful sugar cane harvest.”
Barbados might not be the world’s sugar leader anymore Brazil holds the title but Big ups! to the gorgeous pop star, they’ve got a claim to fame every bit as sweet.
What ever happen to turning 21 and having a modest party and a few gifts.
But not if you are a Top Stack dollar rapper and producer huh?.
DeAndre Cortez Way, otherwise known as Soulja Boy, the man behind rap hits such as Crank That (Soulja Boy) and Turn My Swag On, is splashing out on a $55 million private jet to celebrate his milestone, his management told TMZ.
While the jet already has a hefty price tag of $35 million, the singer has spent an additional $20 million to upgrade the new mobile pad.
The upgrade include Italian leather seats, flat screen TVs, four liquor bars, a customized travertine-tiled floor, a revamped bathroom, Brazilian hardwood cabinets and a custom paint job on the exterior, featuring his logo.
And the rapper hasn’t stopped there with his extravagant birthday spending.
He has also splurged $300,000 on his own birthday bash, which will take place in Miami tonight.
But despite the extravagant purchase, Soulja Boy reportedly owes almost $30,000 in back taxes.
RaderOnline.com reported that that the State of California filed a $26,805 tax lien against the singer in March.
He also owed the State of Mississippi $3,571 in back taxes but he paid the full amount last week.
And his home in Georgia was foreclosed on last year, according to the Detroit News Tax Watchdog blog.
Soulja Boy was number 18 on the Forbes list of top hip-hop’s earners in 2010, with a reported $6 million earned from touring and ringtone downloads.
Singer Sean Kingston, who recently recovered from a horrible jet-ski accident, is on the star-studded guestlist tonight, as well as American rapper and actor, Bow Wow, and Orlando Magic basketballer, Dwight Howard.
And perhaps giving an insight into how Way may be paying for all of his birthday swag, the party will be streamlined live on the rapper’s website, where fans will be required to pay a fee in order to obtain an inside look at the festivities.
Way started his career in music at the age 14, when he moved to Mississippi with his father who gave him his own recording studio so he could pursue his passion for music.
Shortly after in 2004, he founded his record label Stacks on Deck Entertainment.
Nicki Minaj was reportedly slapped with a fine for cursing during her set Sunday at the Reggae Sumfest concert at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, St James, Jamaica.
She was scheduled to attend court this Thursday, but her local attorney, Hugh Thompson, made an appeal to move the case to Monday (July 25). He entered an ex parte guilty plea on her behalf and paid the corresponding J$1,000 fee (in Jamaican dollars) for the use of the expletives.
The Police reportedly handed Minaj the summons as she exited the Catherine Hall Complex following her performance in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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