Last night friends of John Witherspoon came out to give him a good verbal smashing at TV One's Roast and Toast affair at the 9900 Club in Beverly Hills. Who can forget his scene stealing moments in Boomerang and Friday? You know the lines: "Mushroom tie, mushroom socks.. You got to coordinate." How about.. "Don't nobody go in the bathroom for about 35, 45 minutes." And of course.. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" A few faces in the place.. more..

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You know the places, certainly know the faces. Last night Will Smith and Rosario Dawson were all smiles at the Mann Theater in Los Angeles. The red carpet was rolled out for the premiere of their new film Seven Pounds. Remember that? I wonder what seven pounds refers to. Does it tie into the surprise twist in the movie? If you have any interest in seeing this, you better be in a theater this weekend; once that quirk gets out you'll find yourself, let's say week two, watching the credits roll and thinking that was it? Kind of like knowing that Bruce Willis is Casper the Ghost in Sixth Sense or The Village is just off a six lane highway. more..

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On Saturday, the first peek of Buppies, Tatyana Ali and Julian Breece's dip into the emerging world of straight to the web television shows, was posted on a few sites. Watching the clip I was just about to say, it looks and feels like every.. and then this happens. Now you know why I used that chick in the top pic - scandal. I believe that uh.. bonding.. happens just before she kisses the same guy. Is he down low? Up high, and she was teaching techniques? It's hard to tell exactly what's going on since it's just a preview, but here you go.. more..

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Tatyana Ali is in this month's King Magazine - "Ali, Boom-Ba-Yay!". Among talk of being a Harvard graduate, giving a nod to her second album (?) The Light, and the importance of being politically active and making the Barack change this November; Tatyana mentioned work on a web based show called Buppies. >> "Which touches on black Hollywood and has a little bit of a Sex and the City and Entourage vibe. It's about the characters, both women and men, figuring out who they are." Created by Julian Breece and co-executive produced by Tatyana Ali, the show "centers on the misadventures of a dysfunctional crew of upwardly mobile quarter-lifers desperately mining the meaning of life in Hollywood's social wasteland." more..

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