07-26-06 EUR: Mo'Nique Kicked Off Flight / Tyler Perry Secretly Runs Hollywood

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MO’NIQUE KICKED OFF OF UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT: Comedian says tiff with flight attendant rooted in racism.
*Before her turn as guest host on “The View” Monday, comedian Mo’Nique got into a little situation with a flight attendant during her United Airlines flight from Chicago to New York Sunday and ended up being thrown off the plane. Read Full Story

TYLER PERRY SECRETLY RUNS HOLLYWOOD: Filmmaker beats Cruise, Hanks and Depp in reaping highest return on investment for studios.
*Madea brought her housedress and .22 pistol to Hollywood and put the entire industry in a headlock as if it was her bothersome next door neighbor, Brown. Read Full Story

SIMMONS, CHAVIS NAMED U.N. GOODWILL AMBASSADORS: Hip Hop Summit Action Network duo to help fight global hunger.
Hip-Hop Summit Action Network chairman Russell Simmons and HSAN president/CEO Dr. Benjamin Chavis were to be inducted Tuesday as CISRI-ISP Permanent Observer Missionaries to the United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors program. Read Full Story

STEVIE WONDER AMONG FREEDOM AWARD WINNERS: National Civil Rights Museum selects musician along with two others.
*Stevie Wonder joins Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner and civil rights leader Joseph Lowery as recipients of this year’s Freedom Awards, handed out annually by the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Read Full Story

PHARRELL FOLLOWS JAY-Z TO HP COMPUTERS: Producer is the latest to film commercial for company’s “Personal Again” campaign.
*Along with yesterday’s arrival of Pharrell Williams’ new album “In My Mind” comes a new commercial from the producer/artist for Hewlett Packard’s “Computer is Personal Again” ad campaign. Read Full Story

DUDE IN MIJAC’S KOOL-AID GETS EIGHT MONTHS: Businessman sentenced for secretly taping singer during flight.
*Air service businessman Arvel Jett Reeves, the man who secretly videotaped Michael Jackson as he and his attorney flew to Santa Barbara in 2003, was sentenced Monday (7/24) to eight months in federal prison. Read Full Story

LIONEL RICHIE WANTS DAUGHTER TO EAT: Singer says media attention surrounding Nicole’s emaciated frame “hurts me more than it hurts her.”
*Nicole Richie’s daddy has now joined the chorus of concerned citizens urging the “Simple Life” star to eat something…anything, and put some meat on her skeletal frame. Read Full Story

NY’S LINCOLN CENTER TO HONOR HYPE WILLIAMS: Video director the subject of a week-long presentation.
*Tonight at 8:30, New York’s Lincoln Center will present a 90-minute retrospective touting the work of music video director Hype Williams. Read Full Story

FAT JOE TO HAUL CONCERTS OVERSEAS: Rapper overcomes fear of flying to perform in Europe for first time.
*Fat Joe is so excited about the release of his upcoming seventh solo album, “Me Myself & I,” that he has decided to get on an airplane, despite a lifelong fear of flying, and perform a string of concert dates in Europe. Read Full Story

DOING HIS FATHER PROUD: T.S., the Son of Thelonious Monk, has a lot to say -- Pt. 2
By DeBorah B. Pryor
*In Monday’s EUR you were introduced to the son and musical heir of the late masterful composer and pianist Thelonius Monk: T.S. (Thelonius Sphere) Monk. He spoke candidly about his father’s legacy of “good karma” and about an institute, The Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz, that was started in “Mr. Monk’s” name. Read Full Story

EUR BOOK REVIEW: $40 Million Dollar Slaves
By Kam Williams
*"The Belt carries young black athletes out of black America and introduces them to a world with very few African-Americans, a world of white agents, real estate brokers, bank presidents, trustees, and lawyers. Read Full Story

HBCU BITS: Hampton’s Tony Brown wants accreditation for J-school; police looking for fourth suspect in Morehouse killing.
*Tony Brown, host of the long-running PBS show “Tony Brown’s Journal” and dean of Hampton University’s journalism school, was in Chicago Tuesday to appeal findings by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which led to the denial of full accreditation for the university’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. Read Full Story

FILM/TV/THEATER BITS: Brady, Grier in ‘Wiz’; ‘Duets’ on Thursdays; Foxx and Electra?; Whoopi ready for radio; Longoria in ‘Dead’; Kenan wants more ‘Fat.’
*Actors Wayne Brady and David Alan Grier will ease on into the cast of “The Wiz” at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse (2910 La Jolla Village Drive). Read Full Story

MUSIC BITS: Raising Kane; Meth’s ‘Day’ delayed; Juelz’s BBQ; DMX’s sneak peek; Jimi song to be auctioned.
*Danity Kane, the artists formerly known as “those girls from MTV’s ‘Making the Band 3,’” will drop their self-titled debut album on Aug. 15, led by the first single, “Show Stopper.” Read Full Story

ITTY BITTY BITS: Miss Black USA launches cosmetics line; Kevin Johnson helps out Choir Academy of Harlem.
*Celi Marie Dean, a.k.a. Miss Black USA 2006, launched a new cosmetic product during the July 22 State Banquet at the Kairaba Hotel Senegambia in Gambia. Read Full Story

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Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn't cover in today's issue. (It's sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. Read Full Story

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