08-14-07 EURxtra: 'B-List Star' Babyface Feels for Tracey and Eddie

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DR. CORNEL WEST PRESENTS ‘NEVER FORGET’: Scholar, author, activist recruits artists for new hip-hop/R&B CD.
By Kenya M Yarbrough
*“Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations,” released today (08-14-07), features a host of hip-hop, soul, and pop artists like Prince, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, Dave Hollister, Jill Scott, and the late Gerald Levert, taking on some of the issues of Black America, as well as gems of commentary from West and prominent activists like Tavis Smiley and Michael Eric Dyson. Read Full Story

SEAN COMBS, GEORGE TILLMAN JR. JOIN B.I.G. FILM: Fox Searchlight taps Diddy to exec produce; Tillman to direct.
*Sean “Diddy” Combs, the man who discovered Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. and signed him to a record deal in 1992, has come aboard as an executive producer on Fox Searchlight’s biopic about the late hip hop star. Read Full Story

MORE RUMORS FOLLOW MEL B’S HUSBAND: Stephen Belafonte reportedly married under false name; has multiple evictions.
*Entertainment columnist Janet Charlton is reporting a laundry list of bad behavior from Stephen Belafonte, the man who married Melanie Brown in a secret wedding ceremony last June. Read Full Story

BABYFACE FEELS FOR TRACEY AND EDDIE: Says he's happy being a 'b-list' celeb ... his words not ours.
*"I feel for Tracey and Eddie because of what they gotta go through. Everybody's on them and now (that they're engaged) they're going to be on them even more. And I wouldn't want that." Read Full Story

MAGIC JOHNSON TO HOST FUNDRAISER FOR HILLARY: Event to be held one week after Oprah’s party for Obama.
*Earvin “Magic” Johnson will hold a fundraiser for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sept. 14 to support her presidential campaign, Clinton’s camp announced Sunday. Read Full Story

O.J.’S ‘IF I DID IT’ TO BE PUBLISHED: New York company strikes deal on behalf of the Goldmans; manuscript to be left entirely intact.
*O.J. Simpson's cancelled book “If I Did It,” which told a hypothetical account of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, will soon arrive in bookstores courtesy of a New York publisher. Read Full Story

NFL SAYS VICK IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION: League hasn’t said anything since barring QB from training camp.
*With his jury trial on dogfighting charges scheduled to begin in November, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick hasn’t heard a peep from the NFL after Commissioner Roger Goodell made a decision last month to bar him from attending training camp. Read Full Story

MAN SUES 1-800-FLOWERS FOR EXPOSING HIS AFFAIR: Oops, service sends thank you note to wife instead of girlfriend.
*Viewers of the “Today Show” Monday morning saw Leroy Greer and his lawyer Kennitra Foote attempt to explain the logic behind their $1 million lawsuit against 1-800-Flowers for inadvertently exposing him as a cheater. Read Full Story

EUR GETS MADDEN 08 SCOOP FROM THE MAN HIMSELF: Plus, has Vince Young already been touched by the “Madden Curse?”
*The wait is over. Right now, sons, cousins, uncles, fathers and husbands all over the country are likely deep into a game of Madden 08, which finally hit stores at 12:01 this morning following months of anticipation. Read Full Story

GANDOLFINI TO PLAY NIKE SCOUT WHO SIGNED JORDAN: ‘Sopranos’ star returns to HBO in ‘ABCD Camp.’
*With his run on HBO’s “The Sopranos” a done deal, star James Gandolfini will return to the cable channel in a film about Sonny Vaccaro, the corporate sports scout from Nike who signed Michael Jordan to the company’s first million-dollar shoe deal. Read Full Story

PACMAN’S FAKE BEATDOWN MARKS WRESTLING DEBUT: Suspended NFL player rolled out on a stretcher after “attack” backstage.
*The pro-wrestling debut of suspended NFL player Adam “Pacman” Jones Sunday night was free of any one-on-one contact inside the ring as expected, but backstage was another story. Read Full Story

GLOBETROTTERS SCORE TV DEAL: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ producer pacts with franchise for various small-screen programming.
*Cue “Sweet Georgia Brown.” The Harlem Globetrotters are about to saturate the small screen after signing a deal with “Hell’s Kitchen” producer A. Smith & Co. that covers a wide range of TV programming, including scripted, documentary, live events and animation. Read Full Story

EUR FILM REVIEW: Crossing the Line
By Kam Williams
*In 1962, PFC James Joseph Dresnok, a U.S. Army soldier stationed in Korea defected to the Communist side simply by walking across the 2.5 mile-wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the heavily-fortified strip of land which splits the peninsula into North and South. Read Full Story

EUR DVD REVIEW: God Grew Tired of Us
By Kam Williams
*I’ve heard of remakes before, but God Grew Tired of Us is the first remake of a documentary I can ever remember. In 2003, Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk released Lost Boys of Sudan, a very moving documentary about the ordeal of some orphans who attempted to flee the ethnic cleansing in their homeland for a better life in America. Read Full Story

THE EURweb FREE-4-ALL PAGE/BOARD: Talk about the stories we didn't cover in this issue.
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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