The premiere of Fox Searchlight’s new romantic comedy, Just Wright,starring Queen Latifah and Common, drew the who’s who of Black Hollywood with a screening at the Ziegfield followed by a star-studded party at the Empire Hotel Rootop, sponsored by Cover Girl. Literally everyone turned out, including some folks I had forgotten all about! I rode the elevator up with Spike Lee and congratulated him on his episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?”, which I watched on Hulu the previous weekend. Once upstairs, I caught up with Umi,Mos Def‘s Mom and the “Umi” famously immortalized in his hip-hop hit, “Umi Says“) who introduced me to Common‘s Mom. I also got to chat with Greg Mathias (or Judge Mathias, as he is known to the TV viewers) who, to my delight, said that he had heard of TGATP! Sherri Shepard, who I watch everyday as I write this column, also warmly greeted TGATP and I look forward to interviewing her in the future. I was also very happy to catch up with supermodels ToccaraJones and Damaris Lewis.Queen Latifah and Common, who came with his Mom, Dr. Mahalia Hines were both lovely to all of the guests. Also in attendance were: Nick Cannon (sans Mariah), Dwayne Wade, Phylicia Rashad and her lovely daughter, Stuart Scott and his family, Grizz Chapman, Roxanne Shante, Roland Martin, Treach, Olivia, Michael Landes, James Pickens Jr., Chicago Football Players- Otis Willson, Israel Idonije, Matt Forte, Jarron Gilbert, Matt Toeaina, Garrett Wolfe, and Earl Bennett, NJ Nets player and co-star Bobby Simmons, Rapper Phoenix Phenom, Serge Ibaka, Michael Elliott, Vin Rock; DJ Kay Gee, Laz Alonso. Also on hand was a very camera grumpy, Denzel Washington, who reminded TGATP of a Black Chevy Chase!
Below find The Academy of Motion Picture Arts Oscar Nominations announced this morning. In bold is who TGATP would like to see win, underlined are my predictions to win.
I am a firm believer in having places in your Life that inspire bliss and peace, places that can be spiritually re-visited to create tranquility during stressful times. As New York is enduring yet another …
While not advanced enough to know how to totally blackout the site, I stand in solidarity with the 7,000 sites, entrepreneurs, tech activists, and corporations, who are staging blackouts today in opposition to the ludicrous SOPA and PIPA bills.
This weekend, TGATP was honored to attend and cover the WIE (Women: Inspiration. Enterprise.) Symposium, a two-day conference that featured seminars designed to empower women in business. I loved this event and it was wonderful to finally meet women, who actually have something going on and are supportive of each other! The WIE Symposium was, quite simply, the best conference I have ever attended!
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
02/10/2012 1890 Boris Pasternak 1906 Lon Chaney Jnr 1914 Larry Adler 1930 Robert Wagner 1938 Roberta Flack 1947 Nicholas Owen 1950 Mark Spitz 1955 Greg Norman 1967 Laura Dern
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