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June 29, 2007 at 05:01:00 PM | more stories by this author
Divorce deal not final; Fiddy explains BET mishap; two die in Madrid show; Allen in paparazzi row; Brown won't cooperate; Eve gets probation.
Report: K-Fed delays divorce for leverage
In happier times.
It's safe to assume that Kevin Federline hasn't had many transactions where he has had the upper hand. But in his divorce proceedings with Britney Spears--which are not yet final--K-Fed has somehow, through Spears' hair-razing missteps, done just that. People reported today that K-Fed has resisted signing final divorce papers because of reports that Spears has gone off the wagon after her rehab stint.
"Britney's attorneys are anxious to see Kevin sign off on a divorce," a source told the magazine. "But Kevin and his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan are dragging their heels out of concern over reports of Britney's post-rehab partying." Federline's camp reportedly "wants to make sure that the divorce document makes it simple enough for Kevin to downsize Britney's access to her kids the next time her behavior troubles him."
50 Cent explains BET Awards mishap
50 Cent at the BET Awards.
With a bevy of YouTube videos sparking rumors that 50 Cent lip-synched through his BET Awards performance, the G-Unit mogul took to BET this week to quell the speculation. In his performance of "Amusement Park" on the awards show, 50 skipped his first verse and opted to walk into the crowd, causing many to think the vocal track skipped and he had to wait for it to return.
In an appearance on BET's 106 & Park, Fiddy said an accidental bump from a dancer as he descended to the stage messed up his concentration. "Everything doesn't quite happen the way you practice it," he said. "You see, I was hit by the aerialist, and I was wibbly-wobbling coming down. Twenty-five feet in the air, man, you fall--can't nobody help me with that, you know what I mean? Then by the time you get down, you try and regroup to fight, you got the pyro going off, the music starts, we four bars into the song, you know...I just wasn't concentrating."
Two die at Stones show in Madrid
Rolling Stones
Two workers died on Friday after part of the set from a Rolling Stones concert collapsed on top of them as they were dismantling it, Emergency Services said. A third man was seriously injured after four people fell from a 33-foot structure that gave way as the team helped take it down after Thursday night's concert in Madrid. Identities of the victims were not given, but about half the workers dismantling the set were English-speaking and traveling with the Rolling Stones tour, Reuters reported.
Lily Allen hit with assault charge
Lily Allen as Amy Winehouse on Friday Night Project.
Lily Allen turned herself into London police today to face an assault charge stemming from a run-in with a paparazzi photographer outside a Soho club in mid-March. The 21-year-old singer, set to appear on the UK's Friday Night Project sketch comedy show tonight, where she will do a bit on Amy Winehouse, was arrested on an assault charge and released on bail. The alleged incident took place on March 13 after Allen left a party she was hosting at The Wardour club in the Soho district of London. She is alleged to have lunged forward and hit a photographer in the face.
Foxy Brown won't testify in mugging case
Foxy Brown
Adhering to hip-hop's "stop snitching" code, Foxy Brown failed to appear before a grand jury to testify against a woman charged with assaulting and robbing the rapper. The woman, Roshawn Anthony, 23, was released from Riker's Island on her own recognizance Thursday but still faces charges of robbery, assault, and grand larceny in the alleged attack last Saturday, according to the Brooklyn district attorney's office. Brown has denied the charges. Police say Anthony and three other people teamed up to rob Brown of a Louis Vuitton bag, $500 in cash and credit cards in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Brown has denied that she was the victim, saying it was a case of mistaken identity.
Eve gets probation
Eve
Eve won't have to go to jail for driving under the influence, but she will have to wear an alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet for 45 days after she pleaded no contest to drinking and driving yesterday in an LA court. Eve--real name Eve Jeffers--was arrested in April after she crashed her car on Hollywood Boulevard. The star had faced a maximum sentence of six months in jail. Instead, she will pay a fine of $390 and be on probation for 36 months.
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Oldest First | Newest FirstThis particular "comments" area is exculsively for satire, insults, non sequiturs and off-the-cuff, off-color commentary about the tabloidesque crap that passes for journalism in "News Breakers."
Oh my god, dude, he just made a FRIGGIN' JOKE and you write a paragraph to try and shut him down!?!? That makes YOU look like the loser!
I hope you at least slammed him really good, 'cause I didn't have the mental stamina to read through all that mess. Feel free to write an essay about how ignorant I am for not reading the entire comment/novel of a total stranger online.
You demonstrate your ignorance by your comment, because at an Altamont Speedway concert in California, in December of 1969, a young man named Meredith Hunter was stabbed while the Stones performed "Under My Thumb" on stage. This concert was very well known, covered as a news event as well as in the music business, and documented in "Gimme Shelter," a film co-directed by Charlotte Zwerin and Albert & David Maysles, the fraternal team who also directed "Grey Gardens," the latter recently made into a current, Tony Award-winning Broadway play starring Christine Ebersole.
"Gimme Shelter," was the anti-Woodstock, a concert fest that erupted in violence after drug-taking fans were kept waiting for hours at Altamont Speedway in California, an event at which The Jefferson Airplane and Ike & Tina Turner also performed. Marty Balin of the Airplane was beat over the head with a pool cue by a Hell's Angel member, while trying to save a couple of fans. The Angels were hired by the Stones to do security for the event, on the recommendation of the Grateful Dead, for which they were allegedly paid in all the beer they could drink. The combination of the biker gang's drunkenness and inherent violent tactics, coupled with the collective chemical intake of the attendees, were no doubt why events spiralled out of control.
The film chronicles the whole bizarre scenario, from pre-concert planning through the concert itself and the aftermath, interspersed with footage of the murder and Stones' leaders Mick Jagger & Keith Richards re-acting to it in an editing room with the documentarians.
It was revealed during a congressional hearing on organized crime, some years ago now, that the Angels had actually put out a contract on Jagger for what they felt was his mishandling of the affair and the sole blame the Angels had received for it, which they felt should have been shared by the Stones, as organizers of the concert fest.
If your comment was intended as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the age of the Stones, as it turns out twas a very ill-informed remark!! Actually, I don't suppose you also know that a member of the Stones had already died, also in 1969, when founding member and versatile musician Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool at his England estate, a tragedy which has never, to the "satisfaction" of some, been fully investigated. Jones was 27 years old when he died, the same age as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, who would die only a few years later. As usual, the Stones led the decadent trail! The only other members of the band to "depart" were bassist Bill Wyman, who retired after the band's 1989 "Steel Wheels" tour, and lead guitarist Mick Taylor, then a young blues virtuoso (in the manner of Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page) who had replaced Jones, and was himself replaced by former Faces' guitarist Ron Wood. Taylor is still very much alive, left the group due to disagreements over songwriting and, from what is known, because of the effects of cocaine abuse, resulting in his having had a plastic septum surgically replacing his own.
Rather than post a reflexively angry comment because of my criticism of your comment, invest that energy in renting the DVD of "Gimme Shelter," and perhaps you will better understand why your comment was such a blatant display of ignorance. After viewing it, you may be grateful for having seen this compelling record of an event that includes performances of some well-known musicians in their prime, perhaps will better understand why the Stones still command such attention, due to their extensive body of work and their presence in our social, as well as musical history