• Do not hang out with Dori Cooperman unless you want to end up with a botched lypo job, coke in your pants or a Range Rover that runs people over.
• Angelina Jolie is reportedly depressed that her black-facey impression of Mariane Pearl was a box office flop.
• Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are getting back together…for some boring political drama that you probably won't bother to go see.
• There's something kind of awesome about the Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons family reunions. Typically, it's the "I'm too old to pretend I ever loved this giant, giraffe of a woman" expression on Russell's face.
• Sumner Redstone is being sued by his son, Michael and is currently feuding with his daughter, Shari, but his brother Edward is totally not crazy at all.
• Congratulations to Kelly Rowland, who has finally learned to begrudgingly accept the color of her skin.
• Apparently, naming your kid "Jermajesty" isn't normal even if your name is Jermaine Jackson. [via Us]
Editorial Director
Will you give it a rest about Angelina Jolie and 'black-face'? You act like you auditioned for the part and was rejected or something. If you being bitter on behalf of all Black women, then ease up just a little, because I am one who wasn't upset with the casting of Angelina for this part. I saw the movie twice and she did a wonderful job in it. Could an African American done justice to this part? Possibly, but did any of them do anything about it? Did they make inquiries? Did they try to buy the rights to it when the opportunity arose? No, they didn't, and please don't say that they were shut out from the opportunity because they are actors, with money, just like Brad Pitt. If they can purchase rights to Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, etc., there was no hindrance preventing them from getting this story, especially if all Mariane needed was evidence that her book was actually read by the person interested in it.
P.S. Don't try to equalize 'us' with you all; just because you all walk through this world expecting things to be presented to you on a satin pillow doesn't mean that Black women can and should expect the same thing.