HEY OUTSTAGRS!
IITS THAT TIME AGAIN!!
TIME TO GET ON STAGE!!!
HEY OUTSTAGRS if you are followers of OUTSTAGN BLogspot you know that we highlight entertainment news stories from the perspective of places and events that occur in the Illinois and Missouri area (ILLI MO) and notable people in entertainment who were born, raised, lived or currently live in the two state area. On Monday DEC 23 we will countdown the TOP ILLI MO ENTERTAINMENT NEWS STORIES of 2013.
The 2014 OBSDN MEN OF COLOR CALENDAR is scheduled for a DECEMBER 2013 release. Pictured above is the front and back covers.
To see the promo video ad go to
.jpg)
There's YOURS TRULY (left) posed with radio hosts Cassandra Walker and Kelley Lamm and music producer Tonjo after my interview on the Kelley and Cassandra radio show this week on 1380 The Woman in St Louis, Mo. To see the interview go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbWQM3xo9w&feature=youtu.be
2014 Grammy Award nominee Kanye West is
in the news (again) now for what he didnt say.
in the news (again) now for what he didnt say.
On the heels of one Kanye West hoax
that claimed the rapper compared himself to
Nelson Mandela, comes yet another fake set
of West quotes, attributed to an interview that
never happened with WGCI radio in Chicago.
that claimed the rapper compared himself to
Nelson Mandela, comes yet another fake set
of West quotes, attributed to an interview that
never happened with WGCI radio in Chicago.
Though the story was picked up by
Jezebel and Oh No They Didn't, a rep for
West confirmed to The Huffington Post that
West never said, "I am going to make Kim
Kardashian a bigger performer than Beyonce.
Me and Kim will soon be the first couple of
hip-hop.”
Jezebel and Oh No They Didn't, a rep for
West confirmed to The Huffington Post that
West never said, "I am going to make Kim
Kardashian a bigger performer than Beyonce.
Me and Kim will soon be the first couple of
hip-hop.”
In truth, Kanye West never said that .
And in more Ye news, while performing in Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, the Chicago bred rapper blasted the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for giving his album "Yeezus" only two nominations this year. West was nominated for Best Rap Album for "Yeezus" and Best Rap Song for "New Slaves," but he failed to make it into the Album of the Year category.
"I’m 36 years old and I have 21 Grammys," West told the crowd during his latest rant. "That’s the most Grammys of any 36-year-old. Out of all of those 21 Grammys, I’ve never won a Grammy against a white artist. ... So when the Grammys nominations come out, and 'Yeezus' is the top one or two album on every single list, but only gets two nominations from the Grammys, what are they trying to say? Do they think that I wouldn’t notice? Do they think that, someway, that I don’t have the power to completely diminish all of their credibility at this moment?"
"But no, no. Only positive energy, only positive vibes," he added. "But when you see me talking about what people are doing when I say 'marginalized,' when I say 'boxed in,' when I say 'hold back,' when I say 'people are afraid of the truth,' that’s one example right in front of you. And people come to me and they congratulate me on those two nominations. F--k those nominations."
MTV noted that West has received 53 Grammy nominations over his career and that "Yeezus" has been acclaimed by some as one the rapper's "most challenging and adventurous albums to date."
"Yeezus" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart when it first dropped in June, but sales fell 80 percent just two weeks after the release. Billboard reported it was thefourth-largest second-week slump since 1991.
Some recent reports claim the ticket sales for his Yeezus Tour have been lackluster.
"[H]is scandalous love life, frequent impolite pronouncements and his gradual shift away from conventional hip-hop have alienated many of his fans," The Kansas City Star wrote last week after West's show at the Sprint Center drew less than 4,500 people.
=====
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey was on record saying that she doesnt regret having children,
"If I had kids, my kids would hate me," Winfrey told the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview. "They would have ended up on the equivalent of the 'Oprah' show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
Winfrey doesn't seem to regret her decision to forgo parenthood in favor of her career. After all, especially in comparison to her BFF Gayle King, motherhood hadn't been on the front of her mind as she grew up.
"Gayle was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade Home Ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children," Winfrey said. "While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King."
Her desire to foster change can be seen in her OWN network, which she struggled to launch following the end of her daily daytime talk show in 2011.
"I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail," Winfrey said of that rough period that began roughly three years ago. "This has been the great climb of my life. But I still have a long way to go."
In other Oprah newz, she copped recently a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Supporting Actress in her work in Lee Daniels The Butler. But the Golden Globes were not as showing. She was not nominated neither was the film.
And in more Oprah newz, she along with fifteen other people were honored earlier this month at the White House with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Obama said this about her before awarding the medal:
Oprah Winfrey is one of the world's most successful broadcast journalists. She is best known for creating The Oprah Winfrey Show, which became the highest rated talk show in America for 25 years. Ms. Winfrey has long been active in philanthropic causes and expanding opportunities for young women. She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010.
Other notable honorees were The 42nd president, Bill Clinton, Chicago Cubs hall of famer Ernie Banks, singer Loretta Lynn.
The Pied Piper of R&B R. Kelly is set to collect his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart next week. The singer's latest album, "Black Panties," is on course to sell around 100,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Dec. 15 -- so say industry forecasters.
The new Billboard 200's top 10 will be revealed on Wednesday, Dec. 18.
"Black Panties'", whose album cover has sparked controversy over the young lady sitting on his lap, projected start would mark an improvement in debut week sales compared to R. Kelly's last release. His previous album, 2012's "Write Me Back," opened at No. 5, but with 68,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Kelly has been busy lately, collaborating with a number of high-profile artists in a short span of time. He's currently in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his Lady Gaga collaboration "Do What U Want," and he also hooked up with Justin Bieber on the track "PYD." Further, Kelly is featured on the G-Mix of Bruno Mars' "Gorilla" (which also boasts Pharrell).
Every one of R. Kelly's previous solo studio albums have reached the top 10, stretching back to his solo debut, 1993's "12 Play." (He charted one previous album before that, "Born Into the '90's," with Public Announcement.)
In related R newz, he revealed in an interview with RapUpTV that he's readying a holiday album to be released in
2014. Working title: The 12 Nights of Christmas.
"It's gonna be a lot of love-making, and I come with that bearing gifts," the R&B singer said of the record.
An in more R newz, it's been over a decade since R. Kelly was arrested on child pornography charges and over 5 years since he was acquitted of all 14 counts — but it seems like the singer just can't shake his sordid past.
On December 10, when the 46-year-old held an #AskRKelly Twitter Q&A, his fans (haters?) made it clear they're not ready to forgive and forget. The R&B singer opened the door for a flood of #funnynotfunny tweets about his controversial past.
Many are wondering why R. Kelly's team would let something like this happen in the first place, and it seems like they thought it would be a good way to promote his latest album, Black Panties, which was released on Tuesday. It was also just revealed that Kelly is planning 10 all-new chapters to his infamous hip-hopera Trapped in the Closet.
Kelly doesn't appear to have responded to any of the caustic tweets, but in a surprisingly bold move he held another round of #AskRKelly on December 13.
St. Louis native actor John Goodman (PICTURED with Saturay Night Live cast member Taram Killiam) will be hosting this Saturday's Saturay Night Live. It will be his 13th time hosting. The last tuime he hoste was in 2001.
In other Goodman newz, he stars in his sixth Coen-brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, in which he gives a brilliantly nutty performance as a heroin-addicted jazz player who can scarcely walk.
Goodman has been such a staple in Coen brothers films that it's easy to forget it's been 13 years since he last appeared in one of their movies (2000's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?").
"Inside Llewyn Davis" opened on December 6 in Los Angeles and New York and expanded to more theaters on December 20.
St Louis bred rap superstar Nelly along with country duo Florida Georgia Line scored the No. 1 Country Song of 2013 in the year end eition of Billboard Magazine (It reached No. 9 on the Hot 100 Top 100 songs of 2013)
Late last month, the song won Single of The Year at the American Music Awards
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly discussing how he paired up with the duo on the song he said, They had a version of the song a year before and it was brought to me by my guy Monte Lipman, who is the president of Republic Records and he’s a real good friend of mine, and he brought it up to me and asked me, would this be something I was interested in.”
The original version of the song topped out at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100; Nelly’s version jumped to No. 4.
“I respect Monte, because he’s been with me from the beginning of my career. I said, ‘Let me listen to it, let me try something out.’ I said, ‘If I can come out with something that’s worth trying, then I will.’ So I listened to it and found out what I could do to take the song to a whole new audience. And I played it for everybody and everybody loved it. Who knew?”
For his next project, Nelly is staying close to his personal interests. He stars alongside Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammar, and Kyra Sedgewick in the film Reach Me, a drama centered on a group of people who all have a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.
In his hometown, his 8th Annual Black and White Ball is set for Dec. 22 at the Four Seasons Hotel downtown with headliner act En Vogue, the popular girl group from the '90s. The formal, black tie event is invitation-only.
Lawyers for former Illinois Governor and reality show star Rod Blagojevich were back in court Friday in what could likely be his last bid for freedom.
Blagojevich will be spending the day inside Englewood, a low-security facility in Littleton, Colo., when his lawyers deliver oral arguments before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the appeal of his conviction and 14-year sentence for corruption.
On June 27, 2011, Blagojevich, a Democrat, was convicted of 17 corruption-related charges during a retrial, including some connected to his attempt to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama’s open Senate seat. In his first trial in 2010, Blagojevich, who was forced out of office in 2009, was convicted of one count of lying to the FBI. Under federal sentencing rules, Blagojevich must serve 85 percent of his sentence, or just under 12 years.
Chase won’t be reporting on the oral arguments for the Tribune, but said he can’t help keeping an eye on what’s happening with Blagojevich.
“Once he gets out, whenever that is, whether it’s next year or 11 more years, I’m confident he’ll not be quiet about making some sort of return to public life,” Chase said. “Whatever that is, whether it’s back in politics or doing radio or doing a blog.”
THIS STORY IS DEVELOPING
-
St Louis native reality show star Trista Sutter who was the first bachelorette on the ABC dating game show "The Bachelerotte" is now author of a brand new book called “Happily Ever After.” After almost 10 years of marriage to her husband and soul mate Ryan Sutter.
The Sutter’s have been married for almost 10 years now and after having two beautiful kids, they are happier and seem more in love than ever. In fact, the couple will be renewing their vows soon, which is expected to be aired on Jan. 19 on ABC. The mother-of-two has found the man of her dreams and is now forever part of “Bachelor” nation.
Former St Louis Cardinals manager Tony Larussa (PICTURED LEFT) along with baseball coaches and former players Joe Torre, and Bobby Cox, baseball's winningest managers over the past four decades, were unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame on Monday by the expansion era committee.
All three won more than 2,000 games and were selected on all 16 ballots when the committee met Sunday ahead of baseball's winter meetings.
La Russa won World Series titles with Oakland in 1989 and St. Louis in 2006 and 2011, retiring days after the Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in a seven-game thriller. Of the nine managers with three or more World Series titles, the other seven all have been inducted.
"It's a stunner," said La Russa, who revealed he'd like to join a club front office, "I miss the winning and losing. ... Some day I'll be with a team, I think. I'd like to be part of the competition again."
La Russa finished with the third most wins by a manager in a career that began with the Chicago White Sox in 1979 and ended with a record of 2,728-2,365.
On Dec. 11, more than 350 sports fans filled the Missouri Room at the Missouri Athletic Club for the 44th Annual Jack Buck Sports Awards, honoring St. Louis sports legends like St Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter and Chris Carpenter and former St Louis Rams player Aeneas Williams (PICTURED) among others .
The three highlighted won the following:
matt carpenter: SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Chris carpenter: STAN THE MAN AWARD
Aeneas williams: JACK BUCK AWARD
Originally named MAC Sport’s Personality of the Year Dinner, the event was created by Jack Buck who acted as Master of Ceremonies for the first 32 dinners. He made the event a highlight on the St. Louis sports calendar with his contributions. His final public appearance was at the 2001 Sports Personality of the Year Dinner. On Dec. 10, 2002, the name of the dinner was officially changed to The Jack Buck Sports Awards. The annual banquet has aired on KMOX Radio every year since its inception in 1970.
After Mizzou Tigers lost to the Auburn Tigers last week Auburn 59 to 42, Mizzou got word last Sunday that it had received an invitation and accepted to play in the 2014 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, set for Jan. 3rd in Arlington, Texas at the world-renowned AT&T Stadium.
Kickoff for the game, which will pit the Tigers against former conference foe Oklahoma State (10-2, 2nd place in Big 12), is set for 7 p.m. (central time) and will be televised nationally on FOX.
The Cotton Bowl appearance will mark Mizzou's 11th New Year's Day (or later) bowl game in program history, and its first since playing in the 2008 Cotton Bowl against Arkansas. The invitation is a reward for an outstanding season which saw the Tigers post one of the top turnaround years in the nation, going from 5-7 in 2012 to 11-2 - a 6-1/2 game improvement. This is MU's 30th alltime bowl appearance.
T
There are two Internet radio shows that OUTSTAGN Blogspot recommends:
THE FIRST IS:
AND THE SECOND IS:
Z
Why was the deaf interpreter for the Mandela Memorial a fraud? And Why was their such an uproar over POTUS' handshake with Catsro at the Memorial? And why did the media make FLOTUS seem like the angry black woman during POTUS' selfie pics with dignitaries? Why did Beyonce release her album with no fan fare promotion? Why is the government considering allowing people to talk on their phones on airplanes? Why was RGIII benched? Why is Friday the 13th so unlucky? And why is people tkaing Kanye so seriously when he rants ?
AREA 14 IS LOCATED AT 14 S Bemiston
Clayton, MO 63105
