Friday, November 4, 2016

OUT 282--SPOT BITZ (NOV 4-10)

HEY OUTTOWNERS, OUTSTAGRS, AND

 COUTURIANS....

CHECK OUT THIS WEEK 'S SPOT BITZ!





PRE-ORDERS FOR 2017 MR COUTURE WINNER THOMAS LOPEZ'S 2017 CALENDAR 
ARE AVAILABLE. THEY WILL SELL FOR $15 BUT PREORDERS WILL HAVE A $5
DISCOUNT  PRICED at $10 UNTIL STREET RELEASE DEC 1, 2016. 
FOR INVOICE EMAIL TO snaphoney2011@gmail.com

HEY THEATERATI WE ARE NOW CASTING FOR THE NEXT STAGING OF THE SNAP HONEY STAGEPLAY SET FOR MARCH 2017.



HERE ARE THE BREAKDOWNS OF THE ROLES:



MAVIS--AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE, 30S TO 40S WHO CAN PLAY CARING AND NURTURING 



ALVIN KENWAY--AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE IN
 EARLY 20S TO 30 TO PLAT A  COCKY FOOTBALL JOCK

 WHO CAN PLAY A HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGER, MUST 

BE TALL AND FIT AND COMFORTABLE WEARING A

 TOWEL ON STAGE AND EXPOSIG BUTTOCKS




LORRAINE- AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE  AGE 10 TO
 13 YEARS OF AGE TO PLAY A TOMBOY WHO BULLIES

 HER LITTLE BROTHER



IKEY--AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE AGE 8 TO 13 TO PLAY
 AN EFFEMINATE BOY WHO LOVES MUSIC



MISS FANTA SEE SAW--CAUCASIAN MALE AGE 40 TO
 50 TO PLAY A DRAG QUEEN. MUST BE A BIT PORTLY.




ROBERT SMITH--CAUCASIAN MALE 30S TO 40S TO
 PLAY A SUAVE AND DEBONAIR TYCOON WITH A DEEP

 VOICE. MUST BE TALL WITH DASHING GOOD LOOKS.




TO AUDITION FOR ONE OF THE ROLES  EMAIL TO
 SNAPHONEY2011@GMAIL.COM . DEADLINE IS NOV 1
5
2016. 




UPDATE:Here is the link to the extended teaser with booking info. Go to 

TO DONATE TO THE RESTAGING PROJECT OF SNAP HONEY  GO TO 
https://www.gofundme.com/2a6x6p8








For all of your entertainment coverage in the St Louis area check out New Scene News. Go to http://www.newscenenews.com/



For all of your jewelry needs go to 
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HERE"SHE
THIS WEEK'S SPOT BITZ ....



 

The Cubs won the World Series Wednesday nite winning their third trophy within a span of 108 years since the second one.  The Chicago Cubs dramatic, 10-inning, 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians  was the most watched game World Series Game 7 in 25 years raking in 40 million viewers.  We will bet that will be amount of people at the parade for the Cubs that will take place on Friday in Chitown.

Here are the details on that championship parade that will wind through downtown Chicago ...
What: The Cubs' 2016 World Series parade
When: Friday, Nov. 4, starting at 11 a.m. CT
Where: The parade will start at Michigan Avenue and Oak Street in downtown Chicago and work its way to Grant Park, where a rally will be held starting at noon local time.

UPDATE: More than 5 million people attended the rally and parade.  With the city having close to 2.5 million people, there were people from across the Midwest traveled to attend.





Beyonce was the surprise guest on this years Country Music Awards. she performed her song "Daddy Lessons" off her album Lemonade with country superstars Dixie Chicks. Their performance was the only thing that was competing with the World Series.

 From reports, the three-hour coverage averaged a 2.9 rating among adults 18-49 and 12.8 million viewers, off nearly a full ratings point in the key demo from last year. But, all told, the show was off by less than 1 million viewer.


 It certainly qualified the CMA Awards as “must-see TV” for Beyoncé ‘s devoted fan base as she wore a dynamic see through brown gown. what was interesting was to see the look of  the crowd watching Bey wow the crowd with her presence but after the performance it appeared that the crowd enjoyed it cheering up n their feet. In a clever move, soon after the performance, the song was available for download on various music sites. On I Tunes, as of Friday, it is  No 21 on the I Tunes chart.



Madea is ruling the boxing office yet again. Tyler Perry's production  struck box office gold with his latest flick Boo! A Madea Halloween. For the 2nd week straight weekend, the Halloween film remains in the No. 1 spot, beating out Tom Hanks’ action film Inferno.
Boo! A Madea Halloween raked in an estimated $16.7 million over the weekend, beating off off the third installment of the Da Vinci Code franchise for the No.1 spot. Inferno brought in an estimated $15 million and based on studio estimates, it bombed for its debut weekend.It's being reported the film is doing better overseas, but Tyler has the U.S. box office on lock.
Tyler Perry’s Halloween blockbuster is the filmmaker's biggest hit since his 2009’s Madea Goes to Jail. The film made an impressive $52 million over the last 10 days.



The lawsuits on Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars megasmash "Uptown Funk" continue to roll in.
 The most recent suit filed in federal court in California  recently  alleges that “Uptown Funk” is “strikingly or substantially similar” to the 1983 track “Young Girls” by an electro-funk band named Collage.

The complaint claims that “Uptown Funk” pulls heavily from the “Minneapolis electro-funk soul” sound of the ’80s, which the suit claims “Young Girls” employed.
As of press time, reps for Mars and Ronson have not yet responded to the allegations.
 In addition to the current lawsuit, three members of The Gap Band were added as songwriters due to the song’s alleged similarities to The Gap Band’s “Oops! Upside Your Head.”
Alleging copyright infringement, the suit seeks unspecified damages.

We heard the "YoungGirls" track and it does have similarities in its rhythm structure but the question is WHY did the plaintiffs wait until now to try and sue Ronson? Also, we wouldnt be surprised that litigants are set to sue for Mars' latest hit, "24 Karat Magic" that has the same funk vibe. 





In the STL





This week, KSDK personality Rene Knott, who had been the sports director at KSDK since coming to the station in 2003, has moved to Channel 5’s news department to co-anchor the “Today in St. Louis” show from 5-7 a.m. weekdays.
From reports, the change was because of budget cuts in the sports department.





The St Louis International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th year as the organization will screen hundreds of shorts, documentaries and films from  Nov. 3-13. For more info go to http://www.cinemastlouis.org/





 Doors open at 7pm, Show at 8pm.



FIT BITZ


This week we feature  actor Jay Ellis who can be seen in the new HBO comedy Insecure. The most recent airing of the show exposed Ellis in his birthday suit causing a frenzy in the Twitterverse. As far as fitness, to keep his lean frame in tact, he is a celebrity endorser of the muscle supplement, Muscle Up.

















This week we feature Beyonce who made news performing with the Dixie Chicks at the Country Music Awards. This past Halloween she, along with her mother, Tina Knowles and daughter Blu Ivy dressed up as the rap group Salt N Pepa back during the group's "Push It" days  and nailed it!





WORDZ TO THE WHYZ


Friday, October 28, 2016

OUT 281--SPOT BITZ (OCT 28-NOV 3)

HEY OUTTOWNERS, OUTSTAGRS, AND

 COUTURIANS....

CHECK OUT THIS WEEK 'S SPOT BITZ!

 
PRE-ORDERS FOR 2017 MR COUTURE WINNER THOMAS LOPEZ'S 2017 CALENDAR 
ARE AVAILABLE. THEY WILL SELL FOR $15 BUT PREORDERS WILL HAVE A $5
DISCOUNT  PRICED At $10 UNTIL STREET RELEASE DEC 1, 2016. 
FOR INVOICE EMAIL TO snaphoney2011@gmail.com

HEY THEATERATI WE ARE NOW CASTING FOR THE NEXT STAGING OF THE SNAP HONEY STAGEPLAY SET FOR MARCH 2017.



HERE ARE THE BREAKDOWNS OF THE ROLES:



MAVIS--AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE, 30S TO 40S WHO CAN PLAY CARING AND NURTURING 



ALVIN KENWAY--AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE IN
 EARLY 20S TO 30 TO PLAT A  COCKY FOOTBALL JOCK

 WHO CAN PLAY A HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGER, MUST 

BE TALL AND FIT AND COMFORTABLE WEARING A

 TOWEL ON STAGE AND EXPOSIG BUTTOCKS




LORRAINE- AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE  AGE 10 TO
 13 YEARS OF AGE TO PLAY A TOMBOY WHO BULLIES

 HER LITTLE BROTHER



IKEY--AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE AGE 8 TO 13 TO PLAY
 AN EFFEMINATE BOY WHO LOVES MUSIC



MISS FANTA SEE SAW--CAUCASIAN MALE AGE 40 TO
 50 TO PLAY A DRAG QUEEN. MUST BE A BIT PORTLY.




ROBERT SMITH--CAUCASIAN MALE 30S TO 40S TO
 PLAY A SUAVE AND DEBONAIR TYCOON WITH A DEEP

 VOICE. MUST BE TALL WITH DASHING GOOD LOOKS.




TO AUDITION FOR ONE OF THE ROLES  EMAIL TO
 SNAPHONEY2011@GMAIL.COM . DEADLINE IS NOV 1

2016. 







UPDATE:Here is the link to the extended teaser with booking info. Go to 


TO DONATE TO THE RESTAGING PROJECT OF SNAP HONEY  GO TO 
https://www.gofundme.com/2a6x6p8








For all of your entertainment coverage in the St Louis area check out New Scene News. Go to http://www.newscenenews.com/



For all of your jewelry needs go to 
www.kilojoules4.com







HERE"SHE
THIS WEEK'S SPOT BITZ ....


 

So who do you think will win the World Series? This years is definitely historic for both The Cubs and The Indians because its been decades since both teams has ever been on the world stage of baseball--and the ratings ratings show that. This past  Wednesday’s Game 2 ratings hit a seven-year high. According to reports, the primetime matchup scored an 11.3 in  metered market results, which is the best any World Series Game 2 has done since the major-market Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees faced off in the Bronx on October 29, 2009. Game 1 of this year’s World Series also was a seven-year best in MM results, and also went on to be the most-watched opening game since 2009.

This weekend, the Cubs play on home turf at Wrigley Field, so we will see how well the boys of the Midwest will do.  If you have money to spend,   we hear that the  price for a ticket in VIP was about $3,000 for Friday's Game 3 and $3,700 for Saturday. For Sunday's game  the median price was $3,550 as of Thursday . Face value for tickets ranges from $450 for infield club boxes to $175 for upper-deck seats. We are sure actor Bill Murray will be in the VIP boxes cheering his Cubs on.  

UPDATE:The Indians won GAME 4Friday nite and heading the lead 2 to 1 

2nd UPDATE The CUBS  won GAME 5 Sunday nite 
and the lead is now Indians 3-2 and CUBS 2-3 







This past Saturday, SNL parodied the final debate between Trump and Clinton with critical success, but the shot that everybody was talking about on Monday morning at the watercooler was the Black Jeopardy skit , a recurring skit on the show where Kenan Thompson plays the host,  with two black players and one white player, This past Sunday it was with Leslie Jones and Sasheer Zamata as two of the three competitors. The third was Doug, played by Tom Hanks playing a hillbilly Trump supporter  as each player answer questions in a question from various black based topics. 

 This past weekend;s episode, with host Tom Hanks and singer Lady Gaga, drew the best viewership of the current season thus far.
NBC notes that Saturday’s “SNL” drew a 6.1 overnight household rating; and that it posted a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters.

On a side note, SNL should really do more with cast member Sasheer Zamata. She's more of a filler and not really utilized for her comedic skills. If you remember, she was the black cast member who made news for being employed on the show a few years ago after their was criticism for SNL not hiring black cast members. Then, SNL writer Leslie Jones was added and she pretty much stole the laughs from Zamata.

But we digress. 

Did you all see the skit? It was pure perfection and really gives a current look of how black people in America relate to life's experiences and  and how universal those experiences are to non-back people.



Looks like folks love Madea last weekend as Tyler Perry;s alter ego's film, Boo! A Madea Halloween won the box office for the weekend of October 21-23, racking up $27.6 million from more than 2,000 North American theaters, and defeating Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.  From reports, Madea’s substantial opening weekend gave Perry his best showing in six years as a director, and his most diverse audience yet: Previous installments in his Madea series brought out 80-90 percent black audiences, while for Boo! that percentage dropped to 60.

Well, looks like Madea is alive and well and we are sure to expect more holiday themed films with Madea--Perry has yet to do a Thanksgiving movie (he's done a Christmas one already) so get ready for Tyler Perry Presents: Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving. LOL

Did you all catch SNL throw shade at Boo during Black Jeopardy when the question was asked that this film was in conversation by black people  that the film should be nominated for an Oscar.  Hilarious!


UPDATE:  BOO was No. 1 again for a second week raking in another 20 plus million  at the Box Office over the Halloween weekend  with a total of $50 million. 



The Beyhive is not happy over  comedian Amy Schumer's parody of Beyonce's  Formation video .Amy Schumer is defending herself against criticism directed toward her this week following the release of a music video in which she and some celebrity friends pay homage to Beyonce's "Formation."
From reports,  Schumer said the video she made was "NEVER a parody."
"It was just us women celebrating each other," Schumer wrote. "The video Beyoncé made was so moving and I wouldn't ever make fun of that. There is absolutely no way to."
The video also featured Goldie Hawn, Wanda Sykes, Joan Cusack and Raven Goodwin.
In it, the comedian lip-syncs and dances to "Formation" while she and the other women were on location shooting a film together.
It first debuted on Tidal, the music streaming service owned by Beyoncé's husband, Jay Z, last week. Schumer had Beyoncé's blessing to do the video. She confirmed that information in her essay.


After the video's release, Schumer was accused of cultural appropriation on social media and was lambasted for appearing to make light of the racial politics addressed in Beyonce's video.
On Twitter, critics used #AmySchumerGottaGoParty to express their distaste with the video.
"I am of course horrified and sickened by the events that are addressed throughout that [Beyoncé's] video and didn't see this [Schumer's video] as minimizing that and still don't. It was a way to celebrate bringing us all together," Schumer wrote.
Here's the thing, we think the video would have been fine,  but when Beyonce talks about being proud of her Negro nostrils and other black based topics in the song it looks extremely racially insensitive with white women dancing and lipping to those lyrics (having Sykes lipping too we guess balanced out the possible controversy).  
Other than that, the video itself was OK.  And Beyonce was Ok with her doing it so that's that. 
But more crazy is how is Goldie Hawn who is in her 70s look way younger than Schumer who is in her 30s???? Insane!



The View's Raven Symone reported this week that she will exit the ABC daytime talker before the end of this year. She wants  to leave NYC where the show is taped and move back to L.A. to return to acting. Word is, she’s going to begin with a sequel series to her famous Disney Channel hit That’s So Raven that she will star and exec produce. Well, will she be missed? Not really...well, at least she sported fancy colorful hair to the table. LOL


Raptor Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) is on a roll these days. He can be seen currently in his FX hit Atlanta  and this week he was booked to play Lando Calrissian in the Hans Solo prequel film slated for 2018. And it has been reported that he is in talks to join the cast of the reboot of Marvel Comic;s Spider-man Homecoming.  So do you think Glover was the best choice to play Lando? Eh, we are not too convinced,. As you already know, Lando was played by the very debonair and suave actor Billy Dee Williams in 1980. But is Glover that guy?  We will see. He comes across more geek chic than suave.  It would have been nice if say Trey Byers from Empire or even rapper Common. Oh well.





 Lifetime struck ratings gold when it aired Michele's bipic: Surviving Compton breaking all Lifetime TV records. So you know it wouldnt be far that the center of the film, singer Michel'le would receive more offers from the success.  From reports,  she  has a signed a new deal. with Thinkfactory Media (who produced the biopic) for possible shopping  of  a docuseries which would  feature Michel’le and her family. The unscripted series would give viewers a look to her life as she battles to overcome her past, and move into the next chapter of her life and career. She also is slated to release a new album in January, and is also currently penning her autobiography.


Congrats to Chris Rock who received a $40 plus million deal with Netflix to shoot two comedy specials.

After an eight-year absence, the specials from reports is the biggest deal ,  more than such A-list comedians as Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer have commanded.
The first Rock show will tape in 2017 and follow a new world tour that is currently being planned. It's unclear when either that first show will air or when the second will tape and be rolled out.
We guess Rock was seeing how Kevin Hart is getting comfortable as the black comic superstar and decided to dust off his mic and get back in the game.  Oh and on  sidenote, did you all know that Rock gave Tyler Perry the idea to do Boo after Rock mentioned the film title as a joke on his comedy mockumentary Top Five a few years back.
RIP BITZ 



We lost Chicago native and Legendary DJ, Herb Kent aka King of the Dusties. He was 88 years old. 



In the STL




There are talks of the second phase of Ballpark Village with Ballpark city theme. From, reports, The $220 million 550,000 square foot project will complete a full build-out of Clark Street with a 29-story luxury, high-res residential tower with 300 units; additional retail, restaurant and entertainment space; structured parking; and the first new Class-A office building built in downtown St. Louis in nearly thirty years
Construction should start in 2017 and be completed in 2019.  (PHOTO BY ST LOUIS CARDINALS)




The St Louis International Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th year as the organization will screen hundreds of shorts, documentaries and films from  Nov. 3-13. For more info go to http://www.cinemastlouis.org/



FIT BITZ





This week we feature  model/actor Curtis Hamilton who's getting rave reviews for his role as Dr Dre in the Lifetime biopic Surviving Compton. And as you see, the actor from Kentucky keeps his frame in tip top shape and is definitely eye candy for all to swoon over.















This week we feature FOTUS Michelle Obama First Lady Michelle Obama  who looks absolutely stunning as one of seven women who graces the special edition of The New York Times’ style magazine, T this weel. The cover stars are touted as “The Greats” who are redefining our culture.who looks abosultely stunning on the cover. And Mrs Obama is definitely a definer with her style, class and beauty.



WORDZ TO THE WHYZ


Why
WORDZ TO THE WHYZ.  Why are social media calling Ciara a ho for getting pregnant by her husband? Why is Future bragging on social media that he and Scottie Pippen's wife have been smashing? Why is Kanye all in his feelings at a recent concert blasting Jay Z for not being on a Drake record he produced coming to see Kim K during her robbery? Why did  Justin Timberlake post a ballot selfie of him voting?  Why did  Jaheim perm his hair? And why does he want to fight Charlamagne the God for making him the Donkey of the Day for his hair? Why is Mary J Blige husband want her to pay for child support over children she didnt bore? Why is Suge knight suing Dr Dre now  for threatening to kill him during Death Row days?  Why did Trick Daddy say black women gotta step their game up like other non-black women? And why do baggers bag non food items separate from food items?