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Ice Cube’s Son To Star As Baseball Legend That Threw No-Hitter
Diana Ross’s Son Gets Married
Diana Ross’ son Ross Naess is officially a married man!
The 29-year-old tied the knot with longtime love Kimberly Ryan in a beautiful ceremony on Saturday (June 10).
Ross’ siblings, including younger brother Evan Ross and older sister Tracee Ellis Ross, were there for the big day.
Evan’s wife, Ashlee Sim- pon as well as her sister, Jes- sica were also in attendance.
During the celebration, Diana was rumored to have
Diana Ross, her grandson, Leif, her son, Ross and his new wife, Kimberly.
taken the stage along with a performance by Evan.
Ross and Kimberly are
parents to one-year-old Leif and are currently expecting their second child.
Theo From The Cosby’s Welcomes His 1st Child
Congratulations to Mal- colm-Jamal Warner! Ac- cording to a report, this month the 46-year-old actor known for his role on the ‘Cosby Show‘, welcomed his first child.
Warner keeps his roman- tic life private, but reportedly the child’s mother is an attor- ney from Bridgeport, Conn. She and Warner are said to be very much in love.
Prior to this, Warner had been in a long relationship with Regina King.
Malcolm Jamal Warner aka Theo welcomes his first child.
Ice Cube’s actor son O’Shea Jackson is set to por- tray famed baseball pitcher Dock Ellis in a new biopic.
The late Pittsburgh Pirates player made history 47 years ago on Monday (June 12) when he threw a no-hitter, a game in which the opposing team is un- able to record a single hit, against the San Diego Padres.
However, 10 years after the 1970 feat, Ellis stunned fans and experts alike when he
O’Shea Jackson, Jr. will portray MLB pitcher Dock Ellis.
claimed he had been high on psychedelic drug LSD at the time of the achievement.
Now Jackson, 26, is set to
bring Ellis’ story to the big screen in a new film produced by his rapper/actor dad via his Cube Vision firm.
Xscape Filming Reality Show For Bravo
Xscape is back together, and big things are happening.
R&B group Xscape’s re- union is shaping up to be pretty epic: not only are they planning new music, a tour, and a TV biopic, the quartet are also planning to document it all on a reality TV show.
The group is already filming the show in ATL which will document the four members Kandi Burruss, Tiny Harris, LaTocha and
Tamika Scott as they prepare for their first performance in over 20 years at Essence Festi- val in July.
Love & Hip-Hop pro- ducer/mogul Mona Scott Young is on deck as executive producer.
The show will reportedly pre- miere in November along with the premiere of the next season of “Atlanta Housewives.”
2 Live Crew Biopic In The Works
Lionsgate is moving quickly on The Book Of Luke, a drama about the provocative hip hop group 2 Live Crew and its leader Luther Campbell.
Uncle Luke is best known for helping put Miami on the map in the world of Hip Hop, but it was Campbell’s parody version of the Roy Orbison hit song Oh Pretty Woman that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court before a land- mark ruling favored Camp- bell and paved the way for fair use sampling for music judged to be parody.
Craig A. Williams is writ- ing the script, which will be de- veloped for up-and-coming actor RJ Cyler to play Camp- bell in the film. Cyler played Earl in Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, and followed by
RJ Cyler who is the Blue Power Ranger has been picked to portray Luther Campbell aka Uncle Luke.
playing the Blue Ranger in Li- onsgate’s Power Rangers film, and more recently he plays a pivotal role in the Brad Pitt- starrer War Machine just re- leased by Netflix. He’s currently filming White Boy Rick.
The Book of Luke is based on the memoir Book Of Luke: My Fight For Truth, Justice And Liberty City.
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