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Leonardo DiCaprio Reacts To Standing Ovation After Winning First Oscar
RHOA’s Kim Fields Will Compete On ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Kim Fields and her husband, Chris.
One RHOA star is following in footsteps of former castmates Nene Leakes and Kim Zol- ciak...
Kim Fields recently an- nounced that she will be joining season 22 of ABC’s hit competi- tion show “Dancing With The Stars” as reported by Entertain- ment Tonight Online:
The 46-year-old actress is best known for her role as Tootie Ramsey on The Facts of Life, and joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast this past year.
News of Fields’ joining DWTS comes just a few weeks after ABC announced that Ju- lianne Hough will not be re- turning as a judge.
Love & Hip Hop Spin-Off To Film In Miami Or Houston
Is ‘Love & Hip Hop‘ coming to a city near you? According to TMZ reports, the VH1 hit series is planning on bringing the drama to a new city this sum- mer. Grab your 30inch weave and waist trainers ladies!
Producers are already audi- tioning cast members in both cities, according to our sources. They’re hoping to get the casts nailed down by April, so they can premiere by late summer. Whichever city seems more promising — aka ratchet and drama-filled — will air first.
We’re told the show likes those cities because they have completely different vibes from New York, Atlanta and L.A.
As for the cast ... we’re told a few big names are in the mix, but producers also want lesser known people tied into each city’s nightlife.
Tony Burton, Who Played Trainer In ‘Rocky’ Films, Dies At 78
When Leonardo DiCaprio took to the stage Sunday night to accept the Academy Award for his performance in “The Revenant,” the first-time win- ner received something not all winners do: a standing ovation.
“I was very moved,” Di- Caprio, 41, told “Good Morn- ing America” co-anchor Robin Roberts backstage at the Dolby Theatre.
“He deserved it,” added Ale- jandro González Iñárritu, the man who directed Di- Caprio in “The Revenant."
DiCaprio’s Best Actor win for “The Revenant” also struck a chord with viewers. Twitter announced the star created the most-tweeted minute ever dur- ing an Oscars telecast, overtak- ing even the famous group selfie tweeted by Ellen De- Generes in 2014.
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Twitter reported there were more than 440,000 tweets per minute posted when DiCaprio accepted his Oscar.
DiCaprio used the high- profile moment to talk about a cause near to his heart, climate change.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Burton, a veteran char- acter actor best known for brief but memorable turns as a tough, no-nonsense trainer and cornerman in Sylvester Stal- lone’s first six “Rocky” films, has died at age 78.
Burton died of pneumonia Thursday at a Southern Cali- fornia hospital, his wife, Aure- lain “Rae” Burton, said Friday.
Failing health had prevented him from appearing in “Creed,” the seventh “Rocky” movie and the one for which Stallone is nominated for a best support- ing actor Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
“People would always ask him, ‘What’s Sylvester Stal- lone like,’ his wife recalled with a chuckle. “He’d just say, ‘Sylvester’s a nice guy.’ That’s all he’d ever say.”
Burton, a former boxer himself, had a long career as a
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character actor.
He appeared in “The Shin-
ing” and “Stir Crazy” and was one of the ballplayers in the 1976 film “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.”
He was a regular in the tel- evision series “Frank’s Place” and appeared in “Chicago Hope,” ”The Rockford Files” and “Sanford and Son.”
Oscars Host Chris Rock Being Touted As ‘The Best’
Kimora Lee Simmons’ Hubby Involved In One World’s Largest Money-Laundering Probes
Maylasia Prime Minister and wife and Jho Low and Kimora Lee Simmons and hubby, Tim Lessiner.
Despite a stunning lack of diversity, Chris Rock still went ahead and hosted the Academy Awards. Great choice, because the comedian and actor slayed.
No doubt Rock had jokes— ”Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties, I wasn’t invited.”—but he also have pointed political commentary. From Black being shot on the way to the movies to not protesting in the past due to bigger problems (like lynchings—(we would have loved to see who was laughing)) to the new for Black categories at the Oscars.
Chris Rock at the Oscars Sunday night.
“We want opportunity,” said Chris Rock near the end of his opening.
Al Sharpton Leads Oscars Protest
Al Sharpton leads protest before the Oscars.
Federal investigators are probing what could end up being “one of the largest money-laundering frauds in the world.’’ The scandal threatens the government of Malaysia and Wall Street titan, Goldman Sachs.
Jho Low, the son of a rich Malaysian businessman, at- tended the Wharton School became a financial consultant. One of his clients was Terengganu, an oil-rich sul- tanate of Malaysia, which in 2008 set up a sovereign wealth fund called TIA. Low helped orchestrate Najib Razak, prime minister of Malaysia’s takeover of TIA. The fund was transformed into 1Malaysia Development Berhad, other- wise known as 1MDB. Razak was made head of its advisory board. First, the fund missed a payment on the $11 billion it
owed to creditors. Then, in July, about $681 million from 1MDB ended up in the prime minister’s private bank ac- count. Razak denied the money came from 1MDB.
The Malaysian officials and the U.S. Justice Department — along with Switzerland, Singa- pore and Hong Kong — have launched investigations into possible corruption.
Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, finds itself the target of fury in Malaysia. Its chairman for Southeast Asia operations, Tim Leissner, was involved in 1MDB. His wife, fashion de- signer Kimora Lee Sim- mons, used social media to publicize her friendship with Razak’s wife, Rosmah Mansor. Leissner and Sim- mons abruptly returned to the United States, and Leiss- ner resigned from Goldman last week.
The Reverend Al Sharp- ton led the #OscarsSoWhite protest near the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, where the .
As Sharpton led the protests in Los Angeles, direc- tor Spike Lee donned a tuxedo while attending the New York Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Gar- den in his own form of protest.
Sharpton delivered a ser- mon Sunday morning at First AME Church, the oldest black
church in Los Angeles. Sharp- ton then held a press confer- ence on the grounds of a mansion next to the former home of Hattie McDaniel.
McDaniel won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role as Mammy in 'Gone With The Wind' but movie ex- ecutives had to beg to get her into the ceremony.
She was then forced to sit at a small table far away from her fellow nominees.
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