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Rapper Heavy D Died of a Blood Clot After Long Transatlantic Plane Flight

• December 27, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cooking, Music, Music Videos, Spirituality, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Blood Clot, California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CNN, Common Sense, Death, Eddie Murphy, Heart Disease, Heavy D, London, Los Angeles County California, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Meals, Mia Amber Davis, Obesity, Plates, Pounds, Pulmonary Embolism, Rappers, Rapping, Thrombus, Tower Heist, Trans-Atlantic, Transatlantic Plane Flights, United States

Eddie Murphy Giving Up The Oscar Gig? That Was A Stupid Career Move

• November 10, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Academy Award, African Americans, Billy Crystal, Blacks, Brett Ratner, Brian Grazer, Bromance, Bubble Hill, California, Common Sense, Eddie, Eddie Murphy, Gay Jokes, Gays, Hooker, Host, Hypermasculinity, Jews, Los Angeles, Master of Ceremonies, MOR, Olivia Munn, Oscar, Ratner, Stand-Up, Stand-Up Comedian, Straights, The Down Low, The Eighties, Tower Heist, Transvestite, United States

Eddie Murphy with Leno on “The Tonight Show,” Eleven One Eleven

• November 2, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, Late Night TV, Mental Health/Psychology, Sexuality, Television
Tags: "Harlem Nights", "Norbit", "Shadow and Act", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", 11/1/11, 8 Kids, Academy Award, African American, African Americans, Ben Stiller, Black Women, Blacks, Charlie Murphy, Chris Rock, Comeback, Dave Chappelle, Drama, Eddie, Eddie Murphy, Eight Children, Grandfather, Growing Up, Jay Leno, Laughing, Laughter, Leno, Martin Lawrence, Matthew Broderick, Maturity, Movie, Rolling Stone Magazine, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Smack, SNL, SNL Alumni, Stand-Up, Stand-Up Comedian, The Eighties, The Tonight Show, Tower Heist, Tracey Edmonds, Tracy Morgan, United States

Looks Like a Winner, But We’ll See: Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe, Ben Stiller and Alan Alda Star in Fall Film Offering, “Tower Heist”

• July 28, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Acting, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Gabourey Sidibe, Love, People of Color, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, The Economy
Tags: "Shadow and Act", Action, African Americans, Alan Alda, Ben Stiller, Billionaires, Black Women, Blacks, Brett Ratner, Casey Affleck, Cinema Blend, Comcast, Comedy-Drama, Da Vinci Code, Daddy Day Care, Deals, Eddie Murphy, Films, Gabourey Sidibe, Imagine, Investors, Matthew Broderick, Movies, Pensions, Retirement Fund, Revenge Film, Ron Howard, Series TV, Sex, Shysters, Television, Tower Heist, TV Series

Turning Off His Light: Teddy Pendergrass Joins the Ancestors at 59

• January 14, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Differently-Abled, Health, Love, Music, Sexuality, Teddy Pendergrass, Women
Tags: "If You Don't Know Me By Now", "The Love I Lost", "Truly Blessed", "Wake Up Everybody", Aural Viagra, Bisexuality, Differently-Abled, Eddie Murphy, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Love, Paralysis, Philadelphia International Records, Philadelphia PA, R&B, Sex, Sexuality, Stanford University, Teddy Bear, Teddy P, Teddy Pendergrass, Tenika Wilson, The Eighties, The Marguerite, The Seventies, TP, Women

Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby and Pokey, Dies at 88

• January 9, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Art, Art Clokey, Children's Shows, Clay Animation, Documentaries, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Religion, Science, Television
Tags: "Black Bart", "Gumbasia", "Gumby Dharma", "Mandala", "The Adventures of Gumby", Art Clokey, Clay Animation, Clokey, ComicCon 2009, Dallas McKinnon, Davey and Goliath, Eddie Murphy, Fourth Street, Gender, Ginny Tyler, Google, Gumby, Gumbyana, Joseph Clokey, Kinesthetic Film Principles, Matt Groening, Nancy Wible, Native American, Norma McMillan, Pokey, Raceless, Robina Marchesi, Ruth Clokey, San Rafael CA, Slavko Vorkapich, Southern California, Stop Motion Clay Animation, The Eighties, The Nineties, The San Rafael Art Center, The Sixties, The Sundance Channel, You Tube, Zen Buddhism

The McNair Affair: She Did It…and So Did He

• July 6, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Crime, Domestic Violence, Love, People of Color, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "Harlem Nights", Creepin', Eddie Murphy, Fidelity, Girlfriend, Homicide, Infidelity, Iranian, Jordanian, Lover, Marriage, McNair, Mechelle McNair, Mistress, Murder, Murder Suicide, Palestinian, Playas, Players, QB, Quarterback, Sahel Kazemi, Steve McNair, Tennessee, Titans

Michael Jackson’s Final Months: Anonymous Gay Sex and Drugging?

• June 30, 2009 • 25 Comments

Posted in Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Gossip, Health, Love, Michael Jackson, Music, Nonfiction/Essays, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Doc Hollywood", Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, Anderson Cooper, Angelina Jolie, Anonymous Gay Sex, Anti-Depressants, California, Christian, Debbie Rowe, Demerol, Dilaudid, Dr. Howard Samuels, Drug Cocktail, Eddie Murphy, Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Emotional Blackmail, Enforced Heterosexism, Gay, Genetics, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Generation, Hypermasculinity, Ian Halperin, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jehovah's Witnesses, Joe Jackson, Jordie Chandler, Lisa Marie Presley, Lupus, Marriage, Michael Jackson, Middle-Class, Neil Patrick Harris, Painkillers, People of Color, Queen Latifah, Rachel Maddow, Randy Jackson, Repressed Sexuality, Sensuality, Sir Elton John, Sober Coach, Stimulants, Vitiligo, Wanda Sykes

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