Blindie’s a big Gilmore Girls fan and through Twitter we found this on former GG star John Cabrera’s tweet: singer songwriter Kay Pettigrew reworking the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song.
Not only does she take away the beat and the rapping, but she totally transforms Will Smith‘s original into a catchy folksy song that Yael Naim or Feist or Regina Spektor would make into a single!
“Rihanna‘s Nightmare” is the tag line to a haunting image of the R&B/Pop singer on the cover of People magazine’s latest issue.
The tabloid of record takes readers inside the “arguments, jealousy and hotel-room trashing” between Rihanna and Chris Brown that “led to the violence”!
While Starmagazine wins the sensation headline contest (“I Still Love Him!”), Blindie can’t help but to believe People‘s credibility on the leak-proof case!
Dominican/Portuguese beauty Sessilee Lopez is the latest cover girl for Latina Magazine–and she’s dropping some knowledge on being pegged “a black girl” in the fashion industry.
“They automatically think I’m from Africa or Somalia!” she criticizes of the fashion industry, which she says immediately dismisses her as, “‘Oh, You’re a black girl!’”
Of being compared to black modeling greats Grace Jones and Iman, Lopez says, “That’s awesome. Are you kidding me? Me? I’m just me–I’m just this little dork!”
Latina beauty and new mommy Jessica Alba appears on the spring fashion issue of Elle.
Besides talking about her new life as a mom to daughter Honor, Alba discusses being dubbed exotic in Hollywood’s diluted pool of blondes.
“Anyone who’s part of pop culture is going to be sensationalized and spun into something, some one-liner,” she tells the magazine. “Also, there aren’t many other stars, besides Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez, who most people in the world can related to.”
But Blindie applauds Alba for this line: “We look like people of the world – I can kind of mix in with girls in Asia, South America, Europe.”
Adding another major magazine cover to his historic pile, President-Elect Barack Obama graces the cover of Time magazine, with the tag line: “Change Has Come to America.”
In a cover story titled, “How Obama Rewrote the Book,” writer Nancy Gibbs says:
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope. Barack Obama never talks about how people see him: I’m not the one making history, he said every chance he got. You are.
This year’s biggest comeback kid is recovering cocaine addict and talented actor Robert Downey Jr., who graces the cover of this week’s Rolling Stone.
“Right now, my BlackBerry is literally overloading and crashing, and the phone is never not ringing,” the star of Iron Man and Tropic Thunder says of his new in-demand status. “It’s crazy. Like a Super Bowl. Like a landslide. Like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”
Although Iron Man surprised everyone with its summer box-office success, it’s Downey’s role in Tropic Thunder (out Aug. 13) that has grabbed headlines. In the film, Downey plays a crazy Australian Method actor who surgically darkens his skin to play an African-American soldier in a Vietnam War movie.
The reviews have been overwhelming, with Rolling Stone saying, “Downey does it just right — no offense meant, no offense taken — and he pretty much steals the show.” While Time says, “Downey brings a nice pomposity to his blackface posturing and righteous-pimp drawl. (The joke, by the way, is clearly not on African Americans; it’s on the actor’s belief that he can play anyone.)”
Since we haven’t seen the film yet, Blindie can’t give an opinion on Downey’s performance. But we’re also fair and know that since we laughed our asses off at White Chicks with Marlon and Damon Wayans, we can be fair and say if Downey is funny, we’ll laugh at him as well.
The recently-rehabbed actress Eva Mendes appears on the August cover of Interview magazine. Mendes, who is also the newest face for Calvin Klein Underwear, not only looks stunning in her steamy covershot, she also talks about some serious issues in the pop culture magazine.
Mendes, who made history with Will Smith in 2005′s Hitch, says of racism in Hollywood:
“What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn’t see me for the same part that they’ll see, let’s say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew’s a great friend of mine. But it’s like, ‘No, we want more of an American type of girl.’ And it’s like, America has opened up. I’m an American girl, born and raised.”
And being Latina in Hollywood isn’t necessarily easy, but she doesn’t call it a challenge:
“I would never call it a challenge. I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is, man. I don’t want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there–it’s unbelievable. I read a lot of scripts….But there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.”
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