Bunny Mack’s song was a favorite with at least three generations of Africans and a host of other countries in the Diaspora. Let Me Love You was a hit in 1981 and, listening to it today, one can see the timeless quality it posseses! Many people still think fondly of that song.

Listen to the song below and share your thoughts, memories with us. Also check out Wale’s album, Attention Deficit. Mark my words, this guy’s a lyrical genius. He is going to give many rappers a run for their money.

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Bunny Mack’s song was a favorite with at least three generations of Africans and a host of other countries in the Diaspora. Let Me Love You was a hit in 1981 and, listening to it today, one can see the timeless quality it posseses! Many people still think fondly of that song.
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Note to producers worried about the tough economics of Broadway: If you can’t get a big-name movie star to anchor your show, consider enlisting a groundbreaking choreographer to liven things up.

Featuring a book by Jones and Jim Lewis and the pulsating rhythms and radical lyrics of Fela’s music, the show, which had its world premiere off-Broadway last year, teaches the American musical new moves. And I’m not just referring to what happens onstage. Like the current Broadway revival of “Hair,” directed by Diane Paulus and choreographed by the cutting-edge Karole Armitage, “Fela!” doesn’t permit theatergoers to sit by passively.

Fela 2 A rousing, always in motion Sahr Ngaujah, who alternates in the title role with Kevin Mambo, enjoins the audience to sing and shake their derrieres along with him. A skimpily clad ensemble streams up and down the aisle to bring the musical’s energy directly to us. Differences in age and size are no obstacles as spectators learn to get down West African style: For 2 1/2 bouncy hours, self-consciousness is magically held in abeyance.

This dissident journey isn’t related with anything resembling documentary thoroughness (Fela’s run-ins with the authorities are fuzzily presented and there’s oddly no mention of his death from AIDS-related causes). But the spirit of his fight for justice is made universally resonant, and the fusion of his sound is rapturously celebrated with a pinwheel parade of pelvises.

by Charles McNulty

Credit: Monique Carboni (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

Note to producers worried about the tough economics of Broadway: If you can’t get a big-name movie star to anchor your show, consider enlisting a groundbreaking choreographer to liven things up.

Featuring a book by Jones and Jim Lewis and the pulsating rhythms and radical lyrics of Fela’s music, the show, which had its world premiere [...]

On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09.

Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh Blake and Alicia Keys herself, that is dedicated to providing providing life-saving anti-retrovirus treatment, care and support services to children and families whose live has been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India, by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.

Written by Prudence Chauke (www.jamati.com)

On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09.

Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh Blake [...]

Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.
First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha helped President Barack Obama press a button to light the tree, an annual tradition since the 1920s. “I’m technologically challenged and I might not get this right,” the president joked. “Everybody has got to help me out here.”
By CHRISTINE SIMMONS
The Associated Press (washingtonpost.com)
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Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.
First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha helped President Barack Obama press a button to light the tree, an annual tradition since the 1920s. “I’m technologically challenged and I might [...]

Actors Matt Dillon and Taraji P. Henson announced the nominees for The 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards with ‘Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire‘ leading the way in nominations — ET has the award show info.

‘Precious’ is nominated for five Spirit Awards including the coveted Best Feature film honor. The film’s leading lady Gabourey Sidibe is up for an award as well as Mo’Nique, who plays Precious’ abusive mother in the movie.

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Actors Matt Dillon and Taraji P. Henson announced the nominees for The 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards with ‘Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire‘ leading the way in nominations — ET has the award show info.

‘Precious’ is nominated for five Spirit Awards including the coveted Best Feature film honor. The film’s leading lady [...]

Wednesday our Stadium Style expert Adam Rapoport finally put to rest the half-century-old question of whether you, the GQ reader, can pull off a fur coat: Hell no—not unless you’re Magic Johnson circa 1986. Well, this must be Give Your Favorite Basketball Players A Pass On The Rules By Which The Rest Of Us Are Inextricably Bound Week, because to the otherwise hard and fast law that you should never, under any circumstances, refer to yourself in the third person, we recently discovered the one exception. (And no, it’s not this guy.)

The new rule is this: If you speak nine languages and graduated with a dual degree in linguistics and diplomacy from Georgetown University while spending your summers interning at Congress and the World Bank and setting an all-time Hoya record for most blocked shots in a single game; if you went on to enjoy a stellar, nearly-two-decade long NBA career, earning eight All-Star nods and establishing yourself as one of the greatest defensive forces to ever step foot on a basketball court; if the tens of thousands of shots that you swatted into the press box or otherwise altered for the worse by dint of sheer intimidation were far, far outnumbered by the millions of lives you touched during each offseason (among those aided: a group of underprivileged youth in Johannesburg who live in the dorms your foundation re-furbished, the hundreds of thousands of children throughout Africa who’ve attended your basketball clinics, and your fellow countrymen who now receive improved care at Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital—named for your late mother—the first new hospital to be built in the Democratic Republic of Congo in nearly forty years); and if you were just named to the recently-created post of NBA Global Ambassador, whose essential mission is to help unite the world through basketball… then your name is Dikembe Mutombo, and you, sir, are the only man we know who is perfectly entitled to refer to himself in the third person whenever he damn well pleases.

by Laurence Lowe
www.gq.com

Wednesday our Stadium Style expert Adam Rapoport finally put to rest the half-century-old question of whether you, the GQ reader, can pull off a fur coat: Hell no—not unless you’re Magic Johnson circa 1986. Well, this must be Give Your Favorite Basketball Players A Pass On The Rules By Which The Rest Of Us Are [...]

For today’s sexy: Lakers forward Ron Artest appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live shirtless and in “sexy” boxer shorts. After some light banter and a marriage proposal from Kimmel—”Don’t worry,” the talk show host assures him. “I’ll be the wife wink wink”—Ron Ron explains his outfit. “Sometimes I just do this …. wear sexy boxer shorts like this. But I’m not ‘freeballing’, I’m wearing underwear underneath.” The baller stood up and modeled front and rear gave a peek of what was in his “pockets”.

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For today’s sexy: Lakers forward Ron Artest appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live shirtless and in “sexy” boxer shorts. After some light banter and a marriage proposal from Kimmel—”Don’t worry,” the talk show host assures him. “I’ll be the wife wink wink”—Ron Ron explains his outfit. “Sometimes I just do this …. wear sexy boxer shorts [...]

The golfer has already paid the $164 fine. State attorney’s office officials told Florida troopers there is insufficient evidence to pursue case further and no claims of domestic violence were made.

Reporting from Orlando, Fla. – After five days of speculation about Tiger Woods’ crash outside his mansion, the Florida Highway Patrol announced Tuesday it gave the world’s No. 1 golfer a traffic ticket.

Woods already has paid the $164 fine, court records show.

Woods, 33, drove carelessly when he steered his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and then into a neighbor’s tree about 2:25 a.m. Friday, troopers said. In addition to the fine, he received four points on his driving record, FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said.

During a brief news conference, Montes insisted that the world-famous athlete had not received special treatment.

The Orange-Osceola state attorney’s office advised troopers there was insufficient evidence to issue a subpoena or require that blood evidence from Woods’ hospitalization be handed to investigators, said Maj. Cindy Williams.

No one involved in the incident made any claims of domestic violence, Williams said. Such allegations might have compelled investigators to look further into the accident.

By Willoughby Mariano and Bianca Prieto
December 2, 2009
www.latimes.com

The golfer has already paid the $164 fine. State attorney’s office officials told Florida troopers there is insufficient evidence to pursue case further and no claims of domestic violence were made.

Reporting from Orlando, Fla. – After five days of speculation about Tiger Woods’ crash outside his mansion, the Florida Highway Patrol announced Tuesday it [...]

When Malcolm Winters returns to “The Young and the Restless”’s Genoa City, he will have a brand-new face.

ET can confirm that Darius McCrary, who TV fans will remember from his role as Eddie Winslow on “Family Matters,” has been cast in the role originated by Shemar Moore.

Photos from fanpop.com & fanpix.net

Source from etonline.com

When Malcolm Winters returns to “The Young and the Restless”’s Genoa City, he will have a brand-new face.

ET can confirm that Darius McCrary, who TV fans will remember from his role as Eddie Winslow on “Family Matters,” has been cast in the role originated by Shemar Moore.
Photos from fanpop.com & fanpix.net
Source from etonline.com

According to a judge, Chris Brown is complying with the terms of his probation.

City News Service reports that a Los Angeles judge made the ruling Thursday.

Last summer, a judge sentenced Brown to receive five years of probation and six months of community labor in Virginia (his home state), after he was charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend, singer Rihanna. He was also ordered not to contact Rihanna and keep 100 yards away from her — 10 yards if they both attend a music biz event — for the next five years.

Chris Brown used to be one of the hottest tickets in town, but according to ticket scalpers, Chris Brown is losing his appeal with concert goers.

The “Kiss Kiss” hitmaker played a gig at the Avalon in Hollywood last night, and the show’s sold out status had more to do with the small venue size than with demand for tickets.

Photos and source from celebrity-gossip.net & torontosun.com

According to a judge, Chris Brown is complying with the terms of his probation.
City News Service reports that a Los Angeles judge made the ruling Thursday.
Last summer, a judge sentenced Brown to receive five years of probation and six months of community labor in Virginia (his home state), after he was charged with assaulting [...]