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Foxy Brown has been found guilty of violating her probation and has been sentenced to one year in jail.
Brown, who recently announced that she was three months pregnant, was remanded to state custody in August and ordered to jail for violating her probation.
She plead for mercy before the sentence was handed down but Manhattan Criminal Court judge Melissa Jackson wasn’t having any of it.
I think I’m still a little shocked by the sudden death of Luciano Pavarotti.
Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, and at 5 a.m. local time on Thursday September 6th he passed away in his Modena, Italy home. His manager, Terri Robson had this to say –
“The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness,” the statement said.
Pavarotti was arguably the most famous opera singer in the world for the past 35 years.
Nicoletta Mantovani, Luciano’s second wife, survives him, as does his three daughters by his first wife Adua. Pavarotti also had a daughter with Mantovani in 2003 who survives him as well.
I’ve got my own celebrity scoop here for a change! I really should have posted this on Friday evening or early Saturday morning, but we had our big family reunion this weekend and creating blog posts was simply impossible.
So what’s the scoop? Well, as you might know the cast of Heroes visit cities all over the world at the end of August. They went to Singapore, London, New York, Paris and their last stop was in Toronto on August 30th and 31st. You can view a short video of their Toronto visit on the NBC Heroes page.
I had wanted to go and see the four cast members who visited Toronto when they made an appearance downtown at Dundas Square, but I wasn’t able to make it on time as I had to meet up with my family and begin our reunion. As it turned out, our first family outing was to see a baseball game – the Toronto Blue Jays versus the Seattle Mariners. Well, much to my surprise and delight some of the cast of Heroes also attended the baseball game.
Young Noah Gray-Cabey was in Toronto, but I didn’t see him at the baseball game. I did however get to see and photograph from afar Executive producer Jeph Loeb, James Kyson Lee who plays Hiro’s friend Ando, Zachary Quinto the evil Sylar, and Dania Ramirez a new cast member who will play Maya Herrera a Dominican who is on the run from the police. She has superhuman abilities, although they have not yet been revealed.
The cast members were given Blue Jays shirts with their last names printed on the back of their jerseys.
The cast didn’t stay for the whole game. They only stayed until the third or fourth inning, but I can tell you that they were cheering for the Blue Jays. The photo above of them standing was taken while they were cheering a Blue Jays home run.
When it came time for them to leave they hopped over the gate and walked on the field. James Kyson Lee took the lead by several feet hurrying ahead. Was he trying to get away or did he just think everyone else was walking as quickly as he was? As a result of his speeding exit I don’t have many clear photos of him. Most of my shots focus on Zachary Quinto.
See Lee jogging ahead?
The last clear shot of Lee in the lead. He’s already in the crowded stands:
Quinto looks like he might be on a cell phone here, but I believe he’s just scratching his ear:
One last look at the evil Sylar and his producer:
Did you know that in addition to his reoccurring role as Sylar on Heroes, Quinto is busy preparing for his role as Spock in the new J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek movie which is slated to begin shooting in November. He does look like he’d make a perfect Spock doesn’t he?
Stay tuned for more great Scoop. The Toronto Film Festival begins this week and I hope to see some of the new movies and get in some star sightings – with photos of course.
Are you a fan of ABC’s Dancing with the stars? If you are I bet that you’ve been eagerly waiting to find out who’s going to be on the show when the series begins once more.
Well I won’t keep you in suspense. Here’s the list:
• Melanie “Mel B” Brown, 32, Spice Girls (“Scary Spice”) singer (pro partner: Maksim Chmerkovskiy);
• Sabrina Bryan, 22, actress/singer (The Cheetah Girls) (pro partner: Mark Ballas);
• Helio Castroneves, 32, racecar driver (pro partner: Julianne Hough);
• Mark Cuban, 48, businessman (owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks) (pro partner: Kym Johnson);
• Jennie Garth, 35, actress (Beverly Hills, 90210) (pro partner: Derek Hough, older brother of Julianne Hough);
• Josie Maran, 29, supermodel (pro partner Alec Mazo);
• Cameron Mathison, 38, actor (All My Children) (pro partner: Edyta Sliwinska;
• Floyd Mayweather, Jr., 30, boxer (pro partner: Karina Smirnoff);
• Wayne Newton, 65, singer (pro partner: Cheryl Burke);
• Marie Osmond, 47, singer/doll designer (pro partner: Jonathan Roberts);
• Albert Reed, 22, supermodel (pro partner: Anna Trebunskaya; and
• Jane Seymour, 56, actress (pro partner: Tony Dovolani).
Wayne Newton? Hmm that should be interesting.
The show returns on September 24th with a new format. When the show debuts it will air on three consecutive nights in it’s first week, and then in the remaining competition weeks the show will air on Monday and Tuesday nights.
I’m not really a fan of the show. Don’t hit me! It’s just never interested me. So, while you guys are watching the show I just hope that the regular shows that I want to watch aren’t affected to badly by this schedule.
I’d heard the news some time on Monday about Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt, but I was waiting for an official confirmation before discussing it on this blog.
Yesterday, Santa Monica police confirmed that officers had responded to an attempted suicide at Owen Wilson’s house around noon on Sunday. No other information has been given out at this time, but Owen, 38, is recovering in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and he’s issued a statement that pleads for privacy asking that he be allowed to “receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”
The only other news regarding Owen Wilson came out yesterday when Variety reported that Wilson has dropped out of the movie “Tropic Thunder” which is being made by DreamWorks.
Owen was set to begin shooting in early September with his long time pal and regular movie co-star Ben Stiller.
There’s no word yet if Wilson’s role will be given to another or if his character will be dropped from the film.
I’ve always liked Owen Wilson. I hope that he can recover physically and mentally from whatever’s caused him to get so low.