Poppedy Popped Culture

Having a hit single right out the gate can sometimes be more of a curse than a blessing. Just ask Tweet.
Three years ago, Tweet (nee Charlene Keys) made her debut with the huge smash “Ooops! (Oh My)!,” a naughty ode to self-pleasure, which had an intoxicating club beat and hip-hop flavor (plus an appearance by […]

Hot Future Releases
Cool Music on the Horizon
April 5

Suspended Animation ~ Fantomas

First Lady ~ Faith Evans

Verve Remixed 3 (Dig) ~ Various Artists

April 12

Emancipation of Mimi ~ Mariah Carey

You’ll Rebel to Anything […]

It seems Selena’s family is keeping the music alive:
Some say that when Selena died, the Tejano genre of music she popularized lost its way.
Selena and her band had taken the Texas border sound beyond folksy roots as a Mexicanized polka and planted it firmly in the mix of Caribbean and Latin American pop. With her […]

Looking to ride the coat tails of “Ray”, filmakers are set to make a movie about Jackie Robinson, which I think may be a better story.
The makers of the Ray Charles film “Ray” are taking on another story about breaking racial barriers. Baldwin Entertainment Group is producing a film biography of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, […]

I was thinking back to the days when I recorded my favorite songs from the radio with my cassette recorder.
When Internet file-sharing services and the entertainment industry square off in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the outcome will likely rest on a nearly obsolete technology — the videocassette recorder.
Backers of “peer to peer” networks […]

This is good news:
On this severely cold March night, Mariah Carey is inside a studio at MTV taping an interview for an upcoming broadcast. Walking out of the studio, she is heard muttering to no one in particular, “The abuse I endure is never-ending.”
Minutes later, ensconced in one of the cable network’s many conference rooms, […]

Rank Movie Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross

1. Guess Who $21,000,000 $21,000,000
2. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous $14,510,000 $17,610,000
3. The Ring Two $13,800,000 $58,085,000
4. Robots $13,000,000 $87,356,000
5. The Pacifier $8,541,000 $86,287,000
6. Hitch $4,300,000 $166,459,000
7. Hostage $4,111,000 $26,175,000
8. Ice Princess $3,702,000 $13,312,000
9. Be […]

When hair was big, and big oil was brash and unbowed by scandal, “Dallas” was the world’s favorite soap opera.
Now the 1980s story of the Ewing family and their Texas oil empire is coming to the big screen, updated to the present day with an all-star cast. Instead of “Who shot J.R.?” the mystery now […]

It appears that pens may be a bad thing when compared to pencils, at least for C-Murder:
The lawyer for rapper C-Murder, who angered authorities by recording parts of his upcoming music video and compact disc behind bars, has agreed to take only a pencil into jailhouse meetings.
The rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, has […]

Joss Whedon has tackled ghastly aliens and dastardly vampires. So, why not work on something Wonder-ful?
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind has officially lassoed the writing and directing job on Warner Bros.’ big-screen version of Wonder Woman, the studio announced Thursday.
“We are excited about working with Joss,” Warner Bros. Pictures President Jeff Robinov said in […]