Kennedy Center Honors 2010: Paul McCartney, Bill T. Jones, Oprah Winfrey honored

Winfrey has become our national confessor, our friendly, neighborhood billionaire philanthropist, the wizard who sprinkles magical dust over every author, entrepreneur, do-gooder and politician within her orbit. What Winfrey doesn't do is as powerful a statement as what she does. How dare she not interview Sarah Palin! The culture, it seems, has declared ownership of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

Winfrey begs to differ - but only to a point. "I feel it's very much my show in that every decision you see on the show has come from that desk," she says, gesturing toward the pale green, bean-shaped table in her office. "The part that belongs to the culture is every single person who has watched . . . who has found or discovered a piece of light from it. Flecks of light, that's what I call it."

2010 FlavaMen Blatino Awards Adds Celebrities to the EVENT

JUST ADDED! FANTASIA, KELLY ROWLAND & DONDRIA TO PERFORM AT THE
FLAVAMEN BLATINO AWARDS® AFTERPARTY!
Plus Adult Film Stars Wendy Williams and Breion Diamond to present along with Awards Co-Hosted by Raz-B, Shanell aka SnL, D-Woods and CJ Wright!

FlavaMen® Magazine and Wassup N ATL (WassupNATL.com) today announced additional stars to perform and present at the 2010 FlavaMen Blatino Awards®. These gay awards honor ethnic clubs, adult performers, and websites in a variety of categories and is administered by Flava Works.

Added to the presenters list are gay ethnic porn stars Breion Diamond and Baby Star and 2010 XBIZ Transsexual Performer of the year star Wendy Williams. In addition award presenters include Bloggers Adam B. Irby, Drama Dupree, Sir Daniel, Newnue, and Romeo Redwine, singers Marck Angel, Anye Ellite, safer sex activist Kenneth Johnson, and publisher Rameses Fredrick.

The after party sponsored by the mega Atlanta promotional group Wassup N ATL will feature several live performances by major recording artists including:
Dondria
American R&B singer-songwriter Dondria from So So Def Recordings performing songs from her recently released album“Dondria vs. Phatfffat.”

Fantasia
R&B singer and American Idol winner Fantasia will perform songs from her new album “Back to Me”.

Kelly Rowland
R&B singer and performer Kelly Rowland will perform songs from her upcoming new album including her new international hit single “Commander".

The celebrities that will co-host the second annual FlavaMen Blatino Awards® are Raz-B from the R&B boy band B2K, Shanell aka SnL from rapper Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment, D. Woods formerly from the group Danity Kane and CJ Wright, straight male porn actor, director, and owner of the company CJ Wright Productions.
The 2010 FlavaMen Blatino Awards® will be held on Friday, September 3, 2010 from 9:00pm – 11pm @ CLUB ATL (Atlanta Peach Ballroom) 3365 Buford Highway Atlanta, GA 30329-3735 with an after party from 11pm – 4am at the same venue.

Tickets to the award show are $10 online before August 31, 2010 ($20/at the door). Red Carpet VIP Tickets are $25.00 online before August 31, 2010 ($30/at the door) Red Carpet VIP Admission to the Blatino Awards includes seating on the main floor in front of the stage with the Award Nominees, photo ops with Porn Stars and Superstars, and hors d'oeuvres. CJ Wright will also perform a private erotic nude strip show during the after party for VIP guests. Tickets are available online in advance at www.BlatinoAwards.com.
Raz-B from the R&B boy band B2K.
Raz B is a former member of the group B2K. With B2K Raz B found success with albums like, Pandemonium!, world tours, feature film work in movies (You Got Served), and as a breakout solo actor with LGBT hit television series Noah’s Arc. Most recently Raz B has continued his career in the music industry and has created his own production company RazBeatz Entertainment.
Shanell aka SnL from rapper Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment
Shanell is a new kind of female urban/pop rock artist who has emerged on the scene – A multi-talented singer, songwriter, performer and creative visionary who is ready to set a new era in motion for female urban/pop rock. Preceded by the continued success and musical evolution of multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning artist and label mate Lil Wayne, Shanell is the female answer to the mash-ups of fun-loving rock n’ roll drums and guitar with hard-hitting hip-hop beats and a touch of sultry R&B melodies.
D. Woods formerly from the group Danity Kane
D. Woods is an American R&B singer, dancer, and actress who performed as a member of the girl group Danity Kane. On the October 14, 2008 season finale of Making the Band, it was declared that Woods was no longer a member of the group. Since her departure from Danity Kane, D. Woods has recorded several solo singles and appeared in music videos for Ludacris and Lil Wayne.
CJ Wright, is an African-American pornographic actor, director, and owner of the company CJ Wright Productions. Known as the "King of BBW", Wright specializes in directing movies with "Big Beautiful Woman."

The FlavaMen Blatino Awards ® will be broadcast live on the internet at http://www.BlatinoAwards.com and the winners announced on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BlatinoAwards. Members of the public nominated and voted for their favorite ethnic clubs, adult performers, and websites in a variety of categories. A list of the 2010 nominees and winners from last year’s awards are available at http://www.BlatinoAwards.com

Right When I'M Pretty

When is wrong right? When some one attractive does the wrong, like Angelina Jolie? This weekend I saw Ms. Jolie’s new film Salt and she did an amazing job, it was actually one of the best action films I think I have ever watched. After the movie ended one of my friends commented on how he was so glad that she stole Brad Pitt from Jennifer Anniston and I could only shake my head, from hearing this so often. When I asked why I was not surprised by his response, he feels that since she is prettier that it is okay. What is wrong with our society, just because someone is attractive and famous it is okay for them to get away with something that is morally wrong?

There have been several celebrity mishaps and the funny thing about most of them is the attractive ones society just feels as though it is ok for them to do wrong. Look at the Fantasia incident, now grant it this young woman does have talent, but since she isn’t considered a natural beauty people ripped into her over having an affair with a married man. Now grant it I am not justifying what Fantasia did; however why not live for her like society lives for these other women who have stolen someone else’s husband. Another example that we cannot forget is how Mrs. Alicia Keys Beatz, stole someone’s husband, got pregnant, and now is officially his wife and America is blissfully happy for her and her husband, when his ex sits in her beauty salon bi-weekly still crying over him. When do we stop looking at people’s fame and looks and start holding them accountable for wrong? Wrong is wrong and we should judge people on their actions not their looks.