WAY TO GO UGK AT THE BET AWARDS!

BEST VIDEO AND RAP DUO OR GROUP!


Some are saying finally some national appreciation for the Houston based rap duo UGK or Underground Kingz. The duo consists of Bun B and the late. The rappers won two awards at the BET Awards this year. One for Best Group and the coveted Video of the Year award. Bun B was on hand to pick up the award with's wife. Bun's wife Queenie also took to the stage to collect the trophy. Way to represent Houston. By the way, the UGK song that garnered them so much attention is International Player's Anthem. To see the video click the link below!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1u75KDJYw&feature=related
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What's On Tonight: NBA Playoffs, Andromeda Strain, Denise Richards

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free

• At 8, ABC has , followed by a new episode of The Bachelorette.
• NBC has a new American Gladiators at 8, then a new Dateline.
• ABC Family has a new Greek at 8, then a new Wildfire.
• Also at 8: TV Land has an Andy Griffith Show marathon.
• At 8:30, ESPN has the NBA Playoffs.
• At 9, Larry King Live has all the finalists from American Idol.
• USA has a new Monday Night RAW at 9.
• A&E has the premiere of The Andromeda Strain at 9.
• At 10, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
• E! has the premiere of Denise Richards: It's Complicated, then the premiere of Living Lohan.
• Also at 10: MTV has two new episodes of The Paper.

Check your local TV listings for more.

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Phillippe Starck, comment faites-vous pour dire?

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Ready to sleep but hoping to find more appreciations of , I happened upon this TED talk by Phillippe Starck... what do you say?

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05.27.08: McGregor Flies With 'Amelia', Pollack Dies At 73, Tolkien's Son On Anti-'Hobbit' Crusade

Ewan McGregor has joined Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen on director Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic. McGregor will play Gene Vidal (father of author Gore), who had a passionate affair with the legendary female aviator (to be portrayed by Swank) while she was still married to publisher George Putnam (Gere). More at Variety

Dies At 73
Oscar-winning director has died of cancer, aged 73. Bestowed with the Best Director statuette for Out Of Africa and director of, among others, Tootsie, Three Days Of The Condor and The Firm, the prolific multi-hyphenate also ran Mirage Enterprises with the late Anthony Minghella and regularly took supporting roles in other director's films (including Woody Allen's Husbands And Wives and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut). Most recently, Pollack had produced and taken a small role in Michael Clayton and executive produced HBO’s docudrama Recount (which he was originally planning to direct until illness forced him to quit) and George Clooney’s Leatherheads. “Sydney made the world a little better,” said Clooney. “A tip of the hat to a class act. He’ll be missed terribly.” More at LA Times and The New York Times

Tolkien’s Son On Anti-Hobbit “Crusade”
Calling it his “one last crusade” in a long-running court battle, J.R.R. Tolkien’s son is out to scupper the planned two-film adaptation of The Hobbit that Peter Jackson will produce and Guillermo Del Toro direct. Claiming the Tolkien family is owed $150 million by New Line Cinema under a 7.5% profit-share deal his father signed in 1969 when he sold the film rights, Christopher Tolkien will ask a California judge on 6 June to back his claim that he can “terminate” film rights to The Hobbit. Watch this space… More at Times Online

Noth The One And Only For Zellweger
Renee Zellweger and Chris Noth (currently reprising his role as Mr. Big in the Sex And The City movie) will co-star in My One And Only. The Richard Loncraine-directed comedy will star Zellweger as a glamorous dreamer looking for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her two sons, with Noth as a retired military doctor she sets her sights on. The film is based on the real-life childhood adventures of actor George Hamilton, in the days before he acquired his perma-glow tan. More at Variety

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Seeds of change

Everybody’s been talking lately about the bleary news we face every day. Bush’s debacle in Iraq, the tanking economy, the soaring cost of fuel, yadda, yadda, yadda. But there’s good news to be found, if you know where to look. And a good place to start is any news story that opens with a photo of a cute bike commuter wearing a hoodie and killer shorts.

This is a photo of steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. And the government's been tracking such things since 1942.

OK, so it was only a 4.3-percent drop from a year earlier. It’s a start. And it translates into 11 billion fewer miles driven by American motorists.

Even here in Alaska—where the full-size truck and SUV are king—people are changing their ways. A guy interviewed in the local newspaper a few days ago said he would continue making his long drives to the Kenai Peninsula for weekend recreation this summer, but that he’ll be riding his bike to work so that he can save on gas money.

Again, it’s a start. So, good for him.

Even if he doesn’t look as good as Janaki in a pair of shorts.
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Canseco and Sikahema

, author of "Rutgers is Wrong," is now tangling with Jose Canseco, author of Juiced:

Jose Canseco, because things are going so well for him these days, has been looking for someone to go toe-to-toe with him in a celebrity (and I use that term very, very loosely) boxing match. He had recently been offering $5,000 to get someone to accept the challenge, and for a while, everyone, as they usually do, completely ignored Jose Canseco.

But a brave hero has finally stepped up so that this stupid fight may finally take place. And that hero is former Philadelphia Eagles return man. What a relief that must be for the millions of you who sit around all day and wistfully think, "Man, when is Jose Canseco going to fight?!"

Canseco wrote of Roger Clemens: This man never cheated on his wife. He was one of the rarities, the anomalies, in baseball. I can hardly think of anyone else who never cheated on his wife. :
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Scotty Beams Over to the Dark Side

How's that for mixing my sci-fi movie metaphors? Former White House Press Secretary has learned the lessons taught by other former Bush White House officials: If you want to sell a book, blast the president and you'll be loved by the media forever:

Former White House press secretary's memoir about his time at the Bush White House turns out to be far more scathing than predicted, Politico's Mike Allen writes.

In his "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception" (Public Affairs, $27.95), McLellan writes about the war in Iraq that President Bush "and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war. … [I]n this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security."

The White House "spent most of the first week in a state of denial" after Hurricane Katrina, McLellan writes. "One of the worst disasters in our nation’s history became one of the biggest disasters in Bush’s presidency. Katrina and the botched federal response to it would largely come to define Bush’s second term. And the perception of this catastrophe was made worse by previous decisions President Bush had made, including, first and foremost, the failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rushing to war with inadequate planning and preparation for its aftermath."

He hammers former senior presidential advisers Karl Rove and Scooter Libby for having "at best misled" him about their roles in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name as retaliation to a negative op-ed against Bush from Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson. "(T)he top White House officials who knew the truth -- including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney -- allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie," McLellan writes. "I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood. It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively. I didn’t learn that what I’d said was untrue until the media began to figure it out almost two years later."

I always thought he was a poor fit for the job and was regularly manhandled by the press. He'll get the kid gloves treatment now - everybody in the media's best friend. If you want to read it, you can order it at the link above.
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