Cecilia Paluch's blog

Who me?
It couldn't be!
In New York City???
K-Fed it seems to be.
The rapper's concert this Saturday at Manhattan's Webster Hall, which is a pretty small venue to start with, sold so few $20 tickets, they're considering cancelling the gig entirely.
According to a source on Page Six of the New York Post, "New Yorkers are clearly not fans of 'PopoZao.'" Maybe he really is as underrated as he said he is. People just think he sucks. Amazing. Finally, something to relight my hope for humanity.
As Tribe Called Quest put it, "If I don't say I'm the best then who the hell will." Words K-Fed lives by, but unfortunately no one else is chiming in.
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While Barbra Streisand has cornered the crooner’s corner of the music market, she can now add “rapper” to her list of talents. A recent outburst at one of her concerts has been remixed into a pop-electronica dance hit.

Talk amongst yourselves all you want, but Babs is showing her potty mouth can be used to produce more than one genre of music. She's featured in a new song released this week that's taking the Internet by storm, “STFU.”

At one of Streisand’s recent New York concerts, during a Bush-bashing gone bad, Bab’s dropped the F-bomb. Not everyone in the crowd had realized that in addition to the ground-breaking music they were about to hear that night, they’d be getting a healthy dose of a liberal agenda, interlaced with dirty words. *Gasp*
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Janet Jackson’s newest album, a celebration of the release of her “Control” album 20 years ago has gone pretty much unnoticed. Except now that her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri has left Virgin records over it, “20 Y.O.” may see more sales.

The album was released Sept 26 and in three weeks was unable to reach 500,000 in sales.

With Ludacris poised to reach gold-record status in the same time period for his number one album “Release Therapy,” the question must be raised: Did Ludacris only get those sales because he dropped the price to $5.99 a CD?

Dupri, president of the Urban Music Division at Virgin Records, blamed his colleagues for poorly marketing Janet’s newest album. Can we really say that Ludacris marketed his any better? Perhaps, lowering the cost may get more sales, but is putting such a low value on your product successful marketing?
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Losing your wife and male lover in the same day doesn’t sound like an ideal situation, but it makes for a great Broadway play.

The 1972 Broadway revival of “Butley” opens tomorrow starring Nathan Lane. Lane’s usually light roles are supplanted by the serious literary professor he plays this time. It’s a dark comedy, a day in the life set in the disaster of an office in what fast becomes a disaster of a life for Lane’s character of Butley.

Opening in Broadway’s Booth Theater, “Butley” will no doubt be a success for Lane as his other recent works have been, such as “The Producers” and “The Odd Couple.”
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Flavor Flav!! Deelishis, Flav’s recent choice on his second season of “Flavor of Love” ousted New York, the alternative girl, in the last episode of the show. Flav had his choice of 15 women at the beginning, including New York who returned from season one.

The winner, Deelishis, not only gets Flav’s love, but a set of brand new gold teeth to boot. I mean, this is every girl’s combination dream.

Not to be left in the cold, the trashy and violent street diva “New York” made such good TV with her outlandish acts, fighting everyone on the show but Flav, that she is getting her own series. Believe it or not, even though Flav didn’t want her, it seems viewers do. “Flavorette” is rumored to be the title of this series, which will no doubt prove to impress.
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Snoop Dogg’s possible plan to beat down Billie bad-asses with his collapsible baton has been thwarted. Found Sept. 27 in his laptop case when he was going through security at John Wayne International Airport, the 21-inch baton was a “prop” according to the rapper, for a film he was shooting in New York.

He wasn’t arrested this time, unlike the episode in May that got him permanently banned from flying British Airways. When one of his cronies was rejected from entering the First-class lounge, he and five others in his group started a brawl that left seven officers injured, one with a fractured hand.
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Madonna, ever the center of some self-made controversy, may even have surprised herself this time. The singer’s recent philanthropic efforts after he recently completed “Confessions” tour have raised the ire of many a human rights activist.

After learning of the millions of children in need of families in Malawi, she managed to find the one kid with a dad who could protest the adoption.

One-year-old David Banda arrived in London today with his proud entourage of body guards and a number of his new mother’s aides, who worked diligently to shield him from the press. They were escorted by three armed police officers as well as other airline and airport officials to the baggage-claim area.
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And the award for most disturbing birthday boys goes to Bill Wyman, former Rolling Stones bassist of 30 years. Wyman turns 70 today, Oct. 24.

Wyman, who created the first fretless bass and many of the memorable Stones bass lines, is perhaps most notably remembered for his base-less morals.

In 1982, the 47-year-old Wyman began dating 13-year-old Mandy Smith, with her mother’s blessing. Her mother also approved of her young daughter moving in with him. Scotland Yard even investigated the union, but as neither mother nor daughter wanted to press charges, there was not much to be done.
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During the Halloween season, there is one mandatory Broadway musical to see: Wicked. This year for the musical’s third anniversary an entire week of events will be staged, leading up to “Wicked Day” on Oct. 29.

The “Wicked Day Block Party” will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gershwin Theater in New York City. A “Be Wicked” singing contest will be judged that afternoon as well, with winners from semi-finals around the area competing for the votes of Wicked cast members. In the true spirit of Halloween, the first 100 fans to arrive with green face paint win a free copy of Wicked author Gregory Maguire’s new book, “Son of a Witch.”
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Touted as the “hottest knight on Broadway,” Monty Python’s Spamalot will see a new cast of characters come Halloween, with the addition of three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie and recent Awake and Sing! star Jonathan Hadary.

Mazzie will take over the role of Lady of the Lake, which is currently being played by Lauren Kennedy. Sara Ramirez originally played the part, for which she won a 2005 Tony-Award. So the potential for Mazzie to get another nod is there. Hadary will play the part of King Arthur, played now by Harry Groener.
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