It's the sleek beauty queen versus the superfreak machine at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
Beyoncé — the high priestess of booty — will face off against Lady Gaga — the new queen of weird — on tonight's extravaganza, starting at 9 p.m. and lasting until kamikaze host Russell Brand can stop thinking of ways to make all the stars in attendance squirm.
Last year, he had just that effect on Britney Spears, who, regardless, wound up… Continue
It's been a long, hard year for Tabitha Mullings: She lost her hands - and then she lost them again.
The Brooklyn single mom fell suddenly ill last year, damaging all four limbs and her eyesight. And then in the spring, a heartless thief stole her prosthetic hands from her car.
"My legs were still there in the trunk," Mullings said.
Still, Mullings - whose story has been chronicled in the Daily News since the beginning - has… Continue
Glenn Beck, the hottest right-wing voice on the air, worried aloud to his listeners the other day that powerful, sinister forces trying to destroy America might soon "shoot me in the head."
But there's fear among his critics, including calmer conservatives, that the victim more likely will be one of Beck's many broadcast targets.
After a summer of mob anger at town hall meetings on health care - some of which featured gun-toting… Continue
It took an ambush by a desperate mother, with police in tow, to save Whitney Houston's life.
In her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, airing in two parts - Monday and Tuesday - the 46-year-old singer reveals that at the height of her drug-addiction problems, her mom, Cissy, arrived unannounced at her house with armed deputies. She forced Whitney into rehab and vowed to sic the authorities on then-husband Bobby Brown if he tried to stop… Continue
So we are all supposed to rejoice today because Kim Clijsters, nice person and new mother, defeated Serena Williams, dilettante and tantrum thrower. It happened Saturday night at Ashe Stadium, 6-4, 7-5, in a circus finish to a semifinal that really didn't represent closure at all.
Really, it was all just very sad, lamentable. First there was the absurd foot-fault call by an overzealous lineswoman on an extremely critical point in that last game,… Continue
Tila Tequila egged on Chris Brown over and over again on her Twitter page and now CB has finally responded making this .... an official Twitter Fight!!!!!!!!
Tila, angry that the San Diego D.A. declined to press charges against Shawne Merriman, made several mentions of Brown on her Twitter page (we tried to grab one, but Tila has since made her page private).
Finally this morning, Brown tweeted back, "NOT TRYNA BE RUDE but i keep… Continue
The Coca-Cola Co. will donate $6 million to Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and the Morehouse School of Medicine, and will also give $1.2 million to the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the campus of the Atlanta University Center.
The historically black colleges are all part of the Atlanta University Center.
The beverage giant said the $6 million will help students where economic hardship threatens to derail… Continue
Former Nets star Jayson Williams cried in the courtroom and insisted he was broke Wednesday before he was ordered to pay his estranged wife the $200,000 he owed her.
The boo-hooing basketballer, who made $87 million playing for the Nets, insisted he used the last of his money to pay the mortgages on his three homes in South Carolina.
"I don't think I had $150,000, but it is gone," Williams said on the stand during a Manhattan Supreme… Continue
The accused killer of a 17-year-old runaway ex-girlfriend stabbed more than 30 times bathed her body before dumping it in an alley, according to court papers made public on Wednesday.
Darrell Spencer, 23, told cops he stabbed Jamia Hazel only "four or five times" early last Saturday, then washed her body in the bathtub of his mother's Mount Eden apartment.
He and his girlfriend, Erena Willis, then wrapped the body in garbage bags, put… Continue
It's "Honeymoon in Vegas" meets "Knocked Up" for Christina Milian.
When the 27-year-old singer eloped and got hitched in Las Vegas earlier this month to music producer The-Dream it seems she may have been keeping a secret.
A tiny secret.
Seems Milan, who considers herself a role model for young girls, is pregnant.
"The pregnancy was a surprise, but they were getting married regardless," a source told US Weekly… Continue
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Friday dismissed reality TV star Tila Tequila's accusations that San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman choked her and threw her to the ground early Sunday while she was trying to leave his suburban home.
Merriman was arrested after Tequila signed a citizen's arrest warrant accusing Merriman of battery and false imprisonment. Both are felonies.
Dumanis decided not to charge Merriman after her… Continue
The honorary consul to the British High Commission in Jamaica has been found murdered at his home in Montego Bay.
John Terry, 65, was discovered with a cord and an item of clothing tied around his neck outside his house in Mount Carey on Wednesday.
The British official, who worked as a magistrate on the island and had been appointed MBE in the early 1990s, had also been severely beaten. A trail of bloodstains was found throughout his property.
Atlanta Housewife Kandi Burress' fiance broke up with her. And then he left her to raise two of his daughters - without providing any child suppport. We could hardly believe it, but Kandi admitted to it in an interview with Essence.
Here's what she said:
INTERVIEWER: Speaking of which, inquiring minds want to know what exactly does AJ do for a living?
BURRUSS: AJ over time has done a lot of things, including running this… Continue
Congratulations are in order. MediaTakeOut.com EXCLUSIVELY learned that yesterday actress Lauren London gave birth to a baby boy. Lil man weighed in at 7lbs 12oz and was 21 inches tall.
We're also told that Weezy was in the delivery room for the birth. And that the child definitely favors his mama.
There was some debate as to whether it was right to perform on 9/11 -- but whatever your opinion on the matter, there is no debating that Jay-Z tore the roof of Madison Square Garden last night. Jigga performed dozens of his hits, including the NY-themed "Empire State of… Continue
No matter how hard they try, Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith can’t dodge chatter that the private elementary school they run outside of Los Angeles is an outpost for Scientology thinking.
The New Village Leadership Academy, which Tinseltown stars paid $1 million for, opened for its second year this week, facing the “secret Scientologist” rumors yet again.
And for good reason.
Earlier this month Pinkett-Smith fired the… Continue
Like a chef who keeps making the same recipe over and over, Tyler Perry has found his strength and he's sticking to it. Because he alters the ingredients slightly every time, the results range just enough to keep loyal audiences coming back for more. His latest finds the right balance, at least for those who share his salty-sweet tastes.
Perry begins with his most reliable base: a woman in physical and moral peril. This time, she's played… Continue
They came hellbent on finding drugs and a gang boss - but it was the wrong apartment, a shaken Washington Heights family said on Thursday.
Authorities stormed in looking for drugs, laughed at photos of them in bikinis and left when they realized they had made a mistake, a mother and her daughter told the Daily News.
While U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents - backed up by city cops - were turning their home upside down, a third… Continue