Tuesday, August 10, 2010

She wanted her Chicken McNuggets!

George Lopez speaks to Eva Mendez about her Sex Tape...

jana kramer & johnathon schaech split


Talk about married one day and divorced the next.

One Tree Hill' star Jana Kramer has officially split with her husband Johnathon Schaech, whom she tied the knot with on July 4.

"Jana and Johnathon have agreed to dissolve their marriage," Kramer's rep told E! News. "Jana is humbled by the outpouring of support from her fans, friends and family, and appreciates the respect of her privacy."

The couple met on the set of the movie' Prom Night' and on December 22, 2009, Schaech popped the question. Schaech proposed to his fiancee in an elaborate ice rink proposal, which he posted on Facebook. They married in Michigan.

Schaech was previously married to actress Christina Applegate, but the pair divorced in 2007.

Kramer is most known for her role in The CW's 'One Tree Hill' as Alex, an actress who becomes the new face of Brooke's fashion line, "Clothes Over Bros".

Schaech's career in movies and television dates back to 1993. He has appeared in movies such as 'Prom Night' and 'That Thing You Do!'

Jet Blue Attendant - SNAPS!


Free Steven Slater!

The flight attendant who slid off a landed plane via inflatable slide at JFK Monday after telling a disrespectful passenger to f--- off is already a folk hero.

How many of us have wanted to say Take This Job and Shove It? I'm As Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore?

Slater did it, and he did it with flair, cursing back over the plane's public address system at the obnoxious passenger who conked him on the head with his suitcase, then releasing the emergency exit slide and jumping out and disappearing across the tarmac. He even had the presence of mind to toss his carry-on luggage down the slide first.

Cops must have been scratching their heads to come up with the charges of "criminal mischief" and "reckless endangerment."

Who was he recklessly endangering? It's not as if he opened the doors when JetBlue Flight 1052 was in the air.

Did Slater fantasize this for years or did he just snap?



Flight attendants have to take a lot of guff for things they don't control, like airline cutbacks, minuscule food offerings and charges for checked luggage, earphones, even pillows and blankets on some planes.

It's part of the frustration all over the country as employees take pay cuts and have to do double the workload as they take on the responsibilities of their laidoff co-workers.

Forget raises. I know hardworking people who haven't had a raise in 10 years - don't you?

A friend of mine just got laid off and went to her appointment at the unemployment office and walked in to meet her counselor, a former co-worker, who'd taken the job at one of the few places that are a growth industry these days.

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, but you gotta eat.

Steven Slater is a bit like John Henry, who became a folk hero years after hammering his way through a railway tunnel faster than a machine. There'll probably be a song about him online today.

Fantasia Barrino - "Back to me"


Fantasia Barrino has been leading one of the most over-explained lives in modern pop. In just the last four years, the third season winner of "American Idol" published her autobiography, took part in a TV movie about her life, and starred in her own VH1 reality show.

That's a lot of telling without much showing.

It may seem perplexing at first, then, that Fantasia titled her third and latest album "Back To Me," as if the focus ever strayed to any other subject.

Luckily, the disc doesn't so much offer another "back to me" fit of narration as it does provide a striking reminder of why we cared about her back story to begin with. Namely: a voice that's imbued with as much history and character as Fantasia's hyper-dramatized life.

Never has that voice found a more sure setting than now. "Back To Me," Fantasia's first release in 4 years, far outperforms the singer's first two works, with meatier hooks, firmer melodies, and a more shrewdly focused point of view. Yet none of those qualities outshine the strange and fascinating voice that lies at the album's core.

No one can call Fantasia Barrino a pretty singer. Her vocals can be gutteral and wheezy, or pinched when she strains for the big notes. Her phrasing often veers into the blunt and wild. And her timbre has an odd tang to it.

But like the best "character singers," Fantasia uses her mangier qualities to assert
her individuality, and to prove her conviction. It's a quality she shares with two other ungainly divas of soul: Patti Labelle and Mary J. Blige. None have voices of conventional beauty, but all win us over by aiming high and swinging wild.

The songs on "Back To Me" give Fantasia a wide berth for her patented wails. They're catchy but not overly formal. Many weave in bits of older soul songs, either via allusions
or outright samples from Isaac Hayes, The Stylistics, and Ashford and Simpson. "The Thrill Is Gone" (not the B.B. King song) makes good use of Hayes' scene- stealing drum beat from his 1970 cover of "Walk On By." It serves as a set up for Fantasia's own wrenching disclosures. "Teach Me" nicks a Bob Marley lick, only to work it into a cool melody of its own. The CD's sole stumble recycles a song from "The Color Purple," the musical Fantasia starred in for an entire year. It's too starchy and self-consciously theatrical to jive with the rest.

The album's lyrics retain a tight focus, stressing Fantasia's connection to emotionally-
reluctant men, while making sure to explain how she's no longer the kind that loves them. But Fantasia can kick up her heels too, as in "Collard Greens and Cornbread" (not the Anthony Hamilton song). A pure sex piece, the song allows the singer to luxuriate in the earthiness of her style. It's a southern, humid, and grinding approach she has, qualities that makes her sounds even more compelling than her story.