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  The 19-year-old black man who was shot dead Friday during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, was unarmed, police said Saturday. He was identified as Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a graduate of Sun Prairie High School, a family spokesman and authorities said. "It's a challenging time for this family right now. To lose a son, especially the way they lost a son," said the family spokesman, Michael Johnson. The shooting took place Friday at about 6:30 p.m., Madison police said, and sparked protests, including a sit-in at Madison City Hall. Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said at a Friday news conference that an officer — later identified as veteran cop Matt Kenny — responded to reports of a man jumping in and out of traffic and that "the same subject had been responsible for a battery that had recently been committed." Koval said the officer followed the man to the residence where the alleged battery too...

Ang Lee’s TriStar Pictures film  ” Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ” has a casting call out for extras in Atlanta.   The movie is scheduled to begin filming this coming April and the productions extras casting directors with CL are seeking to fill a variety of paid roles. According to a Deadline report, the film will star Steve Martin , Joe Alwyn , and Garrett Hedlund . The Ang Lee directed  film “ Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ” is based on a 2012 New York Times bestselling novel written by Ben Fountain . The story is mainly set on one day, the Dallas Cowboys football game during the Thanksgiving holiday. According to the books wiki page, the story follows a US military soldier named Billy Lynn who is part of Bravo Squad, fighting in Iraq. Lynn, a 19-year-old private survives an intense battle, “ the Battle of Al-Ansakar Canal “, that happens to be captured by news cameras which catapult him and the other survivors into the limelight. Lynn and...

Location: SOUTHERN OREGON ONLY: Ashland Area Type: Other Projects Blackstone Audio one of the nation’s largest independent audiobook publishers, is currently holding open auditions for new audiobook narrators. Even if you have never narrated before, I encourage you to take this opportunity to learn about this exciting career opportunity available in Southern Oregon! We are dedicated to providing the best audiobook content available. To Audition with Blackstone: If you live in or are returning to the Southern Oregon Oregon area in 2015: Schedule your audition through Blackstone Audio. Prepare to read 2 titles, 3 minutes each. 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction. 1 paragraph of any dialects or foreign languages you speak fluently. To schedule or submit your Audition contact: Wendi Ingwerson ATTN: OSF Auditions Auditions@blackstoneaudio.com Payment: Paid City or Location of call: SOUTHERN OREGON ONLY: Ashland Area Please submit to: Auditions@blackstoneaudio.com This cas...

Focus   While it didn't quite return Will Smith to his former box office glory, Focus (2015) still easily took the top spot on a quiet weekend at the box office. Kingsman: The Secret Service and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water held on to second and third place, respectively, while The Lazarus Effect got off to a so-so start in fifth. Focus opened to $18.7 million this weekend, which is a bit lower than Crazy, Stupid, Love. 's debut (that's the last movie from directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa ). It ranks in the bottom half of Smith's movies; it is at least ahead of Seven Pounds ($14.9 million), though that movie's December opening held is back a bit. Seven Pounds wrapped up its run with $70 million, which is a number Focus is going to have a tough time matching. The lower-than-expected haul could be placed on Smith's shoulders: MIB 3 and After Earth are the entirety of his output in the past six years, which probably ...

“ The Big Short ” starring Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, and Ryan Gosling is now filming in Louisiana. The film’s extras casting directors at Caballero are seeking to fill a few very specific roles in the project. The movie is looking to cast 2 identical twin girls as well as a male drummer. The financial meltdown thriller, “ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine “, a book written by Michael Lewis is now being made into a movie. According to Variety , Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment has partnered with Paramount to bring the story to the silver screen. Variety also reports that Pitt will be starring in the film along with Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling. According to THR , Steve Carell has also joined the project, Carell will play Steve Eisman, a money manager who shorted subprime mortgages for FrontPoint Partners. Ryan Gosling will play Deutsche Bank trader Greg Lippmann, Bale will play Scion Capital founder Michael Burry, a doctor turned investor who discove...

Mo'Nique Hollywood is a place of debauchery and megalomania. When I say Hollywood I"m not talking about the place but the industry; which includes but not limited to: Music, movies, books, theatre, and the like. It is demonic, seductive, alluring, demanding, calculating, misleading, disheartening, prestidigitatious, the dream catcher, and the polished lying bully, just to name a few of it's attributes. Below is a clip of "Lee Daniels" being allusive as to why he thinks Monique has not been given any rolls after winning a grammy. I do not want to tell you what to think, GOD gave you your own mind use it sound off below after you view the clip... Precious Gross Earnings 2009 65 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire LGF $47,566,524 1,003 $1,872,458 18 11/6 3/18 Interview with Huffington Post : Mo'Nique is at the center of her biggest press blitz since winning Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars five years ago. But...

Warner Bros. has just released the first images from CBS' new superhero pilot " Supergirl ." In the photos, "Glee" actress Melissa Benoist strikes heroic poses as the title character. The show, which is based on the characters in the DC Comics, will follow Supergirl as she decides to embrace her powers and become the heroine she was meant to be. Production on the new pilot begins this week.

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner Nick Gordon has entered rehab. "The family supports Nick 100 percent," a Gordon family member told ABC News. This comes one day after the “Dr. Phil” show teased an interview with Gordon, 25, set to air next week as an intervention from the TV doctor and Gordon’s mother.  Read: Bobbi Kristina Brown: Nick Gordon 'Desperately Wants to Be With' His Love, Lawyer Says Related: Bobbi Kristina Brown: Pat Houston Speaks Out on Bobbi Kristina's 22nd Birthday The “emotionally charged intervention” happened this week, according to the show. “As we sit here right now, my son’s life hangs in the balance,” Gordon’s mother Michelle told host Phillip McGraw.  The three then talk about Gordon's relationship with Whitney Houston , who took him in years ago, and the late icon's daughter Bobbi Krisitna.  Gordon and Bobbi Kristina are not married to each other.  Brown...

Don't believe everything you read. Bobby Brown is slamming rumors that he and his family members have been filming a reality show surrounding Bobbi Kristina Brown 's hospitalization. "Yet again, TMZ has chosen to engage in false news reporting. There is no Brown family reality show that is in production which chronicles Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina or the medical emergency she presently faces at Emory Hospital. These reports are irresponsible and Warner Brothers as the owner of TMZ, should be ashamed to publish such nonsense, particularly one day before Bobbi Kristina's birthday," Christopher Brown , of Brown & Rosen LLC. said on behalf of the New Edition singer. "Bobbi Kristina and Bobby Brown are dealing with enough right now. The fact that TMZ/Warner Brothers has decided to inject negativity into their lives at this critical time is plain insanity." Bobby also released the following statement: "We continue to request privacy in r...

It's the end of an era. Oprah Winfrey is bidding her longtime home, Chicago, adieu, now that her Windy City-based Harpo studios are transitioning full-time to their new location in West Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter . In a phone interview with Harpo offices in Chicago, Winfrey said that she will miss the city that has been the setting for her shows. "[Chicago has] been everything for me. I've spent more hours in this building than I have any other building on Earth," she said, as quoted by THR . "We were here when there was nothing but hoes and rats on the street, and now it's one of the hottest neighborhoods [in Chicago]." Her network, OWN, will reportedly stop shooting its shows on Tuesday, but the media mogul is looking forward to starting fresh in California. "The time had come to downsize this part of the business and to move forward," she continued. "It will be sad to say goodbye, but I look ahead wit...

"If I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone," rapper says in Oxford speech.            Kanye West at The O2 Arena in London in late February. Jim Dyson/WireImage                               Following several public appearances around the UK in support of his upcoming album So Help Me God , Kanye West  gave a more intimate and private talk at the prestigious Oxford University  on Monday afternoon. The rapper discussed classism in fashion and revealed that Steve McQueen, the director of Oscar-winning movie  12 Years a Slave , has helmed the video for his latest single " All Day ." Kanye West Premieres New Song at BRIT Awards »    ...

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Getty Image Suge Knight fired his lawyers and was taken to the hospital today for an undisclosed reason. The is the third time he’s been to the hospital since his arrest in January. The Associated Press reports that   Suge told a judge that he is suffering from blindness and other health complications this morning before he was taken to the hospital. Knight also told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin that he let go his attorneys handling his murder case and that his medical treatment was subpar. The Death Row Records co-founder said he was blind in one eye and had only about 15 percent vision in his other eye during a brief. Attorney David Kenner and his law partner were the ones that represented Knight since the case was filed. It was reported recently that the former rap mogul (and his now former legal team) acquired video footage of the parking lot incident that lead to the death of Terry Carter and it reportedly showed Cle “Bone” Sloan...

I hope that is all he end up getting. That was uncomfortable to watch! IDK Look at Rick Ross over his shoulder... He look like he's gonna undress and eat the nigga. LOL

At the height of anger and unrest across the United States regarding the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City, world famous comedian Dave Chappelle revealed that he too had been choked by a police officer who mistook him for a criminal. Dave has spoken out against police brutality and racism throughout his career. Here’s one clip where Dave discusses being at a Ferguson protest… The former Chappelle’s Show host also gave a gesture of solidarity with Ferguson and nationwide protests against police brutality when he was named as the GQ Man of the Year, raising his hands in the famous “hands up, don’t shoot” pose for several different pictures at the magazine’s award party , at the Chateau Marmont hotel on the Sunset Strip. Not long after that, Dave gave a performance in New Orleans, where he spoke out about getting choked by a New Orleans police officer, earlier in his career. The incident happened while he was fi...

NEW ORLEANS - In the wake of the Lil Wayne and Birdman drama, Birdman has publicly admitted that rapper Lil Wayne is a homosexual, presuambly an attempt to ruin the image of the Young Money rapper. After the news circulated that Birdman was holding back Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter 5″ album for unknown reasons, Lil Wayne announced that he felt like a “prisoner” to Birdman’s label and that he wanted “out” of Cash Money Records. The feud is expected to heat even more now that it has been announced that Lil Wayne is Suing Cash Money Records for $51 Million and has asked a judge to declare him the joint copyright holder of everything released on his Cash Money imprint, Young Money, including recordings by Drake and Nicki Minaj. Now that Birdman has admitted that Lil Wayne is actually a homosexual and that all the songs where he is speaking sexually of women is actually a cover up for his true sexuality and simply to sell his music, as women have always been popular topics for music. Birdma...

“It feels almost certain that ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin...’ will be the final Wu-Tang Clan album,” RZA says. During a newly published interview with SCLUZAY , RZA and producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzourgarh spoke at length regarding Wu-Tang Clan’s upcoming single copy album,  The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shoalin . The conversation revealed various interesting facts regarding the project, including the proposition of the album being released commercially after 88 years. “Initially we wanted the buyer to do whatever he wanted with it,” producer Cilvaringz says. “But when we realized how much commercial interest there was, we began to understand that allowing it to play out in that way would undermine its trajectory as an art piece, even if no amount of replication could touch the original. We felt that retail commercialization and mass replication would dilute the status of the album as a one-off work of art and compromise the integrity of our statement.” ...