TRAILER: The Longshots
May 31, 2008
RELEASE DATE: July 25, 2008
CAST: Ice Cube, Tasha Smith, Keke Palmer, Jill Marie Jones, Earthquake
SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, a poor Illinois town comes together behind the local Pop Warner football team and their unlikely quarterback, Jasmine Plummer, the first female in Pop Warner football history.
Evan Ross falls for Hillary Duff in GRETA
May 31, 2008
Greta (Hilary Duff) is on a trip, but she’s not on a vacation. She’s seventeen, bright, beautiful and seriously rebellious, full of sarcastic wit that barely disguises the hurt inside. Pushed aside by her mother, Karen, who is on her third marriage and counting, Greta is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, and she’s not happy about it.
In fact, she tells them that she fully intends to kill herself before the summer is over and is currently compiling a notebook of suicide methods. Acerbic, yet winningly impulsive, Greta is a stunning force of nature, disrupting her grandparents’ staid and settled lives and the Jersey Shore community they live in as well.
ON DVD: Welcom Home Roscoe Jenkins
May 31, 2008
Leading an all-star comedy cast, Martin Lawrence is talk-show sensation RJ Stevens, who left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his “Team of Me” philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiance and money to burn, there’s no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn’t achieved.
After his parents request that he come home for their 50th wedding anniversary, the TV host packs up his 10-year-old son and diva bride-to-be and heads back to Georgia. It’s a chance to prove to his family that he’s no longer the awkward kid they relentlessly picked on. At least, that’s the plan…But when his crazy, lovable family calls him on his big-city attitude and challenges him at every turn, RJ is forced to take a hard look at the man he’s become.
Barack Obama Campaigns Ahead Of Last Primaries
May 31, 2008
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) wipes his brow after addressing a rally at The Four Seasons Arena May 30, 2008 in Great Falls, Montana. Members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet Saturday in an attempt to resolve what will be done with delegates from Florida and Michigan.
The DNC stripped the two states of their combined 266 pledged delegates because they broke party rules by holding their primaries too early in the year.
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Hearst Magazines & Universal Motown Host “Ultimate Prom”
May 31, 2008
CosmoGIRL!’s Editor-in-Chief Susan Schulz with singers JoJo, Lloyd and Ashanti attend ‘Ultimate Prom’ hosted by Hearst Magazines and Universal Motown at the Grand Hyatt New York on May 30, 2008 in New York City.
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Group wins access to NYPD database on street stops
May 31, 2008
Civil rights advocates have won access to the New York Police Department’s internal, electronic database to search for any racial bias among hundreds of thousands of pedestrian street-stop cases.
The information could “give New Yorkers a better understanding of the extent to which the NYPD targets communities of color and particularly African-American males for aggressive stops, even though they’re doing nothing wrong,” New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Donna Lieberman said Friday.
M&I Bank Promotes Walt A. Buckhanan to Sr. VP
May 31, 2008
M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank (M&I Bank) has announced the promotion of Walt A. Buckhanan to senior vice president. Buckhanan serves as M&I’s director of corporate diversity and has been with the Corporation since 1986.
Buckhanan earned a bachelor’s degree from Saint Paul’s College. Active in the community, Buckhanan serves on the boards of directors of the Clarence and Mildred Parrish Foundation, the Junior Cougar Football Organization, Survive Alive House, COA Youth & Family Centers, Business Improvement District 10, Milwaukee University Graduate School, Outlook University Network, and Omega Psi Phi 10th District.
&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank is an affiliate of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE: MI), a diversified financial services corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., with $63.4 billion in assets. Founded in 1847, M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank is the largest Wisconsin-based bank, with 193 offices throughout the state. In addition, M&I has 51 locations throughout Arizona; 32 offices in Indianapolis and nearby communities; 31 offices along Florida’s west coast and in central Florida; 15 offices in Kansas City and nearby communities; 25 offices in metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul, and one in Duluth, Minn.; and one office in Las Vegas, Nev. M&I’s Southwest Bank subsidiary has 17 offices in the greater St. Louis area. M&I also provides trust and investment management, equipment leasing, mortgage banking, asset-based lending, financial planning, investments, and insurance services from offices throughout the country and on the Internet (http://www.mibank.com or http://www.micorp.com). M&I’s customer-based approach, internal growth, and strategic acquisitions have made M&I a nationally recognized leader in the financial services industry.
SOURCE M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank
Arson Suspected at House Owned by 50 cent
May 31, 2008
Six people were treated for smoke inhalation after the Long Island home at the center of a dispute between the rapper 50 Cent and his former companion was destroyed by what the authorities are calling a suspicious fire early Friday.
The fire occurred just days after a heated confrontation at the office of the lawyer for the rapper’s former companion, Shaniqua Tompkins. 50 Cent does not live in the home and apparently was not there at the time. READ FULL ARTICLE
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Clarence Thomas Hails ‘Dream Come True’ at Washington Jesuit Academy
May 31, 2008
The virtues of diligence, self-discipline and hope were emphasized for graduates of the Washington Jesuit Academy (WJA) by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas. A survivor of 1950s-era racial discrimination and poverty in the Deep South, Thomas persevered and graduated from Yale Law School, and joined the Nation’s High Court in 1991. In his remarks, Thomas lauded the WJA’s curriculum and rigorous standards, saying: “If this could be replicated across the United States, so many of our problems could be solved.”
Donna Summer Performs On NBC’s “Today” Show
May 31, 2008
Singer Donna Summer performs on NBC’s ‘Today Show’ in Rockefeller Plaza on May 30, 2008 in New York City.
The legendary singer who released “Crayons,” her first studio album in 17 years last week landed at #5 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop albums chart and #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 making “Crayons” the singer’s highest debuting album ever, trumping “She Works Hard For the Money” released in 1983.
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