Author Archives: fred shuster

Interpretive Dancing

What’s better than interpretive dancing during a 3 1/2-hour awards show? Interpretive dancing in silhouette!

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Get the Name Right, Facility

Beyonc said on Oscar’s red carpet Sunday: “It’s a wonderful year to be an African-American actor.” If only they’d get the names right. At Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards — the indie Oscars — newcomer Shareeka Epps, the African-American who won … Continue reading

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Blige Thanks Her Higher Power

blige, the top nominee with eight nods, is one well put-together broad. looking nice in a pants suit, with all her moving parts on display, she handled the gauntlet of TV on her path to her limo with practiced professionalism. … Continue reading

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Total Disorganization

the whole process on stage took 10 minutes. the next step is for the stars to make their way through the crowd to their limos while answering one or two questions on the way. keep tuned in.

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Blige and Rae Score

mary j., coming off nine billboard music award wins last week, and two american music awards trophies before that, was nominated for song and record of the year, the same categories as corinne bailey rae. blige apparently is up for … Continue reading

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Dressing to Impress

it took an hour of hot air, but the nominations ordeal finally began when presenters ludacris, rascal flatts, kt tunstall we like HER), james blunt, corinne bailey rae, chris brown, amy lee, justin timberlake and mary j. blige were brought … Continue reading

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Bring on the Grammys

it became clear after the first 15 minutes of the billboard music awards that nobody very good turned up in fear of being blacklisted from the grammy telecast. so the billboards was reduced to gwen stefani on career rebound trying … Continue reading

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Courtney Love Go Home

why can’t courtney love just go somewhere and enjoy all that nirvana money? thank of all the great dope she could do in the privacy of a nice cozy house somewhere with a nanny to take care of the kid … Continue reading

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I Want to Thank God

god’s mad as hell. there were only three shout-outs to the all-powerful on monday at the ’06 billboard awards. the show started OK and then quickly devolved into a deadly bore. i wished i was shelling shrimp. i wanted to … Continue reading

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Stefani Yodels

gwen, the yodeling has to stop. it will never be cool, it will never be hip, it will never be interesting. what’s worse is, you don’t have a song. the single is awful, there’s no melody, there’s hardly anything. it’s … Continue reading

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