Alicia Keys Showing Off Love, and Hate
Rihanna's A Vision in Yellow
Fab Chick Alicia Renee
Miss Kenya Moore, Still Working It!
Love The Hair Jennifer Hudson!
Jill Scott Has The Best Smile
A Glammed Up Lola Luv Hides That Bodacious Booty
Lovin Jordin Sparks In That Candy-Apple Red
Gabrielle Union Gives Us Back & Tracks, As Only She Can
Ratings For Idol Are Going, Going Gone!!!
Meanwhile, numbers for the only thing left that's saving the music industry are not looking good. While MTV once dominated all things music, American Idol has become the reliable franchise that still affects music sales. But with Mariah Carey taking the number 1 spot on Billboard with only a few hundred thousand units sold after making her presence known on the show to promote E=MC2, the writing is clearly on the wall.
But don't look for either of them to be in the upcoming and sure to be controversial HBO Barry Bonds pic, nor grooving to new music from Jordin Sparks. In fact, is ANYONE grooving to the latest Idol winner's debut???
Speaking of Samuel L. Jackson, he and Bernie Mac are set for 'Soul Men', a road trip comedy to be directed by Malcom Lee. The pair will play bickering backup soul singers who haven't spoken in 20 years but reluctantly travel cross country together for a tribute concert to honor their famous former band leader. Jackson and Mac will do their own musical and dancing performances.
Lee, who directed "The Best Man," "Undercover Brother" and "Roll Bounce," most recently completed "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," a comedy Lee also wrote; Martin Lawrence and Cedric the Entertainer star. Universal will release the pic in February.
American Idol's Jordin Sparks certainly won't be breaking any records. In fact, folks are troubled over sales generated by Sparks' self-titled debut. Winner of the sixth and most recent season of "American Idol," and who many thought was the most marketable of the show's winners — has an album which has turned out the lowest first-week numbers of a debut issued by any of the show's previous winners.
Jordin Sparks enters next week's chart at #10 (the sole new release to crack the top 10) with little more than 119,100 sold. And for those of you still sold on OJ Simpson's innocence and want every insignificant detail about Orenthal, here you go. That said, are we really trying to punish him on this silly case for killing Nicole and Ron? What say you???
International Artist Award winner Beyonce looks like a butterscotch pecan scoop of "Oh Yeah!"
Classy never goes out of style, right Ne-Yo?
Mary J goes Gallactic, but it works.
Is Ashanti heading to the Academy Awards after the AMA's? This burst of yellow was a bit too much for our taste. Some long white gloves and she'd be all set for Winter Formal.
Whether he's at dinner with ex Lisa Bonet or at the AMA's, Lenny Kravitz looks exactly the same. But is that a good thing???
Idol winner Carrie Underwood and loser Chris Daughtery won big tonight. Is Jordin Sparks next? Well, at least she looks the part. 
We love us some Alicia Keys, but she looks 4-months preggers in this black number.
Sean Kingston, we'll talk about you after you go home and change! NOW! Hurry up!!!!
Maybe the folks at Unilever caught on first when they launched their "Campaign for Real Beauty" Dove soap ad campaign back in 2005.
Or maybe Kohl's was ahead of the game by signing Daisy Fuentes in 2003 to design a clothing line that would appeal to "women with curves."
This past March, Vogue magazine -- one of the fashion world's style leaders -- had voluptuous Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson on its cover, coincidentally coinciding with the runways in Milan and Madrid setting weight guidelines for models.
Hudson's far more typical of "real women" than fashion models. According to the National Institutes of Health, the average woman is 5'4" and wears a size 14. The average runway model is 5'11" and a size 0 or 2.
That might help explain the popularity and growth of Lane Bryant and the plus-size brand of Charming Shoppes as well as Dress Barn.
Even Hollywood is jumping on the big girl bandwagon, with Latifah currently staring in Hairspray, Hudson being hand picked by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, to play her in an upcoming film, and Jill Scott currently shooting in Africa her debut film.
