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Harlem’s Sherri Shepherd Wants Adrienne Bailon On The View

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Shepherd’s View

Whoopi Goldberg may not have a vested interest in The View‘s casting process, but co-host and Harlem resident Sherri Shepherd knows exactly who she’d like to see replace Joy Behar. Continue reading

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HW Questionnaire: With Celebrity Hair Stylist David Babaii

David Babaii

The celebrity hair styling guru has swirled, tossed and pulled some of the most expensive hair in the world. Here, the stylist to the stars talks tips for Harlem tresses, being Kate Hudson’s mane man and food in Harlem. Continue reading

Cassie, P. Diddy, and Andre Harrell Harlem Style At The Cannes Film Festival Party

It was pure Harlem swag and style with Cassie, P. Diddy, and Andre Harrell at the  Cannes Film Festival Vanity Fair party.  Continue reading

Halle Berry Is Harlem Sexy In HollyWood Portfolio

Vanity Fair talks about how early in a career that has spanned nearly 30 films, Berry surprised everyone with her dramatic chops. Continue reading

Harlemites Rock The Advertising World

We’re always bringing you content with all that’s happening in and out of the world of Harlem.

Recently I was turning the pages of one of my favorite magazine Vanity Fair and saw two ads by two Harlemites.

Here’s a photo from an AOL Original ad with super model and humantarian Liya Kebede and …

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HW Qoute: Italian Investor Jean Pigozzi on JimmyJazz On 125th Street in Vanity Fair

“…you can get your name written on a belt that lights up.”

- Jean Pigozzi, a big fan of JimmyJazz, on 125th Street, talks about finding clothes that fit him in the X’s in the XL’s multiply exponentially. From the December 2010, Vanity Fair issue. Continue reading

Rising Son: The New Karate Kid

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Jaden Smith Soars in Karate Kid

Only 11 years old, Jaden Smith possesses genes that have positioned him for stardom. He made his film debut in the Oscar-nominated The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) as the son of the character played by his real-life father, Will Smith. His mother is the actress and singer Jada Pinkett Smith, and his nine-year-old sister, Willow, has appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl and I Am Legend. This month Jaden kick-starts another reboot of The Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio a teen heartthrob and went on to spawn a girl’s version, The Next Karate Kid (1994), featuring a then unknown Hilary Swank. Continue reading

Vanity Fair’s White Issue

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Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue has always been on the cutting edge of what’s next or what’s hot in Tinsel Town. The 2010 edition, boldly titled “A New Decade, A New Hollywood,” hits newsstands Feb. 9. But there is already an uproar brewing about the issue’s cover. Outlets such as USA Today , E! Online, Huffington Post, and others are taking the magazine to task for a cover that features only white women. This is the second time this year that Vanity Fair finds itself in hot water for its very narrow — and white — view of reality.

I hate to tell Vanity Fair this, but nothing about the cover is in line with current trends, or at all an accurate portrayal of the next decade of talent, or even Hollywood’s current makeup. Not one mixed person, tan person or Asian person? No one from Bollywood? No one from Latin America? I thought the cover reflected more of an “Old Hollywood” throwback issue. In the 15 years of the Hollywood Issue, never has there been one that has been so one dimensional, or covered such a narrow scope.

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HW Quick Link: Tiger Woods Bad Boy Cover

Check out Tiger Woods six pack on the new Vanity Fair magazine cover.

Exclusive: Michael’s Last Close-Up

In Memory

jackson9Christopher Weiss wants to be a doctor, but he is not, at first glance, a dream candidate for medical school. He went to junior college and got mediocre grades—and then he spent the better part of the next decade trying to make up for his feckless youth. Getting his bachelor’s degree at U.S.C., doing breast-cancer lab research, working as an E.M.T., and getting his paramedic’s license, the 29-year-old slowly built a résumé that could impress admissions boards. But he always worried that he wasn’t saving enough of his income, that med school would require him to take on a crushing load of debt. Then, in 2007, his boyhood friend Ben Evenstad, also 29, offered Weiss a chance to make a lot of money. When Evenstad co-founded the photo agency National Photo Group, he hired Weiss and taught him how to be a paparazzo.

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