Music

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email:  lucy@thethinkering.com

Multiplatinum music artist Nikki Minaj told social media followers after being asked by one fan, “well you wanna pay for my tuition?” she said, “Show me straight A’s that I can verify w/ur school and I’ll pay it.”

She then asked others to join into the impromptu scholarship contest.  One reader quipped, “but people with A’s got scholarships, what about B’s?”  The top selling artist said that she would repeat the event in about a month or two.  Minaj fans bombarded her social media to get a piece of her generosity. 

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email:  lucy@thethinkering.com

During the Real Housewives of Atlanta, Reunion Part 3 the show closed dumping a preview of Porsha explaining why she accused Kandi and Todd of attempted drugging and rapping her. 

During the course of the season, reports of Kandi getting with women and having three way sexual adventures with her Todd.  Part three illuminated the truth of Porsha and Kandi’s experience together ended with a kiss.   However, accusations of Porsha inviting the couple for more adventure was cited as truth, but no proof was offered.

In an interesting twist, Porsha said when asked by Andy Cohen, why she thought Kandi and Tood was trying to drug her and take her to their dungeon, “I was served a cease and desist by Kandi and I no longer can speak on the subject, so what I want to do is to have Phaedra speak, because she’s the one who told me that Kandi said that.”

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

Sean Spicer the popular White house press secretary has job security, not because he is good at what he does but because the commander-in -chief understands the importance of ratings. 

The man that called Nazi Concentration Camps, Holocaust centers has no concerns about being accurate or finding himself in an unemployment line anytime soon.  Every weekday afternoon at 1:30p.m., he hosts the corporate media for a daily press conference. 

Before Spicer was the White House press secretary he was the Easter Bunny during the George W. Bush administration, and his boss Trump was a Hillary Clinton supporter. 

Weeks before his ‘Holocaust Center’ gaffe, he was assured by the president’s words.  “I’m not firing Sean Spicer,” he continued, “That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”  And of course a former reality show star appreciates ratings. 

Scribe:  N. Tru Bass

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

Soul singer Percy Sledge died on 14 April 2015.  He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and penned and sang one of my favorite songs. 

I know that many of you didn’t know that he died, so in memory of Percy Sledge, I will provide a few Sledge Facts.   He was born in Leighton, Alabama on 25 November 1940 and died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of 74.

He topped the charts back in 1966, with a little tune called, “When a man loves a woman.”  He enjoyed a number   Billboard slot and Number 1 R&B charting selling a million records long before that was a common feat. 

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

A marriage made in heaven is on the rocks as NBA and Olympic star weds MTV VJ seperates after years of alleged infidelity. 

La La Anthony and Carmelo was married in 2010 after a five-and-a-half-year engagement.  It seemed the perfect Hollywood marriage until rumors of strippers began to plague the marriage.  According to reports the basketball star’s tagline was “she’s married, I’m not.”  Rumors swirled and the Anthony’s fought to repair damage and overlook the unsubstantiated.  Until now.

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

The Fate of the Furious in its first weekend has grossed and estimated $532.5m worldwide.  Easter weekend did not get in the way of moviegoers will to see, sex, cars and money in the 8th film in the action franchise. 

Easter weekend proved to be the best time to implement the magic becoming the top box office hit in history, while US viewings were fell like a rock the rest of the world filled the void.  Furious 7 racked up $147.2m in the US in 2015 over its first weekend, but the Fate opened with $100.2m, which isn’ t bad but considerably lower than its older brother.

In some countries’ the movie carried an alternative title, “Fast & Furious 8, there is no plot to parachute this action flick, it’s all about blow them up, shoot them up and watch them burn.

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email:  lucy@thethinkering.com’

Angelina Jolie is proving she is a solid believer in love.  She has just announced her plan for nuptials just 7 months after splitting from Brad Pitt.  She is in the process of making quick work of her marriage to Pitt which is not yet dissolved. 

According to reports the seasoned actress has been in a hot relationship with a UK philanthropist since her split with the 53-year-old Pitt.  Jolie, 41, filed for divorce on 19 September 2016 and has now made efforts to speed up the divorce settlement.  As it stands there is no public information as to the disposition of the process.

Pitt, says she has moved on so quickly to, “get back at him.” 

Scribe:  N. Tru Bass

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

Comedian Charlie Murphy died in a NYC hospital after suffering quietly from Leukemia.  His manager says he had been going through Chemotherapy, but succumbed to the disease.  Charlie is Eddie Murphy’s older brother and was 57-years-old. 

Charlie was a popular co-star of the now defunct Chappelle Show and was starred in some of Dave’s most popular skits including the night he partied and played basketball with Prince and the night Singer Rick James punched him in the head. 

He also co-starred in movies, Are We There Yet, The Boondocks and Black Jesus.   He recently toured with Eddie Griffin, George Lopez, D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer.   

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

Bill O’Reilly, is the lion of conservative television talk, has proven to be exactly what he has spoken out against.  Fox News parent 21 Century Fox has employed an outside law firm to investigate charges of sexual harassment from co-workers over the course of decades. 

One accuser Dr. Wendy Walsh, a radio talk show host in L.A, accused the TV man and reported to Fox via corporate 800 hotline, she and her attorney recorded the call and uploaded it to social media.     Paul Weiss is the firm that investigated the man that O’Reilly supported and worked for years Roger Ailes who was fired from the company due to the allegations of a sexual nature. 

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email:  lucy@thethinkering.com

The stunning Janet Jackson has run the gamut in the entertainment industry from making TV better, to recording platinum hits to being a movie star she knows how to get around.  Three months ago she gave birth to what is believed to be her first child – Eissa.   According to reports the star loves motherhood and has left her sons side just once since his birth on 3 January.   Not bad for a woman who will be 51 this year.