Tuesday 4 February 2014

Lupita Nyong'o, Chiwetel Ejiorfor, Idris Elba &more grace Vanity Fair Hollywood issue

This is the year for black actors in Hollywood. Vanity Fair’s 20th Annual Hollywood issue features quite a few of them including Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o. Mandela star Idris Elba, actors Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman and actress Naomie Harris.

They are all featured on the cover and fold out, shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. They are joined by esteemed actors Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jared Leto, Brie Larson, Margot Robbie, and Léa Seydoux.

Judge Says''Chris Brown Should Remain In Treatment''


A judge says Chris Brown should remain in a rehabilitation facility and turned down a prosecutor's motion to have the R&B singer jailed over an arrest in Washington, D.C. last year.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin says Brown appears to be making progress in a treatment facility and should remain there.
A prosecutor asked Monday to have Brown taken into custody over a misdemeanor assault case filed against Brown in D.C.
Brown remains on probation in Los Angeles over his 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. Brandlin revoked the singer's probation in December but made no changes to his sentence during a brief hearing on Monday.
The singer's lawyer Mark Geragos asked Brandlin to allow Brown to remain in treatment and give time for the Washington case to be resolved.

Nelson Mandela's will read: was worth $4.1million

The will of former South African President and world hero, Nelson Mandela was read to his family members today February 3rd.
Reading the 40 page will, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke said Mandela's third wife, Graca Machel, is entitled to half the estate under South African marital law but could waive her claims and opt for specified assets that include properties in her native Mozambique. Machel has not made a decision on whether to weave her rights, Moseneke said.
The will directs that each of his children and some of his grand-children are to receive $300,000. His upscale Johannesburg house, where he spent most of his life after being freed from apartheid prison, would be home to his deceased son Makgatho's children.
His longtime domestic staff including his personal assistant, Zelda Le Grange, also shared in the fortune with 50,000 rand each.
Mandela's Political Party, the ANC, is to receive royalties from his political books and testimonial adverts. The monies is expected to help propagate the ideologies of the party.
Local Schools in South Africa he attended as well as the Wits and Fort Harte Universities also benefited from his will as funds were provided which would be given as bursary and scholarship to students.
The will, which was first written in 2005 and amended in 2008, is open for contest within 90 days.