Tag: Beyoncé (41-50 of 80)

Feb 1 2010 05:05 PM ET

Does Beyonce really deserve a Razzie nomination for 'Obsessed?'

Beyonce can do no wrong in my book. She is a star. She’s the real deal. For further evidence of her awesomeness, I ask you to watch her performance at last night’s Grammys. But I also think she’s actually a decent actress. Personally, I thought she was sorely underrated in Dreamgirls, giving a much quieter performance amidst flashy turns by Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. And I thought she was kinda perfect for Obsessed and hardly deserving of the Worst Actress Razzie nomination bestowed upon her today (For the record, Ali Larter also should NOT have been nominated for Worst Supporting Actress. She was a campy delight.). The movie is a total guilty pleasure and, on that level, it works. Plus, you HAVE to give Beyonce credit for delivering a line like “You think you’re crazy? I’ll show you crazy!” with a straight face. Also, the epic catfight between her and Larter at the end redeems any bad moments in the movie, as far as I’m concerned. I mean Beyonce head butts Larter! Come on! Who doesn’t love that?

Do you agree, PopWatchers? Did you think Beyonce was good in Obsessed?

Feb 1 2010 07:31 AM ET

Grammy Awards: Who was that kid with Jay-Z last night?

Whoa, does Jay-Z have a kid? Well, if he does, it wasn’t the little rugrat he was sitting with at the Grammys last night. The boy Jay and Rihanna referred to as “Julez” while accepting the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Grammy (see clip below) is Daniel Julez Smith, Beyonce‘s sister Solange Knowles’ 5-year-old son. So the kid in the “super fresh” tuxedo and Nike Dunks is Jay’s nephew, not his son. Jay and B are private, but that would’ve been a fairly massive secret for them to have kept so long . (Because they’re so private, wasn’t it kinda cool to hear Beyonce tell her husband ”I love you” in her acceptance speech for Best Female Vocal Performance? Also cool: Replaying it on my DVR and pretending she was talking to me.) My wife thought little Julez looked a lot like Mos Def, probably influenced a bit by the fact that he was just on-screen presenting the award.

“No THANKS.” Wow, cute and polite. Nice work, Solange.

So honestly, who wondered if that was Jay-Z’s kid last night?

Be sure to head over to EW’s Music Mix blog for full coverage of the 2010 Grammy Awards.

More Grammy Awards 2010:
Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year: Did the Grammys get it right?
Lady Gaga and Elton John’s Grammys duet: Did you think they were on fire?
Grammy Awards 2010: The winners list
Grammy Performances: We Grade ‘Em!
Grammys style: Rate 21 looks!

Jan 22 2010 10:44 PM ET

'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon's 10 best performances

Tonight’s George Clooney-organized, multi-network Hope For Haiti Now telethon was a subdued, classy affair, thankfully free of any awkward “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moments. In all, the two-hour telecast included 19 musical performances, most of which were terrific. I could name two female artists who were a bit out of their league, but since they were singing for charity, I won’t. Instead, I’ll run down what were, in my humble opinion, the 10 best numbers of the night. (You can download them all, by the way, on iTunes.)

10. Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris I confess I’d never heard of Matt Morris before. But after his and Timberlake’s sensitive, almost half-tempo duet performance of Leonard Cohen’s oft-covered “Hallelujah,” I’m a convert. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 22 2010 02:40 PM ET

Madonna and Beyoncé join 'Hope for Haiti Now': This telethon is now totally unavoidable

I generally don’t get into telethons. I mean, if I’m going to give, I’m just going to give—I don’t need a cheesy Regis Philbin or whoever trying to cajole me into donating dollars while Howie Mandel demonstrates how many different ways he can wash his hands and Goldie Hawn revives a forgettable sketch from Laugh-In.

But I must say: This Hope for Haiti Now telethon tonight is sounding like something that I can’t miss, especially now that divas extraordinaire Beyoncé and Madonna have come on board. Looks like B is gonna hit the stage in London, and M will be in NYC. Yes! Loving it. I’m in. And I’ll probably text in even more money than I already have.

In case you were wondering, those already slated to perform tonight at 8 p.m. on nearly ever network include Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Mary J., J-Hud, and Bruce Springsteen. Pretty A-list, clearly.

But what about you, PopWatchers? Does the prospect of Beyoncé and Madonna on screen entice you to tune in tonight? Will it entice you to give more money — or just enjoy the performances without forking over any dough? Were there other artists that immediately made tonight’s telethon a must watch/must give?

More from EW.com:
‘Hope for Haiti’: New details for George Clooney telethon announced
George Clooney’s Haiti telethon to air on MTV, ABC, NBC, HBO, and CNN
Rihanna covers ‘Redemption Song’ for Haiti on ‘Oprah’

Jan 13 2010 07:57 PM ET

'American Idol': The Atlanta auditions (with Mary J. Blige) are on NOW!

The second episode of American Idol‘s ninth season — with guest judge Mary J. Blige in Atlanta — is nigh! So before I begin enforcing a code of strict, military-style silence in my apartment, let’s all bust out a song to the tune of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” All together now:

All you future Idols, you future Idols
All you future Idols, you future Idols
All you future Idols, you future Idols
All you future Idols
Your number’s come up

Get in the zone, make it your own
The British judge is wearing a T
As Kara yips, don’t give her no lip
Or try to club her in the knee

Singin’ X-tina, sing like you mean it
Don’t pay Randy any attention
He’s shown no reason, for eight long seasons
He’s all “for you, for me”

Cause if they like you then you’re gonna go to Hell Week
If they like you then you’re gonna go to Hell Week
Don’t be mad once they give you your critique
Cause if they like you then you’re gonna go to Hell Week
Oh, oh, oh

Okay, that’s enough trying to emulate the Beyoncé “robot hand.” So grab the remote and hit the mute button whenever anyone says they sound like Mariah and/or Kara opens her incessant maw. I’ll post my instant reaction to the episode at PopWatch (around 10:15 p.m. EDT) and then a full TV Watch recap on EW.com in the early a.m. Enjoy, and by all means, comment like a beast below — but only if you follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak. (Oh, and if you missed it, check out my full recap of Idol’s Boston audition episode here.)

Jan 4 2010 04:45 PM ET

Dear female celebrities, please stop wearing catsuits...unless you're playing Catwoman!

By now, most of you have seen the photos of the heinous sparkly catsuit worn by Jennifer Lopez on New Year’s Eve. Basically, the gal looked like Catwoman…if the Batman villainess had been styled by Carson Kressley. But it was further proof that no one should wear catsuits unless they are in fact playing Catwoman. That means I’m giving a free pass to Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry. But Beyonce and Kanye gal pal Amber Rose, you are on alert: NO MORE CATSUITS IN PUBLIC! No one can make them work. Also, they’re not practical! You never know when an emergency bathroom break could occur and completely disrobing can take some time! Is it really hard to pick out a nice pair of pants and a separate top? I don’t think so. I do it every day!

What do you think of catsuits, PopWatchers? Yay or nay?

Dec 5 2009 11:27 PM ET

Fuse's 'Top 20 Divas': Where's Cher, Whitney, and everyone else?

I love a diva. So when I saw that Fuse was doing a special titled Top 20 Divas earlier this evening at 6 p.m., I immediately set my DVR to record. Truly, I had no idea what I was getting into: Would this be a video countdown with commentary? A VH1-style special that features talking heads—and sometimes the divas themselves—discussing what makes these Top 20 divas so damned special? A mix of the two?

Well, come to find out, it was just literally 20 videos from divas. But, honestly, it was one of the weirdest countdowns I’ve ever seen. To start with, let’s take a look at the show’s Top 20:

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Nov 27 2009 12:18 PM ET

'Beyonce: I Am...Yours': Um, you are?

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“I am very unpredictable,” Beyonce said on last night’s concert special about her, and, uh, that is just not true. She is a lot of things — talented, beloved, a non-stop hit-maker — but she’s also one of our most reliable celebrities. We count on her to be beautiful, to make top-40 jams we’ll shout along to in the car, to be essentially scandal-free. “Beyonce: I Am…Yours” was one giant (fun!) infomercial for her brand of lovely diligence, but its title, like its star’s declarations about herself, wasn’t quite accurate: Are there performers less “ours” than Beyonce? I can’t think of one. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 29 2009 07:16 PM ET

Clip du jour: 'Zombeyonce'

I still totally like “Single Ladies” dances — I don’t care how “over” they allegedly are! Throw in a timely zombie theme, and I’m basically powerless to resist this video’s charms.

The dancers were part of the Denver Zombie Crawl, which seriously looks like a lot of fun. Videographer Shane Adam tells us that the dancers were inspired by Glee to take on a dance routine. “Each year the crawl is kicked off by a mass dance to Michael Jackson’s  ‘Thriller’ and we thought it would be fun to try and adapt ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ and perform along the crawl,” he told EW in an e-mail. “It was quite the undertaking/intense workout.”[via]

Oct 19 2009 07:44 PM ET

'Single Ladies' poster: If you like it then you shoulda put a frame on it

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single-ladies-poster_lI’m not sure when or if the “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” train will finally come to its inevitable, metallic, screeching halt, but either way, I raise a robotic-gloved hand in a “halt” gesture as means of saying “not yet.” Indeed, in the last month alone, Beyoncé’s irrepressible hit has spiced up Glee, Cougar Town, Sherri, The New Adventures of Old Christine, the 2009 MTV VMAs, and (as it has for the last year) my humble iPod Classic. Now, those of us you who were delivered “to a destiny, to infinity and beyond” by the beastly good choreography set down by B and her backup dancers in the “Single Ladies” video can preserve those international good vibes in the form of a screenprint poster by Canadian artist Todd Stewart. (Hat tip to worldfamousdesignjunkies.com for the heads up.) I won’t ask you all what you think of the 22″ x 30″ poster. Instead I’d like to know: Would my husband have grounds for divorce if I hung it in our living room?

Image Credit: worldfamousdesignjunkies.com

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