On having a soft spot for British men:
“I love their sense of humor and the sense of chivalry and charm. It’s something that is innately a part of the culture – we don’t have that over here, it’s not the same in America.”
On her admiration of Colin Firth:
“He’s the perfect Englishman. Just enough of the self-effacing to a point that it’s comfortable for other people, but also totally charming and engaging to where he makes you feel special. He’s got that British honesty.”
On her love for London:
“What I love about London is all the green spaces – you know how every little neighborhood will have a little park or a square…. I like to get walking in a city. I always find myself in very interesting places. I love London.”
On her relationship with fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow:
“We became very close after my dad’s death. She reached out and it was very sweet. We bonded on that.”
A Chicago Police captain is suing a fellow officer for allegedly posting defamatory comments about him on Facebook, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon in Circuit Court of Cook County.
The allegations are outlined in a suit filed by Juan Morado, a 27-year Chicago Police Department veteran. He is seeking more than $50,000 in damages from Lance Handzel, who has been in the department since 1995.
Morado, 53, is assigned to the Gresham district on the South Side. According to the lawsuit, Handzel, 41, used Facebook to accuse Morado’s family of being “known gang members” who “are in the business of selling narcotics.”
Handzel and Morado’s families live about a block from each other in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood, according to the lawsuit. The district Handzel is assigned to covers that neighborhood.
In the center of a storm is Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year old highly-motivated mother who manages a neighborhood apartment building and all of the problems that come along with it.
Managing the building is a dream come true for Ocean. Not only has she secured a job with a title, but also managed to escape her family’s problems and the closet-sized bedroom she and her two children used to share in her mother’s house. Now, Ocean is juggling a new job, a new home furnished with only cardboard boxes, a niece who hates everything, her own two children and the needs of all the other tenants. DIARY OF A SINGLE MOM illuminates the challenges and triumphs of three women struggling to create lives that not only sustain them and their families, but also inspire others toward more action and compassion in their own lives.
Kirk Franklin with BET Sunday Best winner Amber Bullock, Isaac Carree, Deon Kipping, and Jason Nelson
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R. Kelly who grew up on Chicago’s South Side was the Grand Marshall at the Bronzeville neighborhood 82nd annual Bud Billiken Parade.
The parade features celebrities, politicians, businessmen, civic organizations and youth. It occurs on the South Side of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois and concludes in Washington Park. National and international celebrities have attended and some have served as the parade’s Grand Marshal. The focus of the parade is on the betterment of Chicago youth. (Source)
Now that “The Oprah Winfrey Show” will no longer occupy her time this fall, Popeater is reporting that the legendary talk show host will be returning to her South Africa school in September to teach a class called “It’s Life 101” about the things she wished someone had told her about how the world really works.
“Should be fun since I love to teach. And they’re like sponges,” Oprah said. “Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class is both anxious and excited about going to college. Most will be the first in their family. So it’s a very big deal for them, and they’re feeling the pressure.”
As for her recent trip to the school, Oprah said of her girls, “They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine. No major crisis this trip. I love being with them and talking to them about all things important. When I’m there I’m talking from the time I get up till I go to bed, about EVERYTHING teenage girls are going through. It’s the same all over the world.”
Winfrey said there is nothing like leaving the USA to get a deeper appreciation of the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.
“When Chris Rock was last on the show he said, ‘real wealth is having options.’ I thought that was pretty profound,” Oprah says. “I now stress to my girls that education prepares you to have options. Without it you have none. Just took a walk around the neighborhood watching sprinklers on the back lawn … (I love sprinklers) Made me think about the red dirt road I traveled from Mississippi (no sprinklers) to the here and now … And how that journey could have only been possible in the USA.”
Detectives are asking for the public’s help finding a man or teenage boy believed to have sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl in the Archer Heights neighborhood late Saturday.
