Pop star Prince will receive the lifetime dedication award of Black Entertainment TV (BET) by the end of this month. This 52-year-old singer had been collected 10 platinum albums and his name was displayed 30 Top-40 singles throughout his career. His hit songs include “Purple Rain” and “Raspberry Beret”, and “Batdance”, soundtrack of the movie “Batman.” He also wrote the song “Nothing Compares to You”, made famous by Sinead O’Connor.
“Prince is dynamic. Prince is a genius. Prince is music,” said Stephen G Hill, president of the BET program. BET Awards this year will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. The ceremony will be held in Los Angeles, United States, on June 27.
This year’s event will be hosted by Queen Latifah. Some stars will appear on stage, like Kanye West, Diddy and Ludacris and Dirty Money.
BET Awards will be given to artists, entertainers, and athletes in 19 categories. Jay-Z is nominated in five categories. His wife, Beyonce, is also nominated in four categories. Alicia Keys and Fiona Melanie also have an opportunity in the four categories. There are many other eminent, such as Rihanna, BOB, Maxwell, Usher, Monica, and Black-Eyed Peas. There is also a new Canadian star was a teenager, Justin Bieber, who isnominated as best new artist.
HBO swept the award categories provided for in the arena Television Golden Globe Awards, Reaching 7 trophies, four awards at many film falls on “John Adams”. Selected as John Adams or Mini Series for Best Film for Television, Best Performance of the Main Actors in the Mini Series Man to Television, which is Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney for Best Female Main Cast and Best Supporting Male actors (Tom Wilkinson).
Meanwhile, “True Blood” won the Best Performance category of the Main Cast Women in Film Television Series-Drama (Anna Paquin), “Recount” won for Best Performance by Supporting Cast Women in Film Series, Mini Series or Movie for Television. And the last “In Treatment” obtains Main actors in the film Men Television Series-Drama, which was given to Gabriel Byrne. As information, Read the rest of this entry »
Oscar this year will provide more freedom in terms of humor, after the announcement of the nominees now both host-Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin to prepare for making the event festive. Quoted from Splash News, director Academy Awards this year, Hamish Hamilton stated, “If they are crazy, I’m also crazy.”
Hamilton, himself has often directs the award-way, before he also directed the MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards and the half-time show of Super Bowl, Baldwin and Martin who had been a previous host, promising chemistry on stage.
“I’m used to this. I come from a musical background and I used to work with the presenter’s crazy. Read the rest of this entry »
