November 26.2003
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Soul Veteran, 50 Cent Win Music Awards
Ailing Luther
Vandross
unable to attend
ceremony
(AP) — A iling soul veteran
L u th er V an d ro ss and stre e t-
tough rap new com er 50 C ent led
winners at the A m erican Music
Awards with two honors each.
Vandross, who is recovering
from a debilitating stroke that
threatened to end not only his
career but his life, was honored
as best male R&B perform er and
favorite soul-R& B album for his
most recent CD, “Dance with My
Father,” which was com pleted
shortly before he becam e ill in
April.
The 52-year-old singer can
speak and walk with assistance,
but representatives recently said
he rem ains far from fully recov
ered. His mother, Mary Vandross,
accepted both aw ards on his be-
Luther Vandross
50 Cent
half.
“I’m so very sorry that Luther
cannot be here tonight in per
son," she told the crow d, after a
brief m om ent of tearful speech
lessness. “I’m here to represent
him and say thanks to all o f you
who made this possible.”
“T he S h ield " sta r M ichael
Chiklis walked into the audience
to present the second award to
the elderly woman, who had d if
ficulty clim bing the stage steps
the first time.
50 Cent, who did not attend the
ceremony, also won two awards -
best male rap artist and best rap-
hip-hop album for “Get Rich or Die
Tryin,’” agritty CD about his many
brushes with death on the street.
Britney Spears launched the
show by being lowered onstage in
a purple corset, black hot pants and
thigh-high boots to start the tele
cast with a pyrotechnic-filled per
formance of her new song “Me
Against the Music.”
She was followed by Kid Rock’s
pounding cover of Bad Company ’ s
1975 anthem “Feel Like Makin'
Love,” which he screeched under
the towering flashing letters L-O-
V-E. Heclaimedtheawardforfavor-
ite male pop-rock artist at the end of
the show.
“I'm a rapper, when it comes down
to it. That’s what I started out as,
that's what I’ll always be," he said
backstage. “I’m just cheating on my
girlfriend over there with rock 'n'roll
and country and whatnot.”
The late soul songstress Aaliyah
was honored as best female R&B
artist, her third American Music
Award since she died in a plane
crash in 2001.
Missy Elliott was late picking up
her trophy for female rap-hip-hop
artist. “Somebody stole my limo,
but I’m here now,” she said, taking
the stage to collect her prize later in
the show. Backstage she told re
p orters: “S om ebody is riding
around drinking my drinks and par
tying on their way to the clubs.
There’s going to be a reward for
y’all.”
Berry Says
She’s
Recovering
From Split
(AP) — Halle Berry says she’s over the
broken arm she suffered while filming “Gothika”
and is recovering from the pain of recently
separating from husband Eric Benet.
“I’m getting used to it,” the Oscar-winner
said of her split from her second husband.
Berry, 37, said she remains positive about the
possibility of future romance.
“I’ve made some bad choices in that area,”
she said with a laugh. "I used to say that if there
was a loser in town, I’d find him. But I don’t say
that anym ore.... I’m goingtofind the right man.”
Berry broke her arm in May while filming
Augusta will erect a statue in honor o f James Brown.
Hometown Honors
the Godfather of Soul
(AP) — The city of Au
gusta, Ga. feels so good about
James Brown that it plans to
construct a statue of the God
father of Soul downtown and
rename a music festival in
his honor.
Brown, 70, grew up in Au
gusta and has had offices
and a radio station in the city.
“I’ll do anything I can to
help Augusta,” Brown said.
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Halle Berry in front of a billboard promoting her new movie ‘Gothika. ’
(AP) — Actor Danny Glover said he was
honored "beyond any expression of words” by
a humanitarian award from the Birmingham Civil
Rights Institute.
The Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights
Award is named for the 81 -year-old Baptist min
ister and civil rights activist who was the aw ard's Danny Glover
first recipient last year. Glover left a West Coast
movie set to make the evening event in Birmingham.
"My being here, my presence is a reflection ... a testimony to what I
think is important,” he said.
Glover, 56, was chosen for his work with the United Nations on poverty,
disease and economic underdevelopment in Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean. He dismissed a reporter’s reference that he was a "great
humanitarian," however, calling himself a “citizen of the world.”
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thing that we thought would be that strenu
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weeks.
"Gothika,” in which she plays a psychiatrist who
winds up in herown asylum, accused of a murder
she can’t remember. She was working on a scene
in which she fights a man trying to sedate her.
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“That’s where it all started,
you see.”
Brown said that lending his
name to the spring Garden City
Music Festival has been some
thing he’s been begging the
city to do for 15 years.
“I want people ... to take
advantage of me while I’m
still here. Utilize this face. It’s
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knows it,” he said.
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