Actress Kathryn Joosten has passed away

Emmy Award-winning Kathryn Joosten, who, in a devastating case of life imitating art had us choking back tears during her character Karen McKluskey's death scene on the series finale of Desperate Housewives, passed away in real life yesterday after losing her battle with lung cancer at the age of 72.

According to her rep, the actress - who was also known for her roles on The West Wing and Scrubs - was surrounded by her family in her Westlake Village home in El Lay at the time of her passing.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of her relatives, fans, and loved ones during this time.

She was one of my favorite character actresses, and she will be missed. RIP

Always Be My Baby...

Dearest Whitney,

It's another week without you here, everyone still seems to be in shock and mourning. Your leaving was monumental and not something any of us was ready for. As I said before, I realized why you left you had to, the people in your world, maybe their intentions were good, but they drained the hell our of you. So I'm glad you were able to get the rest and peace that you so richly deserve. This past week, the press were trying to get lies started about Bobbi Kristina, but you'll be happy to know that Tyler Perry came to her rescue and defused everything.
I've had 'Celebrate' and 'His Eyes Is On The Sparrow' in my constant rotation, and it's helping me find comfort. Rest easy my sweet princess, until next time....

Stephanie Mills, refuses TV show UNSUNG!!

Since its debut in 2008, TV One's hour-long music series, "Unsung," has been one of the network's crown jewels, covering the sometimes tragic careers of an array of celebrated music acts such as Teddy Pendergrass, DeBarge, Teena Marie, Melba Moore, Alexander O'Neal, Minnie Riperton and Phyllis Hyman. Earlier this year the NAACP Image Award-winning series earned its highest rated, most successful season to date as it started airing in 27 percent more homes via various cable carriers.

Though the African-American targeted network is set to premiere the show's sixth season with Sly and the Family Stone on June 25, one veteran music act who viewers will never see on the series is Stephanie Mills.

The Brooklyn-bred songstress, who catapulted to the top of music charts in the 1980s and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Michael Jackson and Pendergrass after acclaimed stints on Broadway in "The Wiz" and "Maggie Flynn," seems to have a story that's ripe for "Unsung," which is often considered "the black version of 'Behind The Music' -- VH1's longtime biographical series." But according to the sometimes reclusive Mills, the retrospective show is just not her cup of tea.

"I don't like that show," the Grammy Award winner revealed in a recent interview with The Huffington Post. "They have approached me quite a few times, but I [won't] do that show."

"I've always been very private and at 55 I don't want to open up my life to that," the "Never Knew Love Like This Before" belter continued. "They've done Angela Winbush and they even wanted me to say something about her on that show, and I love Angela, we're sisters. But I had to tell her, 'I don't want to do that.' ... I'm not that girl."

Winbush, who wrote Mills' 1985 chart-topper "I've Learned To Respect (The Power of Love)," made great fodder for "Unsung" with her revelations of domestic abuse, a nasty split with her longtime recording partner and a bout with ovarian cancer.

Mills, who herself has endured three failed marriages and is the single mother of a child with special needs, has no interest in being that forthcoming with her own story. "I don't want to get on these shows and open my life up; I don't think it's anyone's business."

The show's co-executive producer Mark Rowland of A. Smith & Co. Productions believes that the key to success of each episode is to profile amazing artists to create an "archival legacy."

"The show has managed to take a place of pride and honor in the community," Rowland stated in a 2011 interview with AOL BlackVoices. "There is a real sense of responsibility to keep it to that standard for us and to exceed it. We take our jobs very seriously. These are wonderful musical artists so there is fun involved, but we are excited to tell this ongoing story."

Although the series highlights the business and personal struggles that kept each artist from achieving commercial success, Mills doesn't feel that her career has gone unnoticed.

"I just think that it's not for me," she furthered. "Let me sing, let me do my concerts, let me do music."

On the other side of it, most of the acts featured on the show have met tragic fates (destitution, drug abuse, death). Mills, who still is a major concert draw (she's a headliner of New York City's Blue Note Music Festival next month), can't seem to fathom the thought of being considered in such company.

"I don't feel unsung," the pint-sized diva continued. "I feel like I've had a wonderful career. I've done wonderful things and met so many wonderful different people. So I don't feel like I'm unsung at all."

"They even called my agent and tried to offer me some kind of tour if I did the show, and I was like, 'I can't do it,'" she said. "It [goes against] everything that I believe in."

The UNSUNG series has lost its focus a bit, originally the show was suppose to be focusing on acts who were on the verge of major stardom, but got off track, when they showcased acts like Pendergrass, The Ojays, George Clinton, Freddie Jackson, Shalamar, Atlantic Starr and the Ohio Players, all of those acts had major success, so I tend to agree with Ms. Mills, she makes a great point. She has conquered two worlds of entertainment, 'Broadway' and the 'Recording Industry', she has a Grammpy Award for best R&B female for "Never Knew Love Like This" and 'AMA' not to mention gold and platinum records. - Kevin K.

MUG SHOT ....

Floyd Mayweather, turned himself in to do his 90 jail sentence for domestic abuse, now here's the GOTCHA, why was his good 'friend' rapper 50 Cents at the jailhouse watching him turn himself in. Hmmm PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION . I shouldn't have to spell everyting out for you. LOL IJS(I'm Just Saying)
If you'll recall Mayweather use to also be close friends with Raz B from B2K!

Anxiety/TGIF

Happy Friday,

I know that we're suppose to 'wait' and in doing so, life lessons will unfold. God gives us purpose, yes tools to help keep the focus, to help keep the angst away. Hard days are sure to happen, and will be a part of things to come, growth will be the textures that you weave. I'm not unique in my discovery, that impatience is a characteristic, it can also bring out the worse in someone, when we're not willing to pace. The nervous energy that comes with standstill, is the feeling you have to be doing something productive, the constant need for a sense of belonging and worth. These are real emotions, and with real emotions, we present ourselves raw, vulnerable and at times unpretty. It can be a hard place to be, to be viewed as flawed, to be viewed with judgement, yet everyone has an opinion, and being human is the reality of admitting, to not always having the most attractive days, not always pretty thoughts or pretty results. Anxious is when nerves start winning the battle, of matters that are laid out for us, in not being happy about circumstances, the waiting period is not on your time, but the time of a higher power and greater demand.

Life gives no specific manuals, as everyone's journey is not about getting to a destination together, your passage is owned outright by you, whether or not you walk in the right rhythm or have the hard head, and swim against the stream, truth is you'll eventually get there, the reason that you choose to make it harder on yourself will also be revealed. The analytical side to you can dissect what anxiety is all about, and how it's manifested. Understanding what the meaning of your road blocks are will help you to make a more formidable bode to the truth in the matters that concern you. How you flow in adversity will result in how much you believe in your life and its greater purpose, is when you begin to understand that against your better judgement you let your conscious lead, and give gratitude in your arrival.

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