It’s JoJo…can you believe it? She was just like 13 the other day

UPDATE 1
I’m NOT putting my career on hold, nor my education. I am still working on the album, waiting for Blackground’s new deal to get finalized, getting ready to put a new single/video/album out, etc… and also…. getting ready for college! I’ll keep you posted on my decision

IM VERY EXCITED FOR THIS NEW CHALLENGE AND ENDEAVOR…

UPDATE 2
After much consideration and research, I have decided that Northeastern University is the place for me! In the past week I’ve taken tours and met with students and professors of other Boston based schools, and now that the time to commit has come, I’m happy with the idea of being a student at Northeastern. They have a wonderful cultural anthropology program (which is what I am interested in going for) as well as a dual major option in International Affairs/ Anthropology. Im so excited! But as I mentioned in an earlier post, I am not going to put my career on hold, however. Progress is being made right now in Blackground’s legal/contractual negotiations that have been holding up the release of any new music for months now. But I am happy to say that it looks like things are about to (finally) get rolling. Whhhhewwww.!! Since I feel the need to cover all my bases, I think it is essential and beneficial for me to eventually have a college degree. My long term goal is to gain a doctorate…. but I gotta take it ONE step at a time!! Lol.
Thanks for your support and encouraging words.
Xoxo

Love&Music
-Jo

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Can we look at the bigger picture here and figure out why the hell is she still using Myspace?

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Four Old Women Share an Apartment
As if presiding over a festive wake, both the Hallmark Channel and WE tv are airing Golden Girls marathons this week. This heavy-rotation tribute to the show’s top-billed star, Beatrice Arthur, provides die-hard fans with a low-key alternative to rending their garments. Additionally, it provides us all with a fine opportunity to assess the sitcom anew. We begin with the observation that The Golden Girls is way too good for WE, where it rubs its ’80s shoulder pads with Amazing Wedding Cakes and Women Behind Bars.

The show debuted in September of 1985, a time that, in TV terms, is as distant as the Enlightenment. It aired at 9 p.m., between 227 and The Facts of Life, two other gynocentric comedies, the one celebrating the role of women in holding communities together, the other inculcating a fetish for prep-school girls. But The Golden Girls—about a group of older women sharing a Miami house designed like a multichamber sunroom—trafficked in something like pop feminism, and it’s terrifically apt that Arthur played the Carrie Bradshaw figure in a sketch deftly spoofing on Sex and the City.

Created by Susan Harris—a pioneering producer and the writer of the famous abortion episode of Arthur’s Maude—Golden Girls boasted characters who were sharp in their humor and secure in their freedoms, which included the freedom to be mean. The show’s most biting laugh lines—which are shaped so well that these scripts would work for radio—achieve that ideal bitchiness animating The Women. In a typical moment, Blanche, the vain Southern belle played by Rue McClanahan, preens, “One thing I know for sure, I have not lost my hourglass figure.” Which is the cue for Arthur, as acid Dorothy, to snipe, “And it looks like somebody poured about 90 minutes of extra sand in the glass.” The in-studio audience laughs, and Blanche laughs it off. That the characters insult one another so viciously indicates their intimacy. When addressing the comforts and frustrations of friendship, The Golden Girls is more interesting than Friends (which had its moments) and as compelling as I Love You, Man (which has some rather awesome moments). Call it The Sisterhood of the Comfortable Slacks.

Let us review the girls’ bios, as if you need reminding: Blanche Devereaux was the youngest and most sexually ambitious, occasionally catching the vapors, sometimes mincing rhythmically. Betty White played Rose Nylund, who had relocated to Miami from St. Olaf, Minn., where all children are subnormal, based on the evidence of her cracked anecdotes and gloriously dingbatty self. Estelle Getty was Sophia Petrillo, the mother of Arthur’s Dorothy. From Sicily by way of Brooklyn, she slices off her lines like Catherine Scorsese in her bit part in Goodfellas. Which brings us to Dorothy Zbornak, who, despite having been raised by Sophia, speaks in the Catskills cracks and vaudeville cadences of Jewish humor. Either Dorothy is intended as a generically ethnic New Yorker or else she picked this up during her decades of marriage to ex-husband Stanley. Significantly, while the other three girls are widows, Dorothy is a divorcee. Her lines are the most bitter and world-weary. She exudes the strongest scent of desperation about dying alone.

Wrapping up the first night of its Golden Girls marathon on Monday, WE aired the series finale, the second half of a two-parter titled “One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest.” For a valediction, The Golden Girls married Dorothy off to an eligible bachelor played by Leslie Nielsen. In her angular white wedding dress, she looked like a hybrid of Ivana Trump, Krystle Carrington, Cruella DeVille, and a snowy egret. The episode ends with a group hug and then an encore of the hug. What was this, the LPGA tour? Then Dorothy disappears into the sunset, perhaps the one from the first scenes of the opening credits, with a jet sliding in front of an orange disc like a friendly vision of the great grand finale in the sky.

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USA Today has just released the first image of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in the upcoming Iron Man 2 along with an article with quotes from director Jon Favreau who has been madly Twittering his on set experiences.

“How many superheroes are open about their true identities?” Favreau asks. “We wanted to play with that idea. But it obviously has consequences — in his relationships, on the team. There are a lot of areas we can explore.”

I fully expect Iron Man 2 to have a massive presence at Comic Con this year in San Diego just as it did in 2007 when it came out the obvious winner with the crowd at the convention. However, at that time it was a major underdog and a lesser known comic entity to general audiences at that time and Favreau realizes it telling USA Today, “I really enjoyed when we were a dark horse and no one knew much about us. … I hope we can find that place again.”

I will be at Comic Con at the end of July to bring you all the news so stay tuned.

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Hayden Panettiere is the latest star showing interest in the Footloose remake.

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The Heroes star has auditioned for the role of Ariel Moore in the updated movie musical based on the ’80s Kevin Bacon classic, according to E! News.

Panettiere sang for filmmakers and director Kenny Ortega. Although the star, 19, has actually recorded songs for various soundtracks and…

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Hayden Panettiere is the latest star showing interest in the Footloose remake.

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The Heroes star has auditioned for the role of Ariel Moore in the updated movie musical based on the ’80s Kevin Bacon classic, according to E! News.

Panettiere sang for filmmakers and director Kenny Ortega. Although the star, 19, has actually recorded songs for various soundtracks and…

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Jay-Z isn’t often paired with the likes of Kelly Clarkson, but the rapper admits he had fun when they headlined a concert together.

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“I had a ball!” Jay-Z wrote on the RapRadar blog about the Wednesday concert at the University of Arizona.

But he said that during the show — which also included performances by Third Eye Blind and The Veronicas…

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Jay-Z isn’t often paired with the likes of Kelly Clarkson, but the rapper admits he had fun when they headlined a concert together.

See photos of other famous American Idol stars.

“I had a ball!” Jay-Z wrote on the RapRadar blog about the Wednesday concert at the University of Arizona.

But he said that during the show — which also included performances by Third Eye Blind and The Veronicas…

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Jay-Z isn’t often paired with the likes of Kelly Clarkson, but the rapper admits he had fun when they headlined a concert together.

See photos of other famous American Idol stars.

“I had a ball!” Jay-Z wrote on the RapRadar blog about the Wednesday concert at the University of Arizona.

But he said that during the show — which also included performances by Third Eye Blind and The Veronicas…

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Britney Spears’ former manager, Sam Lutfi, has filed an appeal after being ordered to stay away from the singer for three years.

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Lutfi, 34, notified an L.A. court Wednesday that he intended to fight the ruling that Spears’ restraining order against him was to be made permanent, Usmagazine.com confirmed.

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