Monday, February 27, 2006

CLIPPETTES: BET Walk of Fame; Ludacris; Lenny Kravitz

Tasty Clips hears Anita Baker will be honored at this year's BET Walk of Fame. Jill Scott, Toni Braxton, Shanice (whose 5th album Every Woman Dreams has just been released), Kenny Lattimore, Trey Songz, Mary J Blige, India Arie, Rachelle Ferrell and others are on the wish list to perform.....Some former members of Prince's New Power Generation reed section have left to form Hornheads, a five piece a cappella jazz funk group that sax great David Sanborn calls "Tighter than a gnat's asshole." Their release Fat Lip is available through CD Baby......Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes, whose long-awaited solo album is completed and should be released this spring, is dropping hints that he's next writing and producing for Brandy.....Actor's actor Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast of the upcoming James Bond adventure thriller, Casino Royale as Felix Leiter, a role once played by Bernie Casey.....Ludacris will appear in an episode of Law & Order: SVU as the artist nephew of Ice-T's Detective Fin.....Kid Rock, on his first-ever live album, dubbed Live Trucker, is performing a cover of the Gap Band's classic, Outstanding.....Denise QuiƱones, who was recently seen in a Smallville episode as Andrea, the "Avenging Angel," has been cast in the upcoming Aquaman pilot Mercy Reef along with Ving Rhames.....Page 6 is reporting that rocker Lenny Kravitz, who will make his film debut as a crack-addicted musician in Iced, got cozy in Las Vegas with Tracey Edmonds, ex-wife of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.....The 5th Annual Black Women Film Preservation Project is honoring filmmaker/author Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), TV's Jacque Edmonds Cofer (Cuts), actress/activist Elisabeth Omilami (Glory Road) and producer Rueben Cannon (Madea's Family Reunion). For more info on the Awards and Scholarship Luncheon to be held March 3 at Atlanta's Marriott Marquis, call: 404-272-3385.

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