EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: Celebs Talk Charlie Sheen At NAACP Image Awards
Posted on Mar 05, 2011 @ 09:58AM - 15 comments
Friday was a beautiful sunny day in L.A. and the perfect back drop for 2011 NAACP Image Awards. In true Hollywood fashion celebrities came from all over to honor the achievements of people of color in all walks of life.
RadarOnline.com's Jessica Campbell was on hand to ask a temptingly taboo question. "With all the controversy and attention swirling around Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan, do you think the situation would be different if this kind of controversy was surrounding a person of color?"
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Julianne Malveaux smartly asserts, "How many passes has Charlie Sheen gotten? Do you think an African American man would get as many passes? Try one. The fact is race still matters. We know it matters."
"As a person of color we probably wouldn't get that much media attention plus I know a couple of guys like Charlie Sheen right now in Chicago," laughs film producer George Tillman Jr.
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Vanessa Bell Calloway sassily expressed, "There job would have been gone. We wouldn't be listening to Charlie's rants 'cause the first time he has a little whore, prostitute, whatever drug...the person would have been fired!"
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: Celebs Reveal Challenges Of Raising Show Business Kids
Posted on Mar 05, 2011 @ 05:00AM - Add a comment
The red carpet was a sea of celebs at the Shrine Auditorium for the 2011 NAACP Image Awards Friday, and RadarOnline.com's Jessica Campbell was front and center to chat to with Hollywood's top stars.
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We wanted to know, with the fame of young starlets like Willow Smith, what kind of advice did they have for parents raising a star-in-the-making and for the young stars themselves?
"Listen to your parents...not the time to get the big head...time to work harder," gospel singer Brian Courtney Wilson tells RadarOnline.com.
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30 Rock funny man c's advice to parents: "Don't give them a whole bunch of money just because they have it."
And producer George Tillman Jr. tells us, "As a parent maintain entertainment, but maintain what it's like to be a kid at the same time."
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