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Rapper goes to prison
May 27, 2009
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T.I. entered an Arkansas federal prison yesterday to begin a year and a day sentence on a weapon charge. The rapper made a concert-like entrance to the low-security prison - showing up late inside of a black conversion van with tinted windows. T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., was to report at noon, but the deadline passed as guards outside blocked reporters and onlookers from coming near the facility on a rural state highway. Traci Billingsley, a prison spokeswoman, said the prison had no special protections prepared for the rapper. T.I., 28, was arrested after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover agents in 2007. (AP)
Brown estate settled
After a protracted battle over how to parcel out James Brown's wealth, a South Carolina judge approved a settlement yesterday that gives nearly half of it to his charitable trust, about a quarter to his wife and young son, and the rest to Brown's adult children. The settlement was a contrast to the instructions spelled out in Brown's will and trust after his death on Christmas Day 2006. Some of Brown's adult children contested the bequest, claiming their father's estate was mismanaged by trustees. (AP)Remaking 'Buffy'
A new incarnation of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" could be coming to the big screen. "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon isn't involved and it's not set up at a studio, but Vertigo Entertainment is working with original movie director Fran Rubel Kuzui and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, on what is being labeled a remake or relaunch, but not a sequel or prequel. (The Hollywood Reporter) R-E-S-P-E-C-T
'The only thing I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry.' "American Idol" winner Kris Allen, talking to Billboard magazine
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