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SGL Contents
4 Editor’s Letter 5 Movies 6 Music 7 Exclusive: Hey DJ Play My Song 12 What’s The T? The Entertainment Report
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Editor’s Letter
Hey ya’ll we are back for another exciting issue with the king of the GLBT Community Radio DJ Baker. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview one of the most controversial personalities in our community. Some love him and some hate him. But no matter how you may feel. You can’t knock his hustle. Many have tried to duplicate his show and success and failed. I personally had the chance to go inside the life of the man you know as DJ Baker. So sit back and enjoy this wonderful interview. In this issue we continue with our movies and music section. We also have lots of celebrity news in our popular section What’s The T? So enjoy the issue and tell a friend about us, also please send us your comments about the magazine sglweeklymag@gmail.com. Cordially, Cleavester Editor In Chief http://www.twitter.com/cleavester
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Movies
Drool Anora Fleece has got it rotten. Her husband is abusive, her children are disrespectful, and she lives in the middle of nowhere feeling like a nobody. Then Imogene Cochran moves into the neighborhood. Imogene sells Kathy K. Kosmetics make-up for the cocoa skinned woman. The neighbors don't like cocoa skinned anything, but that doesn't stop Imogene and Anora from becoming friends and, eventually, more than friends. When Anora's husband, Cheb, finds them, all hell breaks loose, but the tables are turned when Anora accidentally shoots Cheb dead. Anora and Imogene then pile the kids in the Kathy K. car, throw the corpse in the trunk and ride off on a "family" road trip to bury Daddy.
Homewrecker Hot former porn star Dylan Vox (aka Brad Benton) stars as a hapless young ex-con who schemes his way into a gay Hollywood couple's home in hopes of becoming a star in this fast-paced campy comedy. 5
Music
Still Standing Multi-Platinum, Grammy Award winning recording artist, Monica, is set to release her new album Still Standing on March 23, 2010. Producers joining her in the studio on the new project include Neyo, Missy Elliot, Jermaine Dupri, Brian Cox, Stargate, and Carlos McKinney.
Raymond v. Raymond 2010 release, the seventh album from the multi-million selling R&B artist. Following the success of his platinum selling 2008 release Here I Stand, Raymond v Raymond takes you on a journey through the dichotomy of man. Raymond v Raymond opens up another chapter of Usher's coming of age as he tells the story of balancing the challenges of day to day life as an evolving man while jumping back on the scene as a sex symbol and fearless superstar entertainer. With the help of some of the biggest producers in music including Polow Da Don, Jim Jonsin (Lollipop), Danja (Sober), and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Raymond v Raymond is sure to paint a vivid portrait of growth, triumph, defeat and happiness.
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Hey DJ Play My Song A Cleavester Brooks Interview Photo Courtesy of DJ Baker Photo’s Taken By: JUMZ and
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Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview one of the most controversial personalities in our community. Some love him and some hate him. But no matter how you may feel. You can’t knock his hustle. Many have tried to duplicate his show and success and failed. I personally had the chance to go inside the life of the man you know as DJ Baker. So sit back and enjoy this wonderful interview. Life Cleavester: Who is DJ Baker? DJ Baker: DJ Baker is an actor/personality/producer/director/ radio host/TV host/activist who believes in the community that I serve. Cleavester: Where are you from? DJ Baker: I am from the Big Apple and the neighborhood called Inwood on the northern tip of Manhattan. An Irish/Dominican neighborhood. Cleavester: What was life like growing up? DJ Baker: I was an only child in a single parent household and what you called a latch-key kid. My moms work crazy hours as a RN. So I spent loads of time by myself and with my friends on the block. Cleavester: What did you want to be growing up? DJ Baker: When I was younger I wanted to be a Doctor because I would spend lots of time at the hospital with my moms. I also wanted to be an actor because my father used to bring me to auditions for TV and Theatre. Spent loads of time in the recording studio with my father who was a record producer. Love Cleavester: When did you have your first kiss? DJ Baker: My first kiss was with a girl when I was in elementary school and it was my 6th grade school teacher when she took my comic book. And when she gave it back I kissed her on the lips in front of the class. Cleavester: What do you look for in a guy? DJ Baker: I found a man that is smart, funny, kind, and supportive. And great in bed. So looking for a mate has ended for me. I have found all I needed in Eric j Parker. Cleavester: How did you meet your mate? DJ Baker: We met on the set of Vantage Point when I was working with Nathan 7, Dwight O'Neal and Maurice Runea. He was a guest in the show and then was a guest on my show and we kept talking and we just clicked. Cleavester: What was your first thought about him? DJ Baker: He was driven to reach his goals. And he still is. He was much more mature than older men I dated in the past. Cleavester: Is he the one you want to spend eternity with? DJ Baker: Hell yeah. He always has my back as I always have his. It's important to know that your partner is on your side. Especially in this business. Cleavester: Do you want to get married and have babies? Why or Why Not? DJ Baker: We are getting married. We will be making the engagement announcement in December of this year and be married by 2011.
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Sex Cleavester: What is your guilty pleasure? DJ Baker: Having freaky sex with my partner. In the morning Cleavester: What has been your wildest sexual fantasy? DJ Baker:??? Wow already done
Health Cleavester: When did you catch HIV? DJ Baker: Summer of 1993 Cleavester: How did you catch it? DJ Baker: I caught HIV from my first partner ever. He lied about being positive and I didn't protect myself. Dumb move Cleavester: At what age did you catch it? DJ Baker: 21 Cleavester: How has it change your life? DJ Baker: It made me think more about my health and my mortality. I was more aware of how my body ticked. I saw it as an opportunity to learn more about my health and living a healthier life. Cleavester: How did it affect your relationship with the guy that gave it to you? 9
DJ Baker: We not friends. But we not enemies either. I have so moved on from that space in my life. And I won't be looking back. Cleavester: Why do you think HIV is so high in black and Latino community? DJ Baker: Low self-esteem. That's how I got it. Not thinking about my life before trusting another man I thought I knew. Cleavester: What advice would you give to people out there? DJ Baker: Protect yourself first. Be aware that everyone is not being honest with you. And trust is earned not given. Realize that you are worth so much more than another man/woman. Cleavester: If you had a chance to start over would you? DJ Baker: No. I have to see catching HIV as something that help me learn more about life. Learn more about myself. I am less likely to judge people who make mistakes. It help me realize that we all need love in some form. But the best love is Self Love Career Cleavester: What is Da Doo Dirty Show? DJ Baker: Da Doo Dirty Show is a daily radio show that I created to express a different vision of our community that we were not used to hearing and soon seeing. I felt instead of waiting for other to get me opportunities I would create my own and in the process create other opportunities for other talents that are not getting heard or played in the mainstream. Cleavester: When did you start it? DJ Baker: Started in my basement apartment in Mt Vernon. August 1 2006. Cleavester: How much time do you spend on your show? DJ Baker: Loads of time. A majority of my time is spent on the show. I get up at 4am every morning to record the show. By the time I finish recording/researching/posting blogs I say around 5 - 7 hours a day. But I love every minute of it, and wouldn't trade it for anything. Cleavester: Where do you get you ideas from? DJ Baker: Well I have had brief experience in radio in high school, then in college, then after. I have always loved radio since Wolfman Jack, Scott Shannon, Howard Stern, Casey Casem, and yes Wendy Williams. Cleavester: How are you going to transfer DJ Baker from Radio to Television? DJ Baker: It's going to be a different side of DJ Baker of Da Doo-Dirty Show. Da Doo Dirty Show Live on EMBRACE TV will have some of the same crazy questions but you get to see the reactions on their face. I will keep some of the traditional format of Late Night with a twist. It will be interesting and has always been a dream of mine to have a late night show. Cleavester: And what will your vision for the show look like and feel? DJ Baker: Like I said before I will continue to keep Late Night format. But will add some skits and celebrity red carpet videos. Also will get a chance to see me do some acting with skits. This is a chance for me to reintroduce myself to community. And really looking forward to it. Cleavester: How are you preparing for it? DJ Baker: First being in TV Production class has helped. I believe to be a good talent is to know different aspects of TV production. I've been learning how to write my own script for the show. It's the most chal10
lenging project I’ve embarked on. But looking forward to show the dynamics that I have to offer to the community. The Future Cleavester: Tell me something about you that your fans may be surprised to know? DJ Baker: I think my listeners. (I don't consider them fans. I have learned to respect the people that support me.) Would be surprised that I am a real softy. I like peace and quiet and I’m not a party animal. And that I get nervous before every performance both radio/TV/film. I also am not as mean as people think although I will be honest with you and tell you the truth how I see it. Sometimes that comes out harsh. Cleavester: What can we expect from you in the future? DJ Baker: Alot. To continue doing as much as I possibly can to better our community, from an entertainment perspective and from an activist point of view. I hate injustice. I hate to see ignorance. So I will talk about it. Expose the selfish and self loathing ways of our community as well as the positive growth that comes out our community also. Cleavester: How can the people get in contact with you? DJ Baker: ddirty@msn.com Facebook: DJ Baker Twitter: ddirty531 Cleavester: Do you have any special message for our readers? DJ Baker: My special message is to love yourself first. I look back and realized that's where I went wrong. I let HIV eat up my soul. Don't let anything eat up your soul. You need to renew you everyday. Renew the love for yourself (even if you are in a relationship) the more you love yourself, the more you have to share with your partner. Cleavester: What do you know for sure? DJ Baker: I know that I am a champion! And that I have succeeded and will succeed even more. I will change this game.
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What’s The T? The Entertainment Report Queen Latifah Jumps into Comedy with New Projects!
We just discovered that Black Entertainment Television is about to enter a multi-year deal with Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment, and we also hear that there is an official greenlight of the original episodes of The Game- the former hit show that was formerly on the CW network. The shocking news about this is that both of these shows are new for BET in the scripted arena. Under the deal with Flavor Unit, the company has come on board to produce its first scripted comedy project, titled Let’s Stay Together. The new show is written and exec produced by Jacque Edmonds Cofer, and is a romantic comedy starring Malinda Williams (of Showtime's Soul Food fame) and Bert Belasco. We hear that the show is set for a launch in January 2011. But that's not it for the Flavor Unit, as we hear they will also produce the new film titled The Cookout 2, which is a sequel to The Cookout. We hear that the new show The Game, which was created by Mara Brock Akil, is slated to relaunch in September 2011.
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Chris Rock Agrees To New Remake Film Ti- som using funds he needs for a critical corporate tled High And Low buyout. But, before he can send the payment, he realizes the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted the child of his chauffeur and thus the decision becomes much more complicated. Mamet was commissioned to pen the first draft of the screenplay more than ten years ago by then producer Martin Scorsese. Jamie Foxx To Add Animation To Upcoming Projects!
At yesterday's press conference for the new film titled Death At A Funeral which stars Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan (just to name a few) we discovered a news item from Chris Rock himself. Rock stated that he has agreed to write and possibly star in a new screenplay, which we later discovered was intended for playwright David Mamet titled High and Low and would have Mike Nichols attached, who was brought on to We just discovered from our sources that comedian, actor, singer and now producer Jamie direct. Foxx is getting into the animation business, as We discovered that the film is another remake
we hear he is planning to produce and star in
which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s ac-
new animation titled Welcome To The Jungle
claimed 1963 detective thriller High and Low, for 20th Century Fox. and follows a wealthy executive whose son has The new animation is based on an idea by Foxx been kidnapped. He’s prepared to pay the ran-
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the project is being kept under lock and key for now.
If the rumors are true, expect his Production Company Runteldat to produce the film which
No word yet on when the project will begin, but will probably be shot in a major market, maybe we will find out and get back to you.
Washington DC.
Martin Lawrence To Shoot A Concert Film?
Up next for Lawrence is Death At A Funeral which opens nationwide April 16th with Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan, then off to Atlanta to film Big Momma’s; Like Father Like Son, and the Sheneneh and Wanda film also starring Jamie Foxx.
Rumors are flying around in the comedy world that comedian and actor Martin Lawrence is about to make a big splash; and that’s by going back on tour and preparing to do a concert film. Now, even though this story has yet to be con- Dorothy Height, former president of the National Council of Negro Women and a leading firmed we do know that Lawrence just wrapped activist in the 1960s civil rights movement, died his Doin' Time Comedy Tour and we know that Tuesday of natural causes, according to the Associated Press. She was 98. after wrapping up the tour in the smaller markets he is planning on launching the tour in the Height, who had marched against lynching as a teen in the 1920s and assisted the Rev. Martin major markets, and POSSIBLY go overseas Luther King Jr. and other activists in galvanizeven though the trek to go overseas hasn’t ing the civil rights movement, had been at Howard University Hospital since March 18. panned out yet. 14
Born on March 24, 1912 in Richmond, Va., In 1963, Height was the only woman on the Dorothy Irene Height and her family moved to speaker’s platform when Dr. King gave his “I the Pittsburgh area when she was four. She Have a Dream” speech. But she wasn’t on the earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from program for the March on Washington even New York University and did postgraduate though she was the nucleus of the meetings held work at Columbia University and the New York by the mostly male civil rights leaders who School of Social Work. (She had been turned planned it. away by Barnard College because it already had Height told NPR in 2003 that the experience its quota of two black women.) was uplifting despite the fact that a gospel singer was the only woman heard from the podium that day. “My being seated there had some very special meaning because women had been trying to get a woman to speak on the program,” Height said, “but we were always met by the planners with the idea that women were represented in all of the different groups, in the churches, in the synagogues, in the unions, organizations and the like. So the only voice we heard of a woman was that of Mahalia Jackson.”
In 1937, while she was working at the Harlem YWCA, Height met famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had come to speak at a meeting of Bethune’s organization. Height eventually rose to leadership roles in both the council and the YWCA.
Height said women in the movement met the next day to discuss ways to deal with the issues of racism and sexism.
She became president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1957 and held the post until 1997, when she was 85. She remained chairman of the group.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama greets Dr. Dorothy Height following her rem 2009 in Washington, DC.
“I hope not to work this hard all the rest of my life,” she said at the time. “But whether it is the council, whether it is somewhere else, for the rest of my life, I will be working for equality, “All of it was toward saying how can we bring for justice, to eliminate racism, to build a better all the people who need to understand the role that women have played, but also the predicalife for our families and our children.” 15
ment women face, and especially we who are women of color, where we’ve had both sex and racial discrimination as a characteristic of our lives,� she said. Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 from President Bill Clinton. Her passing marks the second death of a major civil rights figure in less than a week. Benjamin L. Hooks, the former longtime head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Thursday in Memphis at 85.
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