Weekend Wrap-Up

On Friday night, I caught a bit of the NAACP Image Awards on Fox. In perhaps the bonehead move of the year, this organization actually gave an IMAGE AWARD to Isiah Washington! (It was for Best Actor in a Drama). Yes, that Isiah Washington, the guy best known for using a slur against another minority group. What, Tim Hardaway wasn't available? And I don't want to hear them crying next year when the Emmys present Michael Richards with a humanitarian award. You know who should feel really bad? The people in the same category who got nominated for an IMAGE award and lost to Isiah Washington! I mean, damn, did they throw their grandmother down the stairs or something? Just idiotic all around. Who were the dummies that actually filled out ballots and said to themselves "Now, which of these guys projects the most positive image of the black community? Hey, how about that Isiah Washington!" Was there just no one else it could have gone to? Flavor Flav? 50 Cent? A dog? To make matters worse, except for the lifetime achievement winners, most of the winners got their speeches cut off by music after about 20 seconds. Even Forrest Whittaker, that guy who won some big award last Sunday, got cut off. It was unreal. Also, they had a 15 minute segment to give a humanitarian award to-- Bono of U2! Don't get me wrong, I've been down with U2 since the early 80's and Bono surely deserves it because he goes out and gets involved to make a change, but it was just weird ending the NAACP show with a long segment dedicated to an Irish guy. He did give a great speech, hit on Tyra Banks and one of the models, and had everyone on their feet by the end. Prince was great also, as he accepted an award and then talked about how lawyers and accountants ruined the music industry. It was fanastic.

On Monday's edition of WWE Raw, Donald Trump did indeed select Bobby Lashley (pictured above, top) to represent him in the hair vs. hair match against WWE owner Vince McMahon (represented by Umaga) at WrestleMania 23 on April 1st. In a radio interview on the Don Imus Show, Trump referred to Lashley as "Lindsey" and described him as "a large black gentleman". Wow. It's 1952. "Large black gentleman" just sounds like he's about to lift a car by himself or do some sharecropping.

I saw two disturbing segments of the Tyra Banks Show this week: On one clip, her audience had on swimsuits with their weight written on them and she was going out and encouraging them to do crazy things like going into the frozen food aisle at the grocery store and tell strangers their weight. Bad idea. In the other clip, she fondled American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee's boobs to see if they were real. Tyra said they were "jiggly and soft". Imagine that! Tyra is off the chain. Just another step closer to reaching her goal of being known as "The Crazy Oprah".

And before it's too late, by unanimous decision, Hollywood Nation has voted Jennifer Love Hewitt as the best dressed at this year's Oscars (picture #3 above). I have no idea if that was even really taken at the Oscars; it could have been taken at the Hardee's on Lilac Street for all I care. They need to get her booked on the Tyra Banks Show, pronto. Holla!