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BACKSTAGE WITH ANITA BAKER |
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BEST FRIED CHICKEN CARRIE'S CUISINE |
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BEST CHURCH |
Saturday at the Hoodies started with a fashion show featuring a new line of designer jeans by the before mentioned Thomas Miles (Nephew Tommy). These jeans are cut for the larger than average woman and are called "Big Love." Tommy filled the hall with over 1,000 Thick Chicks that were all trying to get nephews attention. Tommy's favorite phrase is that he like them "16 and Up with a Short Hair Cut and a Whole Lot of Butt"! The jeans were average to good but the big models were workin' their big back pockets! That evening was the Awards Show which rivals any award program you can imagine. The stars were out like Sherri Shepared, Joe, Holly Robinson Peete, LisaRaye, Michael Clarke Duncan and more. There were musical performances by The O'Jay's, Angie Stone and Fantasia. The performances were all good but pretty long which helped to stretch the show to five hours! If this is ever to make it to television the only thing needing correction would be the length. I had great floor seats but gave them up to stay in the media room which turned into the celeberty lounge after they left the stage. There was a lot of mingling and picture taking going on. My favorite was LisaRaye showing off her beautiful ASSet and Omerosa giving us all a thrill with her hot orange gown and pretty smilie!... Oh yeah, let me remember my Pastor John K. Jenkins of First Baptist of Glenarden was backstage too with the churches First Lady (we won in the Best Church category). DC (and my former employer WHUR) brought home 4 Hoodies in all. Best Church, Best Teacher, Best Fried Chicken and Best Nail Salon. As Steve said "If DC didn't lose, somebody was gonna start kicking some ass!" We did win three straight to jump-start the awards!
The weekend ended up with a Celebrity Golf Tournament and a Beach Party. Unfortunately, I had to miss them to get back to my "Money Maker" (No, it's not what your dirty little mind is thinking). Instead of watching women in bikini's at the beach party with a drink in my hand, I was on a cramped airplane next to some hairy dude that kept falling asleep on my shoulder and coughing for five hours... oh well, the week started good!