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The Wiz Live!: Raising the Bar
The Wiz Live!, a performance full of life, aired a few days ago on NBC. The imagery was magical. The script was a combination of the expected and the unexpected. When the Wiz played by Queen Latifah asked Dorothy Gale (Shanice Williams), “Who you callin’ a coward?,” fans of the rapper turned actress, turned TV host, jazz stylist, producer, etc., etc., knew that the question was an homage to a very early rap hit where the Queen asks: “Who you callin’ a b—-?”
"What? The Queen of Hip-Hop can't get a glass of water?!"
Last night, Mary J. Blige got a tickle in her throat on the Home Shopping Network. After bending over and singing her heart out with reckless abandon, the vocalist sat down to sell her latest fragrance, Blossom, in the My Life Collection. Ahem. What no one seemed prepared for, ahem, was the amount of unproductive throat clearing that, ahem, followed. One ahem after another.
Having stumbled upon the mini-concert, it was not clear whether the segment had commercials. But, without a Ricola in sight, no producer cut to one.
