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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – R&B star Beyonce Knowles has postponed a planned concert in Malaysia, the event's organizer said Monday, following accusations by Islamic conservatives that the show would be immoral. Knowles, known for her provocative clothes and choreography, had been scheduled to perform at a Kuala Lumpur stadium Oct. 25. The show "has been postponed to a future date to be announced shortly," .. "The postponement is solely (the) decision of the artist and has nothing to do with other external reasons," the statement said. A Marctensia representative declined to say whether the decision was prompted by criticism from...

Beyoncé's rendition of "At Last" at the presidential inauguration hit a sour note with at least one person - the woman who made the song famous. At a concert last week in Seattle, legendary crooner Etta James slammed Beyoncé for serenading President Obama with her signature song. "I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ass whupped," James told an audience at the Paramount Theatre, sarcastically calling her "The great Beyoncé." James didn't finish there. "I can't stand Beyoncé," she spit out on an audio clip posted on Allhiphop.com, adding that...

Last night’s 2009 BET Awards serenaded the nation with the hottest names in the entertainment business, as well as honoring the late Michael Jackson for his great contributions to the music industry. Meanwhile, a glamorous gathering of celebrity divas, ornately attired and dazzling to behold, regaled us at the BET’s red carpet. Zoe Saldana kept it minimal by wearing a white Calvin Klein dress and Brian Atwood heels.

Beyonce Gives Obama Girls Shout-Out at ConcertThursday June 25, 2009 Beyonce had some special guests at her concert in Washington, D.C. Michelle Obama brought daughters Malia and Sasha -- along with her friends from Chicago and some of her White House staff -- to the singer's show at the Verizon Center Wednesday night. Before she belted "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," Beyonce gave a shout-out to the first daughters, the Washington Post reports. "This is for Sasha and Malia -- and all my single ladies!" she said. This isn't the first time Beyonce has performed for the Obama...

In this movie executive produced by Beyonce Knowles, her father/manager, Matthew Knowles, and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Beyonce plays the Black wife of a Black investment executive. Her husband is relentlessly pursued and stalked by a hot, White (and crazy) blonde temp (Ali Larter). Although the husband never gives in to the White chick's pursuits, she frames him up to make it look as if he did, and he's in the doghouse with his wife. And the Black couple is surrounded by a cadre of brainless and otherwise non-ideal human beings with gaping flaws. There is the lecherous, married White male...

Beyonce has officially been cleared of all bad singing charges -- the atrocious supposed "board mix" of her performance on "The Today Show" last year was altered after all. Just as Mathew Knowles told us, the audio clip that many people believed was leaked from "Today" was indeed a fake. In fact, TMZ found the person behind the prank who was surprised it went as far as it did, saying, "It's a little bit crazy. No one in their right mind would sound like that, and no one would cheer for someone singing like that." Apparently, the dude never went...

EXCERPT: (Got to read the whole thinng -- hilariouw -- one of our best!!)This started off as two completely different stories, but a third story popped up during our research that magically tied all three stories together into one mega-blockbuster piece of investigative reportage. Story Number One: Beyonce claims that Michelle Obama approached her during an inauguration celebration just to say that the singer was a role model for her little girls. Story Number Two: A story in the Huffington Post compares Michelle Obama to Wonder Woman. Neither of those stories seemed strong enough to merit our attention. Goofy enough,...

If you were wondering why Beyoncé and not Etta James was asked to serenade the president and first lady with "At Last" during their first dance at an inauguration ball on Jan. 20, you're not alone. Etta, 71, whom Beyoncé went blonde to portray in last year's "Cadillac Records," is wondering the same thing, and she candidly expressed her displeasure during a concert stop in Seattle last week. "You guys know your president, right?" she asked the crowd amid cheers (listen to it here. "You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he...

There's something scrappy in Hollywood's water -- mere days after the very unexpected Faye Dunaway/Hilary Duff feud was ignited, another old guard/new guard battle is blazing. This time around Etta James is kicking it old school -- and threatening to kick Beyonce's teeth in. Now, I was under the impression that these ladies got on like gangbusters -- not only did Beyonce play Etta in 2008's "Cadillac Records," but Etta acted as a mentor to B and attended the December premiere. Well, that's all in the past because Etta is furious that Beyonce dared to sing her iconic "At Last"...

"You guys know your president right? You know the one with the big ears. Yeah, wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours. I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her a** whipped. The great Beyonce! Now like I said, she ain't mine. I can't stand Beyonce! She had no business up there singing. Singing on a big ole, big ole president day and going be singing my song that I've been singing forever." – 71-year-old Blues legend Etta James dogged both President Barack Obama and singer Beyonce...

MediaTakeOut.com just got a hold of this week's Enquirer. And in it they have a report claiming that Michelle Obama had to set Beyonce straight. Here's an excerpt: "Beyonce has spent months gushing over President Obama, and when she was in the same room with him, she couldn't tear her eyes away from him," revealed the source. "Before things got out of hand, Michelle got word to Beyonce to tone things down or risk being banned from the White House in the future." Michelle was also appauled when she found out that Beyonce had pulled strings to get the Secret...

Beyonce to Sing Etta James's 'At Last' for First Dance This bulletin just in from the Associated Press about Beyonce, who we told you will sing for the Obamas' First Dance at the Neighborhood Ball Tuesday night. Beyonce has revealed the song she plans to serenade the Obamas with in their first dance as first couple ... She’ll sing the Etta James classic “At Last.”

Beyoncé has her eye on her next big performance: Barack Obama’s inauguration. “Of course I’d love to,” she told People when asked about performing at the event. “Who wouldn’t?” Sasha Fierce will definitely attend the swearing-in, whether performing or not. “I want to be there to witness it,” she said.

Lauren “Daisy” Lewellyn, if that name sounds familiar to you, it’s likely because you’ve seen her on a number of television programs including The View, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, E News, The Learning Channel’s Dinner Takes All, BET’s My Model Looks Better than Your Model, and Fox 5 News, or read her work in In Style, Marie Clare, Ambermag.com... Fashion Time: You’ve appeared on The View, one of the more controversial programs in America. Can you give us your view of The View? Daisy Lewellyn: I am a huge fan of daytime television, especially The...

<p>Beyonce talks style in Instyle’s November 2008 issue and demonstrates this season’s hottest accessory trend – costume jewelry.</p>

What can be more fashionable than a Dolce&Gabbana bag, Ray-Ban wayfarers, and a T-Shirt with Obama on it!

IF you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus - wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet - in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain't seen nothing yet. Pop diva Beyonce Knowles, 27, and her fashion-designer mother have launched a girls' clothing line that makes Miley's bare-backed glam session look like a Shirley Temple photo shoot. The Knowles' family business, "House of Dereon," recently published ads for its "Dereon Girls Collection" with young models who look no older than my second-grade daughter. They are seductively posed and tarted up, JonBenet Ramsey-style, with lipstick, blush and...

If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus — wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet — in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Pop diva Beyonce Knowles, 27, and her fashion designer mother have launched a girls clothing line that makes Miley’s bare-backed glam session look like a Shirley Temple photo shoot. The Knowles’ family business, “House of Dereon,” recently published advertisements for its “Dereon Girls Collection” with young models who look no older than my second-grade daughter. They are seductively posed and tarted up, JonBenet Ramsey-style, with bright lipstick,...

The Himalayan Times Online Beyonce Knowles’ Malaysian Concert Axed Beyonce Knowles' debut Malaysian concert has been cancelled following protests by local Muslim groups. The sexy singer's concert was supposed to take place on November 1 in Kuala Lumpur. The news of the cancellation came from Kuala Lumpur-based concert promoter Pineapple Concerts. While a ministry official said that the concert had been cancelled because Pineapple did not apply for a license, sources revealed to Billboard magazine that the real reason was Beyonce's refusal to comply with a dress code, reports the Sun. nder rules introduced by the Ministry of Culture, Arts...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Home video shot at Tuesday night's Beyonce concert in Orlando captured the music superstar stepping on her trench coat and then tumbling head-first down 12 steps at the Amway Arena. The video of the fall was released despite Beyonce's request during the show that fans in the crowd not post the video on YouTube. An Orlando woman at the concert, who did not want to be identified, offered the video to WKMG-TV early Wednesday. She said Beyonce fell on her face. "We saw that she was pumping her hair around and really into with her trench coat...

PARTY GIRLS A photo layout in the Chinese edition of Esquire goes light on ideology, lighter on clothing. SHANGHAI WHEN Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue hit the newsstands last week in China for the first time, with the sexy singer Beyoncé on the cover, the competition was fierce. Readers here had already seen the February issue of For Him Magazine, which features a Chinese singer named A Duo on its cover wearing a white V-neck leotard that reveals every other inch of her rather substantial figure. snip... The racy For Him Magazine also offers tips on “how to do it...

(AP) Another high note for Beyonce _ the coveted cover shot of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The singer and now movie star ("Dreamgirls") posed on a Florida beach in a yellow-and-pink bikini by House of Dereon, the fashion label she started with her mother, Tina Knowles. There's also a photo spread inside. "The Dreamgirl As You've Never Seen Her," a cover headline teases. The 2007 swimsuit edition continues with a music them inside, featuring scantily-clad models posing with Kanye West, Aerosmith, Kenny Chesney, Gnarls Barkley and Panic! At the Disco for the camera of lensman Steve Erle.

When it comes to glue, Beyonce seems to have trouble avoiding sticky situations. Earlier this month, she appeared at the Dreamgirls premiere with a patch of oddly marked skin on her cleavage which seemed to be the result of overzealous application of sticky tape. Now during a performance at a concert in Florida, she appeared onstage with bizarrely bunched up skin by her hairline, after glue had been applied too tightly to hold her hair in position. The 25-year-old singer is believed to favour a special type of hair extension-where real human hair is woven and glued into her own...

NEW YORK - Beyonce Knowles had several surprise guests at a recent dinner, where members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals peppered the pop star with questions about her fur use. An eBay auction offered fans a chance to dine with Knowles, and PETA secretly placed the winning bid. At the dinner Wednesday at the chic Nobu 57 restaurant, members of the animal rights group confronted Knowles about wearing fur coats and using fur in her clothing line, House of Dereon. A video of the encounter, posted on http://www.tmz.com, shows a stunned Knowles, unresponsive to the allegations and...

<p>Tennis star Anna Kournikova has filed a countersuit against her parents, who are suing her over ownership of a Miami Beach mansion.</p> <p>Sergei and Alla Kournikova, who are separated and may divorce, sued their daughter in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on April 15, seeking to have the house partitioned three ways.</p>

PALM BEACH, Fla., March 3 (UPI) -- Pop star Beyonce Knowles' band helped capture an alleged mugger of a 91-year-old man in Palm Beach County, Fla., it was reported Wednesday. Three members of the band and a drug store employee chased the suspect Tuesday and held him for police, the Palm Beach Post reported. Police said Malcolm Clemons approached Reynold Caleen with a knife. He tried to pull the great-grandfather from his car and grabbed his wallet, police said. Caleen fought back, knocking the knife out of Clemons' hands. Clemons jumped into the car and tried to drive away, but...