Panache Report : Entertainment and Intrigue

The 'Precious star, who lost out in the Best Actress category at this year's Oscars to Sandra Bullock, doesn't want to be known for serious movies alone-and will even stop acting until she lands the part she wants.

She is quoted by gossip website Absolute Now as saying: "I've done a serious role and now I want to be funny.

"So I'm still holding on to my job just in case it doesn't work out. I work for the Fresh Air Fund and we send kids to camp. I love it but we'll have to see what happens."

The 26-year-old star also claims she wants to date Gerard Butler, saying the Scottish actor is "sexy."

She said: "I bumped into him yesterday. I feel like I stepped on his foot. He's kinda sexy. I'd hit that."

Overhearing her on the red carpet at the awards, 40-year-old Gerard confirmed his single status and joked: "I'm here, I'm available," to which she responded. "Let's grab a bottle of champagne and see where the night goes!"

Michael Jackson was a womanizer and often went out with girls, his three security guards, Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon 'BJ' Beard have revealed.

The late pop legend was dogged by rumors regarding his sexuality throughout the latter part of his life, but according to his trusted security team-Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon 'BJ' Beard-he was a heterosexual guy with normal desires.

Whitfield said: "Being a man, men know men, and we were around him long enough to know he was a man."

Garcia added: "He had desires of women like we do. He had lovers. In the cars that we had, we had a curtain that covered the back seat. You couldn't see in the back seat. They talked back there; they didn't do nothing out of bounds. You could hear the kissing."

The three men-who were referred to as the singer's 'Inner Circle' during their appearance on TV show Good Morning America-also insisted he was a great father to his three children, Prince Michael, 13, Paris, 11, and eight-year-old Prince Michael II, who is known as 'Blanket'.

Garcia said: "The kids were constantly saying, 'I love you, daddy.' They were like four buddies."

Jackson-who passed away last June aged 50-was also fiercely protective of his kids and would make his security team scour and remove magazines carrying news about him when the family were out in public.

Whitfield recalled: "I'd be ahead of him, because I know he's coming this way, and I'm looking at magazine racks that may have something about him on them and I'll turn it around.

"Sometimes he'd see them, and you would actually see him take them and turn them around so the kids didn't see them."

The Notorious B.I.G's mother has launched a plea to find the murderer still at large over her son's killing, on the 13th anniversary of him being gunned down in cold blood.

Jennifer Hudson's seven-month-old son David loves playing with their pet dogs and often tries to mimic them. The singer-and-actress says seven-month-old David enjoys spending time with the family pets and is already trying to mimic them.

Miles Davis' nephew has confirmed reports Don Cheadle will play the jazz legend in a new biopic. Vince Wilburn, Jr. reveals Cheadle will also direct the film and Herbie Hancock will score the project.

NEW YORK -- Investigators suspect two African immigrants slain at a Long Island condo owned by New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma (above) may have been killed in retaliation for a fake 'black money Nigerian scam,' police said.

Sekou Sakor and Ansu Keita were each shot in the head (execution style) at a vacant condominium in Woodbury, N.Y., owned by Vilma, who used to play for the New York Jets. There were no arrests.

Vilma was not there at the time and "there's no indication that he was involved," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The Saints began their offseason conditioning program Monday. The team has not released if every player on the roster showed up.

A lawyer for Vilma said his client "was as shocked as anyone" by news of the killings.

"Of course, he has absolutely nothing to do with this crime and will do everything possible to help the police solve it," said attorney Michael Tein.

Vilma moved out of the home, which is up for sale, in November 2007, the lawyer said.

Police officials said investigators believe the victims may have been mixed up in a so-called "black money" scheme. Victims are sent e-mails saying that they could receive $100 bills smuggled from overseas -- stained black to avoid detection -- if they purchase a special chemical to wash it off; what they end up getting is a pile of worthless paper.

It was unclear how Sakor, 31, and Keita, 32, both originally from Liberia, ended up at Vilma's home, where neighbors reported shots fired on Thursday night. Sakor's body was found Friday dumped in Queens; Keita's body was found in Brooklyn.

Kelly said investigators had recovered blood at the Long Island home and evidence of the possible money scam at the Bronx apartment the victims shared. Police also were seeking to question a relative of Vilma's who had access to the condominium, located in a luxury gated development about 13 miles from the Jets' former training camp at Hofstra University.

Nassau County police, who also were investigating, declined comment.

Vilma, 26, was traded from the New York Jets to New Orleans in February 2008. He signed a new five-year, $34 million with the Saints last month.

Source: Nola.com

"UNSOLVED MURDER MYSTERIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY"

The Atlas Vampire is the nickname given to the unknown assailant who committed the unsolved "Vampire Murder" (also known as the Vampire Murder Case) in Stockholm, Sweden in 1932.

On May 4, 1932, a 32 year old prostitute was found murdered in her small apartment in the Atlas area of Stockholm near Sankt Eriksplan. She had been dead for a couple of days, her skull had been crushed, and the detectives noticed that someone had been drinking her blood.

Georgette Bauerdorf, a twenty-year-old oil heiress who was found face down in a bath tub in her home at West Hollywood, California on 12 October 1944. She had been strangled with a piece of towel stuffed down her throat and although there was a large roll of $2 bills and thousands of dollars worth of sterling silver lying in an open trunk, Bauerdorf's jewelry and other valuables were not stolen. The police believe her murderer had unscrewed an automatic night light over the outside entrance of the apartment so it wouldn't go on and was lying in wait for her.

Barbara and Patricia Grimes disappeared on 28 December 1956, in Chicago, Illinois after going to a cinema to watch an Elvis Presley movie. Their disappearance launched one of the biggest missing-persons hunts in Chicago history. However, police were not able to determine what happened to the Grimes sisters. In a statement, Elvis Presley asked the girls to go home. On January 1957 their naked bodies were found off a road near Willow Springs, Illinois. The corpses contained various bruises and marks (for example puncture wounds in the chest that may have come from an ice pick) that were never fully explained.

Mary Jane Hanselman, a 16 year old sophomore at Sacred Heart Academy, Springfield, Illinois, was discovered north of the fairgrounds on April 27, 1958. She was bound with her own stockings and clothed in the uniform she was last seen wearing at a restaurant where she worked in Springfield; she had also been raped. A dishwasher at the Georgian, the restaurant where Hanselman worked, was arrested but there was insufficient evidence to hold him. Hanselman's cousin Isaac Morris wrote a book, "The Absence Of Goodness," loosely based on her life.

Boy in the Box, sometimes known as "America's Unknown Child" is a name given to an unidentified murder victim, approximately 4 to 6 years old. The body of the boy was found battered and naked inside a cardboard box on 25 February 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The case received massive media attention and pictures of the boy were placed in every gas bill in Philadelphia. It has been featured on the America's Most Wanted television series but despite all attention the case remains unsolved and the boy's identity unknown.

Lynne Harper, 12 years old, was last seen alive on 9 June 1959 riding on the handlebars of her friend Steven Truscott's bike near an air force base which is now Vanastra, Ontario, Canada. Two days later her body was discovered in a nearby farm woodlot, she had been raped and strangled with her own blouse. 14 year old Steven Murray Truscott was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, becoming Canada's youngest person to be sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Truscott was held in custody for 10 years: in 2007 (at the age of 62) his conviction was ruled a miscarriage of justice, although he was not declared innocent.

"NOSTALGIA"

While the late Teddy Pendergrass was recovering in the hospital from an auto accident that left him paralyzed. His wife had phoned Johnnie Wilder and explained to him how depressed Pendergrass was.

Pendergrass had known Johnnie for years but they had never spent a lot of time together or been close friends.

Wilder was a talented singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer of the group Heatwave. In the late 70's, they topped the charts with "Boogie Nights," "Groove Line," and the classic ballad "Always And Forever," which Johnnie sung lead on.

Pendergrass says, "Johnnie understood my problem in a way no one else could: A 1979 car accident had left him a quadriplegic. While I was in rehab, he paid me a surprise visit. My spirits rallied for the moment."

A few weeks later, Pendergrass arrived at Johnnie's house in Ohio. "Despite what had happened to him, Johnnie seemed at peace with himself and his situation. Johnnie had continued to write and produce and he was especially proud of his home studio."

Over the next few days, we went out a few times and attended church together. At one point, Johnnie and I started working on some music in the living room. Johnnie had a drum machine which I played with a pencil since I had limited movement of my hands. We probably could have really come up with something if I hadn't kept falling asleep.

Johnnie was the first person who really understood what I was going through. He was a living example of how life after paralysis could be if you decided to make it so.

Sadly, Johnnie died in his sleep a few years ago, cause of death remains unknown.

Source: "Truly Blessed," by Teddy Pendergrass

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Dominique Desiree: (Superstar attorney who unwittingly gets entangled in a web of deceit & deception).

Also starring: Jacks (CIA), G-Mac (Weapons Specialist), Dayna (HIV Assassin), Lear (CIA/Hollywood Fixer), Nikki (Freelance Assassin), Phelps (3-Charley/Sweeper), Lauryn (heads a cocaine banking cartel) and Cartier, (Former Black Hollywood drug kingpin/International Fugitive).

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