Florida Sentinel Bulletin

LOS ANGELES — Authorities said Sunday they believe Katherine Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson and the guardian of the pop legend’s three minor children, is safe in Arizona with family members after she was reported missing.

The disclosure came after another concerned family member officially reported her missing Saturday night amid a dispute over the estate of her superstar son.

A person familiar with Katherine Jackson’s whereabouts said she is with her daughter, Rebbie in Arizona and following a doctor’s orders to rest. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Sheriff’s officials later said they believe the 82-year-old is in Arizona with a relative, but that they were still trying to establish contact with her.

Katherine Jackson’s whereabouts caused concern for some family members in recent days, and her granddaughter Paris Jackson issued a frantic plea on Twitter early Sunday.

“I haven’t spoken with her in a week I want her home now,” she posted from her Twitter account. She also tweeted a number for people to contact in case they saw her grandmother.

LOS ANGELES – The release of Warner Bros.’ movie “The Dark Knight Rises” brings to an end one of Hollywood’s most enduring franchises, as the studio searches to find a new one capable of matching Batman’s box office success.

The Time Warner-owned studio has been Hollywood’s King of Franchises for years. Over the last decade it generated worldwide ticket sales of $12 billion from its “Lord of the Rings,” “Batman,” and “Harry Potter” films.

Eight of the 20 highest-grossing films of all time come from one of those franchises, according to website Box Office Mojo.

“The Dark Knight Rises” will be the last of the Batman series that began in 2005, director Christopher Nolan said.

“Harry Potter,” Warner Brother’s biggest franchise, ended last summer with the largest of eight films, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” which generated $1.3 billion worldwide.

‘Dark Knight Rises’ Reportedly Earns $160M

LOS ANGELES — “The Dark Knight Rises” was on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2-D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film.
Media outlets reported Sunday that the latest Batman sequel earned $160 million to $162 million.

That amount would best the $158.4 million debut of “The Dark Knight” in 2008 and give “Dark Knight Rises” the third-highest domestic weekend opening ever, after the 3-D films “The Avengers” with $207.4 million and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2” with $169.2 million.

Almost a week before their wedding, The Game and his longtime girlfriend, Tiffany Cambridge, has suddenly called off the ceremony. Nine months after the elaborate proposal that was filmed at the elementary school where she worked, the west-coast rapper takes full responsibility for the cancellation, claiming it was all his fault. The two were set to wed on July 28th, with a reality series surrounding their nuptials.

The Game explained that the cancellation is his fault.

Rap pioneer and Brooklyn native Ms. Melodie, member of Boogie Down Productions, has died at 43. Born Ramona Scott, she was once married to iconic hip-hop artist KRS-One. The cause of her death is currently unknown.

Ms. Melodie hit the rap scene in the late 80s as part of a rap collective that was known for socially conscious rap.

Her first single, “Hype According to Ms. Melodie,” debuted in 1988, and her first album Diva was released on Jive Records a year later. She was featured in the legendary rap single “Self Destruction” and had a short cameo in Queen Latifah’s “Ladies First” music video.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Halle Berry was reportedly rushed to the hospital Tuesday night after an accident on the set of an upcoming film.

The 45-year-old actress “hit her head on concrete after taking a nasty fall” on the set of ‘The Hive.’

Berry was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center by ambulance, shortly after the film set was shut down.

The Hive is a thriller co-starring Abigail Breslin and Jennifer Hudson’s fiancé, David Otunga, about an emergency operator who must “confront a killer from her past” in order to save a young girl’s life.

NEW YORK — Producers of a musical based on the life of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are seeking an exceptionally talented young actor — one who can play a preteen Gordy, a young Michael Jackson and a precocious Stevie Wonder.

Gordy launched an audition website on Tuesday to help find the young man between the ages of 8 and 11 who can sing, dance and act like the King of Pop in his Jackson 5 days and Wonder at about age 11.

 “Motown” will open on Broadway next spring.

Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys hosted the Obama campaign’s ‘Women Vote 2012 Summit’.

The event was held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in center city and was open to the public.

Noah Stewart grew up in Harlem dreaming of the day he would take center stage at Carnegie Hall in his hometown of New York and The Royal Opera House in London.

And while most of his musically-inclined childhood friends emulated Beyonce and D’Angelo, Stewart looked up to the legendary Black-American soprano, Leontyne Price.

His album titled, “Noah,” topped the UK classical charts, the first for an Black artist!

And yes, he did make it back to Carnegie Hall, in 2009, to perform Mozart’s “Requiem” with conductor John Rutter.

Stewart, whose album includes operatic versions of “Nights in White Satin” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” in addition to more traditional operatic pieces, believes his UK success is at least partly due to his being “a nontraditional opera singer people can relate to,” and hopes that this leads to success in his home country as well.

He’s currently appearing as Radames in “Aida” at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, through Aug. 25.

During a comedy routine last weekend in California, comedian Eddie Griffin made a homophobic joke that offended a woman in the audience. She responded by throwing a drink at Griffin and he retaliated by throwing a water bottle back at her.

Eddie Griffin is threatening to sue TMZ over the story they broke regarding the incident.