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Jamie Foxx is starring in an upcoming Quentin Tarantino film called Django Unchained. This could be either really good, or really bad—no in between—because the Oscar winning actor will be playing a freed slave who gets taken under the wing of a German bounty hunter. The film is inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and considering Tarantino writes and directs, it should be at least entertaining.

The film also stars Leonardo DiCaprio (as en evil plantation owner) and Kerry Washington (as Django’s still enslaved wife) along with Samuel Jackson, Don Johnson, RZA, and other familiar names.

Flavor Flav is notorious for talking up his brood of children, but apparently he hasn’t been taking care of all of them. The noted hype man is scheduled to go to court for failing to pay child support for three of his seven offspring.

The 53-year-old owes $100,000 to Angie Parker, the mother of the three children. The Albany, New York resident alleges that Flav has not paid his $837 monthly installment in several years. Parker’s battle with the father of her children dates back to 2010, when a collection agency came after him for the then $63,458 bill.

While he has been skipping out on his financial duties, the New York native continues to work hard at business ventures. After closing down his chicken restaurant last year, in March, he opened the Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor, in Las Vegas.

In recent years, T-Boz, of TLC fame, has struggled with both health and financial difficulties — and there appears to be no signs that there will any let-up in the immediate future. In an embarrassing new development in her story, the singer’s 2005 Honda may be repossessed.

T-Boz might be forced to travel in the passenger side of her best friend’s ride … ’cause Honda is gunning to repossess the singer’s car.

The best word to describe “Men in Black 3” is Will Smith is back.

The movie is light and fun, and the charming Will Smith reminds us why he is one of the world’s most well-liked movie stars. Smith and Jones return with the ‘Men In Black 3’ sequel, which arrives 10 years after “Men in Black II.”

Director Barry Sonnenfeld has never been able to recapture the magic of the original film from 1997 and the joys of the lightning-in-a-bottle pairing of Smith with the great Tommy Lee Jones and his drier-than-the-Sahara delivery. The two of them in matching suits is already enough to provoke some laughs. Add goofy aliens, giant guns and that brain-cleansing Neuralyzer thingie and you’re bound to get some satisfaction.

The movie opens Friday at the theaters.

LONDON – Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats on hits like “Stayin’ Alive” and “Jive Talkin'”, died on Sunday after a long fight with cancer. He was 62.

The singer had colon and liver cancer and, despite brief improvements in his health in recent months, passed away on Sunday evening.

Gibb died at the London Clinic surrounded by his second wife Dwina, sons Spencer and Robin-John and daughter Melissa.

Barry, now the last surviving member of the Bee Gees, had been in Britain in recent weeks to see his ailing brother, but was in the United States when he died.

Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later this week, a spokesman said.

DETROIT  — Three young men were arraigned Sunday in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans.

The office of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy identified the suspects as Detroit residents Montoya Givens and Christopher Moorehead, both 20, and Brian K. Young, 18, of Macomb County’s Clinton Township. They are charged with carjacking, unarmed robbery and conspiracy, said Maria Miller, Worthy’s spokeswoman. The charges carry up to life in prison.

The men appeared in Detroit’s 36th District Court and were ordered held on $200,000 bonds. Their preliminary examinations, in which a judge decides where there’s enough evidence for the case to go to trial, are June 1.

LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston’s last recording – a new duet with “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks – was released on Monday ahead of the singer’s upcoming film, “Sparkle.”

“Celebrate,” produced by R. Kelly for “Sparkle” which will hit movie theaters on August 17, was recorded by Houston shortly before her sudden death aged 48 in February.

Sparks on Sunday delivered a heart-felt tribute to Houston at the Billboard Music Awards. She sang a rousing rendition of “I Will Always Love You,” before presenting a posthumous award to Houston’s teenage daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.

“Sparkle,” a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, tells the story of three sisters who become Motown stars who have to deal with the pressures of fame. Houston plays Sparks’ mother.

NEW YORK — Donna Summer’s funeral will be a private one for family and close friends.

Publicist Brian Edwards said in a statement Friday that Summer’s family is overwhelmed and appreciates the outreach from fans and friends, but that her funeral services will remain private.

He didn’t provide details on when and where services would be held.

Summer died Thursday morning of lung cancer at age 63 in Naples, Fla. Edwards also said that the singer did not smoke.

Summer earned the title of Queen of Disco after releasing a string of dance hits in the 1970s, including “I Feel Love,” ”Love to Love You Baby” and “Last Dance.”

Will Smith doesn’t like to be kissed on the red carpet — especially by male reporters. While promoting Men in Black 3 in Moscow, a Ukrainian reporter asked Smith for a hug, he obliged only to find that same reporter trying to give him an open mouth kiss. Smith lightly smacked the man and later said he was “lucky I didn’t sucker punch him.” The Christian Post reports.

“What the hell is your problem buddy?” Smith says angrily, shoving the white-clad man backwards. The reporter, surprised, stared at Smith as he walked away.