Excerpt:"50 Cent Launches Health Campaign for Kids
Cafeteria lunches – usually horrific in both taste and effect on the body – is at the center of a new contest from 50 Cent as part of his new campaign to encourage healthy eating habits among today’s youth.
50 is the spokesman and judge for a new nationwide cooking competition sponsored by Glaceau, which is partly owned by 50 and distributes his grape-flavored Vitamin Water drink, Formula 50.
Lady Jane DJ always said "50-Cent is a good actor". I was very saddened by the way movie critics bashed on 50's character in at "Get Rich ro Die Tryin". However, I knew that if filmmakers slept on him that they would be the ones loosing out. You go 50-Cent!
Excerpt:"Rapper 50 Cent hopes to expand movie cred in Irwin Winkler film
By JOHN K. WILEY - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Hip-hop music superstar 50 Cent once sold crack and dodged bullets in New York. Today, he sells vitamins and dreams of making it big in the movies, playing a soldier ducking enemy ammunition in Iraq in a new film directed by legendary producer Irwin Winkler.
Starring Samuel L. Jackson with Jessica Biel, Brian Presley and Christina Ricci, the film offers another platform for 50 Cent, whose platinum-selling music career takes a slight diversion for another of his passions: action movies.
"Home of the Brave" is the first of several new films in the pipeline about the conflict in Iraq and the postwar lives of soldiers who served there. Scheduled for release late this year, it chronicles the lives of three soldiers and a military doctor trying to adjust after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Excerpt:"50 Cent Lashes Out At Oprah Winfrey For Stereotyping Rappers
by Tashi Singh
Hip-Hop star 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, has lashed out at talk show host Oprah Winfrey because she discriminates against rappers, according to a published report.
'Fiddy' insists Oprah doesn't have rappers on her show very often because she doesn't want to offend her predominantly white audience.
