“TAKERS”; #1 Movie In America!

Takers, starring Idris Elba, Michael Ealy, Clifford “T.I.” Harris, Chris Brown, Matt Dillon & Zoe Saldana came in as a HUGE box office success, beating out The Last Exorcism as the highest grossing film this weekend. $20.5 million is extremely impressive for this independently produced film with such a diverse cast.

Box office estimates originally had Exorcist leading the weekend by $300,000 over Takers, bringing in $21.3 million. And while the numbers may have been close, the significance is greater for Takers, which went into theaters as the weekend’s underdog. “It’s really an incredible testament to the power of the people,” Rainforest Films co-founder Will Packer told AllHipHop.com. “Hollywood expected us to do closer to $10 million since we were smaller and on far less screens.”

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

Paris Thought Coke Was GUM!!!! (smh)

This one here takes the cake, as Paris Hilton goes down in the books as being “Bimbo Of The Decade.”  According to police, this chick thought a baggie that contained .8 grams of cocaine was GUM! (GTFOH) And now Hilton faces with a Oct. 27 arraignment.

It’s all quite funny because initially, while speaking to police following a weekend traffic stop, Hilton denied the baggie belonged to her. In fact, she said, the purse wasn’t hers either; she had borrowed it from a friend. But somehow, according to Hilton, the contents of the purse were split between hers and the friend’s. She claimed ownership of a broken Albuterol pill, Zig Zag wrappers commonly used to smoke marijuana, $1,300 in cash and credit cards. But, “She said several cosmetic items inside the purse were not hers,” according to the police report.

Really Paris!!?? REALLY!!!!????? (smh)

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

Rick Ross -vs- Slim Thug … LIVE On Twitter.

“She dated Slim Thug/ Now she f**k with me/ She finally made it to the biggest boss, luckily”– Rick Ross.

And that was the sin that did Jezebel in. When I first heard that line from Rick Ross I thought “W-T-F!!???” And Slim Thug obviously thought the same. Slim wasn’t please & took to the Twitter platform & aired his grievances. Here’s what Slim had to tweet:

Ricky Rozay fired back with:

And Torch of Triple C’s chimed in with:

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

Tiger Woods Moves Into NEW Bachelor Pad.

This dude let’s no grass grow under his feet. Just days after finalizing his divorce, Tiger “Pussy Cat” Woods moved into a downtown Manhattan apartment during the weekend, when he also was playing in a tournament just across the Hudson River in Paramus, NJ. Tiger’s divorce from Elin Nordegren was official last week, nine months after the golf great was exposed as a sleazy serial adulterer. She reportedly netted nearly $100 million of Woods’ estimated $500 million to $600 million in assets and cash. The pair agreed to a “shared parenting” arrangement for their 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and 1-year-old son, Charlie.

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

GANGSTRESS OF THE WEEK: Woman Kills Beau For Being Broke!

I say it was GANGSTA, not insanity, that drove a luxury-loving woman to suffocate her Brooklyn handyman boyfriend with a plastic bag and duct tape once his money ran out. Raquel Glenn was sentenced to 17 years yesterday for the torture killing of Chiwa (Freeman) Chan, who tried to break off their relationship when he could no longer afford her lifestyle. Glenn, who met Chan in Lenox Hill Hospital’s psych ward, has insisted that voices in her head commanded her to kill Chan, who was found dead in a chair in his Bensonhurst home, his head covered with the bag and tape.

Assistant District Attorney Michelle Kaminsky told the judge that the real reason was greed. “The (state-appointed) psychiatrist was of the opinion the defendant committed this crime, not because of any psychiatric condition, but because she was angry at her current circumstances without any money and without any prospects of getting any – and she took that anger out on Freeman,” she said.

Glenn, 55, looked nothing like the beauty she was said to once be as she faced a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge yesterday. Her whole life, Glenn, who was raised in Washington, only dated wealthy businessmen, according to a law enforcement source. A smitten boyfriend even set up a trust fund for Glenn valued at over $100,000, but she burned through the money and he kicked her out in 2006. Soon after, Glenn checked into the psych ward at New York University Medical Center, claiming she was suicidal. In actuality it was simply because she had nowhere else to go, Kaminsky said. Two days later, she left NYU and went into Lenox Hill Hospital’s psych ward, where she met Chan who was being treated for bi-polar disorder.

Chan, 45, a longtime handyman at a Manhattan building, invited Glenn to move into his home on W. 7th St. in Bensonhurst. (Hmmm, not far from me) She accepted the offer, but soon started resenting her life with her working-class lover. “The defendant in her psych interview talked about this with contempt, how she had never been with a blue collar worker and her disappointment at ending up in the bowels of Brooklyn, coming from the upper East Side of Manhattan,” Kaminsky said. Glenn still frequented swanky salons and restaurants forcing Chan to take out a $50,000 home equity loan. When he couldn’t take her leeching any more in August 2008, and asked her to leave, she killed him. WOWZERS!

Despite the D.A.’s demand for a stiffer sentence and a letter from Chan’s five siblings in Hong Kong saying she deserved the death penalty or life in prison, Justice Matthew D’Emic sentenced Glenn to 17 years to life. Defense lawyer David Roche insisted she is remorseful.

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.