Thank God! Bynum Officially Divorces Hubby

TV preacher Juanita Bynum is now officially divorced from the man who allegedly beat her up last year.

Bynum and Thomas Weeks ended their six-year marriage Friday, after a tense hearing in divorce court. The proceedings were stopped at one point when Bynum admitted the two had sex after their separation.

Bynum filed for divorce last September, just one month after Weeks smacked her down in an Atlanta hotel parking lot. Weeks plead guilty to assault and is serving three years' probation.

In their settlement, Weeks has been ordered to immediately return several household items -- including artwork and silverware -- to Bynum, and she's agreed to pay $40k of Weeks' attorney fees. He also gets to keep his 2004 Land Rover. Neither side gets alimony.

The two were married in an over the top ceremony in 2002, and have toured the country lecturing on love and relationships. Bynum is the leader of a huge ministry and has sold thousands of motivational books and tapes. Bishop Weeks, co-wrote "Teach Me How to Love: The Beginnings" with Bynum.

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Artist LeRoy Neiman donates $1M to create Harlem youth arts centre

NEW YORK - Artist LeRoy Neiman has donated US$1 million to create a permanent home for a Harlem community arts centre.

Neiman is best known for his colourful and energetic paintings of sporting events and portraits of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, The Beatles, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. He plans to attend the ribbon cutting for the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center Tuesday evening.

Arts Horizons has been providing after-school arts programming for 30 years. The centre will become its first permanent home. It will offer classes in painting, computer animation, photography, pottery, and video and film-making on weekday afternoons and weekends.

Neiman, who says he's a product of the Depression and a broken home, is making the donation to give children "an opportunity to express themselves in ways they never thought possible."

The centre is scheduled to officially open next month.

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The Flirts

   
Artist: The Flirts

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 Made In America

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AFTRA-AMPTP Deal Reportedly Close

Although trade journals had predicted that a deal between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists would be struck by today (Friday), AFTRA President Roberta Reardon on Thursday said only that "We're making progress," while published reports indicated that the bargaining talks may spill into the weekend. Nevertheless, most observers expressed the conviction that the two sides will reach an agreement within days. They were less certain about whether a similar agreement would be thrashed out between the AMPTP and the Screen Actors Guild. Indeed, entertainment attorney Jonathan Handel, a frequent blogger on Hollywood's labor unrest, predicted that if no agreement between SAG and the studios/networks is reached by June 30, SAG negotiators are not likely to seek strike authorization since they may not be able to persuade 75 percent of their members that they can force the AMPTP to accept a better deal than the ones negotiated with AFTRA, the WGA, and the DGA. The more likely scenario, Handel wrote Thursday in the legal daily Los Angeles Daily Journal is that producers will halt production until a deal is reached -- in effect, imposing a de facto lockout. "Let's hope last year's work stoppage doesn't yield a bad sequel as well," Handel concluded.


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