BET Awards 13 Announcements - TV

 

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BET Awards 13 Announcements - TV

By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist

   Rych McCain, Twitter.com/rychmccain and Facebook

BET Awards 13 Announced With Drake Heading The Pack With 12 Nominations!

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L-R: Chris Tucker, Chris Brown, Charlie Wilson, Kendrick Lamar, Tamar Braxton and moderator Stephen G. Hill, President of BET  Music Programing and Special Events

       The BET nominees were announced this week at a press conference on the rooftop of L.A.'s Icon Ultra Lounge, located down the street from the Nokia Theatre where the BET Awards will be staged for the first time. Singer Tamar Braxton and rapper Kendrick Lamar, both of whom received nominations, started the announcements off by reading names of the nominees along with BET’s Stephen G. Hill, President of Music Programming and Special Events who hosted the press event. 

     Drake led the pack with 12 nods followed by Lamar and 2 Chainz tied with eight nods. A$AP Rocky has five with Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Miguel tied with four. Drake is nominated three times for the top prize, video of the year. His hit, "Started from the Bottom," will compete with his collaborations with 2 Chainz ("No Lie") and A$AP Rocky ("Problems"). The top award has 10 nominees, including Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," Kanye West's "Mercy," ''Adorn" by Miguel and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop."

Singer Charlie Wilson, The 2013 BET  Cadillac Lifetime Achievement Honoree

Charlie Wilson came on stage to comment on his receiving this year's Cadillac Lifetime Achievement Award. He was followed on stage by Chris Brown who was announced as the first confirmed performer. Brown told those gathered that he "just wants to have fun" that night. "I always strive to give my fans what they want. I always want to bring something new and original." 

     

Chris Brown

Brown later reveal during the Q and A portion that he has finished the video for the song "They Don't Know" and that song features vocals from the late Aaliyah "that haven't been heard before." Another confirmed performer for the telecast will be R. Kelly. 

     This year's BET Awards will be a three day event titled “BET Experience At L.A. Live’ featuring concerts, comedy Shows, a film festival, a fan fest and Seminars from June 28-30 in partnership with AEG Live. The culmination will be the 13^th Annual BET Awards broadcast “Live” from The Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 8:PM ET/PT on the BET Networks.

   Superstar comic/actors Chris Tucker will bring his own special brand of insanity as BET Awards host. Often repeating and shouting the BET theme "Anything can happen,” throughout the press event, Tucker joked, "I don't know what I'm going to do... I might not even show up. So anything can happen."  Then Tucker quipped, "I’ve got to the check the mail?  That's the first thing at the BET Awards. You got to be paid."  Noting he was joking he added, "All money he gets goes to charity i.e., The Chris Tucker Foundation." 

Below is the full list of nominees:
 

BET Awards ’13 Nominations

Best Female R&B/Pop Artist
Beyoncé
Tamar Braxton
Alicia Keys
Rihanna
Elle Varner

Best Male R&B/Pop Artist
Chris Brown
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Justin Timberlake
Usher

Best Group
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Mary Mary
Mindless Behavior
Slaughterhouse
The Throne (Kanye West & Jay-Z)

Best Collaboration
2 Chainz feat. Drake: "No Lie"
A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar: "Fuckin' Problems"
French Montana feat. Rick Ross, Drake and Lil Wayne: "Pop That"
Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake: "Poetic Justice"
Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z: "Suit & Tie"
Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz: "Mercy"

Best Male Hip Hop Artist
2 Chainz
A$AP Rocky
Drake
Future
Kendrick Lamar
 

Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Azealia Banks
Eve
Nicki Minaj
Rasheeda
Rye Rye

Video of the Year
2 Chainz feat. Drake: "No Lie"
A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar: "Fuckin' Problems"
Drake: "Started From The Bottom"
Drake feat. Lil Wayne: "HYFR"
Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake: "Poetic Justice"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz: "Thrift Shop"
Miguel: "Adorn"
Rihanna: "Diamonds"
Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z: "Suit & Tie"
Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz: "Mercy"

Video Director of the Year
A$AP Rocky & Sam Lecca
Benny Boom
Director X
Dre Films
Hype Williams

Best New Artist
Azealia Banks
Joey Bada$$
Kendrick Lamar
Trinidad Jame$
The Weeknd

Best Gospel Artist
Deitrick Haddon
Lecrae
Tamela Mann
Mary Mary
Marvin Sapp

Best Actress
Angela Bassett
Halle Berry
Taraji P. Henson
Gabrielle Union
Kerry Washington

Best Actor
Don Cheadle
Common
Jamie Foxx
Samuel L. Jackson
Denzel Washington

YoungStars Award
Gabrielle Douglas
Jacob Latimore
Keke Palmer
Jaden Smith
Quvenzhané Wallis

Best Movie
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap"
"Sparkle"
"Think Like a Man"

Subway Sportswoman of the Year
Gabrielle Douglas
Brittney Griner
Candace Parker
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

Subway Sportsman of the Year
Victor Cruz
Kevin Durant
Robert Griffin III
LeBron James
Ray Lewis

Coca-Cola Viewers Choice Award
A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar: "Fuckin' Problems"
Drake: "Started From The Bottom"
Kendrick Lamar: "Swimming Pools (Drank)"
Miguel: "Adorn"
Rihanna: "Diamonds"
Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z: "Suit & Tie"

Centric Award
Tamar Braxton: "Love and War"
Fantasia: "Lose To Win"
Miguel: "Adorn"
Nas: "Daughters"
Charlie Wilson: "My Love Is All I Have"

Best International Act: Africa

2Face Idibia (Nigeria)
Toya Delazy (South Africa)
Donald (South Africa)
Ice Prince (Nigeria)
R2Bees (Ghana)
Radio and Weasel (Uganda)

Best International Act: U.K.
Marsha Ambrosius
Estelle
Labrinth
Rita Ora
Emeli Sandé
Wiley

 

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Savannah Jayde - Movie

 

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Savannah Jayde - Movie

By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist 

Savannah Jayde

Saving The Day In Space Warriors!

     Arc Entertainment has a new movie out called “Space Warriors.” It involves six highly skilled teens who were hand picked to participate in a summer space camp competition at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. When the competition really heats up, the participants are not aware that their ultimate challenge will be to solve a dangerous crisis aboard the International Space Station amid world wide media attention. 

    

Savannah Jayde

Dani is one of the teen team members and she is played by Savannah Jayde. Fans of the Nickelodeon teen show “Big Time Rush” will recognize Jayde as one of “The Jennifers.” She has also had roles on TV shows such as “Amazing Love,” “Mellissa & Joey,” “Corey and Lucas” and “The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” to name some.

    

The Teen Space Crew

When asked to describe her role as Dani in “Space Warriors,” Jayde lights up, “We had a chance to see the finished movie and we’re really happy with it. The film is about a group of kids who all come to the same camp and we go through the motions of learning how to be an astronaut. We’re competing against this team that has won every year. They are such a great team and we are kind of the underdogs and still kind of learning our way around but we end up saving NASA. 

   

 

Cast and Director at the Premiere

When she got the role, what kind of training did the cast have to undergo to make what they were doing look real on screen? Jayde explains, “A Couple of days before we started filming, we had to walk around the space camp and kind of see what the normal kids who were there had to go through. We did scuba diving and the centrifuge which is a crazy, big contraption that you get in and it makes you want to throw up. We also did the helidunker which is this huge, kind of helicopter like thing that gets dropped into this lake and you have to get your team out safely and you have to cover each other and swim out. That’s a part of the aviation plunge and it was pretty difficult but we all had a good time and we all looked out for each other which was nice. So we had to do all of the stuff that the regular camp kids do.” In case we didn’t mention it, the filming took place at the actual youth space camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

     When she sees her work on the big or little screen, is she critical of herself? Jayde laughs, “Absolutely! I think all actors are their #1 critic. Once you see something and it is in print you know you could have done it a different way. But you have to look at it like that’s what you did, it was great and everybody liked it if you get good feedback so you have to put it aside. But I would definitely say that I’m a pretty hash critic of myself.”

Savannah on red carpet

    Having started as a child model in her native Dallas, Texas then moving to Los Angeles with her family to pursue acting; eighteen year-old Jayde has arrived at that interesting point in her career and in life of transitioning from child/teen to young adult. History has shown that some former child stars fall off the wagon during this period and become victim to peer and fan pressure thereby wanting to shake their cutesy-wootsy, squeaky clean image for that of trying to be bad, hard, oversexed, drugged-out and excessive partying. How does Jayde plan to get through this chapter? She ponders, “I think it’s definitely something that you kind of prepare yourself for. You see people ahead of you going through it. Some people come out really well and some come out not so well. It all depends on how you grew up and what you believe and how your family is and where you see yourself going in your career. You can make good and bad decisions and chose the path you go down and obviously I plan to take the right one. I don’t want to do projects that are trashy. I have some fans and I’d like to do something that they can grow with me.”

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