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Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) In Vogue Magazine

Nicki Minaj will be featured in an upcoming Vogue Magazine issue.  Here is a preview of what Nicki had to say in the article

“She recounts this from a Manhattan hotel suite, clad in leggings, a custom-bejeweled jacket from the Versace for H&M line (she performed at its extravagant launch), and an early–Marilyn Monroe fuchsia wig. Minaj also reveals a far soberer side than her stage act might indicate. “A huge part of me wanted to be a lawyer! I would do a really good job as a prosecutor,” she alleges. That’s not the singer’s only alternative personality—famous for creating stage alter egos with names like Roman Zolanski, she confesses that she sometimes imagines herself clad in a bikini and high heels, cooking dinner for a breadwinning husband.

 

The New Spider-Man

Axel Alonso was appointed Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics a year ago and the comic book creator hasn’t wasted anytime ushering the iconic brand into the future. This past fall, Marvel rebooted theUltimate Spider-Man series and put a with a new spin on our neighborhood friendly superhero. With great power comes great responsibility, and Alonso knew in order to be successful in this new leadership role, he had to take a risk. So when it came time to make a decision to kill off Peter Parker and replace the popular character with a biracial teenager from Brooklyn– Alonso pulled the trigger.

It’s been four months since the world was first introduced to Miles Morales, the half African-American and half Puerto Rican successor of the beloved Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Miles has received an overwhelming reception from fans –new and old– across the globe –as Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 broke the first day sales of new releases in comics digital download history– and some detractors in Glenn Beck. Still, as Miles continues to swing into action as an important milestone in comic-book history, Life + Times sat down with Alonso to discuss Marvels new direction, race in Hollywood, hip-hop and Tim Tebow.

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Watch The Throne Tour Backstage Part 3

In VOYR‘s latest episodes of the Watch The Throne Tour we go backstage for the first show in Atlanta with Kanye manager Don C creative director Virgil Abloh stylist Rene Padora, stage designer Es Devlin and many others.

 

 

Ms. Winfrey

From Abrams Books comes The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy, a retrospective celebrating 25 years of Ms. Winfrey’s iconic television show. To commemorate the end, of what some might call an era, Oprah’s impact on both American and international culture is unprecedented, highlighting the big O as one of the most powerful and influential television personalities of all time. Here, to commemorate the recent launch of her hardcover book, we present some of her off camera moments, showcasing the personality behind the talented Ms. Winfrey.

Watch The Throne Tour Backstage

With The Watch The Throne Tour taking place Kanye West’s & Jay-z provides us a behind the scenes look at the WTT tour. In this episode they takes us backstage at MSG.

Magic Johnson to Buy LA Dogers

 

The former Lakers star and businessman is partnering with Mark Walter, CEO of financial firm Guggenheim Partners, and former Washington Nationals president Stan Kasten on an effort to acquire the storied baseball franchise from Frank McCourt.

Magic Johnson, businessman Mark Walter and former baseball executiveStan Kasten will submit a bid to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The alignment of the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar with Walter, the CEO of New York and Chicago-based financial firm Guggenheim Partners, and Kasten, former president of the Washington Nationals, pairs a prominent local figure with an out-of-town investor with deep pockets and another with serious baseball savvy. Many observers believe such a grouping is needed in the aftermath of Frank McCourt’s rocky tenure as owner of the storied franchise.

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Johnson's ownership of the Dodgers would be historic: No Major League Baseball team has ever been owned by a black person. It would be fitting for the Dodgers organization to be the first to achieve that milestone --  the franchise was the first in Major League Baseball to integrate when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Kasten would serve as team president if the Johnson/Walter/Kasten bid is successful.

"Stan Kasten is my man," Johnson told Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke on Friday. "He's a winner, he's built two incredible organizations, and he's well respected. That is what was important to me. I had to get with a winner, a guy who understands baseball inside and out."

Blackstone Advisory Partners, the investment bank that is handling the sale of the bankrupt team for the beleaguered McCourt, is expected to send potential buyers information on the team later this month. The Dodgers could fetch more than $1 billion. A first round of bidding is slated for January.

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In October 2010, Johnson sold his minority ownership stake in the Lakers in a move widely believed to be a harbinger of his investment in another sports franchise. Since then, there has been speculation that Johnson would make a play for the Dodgers. He also is part of the Anschutz Entertainment Group-headed consortium working to bring an NFL franchise to the company’s planned Farmers Field in downtown L.A. He told ESPN.com in September that he would be a part of the ownership group that will solicit a team to play at the stadium.

Prior to his tenure running the Nationals, Kasten was also president of the Atlanta Braves. During his 16-year stint with the Braves, the team won five National League pennants and the 1995 World Series. He ran the Nationals for almost five full seasons and stepped down at the end of the 2010 season.

A handful of other high-profile businessmen and Los Angeles figures have expressed interest in the Dodgers. ESPN reported Nov. 30 that one prospective ownership group fronted by former sports agent and Chicago White Sox executive Dennis Gilbert also would includeLarry King. Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres and Magnolia Pictures, also has shown interest. In April, THR rounded up several potential entertainment business players that sources said could make a run at the team, including Mandalay Entertainment Group CEO Peter Guber, Miramax Films co-ownerThomas Barrack and Cuban.

“You are going to want to have local representation because you didn’t have it last time and it’s a model that works,” said Jeff Marks, managing director of Premier Partnerships, a Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment business development firm. “The community is really demanding that.”

But, because of the Dodgers’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the team will be sold through a bankruptcy court auction and will ultimately go to the highest bidder. “It is going to come down to money,” Marks said. McCourt filed for bankruptcy in June in an effort to prevent Major League Baseball commissioner Bug Selig from seizing the team. While Marks expects that MLB will have a say in which ownership group prevails, he cautioned that the inclusion of a token local figure in an ownership group may not be enough to “get it done.”

Walter's Guggenheim Partners, which would not be involved in the ownership group, is an owner of New York-based Prometheus Global Media, the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.

Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com; Matthew.Belloni@THR.com

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Facebook Will IPO as Early as April 2012

 

Facebook will make its long-anticipated move to go public between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The report, which cites “people familiar with the matter,” says that Facebook is considering raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value it at more than $100 billion. This is consistent with a report in June that used the same eye-popping number of zeros to describe Facebook’s expected valuation.

If realized, the valuation would make Facebook’s IPO one of the largest in history — more than four times as big as Google’s $23 billion IPO in 2004, and likely one of the 10 largest IPOs of all time.

While the first rumors of Facebook’s impending IPO predicted that the company would go public during the first quarter of 2012, recent reports had suggested that the offering had been pushed back to “September or later.”

The Wall Street Journal‘s sources cautioned that Facebook has not made any final decisions in its internal discussions about the timing of its filing — and that market conditions will ultimately determine how much money the company seeks and the value of the company.

Mashable has contacted Facebook for comment and will update this article with any additional information.

 

Report: Facebook making phone, code-named 'Buffy'

Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• All Things D says phone is 12 to 18 months from hitting stores
• HTC phone will run a modified version of Google's Android, report says
• INQ Mobile's Cloud Touch and Cloud Q put Facebook front and center

(Mashable) -- Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous "Facebook phone." That's according to a report from All Things D, which says the phone is probably 12 to 18 months away from hitting store shelves.

Codenamed "Buffy" after the vampire slayer of the same name, the phone will run a modified version of Google's Android, but Facebook is reported to be tweaking the system "heavily."

HTC is known for modifying Android on its phones with its HTC Sense interface, and both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have created tablets with highly customized versions of the Android, so it's possible that Facebook is adopting a similar strategy.

Part of the package would be serving up Facebook apps via HTML5 support. This would allow users to play games like Farmville and Poker directly from the Facebook app. While most developers offer their apps as separate downloads from Facebook, that prevents them from tapping into active Facebook users, while cutting Facebook off from potential revenues. Buffy would presumably bridge the gap.

Buffy will be far from the first Facebook phone. Earlier this year INQ Mobile released two phones, the Cloud Touch and Cloud Q that put the service front and center. Then HTC took it a step further with the Status, which came to the U.S. on AT&T this summer and featured a prominent dedicated Facebook button. Finally, Facebook released an app designed specifically for the iPad in October.

Apple, however, hasn't played as nice with Facebook as the service might have liked, however. When Apple unveiled iOS 5, the latest major update to the software on iPhones and iPads, it featured deeper integration with Twitter -- letting users share photos directly from the phone's camera app, for example. An option for sharing to Facebook was noticeably absent.

Both HTC and Facebook told Mashable that they don't comment on rumor and speculation, though the Facebook spokesperson added, "Our mobile strategy is simple: we think every mobile device is better if it is deeply social. We're working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers, and application developers to bring powerful social experiences to more people around the world."

The collaborative picture Facebook paints is a far cry from the ultra-competitive war among mobile platforms with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others vying for consumers' hearts and minds. Perhaps the most telling aspect of the rumored phone is the codename. With a name like Buffy, the Facebook phone's mission is clear: slay all comers.

See the original story on Mashable.com