THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Hello ALL! I've been MIA for a minute now on a MUCH NEEDED vacation.....so it feels GREAT to be back to blogging again.  Anyways, SOOOOOOOOOOOO much has happened in the last week. Alicia Keys is PREGNANT!!! She is also engaged to her Producer-Boyfriend Swizz Beatz. I am happy for Alicia because bringing a child into this world is ALWAYS a blessing! I wish her and Swizz the BEST! I just hope he doesn't treat Alicia the SAME way he did his ex-wife Mashonda!!!! GOOD LUCK with that ALICIA!!!

Gary Coleman died on Friday, May 28th at the VERY YOUNG age of 42? "What you talking bout Willis?" I couldn't believe it! It seems like those "Different Strokes" kids have had MORE trouble! Todd Bridges with his drug issues and Dana Plato with her drug issues and her unfortunate death from drug overdose and now.....Gary Coleman! He was such a cute little kid! Apparently Coleman died after suffering from a brain hemmorhage. He was in the hospital in Utah and on life support and it was terminated and he died at 12:05 p.m. What a HORRIBLE way to GO!!!!!

In other news, Al Gore and his wife Tipper are getting a DIVORCE!?! I mean REALLY.....after 40 years? People.....after you're with someone for THAT LONG of a time, you can't MAKE IT WORK????? The sad part is that they were high school sweethearts and to their friends and family they APPEARED to be happy.  The Gores e-mailed a statement on Tuesday, ""We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate. This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration. We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further." HOW SAD!!!! :-(

I just heard the GREAT news that Mariah Carey and her husband Nick Cannon MIGHT be expecting a BABY! How wonderful! Mariah was scheduled to be in Tyler Perry's new movie, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," but she dropped out of the movie which has sparked all of the pregnancy speculation. If the pregnancy rumors ARE TRUE...then I am sooo HAPPY for Nick and Mariah! A lot of people thought that there marriage would not work, but I am glad to see that they have ignored all of the naysayers and are still together. CONGRATS Mariah and Nick!