Five Minute Fix October 21st

Still HOT, COOL, VICIOUS! Hip Hop Female Pioneers Salt N Pepa brought down the house at the BET Hip Hop Awards. They took it back to My Mic Sounds Nice, you know that was the jam! They also performed Shoop, Big Girls, and Whatta Man (that included a montage of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Check out the show on BET this Thursday, October 23rd at 8pm.

Speaking of Barack Obama, he is leaving the campaign trail Thursday to return to his native Hawaii to visit his gravely ill grandmother Madelyn Dunham. Keep him and his grandmother in your thoughts and prayers.

Congrats to the ladies of the movie, The Secret Life of Bees. It came in third at the box office its debut weekend earning 11.1 million. Everyone is buzzing about this movie it’s a must see.

Actor Terrence Howard was just as shocked as we were to be eliminated from the movie, The Iron Man. Terrence says he found out he was replaced by Don Cheadle the way everyone else did, by reading stories on the internet and trade magazines. Now he has time to promote his new CD Me and the Band of Kings.

In an interview with NPR: "It was the surprise of a lifetime. There was no explanation. [The contract] just...up and vanished. I read something in the trades implicating that it was about money or something, but apparently the contracts that we write and sign aren't worth the paper that they're printed on, sometimes. Promises aren't kept, and good faith negotiations aren't always held up."

Just in time for the holidays. Celebrity Chef G. Garvin has released a new cookbook, Dining In. With this economy, we all have to learn how to turn it up in the kitchen and save our pennies.