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Diana Ross was set to lead a Supremes reunion tour in 2000, with a talent fee reported at $15 million to $20 million. Mary Wilson, who co-founded the group with her in 1959, was offered $2 million, then $3 million, and said no.
Ross went ahead without her, and the tour was pulled after 12 shows.
In the video below, Wilson is asked if that was enough. "I think fair would be more of a better word." Ross tells Barbara Walters: "I think if we had offered her the moon, she would not have been happy."
The offers were pegged to what each woman earned that year. Ross says Wilson was making $1 million a year, so the tour offered her double for 30 shows. "I'm the Supremes; she left the Supremes," Wilson said, turning down "a measly $3 million."
Wilson later said she took a last-minute deal, and Ross blocked it.
The case for Ross: she says she stayed out of the talks, then doubled the offer. Wilson would not have paid for a hotel, a gown or a set, and all 12 of the group's No. 1 singles had Ross on lead.
If you build something with partners, agree now how a reunion gets split, or the bigger name will set the price.
Wilson died in 2021. She and Ross never sang together again.
So was Ross offering the going rate for her old backing singer, or pricing out the friend she started the group with?
I post one famous deal like this every day, with who got paid, who got played, and the numbers that never made the poster.
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Jasmine Guy secretly hid tupac in her new york apartment after the 1994 quad studios shooting. he left the hospital because he didn’t feel safe. she said nobody knew they were friends, so her place was the one spot people weren’t watching. he and his family stayed about two weeks while a private doctor treated him. she later called it her diary of anne frank moment. She’s a real one 😍
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🤴🏿 Michael Jackson refused to perpetuate the whitewashed narrative of Kemet. Despite Steven Spielberg's alleged refusal to support the production of the short film-music video, Michael Jackson stayed resolute 🌸.
He personally financed his own film to create the classic "Do You Remember the Time."
Today, it remains the only authentic depiction of Kemet as it truly was 🤎
Micheal Jackson show-cased the greatness of Black Africans in ancient Egypt (Kemet), in the 90s!! This is the most accurate depiction of the Kemetyu Africans ever put in the mainstream media.
#kemet #michealjackson
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The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.
He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.
Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.
He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.
Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.
He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.
He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.
He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.
The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.
The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.
Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.
He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.
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Honus Wagner looking for the perfect bat. One of my all-time favourite pictures
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In 1974, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and I held a press conference at Madison Square Garden to announce that he would perform a July 4th concert at MSG for the National Youth Movement, an organization I founded in 1971 when I was just 16 years old. I was only 19 years old when we stood together at that press conference.
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The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's autopsy report found no water in his lungs or airways, despite the grand jury report suggesting Nolan Wells' death was an accidental drowning. The cause and manner of death remain undetermined, with documented evidence of head injuries noted in the report.
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Tyrone Bogues grew up in the Lafayette Court housing projects in East Baltimore.
When he was five years old, a man in the neighborhood started firing at a group of kids who had broken his window. Bogues was hit with stray buckshot in the arm and leg and had to be hospitalized.
Five years old.
He has said that moment is exactly when his life changed direction.
"I think it triggered it all when I got shot at the age of five years old," he said, when asked when he decided he was going to be a basketball player.
The rest of his childhood didn't get easier. His father was sentenced to 20 years for armed robbery when Muggsy was 12. His older brother struggled with drugs. He once watched a man in his neighborhood get beaten to death.
In the middle of all that, he found a basketball court.
And then he stopped growing.
Bogues topped out at 5 foot 3, in a sport where the average player is more than a foot taller. Everywhere he went, he heard the same thing.
"When I used to go onto the basketball court and hear all the negative words, like, you're too small, why are you pursuing this game, it really had a major impact on my confidence."
Then he said the thing that explains his entire career.
"After that traumatic experience of being shot, I didn't think anything was devastating. And it definitely wasn't words."
Nothing anybody could say to him was worse than what he had already lived through.
So he played. At Dunbar High School in Baltimore he was part of one of the greatest high school teams ever assembled, alongside future NBA players Reggie Williams, David Wingate and the late Reggie Lewis. Over his junior and senior seasons, Dunbar went 59-0.
Wake Forest took him. As a senior there he averaged 14.8 points, 9.5 assists and 2.4 steals a game.
In 1987, the Washington Bullets drafted Muggsy Bogues 12th overall.
He lasted 14 seasons in a league where the average career is under five years.
He became a starting point guard, mostly for the Charlotte Hornets, where he is still the franchise's all-time leader in steals. He finished with 6,726 career assists, top 25 in NBA history, and 1,369 steals. When he left Charlotte he was the league's all-time leader in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Teammate Glen Rice said Bogues had the heart of a lion. Bogues used to tell teammates that the moment he had the ball, they'd better start running, because he would find them.
There have only ever been 26 players in NBA history 5 foot 9 or shorter. Bogues is still the shortest man ever to play in the league.
He got his family out of Lafayette Court once he made it. Decades after retiring, he started the Muggsy Bogues Family Foundation, which works on food insecurity in Baltimore and funds trade school scholarships for kids from neighborhoods like the one he came from.
A five year old took buckshot in a Baltimore courtyard and decided nothing would ever scare him again.
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LaVENA JOHNSON, 19 YEARS OLD, WAS SERVING HER COUNTRY IN IRAQ. THE MILITARY RULED HER DEATH A SUICIDE —BUT HER FAMILY HAS SPENT YEARS QUESTIONING THAT CONCLUSION:
The Autopsy/photographs #revealed Johnson had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, b… | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_…
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🎂 **Sylvester Stallone Turns 40 — Hollywood, 1986**
A nostalgic summer night with Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Brigitte Nielsen, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford. ✨ A simple birthday cake, a camera flash, and six icons of an unforgettable Hollywood era.
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Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, and Dolly Parton.
Four of the most iconic women who revolutionized the music industry.
Now none of them are with us anymore.
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Four young people were hanged from a Mississippi bridge in 1918. Two of them were sisters. Both sisters were PREGNANT.
Maggie Howze, 20. Alma Howze, 16. And two brothers — Major Clark, 20, and Andrew Clark, 15.
Shubuta, Mississippi. December 1918. A white dentist had been killed, and the town settled it without a trial.
A mob took all four from custody and drove them to the Chickasawhay River bridge — the same span where, twenty-four years later, two fourteen-year-old boys would be hanged, a case we have already told you about.
Alma Howze was close to full term. Witnesses at her burial reported what that meant. We will not print it.
The NAACP investigated. Names were known in that county. Nobody was ever charged with anything.
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In June 📸1996, a high school student named Tashaunna Howard jokingly wrote a fan letter to Tupac Shakur asking him to be her prom date after her boyfriend broke up with her.
She never expected a response but Pac actually showed up solo at her doorstep, gave her $1,500 to buy a dress, and took her to the dance in a white limousine.
A legendary moment of how deeply he cared about his fans. 🖤🕊️ Rip to the legend 🕊️
