Rihanna’s single, “Take A Bow” manages to overtake Leona Lewis’s single, “Bleeding Heart” this week bumping it to #2 on the Billbaord chart.

“Take A Bow” was at #53 the previous week and now this week it rose 52 positions to be #1 in one week.  That is actually amazing.  The jump, which was nearly a record breaking leap on the Billboard chart, is the effect of its high digital sales of the single that reached up to 267,000 units this past weekend.

In other news, Rihanna will finally take the next step, acting.  Word, is she is supposedly set to play in a drama movie entitled, “Mama Black Widow” co-starring Kerry Washington, Mos Def and Macy Gray.  The movie is set in the 1930’s, centering around a black family migrating from the segregated Mississippi to the Chicago’s black community.  Otis Tilson the head of the family struggles to keep the family together in spite of his own demons which include, alcoholism, pimping, sexual deviation and racial degradation circulating around them.

Rihanna’s character has yet to be unveiled.

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Angela Bassett, 49 has joined the cast for the upcoming final series of “ER”. 

Bassett will play a nurse with a troubled past whose arrival causes a storm.  Bassett’s character will make her debut in epidsode two, returning to Chicago after working as a tsunami relief worker.

Angela Bassett has recently finished filming the biopic, Notorious which depicts the rise and fall of rapper, Notorious BIG.

Kim Kardashian has gone from reality television to the big screen.  Kim, 27 has signed on to a new comedy film that is rumored to be a spoof similar to Scary Movie franchise.    And Kardashian is delighted by her new challenge.

“She reportedly said, “I have accepted a part in a major studio film.  It’s a comedy.  It’s starting the first week in May and it’s filming in Louisiana.”

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Terrance Howard hosted a listening session for his debut album, “Terrance Howard - Me and the Band of Kings” at the Sony Club in New York.  The album includes songs of broken relationships on “It’s All Game” and songs of self-reflection on “Plenty”; and the reminiscent of a live, big band, jazz feel.

During this listening session, Howard told the audience that he began writing songs at age 16 in his “rainbow colored notebook” and discussed recording an “emotionally sobering” song that began as a letter to his ex-wife. 

The album is currently set to be released in September.

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