Mackenzie Phillips

At 10:00 AM, officers responded to Terminal 4, where 48-year-old Phillips was being screened by TSA. During the screening process, some baggies and balloons believed to contain heroin and cocaine were recovered.

The former “One Day at a Time” star has had a long history of drug abuse.

actress mckenzie phillips has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance after being stopped at Los Angeles International Airport.

Airport police confirmed that Phillips, 48, was held in custody at LAX after security screeners allegedly discovered “what appeared to be heroin and cocaine” in her possession.

She was booked into jail in Van Nuys on a felony drug possession charge, with bail set at $10,000, according to an airport police spokesman. Phillips’ agent had no comment on the incident.

Phillips, who gained fame on the 1970s sitcom “One Day at a Time,” was reportedly later fired from the show for drug abuse. She has publicly spoken about her battle with drugs and her sobriety.

I know that a great many of you may not even remember mckenzie phillips from her hey day in the early 80’s but I do and know that she has since dealt with major drug issues over the years which, it would seem, she is still struggling with today. Hopefully this arrest will finally help Mackenzie come to grips with her demons. Sad, sad news.

The actress, 48, has been known to have problems with substance abuse. She has spoken publicly about her struggles during her time on the television comedy series,One Day at a Time. She left that production twice, due to drug addiction. Her claim to fame was her famous role inAmerican Graffiti, over 30 years ago. It was at least 10 years ago that her drug problems were public, according to the L.A. Times.

The most recent and famous appearances occurred on the 1990s TV hit, Beverly Hills, 90210, where she played a counselor, but she has worked regularly since then, theL.A. Times said.

Another interesting fact, in case you didn’t know, Phillips is the daughter of the late John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, reported the L.A. Times.

Airport police were called to the scene and arrested Phillips on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance.

“She is being booked at Pacific Division and then transferred to Van Nuys,” adds Holcomb. Bail was set at $10,000.

Phillips, who played sister to Valerie Bertinelli on the long-running CBS show, is well acquainted with the booking process.

During One Day at a Time’s 1979-80 season, she was collared for cocaine possession.

After turning up late for rehearsals on multiple occasions, producers gave her a six-week leave of absence. But her behavior continued to worsen until producers gave up and fired her.

Following a stint in rehab, Phillips rejoined the show, only to quit two years later when her drug problems persisted.

The daughter of Mamas & the Papas founder John Phillips (whom she blames for her drug habit) and socialite Suzy Adams, Phillips is the product of a showbiz family. Her stepmother is singer-actressMichelle Phillips and half-sisters include Bijou Phillips and Chynna Phillips.

Mackenzie Phillips, who performed as part of the revived Mamas & the Papas until her father’s death in 2001, got her start in the industry at the age of 13 in the 1973 TV movie Go Ask Alice, about a 14-year-old girl pulled into a world of sex and drugs. Other credits include roles in American Graffiti, Baretta, ER,NYPD Blue and, most recently, CBS’ Cold Case .

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has just announced that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty will be charged with 15 counts of perjury and must turn themselves in by 7am on Tuesday. Worthy has said if the Mayor and Ms. Beatty do not turn themselves in by this time, arrest warrants will be issued for them.

In a startling decision, totally unexpected by some, Kym Worthy has proven that her office is serious about the text message scandal that the City Council feels has tarnished the city’s image.

 This Christine Beatty relationship map is interactive. Click around to explore relations in the map.

“This case was about as far from being a private matter as one can get. Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything. That is what this case is about,” Worthy said at a news conference.

“Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?”

A perjury conviction could bring up to 15 years’ imprisonment and force Kilpatrick to relinquish the mayor’s office.

Former Police Chief Jerry Oliver said he was surprised by Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown’s ouster.

Days before she recommended that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick get rid of Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown in 2003, chief of staff Christine Beatty got some advice from the police department.

But it didn’t come from Chief Jerry Oliver.

Instead, Cmdr. Shereece Fleming-Freeman, Oliver’s chief of staff, offered this unvarnished recommendation in a text message: “It is obvious that he needs to be gone, he just needs to be gone.”

Christine Beatty

Kilpatrick dismissed Brown two days later, on May 9, 2003. Oliver said he never saw it coming. The ouster set off a chain of controversies that dog the mayor to this day.

Text messages show that while Fleming-Freeman secretly lobbied for Brown’s removal, then-Assistant Chief Ella Bully-Cummings helped the mayor’s office obtain the first of two city-funded Navigators for first lady Carlita Kilpatrick.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Oliver said recently that Bully-Cummings did so without his knowledge, which Bully-Cummings denies.

Fleming-Freeman, now a deputy chief, declined comment. Mayer Morganroth, Beatty’s lawyer, also declined to answer questions.

In Fleming-Freeman’s case, the text exchanges also raise questions about whether she told the truth when she later testified at a deposition in Brown’s whistle-blower suit against the city.

Text message records show several exchanges two days before Brown’s ouster.

“Can he just be fired?” Beatty wrote. “Doesn’t he revert back to the lowest unappointed rank?

“No,” Fleming-Freeman responded, “at the D.C. Level and higher they serve at the pleasure of the chief and mayor.”

But in January 2004, eight months after urging Beatty to fire Brown, Fleming-Freeman said in her deposition that she was surprised by Brown’s firing.

She was asked whether she ever conversed with Beatty about Brown’s fate before his ouster.

“No, sir,” she answered under oath.

The apparent contradictions in Fleming-Freeman’s testimony are the latest in a series of inconsistencies in the sworn statements of city officials in connection with Brown’s departure.

The Free Press, which obtained about 14,000 messages from Beatty’s city-issued pager in portions of 2002 and 2003, first revealed the text messages in January. They show the mayor and Beatty lied at the trial on Brown’s lawsuit last summer when they denied a sexual affair and gave misleading testimony about whether they fired Brown.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is to announce today whether the mayor, Beatty and perhaps others face perjury or other criminal charges.

Oliver speaks on ouster

Oliver, interviewed earlier this month in Phoenix where he now works, said Brown’s firing surprised him and that he had no idea that anyone on his staff had been consulted by the mayor’s office for advice.

As it turned out, Beatty got bad advice from Fleming-Freeman about whether Brown could be fired.

After Brown’s removal, Beatty learned the deputy chief could only be demoted to lieutenant, not fired.

Text messages previously disclosed by the Free Press show the mayor and Beatty discussed the botched effort to remove Brown.

“I’m sorry that we are going through this mess because of a decision that we made to fire Gary Brown,” Beatty wrote six days after Brown’s ouster. “I will make sure the next decision is much more thought out. Not regretting what was done at all, but thinking about how we can do things smarter.”

Kilpatrick responded: “True! It had to happen though. I’m all the way with that!”

Brown declined comment.

Accommodation is a theme

The willingness of high-ranking cops to accommodate the mayor’s office shows up repeatedly in the text messages.

Oliver told the Free Press he was unaware his subordinates at times communicated directly with Beatty, the mayor’s point person for the police department, on subjects such as Brown’s ouster and Oliver’s choices for key positions in the department.

When Oliver resigned in October 2003, after his gun was found in checked airport luggage, Kilpatrick appointed Bully-Cummings to replace him.

Oliver said the secret texts show that politics interfered with police business.

“You can’t trust anyone within the Detroit Police Department because everyone is a sieve for the mayor and his people,” he said. “I think it just creates a lot of paranoia. That’s what happens in an environment where everyone feels like: ‘I have to snitch out the chief to look good in the mayor’s eyes or Christine’s eyes.’ “

Shown the messages, Oliver shook his head and said, “Wow … Shereece.”

The whistle-blower case

Brown and former Officer Harold Nelthrope won a $6.5-million verdict against Kilpatrick and the city last summer.

After pledging to appeal, Kilpatrick abruptly settled the case, and a case involving a third cop, for $8.4 million in October.

The Free Press later revealed that the mayor settled within hours of learning the cops’ lawyer had copies of text messages showing Kilpatrick and Beatty had lied under oath.

One of Oliver’s priorities as chief was reforming the department, which found itself under federal monitoring after years of questionable practices.

Detroit officers were cited for killing residents at a rate higher than any other big-city police force, clearing officers in questionable civilian shootings, making illegal dragnet arrests and having an inordinate number of prisoner deaths. Many of the problems were detailed in Free Press reports.

Oliver chose then-Deputy Chief Cara Best to oversee the department’s compliance with the U.S. Department of Justice.

On May 7, 2003, Fleming-Freeman sent Beatty a text message on Oliver’s decision. Beatty apparently was not pleased, though it is unclear why they objected to Best working with the U.S. Department of Justice.

“The chief did not wait on a response from you, he just announced to the execu’s that cara will be moved to become the liaison with DOJ,” Fleming-Freeman wrote.

Beatty responded: “It will be changing though. I just talked to the Mayor about it.”

Fleming-Freeman: “Thanks.”

Beatty: “Did you try and warn him?” she asked of Oliver.

Fleming-Freeman: “No, he thinks this is his call.”

Later that day, Bully-Cummings sent her own text message to Beatty to convey Oliver’s displeasure at being second-guessed by the mayor’s office.

Bully-Cummings: “He is livid! Will call you later this evening. He asked Shoulders and I if we had any discussion with you and whether we were involved.” Bully-Cummings was referring to Assistant Chief Walter Shoulders.

Beatty: “What did you all say?”

Bully-Cummings: “We said no.”

Bully-Cummings declined to talk to the Free Press about her text exchanges with Beatty, including those on Best. But in a statement, Bully-Cummings said she was puzzled by Oliver’s contention that appointments were made without his consent.

Oliver put Best in the liaison position in August 2003. Bully-Cummings moved her out that December, shortly after Oliver left the department.

Best could not be reached for comment.

“Now, having read some of the text messages, it’s clear that some of the most trusted people within the police department turned out to be people who were undermining my efforts,” Oliver said. “Clearly, this is evidence that Christine Beatty was more in charge of the police department than I was.”

Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy hit Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty with a combined 12 count indictment on perjury, obstruction of justice, and misconduct charges regarding the firing of Internal Affairs Deputy Chief Gary Brown and officer Harold Nelthrop for investigating the fabled Mannoogian Mansion stripper party where the mayor’s wife is rumored to have attacked stripper, Tamara Green. Green later turned up dead. After this morning’s press conference reporters asked Worthy if she found any information that proving the stripper party occured or anything connecting the mayor to the murder of Tamara Green and Worthy replied that the investigation was ongoing, implying other charges may be filed.

Rumors hit the Net on Monday that a sex tape featuring Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis on its way after supposedly ‘leaked’ photos from the video began appearing on Hollywood gossip sites.

The photos, one of which is linked to onCrazyDaysandNights.com, feature a dark-haired woman performing a sex act on an unidentified man. The woman in the picture does appear to look quite a bit like Davis. However, similar photos featuring other stars in the past have been found to be look-alikes or Photoshop-created fakes.

According to several gossip reports, the picture is one of several being used to market a sex tape featuring Davis. HollywoodGrind.com reports at least one pay porn site is rumored to have posted multiple photos from the video. The web site in question, according toScottFayner.com, is ClubTaylorRain.com and more still clips from the sex tape are supposedly posted in the site’s “members section.”

However, HollywoodTuna.com reports that subscribers say they have not found any more “Davis” pictures on the site or any further information about a possible sex tape.

Marketing ploy to get people to pay out to sign up for a porn site or impending scandal for the formerly squeaky clean Davis? Information is still sketchy, but it should be noted that Taylor Rain, the porn star featured on ClubTaylorRain.com, is an attractive brunette who might just look a bit like Kristen Davis with the right lighting.

SEX and the City star Kristin Davis is the latest celebrity to be ensnared in a sex tape scandal, weeks after a similar scandal hit Gene Simmons of KISS.

The claims about Davis have surfaced on celebrity website What Would Tyler Durden Do.

Davis and Simmons join a long line of sex tape celebs, also including Paris Hilton, Rob Lowe, and Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson.

Porn star Ron Jeremy has claimed some stars deliberately release intimate tapes of themselves to revive their flagging careers.

“I love the excuse they use: ‘Oh, I don’t know how they got a hold of it!’ It’s such a big joke now. Any celebrity that’s not doing so good, they jump by having a good sex scandal.”

Is there a Kristin Davis Sex tape?  The adorable little starlet that once ruled Melrose Place and is now busy working on and promoting the feature film for Sex and the City (as Charlotte York of course) and she is reportedly shown in some sort of a tape where she is involved with a man and of course it is being shopped around and there are photos of the tape that are allegedly being  leaked online.

Does Kristin Davis have a Tape floating Around? (Image: Wenn)

Is it for real?  The Daily Telegraph, Australia has the report calling it a scandal.  There are still photos that have been leaked online and the reports are churning through the Hollywood blogs at a high rate of speed.  Color me skeptical, the photos look a bit like her but I’m not convinced.

The Telegraph notes the obvious and reports if its true, Davis will join an infamous list of stars who’ve had tapes released into the public arena Crazy Days and Nights also has this report and a link to one of the still photos that is allegedly of Kristin.  The first link is safe but if you keep clicking it eventually won’t be.

May will claim that this is timed to promote the film while others will claim it is a cruel hoax aimed at Kristen.   Are denials on the way from the Davis camp?  
 

BLACK PREACHER SAYS OBAMA ‘PIMPS WHITE WOMEN’: Harlem’s James David Manning’s anti-Obama sermons all over the Internet.

James David Manning Calls Obama Dirty Names While Insulting his Congregation.

Have you all heard of “Pastor” James David Manning? You can watch him here. He’s a joke and consequently, his JUNK gets posted often.

You need to listen to this clip of this false minister as he calls Obama all types of dirty names and insults Obama for have a white mother. He then insults his congregation for supporting Obama, calling them “maggots” and “despicable”. I was amused to hear this raging flake claim that Bill Clinton has “done so much” for blacks folks.

In short, this false minister is delusional and his followers are out of their minds to sit there in that church and tolerate the racism and bashing that he subjects them to. GO HERE to listen to this insanity

Pastor James David Manning has been the pastor of Atlah World Missionary Church since 1981. Pastor Manning leads a congregation of over 1,200 people in Harlem, NY.
Pastor Manning has gained attention for his controversial remarks that have been viewed on websites like Youtube. Pastor Manning has gone as far as calling Creflo Dollar (of World Changers Ministries) “a Times Square Pimp”, and has even said that “Oprah Winfrey has jungle fever.”

Those words and actions of Pastor David Manning are a 360 degree difference from information produced by Atlah Ministries like this: http://atlah.org/pdf/YourHealthInFocus.pdf

Are you wondering what Atlah means? No trace of the word can be found in the dictionary. The Atlah World Wide Youtube page states that Pastor James David Manning received the name from God. Here is a “snippet” from the Atlah Ministries Youtube page on how the name came to be.

“On September 14, 1991, I was home praying at my favorite place. My routine in prayer was well established; I knelt, observed the verses of the Lord’s prayer as found in Matthew 6. From there as was my custom, I waited on the Holy Spirit to inspire me.

I am not sure how long I had been praying, but I heard myself say the word ATLAH: then the Holy Spirit stopped me. He then said, “see now the word you have spoken is the new name I have given for the land formerly called Harlem.”

So what do you think? Is Pastor James David Manning jealous? Angry? Or just giving us tough love? You make the call.

have been abuzz over a Harlem minister who preaches sermons against White House hopeful Barack Obama and often refers to the senator as “a good Negro” not to be trusted, “a pimp” and a “mac daddy.”

James David Manning of Atlah World Ministries has largely been written off as a complete nut by bloggers who have seen clips of his irrational anti-Obama sermons via his YouTube site.

For example, one of his sermons accused Obama of using “big chested white women in tight t-shirts and short pants” to launch his presidential campaign, referring to the video featuring “Obama Girl.” Apparently, Manning is not aware that the “I’ve Got a Crush On Obama” clip was the brainchild of 32-year-old advertising executive Ben Relles, and not the Obama campaign.

Manning, a former marketing executive, has also called Obama “white trash” and says black people should never vote for a black man who has not been to jail, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Jesus Christ as great leaders who have all been imprisoned.

Another clip shows Manning criticizing Obama’s black, male supporters – insinuating they are all homosexual, have impregnated black women and abandoned their children. He says in the video, “Sixty-eight percent of all black children born in America, fathered by black men, the black men that you see standing around Barack Hussein Obama, don’t marry the girls that they make pregnant.”

Another video posting features Manning talking about Obama having a white mother. He states: “Isn’t it interesting that when a man has some white blood in him that’s visible, all of a sudden he becomes the darling of the Negro people?”

Source: EurWeb, HickTownPress