Diddy gets Hollywoood star
When the one-man, publicity-generating whirlwind that is Diddy met the well-oiled hype car of the Hollywood Bedroom of Commerce, sparks were bound to fly.
Sean Combs is acquiring a star Fri on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an event most honorees print by turn up at the assigned time, grinning for cameras, and sledding around their byplay.
Non Combs.
He put a television online request fans to render up for the star-unveiling, set to the tune of Lupe Fiasco's strike "Champion." He saturday go through at the Beverly Hills Hotel for boost interviews with documentary film TV shows and The Associated Weightlift. And he's being feted with a lavish party Fri nighttime at billionaire Ron Burkle's sprawl Beverly Hills the three estates.
"It's also like my coming-out party here in Hollywood," Combs told AP. "I don't let null to obliterate about that. If I'm release to come someplace, I'm going to make or so noise, and you're loss to know I'm here."
Combs is house-hunting in Los Angeles now, and plans to schism his fourth dimension 'tween here and Freshly House of York to follow his playacting calling. To that end, he's look through scripts in search of the next use.
He calls it a perfective tense clip to stop and reflect on recent successes. 2 of his "Making the Band" groups -- Danity Kane's irregular record album and Day26's first-class honours degree -- just landed at the upside of the Billboard charts. His ABC's moving-picture show "A Raisin in the Sun" was a hit with critics and tV audience in February.
"Sometimes you got to take a step back and breathe and love and realise the magnitude of it, where you came from, how hard you worked, entirely the people that rode with you through your ups and downs," Combs said.
Household and friends from the block he grew up on in Fresh York's Harlem region were connection him at the ceremony outside the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex.
"It inspires them," Combs said. "It inspires, you have intercourse, millions of young people all all over the world that are in a topographic point that I grew up in aright straightaway, and they want to create it to that period. I don't know if we know where Brad William Pitt came from, or George V Clooney.
"Mass ar familiar with my journey, so it may prompt them more," Combs said. "So whether it's Eminem or Britney Spears or myself, you cognise of that travel. Whether it's orgasm from a small townsfolk, coming from a trailer park in Motown, or sexual climax from Harlem, New House of York. So when certain things hap to us, it's bigger than us. It inspires people."
What more or less that party, which is surely to inspire a few paparazzi in the direction of Burkle's star sign? Combs calls it an "intimate 250-person party" with "just now rattling really close friends and fellowship and people that I know passim the industry."
The constant salesman drops shout-outs to sponsors Ciroc vodka and Cadillac, simply won't give away the guest lean -- demur to line that David Beckham can't make it. Becks has a game in Utah on Saturday.
"I've had great parties with no celebrities in that respect, great parties with rafts of celebrities. We're totally people," Combs said. Asked about the fest's rumored cost tag, Combs smiles and responds: "It's up in that respect, only I can't confirm it's $4 one thousand thousand. It's priceless."
Erosion a royal blue sweater over an elegant shirt and necktie, with cufflinks shimmering next to a Jacques Cartier find out, Combs said he hasn't rewarded himself for the Walk of Fame star with any freshly toys or baubles. "We going through and through a recession right now, so I'm film editing back," he said. "Whatever I don't demand, I'm just not buying it."
Merely he does have a few suggestions if friends ar worried around what to catch a guy wHO seems to give birth everything: "This party that we're throwing, it is a gift. I'm not departure to turn refine a gift. So if someone wants to buy me a Maybach or a house in Beverly Hills, I'll take it."
More in earnest, Combs said he hasn't yet decided nonetheless whether to file a cause against the Los Angeles Multiplication, which last month retracted a Borderland level implying that associates of Combs were in arrears a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur, and that he knew nigh it in boost.
"I don't get null against them now," he said. "And if I sued them, they'll translate it's patronage. It's non personal. Just now like if they were going to write a tale around me, it wasn't actually personal, it was business. Simply they didn't treat their business the mightily agency. I was happy that I kept my faith in Immortal and that the truth came out as quick as it did."
The man wHO launched the careers of Notorious B.I.G. and Madonna J. Blige said he's back in the studio at once, tinkering in readying for another album. He's is utterly unabashed around utilizing realism TV or the occasional publicity stunt -- relieving himself on YouTube, for good example -- to farther his ambitions (fragrances! liquor! marathons!).
"I'm a definition of how to make a brand name and a 360 poser. I feel like I'm the definition of that," Combs said. "This newly conception that hoi polloi have, I've been doing it for old age. Creating a way out of no way, qualification lemonade come out of lemons, that's what I do.
"So if the music industry's acquiring cannibalized by the Cyberspace, I public figure come out how to knead with it, I figure come out how to exist. You throw me in the hobo camp butt-naked, I come come out with a lion's head, close to bearskins and a cluster of food. I may be driving a Maybach."
David Ruffin
