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‘Empire’ Ratings Continue To Fall

Fox execs are sweating in their loafers after “Empire” TV ratings lost another million viewers this past week.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the hip hop soap opera lost another 1 million viewers on Wednesday night.

“Though the series still easily won Wednesday night, in both the key demo and total viewers, it slid another half of a point among adults 18-49 for an average 4.6 rating,” the publication wrote. “The Fox drama also averaged 12.2 million viewers.

Empire has seen its time-shifting take rise with each same-day fall since the lofty premiere, so it’s becoming apparent that it currently isn’t nabbing the appointment viewing status that it had during its freshman season.

Insiders are stating that Fox Network execs are ignoring the live viewer ratings and focusing instead on the artificially inflated DVR ratings.

Remember, “Power” star 50 Cent blamed “Empire” ratings dip on “too much gay stuff.”

Others are blaming Lee Daniels for the loss of three million viewers since its premiere because he’s way overdoing it on the celebrity guest appearances, robbing the show of its believability, credibility and authenticity.

Source | Atlanta Daily World

Dope Flix: 1900’s Female Journalist Jessie Tarbox With Her Camera

1900’s– Female photojournalist Jessie Tarbox on the street with her camera.

Photo: Old Pics Archive

What Does Steve Jobs’ Widow Have Against ‘Steve Jobs’?

Laurene Powell Jobs reportedly pressured Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and every studio in Hollywood to not make the movie.

She must have had a change of heart.

Steve Jobs’ widow encouraged Walter Isaacson to write the book on which Steve Jobs—the movie that opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles—is loosely based.

“If you’re ever going to do a book on Steve,” Laurene Powell Jobs told Walter Isaacson in 2009, “you’d better do it now.”

Isaacson, the author of biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein, had been invited by Jobs to write his. Isaacson had demurred. Not now, he told Apple’s co-founder and CEO. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.

But Jobs was ill—more ill than Isaacson knew. Jobs had just taken a second medical leave to deal with the spreading cancer that would kill him in 2011. His wife, who knew Isaacson from Teach for America, where they both sat on the board of directors, also knew that his time was short.

“[She] did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish,” Isaacson writes. “In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths.”