Noemie Lenoir

Supermodel Noemie Lenoir avoided the possiblity of a bad relationship thanks to Page Six. After the publication ran an item about the model getting cozy with baby-wipes fanatic Terrence Howard, Lenoir received scores of phone calls from Howard’s past conquests. “Calls were flooding into her agency,” one source told us. “At least 50 women called to tell Noemi to stay away after seeing the Page Six item. She now wants nothing to do with him.”

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Damn !!! What the hell was he doing to these broads ??? They’re just jealous that they aren’t taking those trips to Mexico with “Mr. Baby Wipes” and living lavish anymore. SMH.

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Wow !!! The last couple of weeks have been hell for this guy:

Oscar nominee Terrence Howard is facing a $5 million lawsuit from a composer who claims the actor attacked him backstage at the Broadway play they worked on together earlier this year. Tex Allen accuses Howard of punching him the face while he rehearsed music for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in January.

In legal papers obtained by the New York Post, the composer, who gives no explanation for the alleged assault, claims the incident ruined his music playing and he is seeking the huge sum in damages.
Howard starred alongside James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad in the New York revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic play.

First he loses his role in Iron Man 2 to Don Cheadle, now this.

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Actor Terrence Howard says that he was surprised to learn that Don Cheadle would replace him in “Iron Man 2.”

“It was the surprise of a lifetime,” the actor and musician told National Public Radio on Tuesday. “There was no explanation, the contract just up and vanished.”

Howard said that he read news reports that money was the issue, saying the contracts he signs apparently “aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on sometimes.”

Cheadle assumes the role of James Rhodes, a character that becomes Iron Man’s sidekick War Machine in the comics. Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role as weapons mogul Tony Stark.

Howard, who also starred in “Hustle & Flow,” is promoting his new album “Shine Through It.”

Fans of Iron Man are not happy:

For well over a year, Terrence Howard has been excitedly talking up his role as Jim Rhodes in the “Iron Man” franchise, promising reporters that Tony Stark’s most indispensable sidekick would eventually don an armor suit himself as the heroic War Machine. Jim still might. Howard, on the other hand, reportedly won’t be along for the ride.

The Oscar-nominated star of “Crash” and “Hustle and Flow” has been booted from “Iron Man 2,” and will be replaced by Don Cheadle, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His departure reportedly comes after negotiations between the thesp and Marvel Studios broke down over financial considerations, “among other differences.”

The actor’s reported disappearance from the franchise is both curious and startling, given how positively giddy he has sounded about continuing to work on the comic book adaptation, which set up an expanded role for the character in the series’ first installment.

“I’m anxious to get into the next one. I don’t want to be a sidekick. I don’t want to be a wingman. I want to have my own thing,” Howard beamed in a May interview with MTV News. “I want to be War Machine.”

As recently as August, Howard confirmed his participation in “Iron Man 2,” saying he was preparing for the role by working out “like a demon.”

“That’s sometimes what we need, that other motivation to make us get buff,” he said at the time. “So me and Robert [Downey Jr.], we made plans to really get some incredible trainers, train together and get massive. Get massive enough [so we don't] need to suit.”

Little is known about the plot for “Iron Man 2″ beyond oblique hints from director Jon Favreau that the sequel would feature appearances by longtime villain Mandarin and, possibly, other Avengers.

Scripted by “Tropic Thunder” scribe Justin Theroux, “Iron Man 2″ is set for release May 7, 2010.

Howard is known to be an egomaniac and it probably cost him the role that would propel his career to another level. You’re not on Will Smith’s level yet Terry. SMH.

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Actor Terrence Howard lost his mother as she could no longer fight her battle with cancer. Anita Williams passed way earlier in the week after a very long battle with the disease. The actor, who ahs been riding high recently with the success of Iron Man and the release of his first album, will take some time off to grieve along with his family.

His representatives told People that “He appreciates everyone’s support during this difficult time”.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to he and his family.

AS an actor in films like “Hustle & Flow,” “Crash” and “Iron Man,” Terrence Howard has played characters whose calm demeanor conceals a suppressed rage that is the result of dreams deferred, denied or realized on only barely acceptable terms. That he is African-American inevitably introduces race into his portrayals, but not because of anything he does, at least overtly. Whether it’s in the script or not, Mr. Howard not only doesn’t play the race card, he buries it in subtleties. So if, as a viewer, you find yourself searching for it … well, that’s the point, and the problem. That complex dynamic extends into Mr. Howard’s music, or to people’s expectations of what it will be. He said his own record company assumed that he would make a hip-hop album after the song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” which Mr. Howard performed as the pimp and aspiring rapper DJay in “Hustle & Flow,” won an Academy Award for best original song for its composers, the rap group Three 6 Mafia, in 2006.

But Mr. Howard, 39, refused to perform the song at the Oscars because of its language and content, and his own musical tastes lie in a decidedly different direction.

For example he is prone to rhapsodizing about the 1972 soft-pop hit “Vincent,” Don McLean’s ode to van Gogh. “Even at 12 years old, listening to it, I could hear Don McLean talking about his own disappointments,” Mr. Howard said recently in a restaurant in this Philadelphia suburb, where he lives. “I loved being able to see that. I mean, Don McLean, Jim Croce and Paul Simon — all of them are incredible storytellers. I wanted to tell stories.”

Regardless of his intentions, Mr. Howard’s debut album, “Shine Through It,” which comes out on Sept. 2 on Columbia Records, does not sound like Mr. McLean or Croce, or, for that matter, Barry Manilow, another songwriter whom he cites admiringly. The 11 tracks tend more toward a blend of orchestral jazz and upscale R&B, with lush textures of flutes, horns, strings, female backing vocals and keyboards accompanying Mr. Howard, who plays delicate acoustic guitar.

The album’s secret weapon is Mr. Howard’s voice. “I’m not a great singer,” he said, but, on songs like the title track and “Mr. Johnson’s Lawn,” his husky tenor works much the way his acting does. His delivery bristles with emotion, the elegance of the instrumentation and the smoothness of the arrangements cushioning the rawness of his expression. Like watching Mr. Howard move gracefully through his film roles, you wait for the outbursts of feeling, even during the quietest moments. It’s a tension that comes naturally to Mr. Howard, and that roughens the edges of “Shine Through It.”

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I know the old saying “When you date someone you begin to look alike” is just a saying, but these two look very similar. Howard recently starred in the big screen hit Iron Man and Pigford portrays the character Tyra on the long running soap opera The Young and The Restless. They don’t even date anymore but the resemblance is still there (LOL). What do you think ?