On Wednesday, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson was allegedly hit in the face with a pie before fighting back against the man who did it, People confirms. According to a statement from police in the Golden State's capital, Johnson - a former All-Star with the NBA's Phoenix Suns - was attending an event when he was confronted by Sean Thompson, 32, who was carrying a pie in a brown paper bag and allegedly smashed the pie in the 50-year-old mayor's face. The two briefly exchanged words before Johnson allegedly began punching Thompson. In his booking photo, Thompson can be seen with his...
- 9/23/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
On Wednesday, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson was allegedly hit in the face with a pie before fighting back against the man who did it, People confirms. According to a statement from police in the Golden State's capital, Johnson - a former All-Star with the NBA's Phoenix Suns - was attending an event when he was confronted by Sean Thompson, 32, who was carrying a pie in a brown paper bag and allegedly smashed the pie in the 50-year-old mayor's face. The two briefly exchanged words before Johnson allegedly began punching Thompson. In his booking photo, Thompson can be seen with his...
- 9/23/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
[[tmz:video id="0_g7httnyp"]] Ufc star Urijah Faber personally witnessed the Beatdown doled out by ex-nba star/Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson ... and he's tellin' us exactly what he saw. Faber joined the "TMZ Sports" TV show (weeknights on FS1) to break down the brawl. Icymi, Sean Thompson, 32, was arrested for smashing a pie in the face of Mayor Kevin Johnson -- a former 3x NBA All-Star -- at a charity event Wednesday night. What happened next, priceless. For the pie,...
- 9/23/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for a record-breaking $2 billion. Now it's up to others whether the deal goes through. Shelly Sterling said in a statement issued late Thursday that she'd signed a binding contract for a sale of the Clippers by The Sterling Family Trust to Ballmer in what would be a record deal if approved by the NBA. Ballmer "will be a terrific owner," Sterling said, "We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers into a premier NBA franchise. I am confident that Steve will take the team to new levels of success.
- 5/30/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Adam Silver has already achieved Legend Status in America ... so says Mayor Kevin Johnson who tells TMZ Sports the guy handled the Donald Sterling situation like a true "American hero."Johnson -- the mayor of Sacramento -- was super influential in Silver's decision to ban the disgraced Clippers owner from the NBA for life ... and moments ago in D.C., he praised the commish for being "so strong and so decisive."Kj also explained why...
- 5/5/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Sunday night’s NBA playoff game involving the team owned by Donald Sterling, at the center of a just-erupted and massive racism controversy, generated by far the week’s biggest Twitter audience of any TV programming, according to Nielsen. The Los Angeles Clippers’ lopsided loss to the Golden State Warriors generated a Twitter audience of nearly 8.1 million people, who saw 590,000 tweets about the game during and the three hours before and after it. That was easily the week’s biggest TV-related audience on Twitter, 2 million more than any other show, and nearly 5 million more than any non-sports event. Controversy blew up Friday after TMZ published an audio recording reportedly of Sterling ranting on the phone to his girlfriend about her being seen in public with black people. Related: Disney Nets & NBA Dominate Weekly Nielsen Social Ratings The NBA — about three-fourths of whose players are African-American — announced an immediate investigation, and...
- 4/28/2014
- by DAVID BLOOM
- Deadline TV
It looks far more likely that SAG-aftra will have its lead negotiator in place when it starts bargaining with Hollywood's TV and movie producers in the near future. Concerns that the actors union's National Executive Director David White would bolt for a similar post with the National Basketball Players Association have eased, with Monday's announcement that former NBA player and current Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson would head a retooled search to fill the position. That basically re-starts the hiring process — White and corporate attorney Michele Roberts were identified as finalists in February — and the target date to complete the...
- 4/8/2014
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Washington -- The most controversial thing to happen at the Democratic National Convention this week may end up being a movie screening.
On Monday afternoon, a Hollywood film called "Won't Back Down" -- which opens in theaters nationwide on Sept. 28 -- will be shown to a select crowd of convention-goers in Charlotte, N.C., just as it was one week prior at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
But unlike Tampa, where the promoters had little concern about making waves with the party establishment and had no trouble when they ran the idea past the Republican National Committee, the request for a Charlotte screening went to the highest levels of the Obama administration, which passed the decision off to the Democratic National Committee, according to a source with knowledge of the chain of events. According to this source, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close personal adviser, and David Plouffe, his top political adviser,...
On Monday afternoon, a Hollywood film called "Won't Back Down" -- which opens in theaters nationwide on Sept. 28 -- will be shown to a select crowd of convention-goers in Charlotte, N.C., just as it was one week prior at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
But unlike Tampa, where the promoters had little concern about making waves with the party establishment and had no trouble when they ran the idea past the Republican National Committee, the request for a Charlotte screening went to the highest levels of the Obama administration, which passed the decision off to the Democratic National Committee, according to a source with knowledge of the chain of events. According to this source, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close personal adviser, and David Plouffe, his top political adviser,...
- 9/3/2012
- by Jon Ward
- Huffington Post
The American Mustache Institute (Ami) has announced the 19 finalists and opened voting for the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year," which has been likened to the Nobel Prize for Peace by Time magazine, astro-physicist Stephen Hawking, and High Times magazine. The "Goulet" recognizes the person who best-represents or contributes to the Mustached American community over the past year. And this year there are a robust crop of finalists including former NBA star and current Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, North Dakota Governor and U.S. Senate hopeful John Hoeven, Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano, Utep mascot "Paydirt Pete," Oscar-nominated documentary director Morgan Spurlock, media personality Pat O'Brien, and a handful of regular Americans who have gone above and beyhond the call of Mustached American greatness in 2010. Pitcher Clay Zavada of the Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2009 Goulet award,...
- 10/18/2010
- by Dr. Abraham Froman
- Huffington Post
Calling it a "Rosa Parks moment," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put a momentous stamp on the upcoming release of Davis Guggenheim's education-reform documentary "Waiting for Superman."
The occasion was the film's Wednesday night Washington premiere, organized by distributor Paramount Vantage, with a screening at the Newseum followed by a Q&A with notables involved in the film. That it will have the impact on public policy Parks' actions ultimately had on the civil rights movement might be unlikely, but a good portion of Washington's political class attended the event to further investigate the subject matter.
In addition to Duncan and several others from his Education Department staff, David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama; Melody Barnes, head of the president's Domestic Policy Council; Heather Higginbottom, deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy; Rep. Jane Harman; Rep. Mary Bono Mack; Sen. Al Franken; Sen. Scott Brown; Sen. Christopher Dodd; and Sen.
The occasion was the film's Wednesday night Washington premiere, organized by distributor Paramount Vantage, with a screening at the Newseum followed by a Q&A with notables involved in the film. That it will have the impact on public policy Parks' actions ultimately had on the civil rights movement might be unlikely, but a good portion of Washington's political class attended the event to further investigate the subject matter.
In addition to Duncan and several others from his Education Department staff, David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama; Melody Barnes, head of the president's Domestic Policy Council; Heather Higginbottom, deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy; Rep. Jane Harman; Rep. Mary Bono Mack; Sen. Al Franken; Sen. Scott Brown; Sen. Christopher Dodd; and Sen.
- 9/16/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Washington – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is starting a new program that could reinvent arts education for schools struggling with budget cuts and fewer art teachers, organizers said Friday.The pilot "Any Given Child" project announced Friday for schools in Sacramento, Calif., could be expanded to as many as three cities each year, the center said. Under the strategy, the Kennedy Center will link local arts groups with schools to help teach students in grades K-8.The groups will draft long-range plans specific to each city to ensure all students have access to music, theater and the visual arts. The Kennedy Center is devoting about $500,000 to begin the program and expects to keep costs low for local schools."A frustration I have is that every arts education program sounds good, but I'm not sure it's always contributing to a well-educated child," said Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser,...
- 10/9/2009
- backstage.com
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