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Washington has been striking reality TV gold lately. First, there was Rahman "Rock" Harper, the associate chef at B. Smith's who beat 11 other culinary experts to win Season 3 of Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" earlier this month. Now there's 22-year-old DeAngelo Redman, who this Sunday will square off with nine other wannabe pop stars on the live season finale of MTV's "Making the Band 4." Redman, who grew up in D.C. and attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts before graduating from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, won a radio contest that allowed him to bypass the line at a "Making the Band 4" audition in February at Platinum nightclub. After advancing through two more rounds, Redman earned the approval of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, who helped producers choose the cast. Combs will also make the final decisions about which four contestants will win the show's prize: becoming part of a pop-R&B group with a record contract on his label, Bad Boy Records.
Summer movie wrap-up
Like the spider-sequel that spun to the top of the box office, the just-wrapped summer movie season boasted stars, effects -- but shockingly few surprises. As expected, Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End bowed to staggering box office returns -- the Sam Raimi-directed comic-book threequel webbed up a record-shattering $150 million US in its opening weekend. And, as predicted, the biggest non-sequel proved to be Michael Bay's Transformers. Also not a surprise? That the log-jam of blockbusters cannibalized each other to a degree. Or that the studios which didn't overspend outrageously ($175 million on Evan Almighty?!) emerged the season's savviest winners. In fact, the best-received films turned out to be the scant few originals among the legions of franchises -- whether it was Ratatouille, about a rat who wants to be a chef; Hairspray, about a chubby girl who just wants to dance; or Knocked Up and Superbad, both geek-centric raunch-coms about horndogs who just want to get laid.
Enterprise resident dies after tough man fight
Robyn Munroe knows that her fianc�, Christopher Johnson, was an angel that spent a short 25 years here on earth.
�He touched so many people,� Munroe said.
�Everywhere he went he made his mark.�
On Aug. 12, Johnson, a former Daleville resident and Daleville High School student ,passed away at Flowers Hospital in Dothan after falling into a diabetic coma following a tough man contest in Ozark two days earlier.
Johnson never knew he had diabetes.
According to Munroe, who watched the fight Aug. 10, Johnson fought two rounds in his first-ever tough man contest before becoming weak. The fight was stopped and Johnson was escorted off stage by several EMTs, who tended to him.
Johnson had minor bleeding on his face, but suffered no serious fighting injuries, Munroe said.
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