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"LisaRaye: The Real McCoy": It's all about branding

If there's anyone who should have a reality show, it's LisaRaye.

That's clear from her new show "LisaRaye: The Real McCoy" (TV One, 9 p.m.), in which we watch the actress restart after a failed marriage to the premier of Turks & Caicos.

Reality shows like this are all about branding, and LisaRaye is very clear that she is building a brand, that show business is a business. Why else would she have a signature color (white) and be thisclose with the publisher of a gossip magazine (Sister2Sister's Jaime Foster Brown)?

BET Awards 09: A Message to Michael

Timing turned the BET awards 2009 into the first televised tribute to the life and music of Michael Jackson.

And it was officially sanctioned -- father Joe Jackson was in the audience (with, naturally, Al Sharpton) and a brief, onstage, appearance by Janet Jackson. Clad in all-white, she teared up as she reminded the audience that while MJ was an icon to them, to the Jacksons he was family.

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