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[1] At "A Royal Celebration" to highlight the birthday of actress Lisa Raye McCoy-Misick, well-wishers included entertainer Bobby Brown. The Beverly Hills affair was arranged by McCoy-Misick's husband, the Honorable Michael Misick, premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Three weeks after the party, Brown's attorney, Phaedra Parks, said he was hospitalized after suffering a mild heart attack, but Brown later said he had gone to the hospital for a "checkup."

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2. Celebrated actors Jamie Foxx and Will Smith arrive at the world premiere of the movie The Kingdom (in which Foxx stars) at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. 3. At the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif., the legendary Smokey Robinson was honored during the UNCF's "An Evening of Stars." 4. At the new Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington, D.C., workers put the final touches on a figure of Ella Fitzgerald. The museum opened in October near the National Mall and the White House. 5. Legendary entertainers (I. to r.) Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson and Louis Gossett Jr. attended the 59th annual Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. 6. In Jena, La. (I. to r.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California), radio personality Michael Baisden, the Rev. AI Sharpton and Melissa Bell, mother of Mychal Bell (one of the Jena 6), march in support of the Jena 6. (Bell, in jail at the time of the march, was later released on bail.)

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