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What type of wedding does a NBA baller who'll be making a salary of over $16 million next season have?  We've got the deets on New Orleans Hornets baller Chris Paul & Jada Crawley's upcoming nuptials when you read on...

It looks like college sweethearts Chris Paul and his fiancee Jada Crawley tapped "My Fair Wedding" host David Tutera for their upcoming wedding.  Chris and David tweeted their mutual love for each other recently.  Chris said:

WoW @DavidTutera is AMAZING!!! Getting closer and closer...honored and privileged to have you apart of this!

And David the wedding planner  gushed:

Just spent a few hours with Chris Paul and Jada planning and designing their wedding. They r amazing!!!!

The partners will initially stock the channel with reruns of Mr. Perry’s sitcoms and movies, including the popular Madea series, in which he appears in drag as the title character, a gun-toting grandmother. They also plan to buy third-party content that meshes with Mr. Perry’s Christianity-tinged brand.

Lionsgate and Mr. Perry declined to comment.

Tyler TV, which is still a working title, is intended as a home base for the prolific Mr. Perry — just as Ms. Winfrey, one of Mr. Perry’s most ardent supporters, now operates OWN. But as OWN demonstrates, cable plans that seem promising can be tricky. Ms. Winfrey’s channel, a partnership with Discovery Communications, has been a major ratings disappointment.

Smartphone maker HTC is set to acquire a majority stake (51%) in Beats Electronics, LLC for $300 million. As part of the deal, HTC plans on improving the sound quality and incorporating Beats technology to their mobile devices. In addition, Beats will continue to it’s relationships with Chrysler Group and Monster Cable Products.

IN JIMMY'S OWN WORDS

“The marriage of these two companies is very, very good. We are very good for each other,” says Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records and co-founder of Beats By Dr. Dre with rapper/producer Dr. Dre. “With HTC’s innovation, technology and leadership, we feel we can really compete with anybody in this area.”

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Wine for Obama’s BirthdayWine for Obama’s Birthday, created by Berlucchi

Celebrities and uber-rich have always been revered, and to mark their anniversaries and achievements, there have been limited edition memorabilia of a large variety, including wines. The latest figure to fall in that league is Barack Obama who has been dedicated a one-off bottle of American made Italian wine by wine enthusiast Berlucchi. We have seen similar limited edition versions in our coverage of the Bottega Denise Focil wine collection, which blended some of the finest of verities, to create an exclusive range. But now, it’s the United States president who gets one dedicated to him to mark his 50th birthday, which will be in August this year.

President Obama has been a wine enthusiast of sorts and is known to have a sizeable collection of 1000 bottles in his home in Chicago, and boasts of some really fine Italian and French varieties created in the United States by people from these countries. His particular favorite is known to be the wines from Gianni Zanin in Virginia, which are known to have distinct characteristics and to the liking of the president.

This bottle in question is a special one with the covering made of a special white optical material with a blue capping towards the top, and the red zig-zags on the body. It reads ‘Happy Birthday Mr. Obama’ in color patterns which bear similarities to the United States national flag, creating an overall unique and rather befitting appeal to it. It also mentions the wine variety in a large golden oval with black lettering mentioning ‘61 Brut Franciacorta’ which is expected to strike a chord with President Obama.

Like all good things, this bottle is going to be a one-off version. But speaking about the president, he would perhaps feel a lot more proud now with such a unique dedication for him.