R&B singer Fantasia Barrino paid tribute to the late Whitney Houston last night at a concert in Chicago. The American Idol winner discussed how, even though the late singer was a celebrity, she still was a human. Barrino remembered her own attempted suicide last year and  how much she has to live for, when she broke down in tears. Watch the clip after the jump READ MORE

Lindsay Lohan has officially snagged the role of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s new biopic. Liz and Dick will follow the famed on again/off again relationship of Hollywood legends Taylor and Richard Burton. 

It was previously reported Lohan’s former Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen costar, Transfomers vixen Megan Fox, was also considered for the role of the onetime Cleopatra. 
 
This is the second big news involving an apparent Lohan comeback. Earlier in the week it was announced Lohan would host Saturday Night Live on March 3, with musical guest Jack White. This will be her third time appearing as a host, the last time being in 2006. Since then the troubled star’s career has taken a backseat to her legal woes.

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The Young and the Restless’ Tatyana Ali and All My Children’s Emerson Brooks took home Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Actor awards at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards on February 17. It was also a big night for The Help, which won Outstanding Motion Picture and earned awards for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress respectively. 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Tyler Perry’s House of Paynewon in the drama and comedy categories. Oprah’s Lifeclass beat out the competition for Outstanding Talk Series. For the full list of 2012 NAACP Image Award winners visit Zap2it. See more photos from the award show after the jump!

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From the moment she crooned onto the scene in the early 80's, the world knew it had found a superstar in Whitney Houston. On today's Pop Confidential, Jamey Giddens, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Regan Cellura and Melodie Aikels look back on the life and legacy of Whitney Elizabeth Houston, the world's most-awarded musical act of all time.

The PC gang charts the early success of Houston's self-titled debut album Whitney Houston, released on Valentine's Day in 1985,  producing such unforgettable jams as "You Give Good Love," "Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All."

Then they reflect on Houston's second record, 1987's pop-heavy Whitney, which yielded a whopping four Number One hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts ("I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?," making Houston the first female singer to achieve such a feat.

Next they discuss Houston's third album, the R&B-tinged I'm Your Baby Tonight from 1990, produced by uber producers L.A. Reid and Babyface. While this record didn't have the crossover appeal of Whitney, Houston's third effort produced several notable songs the gang fondly remembers, including the title track “I’m Your Baby Tonight” and Jamey's favorite kiss-off song "My Name Is Not Susan."

It was Houston's next musical collection, coupled with her big screen debut, which cemented her status as a pop culture deity. In 1992, the diva starred opposite Kevin Costner in the interracial romantic thriller The Bodyguard. It was for that hit film's soundtrack Houston recorded what would become her most popular track of all time. Her sultry version of country music legend Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" became the best-selling single by a female artist of all time.

In addition to "I Will Always Love You," cuts like "Run to You," "I Have Nothing," "Queen of the Night" and Houston's remake of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman," helped The Bodyguard soundtrack become the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time. Tune in to hear Mel, Jillian and the rest of the PC gang recall what The Bodyguard phenomenon was like for them.

After the twin successes of The Bodyguard and its soundtrack, Houston continued to release music in conjunction with her work as an actress for years to come. In 1995, she starred alongside Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon in the film adaptation of Terry McMillan's New York Times’ Best-Selling novel Waiting to Exhale and performed the title track “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” for the ultimate chick flick’s soundtrack. Tune in to hear PC’s Regan speak about how Exhale’s message of women being sick and tired of their guys’ b.s. transcended color barriers.

The next year, Houston—by this point one of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses—starred opposite Denzel Washington in The Preacher’s Wife, a remake of the classic film The Bishop’s Wife. The accompanying soundtrack became the best-selling gospel CD of all-time, and even made a fan of our generally pop culture-challenged Luke, who at the time was tucked away at boarding school, rocking out to Houston’s soul-stirring jams. You’ll want to download this podcast to hear Jillian, Jamey, Regan and Mel’s stunned reactions to that particular revelation! READ MORE

It looks like the only familiar faces we’ll see in Transformers 4 are those of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. When it was announced that the Transformers franchise is getting a reboot, questions immediately arose whether stars of the first three movies would be returning.  E! Online talked with Josh Duhamel, who revealed he hasn’t been contacted and that his fellow cast members aren’t in it either.

"I don't think anybody's doing it," Josh Duhamel told us last night at the launch party for Sony PlayStation's new PS Vita portable entertainment system. "I know Shia [LaBoeuf]'s not doing it. I don't think Tyrese or Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] or anybody else is doing it."

Duhamel continued,

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Music’s biggest stars (and even one of our fav-o-rite soapers, Tamara Braun seen above, not to be confused with Little Red Riding Minaj!) turned out for the 2012 Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 12. The show, which honored Whitney Houston and crowned Adele the night’s big winner, featured a variety of red carpet hits and misses. Who do you think was a fashion hit or fashion miss at the 2012 Grammy Awards? See more Grammy red carpet photos after the jump!

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