Party boy and occasional comedian Pauly Shore is taking a cue from bitter hatemongers and blaming his anemic career on his skin color (or lack thereof). “I need to be black,” Shore recently told an interviewer, “because if I was black, I’d be doing good.” Well, Pauly. You’d be doing well. And no, you wouldn’t.

Shore continued: “White people are screwed. Especially in my industry, they’re screwed. White people are going to be picking cotton within, like, literally within three years.” Brilliant! How is this guy not getting hired?

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I didn’t think I’d ever see Terry McMillan, Felicia “Snoop” Pearson (The Wire), and John Amos in a picture together, but here they are. McMillan, Pearson, and Amos, along with Ruby Dee, Mo’Nique, Al Sharpton and others, got together in NYC yesterday for the launch of the Stay Strong Foundation’s “Healing Starts With Us,” a campaign to call attention to emotional and mental health issues in the black community. The impetus was Terrie M. Williams’ new book, Black Pain: It Only Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, about the author’s struggle with depression and the stigma surrounding mental health problems in the black community.

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Lisa Raye had a 41st birthday bash in Beverly Hills over the weekend, and I’m just going to give some (they know who they are) of her guests the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were not aware photographers would be in attendance. Looking a hot mess on Wire Image can’t be good for your career, and, I’ll tell you, the careers of some of these attendees need work. Check out the revelers after the jump.

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It was the era of the Supermodel — you know, when they all went by their first and last names but certainly didn’t need to — think Naomi, Christy, Linda — and claimed they didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

New York Fashion Week shows were more glamorous (read: they weren’t sponsored by Olympus or Mercedes Benz and were held in lofts, clubs, and restaurants instead of tents). And Sam Fine was behind the scenes — at Geoffrey Bean, Fernando Sanchez, Tracy Reese, Todd Oldham, Isaac Mizrahi, etc. — giving the models faces to match their designer looks or rushing from show to show with Naomi and Tyra.

It was the first half of the ’90s when Sam Fine both assisted the late Kevyn Aucoin and worked the shows on his own. Those were the good ol’ days… that he doesn’t really want to go back to.

“It’s a fun gig, but I leave it to the young at heart and the ones that really love fashion,” he told Stereohyped.

And it’s not like being a celebrity makeup artist, which is the the job Sam Fine graduated to when he left the fashion show world, is any less glamorous. Or that much different.

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On the internet, are black women “fat” and white women “pleasantly plump?” A recent article in Gastronomica shed some light on the way we use different words to mean overweight or obese depending on the gender or the race.

Using Google as his research tool, he dug around to see how particular adjectives and euphemisms for “overweight” attached themselves to various genders and classes. Men, for example, are “portly” (39,200 results versus 746 for women) while women are “plump” (91,000 hits versus 15,500 for men).

The big finding, however, comes with black women. Disproportionate to everyone else (vastly, in some cases) they are labeled “fat,” “obese” and “overweight.” His take: As the ultimate outsiders (in race, gender, and usually class) they’re attractive targets for adjectives that carry negative connotations.

Interesting, since I just called Biggie wannabes and Kenan Thompson portly earlier today. Disregard the fact that I obviously need a thesaurus. To me, it’s not a word associated with women.

As for black women getting the words with the negative connotation (I actually think plump has a negative connotation, too, it’s just a more gentle way of saying someone is overweight), there is that “fat black woman” stereotype that we just can’t shake. Mo’Nique famously refers to herself as such. And, of course, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy don’t help.

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Thanks to P-Lo for the tip.

The third season of Mo’Nique’s plus-sized beauty contest, F.A.T. Chance, airs on Oxygen starting July 21. This is a (very interesting) promotional shot. Y’all know how I feel about celebrating obesity, but I also don’t want to come across as someone who wants people to feel bad about their bodies. I salute their self-confidence, if nothing else. I certainly couldn’t do it. But, ummm. Yeah. That’s all I’ve got. Watch the show if you’d like to see who gets crowned Miss F.A.T. 2007.

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Of course Beyonce got the most noms. Despite the lukewarm critical reception of B’Day, the voters wouldn’t have it any other way.

Monique will be taking a break from Charm School to host the June 26 awards, where Diana Ross will win a lifetime achievement award and Don Cheadle will win a humanitarian award for his work in Darfur. Check out a full list of nominees after the jump.

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