Lenny Kravitz

Stylish rocker Lenny Kravitz glams in the new issue of The Block. Kravitz rocks John Varvatos, Phillip Lim and others in the editorial lensed by fashion photographer Steven Pan.

Kravitz's ninth studio album Black and White America was released last month. "Right now, he's filming The Hunger cheap nfl jerseys Games in North Carolina; he'll play the stylist Cinna, which suits well enough, given his proclivity for tightass leather," writes Sarah Nicole Prickett.

Kravitz had a small role in the Oscarwinning Precious. Filmmaker Lee Daniels has cast Kravitz as Andrew Young in his next film Selma, the biopic about the historic 1965 civil rights march.

The cover and one more image WHEN YOU JUMP .

Overnight in Paris, Lenny Kravitz reflects on the life and legacy of the late Teena Marie. "I wouldn be here if it weren for Teena Marie," Kravitz says on the video uploaded via his iPhone. "She took me in when I was around 16yearsold. I was a musician on the street, sh gave me a bedroom, cooked for me, gave me instruments to play and took me to her recording sessions. I owe Teena so much."

Adds Kravitz: "She was a genius, composer, arranger, singer. Underrated to the end."

Via Kevin E. Taylor, watch the video message and listen to Kravitz perform on Teena Marie song "Main Squeeze" AFTER THE JUMP .

Lenny Kravitz had a small role in the Oscarwinning "Precious". Now there is word that out filmmaker Lee Daniels has cast the stylish rocker in his next film "Selma", his biopic about the historic 1965

civil rights march. No small role this time, Kravitz tells MTV News.

"The next role is Andrew Young in a film called 'Selma,' directed by

Lee Daniels," Kravitz said. Young was a significant figure in the Civil

Rights movement, someone who worked very closely Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr. And while the story details for "Selma" aren't really out there yet,

Young did aid King Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jr. in planning a Civil Rights Campaign in

Selma, Alabama. collaborator who

was at times the Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman and the United States

ambassador to the United Nations. Kravitz is aware of all of this. As he

said, "I gotta bring it."

Yep, Kravitz will have to bring it. Andrew Young was one of King's top lieutenants, it's likely Kravitz would get significant screen time.

Robert De Niro is on board as the infamous Alabama Governor George Wallace. Hugh Jackman has also been cast, reportedly as a sheriff. This should be interesting, to say the least.

Filmmaker Lee Daniels, director of the criticallyacclaimed Precious, was photographed by Jason Bell for the Out 100:

"If Daniels wins best director at this year's Oscars for the devastatingly beautiful Preciousas he almost certainly willhe will be the first gay AfricanAmerican to take the honor. The producer of notsolightweight films like Monster's Ball and The Woodsman, Daniels is on his way to collecting a trophy case full of awards (the film has already won top prizes at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals) and securing himself a spot alongside directors like Alexander Payne and Ang Lee as a distinctive voice of his generation."

On a related note, Lee Daniels talks to the Chicago Free Press about the challenge of being an openly gay black director in Hollywood. But more the black gay part is a bigger issue. As a gay man, gay men, there so many of them in Hollywood and (they're) decision makers and it's a cult, I think. I don't have to worry about prejudices right now, anymore. I fought so long all my lifeprejudices about being gay, about being victimized because I was gay, being victimized because I was black, being victimized because I was gay and black. I'm so happy at 50 years old, that I'm being embraced for my spirit and for me. And it's so overwhelming. It's just so beautiful that people can accept me for me and being open. I don't have to lie. The film is showing at only 18 theaters nationwide. Its $100,000 per screen average is an industry record.

They're back. Take a look and take a listen.

The reunion of Nona Hendryx, Patti LaBelle and Sarah Dash has been decades in the making. Here is your first cheap jerseys look at the cover art for Back to Now, the first new studio album from Labelle in more than 30 years.

Get into the lead single Roll Out. (Quicktime and Windows Media) The midtempo track is a little more R than some of Labelle's best known work but the signature voices, bassline and crescendo . it's all there. The track was produced by and features Wyclef Jean. Lenny Kravtz and the incomprable Gamble Huff produce other tracks on the new album.

The Back to Now cover art is signature Labelle. The pioneering 60s and 70s rocksoulfunk trio was best known for their glamazon costumes and meteoric concert stagingthe ladies sometimes used heliocopters to make stage entrancesand their international hit Lady Marmalade. (No discussion allowed of the "remake" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.) That wasn't our favorite Labelle track. Does anyone remember ? The bassline on that song is killer and Patti and Nona are screaming into the stratosphere.