Film star reveals experience with police harassment. While he recently played a bully cop in the film Lakeview Terrace, Samuel L. Jackson says he’s been a victim of police mistreatment. “I have been pulled over legitimately because I was doing something wrong, and I have been pulled over because I was Black in the wrong place and my car was too nice,” Jackson tells The Times of Britain. “I have been pulled over in Mississippi; that was frightening. But the guy was like, ‘Hey, Mr. Jackson. Sorry.’…Even in L.A., cops looking at me going, ‘You look familiar.’ And you just gotta say, ‘Oh, O.K.’ Because you don’t know if he’s talking about a wanted poster that he saw today, or he actually saw a movie of mine and can’t quite put that together.”

Singer sued in family dispute. The stepmother of singer Whitney Houston has filed suit against her famous stepkid, saying Houston failed to follow her dad’s estate instructions. Barbara Houston says that, upon her husband John Houston’s death, the singer was to pay the remaining debt on his condo out of a $1 million insurance policy. Any of the leftover cash was to go to Barbara, she claims, but says she never got paid. Whitney, who was the sole beneficiary of her dad’s policy, denies her stepmother’s claims.

Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac film is subject of dispute.

Producers of a comedy starring late entertainer Bernie Mac with Samuel L. Jackson deny that the film is based on a soul singer’s life. Sam Moore, of the Sam and Dave R&B duo, has threatened legal action if he’s not compensated by the creators of Soul Men, according to the New York Daily News. “In the movie, they have a reunion concert,” Moore, 72, tells the paper. “Dave and I had a reunion in 1982 after not talking with each other for years.” Moore admits that he hasn’t seen Soul Men, but says he was even offered $1,000 to make a cameo appearance, which he turned down. Producer David Friendly counters: “Everything in the movie is completely made up. The characters are back-up singers, unlike Sam and Dave, who were headliners…Just because they sing one Sam and Dave song doesn’t make it a movie about them.” Soul Men hits theaters on Oct. 24.