Chris Brown is no longer on Twitter, but he’s still online and is trying to rally his fans for support. Brown is promising everyone that he’s changed and says it’s time that radio stations started playing his music again. The convicted batterer recorded a message on his SayNow page asking that his fans help him get airplay. This is the same guy who told the music industry to kiss his ass. Now that they’re doing that, he realizes that his “fantasy factory” won’t run on wishes alone.

“I ain’t never really did this but right now I need all of my fans help. A lot of radio stations aren’t playing my records. They are not being that supportive and I wouldn’t expect them to. It’s on the fans and what you guys do in your power to bring me back. That’s all I need is you guys and nothing else will do that except for the fans. I don’t know what else to say. It’s nothing else that I can do. I’m doing everything that I need to do. I’m doing me as a person and I’m a better guy. It’s on ya’ll. My singing and my music I do it for you guys and everything else but it won’t be possible if I’m not relevant on the radio and it wouldn’t be possible for me to be an artist if I don’t have the support. I can’t be an underground mixtape artist. That’s where we are. I just want all my fans to help me. I love ya’ll. Peace”.

[Transcript thanks to Bossip]

I was all ready to roll my eyes and say the kid doesn’t deserve a chance - I still don’t think he does - but his message sounded sincere to me. Kaiser and many of you are sure to take me to task for saying that, but I think the kid just really yearns for the level of success he had before he choked, bit and punched the living daylights out of his famous girlfriend. I doubt that’s every going to happen for him, and rightfully so. He’s complying with the terms of his probation and has been praised by a judge for keeping up with his community service requirements. That’s something. He still pissed away more opportunities than most of us will see in a lifetime. He treated the woman he supposedly loved like a punching bag and left her there for dead. He can plead all he wants but he did this to himself. He’s still got fans, though, and some are likely to heed his pathetic call for help.

Chris Brown is no longer on Twitter, but he’s still online and is trying to rally his fans for support. Brown is promising everyone that he’s changed and says it’s time that radio stations started playing his music again. The convicted batterer recorded a message on his SayNow page asking that his fans help him get airplay. This is the same guy who told the music industry to kiss his ass. Now that they’re doing that, he realizes that his “fantasy factory” won’t run on wishes alone.

“I ain’t never really did this but right now I need all of my fans help. A lot of radio stations aren’t playing my records. They are not being that supportive and I wouldn’t expect them to. It’s on the fans and what you guys do in your power to bring me back. That’s all I need is you guys and nothing else will do that except for the fans. I don’t know what else to say. It’s nothing else that I can do. I’m doing everything that I need to do. I’m doing me as a person and I’m a better guy. It’s on ya’ll. My singing and my music I do it for you guys and everything else but it won’t be possible if I’m not relevant on the radio and it wouldn’t be possible for me to be an artist if I don’t have the support. I can’t be an underground mixtape artist. That’s where we are. I just want all my fans to help me. I love ya’ll. Peace”.

[Transcript thanks to Bossip]

I was all ready to roll my eyes and say the kid doesn’t deserve a chance - I still don’t think he does - but his message sounded sincere to me. Kaiser and many of you are sure to take me to task for saying that, but I think the kid just really yearns for the level of success he had before he choked, bit and punched the living daylights out of his famous girlfriend. I doubt that’s every going to happen for him, and rightfully so. He’s complying with the terms of his probation and has been praised by a judge for keeping up with his community service requirements. That’s something. He still pissed away more opportunities than most of us will see in a lifetime. He treated the woman he supposedly loved like a punching bag and left her there for dead. He can plead all he wants but he did this to himself. He’s still got fans, though, and some are likely to heed his pathetic call for help.

Sean Penn made a cryptic comment during his presentation of the best actress Oscar on Sunday night. We assumed he was speaking of his estranged wife, Robin Wright Penn, when he said. “I never became an official member of the academy, but the academy and I do have in common that we neglected to acknowledge the same actress in our own ways two years running.” Penn neglected to thank his wife in his Oscar acceptance speech last year, and the two split soon afterwards. (They’ve had an on-off relationship and did reunite at least once, but have since moved forward with their divorce.) The Academy didn’t nominate Robin for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee this year, which is thought to be what Penn was referring to. (As far as I can tell, she was only in one film that came out in 2008, What Just Happened.)

Anyway after the ceremony Penn was said to have been involved in some kind of vague altercation backstage with Robin’s new boyfriend, Greg Shapiro, a producer of The Hurt Locker. Words were (allegedly) exchanged and Penn was perhaps later barred from the Govenor’s Ball post-Oscar party. A rep from the Academy denies that Penn was unwelcome at the party and Penn’s rep says he just didn’t go to that affair.

The Milk star apparently had some sort of backstage confrontation with Greg Shapiro, one of the newly minted Oscar-winning producers of The Hurt Locker. But if you think it could have had something to do with Penn’s politics and the war movie, not so fast…

Shapiro happens to be dating Penn’s former ladylove, Robin Wright.

Minutes after Penn and Shapiro came face-to-face, “Academy officials…said he was banned from the Ball,” one of my sources said.

Penn’s rep insists there was no confrontation and that the actor chose not to stop by the Ball. A rep for the Academy would only say, “Sean Penn chose not to attend the Governors Ball.” (Update: Late this morning, another rep for the Academy emailed me, insisting that Penn was never not welcome at the Ball.)

Penn eventually made his way to the Sunset Tower Hotel afterparty. “Fine,” he told E! News’ Ashlan Gorse when she asked him how his night was.

Earlier in the day, Wright and Shapiro appeared to be very much a couple—and a very happy couple at that. I actually saw them enjoying a meal at Cheebo in L.A., where they canoodled over breakfast while reading the Los Angeles Times together.

[From E! Online]

It’s hard to tell if this story is true, but since this is the same guy who just wished rectal cancer on his detractors, I don’t doubt it. He was thinking about Robin enough to say something unsanctioned at the Oscars, and I could see him getting up in her new boyfriend’s face. Maybe it was just a minor exchange that’s being blown out of proportion, though, especially in Penn’s estimation. He could have been gruff and rude to the guy, but it’s not like that’s out of character for him.

Fresh on the heels of Precious‘ win for best adapted screenplay, Mo’Nique has taken home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her harrowing portrayal of an abusive mother in the film. Mo’Nique was considered the front runner as she swept the awards season in this category, winning the BAFTA, SAG, Spirit and Golden Globe awards, among others. There were rumors of a minor backlash against her for demanding payment for appearances promoting the film, something she even admitted to. In the end, none of that mattered and Mo’Nique’s strong performance won over the Academy. Like her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Mo’Nique didn’t prepare and her words came from the heart. The 42 year-old actress gave a moving speech in which she thanked Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award, for 1933’s Gone With the Wind. (Hattie wasn’t even invited to the then-segregated ceremony to accept her statue.) She also thanked her husband, Sidney Hicks.

First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics. I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because she touched it the whole world saw it. Rickey Anderson our attorney of Anderson and Smith thank you for your hard work. My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband, Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forgo doing what’s popular in order to do what’s right. And baby you were so right. God bless us all.

[From Mo'Nique's acceptance speech]

Mo’Nique has said in the past that making Precious changed her life, and she hopes the film affected other people too. “I’m very honored and grateful they recognized the performance, but we didn’t do the project with the feeling of, ‘This is going to get us an award.’ We did the project with the feeling of ‘Oh my God, this will change lives.’” Congratulations to Mo’Nique!

The new lineup for Dancing With The Stars was announced, and apart from Kate Gosselin (who surely leaked the news ahead of the official list in order to get some more publicity mileage) it’s not half bad. And in “not half bad” I mean that I recognize most of the competitors’ names and am even interested in seeing some of them dance. First up is greasy has-been Pamela Anderson, who will incite the censors with her fabric-challenged outfits while trying to dance her way out of the trailer park. There’s also Bachelor Jake, who made his final choice last night, Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, gold winning figure skater Evan Lysacek, and ESPN anchor and peeping tom victim, Erin Andrews. Here’s more:

It’s official: Kate Gosselin is headed back to television.

The 34-year-old mother-of-eight will compete on the ninth season of the ABC reality hit, it was announced Monday.

Her competition: Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Pamela Anderson; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, soap star Aiden Turner, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, Shannen Doherty, Buzz Aldrin, Niecy Nash, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and Olympic skater Evan Lysacek.

[From US Weekly]

Many of you were rolling your eyes at the statements in Kate Gosselin’s Radar Online announcement yesterday. One that was particularly laughable: “the mom of 8 likely will do most of her practicing near her Pennsylvania home because she insists on putting her children first.” You know that the next step for Kate will be posing in a bikini on a magazine cover with “how I lost 15 pounds.” She’s just one step behind Nadya “I’m doing it all for my kids” Suleman.

As I said yesterday, I doubt Kate will be able to bring it anyway. I’m really rooting for Niecy Nash! I love her on Clean House and find her so much fun. I’m also interested in seeing Shannen Doherty after all this time. There are rumors that she’s been gunning for her own reality show to help revive her career, but DWTS will probably do much more for her if she’s able to pull it off with grace and a good attitude.

Looking through photos of the other contestants, I have to say that Chad Ochocinco is one gorgeous man! (The bald African American guy, below.) Aiden Turner isn’t bad, but he looks like one of the “Jersey Shore” cast with that spiky hair.

Photo credit: WENN.com except for photos of Erin Andrews and Kate Gosselin, credit: PRPhotos