*Marvin Gaye‘s son and Lenny Kravitz may be childhood friends, but it doesn’t mean the heir wants the rocker playing his father on the big screen.

In fact, Marvin Gaye III and his family members are against the project altogether, according to TMZ.com.

Kravitz will play Gaye in the biopic “Sexual Healing” (working title), which is said to follow the legend’s life in the 80s when he battled drug abuse and depression – up until his father shot and killed him in 1984.

Gaye III tells TMZ  “The producers and directors of this film are very wrong and shameful … [They're] trying to do a film about a low period in his life. They don’t even know the whole story.”

Marvin’s son says he and Kravitz were schoolmates and remain friends to this day, so he wants to “talk to him about why he would do this.”

Gaye III says he and other family members are meeting with lawyers to try to stop production, and added, “I would hope [Lenny] doesn’t have any idea that we are against this film being done.”

*Greeting the Kennedy Center Honors class of 2012 Sunday at a pre-ceremony reception at the White House, President Obama entered the East Room to cheers and applause, and said “Welcome to the White House on a night when I am nowhere close to being the main attraction.”

Stars from New York, Hollywood and the music world joined the president and first lady at the White House to salute the honorees: the surviving members of Led Zeppelin John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant; ballerina Martina Makarova, Dave Letterman, Dustin Hoffman and Buddy Guy.

The honors are the nation’s highest award for those who influenced American culture through the arts. The recipients were later saluted by fellow performers at the Kennedy Center Opera House in a show to be broadcast Dec. 26 on CBS.

At the White House, Obama drew laughs from his guests when he described the honorees as “some extraordinary people who have no business being on the same stage together.”

Noting that Guy made his first guitar strings using the wire from a window screen, Obama quipped, “That worked until his parents started wondering how all the mosquitoes were getting in.”

All kidding aside, the president described all of the honorees as artists who “inspired us to see things in a new way, to hear things differently, to discover something within us or to appreciate how much beauty there is in the world.”

“It’s that unique power that makes the arts so important,” he added.

Later, at the Kennedy Center, singers Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman and others got most of the crowd on its feet singing Guy’s signature “Sweet Home Chicago,” while Morgan Freeman hailed Guy as a pioneer who helped bridge soul and rock and roll.

“When you hear the blues, you really don’t think of it as black or white or yellow or purple or blue,” Freeman said. “Buddy Guy, your blue brought us together.”

Comedian Ray Romano didn’t let Obama get away without any criticism. In an homage to Letterman where he spoke of the host’s perseverance after having his first pilot cancelled, Romano joked about the 2012 presidential campaign.

“If you want to win the World Series, do you quit after losing one game? No!” Romano said. “Do you quit after losing one debate? No, Mr. President!”

In a cutaway to the president, Obama shook his head no.

Also performing during one of the tributes was Kid Rock, who actively supported GOP candidate Mitt Romney during the election. Describing his few minutes with President Obama, the singer told CNN: “It was nice. I saw the president tonight. He said, ‘I’m still here.’ I said, ‘No hard feelings.’ “

*There are far too many people out there that don’t think highly enough of their appearance, thus well being.

They will sacrifice their life to enhance something on their body that, ultimately, may only bring them ostensible happiness.

One unidentified woman had someone videotape her in the mirror to show how her gamble with a butt enhancement went completely wrong.

She wants others to know what could be the outcome of taking a chance with your body.

On the video that showed up on World Star Hip Hop, she takes her hand and shifts her butt implant which has completely flipped in the wrong direction.

Gross, yeah, but also hazardous to your health. According to New York Daily News, the woman’s video description reads:

*Mike Tyson took a trip down memory lane recently, revealing he was ”mad as hell” when he caught a then unknown Brad Pitt in bed with his ex-wife Robin Givens during their divorce in the late 80s.

In an interview on talk show “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” Tyson said: ”I was mad as hell! I was going to … you should have seen his face when he saw me.”

He added: ”I was due a divorce but every day I would go to her house to have sex with her. This particular day, someone beat me to the punch. I guess Brad got there earlier than I did.”

Pitt, 47, went on to marry Jennifer Aniston, but their union ended in October 2005, and he is now engaged to Angelina Jolie. Tyson is now married to his third wife Lakiha Spicer.

*The former Ruff Ryder queen, Eve, moved to London and found herself a boo, and he’s not a brother.

She chatted with Angie Martinez on Hot 97 about her adventure to Europe and falling in love with a white man. It was even a surprise to her, but love is what it is and she can’t fight the feeling.

“I need them to stop [caring about interracial dating]. What year is it? Like, stop. Seriously. Trust me, I gotta say, it is weird for me that I’m with a white dude. Trust me. I look at him sometimes and I’m like, ‘You are so white.’ Seriously! Yes, I gotta be real like that. I’m the first black girl he’s ever been with, so we are learning. Trust me, he’s been through ‘Weave 101,’” Eve said. “I’ve been out on a date but not like this, not like my dude. I had to tell my mom and my step-dad who still thinks he follows Farrakhan. It’s crazy. We learn a lot about each other but people came at me like, ‘I can’t believe you’re dating a white dude and you don’t like black dudes no more.’ I’m like, ‘I love black men, it just so happens that my heart went this way right now.’ Who knows? I’m happy…My family’s happy. [My pops] is cool. He still keeps calling him ‘my friend.’ [He says], ‘How’s your friend?’ Like, it’s been almost three years.”

Yeah, she’s doing the dang thang.

But is interracial dating still taboo in this day and age? One of the hardest femcees of an all-black coalition of rappers is now with a white dude? Taboo or forward thinking?