Seems everything is going right for him, Brad Pitt has won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his role in the latest Coen brothers film Burn After Reading. He won the same prize last year for his filmThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Mistress of ceremonies, Ksenia Rappoport said: ‘I guess you forgot something here years ago. Brad, this is yours… congratulations on your twins.” As Brad Pitt thanked his fellow actors, Ksenia said she had another gift, a flower. As Brad Pitt was about to thank her, she said, “‘this is for your friend George”, who was sat metres away laughing in the front row.
Still hot in celebrity gossip circles is Britney’s MTV VMA performance last year which was disastrous to say the least. A Britney Spears MTV VMA TV promo suggested that the fallen pop princess might try to redeem herself at this years’ MTV VMA but her manager has denied this.
One thing’s for sure though, Britney Spears is desperate to make a comeback. Maybe if she threw enough money at Michael Phelps, he’d agree to do it since this report: Michael Phelps to promote Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes shows that he’d do it if the price is right.
Said studio execs,”Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Cat Woman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years. The new Cat Woman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations.”
Earlier, while Angelina Jolie replaces Tom Cruise in thriller movie, Angelina Jolie expressed interest in playing Cat Woman but Christopher Nolan’s unconventional choice of using Cher to portray a jaded Cat Woman is totally in line with his incredible series of dark Batman movies. Angelina Jolie as Cat Woman would just be too predictable.
Apparently, Paula Abdul knows Kara DioGuardi very well. “This is gonna be a good thing. I’m really thrilled! For me, I’m excited as can be. I think this time around, it’s gonna work adding a new judge. A lot of surprises are in store that are gonna make it more exciting to watch the show.” says Paula Abdul, “”I met Kara literally on the streets of New York, in 1999, in front of the Brooklyn Diner.”
“I was an instant fan of hers,” says Paula. “I moved her out to L.A. to live with me. I introduced her to music publishers. Kara and I wrote Spinning Around for Kylie Minogue when we were living together.” In fact, Kara DioGuardi is friends with the other Idol judges, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson too, having written many songs for American Idol finalists.
“I’ve been talking about her for years,” says Paula, “I hope the audience gets excited and accepts it. Sometimes its been hard when we’ve had four judges in the past. They always wanted four judges since the beginning. It’ll be good to have two girls, and two guys. Kara’s like a sister to me.”
So looks like there won’t any rivalry here but don’t be surprised if they should inject some controversies and cat fights into American Idol just to increase viewership.
Here’s the new judge for American Idol Season 8. She’s songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi and according to FOX, she’s worked with A-listers in the music industry including Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Aguilera.
She will join existing American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul on Tuesday for the New York auditions of the upcoming season, which will air on FOX in January 2009.
Is Paula Abdul less than thrilled that she won’t be the focus of attention as being the lone female judge anymore? “I haven’t spoken to her. I would think she’d be excited,” DioGuardi said, noting that she and Abdul collaborated on the Kylie Minogue hit “Spinning Around” in 2000.
What kind of judge will she be? “I’m a little nervous,” admitted DioGuardi, who said her approach to judging is simple. “I’m going to be a straight shooter and say it like I see it and maintain that philosophy.”
Having four judges seems like a crowd to me. How are they going to deal with tie-breaking?
Beginning right with the London 2012 Olympics Logo which looks like something from the portfolio of a first year design student. It’s strange because the UK is known for having first-class graphic designs with many top international award-winning design firms.
If their segment during the Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony is a glimpse of what London 2012 will be like, you will most likely see a West End type musical on a larger scale. Expect all the cliched Brit elements - brollies, bowl hats, double-decker buses, punks, the London tube - if even a run-down public transport system is used, you can tell how desperate they must have been.
You can see her “peeps” trying to ass-kiss her in the video. Madonna just turned 50 and is still relevant in the music scene, unlike the sad case where Michael Jackson turns 50.
The tour promotes her Hard Candy album that features a duet with Justin Timberlake for her smash hit 4 Minutes. The series of concerts will last 45 days in Europe, North and South America.
Madonna’s concert has been criticized for the huge carbon footprint it will produce - 1,635 tons of carbon pollution in travel alone. The emissions generated by the singer’s tour are equivalent to that created by 160 Britons in an entire year and equal to the emissions generated by leaving a standard 100 watt lightbulb on for about 4,000 years.
She will fly to 37 venues for the roadshow in just under four months, transporting a team of 250 that includes nine wardrobe assistants, 12 seamstresses, a 12-piece band, a chiropractor, personal trainer, masseuse, 16 caterers and around 100 technicians and dancers.
If these pictures are anything to go by, her concert promises to be incredible - what a far cry from the recent scary Madonna and child photos.
Follow one-time king of pop Michael Jackson face changes through 50 years. Yes! Hard to believe, but Michael Jackson is turning 50. After making the news for all the wrong reasons, Michael Jackson is supposedly in talks for a new project that hopefully marks his return to music. Too little, too late?
Faded 70’s glam rocker Gary Glitter is released from prison after serving 3 years jail time on multiple charges of child molest in Vietnam, but does not want to go home to his native England since he faces more troubles there.
He tried going to Bangkok but the Thai authorities have refused to grant him entry, so now he’s in transit at the airport lounge in Bangkok.
Gary Glitter has stated that he wants to go to either Hong Kong or Singapore, but seeing as to how he’s unlikely to be welcome anywhere in the civilized world, he should settle for living among penguins.
Former pop idol Ricky Martin is the father of twin boys via a surrogate mother. A released statement by the pop singer’s rep read, “The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care.”
“Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children.” No further details regarding the babies nor the surrogate mother are available.
Seems like this is becoming a popular way for gay men to become fathers, although Ricky Martin, a long-time supporter of children’s causes around the globe through his Ricky Martin Foundation, has never confirmed or denied that he is gay.
This is also how American Idol finalist Clay Aiken became a father to the child of good friend, composer David Foster’s daughter.
This is the Michael Phelps Sports Illustrated cover. Compare it with the Mark Spitz cover of yesteryear. Michael Phelps is now officially the greatest Olympian swimmer ever winning 8 individual gold medals beating Mark Spitz’s previous record of 7 gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
But before the adulation has died down, controversy has surfaced with the announcement that Michael Phelps will be endorsing Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes instead of the traditional athlete’s choice of Wheaties. Frosted Flakes has three times the amount of sugar as Wheaties and 1/3rd the fiber.
Phelps is now being criticized by health experts who are worried about the message he’ll be sending to children across America. Nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center says, “I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian. I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios.”
Hey, even Olympic champions need to make money right. The hell with health concerns!
That was pretty much how it went when John Mayer broke up with Jennifer Aniston. According to British newspaper Daily Mirror, John Mayer felt pressured when Jennifer Aniston presented a timetable to get married and start a family. After a 20-minute telephone conversation, John Mayer said, “I can’t take it any more,” and hung up. Then he texted, “That’s it - the end”.
