Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin Take On Oscar Hosting Duties
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are teaming up to host the 82nd Academy Awards.
The duo will follow 2009 host Hugh Jackman, who announced last week that he would not return to helm next year’s ceremony. While Academy Award-nominated actor Alec is a first-time Oscar host, Steve hosted the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards.
The two men have a friendly hosting rivalry on the sketch comedy hit Saturday Night Live. Steve has hosted SNL 15 times, while Alec has hosted the sketch comedy just 14 times.
“I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin,” Steve said in a statement Tuesday.
“I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Alec added, referencing the comedian legend, who does play the banjo and is currently touring with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
The 2010 Academy Awards will air live from Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles on March 7.
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Taylor Swift New ‘Band Hero’ Commercial
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Music sensation Taylor Swift takes the virtual stage in an all-new edition of Band Hero premiering this month.
Swift fans will be able to live their musical fantasy by performing hits like “Love Story,” “You Belong With Me,” and “Picture To Burn” as Taylor Swift — or alongside the star — on the Band Hero stage.
“Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind. And, I’m really excited about Band Hero, because not only are fans getting to play my songs, but I’m actually in the game,” Taylor, a singer/songwriter/guitarist said of the game back in August. “There are so many awesome things that go into being in Band Hero, like getting to customize my band to look like my touring band, and it’s so cool for people to feel like they are experiencing one of my concerts. This is one of the closest things out there to going to see me perform!”
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Kate Hudson ‘ELLE’ UK Cover Girl December 2009
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Kate Hudson got candid in a new interview with ELLE UK about rumors she is engaged to Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, dropping 20 pounds, and her thoughts on Botox.
Kate may already sport a slender frame, but the actress slimmed down even further for the lead role in the upcoming film Earthbound — in which she plays a terminally-ill patient who falls in love with her doctor. The 30-year-old — who denies reports that she is engaged to Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez — reveals one of her diet secrets involved staying away from booze.
“I love my glass of wine. I love tequila. To be in New York for two weeks and not have one beverage, I’m not sure I’ve ever done that!”
Kate also revealed that she’ll swear by Botox, when the time is right.
“I was in a press conference once, and someone says, ‘So, I can tell you’ve never had Botox!’ Is that a compliment? Or are you trying to say I’m starting to get wrinkles? I literally was like, ‘What?’ Everyone’s so obsessed with who gets Botox, but it’s great! Are you kidding? The fact that women can avoid going under the knife, and get a little Botox treat and not have to worry about it? I’m glad it’s there for when it’s time.”
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Kathy Griffin Hosting New ABC Celebrity Dance Competition
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Emmy-winning comedienne Kathy Griffin has been tapped to host a new celebrity dance competition on ABC.
Griffin, 48, has signed on to helm Let’s Dance, a new series which will premiere immediately after the Nov. 23 finale of Dancing With The Stars, TheWrap.com has learned. The new series will feature celebrity contestants reenacting their famous routines from past music videos, movies, and musicals on a live weekly dance-off that will run for just five episodes.
“The competition will be hot — and hilarious — as teams of celebrities pay comedic homage to famous dances while competing for a $250,000 grand prize for their favorite charity,” according to a statement from ABC Tuesday. “The show will include single dancers, duos and groups, all competing against each other to wow a panel of judges and viewers across America who will be voting each week leading up to the series finale.”
The panel of judges and celebrity participants will be announced sometime in the next few weeks.
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Rihanna Recipient ‘Glamour Magazine 2009 Women Of The Year’
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Glamour Magazine hails triumphant pop tart Rihanna as one of their 2009 Women of the Year — more than eight months after the singer’s highly publicized domestic fallout with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.
“My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me,” the Rated R star tells the mag, on newsstands Nov. 10. “But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be—no one can understand.”
In the wake of the February assault, Rihanna said one of the toughest things to cope with was the leak of the shocking photo of her beaten and bruised being leaked to the public — the singer calls the leak of the pic “humiliating.”
“It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody,” she tells Glamour. “I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.”
What Rihanna Has Learned After Her Brush With Domestic Violence? “I’m stronger, wiser and more aware. You don’t realize how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans,” Rihanna says.
Rihanna On Finding Love: “I hope I find love in the next 10 years – that will be pretty annoying if I am 31 and still have never been in love! But yeah, I’d like to be in a great place in both my personal life and my career. I still want to be doing what I love. Whatever that is in 10 years, I don’t know.”
Rihanna On Domestic Violence: “Domestic violence is a big secret. No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. You don’t dare let your neighbor know that you fight. It’s one of the things we [women] will hide, because it’s embarrassing,” Rihanna explains. “My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.”
Rihanna is now releasing a new album, Rated R, Nov. 23 and says she put “everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music.” She will give her first TV interview since the Chris Brown attack on ABC’s Good Morning America this Thursday.
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Kate Winslet Wins Law Suit Against ‘The Daily Mail’ UK
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Lawyers for Kate Winslet say the actress has accepted more than $40,000 in damages after The Daily Mail falsely reported in January she lied about her exercise regime.
Winslet — who won a Golden Globe and an Oscar earlier this year for the 2008 film The Reader –has been an outspoken critic of excessive dieting. In 2007, she won damages against a British magazine which wrongly stated she had visited a diet doctor.
Kate was not in court for yesterday morning’s settlement, but wanted an apology “to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise,” her lawyer said.
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Naveen Andrews ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Guest Role
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Lost’s Naveen Andrews will guest star on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
The 40-year-old actor –best known for his role as Sayid Jarrah on the ABC series – will begin shooting his scenes next week in New York, according to TV Guide.
Details of Naveen’s role are still under wraps, but his episode is scheduled to air in January 2010.
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Rihanna Speaking Out In ‘Glamour’ And With Diane Sawyer
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Rihanna is speaking out for the first time since being assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in a Grammy night attack last February. In a poignant interview with Glamour’s December issue, Rihanna, a Glamour 2009 Woman of the Year recipitent, talks about how she coped after the brawl with Brown that garnered international headlines.
“I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears,” the “Russian Roulette” singer recalls in the interview, on newsstands Nov. 10. “That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard.”
Rihanna will be honored — alongside literary legend Maya Angelou and comedian Amy Poehler — at the annual Glamour Women of the Year event in New York City on Monday, Nov. 9.
In an interview with Diane Sawyer due to be aired on ABC’s Good Morning America this Thursday and Friday, the Barbadian-born singer says Chris Brown was “definitely my first big love.”
“This happened to me … it can happen to anyone,” she told Sawyer according to a statement from ABC.
Chris and Rihanna were among the fastest rising R&B artists in the country before the assault, which led to Chris losing several commercial sponsorships and being slapped with five years of probation.
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‘Heroes’ Spoiler: Adrian Pasdar Being Killed Off
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Sorry Heroes fans, it appears you’ll be bidding farewell to one-half of the Petrelli Brothers before year’s end. According to E!’s Kristin Dos Santos, Adrian Pasdar’s on-screen alter ego Nathan Petrelli is the major character death happening on Heroes later this season.
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Christopher Walken Takes On Lady GaGa’s ‘Poker Face’
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
HA! “Poker Face” becomes pure poetry when read from the lips of screen star Christopher Walken. The acting vet appeared on a special Halloween edition of the BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross over the weekend, where he gave his rendition of Lady Gaga’s platinum charttopper, “Poker Face”
