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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007
Rihanna on her father, a former crack addict:
“I had seen the marijuana and cocaine around him but I didn’t know what it was. I just knew that my mum didn’t like it, and they were always fighting about it. My mother was a very strong woman and tried to shelter us from as much as she could. But she was working, and he was at home, so there was only so much that she could hide from us. He’s OK, he’s drug-free now. He got over it a while ago because my mother wouldn’t let us go and see him otherwise. So he gave it up for us.”
Rihanna on working with Justin Timberlake:
“I was so starstruck at being in the same room as him.”
Rihanna on her good-girl-gone-bad image:
“I felt I was embarking on a whole new image, a whole new journey. I wanted to differentiate myself from the past. I have come into my own and I know what I’m doing now. I’ve called the new album Good Girl Gone Bad because I was determined to do it my way, I was sick of listening to what everyone else wanted. This is the way I like to look and sound, so I became very rebellious – that’s the attitude of the entire project. And some older people there, who tend to be very judgmental, are not pleased with my new image. But I’m not bad in a godless way”
Rihanna on drugs:
”I don’t want those problems. Even they didn’t want that to happen to them, and it’s a very sad situation. Outside the business, it’s easy to criticise them. It’s not hard for that kind of problem to happen, but you have to have good people around you to make sure it doesn’t. Artists work so hard and the people around them keep pushing, forgetting they’re human. And in turn the artist also forgets she’s human and stops caring – and that’s when you get lonely. If you travel the world and start to zone out in your hotel room, you turn to different things for comfort”
Rihanna on her free time:
“I live on my own in LA and at first my mother was a little concerned because she gets worried about my health. When I’m not working, I love just lying on my patio, listening to the breeze. It reminds me of the Caribbean. I’m travelling so much, but there’s nowhere like home. Sometimes I get so lonely, and it’s frustrating. Most of the time I’m in a different time zone to everyone else when I call them up – but then I’m a citizen of the world now.”
Rihanna on her childhood dreams:
“To have recorded Umbrella, which became such a huge hit, and to make three albums in under two years – I had none of this in my dreams when I was a child. All I wanted to do was to make music all over the world.”
Source: CelebInMag
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During the live broadcast, Jessica Alba proved to be a whiz at the board game Operation, successfully completing the task that was set for her.
Jessica Alba was appearing on TRL to promote her latest movie Awake, starring opposite Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen and Oscar nominated Terence Howard.
The film tells the gruesome tale of a man who suffers anesthetic awareness and finds himself awake and aware, but paralysed during heart surgery.
In a scene in the movie, Alba can be seen topless with her back to camera.
The star has said in the past she would never do nudity on film, but said of this scene, “Nobody was in front of me, but the wall.”
1. JOHNNY CARSON
He was America's night-light. From 1962 to 1992, the nation didn't fall asleep until Carson said good-night. No matter what was going on in the world — Vietnam, Watergate, the AIDS crisis — he was there, swiveling behind his desk on NBC's Tonight Show, providing a place the whole country could flip to for collective comic relief. At his zenith, 15 million viewers were tuning in to watch him chat with the biggest stars in the world...or just some lady with a potato chip shaped like Bob Hope. Of course, there are scores of iconic moments. The time Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki. Or when one of Joan Embery's cheetahs sent him leaping into Ed McMahon's arms. But we're picking more of a movement, one that Carson repeated each night: that golf swing before the first commercial break, a gesture as smooth and graceful as Johnny himself.
2. LUCILLE BALL
Pioneering, peerless, and putty-faced pretty, Ball was TV's first great female comedian, a world-class physical comic. I Love Lucy's genius premise was that housewife Lucy Ricardo yearned to be the very sort of star Ball became in real life. From a score of classic scenes, we give the nod to Lucy trying to do a TV ad for Vitameatavegamin, a health concoction laced with alcohol that leaves her tongue thick and her head too woozy to pronounce the product's name properly.
3. OPRAH WINFREY
In the beginning, she was just a talk-show host. Now she's...well, Oprah. And that means many things to many people. Hollywood insider (her friends: Cruise, Travolta, Hanks) and global activist (her allies: Mandela, Bono, Clinton). Multimedia brand and self-help cheerleader. Give-away queen, powerhouse book peddler, Broadway booster, and struggling weight-watcher. (The day her relatability became meatily manifest? When she hauled out the wagon of fat representing the 67 pounds she had shed.) By becoming Everywoman's confidante, she has redefined super-celebrity.
4. BILL COSBY
A cute kid can upstage even the funniest grown-up, so it's a measure of Cosby's talent that he surrounded himself with adorable children on screen. When The Cosby Show premiered in 1984, it rejuvenated the sitcom form with its groundbreaking portrayal of a happy, successful African-American family. For eight seasons, Cosby, as the jovial patriarch Dr. Cliff Huxtable, mined comic gold from the everyday life of a Brooklyn household. He spoke for dads everywhere — once getting big laughs simply by showing off his collection of hysterically bad Father's Day gifts.
5. WALTER CRONKITE
On Nov. 22, 1963, Cronkite delivered perhaps the most frequently re-aired news report in our history. ''President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central standard time,'' he said. But it's what he did next that stays with us. Blinking back emotion, Cronkite paused to hold on to the composure we so desperately needed from him, put on his glasses, then soldiered through his broadcast. That day he became the standard by which all newscasters are measured.
6. CAROL BURNETT
Today, it's hard to fathom a prime-time sketch-comedy show running for 11 years, but The Carol Burnett Show did just that from 1967 to 1978. The memorable moments are legion, from her opening Q&A to her closing ear tug. But one skit tops them all: ''Went With the Wind!,'' an epic send-up of the Civil War classic that featured Burnett's Scarlett in a dress made of curtains, the rod still attached. ''I saw it in the window,'' she cooed, ''and I just couldn't resist it!''
7. MARY TYLER MOORE
When Mary Richards moved to Minneapolis in 1970, it was finally okay for a single gal to pursue a career and not be defined by a man. Take that, That Girl! As the always-positive, mostly unflappable voice of reason among hilariously needy neighbors and co-workers (see how she handles Mr. Grant taking more than his share of veal Prince Orloff at her near-disastrous dinner party), Mary Tyler Moore and her namesake series paved the way for the Ally McBeals and Carrie Bradshaws to come. And she did it with spunk. We like spunk.
8. JERRY SEINFELD
For nine seasons of Seinfeld, the single and obsessively neat comic made the most of nothing, as the neurotic ringmaster of a motley pack of Upper West Side misanthropes. So who better to poke holes in Kramer and Newman's belief that Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez (a.k.a. Jerry's man-crush) spat on them? Dissecting the crime JFK-style, Seinfeld mocks them with the irrefutable laws of physics — ''That is one magic loogie'' — and explicates his theory of a ''second spitter...behind the bushes, on the gravelly road.''
9. HOMER SIMPSON
Homer is not a bright man. (He has referred to his home as ''that...building...thingy... where our beds and TV...is.'') But what The Simpsons' nuclear safety inspector lacks in smarts, he makes up for in heart, laziness, and appetite. Let's admire a conversation that he had with his brain upon discovering a $20 bill under the couch:
Homer: [Disappointed] ''Aww, twenty dollars. I wanted a peanut.''
Brain: ''Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.''
Homer: ''Explain how.''
Brain: ''Money can be exchanged for goods and services.''
Homer: ''Woo-hoo!''
10. DICK CLARK
A tribute by Ryan Seacrest: ''Dick Clark mastered the art of being everyone's best friend on television. He was middle America. You just wanted to be a member of the American Bandstand club, and he was the club leader. You can have the worst fight with your girlfriend, then you hear his voice? Back to a happy place. He writes handwritten notes. September 17, 2007, [one day after the Emmys]: ''Bravo, Ryan. You were perfect. Best, Dick.''
Source: EW
New pictures of Britney’s boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James, are in this week’s new Life & Style magazine. The boys are seen posing with their father, Kevin Federline, and his mother.
They look cuter here than when they are with Britney, maybe because it’s the first time we’ve seen them smile!
Source: I'm Not Obsessed
Now "Alias" star Jennifer Garner is joining the fight against influenza. Garner has joined the American Lung Association with its "Faces of Influenza" campaign which kicked off Monday.
Its goal is to raise public awareness on the importance of getting an annual flu shot. Garner says she's living proof the vaccine is vital.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 5 to 20 percent of Americans comes down with the flu each year.
Source: ny1
Britney Spears astonished mother-of-three Heidi Klum recently - by showing the supermodel the proper way to put a diaper on a baby. Klum was surprised when Spears, who is fighting reports she's a bad mum amid her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, arrived uninvited at her Halloween party at Los Angeles venue Green Door. And Britney left Klum speechless when she offered up her diaper-changing expertise.
Heidi Klum says,
"We were talking about babies and diapers and she explained to me a lot of things about diapers I that didn't know. "You know these sticky things on the side? I never knew that they were there. To close them in the front, I was always putting string around. I had no idea. "It's very clever. I learned a lot of things."
Source: Contact Music
Local news in Mexico has cited Villanueva’s husband, Jorge Poza, as stating that his wife has landed the role. She reportedly attended several casting sessions before “producers requested her presence for the film which is currently in pre-production.”
Scouting for the next Bond Girl has mainly targeted South America, with dozens of potential actresses and models cut down to just a handful for their final screentesting last week.
Source: Ace Show Biz
Paris Hilton Appears at JJ Mahoneys in Seoul
She looks really hot.
Absolutely gorgeous!!
Christina Milian at House of Taylor Jewels
She still hot at her age. Amazin' bod.
Demi Moore in white bikini on vacation
Lindsay Lohan's father says she is "really enjoying" her community service.
Michael Lohan claims the 'Mean Girls' star - who began her community service for a DUI conviction (driving under the influence) at a Los Angeles'American Red Cross blood services facility blood donor centre on Monday - has always wanted to do charity work.
Michael told People magazine, "I asked her how it was going and she said she is really enjoying it. She's happy. When she was younger I had her at hospitals, visiting cancer patients and sick kids. I know she wants to do stuff like this, mission work."
Lindsay received the mandatory minimum sentence of four days in jail after being convicted of DUI for the second time. Prosecutors agreed to reduce this to two days if she served 10 days of community service.
The 21-year-old actress has already served one day after the authoritiesgave her credit for the time she spent in custody following her July arrest.She has until January to complete the remaining 24 hours of her jailsentence.
