January 23, 2009

Singer Lady GaGa, whose trademark is her raunchy on-stage and off-stage costumes, tells Britain's Guardian newspaper that she likes to cook food for her boyfriends wearing just her underwear and stilettos. "I used to make my boyfriend dinner in my stilettos, with my underwear on," so she says. "And he used to be like, 'Baby, you're so sexy!' And I'd be like, 'Have some meatballs'".

Having no hesitation to reveal more of her sexy upbringing, Lady GaGa goes on gushing, "I don't think a lot of female popstars embrace womanhood in that domestic, American way." She adds, "I grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen. And it's like that sort of by-the-boardwalk mentality. Girls either don't know about it or they think no-one can relate to it or they think it's cooler to act like men and cheat on their boyfriends."

After being the punching sack for weeks now, Kanye West decides to address what's going on between him and 50 Cent. The former has been dissing Kanye's choice of music in "808's & Heartbreak" and even publicly mocked his single "Love Lockdown" in a concert. Kanye tells his side of story.

"Just as a real human being, I can't say that it doesn't affect me," Kanye said in an interview with Bossip. "I was such a fan of 50. As much as people think that I look at myself, I think that me and Lil Wayne are very similar: Even though we believe in ourselves, we're very much fans of other rappers, too. Like how Game is, we really like other rappers. 50 is one of those rappers that I said was the end-all-be-all of what rap what supposed to be. Like, a true iconic rapper. "

Kristen Stewart has shared her thought on several early concerns related to "New Moon". Revealing to MTV that she is "really excited" about the "Twilight" sequel, the actress who is known for her portrayal as a teenage girl in love with vampire, Bella Swan, stated her confident on both director Chris Weitz and co-star Taylor Lautner for "New Moon".

While many worries about the changing of director from Catherine Hardwicke to Chris Weitz for the sequel, the 18-year-old who has met the filmmaker shows her support for the "The Golden Compass" helmer. "Chris is - on top of him being a really sweet guy - he is entirely devoted," she gushed in the interview with MTV at Sundance. "And he's very clearly not doing the movie just because it's the next big thing. He really likes it a lot."

Kristen Stewart's father has been taped confronting a photographer who's been hounding his actress daughter while they were at the Los Angeles Airport recently. Fortunately, the confrontation didn't get worse.

The "Twilight" leading actress arrived at LAX from Washington D.C. on Wednesday, January 21 and was about to make her way out of the airport to a waiting car when a throng of photographers hounded her. Asked a number of questions by them, she kept her lips tightly sealed, weakly nodding to the question whether she enjoyed Barack Obama's presidential inauguration asked by one of the photogs.

Now that the third "Underworld" installment "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans", is done and ready to hit U.S. theaters, there is an open end that may lead to TV series. Producer Len Wiseman said to Bloody-Disgusting that he is open for further project revolving around the vampire versus werewolf movie.

"There's a lot of talk about a television series, I'm looking into that, if I could be very involved and can be a certain way, I'd be very interested in that," Wiseman revealed. "We had always hoped to do a trilogy, now that we completed that trilogy it's kind of open, if people can join us and go back in time - and then leap forward, I'd like to go jump all across the time line."

Shedding some fans' curiosity over his next effort "The Blueprint 3", Jay-Z revealed why he is going slow this time. Unlike the last one "American Gangster" that he created within short time after being inspired by the movie of the same name, the rapper intends to keep this new piece "beyond and above".

To MTV at the backstage of his "Eve of Change" show, Jay-Z explains why the record has not yet had a release date. "For me, the process of making an album is difficult with so many things going on," he said. "And me, I wanna make it beyond and above. I'm gonna take my time with it. I don't have any quotas, and that's a good thing. It may be too freeing. It's a good thing and a bad thing."

"Watchmen" will have its soundtrack album and original score compilation released three days before it makes its debut in the U.S. theaters. On Thursday, January 22, Warner Sunset/Reprise Records announced that both of the movie's soundtrack and original score have been set to hit U.S. stores on March 3.

Through a press release, the recording company also let out that the soundtrack will include a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" by My Chemical Romance, recorded exclusively for the movie. Other than My Chemical Romance, other musicians featured in the album include Billie Holiday, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, KC & The Sunshine Band and Nat King Cole.

It is becoming more definite now that made for TV movie "Camp Rock" will get its sequel. In an interview with MTV, the film's star Demi Lovato said that production will kick off later this year after she finishes further supporting her debut album "Don't Forget" in a tour.

"There's a 'Camp Rock' sequel," she confirmed to MTV. "We're going to be shooting it at the end of the next year. Actually this year, woo! So, we'll be shooting it late 2009 and hopefully I'll be shooting it after I do a tour."

Another dose of bad news comes from the Osbournes as Sharon Osbourne has confirmed that Kelly Osbourne is back to rehab. "Yeah, Kelly's in rehab," the music promoter exclusively confirms to RadarOnline.com.

Declining to reveal the name and location of the rehab where Kelly is staying, Sharon simply says it is located outside the L.A. area. She goes on revealing, "What else can we say? She knew that it was the right thing to do at this point and we're proud that she did it. The family is all standing behind her. Kelly knew that she needed help and she's getting it."

One of the tracks expected to be included in R. Kelly's upcoming album has been leaked. "Makin' Me" is one of the many which have gone online while the date for the new effort "12 Play: Fourth Quarter" is yet to be decided by the record label.

"Makin' Me" is a mid-tempo which features Akon. It is unclear whether R. Kelly will take it as the third single from the album after "Hair Braider" and "Skin. The album itself was slated to hit the U.S. market in Summer 2008 but since the singer was facing trials on his child pornography case, he was not able to promote the album and thus his camp decided to suspend the release date.

On Thursday, January 22, exactly a day before "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" opens in theaters across the U.S., Screen Gems have given the supernatural thriller a red carpet treatment by holding out a world premiere event. The special screening event took place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.

Attending the premiere were some of the movie's major characters, Bill Nighy who plays Viktor, Michael Sheen who stars as Lucian and Rhona Mitra who portrays Sonja. They were joined by cast member Kevin Grevioux, director Patrick Tatopoulos, producer Len Wiseman and Screen Gems topper Clint Culpepper. Celebrity guests, like Garcelle Beauvais, Kip Pardue and Vail Bloom, have also been spotted at the event.

When it comes to treating girl properly, Robert Pattinson thinks he is a gentleman. Providing an evidence to that, he says, "I don't tell [a girl] how she has to be for me. I don't want her to change herself for me."

Talking about girls of his dream, Pattinson reveals he likes "talented girls." He admits, "If she's really talented, I don't really care about the other things." Also he frankly claims that he "would rather go out with girls than with guys", while jokingly adding, "but if I tried to hit on every girl around me, then I would lose those friendships."

Ryan Reynolds may be given more screen time as Deadpool in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Giving an update to the previous report on the movie's re-shoots, IESB brought up that one of the reasons for the re-shoots was to add more footage of Reynolds' wise-cracking mercenary character to the action fantasy film.

Crediting their reader, DPfan, for the report, IESB insisted that the character nicknamed "Merc with a Mouth" is going to "appear in the film even more than originally planned". The site further noted that most of the footage shot during the production's extra time in Vancouver contains scenes with Deadpool and the main character itself, Wolverine, who is starred by Hugh Jackman. Nonetheless, the 20th Century Fox have yet to send out any confirmation or denial regarding this Deadpool rumor.

It is the crossover episode of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" on February 5. From the preview given by ABC for the next episode of "Grey's", it is known that Derek receives a call from Addison in some kind of an emergency situation involving her brother, Archer.

Based on the synopsis given on "Private" February 5 episode, Archer will have a severe seizure that Addison and Naomi try to find a cure using every resource possible. And when they don't, Addison seeks the help of the neurosurgeon she knows well, Derek. Also in the episode, now that Derek has the engagement ring, he searches for the perfect way to propose to Meredith.

"I'm at War" has been leaked, and it's particularly anticipated for two things. It is the first single off Sean Kingston's new album and he chose the hottest rapper in town as collaborator, Lil Wayne.

A production of J.R. Rotem, the song contains sample of war like situation where there's gun fired and helicopter rotors running. It will appear in Sean's sophomore effort "Tomorrow" which is tentatively released in either March or April this year.

Speculation is mounting all over the web that Rachel McAdams is dating actor Josh Lucas. The assumption emerges hot on the heels of New York Daily News' report claiming the two were spotted acting "so lovey-dovey" at the Purple Ball in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 20.

The rumored lovers, according to New York Daily News' insider, were seen kissing during the ball which was held to celebrate the inauguration of president Barack Obama. A spy tells the newspaper the two actors were seen "nibbling on each other's necks, gazing into each other's eyes and doing a lot of flirty touching."

After the "Telekinetic Gun Fight" clip from "Push" made its round earlier, four more clips from the Paul McGuigan's riveting action-thriller have been found. One of the new clips, entitled "Psychic Showdown", was outed exclusively via Apple, while the rest were found by a French site, Allocine.

In "Psychic Showdown", Chris Evans' Nick Gant is involved in a fist fight with another man who has similar power to his, while others are firing bullets at them. The next clip is called "Lead Us to the Girl" where Nick and Dakota Fanning's Cassie try to convince Emily Hu to lead them to the girl they are looking for by showing a bead and Cassie's ability.

After a two-hour premiere, "Lost" will be back next Wednesday, January 28 with "Jughead" which preview is readily available. Deemed "just beginning", the episode will see the survivors of Oceanic 815 continuing to uncover the mysteries of their relationship to the Island and to one another.

Desmond goes in search of a woman who could be the key to helping Faraday stop the island's erratic movements through time, and Locke discovers the identity of the unknown forces who have been attacking the survivors. Guest starring roles among others come from Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert and Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore.

Elisabeth Moss has confirmed to UsaWeekend.com's Kathy Rowings that she is engaged to "Saturday Night Live" cast member Fred Armisen. The actress made the revelation during the Screen Actors Guild Awards this weekend.

"It happened just a few days ago - you're actually the first press person I've told this to," she was quoted as confirming. "It's private, so I don't want to share the details of how it happened, but I will say it was perfect."

Yahoo! Movies has exclusively premiered the trailer to Magnolia Pictures dramedy "The Great Buck Howard". Teasing what the movie is all about, the trailer offers the story from Troy Gable's perspective, starting with the introduction of who he is and what he experiences and learns when working with Buck Howard.

Pairing up John Malkovich and Colin Hanks, "The Great Buck Howard" tells the story of Buck Howard, an illusionist in decline, and Troy Gable, a law school drop-out who becomes his assistant. Having spent his time in the limelight years before, Buck is convinced that his comeback is imminent, and all he needs right now is a new road manager and personal assistant. The latter he finds in Troy. Needing a job and a purpose, he signs on to work for the belligerent has-been magician and learns a few tricks he couldn't possibly have picked up in law school.

The next episode of "Bones" can be previewed through a sneak peek given by FOX. After a two episodes return, the show will take a two weeks break to air "The Hero in the Hold" on February 5. The episode will be particularly a race against the time type, where Booth is a victim in a kidnapping situation.

When Brennan, Hodgins and author Thomas Vega are summoned by a Federal Judge along with the United States Attorney regarding the ongoing investigation of the Grave Digger, they learn that evidence from the case has recently gone missing. With Brennan and Hodgins having been victims of the Grave Digger and Thomas Vegas currently writing a book about it, they become prime suspects in the missing evidence case.

Battling stage 4 of pancreatic cancer, Patrick Swayze reportedly will write an inspirational-type tome with the help of his wife, actress Lisa Niemi. Entertainment Weekly was the first to report that matter.

Contrary to the claim, People cites a source close to Patrick as saying that instead of writing an inspirational book, the movie star will focus his tome on his life's journey, including his current fight against cancer. A representative for Patrick has confirmed the actor's plan to write a memoir to US Weekly, but doesn't give clue about what it will be focused on.

In support of their imminent new album release, Hoobastank have launched an interesting feature where fans can put up their own version of "My Turn" music video. The song is the first single from the band's fourth studio album "FOR(N)EVER" which will be released on January 27.

An innovative and groundbreaking feature, the interactive video will allow viewers to control the on-screen action. "You'll have the option to create any version of it that you want," frontman Doug Robb explains. "You can have Chris sing while I play guitar in drag with an old lady on drums. And you can keep switching it up as the video goes along. Create an all Dan band. An all dog band. Whatever you want. The options are endless. It's very cool and I think that the fans are gonna have fun with it."

Singing amidst the greeneries, horseback riding across the river and swinging in a rope nearby a waterfalls are a few of what Miley Stewart does in "Hannah Montana: The Movie". Those captured actions can now be seen through a series of newly-found stills originally posted by Yahoo! Movies.

A big screen version of the highly popular Disney Channel original series "Hannah Montana", "Hannah Montana: The Movie" tells the story when Miley Stewart's popularity as Hannah Montana starts to take a toll on her life. When her identity as the pop-star persona threatens to take over her life, her father takes her home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee for a dose of reality, forcing her to figure out what's really important.

"Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford is lending his famous face in a new public service announcement (PSA) for 'Teens for Jeans' charity, encouraging people to donate their denim to help homeless teens. "Clean up your closets, support 'Teens for Jeans'", he says in the PSA.

He asks people to bring their gently worn jeans to any Aeropostale store from January 26 to February 22. The denim will then be delivered to a local shelter. Aeropostale store will, in return of the donation, give 25% off for a new pair of jeans bought in the store to people who have made the donations.

There are talks that Nicole Richie is going back in front of the camera for a new reality show. The alumna of "The Simple Life" reportedly will join forces with her fiance Joel Madden for a new show that focuses on their little family.

"Nicole wants the world to know what it's like to be a working mom with a rock star boyfriend," a source told Star Magazine. The scheme allegedly came from Nicole herself who jotted in her ideas to the producers in the beginning of this month. Should this go through then she, Joel and their daughter Harlow will all star alongside Nicole's adoptive father Lionel Richie. No further details are given.

A red band trailer of sci-fi action "Mutant Chronicles" has arrived. Courtesy of IGN, the age-restricted video shares bits of the storyline as well as previews more on the action sequences to be seen in the movie that is loosely based on the role playing game of the same name.

The trailer begins with a scene in which a group of soldiers prepares to fight against the "enemy of men" as a hordes of mutant army released from an ancient buried seal storms in. When the battles against the mutants seem to be a lost cause, Corporations' leader Constantine decides to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents. But, few men choose to stay behind and try to save the planet from the mutants.

Pop singer Katy Perry has retracted her much reported celibacy vow, People reports. "I am not going to be celibate," the songbird said with a laugh during a conference call with reporters on Thursday, January 22. "That was a joke, and any fine journalist would have got that."

On Wednesday, January 21, mounting reports sparked that Katy has taken celibacy vow for this year following her break up with ex-boyfriend Travis McCoy of band Gym Class Heroes. She was quoted as telling the new issue of TV Guide, "I've actually taken a vow of celibacy this year. No kissing anyone. Just my cat, Kitty Purry."

Ice Cube is promoting the fourth single from his 2008 album "Raw Footage" by premiering its music video. "I Got My Locs On" which is featuring Young Jeezy and is co-produced by Kanye West has been made the latest pulled from the rapper's eight studio album.

The video which is directed by Neils Alpert and has the cameo of Young Jeezy, starts with the definition of the word "janky". Before "Locs", Ice Cube has premiered music videos for "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", "Do Ya Thang" and "Why Me?".

On Thursday morning, January 22, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have unveiled to the world their selection of nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Announced by Academy president Sid Ganis and Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the nominations were dominated by "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".

Having been shunned away from any kudos at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, the David Fincher's drama has picked up 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson and Best Leading Actor for Brad Pitt. The movie about a man born in his eighties has landed a Best Original Score nomination for composer Alexandre Desplat, and received seven gongs for technical categories as well.

After months of chatter and speculation, Miley Cyrus breaks her silence and sets the record straight on the rumors of her feuding with ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas and fellow Disney stars Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. In a video posted on MileyWorld, she insists she has no beef with the threesome, claiming they are all her good friends.

She starts addressing the feud issue around the 6.23 mark of the more-than 8 minutes video. "I know you guys saw me, I was hanging out with the Jonas Brothers at the inaugural [concert]," Miley says of her being photographed hugging Nick at the "Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future", the free gig celebrating Barack Obama's presidential ceremony, on Monday, January 19. "That was really good. And we are friends ... I love the JoBros."