day 277

miley cyrus is a manic depressive

the title above is a blatant lie and completely fabricated allegation based upon this sample off miley's new walmart exclusive ep, the time of our lives. the "extended play" cd goes on sale next monday, august 31st and features songs ranging from "let's rock out in my bedroom with my stuffed animals" to "i'm going to sit alone in the corner now and cry." basically, it's music for everyone. the track listing is as follows: 1) "kicking and screaming," 2) "party in the usa," 3) "when i look at you," 4) "time of our lives," 5) "talk is cheap," 6) "obsessed," and 7) "before the storm (live)." i can only imagine that the "before the storm" recording comes from cyrus's surprise appearance at the jonas brothers' dallas concert earlier this summer (viewable here). the whole point of this disc is to draw up interest and promote miley's recent fashion endeavor, mileycyrusmaxazria, available exclusively at walmart. why they didn't just name the line "miley&max" or simply "miley by max azria" is beyond me. we all know she didn't design it; maybe she chose which checkered fabrics were best and signed off on all the british flags screened on every item, but that's about it. from the sounds of this sampler, miley's lead track - "party in the usa" - is the best offering and you don't even have to step foot in a wally world for that - you can get it on itunes.

famous faces join melrose

first of all, check out these steamy promos for the series relaunch of melrose place, coming this fall to the cw.

the slogans "menage a tues," "tuesday's the new humpday," and "tuesdays are a bitch" are a bit much, right? or maybe not enough. i like the last too, but "menage a tues?" really? i think the cw is expecting too much brain power out of its audience. anyway, back to that casting news that i teased. it looks like the newly named mrs. channing tatum, jenna dewan (of step up fame...if you can call "hey it's that girl from that one dance movie" fame), is set to be melrose's new resident bitch. well, at least for two episodes. the actress has been tapped to play a young studio exec interested in seducing budding filmmaker jonah, played by sisterhood of the traveling pants' and greek's michael rady. in more exciting news, it looks like melrose's most famous face from its fox predecessor, heather locklear (the mom from that hilary duff movie the perfect man/lilly's mom on hannah montana, for my less 90s knowledge inclined readers), is set to reprise her role of amanda woodward. the bitch is back! this news comes from people mag so basically is comes from the bible of all things pop culture. if it's wrong, people has some serious 'splaining to do. heather originally wouldn't come back to the show because of the plot line laid out for her character; amanda was supposed to be the landlord of the melrose place apartments. problem? (spoiler) the landlord gets killed off in the first episode and her death is the main mystery of season 1; former cast member laura leighton decided to take that gig instead. her character, sydney, had already been called off in the first edition of the series, so what's another death? but, after much negotiation, the producers have apparently worked out the perfect plot for ad exec amanda and heather is ready to come back (willing that contract negotiations go well - you know she wants the $$). the new version of melrose kicks off september 8th. to get a sneak peak of what it's like to live at melrose place, hit up melroseplaceapts.com.