day 38

merry christmas

i'm taking the night off as it is christmas...just a little bit of news to send your way.

legendary singer and actress eartha kitt passed away today (my generation probably knows her as the creepy old lady in harriet, the spy)

michael cera is reportedly being pursued for the role of  gilligan for the gilligan's island movie remake, with beyonce being scouted to play "the moviestar" (odd casting if you ask me) 

because no mag wanted to buy the picture, ashlee simpson and pete wentz released a picture onto the internets of new son bronx mowgli 

day 36

beyonce, times 2: take 2

beyonce has released 2 new singles from her double disc i am...sasha fierce, "halo" from i am..., and "diva" from sasha fierce.  the videos are similar in concept to her two previous releases off these discs, "if i were a boy" and "single ladies."  click here to check out halo, and here to check out "diva."  halo uses light pastel filters to color the footage and there doesn't really seem to be a story line - beyonce practices in a ballet studio and sits on a couch with her man.  but, the song is radio worthy.   the coolest shots are the ones with beyonce underwater -  a concept britney should consider if she ever turns "out from under" into a single.  the song is more fun to listen to and the video is more fun to watch than "if i were a boy."  with "diva," beyonce is definitely tapping into sasha's dance reserves.  mixing the styling of the "ring the alarm" and "if i were a boy" videos, beyonce seems to be sticking to the 3 girl dance routine. the dance is quite a bit simpler than the "single ladies" choreography and is sure to result in a rise in youtube impersonations.  maybe with the simple choreography b will mix it up during her performances and not do the same dance every time.  diva is a mix of lil wayne's "a milli" and other tracks off sasha fierce, like "radio" and "videophone." the latter track even makes an appearance at the end of the "diva" video, alluding to the idea that it may very well be the next single and have a video which continues from the "diva" concept. 

speaking of popstars starting with the letter b...

britney spears is gearing up for her "the circus...staring britney spears" tour in 2009 and is making some changes to her entourage.  the princess of pop is dropping long time choreographers wade robson and andre fuentes in lou of mega tour director jamie king.  robson has been with brit from the start of her career and is responsible for the "baby one more time" video.  robson and fuentes recently choreographed britney's comeback performances in europe, creating new dances for "womanizer" and "circus."  while wade has originally been announced as the tour's director, her has been dropped so that the man responsible for madonna's recent "sticky and sweet" megatour, christina aguilera's "back to basics" tour, and the spice girls reunion can take over.  king is known for highlighting the performer and is sure to make the "circus" tour big. hopefully we'll get to see some old school spears dance moves and not the simple stuff we've been treated to thus far on the promotional tour.  this tour will also heavilt feature material from spear's last effort blackout, which she was unable to tour with as she was going crazy.  

pete wentz needs to shut up

first he blabbed all about his sexual conquests and his married sex life on howard stern, and now the face of fall out boy is discussing other intimacies about his life with ashlee simpson. wentz talked to a sirius morning show all about his dislike of the taste of ashlee's breast milk (wtf? why is he drinking it??) and discussed the couples' weight issues.  pete, who usually stays around 135, says he's "ballooned" to close to 150 and has "fat face," while ashlee is struggling to drop the baby weight.  pete thinks she has it easier as breast feeding is helping the pounds come off, while he's having to resort to exercise.  um, the last i checked, we all have to resort to exercise.  and the strenuousness of walking is just too much on wentz's tiny frame...how about you head back into the hollywood hills and come back out when you can conduct a professional interview? or let ashlee do some of the talking. i would love to hear her (or her father, for that matter) take on all this.

day 29

gayken, two time baby daddy?

clay aiken and mother of his baby jaymes foster are apparently gearing up for a second baby.  jaymes has started taking prenatal vitamins and is preparing to get turkey basted with clay's sperm. why, you ask? i don't know. these kids are going to have one effed up childhood - mommy and daddy were never married, raise you in separate homes, and never had sex.  could you imagine having the "where do babies come from" convo with these kids? jaymes is set to get sperminated sometime in january...

j lo gets back to her romcom roots

jennifer lopez is set to head back to work on romantic comedy (thank baby jesus that she's done with the dramas!) called plan b.  the film is about a single woman who gets artificially inseminated (jaymes foster?) the same day she meets her perfect man.  no director has been named, but should be attached sometime in january, with shooting beginning in april or may.  that means the movie should hit theaters sometime in early 2010.  hopefully this will get j lo back to her heydey, when both the wedding planner and her cd were number 1. 

ashlee simpson is probs real mad

pete wentz went on howard stern and spilt a lot of secrets about his and wife ashlee simpson's sex life.  apparently ashlee and pete get quite freaky in the sheets, with ashlee letting pete go in the back door.  wentz also spilled the deets on the couple's first time, which involved a mirror.  wentz also talked about former flames michelle trachtenberg and lindsay lohan, but wouldn't rate them because he was afraid ashlee might get mad.  

the office, post super bowl

nbc is set to air a special episode of the office after the 2009 super bowl.  the episode will feature the cast trying to watch a bootleg copy of a new movie release at work...and the producers have nabbed some pretty big guest stars for the episode. both jack black and jessica alba have been tapped to star in the bootleg movie. the episode is called "stress relief" and will air directly after the american tradition, february 1st at 10:30/9:30 central on the peacock net.