Archive for March, 2010

American Idol: This Is What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted

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Apologies to our readers – we wear our age on our sleeve because we said that the American Idol musical guest on Wednesday would be Diddy. We had no idea it would actually be Diddy-Dirty Money. There is, apparently, a difference. That difference is two additional women, an all-white costume closet, and strobe lights. In addition to DDM, we also got treated to an Auto-Tuned performance by Usher and a svelter-than-ever Ruben Studdard. Let’s hope that if the Idol hopefuls this season take a cue from anyone gracing the stage, it’s Ruben – he still sounds great and he and Clay Aiken are hitting the road together this summer! Frenemies: The Tour! Of course that was all filler, what we were waiting for was the moment when Didi Benami (a.k.a. C&C Music and Tear Factory) got kicked off. Now where will we get our fix of unprokoved weeping?
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Visions of Love, Glitter And Butterflies: The Mariah Carey Musical

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If the Spice Girls can have a musical made about their lives, then why not Mariah Carey? BroadwayWorld.com is reporting that Mariah is hoping to bring the story of her life to the Great White Way in the near future, but it’s unclear whether Mimi will star herself.

A source explained that if Mariah doesn’t star in it, she has some ideas about who should. “Names being tossed around include High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens and Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria. But Mariah secretly likes the idea of Leona Lewis playing her,” the source said.

If we may, we think an even better idea is to hire the woman from Bulgarian Idol who sang “Ken Lee” (otherwise known as “I Can’t Live (If Living Is Without You”). There are no further details about the musical so far, but we’re willing to bet that Glitter will be totally glossed over, which is just wrong. [Photo: Getty Images]

Don’t Even Think About It, Zach Braff

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Even before we animated the eyebrows, there was just something off about this photo of Zach Braff and Emmy Rossum chilling at the Darker Side Of Climate Change Debate event in NYC. Not that we could blame Braff for making a move on the Phantom Of The Opera star if the opportunity arose—anyone who’d date Counting Crow Adam Duritz in the last year is obviously fair game for a sensitive Scrub like him. Among the stars with better things to do than “ooh” at completely innocent celebrity candids were Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rev Run, Kevin Bacon and Sarah Silverman, who moderated a debate on the very serious matter (climate change, not whether Zach Braff was looking for action). See photos from the event in the gallery below.

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Spot The Diff: Courteney Cox Is A Multi-Talented Multitasker

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When busy lady Courteney Cox isn’t taking care of her daughter Coco, preparing for Scream 4 (Neve Campbell, welcome back!), or hanging out with her bestie Jennifer Aniston, she’s working hard on her hit series Cougar Town. Can you spot 10 differences in this pic of Courteney shooting a scene for her show on the beach in Malibu? [Photo: Splash News Online]

The Only Person Jesse James Didn’t Bang Is Sandra Bullock

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Everyone have their barf buckets ready? The following is by far the worst tale yet to emerge in the Jesse James sex scandal. Sandra Bullock‘s beloved (heh) husband allegedly had a foursome with good ol’ Michelle Bombshell McGee, tattoo artist Eric McDougall, and his receptionist Skittles. Let’s repeat that: Jesse James banged two women at the same time, named Bombshell and Skittles, with another dude. Oh Sandy, we hope you have an infinite amount of shoulders to cry on.

Eric, who owns Ocean Beach Tattoo and Piercing in San Diego, tells Life & Style that the group met at the Ink-N-Iron tattoo festival in June 2009. While Sandra was off promoting The Proposal, Jesse, who Michelle introduced as her boyfriend, went to town nailing both ladies. Says Skittles, “Eric and I were having sex, so we switched off, and Jesse and I had sex. I had an awesome time. I think Jesse is so cute.”

Because this story can only get better, it’s also revealed that Jesse did not use a condom. [Cue vomit]

[Photos: Life& Style/Getty/Splash News Online]

Kate Gosselin To Describe Her Divorce—In Dance!—On DWTS

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America, aren’t you glad you voted off Shannen Doherty first? According to E! News, Kate Gosselin and Tony Dovolani will do an interpretive dance based on the last two years of Kate’s life next week on Dancing With The Stars, with Tony taking the role of downtrodden-dad-turned-mega-douche Jon Gosselin. “”It’s my story over the past two years,” said Kate. “We’re very, very excited.” “Lots of drama,” promised her partner.

Assuming this isn’t someone’s idea of an early April Fool’s Day prank, we must admit this should be an unusually fascinating bit of theater—unless Tony does too good a JoGo imitation and quits on her beforehand. Will Kate change her haircut mid-dance? Will Tony rip off a button-down shirt to reveal Ed Hardy-wear beneath? Will he dry hump every nearby woman he can? Will eight children be left to their own devices in Pennsylvania while their elders thrash around like idiots for the cameras? Ok, the last one is guaranteed, but the rest will remain a mystery until next week.

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Boring Celebs Love To Boom Boom Pow

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The Black Eyed Peas might be the biggest band in the world right now, but we’re still not smitten with their brand of generi-pop that can be used just as easily to sell cars as it can be to go crazy on the dancefloor. You know who does love them though? The world’s most boring celebrities.

At the BEP concert last night in L.A., some of the most blah celebs you can imagine were on hand to get it started (or retarded, depending on if you like the explicit lyrics). Do you want some Katherine Heigl, out on date night with hubby Josh Kelley? You got it. A bunch of guys from Desperate Housewives? They were there too. What about the guy who’s famous for being an ex-husband, Tom Arnold? Yup. And of course we already told you about Justin Bieber and his self-tannerific girlfriend. There’s no common denominator among all these bland stars (although the fact that several of them are on ABC series’ makes us wonder if the network pumps the Peas into the studios), just an apparent love for every volume of Now That’s What I Call Music. [Photos: SplashNewsOnline]

Will The Last Song Be Miley’s Glitter ?

The Last Song, Miley Cyrus‘ big dramatic break from Hannah Montana-hood, hopes to join such Nicholas Sparks adaptations as Dear John and The Notebook in the hit romance hall of fame. But judging from advance reviews, it looks more likely to follow Mariah Carey‘s Glitter out the pop-star-movie poop-chute, with Salon saying the 17-year-old is “finally old enough to hate” and “cannot act.” We have to admit the clip above doesn’t look too promising, with a mud-caked Miley contorting her face and keeping it that way as she asks “where are we, Graceland?” and grins psychotically at real life boyfriend Liam Hemsworth‘s on-screen mother. Roger Ebert says Miley fans will give it four stars in his two-and-a-half star review, but will there be enough tearjerking tweens to make The Last Song a hit?

See more Last Song clips—including Miley showing her piano prodigy chops!—after the jump.

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Beauty And The Beast Hit Up The Beach

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Did we just call Russell Brand a beast? Sorry about that. It’s just that’s he’s so…wet in these pictures, and it’s just not doing it for us. We never thought we’d say we prefer it when he wears tank tops, skinny jeans and flops, but blegh, apparently we do.

Russell and his fiance, Katy Perry, are enjoying some off time down in Mexico and sunbathed in matching red ensembles. Katy was practically popping out of her top, which Russell could barely keep his swimsuit on his butt. We have yet to figure out what made these two click, but perhaps it’s that neither one can stay in their clothes?

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American Idol: Ushering In The R&B

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R&B night on American Idol meant Usher in sunglasses, some blah performances, some comebacks, and a fascinating backstage-cam that caught some awkward post-performance moments. In general, no one did as we would have expected last night. Except Tim Urban. It’s just a universally agreed-upon fact at this point that he is the cockroach of this season, managing to survive the nuclear blast that is Simon Cowell. And, awesomely, Simon told Tim to his face that somehow, no matter how bad he does, he’ll probably coast for weeks. More clips and assessments after the jump. (more…)