Trailer for "Boardwalk Empire" HBO's Original Series Preview

Joe Jonas is Gifted or is it fake?

As more pictures from the Jonas Brothers softball games surface we're starting to notice that Joe is a little bit more "gifted" compared to all the other players(and we're not talking about his game performances),

Lets look at some of the evidence from a recent game

Katy Perry admits she strives to be Britney Spears

Two weeks ago, Katy Perry took to YouTube asking her fans to submit questions for a Q&A session. And they did, flooding the site with more than 20,000 queries about, well, pretty much everything.

She fielded more than a few inquiries about her personal life, including one about her upcoming marriage to comedian and former VMA host Russell Brand, and whether or not the couple planned on having children one day.

"We are excited to get married, of course. And I think, in marriage, when you're picking a partner, one of the things to keep in mind is 'Will he be a good baby daddy?' And he'll be perfect," Perry said.

She then revealed that at her wedding, she plans to keep things a bit demure, at least when it comes to her nails.

"I'm kind of a nail aficionado and freak ... I think for my wedding I'll do what is called 'wedding nails,' where it's traditional and pretty," she laughed. "I don't know if I'd want, like, Oompa Loompas on my nails while taking my pictures."

Very important to know. Perry was also asked by a fan if there was one thing people didn't know about her that would be shocking to find out, and, ever the champ, she responded with two of them.

"I'm pretty much an open book ... well, my boobs are real, just wanted to cover all that," she said. "And I brush my teeth all the time. I wanted them to be, like, Britney Spears white. I used to grow up seeing her music videos, like, 'What does she do? Does she get a new set of teeth all the time? They're so white!'"

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Mel Gibson to Oksana: I regret having a baby with you!

In another angry phone call – the seventh in a series of recorded rants – Mel Gibson allegedly tells ex girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva he regrets having a baby with her and also flies into jealous rage over her ex, former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton.

"Did you get my last message about me being a bad father and Tim being a great dad?" the actor-filmmaker, 54, allegedly asks Grigorieva, 40, on the tape released Monday by RadarOnline.

"You didn't hear that one? Well, you should go [expletive] him … because I don't care," he says.

The Russian musician has been leaning on Dalton, 64, with whom she has a 12-year-old son, for support during her bitter custody battle with Gibson.

On the brief tape, which appears to be a voicemail message, an outraged Gibson also yells that "the game's over" before telling the mother of their 9-month-old daughter Lucia, "I'm so [expletive] sorry I had a child with you."

Who Will Sookie Choose?

She can read minds, sling beers and toss back shots with werewolves. Not to mention work a pair of short-shorts across two states. No wonder True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is the dream girl for three guys who put the super in supernatural.

So far she's been loyal to her first love, Civil War-era vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), but a heartrending breach of trust will soon tear the two apart, leaving an opening for calculating Viking bloodsucker Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård) and sensitive werewolf bodyguard Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello).

"It will shake the very core of their relationship," says executive producer Alan Ball of the shocking incident that wounds the couple in Season 3. "Bill and Sookie's love for each other is authentic and they want to make it work. But it might get harder and harder."

Sookie's love life is a huge reason viewers are sucking up True Blood by the gallon. The Emmy-nominated drama, based on the best-selling book series by Charlaine Harris, is HBO's biggest hit since The Sopranos. Set in backwater Bon Temps, La., and surrounds, it's a Southern Gothic gumbo of hot sex, deep love and vampire politics, with enough story lines to choke a gator.

But underneath it all is the battle for Sookie's heart that's been raging since Season 1. Fans have chosen sides, and it's on for Team Bill versus Team Eric (unofficial team T-shirts are available online), with new rival Alcide now running as a dark horse, er, wolf.

Team Bill diehards held their breath in the Season 2 finale when Bill was kidnapped just after proposing to Sookie. This season kicked off with Bill being hauled away by werewolves working for vampire king of Mississippi Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare). Sookie's search for her intended landed her in Russell's clutches, too, and she might have died along the way if not for Alcide's protection. Add to that the conniving Eric; Bill's maker and ex, Lorena (Mariana Kleveno), who's said she'd like to wear Sookie's rib cage as a hat; the dangerous vampire queen Sophie-Anne (Evan Rachel Wood); and you've got one bloody mess.

Still, Moyer (Paquin's real-life fiancé) believes that, when it comes to true love, all the mayhem is manageable. "I can't get into slinging matches about who's better for Sookie because it's just ridiculous," he laughs. "Bill is for Sookie, the love of her life."

Moyer makes a good case for why on a moonless night in an outdoor scene that will air in the Aug. 8 episode. We won't reveal too much, but we will say he's ready to fight Russell, who has put Bill's progeny, teenage vamp Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), in danger. Bill's all passion and protectiveness, and definitely someone you want in your corner — or any room of the house. Score one for Team Bill.

But during the escape from Russell's mansion that eventually leads to this moment, Moyer hints, "Sookie does something we haven't seen her do yet for Bill. It being the roller-coaster ride that their relationship is, something happens immediately that makes things go awry."

Reference: tvguide

BONUS: new preview for next week's episode!

Cheyenne Jackson to join the "Glee" cast

Is Cheyenne Jackson the next to join Glee? According to Kristin Dos Santos' latest tweet-- he is!

KristinDSantos: Sources confirm my frenemy's tweet that Cheyenne Jackson is coming to #Glee! (Cheyenne was the new "hot guy" on 30 Rock last season.)

What role do you think he'll play?

UPDATE: Michael from EW confirms this:

30 Rock’s Cheyenne Jackson is joining the cast of Glee in a major recurring role, sources confirm to me exclusively. What role would that be? Keep reading for the scoop!

Jackson—who was a hoot and a half in Broadway’s Xanadu—will succeed Idina Menzel as the coach of Vocal Adrenaline.

Jackson has been on a bit of a roll as of late. In addition to 30 Rock, he also landed a guest stint on the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. And now he’s on the hottest TV show on the planet.

It’s worth noting that although Menzel is being replaced as VA’s leader, she’s still Rachel’s biological mom. In other words, expect her to make an appearance or two in season 2.

Thoughts? Psyched Ryan Murphy handed another stage all-star a plum part on Glee? And are you thinking what I’m thinking? ‘Cause I’m thinking how funny it would be if he turned out to be one of Rachel’s two gay dads. Just sayin’.

Chelsea Handler Takes on Lindsay Lohan

Chelsea talks about Lindsay's jail and legal life.

Oliver Stone Apologizes for Pulling a Mel

Controversial conspiracy theorist extraordinaire (and sometime director) Oliver Stone briefly waded into Mel Gibson territory this week when he claimed Jews controlled the media and that Hitler, in retrospect, maybe wasn't such a bad guy after all.

But he has one thing Mel doesn't—a public sense of remorse for his "clumsy" words. Well, either that or a really good publicist.

In the wake of Stone's ill-advised interview with the Sunday Times of London, which broke all manner of land-speed records to get disseminated across the interwebs, the Wall Street 2 director (good luck on that press tour, buddy) has offered up an apology:

"In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret," he said.

"Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity—and it was an atrocity."

The same could be said for his comments, though this isn't the first time he's spoken out against the vilification of, well, history's greatest villains.

As for his latest gaffe, however, Stone referred to the "Jewish domination of the media" and stated that Israel "f--ked up United States foreign policy for years."

Not content to stop there, Stone also proclaimed, "Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein. German industrialists, the American and the British. He had a lot of support…Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people.

"There's a major lobby in the United States," Stone said. "They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington."

Well, they certainly stayed on top of this comment.

The American Jewish Committee was among the first to formally condemn Stone's comments yesterday.

"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," the group said.

The Anti-Defamation League and the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants also spoke out against the director.

"His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence," ADL national director Abraham Foxman said.

Incidentally, Stone's apology didn't cover his comments about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, both of whom he also defended.

"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," Stone said, calling American policy toward the nation "horrible."

"But we don't know the full story!" Stone later said Chavez was "a brave, blunt, earthy man."

So, if no one else, he'll at least be able to hang out with Sean Penn.

Jonas Brothers covering the Beatles' "Drive My Car"

Paul McCartney and his team chose the Jonas Brothers to perform "Drive My Car" at Paul McCartney's Gershwin Prize Concert at the White House. Other performers included Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, Jack White, Corrine Bailey Rae, and more.

To view click video, let load, and then fast forward to 3:53 to watch the performance. (Everything before that is just behind the scenes with the Jonas Brothers at the white house)

Bill O'Reilley: I supports Lindsay Lohan!

Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took a tough stance on several issues including whether or not actress Lindsay Lohan should be in jail on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. ET) on Tuesday, July 26.

When the audience began to laugh at Lohan’s now infamous mug shot as it was shown to them, O’Reilly was tactful: “You guys shouldn’t be laughing at this. This is a woman who is on the Marilyn Monroe track. Monroe died at 36. She’s from Long Island where I’m from. Very talented actress, if you’ve seen her she is talented, but she is very confused right now and she can’t stay away from the substance abuse. So, if I were the judge I would have done exactly the same thing. Send her in, send a message.”

O’Reilly continued: “But this woman needs to be saved and I think we should stop with the tabloid stuff, stop enjoying this kind of stuff. I think she’s 24 years old, I think she’s been exploited by her parents -- nothing worse, nothing worse on this earth than being exploited by your parents. And I just hope and I pray -- I do, I’ve said some prayers for her – that she can get out of there, find somebody, somebody to basically say, ‘Listen Lindsay, knock it off.’”

FUN FACTS FROM THE CAST OF INCEPTION

Marion Cotillard
-She’s the daughter of former mime and theatre director Jean-Claude Cotillard and actress Niseema Theillaud. She began acting in the early ‘90s in one of her father’s plays
-Was nominated as Best Actress in the same year Ellen Page was nominated as well, Marion won though :)
-Luc Besson cast Cotillard in her first big commercial role in the French box-office hit “Taxi.” Then, in 2003, Tim Burton introduced her to English-speaking audiences in “Big Fish.”
-Cotillard is the first actress to receive the Best Actress Oscar (as Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”) for a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren won in 1962 for “Two Women.”

Ellen Page
-Ellen considers Patti Smith her role model and Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep her favorite actresses.
-Ellen was in the running for the role of Natalie Keener in “Up in the Air,” but the part went to “Twilight’s” Anna Kendrick, who went on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
-“I don’t really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.”

Joseph Gordon Levitt
-Joseph attended but did not graduate from Columbia University, where he studied French.
-His first breakthrough was on the hit TV show “Third Rock from the Sun.”
-His maternal grandfather was Michael Gordon, who directed such films as the 1950 “Cyrano de Bergerac” and 1959’s “Pillow Talk.” Mike Gordon’s career was hampered after he was blacklisted in the ’50s. He became a professor at UCLA.

Tom Hardy
-He loves to drink coffee, Coke, fizzy water, fruit drinks, Red Bull, and tea.
-The British actor got his first big break in HBO’s “Band of Brothers.”
-“You don’t step on stage to eat, you go there to be eaten.”

Ken Watanabe
-Mostly cast as Japanese samurai warriors in his career, Watanabe incorporates the samurai’s values in his daily life by not amassing too many material possessions and by living his life with honor, pride and discipline.
-Watanabe, nominated for Best Supporting Actor in “The Last Samurai,” is one of seven actors of Asian descent nominated for an Academy Award. The others are Miyoshi Umeki, who won Best Supporting Actress for “Sayonara” (1957); Sessue Hayakawa, nominated for “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957); Mako, nominated for “The Sand Pebbles” (1966); Haing S. Ngor, who won Best Supporting Actor for “The Killing Fields” (1984); Pat Morita, nominated for “The Karate Kid” (1984); and Rinko Kikuchi, nominated for “Babel” (2006).
-The actor was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989. He is now fully recovered.

Dileep Rao
--Dileep holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
-He competed on “Jeopardy!” and won $34,400.

Cillian Murphy
-Murphy auditioned for the role of Batman in “Batman Begins,” which eventually went to Christian Bale. Director Christopher Nolan liked Cillian’s audition so much, however, that he gave him a role as Batman’s enemy, Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow.
-The Irish born actor greatly admires actor Liam Neeson and looks at him as a surrogate movie dad.
-Murphy was planning a career in law until he discovered the world of acting

Tom Berenger
-He graduated from the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism.
-Berenger claims that he had a few very bad years, from 1979 to 1981. The roles stopped coming, and he says, “I was just scraping by financially, and emotionally I was getting really defeated. I got to the point where I could hardly go on auditions anymore."
-Is a major world history buff

Christopher Nolan (technically not a part of the cast...?)
-Born in London in 1970, Nolan began making films at 7, using his father’s super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures.
-Nolan is a big James Bond told writer/director David S. Goyer that his favorite James Bond movie is “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
-He considers Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott two of his primary influences as a director.

Mel Gibson and the Holy Terrors of Malibu, aka his wild kids

They have a history of partying, used to hang with a surfer gang, and have been described as “the holy terrors of Malibu.”

Before Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva had a daughter, who, at 9-months-old, is now at the center of their hideous, and very public, custody battle, Gibson was married for 28 years to his ex-wife, Robyn, with whom he had seven children. It turns out some are nearly as colorful as their dad.



Little has been written about les enfants Gibson, who are: Hannah, 29; twins Edward and Christian, 27; William (“Willie”), 25; Louis, 22; Milo, 20; and Thomas, 11. Despite their swollen ranks, and the fact that they reside in one of the most paparazzi-heavy havens in the world—Malibu—they have lived on the down-low, eschewing the spotlight and downright rejecting Hollywood, unlike other ‘Bu-born celebu-spawn, such as brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.



Although Hannah Gibson has worked as a make-up artist and production assistant on some of her father’s films, and Christian had a small part in We Were Soldiers, the Gibsons have steered clear of the high-class trappings of the entertainment industry. They didn’t even go to prestigious private schools, like Harvard-Westlake or the artsier Crossroads in Santa Monica. Instead, they’re alums of Malibu High School, where Milo (’08), a 200-pound, goatee-ed fullback, was co-captain of the football team.
According to Mitch Taylor, manager of Becker Surfboards in Malibu, Milo shares one of the closest relationships with his father. He and Mel are “pretty darn close,” Taylor said. “I’d see Milo hanging out with his dad all the time.”
And Andrew Heric, who played football with Milo, told The Daily Beast that Mel Gibson came to a few games and cheered on from the bleachers.



Yet the family is not exactly the Brady Bunch, and some of the kids have battled alcohol and drug problems, much like their father. According to MX, a free daily paper in Melbourne, Australia, Milo was expelled from school when he was 12 for smoking pot (William was kicked out for a similar offense). In 2006, Christian was arrested for drunk-driving while he was a student at the University of Colorado. In 2007, the National Enquirer reported that Edward, who at one point was cozy with Britney Spears, checked into rehab. And the twins used to associate with the “MLO” (Malibu Locals Only), a gang known for picking fights with Valley kids and spray-painting graffiti.
“I wouldn’t say they’re wild, they’re just kids,” Taylor said. “Maybe they just get picked on more because of who they are. I know a lot of families who have kids that have gotten DUIs.”
And last year, a source close to the Gibsons told People magazine: “They’re a rowdy bunch, but also very nice—very ‘Yes, sir, no, sir,’ which you don’t get a lot of around here.”
Perhaps, but not everyone has been so generous in their assessment of the family. In 2006, just after Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest and anti-Semitic tirade, one neighbor of the actor’s $14.5 million compound (“Lavender Hill Farm”) wrote a letter to the editor of Malibu Surfside News, saying, “If Mr. Gibson would only pay attention to his own family and children [who] have had issues of their own…he would [stop] perpetuating what he points to in others as evil.”

(When reached by telephone by The Daily Beast, the author of the letter, Shary Nassimi, said he had nothing to say about the Gibsons and quickly hung up.)
Around that same time, two neighbors told the New York Post that the Gibson spawn were “the holy terrors of Malibu. They do whatever they want.”
They claimed that two of the Gibson boys had tried to buy kayaks at a local store, and asked to get them on credit. When the owner said that they did not have a credit policy, the kids started screaming, “Don’t you know who we are?!”

But others say that their behavior is nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to Malibu, a community that may be known for its multimillion-dollar mansions and private beaches, but that has a decidedly scrappy underbelly populated by surf punks and skaters with a strong, even dangerous, territorial streak. Members of the local gang, the MLO, are known for spray-painting their acronym all over town; deflating the tires of outsiders; and picking fights with Valley guys (“Vals”) who “snake” their waves (i.e., cut them off while they’re riding). At times, things have become violent. In 2004, Brawley Nolte, the son of actor Nick, and a friend of some of the Gibson boys (he played Mel Gibson’s son in Ransom), was sued for beating up a teenager from the Valley so badly at a party that he was left brain-damaged. The case was dismissed.
The Gibsons have never been involved in anything so serious, but according to a source who knows them, Christian and Edward were associated with the MLO when they were in their teens and early 20s, and would drive around in a pick-up truck with their sister. “The three of them would get around the neighborhood, smoking and drinking, it was pretty average behavior… They did their thing, partying, and whatnot, with the local kids down there. But they kept a pretty low profile. They’re very understated, pretty grungy, surfer-looking people.”
But if the Gibsons' style is in keeping with the shredder ethos of Malibu, it’s hardly the image that Mel Gibson has cultivated over the years as a serious, family man who is so devoted to his particular brand of Catholicism, that he built his own church in Agoura Hills—there is also a chapel on Lavender Hill Farm, known as “St. Mel’s.” (That image, of course, is in the process of being destroyed, due to leaked tapes featuring a demonic-sounding Gibson threatening and demeaning his ex-girlfriend Grigorieva.) The only sign that Mel’s devotion had any effect on his children was the announcement, back in 2002, that Hannah, who was then 21, was going to be a nun—a decision that Mel said made him “happy.”
Fast-forward to 2006, when Hannah married Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a blues-rock guitarist who, like Mel, has suffered alcohol and drug abuse, but became sober. The wedding took place at Gibson’s Holy Family Traditional Church, and was, according to Maggie Warwick, a rockabilly singer who’s close with the Shepherd family, “just a beautiful wedding.”
The Gibson’s were “very hospitable,” Warwick told The Daily Beast. “Everything was first-class, it was just beautiful, they were very family-oriented.”
(Interestingly, the wedding was just two months after Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest, and one month after he and Robyn separated.)
As they’ve grown up, Gibson’s children have started to curb their wild ways. Hannah, now the mother of two, is an artist who designs patterns for her husband’s signature guitars. Christian has taken up landscape photography and exhibits his work in Malibu galleries. “I got really inspired after visiting Australia a few years ago and seeing some of the work of Ken Duncan, one of Australia’s biggest landscape photographers,” he told the Malibu Times earlier this year. “He really lit a fire underneath me. An artist tries to have a dialogue with the viewer and that’s what I want my work to do.” And Milo has been playing the role of family do-gooder—in 2008, he presented a $50,000 check on behalf of his family to the Kidney Foundation of Fiji (the Gibsons own an island in Fiji). (“I love Fiji and everyone here is nice,” Milo said when he presented the check.

Now, if only their dad would follow suit.

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Kristen Stewart talks about choosing between Edward and Jacob

Is it hard to choose between Edward and Jacob?
It’s tough for Bella to be in that position, because she ignores the fact that there’s many levels of understanding between loving and caring for someone, and suddenly having the priority to choose someone makes her realize her mistakes, which have nothing to do with being grateful or hopeful about something. Clearly we can relate to her when she’s confused and says: “I don’t know anything”; she finds herself completely lost and doesn’t know the difference between loving and caring for someone.

You’ve grown up as an actress, from the beginning to now, what has that process been like?
Everyday I grow up and learn something, and in every movie that I’ve been in has given me new experiences. I’ve grown up a lot with Bella, because I feel like I’m projecting myself more with this character than with any other; I feel connected with her in a very personal way. That is how a person grows as an actor, movie by movie, or character by character. Of course, Twilight has been a long project that has changed my life in multiple ways, and it’s the set where I’ve met a lot of my best friends and have had great working relationships.

Jacob and Bella have something more than just a friendship. Is it possible for a man and a woman to be just friends?
Well, it’s very common that the friendship a guy and a girl have turns into something else, but I do think that a relationship that doesn’t go beyond friendship is also possible. But that can’t be determined by me or anyone else, it’s a decision made by the two people in that relationship.

"Inception" will air on TNT beginning in 2012

TNT, along with its sister-comedy network TBS, has signed a deal to beginning airing certain movies starting in the year 2012. Among those movies is Chris Nolan's Inception.

TNT has landed the TV rights to Chris Nolan's blockbuster Inception in a deal between parent company Turner and corporate sibling Warner Bros. that includes several other WB titles: romantic comedies Sex And the City 2 and Valentine's Day, action flicks Clash of the Titans and Jonah Hex and the upcoming Robert Downey Jr./Zach Galifianakis comedy Due Date. Inception, Clash of the Titans and Jonah Hex are headed to drama-focused TNT, while the 3 comedies, Sex and the City, Valentine's Day and Due Date will run on comedy-centered sister network TBS. All are expected to premiere between mid-2012 and early 2013. The licensee fee is believed to be in the standard 10-12% range of the movies' domestic box-office, depending on their performance. Inception, which is poised to cross the $100 million mark tomorrow morning, would certainly command a premium license fee of 12% and could go as high as $24 million if the thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio crosses the $200 million mark domestically. The deal for Inception comes on the heels of FX's acquisition of another hot summer action newcomer, the upcoming Angelina Jolie starrer Salt.

Kristen Stewart explains why she doesn't join Twitter:

What matters the most to you?
Acting, playing different characters and wokring with people that have more experience than me so that I can keep learning.

How much has your life changed beause of the fame?
Success has made my life a little easier, I’ve managed to get amazing things. Now people ask me “what’s next? what project are you choosing?”. It’s a privilege having the opportunity to have those questions, even if it’s hard to answer them sometimes. I owe it to Twilight. Fame looks more spectacular from the outside than it does from the inside.

Fans complain that you don’t tweet, what is your relationship with social networks?
I can’t be online because, I have to be online! I’d love to please the fans because of the way they support us, but time is not enough. It wouldn’t be enough the ammount of time I spent online with them.

Ian Somerhalder had a hard time finding a job!

Former Lost star Ian Somerhalder has revealed that he was worried he would not be able to find acting work after leaving the show.

The actor - who now stars in The Vampire Diaries on The CW - told TV Squad that he was "scared to death" when his character Boone Carlyle was killed off.

"It's really funny. As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last," he said. "In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again. And it literally took five years to find another show."

Somerhalder explained that his search for a new role was an "exciting" but "scary prospect"*.

"Finding good work [is difficult]," he said. "It's exhilarating and challenging at the same time. [But] It was a welcome challenge."

The second season of The Vampire Diaries is due to air from September on The CW.

Forbes: Britney Spears 2nd highest earning female of the year!

Britney Spears is among the highest-earning musicians following a comeback tour and album.

She is estimated to have made £41.8 million in the last year, according to Forbes.com.

Her return to the world stage follows a turbulent couple of years in her private life during which she was hospitalised on several occasions and eventually placed under the conservatorship of her father.

Her sixth album Circus was released in December 2008 with 3.5 million copies sold worldwide.

Meanwhile her tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears grossed more than £86 million.



1. U2 - £84.9m
2. AC/DC - £74.5m
3. Beyonce Knowles - £56.8m
4. Bruce Springsteen - £45.7m
5. Britney Spears - £41.8m
6. Jay-Z - £41.1m
7. Lady Gaga - £40.5m
8. Madonna - £37.9m
9. Kenny Chesney - £32.6m
10. Black Eyed Peas - £31.3m
11. Coldplay - £31.3m

Lindsay Lohan attorney says actress will go to jail, no early check-in expected

Lindsay Lohan's new attorney, celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro, said on Friday the troubled actress will got to jail as recently ordered by the judge overseeing her probation.

Last week, California Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel ordered Lohan to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence on July 20 for violating the terms of her probation on drunk driving charges because Lohan had missed alcohol education classes.

Since then, Lohan's previous attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, resigned and media reports surfaced on Thursday this week that Lohan hired Shapiro but may be trying to avoid jail.

"I have agreed to represent Ms. Lohan on the condition she comply with the terms of probation, including a requirement of jail imposed by Judge Marsha Revel," Shapiro said in a statement on Friday.

"Ms. Lohan is suffering from a disease that I am all too familiar with. Hopefully, I can be of assistance to Ms. Lohan and Judge Revel in implementing a treatment approach recommended by medical professionals for Ms. Lohan's long term recovery and sobriety," the statement said.

Shapiro is a well-known Los Angeles attorney who has represented many Hollywood stars over the years, and he was part of the "dream team" of attorneys who represented football player O.J. Simpson in his trial for the murder of his wife.

Shapiro's son Brent died in 2005 due to a combination of drinking alcohol and taking the drug ecstasy. Since then, Shapiro has been dedicated himself to helping others overcome their own addiction problems.

His family started the Brent Shapiro Foundation as well as the Pickford Lofts sober living facility in Los Angeles that Lohan was said to have checked into earlier this week.

Drake Says 'Fancy' Video Sets Out To 'Make Women Feel Special'

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Hip-hop heartthrob Drake is keeping it all about the ladies in the video for his Swizz Beatz-produced single "Fancy." The Young Money MC enlisted Swizzy and T.I. for the Thank Me Later joint's clip, but even with all that hip-hop testosterone on set, Drizzy insisted that his latest clip is for his female fans.


"It's just made to make women feel special," Drizzy told MTV News on the set of the video. "It's a great performance video." Drake teamed up with director Anthony Mandler, whom Drizzy dubs a "phenomenal cat" and who has, so far, helmed all the clips for Thank Me Later.

Mandler, Tip and Swizz all put in work on the "Fancy" video, but Drizzy was also geeked out about an artist who was grinding behind the scenes. Drake entrusted the clip's footwork to renowned choreographer Fatima Robinson and gushed that working with the dance diva was "an honor in itself."

With a rap king and a game-changing producer stuntin' in the video and a visual master and dance legend making magic behind the lens, "Fancy" is stacked with stars and packed with top-shelf talent. Star power aside, Drizzy chalked up the appeal of the upcoming video to a few simple things.

"A lot of nice shoes, a lot of nice faces," Drake smiled. "A lot of fun."

Inception Made $3 Million for the Midnight Showings

Moviegoers were wide awake last night for midnight screenings of Warner Bros.' "Inception," shelling out a healthy estimated $3 million at approximately 2,000 late night runs.

Pic opens wide today at 3,792 locations, including 197 Imax runs.

Directed by Christopher Nolan and toplining Leonardo DiCaprio, "Inception" is the story of a team of specialists hired to steal from a person's subconscious. Pic's late night tally reps a solid start to the weekend, with the film expected to perform tops.

The frames other wide release Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" launched to a sleepy $3.9 million on Wednesday. Originally skedded to bow today, "Apprentice" moved up to benefit from tots on summer vacation, as well as to likely distance itself from Warner's "Inception."

Still, "Apprentice" showed some resilience on Thursday, grossing $3.2 million, down just 18% from the previous day.

Promo trailer and poster for New BBC Film with Matt Smith (Doctor Who)

Christopher & His Kind

The BBC have issued a show-reel for upcoming shows on BBC Two which features a look at a drama starring Matt Smith, Christopher & His Kind. It also stars Toby Jones (Amy's Choice) and Lindsay Duncan (The Waters of Mars). Read more details and see footage below.

The hedonistic cabaret scene of Berlin in the Thirties is in full swing when wide-eyed young writer Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city, unable to speak a word of German. To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating, but he soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery.

Messiah Carey Dominates on Billboard's "Songs Of The Summer"

Hot weather plus nostalgia makes for a potent mix (or mixtape). Billboard has combed the Hot 100 for the summer months of each of the past 25 years to bring you the top ten jams pumping out of stereos everywhere for the last quarter century.

These hot tunes are ranked based on each track's performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the summer and are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least.

Mariah appears the most (along with Rihanna) with 5 of her songs making it to Billboard's "Songs of the Summer 1985 - 2009" Top 10 lists. Of the 5, two are ranked at #1.

1990
1. "Vision Of Love" - Mariah Carey
2. "Step By Step" - New Kids On The Block
3. "She Ain't Worth It" - Glen Medeiros feat. Bobby Brown
4. "Cradle Of Love" - Billy Idol
5. "It Must Have Been Love" - Roxette
6. "If Wishes Came True" - Sweet Sensation
7. "Hold On" - En Vogue
8. "The Power" - Snap
9. "Rub You The Right Way" - Johnny Gill
10. "Unskinny Bop" - Poison

1992
1. "Baby Got Back" - Sir Mix-A-Lot
2. "End Of The Road" - Boyz II Men
3. "Baby-Baby-Baby" - TLC
4. "I'll Be There" - Mariah Carey
5. "Under The Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. "Achy Breaky Heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
7. "Just Another Day" - Jon Secada
8. "This Used To Be My Playground" - Madonna
9. "Life Is A Highway" - Tom Cochrane
10. "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses

1996
1. "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" - Los Del Rio
2. "You're Making Me High / Let It Flow" - Toni Braxton
3. "Tha Crossroads" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
4. "Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman
5. "How Do U Want It / California Love" - 2Pac feat. K-Ci And JoJo
6. "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" - Quad City DJs
7. "Twisted" - Keith Sweat
8. "Always Be My Baby" - Mariah Carey
9. "Because You Loved Me" - Celine Dion
10. "I Love You Always Forever" - Donna Lewis

1998
1. "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy & Monica
2. "You're Still The One" - Shania Twain
3. "Too Close" - Next
4. "My Way" - Usher
5. "Aida" - Sarah McLachlan
6. "My All" - Mariah Carey
7. "Come With Me" - Puff Daddy feat. Jimmy Page
8. "Everybody [Backstreet's Back]" - Backstreet Boys
9. "Make It Hot" - Nicole feat. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott & Mocha
10. "All My Life" - K-Ci & JoJo

2005
1. "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
2. "Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani
3. "Don't Cha" - The Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes
4. "Behind These Hazel Eyes" - Kelly Clarkson
5. "Don't Phunk With My Heart" - The Black Eyed Peas
6. "Pon De Replay" - Rihanna
7. "Lose Control" - Missy Elliott ft. Ciara & Fat Man Scoop
8. "Just A Lil Bit" - 50 Cent
9. "Let Me Hold You" - Bow Wow feat. Omarion
10. "You And Me" - Lifehouse

Liam doesn't understand what "CAN'T BE TAMED" means

Liam Hemsworththinks 'false bad girl' Miley Cyrus might be about to do a Britney Spears! He doesn't think his girlfriend should be pursuing the sex-kitten image so early on in her career. A source told HEAT:'Liam tried to convince her that her fans were originally drawn to her wholesome image, now she's going more into the Britney Spears category. He's afraid she's going to end up like Britney.'

One of the causes of friction between the pair is Miley's strange new 'love' tattoo, which she had inked onto her ear last week and is causing arguments: 'It wasn't so much about the tattoo itself, but more about the road Miley is going down. Liam doesn't like the fact she wants to be seen as a 'bad girl' and a 'sex symbol'. He thinks it's fake. The first tatto was fine, 'Just Breathe' is the slogan for a cystic fibrosis charity she's worked with. But come on, another tattoo? All of this acting out garbage is not his thing.




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'Beauty and the Beast (Diamond Edition)' Officially Dated for Blu-ray!

Beauty and the Beast is still one of Disney's best-loved and most-acclaimed films, so it makes perfect sense that when the studio was looking for a second "Diamond Edition" release to follow up on Snow White, they went with B&B. The film has been restored and polished for a high-def picture and 7.1 digital surround sound, and while the details as far as extras aren't available yet, based on the example of the Snow White Diamond Edition, you can expect to get everything and the kitchen sink. Which will be anthropomorphized and will perform a musical number for you.

As with Snow White, this release will first arrive as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and will list for $39.99 when it hits stands on October 5th. If you haven't upgraded but still want the latest version, you can wait until November 23rd for a two-disc set on standard DVD for 10 bucks less. But really, if you're not going to splurge to get the movie in the very best quality, just track down a cheap copy of one of the previous releases.

The Cover for the Blu-Ray:

Miley Cyrus says she prefers Kurt Cobain to Justin Bieber!

Teen celebrity fuel? This will be interesting. If I remember correctly, Justin Bieber also snubbed Miley a few months ago saying he doesn't need Disney to become famous. Both of them are bratty!

Chris Brown at the LA LAKERS game

Zachary Quinto takes Noah for a walk!

Maggie Grace returning to 'Lost'

When "Lost's" final season premiered a couple of weeks ago, one of the biggest burning questions about the alternate timeline was, "Why wasn't Shannon on the plane?"

Well, it looks like we might get our answer as EW.com reports that Maggie Grace, who portrayed Shannon - and hasn't appeared since the third season - will return before the series ends.

Shannon was memorably killed off by Ana Lucia in season two, soon after starting a relationship with Sayid. Speaking of Sayid, it was also announced that Andrea Gabriel, who played his late wife Nadia, will also return this season.

What do you think of these characters returning to "Lost?" Any other characters, dead or alive, you hope to see this season?

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Man tatooes Ashton Kutcher's face on arm

There's obsessed, and then there's celebrity obsessed. Ashton Kutcher, who is in Russia, recently sent out this TwitPic.

@aplusk said on Twitter: "I just saw something i could never imagine. a man in siberia who has me tatooed on his arm."

While the colors are a bit off, the resemblance is pretty remarkable. And if you have to have someone's face on your arm - Kutcher is a pretty choice.

What do you think - would you ever get a celebrity's face tattooed on your body? If so, who?

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Stephen Colbert & Michael Buble sing O Canada

Stephen Colbert & Michael Buble sing O Canada Lyrics to the tune of Star Spangled Banner for Stephen's Winter Olympics Special

Buzz Bissinger on Tiger's Apology: 'He Doesn't Exude Human Warmth'

Was Tiger Woods' long-awaited mea culpa genuine? Pulitzer Prize-winning sports journalist Buzz Bissinger, who wrote that recent Vanity Fair cover story on the embattled golf star, tells ET that he didn't buy what Tiger was saying today.

"I don't think he advanced the ball one inch. … It was Tiger as controlled and controlling as ever," he says.

"I rate it poorly in the sense that I don't know what it did," he continues. "I think he may have a human defect in a sense -- I mean, I think he probably did as much as he possibly could, but he doesn't exude a human warmth. … The most emotion I saw in that very staged press conference was from his mother."

Buzz compared Tiger's speech to the apologies in the past by sports greats Mickey Mantle and Mark McGwire, and while he felt those to be emotionally genuine, he says he felt Tiger's apology "was rehearsed."

"I don't think he really changed anybody's mind," he says. "There is some manipulation involved: Why did he do it? Why is he doing it now? Why did he do it at PGA headquarters? It has to be some overall plot to figure out how to return to golf."

The sports journalist rates Tiger's reaction to the whole situation "The worst-handled celebrity scandal I've ever seen," and adds, "The only way he's going to redeem himself in the end is to win [the Masters] -- because anything else, no one's going to care."

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Cinema boycott could send Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole

Alice in Wonderland should have enchanted cinemagoers this spring and earned tens of millions of pounds at the box office as the latest 3D blockbuster. Instead, the Disney film could disappear down the rabbit hole, as a boycott means that it may not be coming to a cinema near you.

A dispute between Disney and two of Britain’s biggest cinema chains, Odeon and Vue, means that the film will not be shown in about 40 per cent of cinemas. Today is the last day that a compromise can realistically be reached, though neither side is likely to break the impasse.

The dispute began when Disney stated that it would bring Alice out on DVD within 12 weeks instead of the customary 17 to try to stem the abrupt decline in DVD sales, traditionally the biggest earner for studios.

A shorter gap between the film’s launch at the cinema and on DVD would mean that advertising campaigns would be fresher in consumers’ minds and could also curb sales of pirate DVDs.

Bob Iger, the chief executive of Disney, believes that he must break cinemas’ insistence on strict DVD delays and has chosen Alice as his battleground. He knows that British cinemas are more powerful than their continental counterparts (they take about 60 per cent of box-office receipts compared with 50 per cent elsewhere in Europe) and is using a film that would be expected to perform well in Britain.

Directed by Tim Burton, Alice was partly shot here and features a British cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry.

While other studios wait to see if Disney is successful before adopting a similar strategy, cinemas are outraged after spending millions of pounds on 3D equipment in the belief that studios’ terms would remain the same.

They are also irritated because, while DVD sales in Britain declined by about 10 per cent last year, cinema takings were up by 11 per cent. A senior cinema executive told The Times: “There is nothing wrong with our business model. [The studios] are coming to us and saying, ‘We’ve got a broken model on our side and we want you to pay for it.’ ”

Cineworld, a third British cinema chain, has angered rivals by refusing to join the boycott after a visit from Bob Chapek, Disney’s president of distribution, who reassured it that Disney wished to shorten the window for only two or three films a year. The DVD release for Alice was extended to 13 weeks.

Odeon issued a tart response, saying that it was dropping plans to show Alice “as a result of Disney’s insistence on reducing at short notice the theatrical window on a major 3D title”.

]Disney tried to shorten the window for Up, the Pixar animation, last year, but relented when cinemas said that they would drop Up and A Christmas Carol.

Disney declined to comment, but is understood to be resolute. A cinema industry source said it is prepared to risk about £10 million in lost revenue.

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"Shutter Island" storms North American box office

Director Martin Scorsese and his protege Leonardo DiCaprio beat out the weekend competition in the United States and Canada in the fright flick "Shutter Island," estimated figures showed Sunday.

The movie, the strongest opening for both Scorsese and DiCaprio, pulled in some 40.2 million dollars in its debut weekend, according to the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.

Adapted from a book by Dennis Lehane, the movie is a police thriller with elements of fantasy and horror in which DiCaprio plays a US federal marshall investigating a disappearance at a psychiatric asylum in the 1950s.

The movie is the fourth collaboration between the Oscar-winning director and Di Caprio, following "The Departed," "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator."

"Shutter Island" easily bumped last week's favorite, the star-studded comedy "Valentine's Day," from its top spot.

The romantic ensemble starring Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Alba amongst others scooped up 17.2 million dollars in its second week.

In third place, still raking in mountains of cash, was science-fiction epic "Avatar," the highest-grossing film of all time with more than two billion dollars worldwide. In its 10th week on North American release, Canadian James Cameron's film made 16.1 million dollars.

The Oscar-favored movie is followed by mythological adventure-fantasy picture "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," based on Rick Riordan's book and starring Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. The movie earned 15.3 million dollars in its second week.

Fourth was "The Wolfman," a remake of the lycanthrope legend starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, took a 9.8-million-dollar bite at the box office, followed by the romantic tearjerker "Dear John," an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, which pulled in 7.3 million dollars.

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