Brit Hits No. 1 One More Time

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  Nov 30, 08 12:12 PM CST
  While Britney Spears' life has resembled something of a sideshow over the past couple of years, her newest release is a welcome return to her musical roots, writes Jim Farber in the New York Daily News. And for Glenn Gamboa, writing in Newsday, Circus can't just be called a comeback: "Not only is "Circus" (Jive) the best album of her career, but it could return her to the kind of massive, multiplatinum sales that she hadn't seen since the turn of the century."
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• Lynne: Brit a 'Very Normal' Mom

  Nov 28, 08 11:23 AM CST
  As Britney Spears turns her chaotic life around, mom Lynne says she’s doing great and is “a wonderful mother,” People reports. The Spears matriarch recently spoke to GMTV to promote her memoir, and the pop star predictably came up in conversation. Lynne discussed Brit’s breakdown and recovery, and insisted that “in the home, where there's nobody around, she's very normal” as a mother.
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• Britney: 'I Feel Like an Old Person Now'

  Nov 25, 08 9:40 AM CST
  Britney Spears is picking up the pieces in her new—and incredibly micromanaged—life, USA Today reports. In an interview that hits stands Friday, the pop star tells Rolling Stone magazine, “I feel like an old person now. I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night. I don't go out or anything.” But when she does, she's carefully guarded: The singer’s dates are chaperoned by an assistant and her manager’s colleague, and she is never left alone during interviews.
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• Britney Regrets Her Embrace of Fame

  Nov 20, 08 4:50 PM CST
  Britney Spears bares all in a documentary set to air Nov. 30 on MTV, Entertainment Weekly reports. Fans will be interested to know that she ate cheese grits—cooked by her father—before the Video Music Awards, and that she envies Jessica Alba’s relative anonymity. “Do I know my life is weird?” the star asks her interlocutor. “It’s all I’ve ever known.” More »

• Brit: 'My Life Is Worse Than Jail'

  Nov 18, 08 7:33 AM CST
  Britney Spears thinks her post-breakdown life might be more enjoyable behind bars, the Daily Telegraph reports. In a new documentary airing on MTV on November 30, Spears says her life is “too in control.” The singer, whose dad was granted post-meltdown control of her affairs, believes she’s still paying for antics such as shaving her head. “I think I've learned my lesson now and enough is enough,” she said.
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