Paltrow: Madonna a 'Survivor'

Music steadies Material Girl through divorce from Guy Ritchie

(NEWSER) - Madonna is saddened by her impending divorce, but work motivates her to soldier on, she tells the AP. Though her split with husband Guy Ritchie weighs heavily on her, touring and promoting a new movie “provides a distraction that keeps me going,” the star said. She recently made a documentary, I Am Because We Are, about AIDS orphans in Malawi. More»

Madge lashes actress pal for flapping gums about divorce

(NEWSER) - Maybe Gwyneth Paltrow was just trying to help, but the star has received a tongue-lashing from pal Madonna for publicly discussing Madge’s split with Guy Ritchie, the National Enquirer reports. “If you want to help me and be supportive of me, then keep your mouth SHUT!” the Material Girl told a stunned Gwyneth. Paltrow had told reporters she was “helping Madonna through her divorce.” More»

'I'm just here' for Madonna, Gwen says

(NEWSER) - Madonna's marriage may be over, but at least she can lean on pal Gwyneth Paltrow. At a London premiere yesterday, Paltrow called Madge a “dear friend,” Us Magazine reports. “I’m supporting her in all (the) ways that I can,” she said said of the singer, who announced her split from British director Guy Ritchie last week after 7 years of marriage. More»

Paltrow also talks routine, clothes, Botox, a detox

(NEWSER) - Gwyneth Paltrow is once again dishing up details of her life—and advice on how to live yours—this time in an interview with Harper's Bazaar. Some of it is old-hat ("At 39, she looks stronger than she did in her 20s!"), but a few revelations are creating a little buzz. Among them:

• On her daily routine: Up at 7am. She gets her two kids, Apple and Moses, up and off to school. Bathes with them ( yes, that's right, bathes with them ) before bedtime. She cooks dinner; it's a family affair.
• Her skin routine: "I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing." What she does like: regular facials, lasers.
• Yep, she's still working out with Tracy Anderson: for 90 minutes every weekday.

Ken Russell's wild films stirred 1970s controversy

(NEWSER) - The Oscar-nominated director of Women in Love and the Who’s Tommy has died at 84. Ken Russell’s often outrageous films provoked controversy into the 1970s; the former film, for instance, featured two male actors wrestling nude. Russell “pushed the barriers completely and got away with it sometimes and didn't others,” a fellow filmmaker tells the BBC . Russell's contribution to British filmmaking was “enormous,” the director adds, even if he didn’t get the attention some say he deserved. “It was almost as if he never existed—I find it utterly scandalous for someone who was so innovative,” said actress Glenda Jackson. More»