Booze, Boos: Amy Blows Comeback Gig

'It's My Party' inspires some, depresses others

(NEWSER) - Amy Winehouse is back … maybe. She’s in the news—for a new single, not a crazy booze-fueled escapade —but critics are split on her cover of Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party,” produced by Mark Ronson:

• “It’s tough not to get carried away,” writes Amos Barshad in New York . “Winehouse lets it fly … turning in a dialed-in, muscular vocal performance that moves effortlessly from louche to anguished—and sounds not even a tiny bit horribly addicted to drugs while doing so.”
• Based on the single, “our expectations for Amy's upcoming album of ‘jukebox stuff’ have been raised,” writes Margaret Hartmann on Jezebel .

Some, like Speidi and Paris Hilton, are just so obvious

(NEWSER) - Some celebrities should probably never be allowed around a child—let alone allowed to have one of their own. “That means you, Heidi and Spencer,” writes Jen Genova on Babble . The 9 other power couples who should really, really not add to their family units:

1. No matter how adorably in love Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are, it's still creepy "that his step-daughters had major crushes on him."
2. Dear Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry: "We have about oh, zero interest in tuning into a show called My Fair Brady and Baby."

Sure, Fielder-Civil divorced Amy, but who thought that would last?

(NEWSER) - Amy Winehouse may technically be divorced from Blake Fielder-Civil, but the very authoritative Facebook has registered the two as happily ever after once more. The troubled lovebirds are indeed back together, pals tell the Sun. Apparently, they were keeping in touch via a Facebook profile for Amy’s cat—and, despite reports of Blake dating a stripper and Amy dating George Foreman’s son, they recently updated their Facebook statuses to “married” again. More»

Says stolen love letter amounts to copyright infringement

(NEWSER) - Amy Winehouse is suing her former mother-in-law for copyright infringement, the Sun reports. Nope, Blake Fielder-Civil’s mum didn’t steal one of Winehouse’s songs—she sold a love letter from Amy to Blake, and the singer is “furious the private letter was used to make money,” a pal says. Winehouse is suing for nearly $82,000. More»

She can't help it, still wants druggie ex back

(NEWSER) - Amy Winehouse will be the first to admit that going back to her jailbird ex-hubby would be embarrassing, but she can’t help it: Blake Fielder-Civil is “my man,” she told the Mirror after a recent performance. “We can make it. We’re so strong together,” she continued before breaking down: “I’m so embarrassed, I love him though.” To prove her point, she later made out with Pete Doherty on-stage. More»