Apple, Get Over 'Simpering Windbag' Chris Martin

'Life is long, you never know what's going to happen,' says actress

(NEWSER) - Life apparently isn't so, so perfect in Gwyneth Paltrow land. The super-mom actress/chef/ GOOPer /singer has found that marriage to Coldplay's Chris Martin isn't "all rosy." Sometimes it's "hard being with someone for a long time," Paltrow admits in next month's Elle . "We go through periods that aren't all rosy. Life is long and you never know what's going to happen." She still thinks she made a "good choice" because Martin is "such a good dad," notes MSNBC . If "God forbid, we were ever not to be together, I respect him so much as the father of my children." More»

Plus, Swayze really really not dead, more

(NEWSER) - Robert De Niro became a grandfather yesterday when son Raphael De Niro and daughter-in-law Claudine DeMatos welcomed Nicholas De Niro, the New York Post reports. Elsewhere:

• To prove he’s really not dead, Patrick Swayze posed for a picture with wife Lisa Niemi at their New Mexico ranch, the Sun reports.

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.

But Hong Kong manufacturer is unfazed

(NEWSER) - Might Apple put the kibosh on a Hong Kong manufacturer's plan to sell $100 Steve Jobs action figures next month? Apple is "allegedly threatening to sue" and already has dispatched a letter of warning, reports the Telegraph . The report is a little thin, and there's no confirmation from Apple, but the company did successfully stop another firm from marketing a Steve Jobs doll in 2010. More»

Help artists rather than being a 'digital vampire,' he urges

(NEWSER) - Pete Townshend has a message for Apple: It can either help the struggling record industry or bleed it “like a digital vampire." Speaking at a lecture in honor of a BBC DJ, The Who guitarist called on iTunes—which “exists in the wild west Internet land of Facebook and Twitter”—to provide services to “the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire, like a digital Northern Rock, for its enormous commission." More»