Hilton says she's finished second record ... now she just needs a taker
Entertainment Weekly Dec 1, 08 10:43 AM CST
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The good news for Paris Hilton fans is that she’s finished her second album. The bad news is that the omnipresent gossip magnet doesn’t actually have a contract, or even a label. “I’m figuring it out right now. I’m not sure which label I’m doing it with,” Hilton tells Entertainment Weekly after Warner Brothers bailed. Should the tunes ever hit the airwaves, fans are in for a treat: The celebutante penned all the songs herself.
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Blake Fielder-Civil says he introduced wife to heroin, crack, and self-mutilation
News of the World (UK) Dec 1, 08 9:48 AM CST
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Amy Winehouse’s husband admits he made her into a junkie, and tells News of the World he is leaving the troubled singer to save her life. “I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love,” Blake Fielder-Civil said, taking blame for her crack and heroine addictions. He also confirmed Winehouse cheated on him, and denied going after her fortune.
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Reports to the contrary are false, rep says
E! Online Nov 29, 08 8:39 AM CST
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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown are not, in fact, on again, E! Online reports. A rep for Whitney called a report that the two were spotted over a romantic dinner “a complete fabrication.” The pair was married 14 years amid drug arrests and talk of abuse and cheating; they have one daughter. Word has lately swirled that Houston, who has a new album on the way, has been involved with rapper Ray J.
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Singer's mom opens up on star's recovery
People Nov 28, 08 11:23 AM CST
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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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Witnesses spot couple rekindling romance with cozy dinner
Chicago Sun-Times Nov 26, 08 12:02 PM CST
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Stormy couple Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown may be reuniting, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The diva and her ex-husband have been spotted sharing romantic dinners lately, and friends say they might be getting back together. Though spokespeople for Houston insist they’re just “good friends,” daughter Bobbi Kristina reportedly hopes a wedding is in the cards.
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Bold, brooding album piques critics' interest, though it's 'occasionally unlistenable'
Rolling Stone Nov 25, 08 3:04 PM CST
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Kanye West’s latest, 808s and Heartbreak , finds the rapper changing his tune, singing instead of rapping and mourning instead of boasting—and the result is “bold, fascinating, foolhardy, occasionally unlistenable,” writes Jody Rosen in Rolling Stone . While its '80s drum tracks are a “pleasant shock,” West has forgotten an important lesson: “Heartbreak is not incompatible with wit, or with sharply drawn details, or with a buoyant beat.”
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Pop star discusses her new life, dating, her kids, and her ex
USA Today Nov 25, 08 9:40 AM CST
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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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Music steadies Material Girl through divorce from Guy Ritchie
Associated Press Nov 24, 08 3:10 PM CST
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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.
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Teens made to listen to an hour of Manilow after late-night backyard gig
NBC 9 Colorado Nov 24, 08 3:00 PM CST
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One Colorado judge has had it with teenagers making repeat appearances in his court for noise violations. So rather than issue a fine for mom and dad to pay, he’s devised his own punishment: Noise violators are forced to listen to an hour of gloriously un-hip music, from Barney to Barry Manilow, KUSA-TV reports.
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Rihanna takes 2 trophies; star lineup performs
Associated Press Nov 24, 08 6:56 AM CST
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Chris Brown was the big winner, but it was Kanye West's night at the American Music Awards. Instead of his typical tantrum—a trend West started four years ago when he lost the favorite new artist prize—the rapper claimed two trophies last night and called on his colleagues to up their game. "It's our responsibility as musicians to keep pushing each other," West said.
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Vatican pardons Lennon for infamous Jesus comment
Reuters Nov 22, 08 5:53 PM CST
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The Vatican forgave John Lennon today for saying the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, Reuters reports. Calling the 1966 remark "a boast,” the Vatican's newspaper said it was made "by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success." The paper also praised the Beatles' music, saying "the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time.”
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Entertainment Weekly Nov 21, 08 7:52 PM CST
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Can "No-Drama" Obama cast a spell over Hollywood? After years of bleak television dramas, a Dark Knight superhero, and a James Bond who rarely smiles, some in Hollywood say Obama will inspire an era of optimism. ''The idea of change and hope has permeated the country," says Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, whose development meetings "include the zeitgeist and how it's changed in the last two weeks."
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Singer volunteers for inauguration performance
People Nov 20, 08 11:25 AM CST
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Beyoncé has her eye on her next big performance: Barack Obama’s inauguration. “Of course I’d love to,” she told People when asked about performing at the event. “Who wouldn’t?” Sasha Fierce will definitely attend the swearing-in, whether performing or not. “I want to be there to witness it,” she said.
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