Jessica Simpson has a new man - former Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.
The new couple has been rumored, and has since been photographed together.
From People:
"She has fallen hard and is smitten," a source tells E! News, which reports that the 29-year-old romantically unlucky singer and Corgan, 42, are "officially dating."
When reached by PEOPLE, a rep for Simpson would only say she doesn't comment on her client's personal life. Simpson has been friends with 42-year-old rocker Corgan for a while, reported aceshowbiz.com
"She has fallen hard and is smitten and they are officially dating. But her friends think he's too old for her," said a source.
Simpson was dumped by her ex-Romo on the eve of her 29th birthday in July.
Movieline has dropped an exclusive report claiming that they have it from an inside source close to Spider-Man 4 that all the previous rumors of The Lizard and/or Black Cat serving as the villains for Sam Raimi’s next Spidey film are totally off the mark.
So who will be the principal villain(s) in Spider-Man 4, according to Movieline? That’s where things get a bit odd (even more so than the Black Cat rumors).
According to this exclusive report (which is being backed by our friends at First Showing), actor John Malkovich is being eyed for a role as The Vulture, a classic Spider-Man foe whose power is a flight suit with razor-sharp wings. Ok, so maybe that isn’t so odd: Malkovich as The Vulture is one of those head-slap, “Should’ve thought of that” casting choices we all see with 20/20 hindsight. However, news that Anne Hathaway (previously rumored for a role as Black Cat) is being eyed for a role as “The Vulturess” have fans around the ‘Net scratching their heads in confusion.
Even more confusing, is the rumor that Hathaway would still be playing the character of Felicia Hardy; in the Spider-Man comics, Hardy was the alter-ego of Black Cat. The Vulturess would be a brand new addition to the Spidey Universe (as far as I know), and if Hathaway is indeed being eyed for the role, it raises a lot of questions (and a few alarms) that I believe we should toss out here and now:
* Would The Vulture and Vulturess be a team? * If they were a team, would Hathaway be Malkovich’s daughter, or (gross) his wife/lover? * Do we really need two villains with the same exact power? * Why use the Felicia Hardy character just to introduce a new villainess? * Wouldn’t having a Bird and Cat as villains just be cooler? Now I can understand why (from a studio exec’s perspective) having Black Cat in Spider-Man 4 might seem like a bad idea: the character is too reminiscent of Catwoman, who is still a viable villain for Chris Nolan’s next Batman film. Catwoman is, of course, much more well-known than Black Cat, which could make BC a hard sell to a movie audience who can’t tell their Cat ladies apart.
It’s this same line of reasoning that has me believing Movieline when they report that their same source has confirmed that Dylan Baker’s Dr. Connors will absolutely NOT be appearing as The Lizard in Spider-Man 4 (though Baker will be back as Connors). The source states that studio execs were put-off by the thought of such an outlandish villain appearing in a Spidey film – though in the last installment, they did have an alien goo and a big pile of sand as villains, so what kind of hairs are they really splitting?
The 23-year-old actress revealed she deliberately makes eccentric claims and comments to conceal her true self from the world.
'I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb,' Contactmusic quoted her as saying in an interview with New York Times magazine.
'At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. And I created a character as an offering for the sacrifice.
'I'm not willing to give my true self up. It's a testament to my real personality that I would go so far as to make up another personality... The reality is, I am hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me,' she added. Megan Fox has developed a string of fake personalities to sex-up her Hollywood image.
The sexy star has become infamous for delivering stinging soundbites and curious anecdotes about her eccentricities, stirring up controversy this year by comparing her Transformers director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler and admitting to "bouts of schizophrenia".
But the 23-year-old actress reveals she's simply playing a game with the media every time she makes outlandish claims and comments - and then sits back as fans and critics alike try to figure out what's for real.
In an interview with New York Times magazine, she explains, "I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. And I created a character as an offering for the sacrifice.
"I'm not willing to give my true self up. It's a testament to my real personality that I would go so far as to make up another personality... The reality is, I am hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me."
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A black Holden Statesman was waiting on the tarmac to take Woods to his next destination, understood to be Crown, where he will be staying in a luxurious suite.
Wearing a red baseball cap, he was smiling as he shook hands with officials before getting into the car. His entourage got into a second car, a silver Statesman, and followed Woods' vehicle out of the airport.
The aircraft was on the ground for 20 minutes before Woods and his entourage got off.
Tiger is being paid $3 million in appearance fees as the headline act for the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath, starting on Thursday.
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Woods has only played in Australia on three previous occasions, most recently when he was part of the US team which lost the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne.
While in Melbourne, Woods will live like a king in some of the world's most expensive and extravagant hotel rooms as he attempts to take out the Australian Masters.
"I'd like to win, no doubt. That's the whole idea of competing," he told Channel Nine last night.
Cameron Diaz has a guilty secret — she often steals items from movie sets and uses them to create her own disguises.
The Charlie’s Angels beauty admits she has collected a number of items of wardrobe from her movies, which she uses to disguise herself while out in public.
“I’ve enjoyed taking home some of the costumes from movie sets, in particular when I played Lotte in Being John Malkovich,” she said. “That was really fun because I had these brown contact lenses and this crazy wig and I would go shopping as Lotte.
“People didn’t even want to help me.”
Diaz, 36, recently revealed she’s keen to make a third Charlie’s Angels film.
“People ask me about it all the time,” she said. “I would love to do it. It’s just a matter of us getting off our butts and doing it. Totally lazy! Our work ethic sucks, all of us.”
Asked if she thinks her co-stars in the film — Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore — would return for another movie, Diaz said, “I would love to do, but I have no idea. It’s not anything real. There’s no tangible evidence in my life.”
Michael Jackson's This Is It enters The Billboard 200 at #1, with first-week sales of 373,000 copies. This is the biggest weekly sales tally for a Jackson album since HIStory: Past, Present And Future-Book I rang up first-week sales of 391,000 in June 1995. This Is It outpaced the impressive tallies that Number Ones rang up in the weeks after Jackson's death. That greatest hits set posted sales of 339,000 and 349,000 in the first two weeks of July. So, Jackson is still setting records: No other artist has topped the 300,000 weekly sales mark twice this year, much less three times.
Jackson is the first artist to top The Billboard 200 posthumously since The Notorious B.I.G., who scored in March 2007 with Greatest Hits. This Is It posted the biggest posthumous weekly sales tally since an earlier Biggie album, Duets: The Final Chapter, which sold 438,000 copies in one week in December 2005.
This Is It reaches #1 by displacing another theatrical movie soundtrack, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. This marks the first time that theatrical movie soundtracks have topped the chart in back-to-back weeks since July 1998, when Armageddon replaced City Of Angels in the top slot.
This Is It is the first soundtrack to a concert movie to reach #1 since U2's Rattle And Hum logged six weeks on top in 1988. Two recent soundtracks from concert movies reached #3: Miley Cyrus' Best Of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers' Music From The 3D Concert Experience.
There's bound to be some debate over whether This Is It should be called a soundtrack. The album features studio (and a few demo) versions of the songs heard in the movie. The copy on the album cover is "the music that inspired the movie." The movie credits refer to it a "companion album" rather than a soundtrack. Nonetheless, Nielsen/SoundScan includes the album on its soundtrack chart. I, too, think it should be considered a soundtrack. The album has the same title and artwork as the movie poster and ads. It's not a soundtrack in the classic sense, but it's the closest thing to one that's available. If there were a chart for Top Movie Companion Albums, that would be the place for it. In the absense of that, we can call it a soundtrack.
Jackson long wanted to be a movie star, a sort of modern-day Fred Astaire. In death, he got at least part of his wish: a #1 box-office hit. This Is It topped the box-office in its opening weekend with a domestic gross of more than $23 million. Jackson is only the fifth music star in the last 25 years to star in a movie that came in #1 at the box-office and also spawned a #1 soundtrack (on which the star was featured). The others are Prince, with 1984's Purple Rain; Whitney Houston, with 1995's Waiting To Exhale; Will Smith, with 1997's Men In Black; and Eminem, with 2002's 8 Mile.
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who was his passenger in a car crash and later sued him, court documents showed on Thursday.
Details of Freeman's settlement with Demaris Meyer, the passenger in the August 2008 crash, were not made public in court records, and a spokesman for the actor said that no further details would be disclosed.
But as a result of the settlement, Chief Judge Michael Mills of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi, dismissed the lawsuit on Thursday.
Meyer sued Freeman, 72, star of "The Bucket List" and "Bruce Almighty," in February, accusing him of negligence for failing to properly operate the car. She was represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.
In a statement, Allred said Meyer "is pleased that the matter is resolved and the case is settled."
Meyer, who was an executive assistant before the crash, said when she filed the lawsuit that she met Freeman at a country club where they dined with mutual friends, and that she allowed him to drive her to his ranch home.
The crash happened near a home Freeman keeps in Charleston Mississippi, and neither he nor Meyer were hospitalized afterward.
Seeking to dispel speculation she and Freeman were in a relationship, Meyer has said she and Freeman were going to his ranch because it was close to her work and that she expected to have her own house on the ranch that night.
Freeman was separated from his longtime wife at the time and was in the middle of a divorce.
Freeman won an Oscar in 2005 for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby."
This preposterous Cameron Diaz thriller offers a promising premise: a mysterious box bestows riches in exchange for killing a stranger. But then it dumps in existentialism, government conspiracies, aliens, nosebleeds, deformities—and dresses it all in ugly '70s polyester fashions and geo-print wallpaper. Blecch. The Bigger Picture: Bring back the giant rabbit! Director of the lyrical, haunting Donnie Darko (but then the critically panned Southland Tales) Richard Kelly just can't seem to catch lightning again—especially not in this empty Box.
Instead, lightning strikes sinister Arlington Steward (Frank Langella), a smooth-talking, Bond-worthy baddie. Sporting a gaping CGI burn hole in his face, Steward presents a bizarre box and proposition to Virginia couple Arthur and Norma Lewis (James Marsden and Diaz, with an unconvincing Southern accent). If they press the button on top, they'll get $1 million—but also murder someone they don't know. Of course, this offer comes with rules—and their eventual actions contain consequences.
What should've been a taut suburban fright-fest is a failed morality experiment and Twlight Zone retread. The increasingly ludicrous plot, loosely based on Richard Matheson's classic short story "Button, Button" (as was a Twilight Zone ep), wanders into alien territory—literally—with nonsense involving Mars transmissions, Steward's posse of mind-controlled drones (zombies?), and clunky speeches about humanity and sacrifice.
Unintentionally funny moments abound, including Arthur's face-off with a nose-bleeding Librarian of the Damned, who forces him to choose a pathway to salvation. For some reason, said salvation involves huge water pods—and a later sacrificial ceremony involves a bubbling swimming pool.
Set in 1976, the pic plays like silly '60s sci-fi—but with a sizeable budget for special FX and actors (though none of the above impress). Langella's presence does class things up a bit, but he gets saddled with awful lines like, "I have done nothing. I am just a vessel."
This is one Box that should've been left on the shelf.
The celebration at Yankee Stadium lasted into Thursday morning. Champagne was joyously sprayed throughout the clubhouse. And the architect of the World Series victory that prompted this party, general manager Brian Cashman, was softly chatting in front of the New York Yankees dugout.
Already talking about next year.
The Yankees will celebrate their 27th World Series championship with a parade today in lower Manhattan. But before the first pieces of confetti fall from the towering buildings, Cashman will be knee-deep into plans to assure that this becomes an annual ritual.
The Yankees, who went nine years without a World Series title, crave another dynasty. Since winning their first championship in 1923, they have only once won a World Series in isolation (1932), with every other title coming within two years of another.
"What we did was remarkable," Cashman said. "But there will be a new mission now. We'll celebrate, but the business side kicks in."
The Yankees do not intend to hold a spending spree like last year's $423.5 million for first baseman Mark Teixeira and starting pitchers CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett.
But they need more pitching after using only three starters in the playoffs.
They need setup relievers to ease the burden on closer Mariano Rivera, who will turn 40 at the end of this month.
And they need to make decisions on free agents Hideki Matsui, the Series MVP, left fielder Johnny Damon and left-hander Andy Pettitte.
"We spent money before, but they got it right (last offseason)," Rivera said. "It made our team complete."
On two separate occasions on Sunday night, Rajon Rondo and Chris Paul engaged in some less-than-friendly conversations on the court, with eyes of spectators and the lenses of TV cameras focused on them.
As it turned out, there was nearly a third encounter -- one which could the fans couldn't see and one which could have been costly.
According to a report by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports, Paul headed toward the Celtics' locker room after the game, shortly after he and Rondo got into their second shouting match of the evening. Several coaches prevented Paul from teaching Rondo to "respect [him] as a man," according to the report.
Part of the argument began when, sources tell Yahoo, Rondo told Paul, "I've got a ring, and you're never gonna win one."
Rondo also reportedly said that Paul's "frustration dripped with envy."
Paul's frustrations may have carried over into the next game, as the point guard -- widely considered the best in the game -- had another incident on Monday night against the Knicks. Paul dove for a loose ball and made contact with Al Harrington, and the league could review what exactly took place. The league is also reviewing the events of Sunday night.
Of course, both Paul and Rondo have at times let their "fire" or "competitiveness" spill over a bit on the court. Paul, while playing for Wake Forest, once punched an NC State player in the crotch, while Rondo has nearly squared off with Rafer Alston and Kirk Hinrich in the middle of games.
Part of Paul's issue may be the fact that Rondo and the Celtics have now defeated the Hornets in four straight contests, dating back to March 28, 2008. Rondo always elevates his game when playing against elite opponents, so when the Celtics travel to New Orleans on Feb. 10, the next chapter in the Rondo-Paul feud will undoubtedly be must-watch entertainment.
Grammy award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys will release her highly anticipated fourth album, The Element of Freedom, on December 15th. To promote the set, Alicia recently took part in a special performance at New York University and during the performance, she performed her second single off her new album, Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart, for the first time live. The performance was recorded for Yahoo Music’s Pepsi Smash series.
Alicia also visits her past hits such as Fallin’, If I Ain’t Got You, and You Don’t Know My Name, and performs her current hits Empire State of Mind and Doesn’t Mean Anything.
Alicia Keys is going to perform at the 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on November 5. The singer who will release a new album called "The Element of Freedom" on December 15 is confirmed to make a duet with Alejandro Sanz at the annual event.
Joining Alicia and Alejandro in the performers ensemble are Daniela Mercury, Ruben Blades, Wisin & Yandel and Laura Pausini. Ruben will do a musical number with Cirque du Soleil and Calle 13. Laura will perform a Las Vegas acrobatic show dubbed "La Reve", and Calle 13 will return to the stage once again for a duet with Orishas.
2009 Latin Grammy Awards will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and broadcast live by Univision. Its presenters include actresses Charytin, Marlene Favela and Eva Longoria, actor Aaron Diaz, Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez, Latin Grammy winner Alejandra Guzman, songstress Dulce Maria and singer/songwriter Rosana.
Days before she begins her blessed award-season run with an appearance at next week's Country Music Assn. Awards, country darling Taylor Swift will make a stop in New York to host "Saturday Night Live." NBC has posted Swift's teasers for the show, which come complete with the requisite Kanye West joke.
Here's hoping that means it's out of everyone's system. Swift will pulling a double shift on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live," playing host and musical guest.
Next Wednesday, Swift will compete for entertainer of the year at the CMA Awards. The prize has gone to Kenny Chesney four of the past five years, but Swift is the undisputed country star of 2008-2009, and Pop & Hiss wouldn't bet against her. She set a Billboard record this week, scoring eight cuts on the single's chart, the most ever in a single week by a female artist.
Taylor Swift is still breaking records with her self-titled debut album. But her latest album Fearless — which she just re-released last week — is also still resonating with audiences. It's been incredibly successful and launched Swift into the mainstream pop-music stratosphere. Swift appreciates all the success and attributes it to the honesty she shows in her songwriting.
"I think with Fearless and with my first album, I've just written songs about what I go through. I was a teenager in the music industry and so you have a lot of people pitching you songs that are kind of older than what you've been through," she explained to MTV News. "But I always kind of insisted on writing my own songs and writing songs about the period of time I was actually going through in life."
She explains that for her, it's not about looking ahead for material — it's about seeing what's going on right there in front of you. "I write in real time. I try not to go too far ahead of myself," she said. "I guess 'cause my songs were so personal, people were able to relate to them."
Many fan favorites are found on the album, but she has included new songs, such as the bright "Jump Then Fall." "It's really bouncy and happy and lovey," she said. "It's got this really cool banjo part that's, like, bouncy and ... I don't know, it just has a really good feel-good vibe to me."
In 1981, Tom Cruise gained his first film role: a small part in Endless Love, which starred Brooke Shields. He also had a larger part alongside Sean Penn in Taps, also released in 1981. Two years later, Cruise was cast in The Outsiders, a Francis Ford Coppola film that also starred Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe. Also in 1983, Cruise appeared in Losin' It, with Shelly Long and Risky Business, which is widely credited as the film that brought Cruise to the public eye. His fourth film of the year was All the Right Moves.
After featuring in Ridley Scott's fantasy picture, Legend, Cruise was cast by Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson to appear in Top Gun. It has been reported that Cruise initially turned down the offer but helped to alter the script and eventually took the part. The film opened in 1986 and was the highest grossing film of the year, making over $350 million worldwide. The same year, Cruise starred in The Color of Money, for which co-star Paul Newman won an Oscar.
Two years later, Cruise starred in another two highly successful films. The first was Cocktail, a light-hearted tale in which he played a bartender. The second was Rain Man, which also starred Dustin Hoffman. Rain Man won four of the eight Academy Awards for which it was nominated. This success was continued when Tom Cruise received more Academy Award nominations, this time for his role in Born on the Fourth of July.
Tom then went on to star in Days of Thunder and Far and Away, two films in which he co-starred with his future wife, Nicole Kidman. These were followed with his role in A Few Good Men, with Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson. He then gained a role alongside Gene Hackman in The Firm, based on John Grisham's best-selling novel.
In 1994, Cruise featured in Interview With The Vampire, based on Anne Rice's novel. Brad Pitt and Christian Slater also starred in the film, but Anne Rice was overtly critical of the decision to cast Cruise in the film.
Two years later, Cruise produced and starred in Mission: Impossible, a remake of the 1960s TV series. The film was the third best-selling movie of the year, grossing over $456 million. He then earned another Academy Award for his role in Jerry Maguire, which featured his infamous line "Show Me the Money!"
view image>>> In 1999, Cruise starred alongside Nicole Kidman (to whom he was still married) in Eyes Wide Shut. The film was Stanley Kubrick's last venture before he died and took two years to complete. Magnolia was released in the same year and Cruise earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Nomination for his role in the film. The next year, Cruise reprised his role in Mission: Impossible in the sequel, directed by John Woo. This was followed by Vanilla Sky, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and the Last Samurai.
2004 saw Cruise deviate from his usual good-guy role, in Michael Mann's Collateral, in which he played a hitman. He worked again with Spielberg, in War of the Worlds, the third highest-selling film of 2005. The next year, he starred in the third installment of the Mission: Impossible trilogy. In 2007, he starred in the drama, Lions for Lambs with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Tom Cruise: Personal Life
Tom Cruise's first marriage was in 1987, to Mimi Rogers. They divorced in 1990. It is believed that it was Rogers who introduced Cruise to Scientology, the religious sect of which he is now a figurehead.
In 1990, Cruise remarried, to his previous co-star, Nicole Kidman. The pair adopted two children, Isabella and Connor. Kidman later became pregnant with their first child, but the couple separated months before their 10th anniversary and Kidman suffered a miscarriage shortly after the split.
In 2006, Cruise married the actress Katie Holmes. They have a daughter, Suri together.
