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Girlicious has released the first single from their sophomore album entitled "Over You" to Canadian radio this past week. The track is the follow-up to their highly successful debut album which was certified platinum in Canada. Girlicious (made up of Chrystina Sayers, Nichole Cordova and Natalie Mejia) were formed on the reality TV show "Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious" and initially included a fourth member, Tiffanie Anderson. Anderson departed the group last year after their label decided they wanted to go in a different direction with the group.

"Over You" will be used to try and break into the United States, where their debut album was never even released, despite all four original members being American and formed on an American reality show.

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Inspired by Lauren Leto’s “Stereotyping People By Their Favorite Author,” we realized the incredible potential for a mercilessly judgmental list of indie band stereotypes. It is a common fact that Cormac McCarthy readers are men who don’t eat cream cheese, but what about those who listen to The XX on repeat and The Flaming Lips on hallucinogens? They need labels, too. After the jump, in collaboration with contributor Jeff Luppino-Esposito, we lay down the reckless assumptions.

( Who is your favorite band/singer and do any of the stereotypes apply to you? )

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      About a week and a half ago, we got a first look at some promo pictures from Adam Green's Frozen. Since then, the film has had it's first official screening at Butt-Numb-a-Thon (complete with a fainting), and they've released a poster, trailer and more in depth synopsis.

      Bottom line, the movie seems to make a bit more sense as to how it's able to work as a feature. And while the subject matter is completely different I'm getting a total Open Water vibe from it. What's your thoughts ONTD?



February 5, 2010

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OLIVIA MUNN has cast doubt over rumours she's dating STAR TREK star CHRIS PINE by declaring she's "officially single".
The pair was rumoured to be romantically entangled by a U.S. tabloid report last month (Nov09) that suggested they were dating following Pine's split from The Hills star Audrina Patridge.
A source told Us Weekly, "It's quite serious already. They have an intellectual connection as well as a physical one."
But in an interview with the January 2010 issue of Maxim, Greek star Munn insists there's no man in her life.
She says, "I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single."
Munn also offers a tip for men keen to woo her: "One thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me. They're like, 'Do you feel alone?'
"Everyone's turned into Oprah."
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i like her either way.

Brittany Murphy's husband and mother made a frantic attempt to revive her before paramedics arrived ... this according to notes written by an investigator from the L.A. County Coroner's office. And, there were a shocking number of strong prescription meds on Brittany's nightstand.

TMZ has reviewed the documents, written by Investigator Blacklock. According to his notes, Brittany Murphy "had been complaining of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain" for 7 to 10 days prior to her death. According to the notes, Murphy went into the bathroom at around 7:30 AM Sunday and shut the door.

A half hour later Brittany's mother, Sharon Murphy, went to check on her daughter, opened the bathroom door and "discovered the decedent lying on the floor unresponsive." According to the notes, Sharon yelled for help. Brittany's husband, Simon Monjack, who was in bed, heard the screams and ran to the bathroom.

According to the notes, Sharon called 911 and Simon "attempted to revive the decedent by placing her in the shower and running the water." dr. conrad murphy style non cpr i see

The notes continue -- "The decedent remained unresponsive and purged her stomach contents prior to the arrival of the paramedics."

When the paramedics arrived, Brittany was "without signs of life."

Paramedics moved Brittany from the bathroom to the master bedroom, where they found a slew of prescription drugs -- "A check of the nightstands revealed large amounts of prescription medication in the decedent's name. Also noted were numerous empty prescription medication bottles in the decedent's husband's name, the decedent's mother's name and unidentified third party names."

According to the notes, the medications included Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (depression med), Klonopin (anxiety med), Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med), Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever), Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (antibiotic), Hydrocodone (pain med) and miscellaneous vitamins.

The notes say, "No alcohol containers, paraphernalia or illegal drugs were discovered."

According to the notes, "The night prior to her death, the decedent had consumed some noodles, leftover Thai food, Gatorade, water and tea with lemon."

The notes also say Brittany had a history of hypoglycemia and was hospitalized in April 2009 for low blood sugar while on location in Oregon."

Monjack told the investigator during the 7 to 10 days prior to her death, Brittany complained of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pains but he was not overly alarmed because "she often suffered from severe menstrual pains."

The investigator spoke with police at the scene, who told him "foul play is not suspected."
who else but tmz

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Model Lara Stone is the face of the moment, voted highest paid model by Forbes and is a Size 4. She's also being called "fat".

The 26-year-old Dutch model reaches 5-foot-10 and wears a proud Size 4 but in a recent interview with Vogue magazine, the model of the moment says she constantly feels pressure from the industry to trim down her size.

"What they say is 'curvy,' but you know they mean fat," Stone told Vogue, even mentioning a time where she was offered a corset to wear to pull her in.

Stone confesses to the magazine that while she may be more comfortable now, she's had her spill of dieting, exercise and weight loss pills to help her trim fat. She turned to extreme weight loss strategies and even alcohol to lose weight with no avail.

Today, Stone is a happy Size 4, she says. "People still tell me I'm fat, but when I look in the mirror, that's not what I see."

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Veteran screen siren Sophia Loren insists her long-lasting looks are 100 percent natural, because she refuses to resort to cosmetic surgery.

At 75, the Italian actress looks at least a decade younger - but she insists she's had no help preserving her looks.

Loren, currently starring in movie musical Nine, tells People magazine, "I don't believe in having work done, because then everybody looks the same."

But the Oscar winner admits she hasn't given up the quest for perfection, confessing, "I should exercise more. Lose a couple of kilos."

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SALT LAKE CITY - The man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man" has died.

Kim Peek was 58. His father, Fran, says Peek had a major heart attack Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.

Peek was a savant with a remarkable memory and inspired writer Barry Morrow when he wrote "Rain Man," the 1988 movie that won four Academy Awards.

Fran Peek said his son met Morrow at a convention in the early 1980s and the writer was taken with Peek's knack for retaining everything he heard. Morrow wrote the script, and the movie went on to win Oscars for best film and best actor for Dustin Hoffman, whose repetitive rants about being an excellent driver and the "People's Court" about to start were a hit with moviegoers.

Although the character was technically fictional, Fran Peek said his son was every bit as amazing as Hoffman's portrayal of him. And Kim's true character showed when he toured the world, helping dispel misconceptions about mental disabilities.

"It was just unbelievable, all the things that he knew," Fran Peek said Monday. "He traveled 5,500 miles short of 3 million air miles and talked to nearly 60 million people — half have been students."

In his later years, Peek was classified as a "mega-savant" who was a genius in about 15 different subjects, from history and literature and geography to numbers, sports, music and dates. But his motor skills were limited; he couldn't perform some simple tasks like dressing himself.

NASA scientists had been studying Peek, hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain would help explain his mental capabilities.

Fran Peek says the funeral will be next Tuesday in Taylorsville. Details were pending.

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Using her celebrity to help a good cause, Stephanie Pratt was spotted helping distribute toys at the Fred Jordan Mission in Downtown Los Angeles yesterday afternoon (December 20).

At one point, Miss Pratt accidentally gave away her mobile phone in one of the gift bags, though a helpful father of one of the kids brought it back promptly.

( saving the world one event at a time )

In all honesty, say what you want about her, compare her to her brother all you want (even though they have nothing in common), and complain about how she's famous for nothing, but please appreciate the fact that she is very invested in multiple charities and is trying to use her fame, however marginal it may be, to do something good. If you hate her, that's fine, but don't hate on what she's doing.
You can find out more about the Fred Jordan Missions on their website.

Just recently announced on Hulu.com's official Twitter (@Hulu).......Muse now has their own Hulu page !

On the page, viewers can watch music videos from the band including Undisclosed Desires, Uprising, Supermassive Black Hole, Time Is Running Out, Hysteria, Invincible, Starlight, and Knights of Cydonia.

There is also concert video footage at Wembley in 2007 (HAARP, Time Is Running Out, Starlight, Feeling Good, Supermassive Black Hole, Plug in Baby).

Check out the Muse Hulu channel at the following link : http://www.hulu.com/muse

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Vanessa Hudgens pops her knee up to show off her sweet EckoRed high tops at the Skechers store at Universal City Walk in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon (December 20).

The 21-year-old actress sported the “Ceejay” sneaker with hot purple laces while she signed autographs for the first 300 fans that showed up.

Vanessa was joined by lil’ sis Stella as well as BooBoo and Fivel Stewart (not pictured). Source

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People still wear EckoRed and Skechers?

Barbara Walters, a sexy septuagenarian until she turned 80 in September, has a new leading man -- Frank Langella.

After three marriages and many beaus, Walters took the star, who has played both Dracula and Richard Nixon, to the Literary Lions dinner at the Public Library. Plus, they were together for the weekend recently in Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors. Langella is the former love of Walter's co-star on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg.

Walters told Page Six: "Frank and I have been friends for many years and will continue to be friends for many years, but it's not a romance."

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Lady GaGa talks about being WOMAN OF THE YEAR.


No one had a bigger 2009 than Lady Gaga. Her hits were omnipresent. Her tours legendary. Her television appearances, well, they were definitely water-cooler material. And that's saying nothing about her outfits, her photo spreads or her art. So it was no surprise that last week, MTV News named her Woman of the Year.

On Saturday — hours before her triumphant Monster Ball tour stop in San Diego — we sat down with the reigning princess of pop to talk about the year that was, the year that will be (from the sound of things, she's not planning on resting in 2010) and what the Woman of the Year honor meant to her. Turns out, it meant an awful lot.

"It means everything," Gaga said. "I'm not only flattered but really excited. It makes me want to work harder, make better videos and better shows and better music all the time. I really appreciate all the love MTV has shown me, and the support. My performance at the VMAs, for me, was a turning point artistically, and I appreciated that you guys supported me so much."

And speaking of that blood-soaked, metaphor-heavy Video Music Awards performance (you remember it — the one where she was crushed by a chandelier, gushed gallons of blood and ultimately ascended to heaven?), Gaga counts it as one of her high points of 2009, not only because it set the stage for her current incarnation (the so-called "Fame Monster"), but because it was something she'd been dreaming about for years.

"I always dreamed about being a performer on the MTV awards. … More importantly, I wanted to be a performer, and I wanted my VMA performance to be my groundbreaking, life-changing performance," she said. "So everything that I'd been working on was leading up to that moment, and then after that I gave birth to this new album, The Fame Monster. It was an amazing moment for me."

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ONCE AGAIN MILEY is INFLUENTIAL

This time as a popular Baby Name... Oh Joy.

( blah blah blah just get to the names already... )

Other celebrity inspired names included Rihanna, after the pop star, Hayden after actress Hayden Panettiere and Malia, inspired by President Barack Obama's daughter.

For the boys, Kingston, the name of pop star Gwen Stefani's son, was becoming increasingly popular, as was Milo, the son of actress Liv Tyler, River, the name of actress Keri Russell's son, Kobe, as in basketball star Kobe Bryant and Jude, after the actor Jude Law.

Fictional characters are also inspiring parents, with the website listing Sloane, the name of a character on TV show "Entourage" becoming more popular for girls while all the names from the hit vampire movie franchise "Twilight" — Edward, Cullen, Bella, Esme — were becoming favorites.

Another website had earlier listed Aiden or Madeline as the top names for boys and girls in 2009, while Jacob and Emma were the most popular of the decade.

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If I met someone that named their new baby Cullen I would smack them across the face, no lie.

 

In honor of the holidays, Eminem is becoming Santa/Shady Claus. Okay, actually this a charity event. The controversial rapper is showing a rare softer side of himself and getting into the holiday spirit. He is offering fans the opportunity to purchase autographed pictures. These aren't just any pictures though. On Em's website, he has various pictures of himself as Santa with a person on his lap. Fans can upload their pictures into the spot on his lap and then order a print of the photo. Em will then sign the picture and send it out to the fan. Em is hosting this event up until President's Day. The proceeds from this event will go to Em's charity, The Marshall Mathers Foundation. The foundation is set up to support and help the development of disadvantaged youth. This makes for Eminem's second big charity event this year.

The first was his show of support for the out of work auto workers in Detroit. He took them to a Jimmy Kimmel Live taping and gave them a special secret concert as well. He said he was inspired to do that because; he felt like the importance of the auto industry to Detroit was getting overlooked and he didn't want that to happen. In addition to all the charity, Eminem was also crowned top selling artist of the decade and made iTunes 2009 year end album charts. So the rapper is closing out the year on a pretty great note.

If you are interested in learning more about the event or better yet are interested in buying a picture, go here. Don't forget that Eminem has new music out too, which fans can check out here. And please peep other Hip-Hop posts.
 
http://www.examiner.com/x-27504-Milwaukee-HipHop-Scene-Examiner~y2009m12d21-Eminem-is-Shady-Claus

Also check out Eminem's Refill commercial




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Nancy O'Dell will miss a lot of things about "Access Hollywood," but her co-host Billy Bush certainly isn't one of them.

A source insists that O'Dell's premature departure from the show, which she appeared on since 1996 (and with Bush since 2004), is because Billy isn't exactly an ideal co-worker.

"The atmosphere at ‘Access Hollywood' is like walking on a landmine because of Billy," the insider dishes. "He throws tantrums and tirades and oftentimes for no apparent reason. It was one of several things that had Nancy at her wit's end after 13 years."

And she didn't go without a fight, either - our source insists she complained numerous times to executive producer Rob Silverstein about Bush's behavior, but to no avail.

"Nancy was still subjected to Billy's outbursts and blow-ups on set, just like everyone else was," the snitch says, adding that Bush's diva-esque behavior is because he "really wants to be the next Ryan Seacrest."

"Billy would go so far as to curse out producers for not writing the copy in a way he liked it, and would really go off if they assigned him to read a story that he felt was beneath him."

So why did he get away with such behavior? Bush and Silverstein are buddies and partners on "The Billy Bush Show," the syndicated nighttime talk radio show that Bush does on the side - and O'Dell accused Silverstein of playing favorites among the co-hosts, according to the source. At least O'Dell came out on top with one part of the "Access Hollywood" family - she was revered by the show's crew.

"People gasped at the news and many began to cry," the insider insists of last Thursday's staff meeting, when the producers announced that Nancy would be leaving.

A rep for O'Dell said: "Nancy's decision was based solely on her desire to take her career to the next level and is completely amicable." A rep for Bush didn't return calls for comment by deadline.

A rep for Access Hollywood says: "Any rumors regarding on-set issues between Nancy O'Dell and Billy Bush are unfounded and completely false. We continue to support Nancy's decision and wish her all the best."

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ty nessism , i thought i was losing my damn mind