Happy Wednesday Kiddies and away I go.
In “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” lovelorn character Bella Swan gets dumped by her vampire man, sinks into depression and later flies to Italy to pursue him. While that may sound too extreme, actress Kristen Stewart thinks Bella is setting a good example to girls. ”New Moon” debuts in theaters on Friday, and the sequel to last year’s “Twilight” is expected to have an opening weekend as extreme as its storyline, judging by early interest. It is the top advance ticket seller of all time for online outlet Fandango.com, and by Tuesday afternoon, MovieTickets.com was reporting nearly 2200 sold-out shows. At a Los Angeles premiere, thousands of fans screamed and waved signs for their favorite actors. Social networking website MySpace carried a live stream of the event and lured nearly 3 million viewers. Yeah, I am still not on the Twilight train, but my loyal readers are fans.
Fans of Taylor Swift can be greeted by the pop princess on their birthdays – she is designing a line of personalized cards. The “Love Story” hitmaker is teaming up with American Greetings to create a line including gift packaging, stationery and photo-personalized products. She says, “My idea of a great song is a song that says how I feel better than I could. I feel the same way about greeting cards. ”I’ve always been fascinated by feelings and how we express them to each other. Getting to write and design these cards is a wonderful experience.” The Taylor Swift greeting cards will be available from next year. Wow, she really can do no wrong. Rock on Taylor.
Since winning Idol in 2005, Carrie Underwood has become one of the show’s highest selling graduates, but she warned the latest crop of “Idol” finalists to “stay true” to their fans if they want to find similar success. Underwood, who on Monday spoke to reporters during a conference call, will star next month in a holiday special, and she just released her second consecutive chart-topping album, “Play On.” As it happens, three finalists from this past season of top-rated television show “American Idol,” a reality singing competition, are about to release their own albums. ”I feel like any contestant that comes off ‘Idol’ that does well on ‘Idol’ has to stay true to what people voted for,” Underwood said, in response to a question. ”I’ve seen it happen a few times where people are one thing on the show, and then they got off the show and try to do something else,” she said. Underwood, 26, said that she finds it “really strange” when “Idol” contestants change their musical style after leaving the show, because through their votes viewers tell contestants “what they want.” See, that is how you do it, take note Fantasia.
Nicole Richie has been hospitalized but is “doing well.” “Nicole has checked into Cedars-Sinai where she is being treated for pneumonia,” her rep tells celebrity news agency X17. “She is doing well.” Last week the star’s rep shot down Internet rumors that Richie, 28, was suffering from the swine flu. On Sunday, she tweeted about battling illness, writing “ok cold, it’s been 6 days. Let’s part ways graciously & keep it moving.” Well, at least it is not that fake disease Dehydration; you know the one that Lindsay Lohan suffers from.
The U.S. government is not happy with Aaron Carter. The former Dancing with the Stars contestant owes a whopping $1,010,635.08 in back taxes going back to 2003, L.A. County records show. “We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid,” the papers state. A rep for Carter, 21, wasn’t immediately available for comment. Um, how long before he starts to do gay porn to pay the tax man.
Sorry, Julianne Hough fans, you’ll have to endure another season of Dancing with the Stars without your favorite pro dancer in the ballroom. Hough, whose break from the show started with the current season, says she won’t be back for season 9. “No I’m not coming back next season,” Hough, 21, told Ryan Seacrest at the New Moon premiere Monday night in Los Angeles. And as for whether she might come back the following season, Hough dodged the question. “We’re going go cross that bridge when we come to it,” she said. Good, I vote you don’t go back, you are bigger than that show. You got out just in time.
Ken Ober, a comedian and actor who as host of MTV’s “Remote Control” in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests on the irreverent cable TV game show, was found dead Sunday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 52. Lee Kernis of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, who represented Ober, confirmed the death but said the cause was unknown. According to Kernis, friends said Ober had been feeling ill with a headache and flu-like symptoms Saturday and did not meet them later as planned. An autopsy is planned. Oh man, this sucks. I remember watching Remote Control while on lunch in grade school. It was a fantastic show.
And finally, People magazine has released its annual list of the 100 Sexiest Men Alive, with Johnny Depp taking the lead as THE sexiest man alive in 2009. Others on People’s list? Adam Lambert, Nick Cannon, Robert Downey Jr. and the hot trio of guys from “Glee” — Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith and Mark Salling. Is it just me, or is he a little dirty? And Nick Cannon? Really?
