Eva Longoria Desperate for family

Eva Longoria-Parker plans to have children soon.

The 'Desperate Housewives' actress insists she and her husband, basketball player Tony Parker, are getting ready to start a family very soon.

She said: "It's a matter of time." Eva, 34, also revealed her relationship with 27-year-old Tony works because they are friends as well as lovers.

She revealed in an interview with new! magazine: "We are just best friends. I love his company and I am married to the person I want to be with. "I cannot ask for more. We respect each other as people and as a couple, and we trust each other. The best thing is that he loves to surprise me and I love to be surprised. "Our relationship is more solid than ever and we have so much fun together. Tony and I would love to be together forever. But the only way you get to forever is one day at a time."

Eva also enjoys being betrothed to a younger man because Tony has such a passion for life which also inspires her. She said: "He has an amazing passion for everything he does, but the best is his innocence about love and relationships. And we love to travel. We love laughter and music and we keep healthy."
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Entertainment> Celebrities Travolta lands in Haiti piloting relief supplies

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – John Travolta has landed his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies and a team including doctors and Scientology ministers.

The 55-year-old actor flew the Boeing 707 from Florida on Monday carrying 4 tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for earthquake victims.

Among those accompanying Travolta is his wife, actress Kelly Preston.

The Church of Scientology says the pair planned to return home after unloading their passengers and supplies.
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Nick Jonas steps out solo to show "Who I Am"

LOS ANGELES - When Nick Jonas, the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers, announced his solo side project, the Brothers went on the offensive to ensure their fans that the trio is not breaking up, posting that fact in all caps on their MySpace page. What more evidence does a teen girl need?

Nick Jonas & the Administration's "Who I Am" (Hollywood Records), which hits shelves February 2, isn't a teenybopper project, but rather one that combines Jonas' youthful appeal and the experience of rock-solid industry veterans. The Administration comprises John Fields -- the Jonas Brothers' longtime producer -- on bass and former New Power Generation members Sonny Thompson, Michael Bland and Tommy Barbarella.

The album was recorded in two weeks at Nashville's Blackbird Studios, although the 17-year-old Jonas says he was stowing away solo song ideas -- ones with a rougher edge than those he writes with his brothers -- for the better part of two years. The first single, "Who I Am," debuted on the December 2 telecast of CBS' Grammy Awards nominations concert. It holds at No. 8 with a bullet on Billboard's Heatseekers Songs chart and has sold 120,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The band is on a 14-stop club tour to promote the album, including dates in New York at the Beacon Theater and in Los Angeles at the Wiltern. During a practice session for the Grammy nominations show in Burbank, Calif., Jonas sat down with Billboard and talked about the new album, what's next for the Jonas Brothers and why his first stop after he's elected president of the United States will be Roswell, New Mexico.

Billboard: Why did you decide to record a side project?

Nick Jonas: This all came about around two years ago when I started writing some songs that stylistically weren't right for the Jonas Brothers. I was finding inspiration from Elvis Costello, Prince, Stevie Wonder -- all these guys that I've really admired. After writing about eight or nine songs, I thought, "It would be great to go record this some day." The timing worked out -- we had two weeks off from some touring and recording that my brothers and I were doing -- and so I went to Nashville with the Administration and I made this record.

Billboard: Two weeks is a tight deadline to record an entire album.

Jonas: Nashville was intense, and going into it I was excited, but a little nervous. But once I got there and sat down with the musicians for 10 minutes I knew it would be possible. It was really less than two weeks -- it was about eight days -- and then the mixing went on for another four. I left with a CD and was really proud and happy about it.

I just think that it's all about learning from each other. When we got there it was me sharing an idea for a song, and if it wasn't completely finished, then we'd work together to make sure it was done. It was recorded like a record from the '60s or the '70s, in the sense that we're all in individual isolation booths and we're recording simultaneously as opposed to what you do in a lot of pop music these days, which is record one thing and go to the next, (with) a lot of overdubs. We decided to make it kind of raw and real, and there are very minimal overdubs. It felt like a real recording of a band and it made for a good vibe in the studio, too.

Billboard: Was it difficult adjusting to this new style of recording?

Jonas: Going into the whole recording process, I really didn't know what to expect. I'd met some of the musicians before -- Michael Bland and John Fields -- but Tommy Barbarella and David Ryan Harris (who played guitar on the album; Sonny Thompson is the guitarist for the tour) were new. I sat down with them and talked about how I saw it going down. It was a learning process in a lot of ways. It was the best class I could ever be a part of.

Prince plays a big part in this whole project because a lot of the guys are from the New Power Generation, so a lot of the time I was like, "I really think we could do it like this Prince song!" -- kind of forgetting for a minute that these were the guys who played it and they were all right there with me.

Billboard: Talk about "Who I Am," the single and the album.

Jonas: Of all of the songs (on the album) it's probably the most personal in the sense that it tells a story about me. This one is just about wanting to find someone who loves you for who you are. It's kind of a hopeful song. It's actually the second song we recorded for the record and so it was early in the process, but still one of my favorites.

Some of the other tracks that are standouts for me are things like "Rose Garden" -- that was the first song I wrote for the record. It's a story about a young girl who finds her safe place in the rose garden -- wherever it is in life where you feel most comfortable, where you can be yourself, where you can find love or just be alone if you need to.

Some of the other fun ones are "Last Time Around" -- the Stevie Wonder influence is definitely on that one -- and then there's "Olive & an Arrow." That ties in the concept of the presidency and it has one of my favorite lines in the record: "We've never been into honesty/But promise me/You'll let me know/When you're lying."

Billboard: With the song titles and the band name, it's obvious you're quite taken with the office of the president. Why?

Jonas: I've always been fascinated with it, and partially because I hope to be the president one day -- I hope to run. Another (reason is) I think that it really reflects a lot of things about who we are in this country and the culture. It's amazing how you can tie stuff in with it -- conspiracy theories, state of emergency, olive and an arrow, rose garden -- all of these things you think just relate to one thing can really expand. You can find a whole song about it.

Billboard: You really want to run for president?

Jonas: I've said it in the past as kind of a joke, because a lot of people have said, "You're a leader, you seem like you could run for president one day," and I said, "That's cool."

But another reason is I really want to know if there are aliens. That's the real reason. If there's a way to figure that out without having to run for president, maybe that would be good.

Billboard: You have to get to Area 51 somehow.

Jonas: Exactly.

Billboard: In the short term, though, you're just going on tour with the Administration.

Jonas: This record is meant to be played live. The recording is basically live, and so when we got together and started rehearsing, it felt like there were going to be so many opportunities to expand them for the live versions -- make up new things if we want to, change them -- just so many possibilities.

I know it's going to be an emotional experience singing these songs, trying to pour as much of my heart into them as I can and knowing that the tour itself is going to be that kind of intimate vibe. I want people to really hear the music, so I want seated venues like theaters where you can really hear the music.

Billboard: How involved are you in the marketing efforts for the Administration?

Jonas: I had a meeting with the management side and I told them I'd love to be a part of every detail of this. I'm copied on every e-mail that comes in. I'm heavily involved. It really is a passion project for me, and being involved in every step is important to me. At times it's overwhelming, because there's a lot that comes in, but we have a good time and it comes all together.

Billboard: What have you learned from your Jonas Brothers experience that applies to going solo?

Jonas: Obviously, I'm so thankful for them giving me the time to do this project. But I think the biggest change is when people say, "What's it like having your brothers onstage with you?" and the answer is usually, "Oh, it's great because you feel secure because you have them with you and they're your brothers and there's this bond." Not having them is going to be a little different, but I think that they're always going to be there because that's where I learned how to be who I am onstage and with music.

Billboard: What's next for the Jonas Brothers?

Jonas: We're going to shoot the second season of our TV show, "JONAS," and "Camp Rock 2" is coming out, and there's another world tour. There's a lot of things coming up that will keep us very busy.

Also, the reality show with the Disney Channel, "Living the Dream," got picked up. They were with us all this past month. The first one we did with them was an introduction to our world -- but this one will show the real side of what it's like to be on the road and far away from home.

Billboard: Are you interested in pursuing acting?

Jonas: I'm not really sure. Joe's really passionate about that. Kevin has some dreams of going behind the camera, but for me personally, I don't know -- I think music comes first, always. But if the right role came up and it was something I was really passionate about, I might go and try to do that. But I really enjoy where we've been able to tie the music in with the acting.

Billboard: How will you balance your work with the Administration and with the Jonas Brothers?

Jonas: It's going to be a year of learning for me, for our team and for my brothers -- just learning how to balance everything out. We have an idea of how it will all work, and a hope and a dream of how it will all work, but it's going to be a year of learning.
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Bill Gates goes to Sundance, offers an education

PARK CITY, Utah - When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the richest man in the United States, came to the Sundance Film Festival here this week, it wasn't movies on his mind, it was education -- your kids' education.

A new documentary, "Waiting For Superman," by director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") looks at what Gates and Guggenheim say is a U.S. public school system in shambles.

"The quality of our educational system is what made America great. Now it's not as good as it was, and it needs to be a lot better," Gates told Reuters after the film's premiere on Friday.

"Many of these high schools are terrible, and this film, 'Waiting for Superman' by Davis Guggenheim, which I have a very minor part in, tells this story in a brilliant way," he said.

If that last part makes Gates sound like a movie pitchman -- he got the title of the film, its Oscar-winning director and "brilliant" in the same sentence -- he knows it, and he's not ashamed.

"Well, I used to try and sell software," Gates said with a laugh, when told he sounded very Hollywood. "We sold a few, so now I got to give it (the money) all away."

Gates, whose net worth was estimated at $40 billion by Forbes magazine in 2009, is no stranger to education. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives away millions of dollars to improve schools in America.

But Gates' involvement with "Waiting for Superman" -- he is among the many people Guggenheim interviews -- is a first for him.

"UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS"

Gates, 54, sees it as a way to teach Americans just how far the U.S. system has fallen and how to redeem it.

"There aren't many movies about education, and it's a complex problem to explain. So Davis, by taking some students and letting you get to them and their desire to go to a good high school, makes it really emotional, and that's what only a great storyteller can do."

Guggenheim focuses on everyday students who want a better education but can't seem to get it. He talks to experts like Gates and Geoffrey Canada, chief executive of community organization Harlem Children's Zone, and challenges the roles of administrators, teachers' unions and others directly involved in U.S. education.

"This movie is a controversial movie because it deals with some uncomfortable truths about public schools. It doesn't pull any punches ... and it attacks even some of the progressive ideas," Guggenheim told Reuters.

"Waiting for Superman," to be released by Paramount Pictures this year, is backed by Participant Productions, which also made the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

"Truth" helped put global warming squarely on the U.S. political map, but will "Superman" do the same for education?

"That would be the goal," said Gates.

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Celebrities Brad Pitt will not split

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not heading for a split, sources close to the couple have claimed.

Friends of the pair - who have been dating for five years and raise six children together - insist "everything is fine" between them and branded recent reports of a break-up "totally false".

A source told the New York Daily News newspaper: "I was told it's not true. They are very secretive. But I was told it's not true." Although another source called the split rumours "B.S", the couple are yet to officially comment on the status of their relationship.

Yesterday (24.01.10), the News of the World newspaper claimed Brad, 46, and 34-year-old Angelina had visited divorce lawyers to help them separate and planned to split up in the near future. The legal document they allegedly signed will see their $330 million fortune halved in two, while the pair will have joint custody of their children.

The couple - who have three adopted children, Maddox, eight, Pax, six, and Zahara, five, as well as three biological kids, Shiloh, three, and 18-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne - are alleged to have visited a top Los Angeles law firm in December last year, and have since hired a lawyer specialising in celebrity divorces.

Although the reports have been refuted, it has since been claimed Brad's brother Doug Pitt begged the 'Fight Club' star to end the relationship because their family was being torn apart.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Brad's family are being more vocal with their doubts over the relationship. The only thing they still have in common is their kids. That's keeping them together at the moment." Brad and Angelina - who has been married twice before - got together after meeting on the set of 'Mr and Mrs Smith' in 2004, while Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston.
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Insecure Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey felt ugly growing up because she was mixed race.

The 'Hero' singer - whose mother is Irish-American and her father was an African-American of Venezuelan descent - claims she never fitted in at school because of her heritage, leaving her very insecure about the way she looks.

She said: "I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race. It's not so weird now, and everyone's accepting it in a big way, but as a child I felt very, um, out of place and didn't feel pretty. "When you grow up with that type of insecurity you don't always feel pretty."

Mariah began to realise she was different from other children when she took her white best friend on one of her weekly visits to see her father. She told Observer Woman Magazine: "She got out of the car and went up the stairs to his house and he was over 6ft tall and very handsome, but to her he must have really been scary because I don't know that she'd ever seen a black man before. And she looked at him, her mouth went open and she started screaming and crying.

"I think he was trying to make me feel better and calm her down, but it didn't work. You never know what people say in their houses about different races. So my mother took her home and I went up the stairs with my father."
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Amy Adams' childish crush

Amy Adams used to behave like a "five-year-old" in a bid to get her fiance's attention.

The 'Doubt' actress - who is currently expecting her first child - admits she had a huge crush on actor Darren Le Gallo and couldn't contain her feelings for him.

She said: "We knew each other for about a year. Then one day we just developed this mutual crush out of nowhere, overnight. I was probably more obvious because I was so overwhelmed by it. I was literally behaving like a five-year-old, playing with my hair, touching his arm, then going home and hating myself for acting like an idiot."

The couple soon got together with the help of some alcohol and dancing. She told Stella magazine: "Finally, we went one night and 'You Shook Me All Night Long' by AC/DC was playing and that sealed the deal. I had a little hair-shake going on. And maybe one Corona too many. I think he liked it because I was innocently throwing myself at him."
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Colin Firth's in-law battle

Colin Firth faced a huge battle to win over his potential in-laws.

The 'Single Man' actor admits his Italian wife Livia Giuggioli's family were not initially convinced by him because he was English, was older than her and was already a father.

He said: "When I first met my wife's family, I'd shown up as this very, very dodgy commodity, attached to their darling daughter. When we got together, she told them, 'I've got this English chap now' - one strike against me. 'He's an actor - hmmm, oh, dear. 'He's nearly 10 years older' - oh, boy. 'And he's got a kid with someone else.' I had a mountain to climb to win everyone over."

However, the 'Love Actually' star - who now has two sons, Luca, eight, and six-year-old Matteo, with Livia - soon won them round and he now feels a special connection with Italy. Speaking about winning the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, he told Culture magazine: "Winning it there added to the joy, the charm, of the moment. It didn't just feel like any old award, put it that way.

"To be standing there with the award- well, everyone in Italy knows what that award means. And I had enough of the local lingo to express how I felt; there's no other non-English-speaking country in the world where I could have done that."
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Fergie & Josh duhamel renew wedding vows

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Almost a year after their wedding, Fergie and Josh Duhamel have renewed their vows, according to Us Weekly.

The couple reportedly embarked to Santa Barbara, Calif., for the private ceremony, held with only the two stars and a minister on Wednesday evening.

“It was a total surprise for Fergie,” a source told the mag.

A source close to the couple described the scene, held at the Bacara Resort & Spa, as “really romantic, great views of the Pacific, sunset ceremony.”

Following the 15-minute ceremony, the two shared a private dinner at the resort’s Miro restaurant, exiting before the dinner crowd arrived to head back to LA.

The two wed in Malibu one year ago, on January 10, 2009.

Last year, just months after their marriage, the pair battled tabloid rumors of Josh’s infidelity, which they both denied.
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Lambert: 'I would love a relationship'

Adam Lambert has revealed that he would "love" to one day have a relationship.

The American Idol runner-up, who claimed that he has only been in love once, has said that he would like a new boyfriend despite being too busy with his music career, Angry Ape reports.

The 27-year-old said: "I'm not in love. I'm not in the position to be in a relationship. Ultimately, I would love that."

Lambert disclosed last month that he is still friends with ex-boyfriend Drake LaBry.
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Vampire film "Daybreakers" a bloodless affair

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Writer-directors and special effects artists Peter and Michael Spierig's gore-soaked shocker "Daybreakers" unfolds in a dystopian future where vampires constitute 95% of the world's population and most humans are imprisoned in factory farms, systematically drained of blood and discarded when their veins run dry.

Despite the futuristic setting, the vampires are strictly old-school: There are no sparkly skinned, undead heartthrobs mooning after moody teen girls and plenty of predatory monsters who like nothing more than sinking their fangs into a nice, warm throat. But while the setting is sleek and filled with clever details, the story, in which one good vampire teams with a scrappy band of free-range humans to fight the power, is timeworn and predictable.

The copious gore evidently appealed to hard-core horror buffs. The Lionsgate film earned $15 million during its first weekend, good enough for No. 4.

The year is 2019, 10 years after a plague swept the world and left it swarming with vampires. Ruthless businessmen like Charles Bromley (Sam Neill) have made a killing supplying blood to the thirsty masses. But demand is rapidly exceeding supply, and a growing population of "subsiders" -- blood-deprived vamps who've degenerated into scaly, winged beasts -- is scaring the hell out of civilized vampire citizens.

Amid growing civil unrest, principled scientist Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) abandons his research into concocting an artificial blood substitute for Bromley's corporation to join the human resistance, a small band of survivors whose leader (Willem Dafoe) has proof that vampirism can be cured. But can it be cured before the last living human is caught and sucked dry by increasingly desperate vampires?

The nightmarish future against which the Spierigs (whose only previous credit is the goofy 2003 zombie comedy "Undead") set their story is fully and effectively imagined, from the gray, glass-and-steel architecture that reflects the cold soullessness of vampires to the coffee bars where cups of java come with blood instead of milk and the corporate blood farm where naked, comatose people are suspended in metal frames and connected to tubes that extract their blood with dehumanizing efficiency.

The police round up homeless vampires like stray dogs, the military is filled with adrenaline-fueled thugs, and ordinary vampires, hooked on their creature comforts, are easily persuaded to set aside whatever consciences they have in the name of security.

But the story under this rich surface is simplistic and derivative: Its influences include Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend," written in 1954 and filmed three times to date; the 2006 movie "Ultraviolet"; and even Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis," the pioneering sci-fi allegory about rapacious businessmen.

The Spierigs have assembled a strong cast, but even their best efforts -- notably by Neill, whose Bromley is the ultimate vampire squid, tentacles wrapped around the face of this scary new world -- can't pump any real life into the bloodless script.

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Townsend replaced in Marvel Comics tale `Thor'

LOS ANGELES – Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production.

Townsend had been cast as Fandral, an ally of Norse god Thor. He was replaced by Joshua Dallas, according to the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

The cast change came as production was about to begin. Shooting starts Monday on the movie directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Irish actor Townsend, 37, best known as the boyfriend of Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, starred in "Queen of the Damned." He had been cast as Aragorn in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy but was replaced at the last minute by Viggo Mortensen.

Dallas, an American actor who is a relative newcomer, appears in George Lucas' upcoming Tuskagee Airmen drama "Red Tails."

"Thor" stars Chris Hemsworth in the title role, a warrior cast down to Earth to live among mortals as punishment for his reckless actions, which rekindled an ancient war in the realm of Asgard. Thor's troubles continue after dark forces of Asgard are dispatched to invade Earth.

The movie co-stars Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Renee Russo and Tom Hiddleston. Kenneth Branagh is directing.

"Thor" had been scheduled for release May 20, 2011, but Marvel has just moved it up to May 6, 2011.

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Entertainment> Movies "Avatar" remains in orbit at box office

James Cameron's "Avatar" continues to race up the box office charts, remaining No. 1 domestically for the fourth straight weekend with $48.5 million and placing second among all-time top-grossing films worldwide.

James Cameron's "Avatar" continues to race up the box office charts, remaining No. 1 domestically for the fourth straight weekend with $48.5 million and placing second among all-time top-grossing films worldwide.

The science-fiction saga from 20th Century Fox added $143 million overseas to raise its international haul to $906 million. With $429 million domestically, "Avatar" has pulled in $1.34 billion worldwide, behind only Cameron's "Titanic," which took in $1.8 billion.

In just 24 days, "Avatar" shot past the $402.1 million domestic total of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to become the No. 1 release of 2009. Cameron's tale of humans and aliens in conflict on a distant world now stands at No. 6 on the all-time domestic chart.

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Charming co-star George Clooney

Vera Farmiga loves starring in 'Up In The Air' with George Clooney because her character got to ''turn the tables'' on ''disgustingly'' charming George Clooney.

George Clooney is "disgustingly" charming.

Vera Farmiga- who stars alongside the Hollywood actor as his love interest in the romantic comedy 'Up In The Air' - loved working on the movie with him because her big screen alter ego got to treat the hunk so badly.

She said: "George has been breaking women's hearts for years. It's fun to turn the tables. But it's disgusting how much charm he has. He oozes it."

In one part of the film, Vera had to be semi-naked, and says her co-star mistook her control underwear for nerves.

She explained: "George was great during that scene and asked: 'Are you OK, because you're not breathing?' I didn't tell him because I was wearing two pairs of Spanx! I'd given birth six weeks earlier and wanted to keep everything in!"

However, Vera - whose son Fynn is now 11 months - didn't have to bare all for the part because she filmed her scenes so soon after giving birth.

She said: "Oh, those weren't my buttocks. It wasn't appropriate to be naked because I was breastfeeding every 20 minutes."
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Jolie attack on Pitt reported – Aniston the cause

The relationship between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt which is already troubled, has now entered the realm of violence, according to a new cover story by the National Enquirer.

According to the tabloid, the trouble started when Brad Pitt admitted to Angelina Jolie that he has maintained a friendly relationship with his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

“Angelina went absolutely ballistic,” said a source close to the superstars.
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Will Simon Cowell really leave ‘American Idol’?

With the new season of “American Idol” beginning Tuesday, viewers are wondering whether Simon Cowell will be around to deliver his arsenic-laced assessments after this season.

However, sources who know Cowell well say that he’s not really planning on leaving “American Idol,” he’s just using the possibility as a bargaining chip to help another show along.

“He’s just using his current situation at ‘AI’ to be able to get ‘X Factor’ into the U.S.,” said one source.

“X-Factor” is a British show not unlike “America’s Got Talent.” Cowell's not just a judge on "X Factor," he has a financial stake in its success. “X Factor” is produced by his production company, Syco.

Sources say that Cowell’s contract with “American Idol” currently prevents him from launching any sort of competing show, but that will have to change if he renews his contract when it expires this May.

“Simon isn’t allowed to launch any competitor to ‘Idol’ while he’s under contract — but he’s necessary to the show,” said another source close to Cowell. “If push comes to shove, ‘Idol’ is likely going to try to find any way to keep him onboard, even if that means giving in to the ‘X Factor’ problem. Otherwise, if there’s no more Simon, I’m guessing there will be no ‘Idol,’ either.”

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Rihanna Slams Herpes Rumours

Rihanna has lashed out at vicious internet gossip which suggested ex-boyfriend Chris Brown beat her after she contracted a cold sore on her lip - angrily insisting the blemish is a scar.

Nasty online reports circulated following Brown's attack on the Umbrella beauty in February last year, alleging the Kiss Kiss singer lashed out at his then lover after spotting a cold sore on her lip - a sign that can indicate the sufferer has sexually transmitted virus herpes.

And Rihanna is fuming she has to put up with such rumours - especially as the alleged cold sore is actually a scar she has had for most of her life.

The star tells Gq magazine, "It's not true. It's a f**king scar. On my lip. That's there every day of my life."
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Avatar ready for four-peat at box office

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Avatar" is poised to become the first film to log four consecutive weekends atop the North American weekend box office since "The Dark Knight" managed the feat in summer 2008.

James Cameron's sci-fi phenom also is stalking "Dark Knight" and other all-time domestic top grossers, all while racking up an even more impressive global tally.

A 40% drop from last weekend's holiday-fueled total would mean a $40 million-plus haul for "Avatar" this session. That would take its domestic total well over $400 million, placing the Fox film smack in the midst of Hollywood's top 10 all-time grossers -- a list topped by the $600.8 million haul for Cameron's "Titanic" in 1997-98.

Fox also could wind up with the weekend's No. 2 picture as its family comedy "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" shows signs of sustained playability.

As for the weekend's wide openers, Lionsgate's futuristic vampire actioner "Daybreakers," starring Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke, should break into the mid- to high-teen millions through Sunday, and Dimension's teen comedy "Youth in Revolt" has good prospects of hitting double-digit millions.

But Universal's romantic comedy "Leap Year," starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode ("A Single Man"), is tracking softly and likely will open in the single-digit millions.

Also Friday, Paramount expands its George Clooney vehicle "Up in the Air" to a total of about 2,200 engagements. Through Sunday, the total for the awards-season favorite stood at $44.4 million after five weekends of a platform campaign.

Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," from Sony Picture Classics, will expand after four weekends of bicoastal exclusives to 550 U.S. locations. And Fox Searchlight broadens its Jeff Bridges vehicle "Crazy Heart" by 21 theaters to a total of 33, with the music-filled drama toting a haul of $702,188 through three sessions.
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A Minute With: Emily Blunt on being "Young Victoria"

LOS ANGELES - British actress Emily Blunt first captured worldwide attention in 2006's "The Devil Wears Prada" and earned a Golden Globe best supporting actress nomination for her portrayal as Meryl Streep's assistant.

She has been now been nominated for a best actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of Queen Victoria in "Young Victoria," the story of the young queen and her love for Prince Albert.

Blunt spoke to Reuters about playing the monarch, her fondness for Matt Damon and her upcoming movie, "Wolfman."

Q: How challenging was it to play an historical figure and not some invented character?

A: "She's emblematic of England, so there's that pressure because you want to do her justice. But at the same time you want to try to capture someone who is a human being and not just regarded as an archly played monarch. I wanted to people to see the humanity."

Q: How did you go about achieving that?

A: "I read a lot about her -- diaries, letters -- and I learned how expressive she was. After a while, you can hear that person's voice. The monarchy can be rather otherworldly to people, and there's a need to cover and protect them. But I think there's also a need to pull back the curtains so you can identify with them on a human level."

Q: Does the monarchy intrigue you, because outside Britain, it seems that the Royal family is all the British read about?

A: "I've never had the fascination. People feel we have this fascination with them growing up. It's not true. I wonder if it's sort of a complacency, in that you are from that country."

Q: Did you relate to her?

A: "I know what it's like to be in love. I know what it's like to feel like you're in a job where you're way in over your head sometimes. I don't know what it's like to be Queen of England, of course."

Q: What job did you feel way in over your head?

A: "Every single project I start on. And then everything that comes with that territory like the public invasion. It's so weird. But I hope it remains weird to me because if I get used to the hype, the frenzy, people forming opinions and then blogging about them...

Q: Most people still identify you with "The Devil Wears Prada." Do you feel that is the film that put you on the map?

A: "Yes. Here in the (United) States. It's funny because everybody thinks I had this sort of meteoric rise after 'Prada' but I'd been working for about four or five years before I even did 'Prada.' It felt like a really gradual growth to me."

Q: It, of course, was a comedy, and "Young Victoria" is a drama. Do you have a preference, comedy or drama?

A: "I don't. I've done a lot of comedy. Right now I'm finishing a drama, which is really fun and it's contemporary, 'The Adjustment Bureau,' based on a Phillip K. Dick story. It's with Matt Damon."

Q: What's he like?

A: "He's just made for it, Matt. He's made for this job. He's the coolest guy. His family's wonderful. He is easy peasy to get along with, he really is."

Q: 'Wolfman' is your next movie. It comes out in February. It seems like it has 'blockbuster' written all over it.

A: "I feel that 'Wolfman' will be a big movie. The caliber of people in it is wonderful. To work with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio del Toro -- that was really extraordinary. I could see why I wanted to do it in the first place, with those two guys. Hopefully the movie will make a big splash and I won't think I've sold out. It's got class to it."

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Mariah Carey justifies 'that' speech

Mariah Carey, winner of the favorite R&B artist award, poses backstage at the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010, in Los Angeles.[Agencies]

LOS ANGELES – Mariah Carey jokingly blames her loony acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards on director Lee Daniels.

"The thing is me and Lee hadn't see each other in a long time, and then he was presenting my award, so he starts off immediately with inside jokes," Carey said backstage at the People's Choice Awards Wednesday night, where she was named favorite R&B artist.

"We had splashes of champagne, and I love Lee but he's a bad influence," the singer said and laughed.

Carey gave a long, rambling acceptance speech after being named Breakthrough Actress for her performance in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" on Tuesday. Daniels directed the movie.

The video of her speech was one of the most popular on the Internet, and led to jokes at Carey's expense.

The 39-year-old says she was rushing to receive the honor and didn't eat enough. She also says people shouldn't take the speech too serious.

"If people don't understand me and think I'm just like this girl that stands by a microphone and sings 'Hero,' then they're definitely not going to get me," she explained. "But if people knew me better, they would understand I have a sense of humor, and basically that's what gets me through life."
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