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There’s four separate tribute covers available this week from Entertainment Weekly. The covers feature Michael Jackson singing at home in 1972; on the set of the “Thriller” video in 1983 (pictured above); a portrait taken in 1983; and performing in New York City on Sept. 10, 2001.
  
Entertainment Weekly columnist Stephen King writes,
“It’s worth noting that he was never convicted of anything in criminal court, and when I asked Mick—who hung out with Michael occasionally— he was emphatic in his belief that Michael Jackson was indeed innocent of the abuse allegations.
In the court of public opinion, however, he was found guilty of Weirdness in the First Degree, and ended up secluded in one haunted castle after another. Finally, he died in one.
Strange man. Lost man. And not unique in his passing. Like James Dean, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, and a dozen others we could name, he just left the building far too soon. Because, man oh man, that guy could dance.”
What a nice tribute!
It’s sad that some media outlets, like OK! magazine, elect to use a cover showing a dead Michael Jackson as their tribute issue.
The magazine reportedly spent close to $500,000 to obtain their cover pic of the legendary King of Pop.
Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are being replaced by reality-TV couple Jon and Kate Gosselin on covers of celebrity weeklies — and they can’t stand it.
A source told the NY Post,
“Lindsay and Paris hate not being on the covers of weeklies. That’s why Lindsay has been causing so much havoc and pulling these antics. And why Paris had a big blow- up with Doug [Reinhardt].”
The married stars of “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ on TLC have been garnering attention from all the glossies, which have seen circulation boosts from their alleged infidelities and family struggles.
Megan Fox graced the cover and inside pages of the British GQ and showed off her bikini body with a tagline that reads: “Megan Fox will not be censored”.
The magazine quotes Fox as saying, “My only job is to get up, take a shower, do my hair and look attractive.”
Fox also said this about her public image, “I’d rather have a wild and promiscuous image than go out of my way to be proper all the time.”
Fox also compares her line of work to prostitution, saying, “When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.”
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They were taken before Marilyn Monroe became branded as the voluptuous blonde who oozed sex appeal in dozens of Hollywood films.
They were taken before rumors of an affair with President John F. Kennedy swirled and her mental breakdowns became public.
They were taken before the beautiful actress’s mysterious overdose that resulted in her death at the age of 36.
In a collection discovered by Life.com last month, unpublished photographs of Monroe reveal a softer, more innocent 24-year-old budding starlet in a more peaceful time, before her fame peaked.
Her flawless face bears a natural look with minimal makeup, unusual for the star, who was often glamorized in photo shoots with lipstick, designer dresses and expensive jewelry.
Monday would have been Monroe’s 83rd birthday.
In one photo, the young Monroe lies in bliss, reading on a park bench, which editors at Life.com believe was shot at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. In another, her face is serene as she is perched over a bridge barefoot. The shoot, which dates to 1950, was conducted by Life photographer Ed Clark.
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It’s a side of Monroe that the American public has rarely seen.
“She hasn’t really exploded as a star, yet she was on the brink of something big,” says Dawnie Walton, deputy editor at Life.com, a Web site harboring more than 7 million Life magazine photographs. The site was launched in March.
“I was amazed looking at her face. Although she looks very innocent, there is something very … sexy.”
Last month, Walton stumbled upon the rare photographs while combing through the company’s digital photo archives. Apparently, no one at Life.com even knew they were ever taken.
Upon investigating the photos, Walton says, she found there were few notes left on the negatives. She says the photos were probably taken for a cover shoot that was never used. Monroe appeared on her first Life magazine cover in 1952.
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Every year, People Magazine gives recognition to good looking celebrities, and the results are finally in.
After surviving a very public battle with breast cancer, actress Christina Applegate has been named one of the World’s Most Beautiful People. The most beautiful celebrities dish about being honored by People in its latest issue.
After a very public battle with breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy, Applegate felt less than perfect. But the support from her boyfriend, Martyn Lenoble made her feel beautiful — inside and out.
“I’m very grateful to Martyn for coming along at a time that he did because he’s been my rock through all of this. He gave me something to really want to live for and something to smile about.”
He’s been a friend for about 13 years. Our relationship gets stronger and stronger. I’m really lucky.”
So who else made People’s Most Beautiful list?
Michelle Obama, Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson (no brainer), Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift and Halle Berry.
Check out what these celebrities thoughts about being honored in People’s latest issue.
Julianne Hough: “I’m the first to admit it: I like being sexy! I always wear the shorter shorts and my dad’s like, ‘Cover up!’” the 20-year-old told PEOPLE. “Modesty, that’s my biggest downfall.”
Robert Pattinson: “I don’t get it. It’s funny, you look the same for years and no one ever mentions it. Then suddenly it’s a big deal.”
Taylor Swift: “It’s important to be comfortable with who you are and go natural once in a while.”
Christina Aguilera: “Since becoming a mom, I feel I have more knowledge and that makes me feel beautiful. I feel more centered, which makes me feel confident and sexy.” [read her full interview]
Michelle Obama: “I had a father and a brother who thought I was beautiful, and they made me feel that way every single day. I grew up with very strong male role models who thought I was smart and fast and funny, so I heard that a lot. I know that there are many young girls who don’t hear it.”
Jennifer Love-Hewitt has no regrets when it comes to her sexy spread in Maxim magazine.
In fact, she’s looking forward to the day when she can share the seductive shots with her grand-kids. Sounds weird, right? Not to Love.
“It’s nice to have the Maxims of the world out there, because you can look at them when you’re 80 and be like, ‘See? No, really, I was cute, I promise!”
Hey, it’s great that she’s looking forward to spending quality time with her kid’s kids. My grandma taught me how to bake cookies but hey, to each her own.
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As a top model, Kathy Ireland is used to seeing pictures of herself that have been retouched to hide her flaws. But when the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl saw a photo taken by her son as she baked cookies at the family’s Santa Barbara house recently, the raw image took her breath away.
“He said ‘Mom, you look pregnant. I didn’t recognize the person I saw. I saw someone who looked overwhelmed, overstressed, overweight, over-everything.”
In her latest book, Real Solutions for Busy Moms. Ireland talks about how mothers tend to put everybody else’s needs before their own. Case in point: she had put on 25 lbs. without even really realizing it.
“I was not making enough time to take care of me,” says Ireland, 46, a mother of three kids ranging in age from 6 to 14 and CEO of Kathy Ireland World Wide, a $1.4 billion design empire. She also runs a mentoring program for single teen mothers.
To get back on track, Ireland enlisted the help of a friend, who happens to be a personal trainer and nutritionist. Thanks to healthier food choices, including cutting down on snacking and desserts, plus three exercise sessions a week, Ireland says she’s almost back to where she feels her best.
Does that mean she wants to get back into a bikini?
“No, that’s not my goal. I want to be healthy, to be there for my husband and my kids.”
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The newest issue of OK Magazine is a ‘tribute issue’ to cancer stricken Jade Goody. The cover says 1981-2009 and ‘in loving memory’.
Funny thing, considering she’s not even dead yet. It also seems to be issue “666.”
Stay classy.
Here’s an interesting little fact about Kelly Clarkson for all you trivia fans out there: she’s a bit gross.
In a new interview, the American Idol winner admits to both peeing in the shower and checking the tissue to see what color her snot is!
When Blender magazine quizzed Kelly on whether she feels that washing and urinating are best done separately, she told them:
“Anybody who says they don’t [pee in the shower] is lying.”
And on the sticky subject of boogers she muses, “I mean, if you have a cold, you have to check, to see how sick you are.”
Call us old fashioned, but aren’t these the kind of things we’d rather not know about stars? You wouldn’t see Marilyn Monroe admitting to that stuff.
But according to Kelly, the oversharing is all part of her special charm.
“It’s not like people look at me as unattainable, some kind of star like that,” she told the April issue of the magazine. “People love the ‘real’ factor that’s involved, I think.”
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Katy Perry turned up the heat, in the pages of Esquire magazine.
She sat down with the mag for a light lunch and a candid interview.
I thought your outfit at the MTV Europe awards was great. Your head popped up through an apple. It was cool.
My stylist is a continuous burst of “Yes we can.” He dreams just as retarded as I dream.
What are some of your retarded dreams?
I always wanted to suspend from the ceiling in a twirling banana. I’m going to be inside the banana. So the banana drops into a fruit bowl with the other sparkling, glorious fruit, and their tops pop off and dancers come out and help peel me out of the banana. I have a fascination with fruit.
What are you trying to achieve with your persona, with your style of dress? Where does that come from?
It’s Lucille Ball meets Bob Mackie. It’s about innuendo. I want everybody to get the joke, but I want them to think about it for a minute.
What do you want to achieve? Do you want to be as big as Gwen Stefani? As big as Madonna? Bigger?
I’d like to say I’d like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.
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Sorry about that. How are you adjusting to the paparazzi?
I don’t ever do anything to try and bring it upon myself. There are ten thousand other restaurants besides the Ivy. I’m not obsessed with getting my picture taken. You know, there’s just so much taken out of context. There’s so much nit-picking. I turned my data alerts off.
So you haven’t seen the shot of you in your green bikini?
Well, yeah, I read Us Weekly.
No wonder she’s not answering my twitters…biotch!
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Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for, Aubrey O’Day’s photos from Playboy magazine. Yes, I’m being facetious.
Rumor has it, Playboy coughed up $500,000 to Aubrey O’Day.
Unbeknownst to Playboy, she probably would have done it for $200 bucks and a Pet Smart gift card.
What(?)… the dog needs more pink dye.
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Jennifer Aniston made headlines the world over last November, when she finally broke her silence about ex-husband Brad Pitt’s ladylove, Angelina Jolie. But Brad bares no ill will.
Brad told the February issue of W magazine,
“Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart. I think she got dragged into that one, and then there’s a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.”
It was in Vogue’s November 2008 issue that the “Marley & Me” star called year-old comments from Angelina about the brunette star’s eagerness to get to the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” which she filmed with Brad during his marriage to Jen, “uncool.”
And, in December, GQ ran a cover story where Jen referenced more recent remarks by Angelina - to the New York Times - where the brunette actress said she couldn’t wait to show the Brangelina children “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” because it was the movie “where their parents fell in love.”
Jen called Angelina’s Times comments “definitely a confirmation for me of something that wasn’t quite confirmed at the time.” While many speculated that Jen was referring to Angie and Brad beginning their relationship before he and Jen were over, Brad told W’s February issue, nothing could be further from the truth.
“What people don’t understand is that we filmed ['Mr. & Mrs. Smith'] for a year,” he told the publication. “We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”
And those children - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne - have made “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” star more appreciative of life.
“I’m scared to death of death,” he admitted, before acknowledging fatherhood has forced him to give up lighting up. “I quit smoking…That was the only thing that got me to quit. That was it. Done.”
Though Brad has moved on to his hectic life with six children, he told W that he does still keep in touch with Jen.
“We still check in with each other,” Brad said. “She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.”
Currently, Brad has no plans to get married again, but he explained why he was the first celebrity to donate to the fight in California against Proposition 8 on the November 2008 ballot, which banned the right of same sex couples to tie the knot.
“People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying,” he said. “What if someone said, ‘Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.’ No one would stand for that, and I wouldn’t allow anyone to say that either. I’d fight them in the same way.”
For the W cover, Brad requested Chuck Close shoot the pictures, a photographer known for his earthy style.
Brad himself is a W cover-snapping alumni, having shot Angelina breastfeeding one of the couple’s twins, last year.
“We have fun working together; these things bring you closer,” he said of the shoot. “And let me tell you, it’s really sexy to see your loved one through the lens. I went much further [than the shot of Jolie breast-feeding]. I didn’t show those.”
Is this really Eva Longoria Parker?
Recently, depending on which tabloid you pick up, the star has either gained seven pounds (gasp!) or is pregnant. Spoiler alert: She’s neither fat nor pregnant.
As it turns out, Longoria Parker is a bit of a paradox. She runs her own production company, is a tireless charity worker and political campaigner and gets all the razor-sharp lines on ABC’s still-popular Sunday night dramedy. Yet this brunette, who once told a reporter she didn’t enjoy sex until she started masturbating, insists she’s just a sweet, old-fashioned housewife who cooks dinner, makes sure her husband’s shirts are ironed and loves to sew.
Ironically, Wisteria Lane is the set once used for the TV show Leave It to Beaver, which ran from 1957 to 1963. Could the ghost of iconic homemaker June Cleaver be haunting this Desperate Housewife?
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OK, exactly how much weight have you gained?
Eva Longoria Parker: [Laughs.] I’m wearing a fat suit! It’s suffocating. [She shows me the extensive padding hidden under her clothes and pulls out huge foam chicken cutlets from her bra.]
But the tabloids all said you got fat! There are “before” and “after” pictures of you looking thin and, uh, thin.
ELP: [Laughs.] I know. Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don’t get this obsession with weight. It’s not only Hollywood; it’s our society.
But you’re pregnant, right?
ELP: I’ve been pregnant since last spring with triplets. [Laughs.] No, if I were pregnant [when the tabloids said I was], I’d have had the child many times over.
So you’re not pregnant, and you’re definitely not fat—I’m glad we cleared that up. Let’s talk about your Desperate Housewives costars. You can’t have an ensemble of women who aren’t jealous of one another. Be honest: You all hate each other offscreen.
ELP: [Laughs.] No! If this were a show about four men, it wouldn’t even be an issue, but…
People love a catfight.
ELP: Yeah. The women on the show are dear friends of mine. It’s been such a gift for me to be in their presence and learn not only from their acting abilities but from their life experiences.
And you started out this season wearing frumpy housedresses and bad hair. What’s up with that?
ELP: Gabrielle let herself go because she was overwhelmed with her kids and her blind husband, Carlos.
Don’t you think if all husbands were blind, we would all look like crap?
ELP: Exactly! Gabrielle is like, Who cares?
The New York Times has to repay $400 million in debt in the first half of 2009. It plans to mortgage its headquarters, but what that will bring in an uncertain real estate market is unknown.
The firm’s ‘Boston Globe’ and regional newspaper operations lose money, so they will be hard to sell.
Another big media operation, perhaps News Corp which owns ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and ‘The New York Post,’ will come in and auction off what it can and keep the flagship ‘New York Times’ newspaper and NYTimes.com website.
Angelina Jolie graces the January cover of German Cosmopolitan.
Photoshopped or not, Angelina Jolie’s post baby body would make any woman jealous. It will probably make a few dudes brown bag their wife.
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