Young starpower may be recruited for Yogi Bear and Jellystone Park.
Justin Timberlake, 28, and Anna Faris are reportedly in talks with Warner Bros to bring back Yogi Bear in an animation feature.
The Hanna-Barbera classic cartoon for kids will be directed by Eric Brevig. Farris will play a nature documentarian who tracks a bear in Jellystone Park.
Dan Aykroyd, 57, will provide the voice for Yogi, while Timberlake may act as Yogi’s sidekick Boo Boo.
Yogi Bear is reportedly slated to start shooting in New Zealand, a popular destination for American moviemakers.
Faris, 32, recently provided narration for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Actor Josh Duhamel has denied the allegations that he cheated on his wife Fergie with a stripper but sources are saying that the singer isn’t buying it and that Josh is definitely in the doghouse. Despite his supposed infidelity, the Black Eyed Peas member is going to keep her marriage intact for now. An insider close to her said “[Fergie's] been around musicians too long. She understands show business marriages are not like other people’s.” Fergie is said to be “hanging in there…She was fully aware of Josh’s reputation as a ladies’ man when she hooked up with him.” It sounds like they have a lot of trust issues to work on.
Carrie Underwood gave her boyfriend, hockey player Mike Fisher, a shout out on the pamphlet of her new CD ‘Play On’ which is in stores now. Here’s the touching note that the country singer wrote for Mike “Thank you #12 (Mike’s jersey number for the Ottawa Senators). You are the most amazing addition to my life! You are such a wonderful person and have had such an amazing hand in the building of this album and in the growth of me as a person. I love you so much! You make my life better in every way! I thank God for you every day… xoxo, Carrie.”
Sharon Osbourne has hit out at Susan Boyle and said she has been hit by the “ugly stick” in a new radio interview.
Sharon, 57, said that the Scottish singer looked like a “hairy a**ehole”.
She said: “I like everybody to do well. Even somebody that looks like a slapped a**e. God bless her. It’s like: ‘You go girl.’ She does look like a hairy a**ehole.”
Sharon added: “She is a lovely lady. You just want to say ‘god bless’ and here’s a Gillette razor.”
Sharon then went on to further slate the Britain’s Got Talent sensation and said: “I didn’t realise she had facial hair – I couldn’t get past the Gene Wilder wig.”
However, Sharon does believe that the 48-year-old Scot is talented: “[God] gave her the talent. But he hit her with a f****** ugly stick.”
Lady Gaga has the number 1 song on mainstream radio in America this week with ‘Paparazzi’. Insiders say that the singer is the only artist to have four number 1 hits from a debut album since the start of monitored airplay charts. That’s a mighty impressive record to have. I’m willing to bet that the princess of pop will do one better by having five singles go to number 1 with her song ‘Bad Romance’. Lady Gaga is seemingly unstoppable with how things are going for her career. Congratulations! She’s awesome! Hers is a career that many people could only dream of.
Singer Adam Lambert and his boyfriend, interior designer Drake LaBry, are calling it quits – at least that’s according to a source close to the now former couple. The source said “The relationship just ran its course. The break-up was mutual and amicable. They remain friends and still care for each other.” When one of the people involved happens to be in the entertainment industry, that reason is kind of hard to believe. I wonder what the real reason is for their break up. They’ve been pretty all up on each other up until a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if the American Idol alum has found someone else.
It is being reported that the Spice Girls will be performing at the opening for the 2012 Olympics in London. The band’s manager, Simon Fuller, says that the quintet of Posh, Scary, Sporty, Ginger and Baby could possibly schedule their reunion/final tour to coincide with the games. He said “They stand for so much in British music history and I can’t think of a better time for them to get back together for another performance. The demand for them as a band is as strong as ever.” He also believes that the girls will be ready to retire the Spice Girls personalities come the 2012 games as the group “will not want to be performing hits like Wannabe in their 40’s.”
There have been rumors of solo records from different members of the ‘Glee’ cast including Lea Michele. Now, it has been confirmed that Matthew Morrison will be doing one of his own. The actor describes his sound as a mix of Justin Timberlake and Michael Buble, explaining “Right now, I’ve almost finalized a record deal and am going to be working on an album. It’s going to be different…It’s going to be me and a big orchestra, but also with beats. I want to be like the next Gene Kelly. I want to kind of do it all. I want to have a career in movies, television, music and Broadway – but have them all be separate, their own entities.”
Taylor Swift rocked out for the new commercial for the ‘Band Hero’ video game recently. The 19-year old country singer shared the stage with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and Blink 182’s Travis Barker. The shoot was directed by Brett Ratner and shows the ‘Risky Business’ inspired slide into the living room by the musicians, much like the other ‘Guitar Hero’ commercials. Taylor sang ‘Love Story’ and later showed off her rock and roll side in the commercial. And on a cute note, People said that she taught Travis’ kids how to play the video game during breaks from the shoot.
Dannii Minogue’s tearful recollection of posing for Australian Playboy to pay off debts brought a wistful reaction from the man responsible for discovering her, Johnny Young.
Johnny Young’s Young Talent Time [YTT] Show, which is in talks with Channel 10 in Australia for a comeback, was a precursor to reality talent shows like Britain’s Got Talent. Young appeared briefly on Australian television screens to say that he was always sorry when one of his flock had to go in a direction that was difficult.
Danni and her older sister Kylie, meanwhile, jumped behind Young and the proposed reprisal.
They joined a Facebook campaign in support of the move. Kylie, who sang on YTT, wrote on her Twitter page: “OMG that would be TOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!! Bring back YTT!!”
Young said that without YTT, which was dropped in 1989, there was no means of bringing up young performers between the ages of 10 and 16. “There are some amazingly talented kids out there who are too young for Australian Idol,” he said.
Young said the success of the Hey, Hey It’s Saturday shows lent wind to the idea of reprising YTT and the wholesome family variety show. “Television has become quite heartless. It’s a challenging world that’s often quite rough and tumble. People are looking for something comforting and light. We’re looking at different ways to do it. Nostalgia will only get you so far. We need a show that will stand on its own feet in 2009-2010.”
Happy star Leona Lewis is to return to The X Factor for a performance three years after she won the show.
The 24-year-old singer won the 2006 version of the show and she will return to perform her new single Happy on the results show on November 8.
Leona’s appearance on the show will be her first TV performance since she was attacked by a man at a book signing in London.
She will be joined by US band The Black Eyed Peas, who will be performing on the same show later this month.
This will be the third time Leona has returned to the show: she sung her single Bleeding Love on the 2007 show and sung her rendition of Run on last year’s series.
Shakira is featured on the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The 32-year old Latina singer talked about femininity, motherhood and the pressures of being a woman during her interview. She said “You know, women have to make enormous efforts through life, much larger than men. We deal with so many pressures: the pressure of aesthetics, and how society wants us to deliver our performances as mothers, daughters and wives.” Shakira also said that she’s ready to start a family, saying “My body feels like it is asking to reproduce, to have a huge belly and carry babies.” The singer has been in a relationship with investment banker Antonio de la Rua for the past nine years so she’s not lacking a father for her would-be baby.
Taylor Swift is proving to be an unstoppable force as the new platinum edition of the country singer’s album ‘Fearless’ is doing quite well. Two days after its release, 5 of the 6 songs were found on the Top 10 of iTunes. The sixth song was at number 12 back then. Her newest single ‘Jump Then Fall’ has the top spot. Congratulations are definitely due out for her! Taylor has to have broken some sort of record with her stats. I’m pretty sure that she’s the youngest most successful country singer, nay, female solo performer, to have those numbers. Wow!
Star musicians will launch a legal bid to discover whether their music was played to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
The music of Britney Spears, the Bee Gees, Rage Against The Machine and the television show, Sesame Street, was played in the camp, according to government records and the accounts of former detainees.
REM, Pearl Jam and British singer Billy Bragg and others through the National Security Archive will seek to have secret documents about the US Navy base in Cuba made public. The CIA, FBI and Defence Department have been asked to release the information.
Archive director Thomas Blanton believes the government “turned a jukebox into an instrument of torture” at the detention centre. A spokesman for Rage Against The Machine said the band was “sickened” that its music could have been used in “crimes against humanity”.
He added: “Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured – from waterboarding to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts – playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums.”
CIA spokesman George Little said earlier that music is played at Guantanamo but not for “punitive purposes” and at levels “far below a live band”.
The soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon has shot to the top of the US album charts in further testiment to Twilight fever.
The Twilight soundtrack, which is indie-rock in flavour, is expected to keep selling robustly as Michael Jackson’s This Is It soundtrack eventually gains force.
After debuting on the charts at number two last week, the soundtrack sold more than 155,000 copies in three days.
The bands Death Cab For Cutie, The Killers, Grizzly Bear are featured on the album, which does not include anything by series heart-throb Robert Pattinson.
Taylor Swift has deftly side-stepped the question on everyone’s lips, leaving Ellen Degeneres grasping at air.
The talk show host steered Swift to her relationship with Taylor Lautner but the savvy country singer dodged the bait. She did reveal, however, that there was a problem in her and Lautner making the movie Valentine’s Day.
Cast and crew were falling over themselves to give directions to “Taylor”, getting the rumoured lovebirds hopelessly mixed up.
“Everybody was confused, so halfway through the day [I said], ‘You call him Taylor, and you call me Swifty.’ Problem solved.”
The poised Swift spoke eloquently about her commitment to making the US a better place.
She also laughed off jokes about how much money she has made since her album, Fearless, sold more than four million copies. She said simply: “I actually just wrapped up the first leg of my first headlining tour, which I am so excited [about].”
The singer who is apparently famous in the children’s circles as well seems to have gone a bit too far with her performance last recently. When performing for a bunch of children of five and above, Miley Cyrus took the liberty of having a strip-pole and also trying out some feisty new dance moves. She’d better watch it… they could cancel her shows for something like that! This is not kindergarten anymore… when performing for children, Miley Cyrus should know that there are rules to be enforced. See what happens when you don’t read twitter anymore? You get into all kinds of pickles.
There’s some trouble brewing on the set of The Brian McKnight Show. Quite honestly, I didn’t even know that the singer had a talk show. According to the California Labor Board, over 20 employees have filed non-payment complaints against his show, totalling $86,300. Brian’s people are saying that they do have intentions to pay and that there “was mismanagement in the beginning and since then we have gotten new investors and the show is continuing.” So don’t touch that dial folks, because there’s more from to come from a show that I just found out about. Let’s talk about obscurity, shall we?
Madonna has written an open letter and recorded a video asking for your donations to the Raising Malawi organization, all of which the singer will match dollar for dollar, to help in building the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. The Queen of Pop said “I’m writing to urge you to join me in saving the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable children. And I’m asking you to do it right away… By donating to Raising Malawi, you can literally transform the future for an entire generation. To encourage your involvement, I’ve pledged $100,000 to match your contributions dollar-for-dollar… This is my call to you: Give an opportunity to a child who would otherwise have none. Support the work of Raising Malawi.”
Happy star Leona Lewis is to return to The X Factor for a performance three years after she won the show.
