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Beyonce Performing “Listen” on ‘Oprah’
Mon, 20 November 2006

The stars of Dreamgirls stopped by The Oprah Winfrey Show today! Beyonce performed “Listen” from the movie’s soundtrack. Before singing, Beyonce introduced the song: “”This is the moment where Deena finally finds her voice. The whole movie she’s been manipulated and she’s kind of lost her own opinions. I think a lot of women can relate to the lyrics.” Watch the video of Beyonce performing “Listen” below! Dreamgirls is out in theaters this Christmas!

Beyonce on kissing Jamie Foxx: “I wasn’t nervous when I had to kiss Jamie. I’ve done onscreen kisses before, and every time it makes you a little uncomfortable. I’m a singer first, so I still have to get used to that. But he was very professional, and I had to look at it as Deena kissing Curtis.” Jamie joked, “Yes, that’s the way I looked at it, too… And I see your parents [in the audience]. I see your father out there!”

The cast: Beyonce (Deena Jones), Jamie Foxx (Curtis Taylor Jr.), Jennifer Hudson (Effie White), Anika Noni Rose (Lorrell Robinson), and Eddie Murphy (James ‘Thunder’ Early).

Beyonce performing “Listen” on The Oprah Show, 11/20

Nicole Richie’s Pizazz on the Pink Carpet
Fri, 17 November 2006

Should Oprah Quit TV?

Dancing with the Stars runner-up Mario Lopez is upset that he did not win the celebrity dance competition, calling himself the better dancer. “I figure if this was truly a dance competition they would have voted for the better dancer,” Mario told The Post.
Russell Simmons and Petra Nemcova are headed to Africa later this month to tour diamond mines. Russell plans to start the Diamond Empowerment Fund to teach Africans how to cut and polish diamonds themselves. While Russell and Petra have been rumored to be an item, Russell has insisted that they are just friends - and Petra told the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar that she’s “definitely, definitely in love with James Blunt.”
ABC revealed they are thinking of bringing back Dancing with the Stars for a fourth season as early as March - and the show might compete directly with American Idol.
Angry fans who paid as much as $189 to see Michael Jackson perform at the World Music Awards, want their money back. It was rumored that Jackson would perform “Thriller,” but the king of pop instead sang a few lines from “We Are the World.”

Barbara Walters Puckers Up
Tue, 14 November 2006

MUAH!! Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey arrived at last night’s The New York Public Library’s Annual Library Lions Gala in New York City. The event was held at the Public Library Rose Reading Room, Fifth Ave. nr. 42nd St. Also on the guest list: Mayor Bloomberg, Anna Wintour, and Candice Bergen.

Braff & Biel: New Couple?
Tue, 07 November 2006

Kirstie Alley unveils her bikini body on Oprah

Michael Jackson is now scheduled to perform when he accepts a lifetime achievement award at the World Music Awards in London Nov. 15, organizers said. Roberto Cavalli, who met Jackson at his new home in Ireland on Monday, will design Jackson’s costumes.
Keith Urban, who last month entered a rehabilitation center for alcohol abuse, won male vocalist of the year last night at the CMA’s for the second year in a row. When Keith’s name was announced, he received a standing ovation, and his award was accepted by Ronnie Dunn. Dunn read a letter from Keith in which he thanked his friends and family and wife Nicole Kidman “To my wife, Nicole, I love you,” Keith said in the letter.
Ellen Pompeo denies claims that she is a diva who starves herself in the new issue of Allure and reveals that she is finally enjoying success after years as a struggling actress.

Scarlett’s Sorry Dress
Mon, 06 November 2006

Nelly Furtado - “Say It Right” Music Video

American Idol returns with a two-night, four-hour season premiere Tues. and Wed, Jan. 16 and 17. Both @ 8-10PM ET/PT.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, $26.4 million, 2. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, $20 million, 3. Flushed Away, $19.1 million, 4. Saw III, $15.5 million, 5. The Departed, $8 million.
Kirstie Alley tells Life magazine that she skyrocketed to 220 pounds by eating 28,000 calories a day. “I ate with wild abandon,” a slimmed down Alley reveals. Now 75 pounds lighter, Alley will reveal her new body on Oprah today.
Lance Armstrong finished the New York City marathon yesterday 24 seconds ahead of his three-hour goal and less than an hour behind the winner, Marilson Gomes dos Santos, of Brazil. “That was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I’ve ever done,” the seven-time Tour de France champion said after the race.
Beyonce tells Elle magazine that she and Jay-Z are very much in love despite rumors of his unfaithfulness and multiple songs on her new album about cheating boyfriends. The singer/actress says she just didn’t want to make another album full of love songs.

There’s a Little Yoda In All Of Us
Wed, 25 October 2006

Nicole Kidman is still expected to come to New York for the Nov. 5 premiere of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, even though husband Keith Urban just entered rehab.
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson were spotted sharing an intimate dinner at Les Deux last night in L.A.
Friends of Molly Sims and beau Justin Chatwin say their relationship is struggling because of the nine-year age difference and because Sims is “clingy.” Chatwin made a guest appearance onLost last week as the hitchhiker.
Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Kellie Pickler have been added to the list of presenters for The 40th Annual CMA Awards set to air Nov. 6.
HAHAHA! The View co-host Elizabeth Hasselback is furious about an episode of Law & Order: SVU where a character with a similar name was raped and murdered. Hasselback believes the character, Elizabeth Hassenback, is meant to be her and fumed on the talk show about her conversation with the crime show’s executive producer which ended in him hanging up on her.
Yessssssss! Bravo picked up a second season of Work Out. Another guilty pleasure of mine…
Rachael Ray is leading the pack of daytime talk shows over Megan Mullally, Keith Albow, and Greg Behrendt.
Rihanna, John Legend, and Lionel Richie will perform at the 2006 Novel Peace Prize Concert on Dec. 11 in Oslo, Norway. Sharon Stone and Anjelica Huston will host.

Madonna Opens To Oprah
Wed, 25 October 2006

Just hours from now, The Oprah Show will air Madonna’s real-life confessions regarding the adoption of a 13-month-old boy,David Banda of Malawi. Here’s a couple of excerpts:

On how she was drawn to David: “I’m financing a documentary about orphans in Malawi, so I was allowed to view footage and photographs of a lot of the children. An 8-year-old girl who is living with HIV was holding this child. I became transfixed by him. … But I didn’t yet know I was going to adopt him. I was just drawn to him.”
On the reaction of her other two children, Lourdes and Rocco: “They just embraced him, and that’s the amazing thing about children. They don’t ask questions. They’ve never once said, ‘What is he doing here’, or mentioned the difference in his skin color, or questioned his presence in our life. That is an amazing lesson that children do teach us.”
On David’s father being manipulated by the media: “I do not believe that is true. I sat in that room, I looked into that man’s eyes,” Madonna says. “I believe that the press is manipulating this information out of him. I believe at this point in time, he’s been terrorized by the media. They have asked him things, repeatedly, and they have put words in his mouth. They have spun a story that is completely false.”
On begging others to adopt from Africa: “I beg all of those people to go to Africa and see what I saw and walk through those villages. … To see 8-year-olds in charge of households. To see mothers dying, with Kaposi sarcoma lesions all over their bodies. To see open sewages everywhere. To see what I saw. It is a state of emergency. As far as I’m concerned, the adoption laws have to be changed to suit that state of emergency. I think if everybody went there, they’d want to bring one of those children home with them and give them a better life.”

Brooke Burke’s Baby Bump
Mon, 23 October 2006

BREAKING :: Madonna will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Showto discuss her adoption of 13-month-old David Banda from Malawi. Taping Tuesday, airing Wednesday. If you’re in the audience that day, drop me a line!
Box Office Totals: 1. The Prestige, $14.8 million, 2. The Departed, $13.7 million, 3. Flags of Our Fathers, $10.2 million, 4. Open Season$8 million, 5. Flicka, $7.7 million
Nicolas Cage is has put his Bel-Air home on the market for $35 million. He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom spread eight years ago for $7 million. The home was once owned by Tom Jones, and before that it belonged to crooner Dean Martin.
Reichen Lehmkuhl, the boyfriend of Lance Bass, revealed he was sexually assaulted while a cadet in the Air Force Academy and contemplated suicide after the incident. “I think that’s the first time that I’ve said that that happened,” he told ABC News. “I’ve been ashamed of it.” JJ reader Leland writes in: “Countless people understandably jumped to the conclusion from his general description on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he was forcibly sodomized or forced to perform oral sex on others, when his book clearly states that what he was forced to do, after being taken from his room, stripped, and his eyes covered, was push ups into another man’s mouth. There may be a term for that, but I sincerely doubt “sexual assault” is it. Unfortunately, those interpretations led many to become uncompensated cogs in the Reichen PR machine.”
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe talks about his decision to appear nude in an upcoming play in the new issue of Newsweek. “Part of me wants to shake up people’s perception of me, just shove me in a blender,” the 17-year-old told the magazine.