Star Snapshots: Family Fun
Neil Patrick Harris enjoys St. Tropez with his baby boy, Gideon! Plus: See more photos of celebs spending time with their loved ones!
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Lady Gaga Sued For Allegedly Copying 'Judas'
Chicago-based singer Rebecca Francescatti claims Gaga's song is similar to a song she recorded in 1999 called 'Juda.'
By Kara Warner
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Relatively unknown Chicago-based singer Rebecca Francescatti has filed a lawsuit against Lady Gaga for alleged copyright infringement on her hit single "Judas."
According to TMZ, Francescatti claims that "Juda," a song she recorded in 1999 with her band Rebecca F. & the Memes, has multiple similarities with Gaga's track, chief among them the fact that Francescatti's former bass player Brian Gaynor is now employed by a music company that wrote 17 songs for Gaga's Born This Way album.
NBC Chicago reported that Gaynor was open with Francescatti and admitted that he was writing for and working with Gaga.
Francescatti's lawyer, Chris Niro, told TMZ that his client is seeking proper recognition for her original work.
"Though the songs are different styles, the composition is the same and the chorus is the same melody," he told the site. "[Rebecca] is seeking recognition for what she created."
By "recognition," Francescatti means money she believes is owed to her.
In the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by the Huffington Post, Francescatti names Gaga, Interscope Records, Universal Music Group, DJ White Shadow and sound engineer Brian Joseph Gaynor as participants in creating the single "Judas," a song that bears "a substantial similarity" to "Juda" in that Gaga allegedly "copied and incorporated substantial, original portions" of the work, though it was previously copyrighted and recorded with Gaynor. Francescatti is reportedly seeking a cut from the profits "Judas" has earned.
Do you think the two songs are similar? Let us know in the comments below!
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'Man Of Steel' Taps Laurence Fishburne As News Chief Perry White
Superman reboot continues casting even after being pushed back to June 2013.
By Eric Ditzian
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The Daily Planet has made its latest, greatest hire: Laurence Fishburne will reportedly play Perry White, the long-standing editor in chief of Metropolis' go-to newspaper, in the Superman reboot "Man of Steel."
EW.com and other sources report that Fishburne has been cast as Clark Kent and Lois Lane's hard-charging, occasionally comic-relief-bestowing boss. Warner Bros., however, is not yet making the official announcement, with a rep telling MTV News the studio cannot comment on the reports.
Fishburne is joining a long line of previous Perrys, from Jackie Cooper, who played the newsman in Christopher Reeve's "Superman" films, to Frank Langella, who stepped into White's shoes for 2006's "Superman Returns," to Michael McKean, who took on a short Perry arc on TV in "Smallville."
Fishburne becomes the first African-American actor to portray White. He's also, in one of those odd Hollywood confluences, one of a handful of crime-procedural vets to join "Man of Steel." After recently departing "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," Fishburne will meet up in the Superman film with Christopher Meloni (the "Law & Order: SVU" vet who is playing a military general) and Harry Lennix (who is also playing a general and once appeared on "Law & Order: LA"). Lennix also starred with Fishburne in the final two "Matrix" films.
The Fishburne casting leaves one prominent Daily Planet post unassigned. Amy Adams is playing reporter Lois Lane, while Henry Cavill is gearing up to become Clark Kent himself. So who will step up to play photographer Jimmy Olsen? Stay tuned, because even though "Man of Steel" has been delayed until June 2013, Warner Bros. isn't wasting any time putting together the remaining in-front-of-the-camera talent.
Check out everything we've got on "Man of Steel."
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Happy 10th Birthday Maddox Jolie-Pitt!
Name: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt
Date of Birth: August 5, 2001
Parents: Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
Siblings: Pax Thien (11/29/03), Zahara Marley (01/08/05), Shiloh Nouvel (05/26/06), Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline (07/12/08)
Facts:
- Maddox was born in Cambodia as Rath Vibol
- He initially lived in an orphanage in Battambang until being adopted by Angelina and her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, on March 10, 2002
- After their divorce, Angie was granted full custody of Maddox
- On December 2005 it was confirmed that Brad Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Angelina's two children, Maddox and Zahara
- On January 19, 2006 a judge granted the request to change the children's last names to Jolie-Pitt
Quote from Parent:
"He changed everything, but in the most wonderful way. Everything that should matter, matters. He's absolutely the center of my life." - Angelina on her first adopted child.
"[He's] very smart but he?s got a certain sense of calm." - Angelina, on Maddox's personality.
Source: http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2011/08/05/happy-10th-birthday-maddox-jolie-pitt
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'Planet Of The Apes': The Reviews Are In!
Critics are impressed by reboot's special effects and lifelike apes.
By Terri Schwartz
James Franco in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
Photo: 20th Century Fox
In an age of Hollywood reboots, remakes and sequels, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" makes the rare move of being a movie in and of itself in spite of its well-known origins.
Critics have responded favorably to Rupert Wyatt's reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise, and MTV's own Movies Blog heralds the flick as being this year's "Batman Begins." Wyatt's sharp directing and the tight script both earned credit from reviewers, but the aspect of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" that had all the critics ready for more was the special-effects work done by WETA. Andy Serkis' Caesar was universally acknowledged as the best part of the movie, and for good reason from what we can tell. But don't let us tell you whether you'll love it or hate it. Check out our roundup of what the critics have to say and make the decision yourself in theaters this weekend.
The Characters
"None of the human plotlines rival Caesar's — not the perfunctory romantic teaming of Franco and Freida Pinto, nor the ongoing corporate chicanery at Gen-Sys, laying sequel groundwork. As tight as the parallel homo sapiens storylines are lax, Caesar's prison conversion to charismatic pan-ape revolutionist is near-silent filmmaking, with simple and precise images illustrating Caesar's General-like divining of personalities and his organization of a group from chaos to order. All of this is shown in absorbing, propulsive style, as Caesar broodingly bides his time like a king in disguise awaiting restoration." — Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice
The Special Effects
"Even if you don't buy 'Rise' as a semiprofound social document, the utterly seductive integration of apes and men should slacken your jaw in amazement. We have reached that moment in movie history when the century-long chasm between live action and animation has been closed; 'Rise' is a seamless blend of the two. It marks a major advance over 'Avatar,' for it allows the motion-capture actors and the 'real' ones to interact in natural locations — in the wild, so to speak — beyond 'Avatar's' enclosed fantasyland of the planet Pandora. Technical innovation is sometimes yoked to leaden narratives, but Wyatt and his collaborators made sure to wed their visual strategies to potent themes. The result is a work of high, often thrilling popular art." — Richard Corliss, Time
The Morality
"Moral questions about genetic engineering are at the story's core. Caroline (Freida Pinto), a primatologist whom Franco falls for, is the voice of reason: 'I love chimpanzees,' she tells Will. 'I'm also afraid of them. It's appropriate to be afraid of them.' The bond between Will and Caesar heightens the chimp's growing unease about his own identity. When Will and Caroline take him out to a park on a leash, Caesar encounters a German shepherd similarly tethered. The two face off, and Caesar later signs to Will: 'Am I a pet?' Later, Caesar rushes to defend a befuddled Charles as he's bullied by a neighbor and winds up in a prison. Behind bars, Caesar resolves that apes must stage a revolution." — Claudia Puig, USA Today
The Legacy
"In the 1968 original 'Planet of the Apes' (based on the French novel by Pierre Boulle), Charlton Heston's character, an astronaut stranded on a future Earth run by warlike primates, began the movie as a sneering cynic and ended it as an anguished humanist. Being imprisoned and mistreated by animals taught Heston's Taylor the value of his manhood. Caesar, the super-intelligent chimp protagonist of 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' (Twentieth Century Fox), follows the reverse trajectory: He's an ape who reclaims his animal nature after being imprisoned and mistreated by men. Whereas the original was a work of speculative science fiction — a chin-stroking fable about evolution in the nuclear age — this revisiting of the 'Planet of the Apes' myth is an animal-rights manifesto disguised as a prison-break movie. And, unlike the murky 2001 Tim Burton reboot, this movie is a worthy claimant to the simian throne and the rare summer blockbuster that gets more, not less, fun as it goes along." — Dana Stevens, Slate.com
The Final Word
" 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' traces the roots of the venerable franchise back to a single resident of contemporary San Francisco, a supersmart simian named Caesar. In the process, the film, which Rupert Wyatt directed from an audacious screenplay by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, rises above its dramatic deficits, boosts the collective IQ of this summer's movies and swings into flights of kinetic fantasy that blow the collective mind. (If you think you've had it with special effects, wait till you see Caesar and his ape army battling our befuddled species on the Golden Gate Bridge.)" — Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
Check out everything we've got on "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
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Demi Lovato Felt Betrayed by Back-Up Dancer She Punched
Demi Lovato knows she's made some mistakes -- and unlike many stars, she's not trying to bury them under layers of PR. In a new interview with Elle, Lovato, 18, gets candid about the airplane fight that led her to realize she needed rehab.
"I was completely out of line all summer," admits Lovato, who was coping with depression and eating disorders while touring with the Jonas Brothers. "Just the worst attitude -- totally ungrateful."
The Disney starlet's breaking point came when she found herself walking up to her then-friend Alex Welch on an airplane and punching her in the face. Welch, a back-up dancer on the tour, claims that Lovato "had gotten in trouble" with her management for partying the night before -- and she blamed Welch for ratting her out. Though the dancer denies telling on Lovato, Demi's reason for attacking her fits Welch's story.
"I just felt like she'd betrayed me," Lovato says now. "That's the bottom line." Still, Lovato found herself horrified at her own behavior. "When you punch someone on a plane, enough is enough," she says. "Right after, I texted my mom and just said, 'I'm sorry.'"
At the time, fans speculated that Lovato's breakdown was connected to ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas -- whose then-girlfriend Ashley Greene had just joined them for a leg of the tour. Lovato admits that she hasn't spoken to Jonas since the incident, but says that her feelings for him were only one part of the equation.
"I wouldn't credit my meltdown to a guy," Lovato scoffs. "There was so much other stuff in my life."
That "other stuff," as we now know, included bipolar disorder; a struggle with anorexia and bulimia that started at age 9; and a cutting habit that began at age 11. Now that she's gone public, Lovato winces at past attempts to cover up her problems -- like the time her publicist claimed that her self-mutilation scars were marks from gummy bracelets.
"I don't think I would have been ready to talk about (my problems) then," she notes, "but I could’ve come up with something better than gummy bracelets."
However, Lovato is hesitant to say that she has recovered. In a recent interview with AOL Music, she confessed that her diseases are "things that I'm going to have to face every day for the rest of my life," and that she's "not going to be perfect." But with her new determination to move forward -- and her single "Skyscraper" debuting at No. 2 on the download charts -- she seems to be doing much better.
Source: http://www.ivillage.com/demi-lovato-punching-back-up-dancer/1-a-370354
MAGAZINE FAB: Romeo Covers The 2011 Summer Issue Of "KRAZE" Magazine, Tatyana Ali & More Featured
Former "DWTS" contestant Romeo Miller covers the Summer 2011 issue of KRAZE Magazine and we've got his shirtless hotness-- which we feel like we're about to go to jail for looking at--inside. See Romeo's cover photo and get the deets on the magazine's other features on George Wilson, RonReaco Lee and Tatyana Ali.
The Summer 2011 issue of KRAZE Magazine is now available and we took a peak inside to see what features the mag had in store.
First up, Romeo shows that he's all grown up and talks about what he hopes to do with his future. Extra grown up I see. Not.Mad.At.All.
Next, YBF swexy man NFLer George Wilson is featured inside the mag, shot by Allen Cooley.
Alright Mr. Wilson...
YBF actor RonReaco Lee (also shot by Allen Cooley) talked about how he almost walked away from show business.
And the gorge Tatyana Ali opened up about her new tv show and revealed her obsession with Twitter.
The issue is on stands now.
Photos via KRAZE Mag
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Paul Stanley & Family: Lunchin' In Beverly Hills
Paul Stanley and his pregnant wife Erin Sutton were seen with their 2-year-old daughter Sarah in Beverly Hills on Thursday (August 4). The family were leaving Sharky's Restaurant where they had lunch.
The couple are expecting their third child sometime this month! They also have a son, Colin Michael, who is 4.
Source: http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2011/08/05/paul-stanley-family-
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Sarah Michelle Gellar: TV Offers Me a Flexible Schedule
"I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter," she explains. "I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Television offers me that - they're amazing at working around schedules. All of the big milestones I'm there for."
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Kelly Osbourne Bashes Christina Aguilera on 'Fashion Police'
We'd almost forgotten about Kelly Osbourne and Christina Aguilera's longtime feud -- until Kelly started hurling insults at Christina on a recent episode of E!'s Fashion Police. Osbourne, who cohosts the snarky fashion critique show, insulted one of Aguilera's outfits by calling her a "fat bitch" -- among other colorful names.
Osbourne, 26, has long been at odds with Aguilera, 30. So when it came time for the Fashion Police to review one of Aguilera's outfits -- a snug black Givenchy dress that she wore last month -- Kelly took aim and fired.
"Maybe she is just becoming the fat bitch she was born to be," Osbourne remarked.
Though the other hosts also criticized Aguilera's outfit (Joan Rivers said she looked like "Snooki's Scandinavian cousin"), Osbourne 's comment was particularly vicious. But she went on to explain herself... sort of.
"She was a c**t to me," the former Dancing with the Stars contestant continued. "She called me fat for so many f***ing years, so you know what? F**k you, you're fat too."
The negativity between Osbourne and Aguilera first emerged in 2002, when Kelly made fun of her Christmas CD on an episode of The Osbournes. The comment could have been taken in jest, but Osbourne continued to trash the singer in interviews, calling her "one of the most disgusting human beings in the entire world" and comparing her appearance to a drag queen. Aguilera responded with an insult that sounds like something straight from the movie Mean Girls: "I think she has a crush on me because she seems so obsessed with talking about me!"
Things came to a head at the 2003 MTV Europe Awards, when Aguilera refused to walk the red carpet if guest VJ Osbourne was present. Osbourne retaliated by calling Christina a "cow" whose music was "crap." Later, a skit was aired showing Aguilera throwing darts at a picture of Kelly. For that, Osbourne got on stage and called her "a really sad, sorry person"; when it was Aguilera's turn to take the stage, she replied, "Honey, if you can dish it out, you've got to learn how to take it back." Burn!
Of course, that was eight years ago; you'd think the two ladies would have matured a bit since then. But Osbourne's unprovoked insult shows that she's clearly not over whatever happened between them. It's especially sad to see her attack Aguilera's weight fluctuations, when Osbourne has struggled so much with her own. The now-skinny star has complained often of the media's obsession with thinness, saying that she "took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict." So why turn that double-standard onto another young woman? Kelly Osbourne, of all people, should know better. It's one thing to criticize someone's outfit; it's another to hit below the belt.
Source: http://www.ivillage.com/kelly-osbourne-bashes-christina-aguilera-fashion-police/1-a-370142
