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J. Lo Shows Curves In New Year's Nude Bodysuit

1/02/2010 12:42:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Jennifer Lopez made Ryan Seacrest's night - or so he said - and probably a lot of other people's too in a skin tight shimmering body suit that she wore for her appearance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.


The 41-year-old Bronx-born beauty regaled the masses who were huddled in Times Square to ring in 2010 with her new single "Louboutins," from her first album since giving birth to twins Max and Emme in 2008. The disc, "Love?", is due out in April 2010.

You'd never know she'd had two kids based on her appearance last night. She showed off an apparently flawless physique in a unitard that clung to every curve, bedecked with sparkles that could have been little drops of icy rain from the evening's freezing drizzle.

For her first number, she covered up in a shaggy black jacket that looked like a cast-off from "Planet of the Apes."



Lopez went through some moves with a cadre of backup dancers, wearing a towering pair of the red-soled heels named in the song's title - glittering booties to match her catsuit, natch - and managed not to slip as she famously did while performing the same tune at the American Music Awards in November.

To the delight of many, including host Seacrest, who quipped that her outfit "made my year," she then removed the jacket to perform two more songs, including "Waiting for Tonight."

She began that song by straddling the shoulder of a dancer who hoisted her in the air and spun her around in a sensual embrace.



But hubby Marc Anthony needn't worry about the hoofer or Seacrest. He was right by his wife's side as the ball dropped to usher in 2010, and by then she was well covered up in a glamorous, and warm-looking, fur coat.

The bodysuit is far from the first time Lopez has gotten tongues wagging with her fashion choices (remember the Versace neckline that plunged to her navel at the Grammy Awards in 2000?). But this outfit, in which the singer looks almost too perfect, may get fans talking for another reason: Has chasing toddlers casued a downsizing of her famous derriere?

Was it worth getting dressed, Lady GaGa?

1/02/2010 12:42:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments



Singer poses nearly nude on hotel balcony... and then strips off for stage show Lady GaGa has spent the last year flaunting an extraordinary range of outrageous clothes. But for the final day of 2009, the avant garde star opted for something a little more au naturelle.

The singer's nearly nude show began at the Penthouse at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach where she spent some time talking on her mobile phone. Unlike most people, Lady Gaga decided to do it almost naked.

First she appeared in a towel and nothing else. Then she pulled on some underwear but posed in such a way she made sure everyone knew it.


Each time she was accompanied by a male friend, who on one occasion spotted a photographer, prompting GaGa, who was wearing a yellow wig, to made an obscene hand gesture.

She was staying at the plush hotel ahead of her performance there to welcome in 2010.

And just for her devoted fans she decided she would actually put some clothes albeit it in keeping with her usual outrageous style.



She kept the yellow wig but teamed it with a dark purple PVC-style dress with fishnet tights.

She performed on the grand pool deck of the resort as revellers gathered to hear her best hits of 2009.

But her exhibitionism got the better of her and before the end of her show she had stripped down to her underwear.


Stripped down: Gaga can't resist being the exhibitionist and performs on stage in nothing more than her underwear

It is unclear whether the unveiling of her bra and knickers was planned as the two items didn't quite match.

Her undies looked like they were made from PVC and her lilac bra from satin.

Earlier this week Lady Gaga was spotted dining out with celebrity blogger Perez Hiton.

GaGa, 23, maintained her penchant for ridiculous ensembles, teaming a black PVC jacket that appeared to have been put through a shredder, with a rubber skirt, fishnet stockings and black PVC boots.

Perez looked equally silly wearing what seemed to be a pair of banana-print boxer shorts with a black dinner jacket, a t-shirt emblazoned with a cover of People magazine featuring Madonna and gold shoes with black socks.

Google Nexus Offers Little Competition to Apple iPhone

1/02/2010 12:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Why Google's New Smartphone Won't Knock Apple Off Its iPhone Throne

Whether the marketplace is ready or not, the Big Guns in consumer electronics are about to make their move at the dawn of the New Year.

Next Tuesday, Google is expected to announce its long-rumored Nexus One smartphone. It is undoubtedly designed to run the Google Android operating system for cellphones, which the search giant introduced more than a year ago. Android was envisioned as a major breakthrough in cellphones because it offered an "open" operating system – i.e., one that other companies could use and design applications for. At the time, this strategy was compared to that of Microsoft Windows, which broke the market hegemony of Apple's decidedly non-open OS in the mid-1980s and within a decade, turned Apple into a niche company. This time around, the new Android phones were supposed to break the hegemony of the Apple iPhone.

So far, it hasn't quite worked out that way with Android. A number of cell phone companies – notably Motorola, HTC, and Samsung – have adopted Android and seen impressive sales. However, this time around Apple, though still exhibiting much of its old "closed" and proprietary ways, has learned some important lessons over the last 20 years.

For one thing, Apple understands, better perhaps than any company on the planet, the importance of being not only perpetually innovative – but with a vast and loyal army of Apple fanatics behind it – to regularly take category-busting risks. Thus, the amazing run, beginning a decade ago, of the iMac, MacBook, iPod and iPhone. These landmark (and in the case of the iPod, historic) products not only were ambitious in their goals and beautifully designed, but they also exhibited multiple features that were so innovative that they forced the competition to spend years catching up – and by then, Apple had already moved on to the next breakthrough.

Military theorists like to say that the goal of combat is to get inside your opponent's "decision horizon" – that is, to move so quickly that the enemy can't respond in time before you have moved on to the next victory. That's exactly what Apple, at its best, has done to the consumer electronics world … and in the process has left competitors reeling, loyal customers thrilled, and not least, Apple regaining its lost market share and making its shareholders wealthy.

The Apple iPhone is a classic example of that. It has taken nearly two years for Apple's competitors to field products that are even close to the iPhone; to identify weaknesses in the device (such as the lack of a real keyboard for texters, its commitment to AT&T as service provider) and respond. Apple, meanwhile, has used that time to continuously improve the iPhone – the result being that the company now dominates the smartphone world to a degree Apple hasn't enjoyed since the early years of the Macintosh.

If that was the sum of Apple's advantage, the door might be wide open for Google and the rest to pull a Windows Redux strategy. Apple, after all, is still all about controlling the operating system and suing anyone who tries to copy it. This would seem to open the door for yet another Open Systems assault, pulling together the entire intellectual capital of the entire rest of the phone industry to simply overwhelm Apple's defenses.

But, as I said, even if Apple hasn't reformed its bad old ways, it has grown a whole lot wiser. And, in one of the most brilliant strategic moves in its history, the company opened the door more than a year ago to outside developers to create their own proprietary application programs for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) to be sold through the Apple Store. Here, too, serendipity has been Apple's friend: economic downturns are always times for a burst of entrepreneurial energy as the unemployed and underemployed use the downtime to start new enterprises and then give them a running start. But this crash has been unique in high tech history not only for its depth and duration, but also because, for the first, time, the venture capital industry (largely because of government regulation) is paralyzed and little investment money is available.

This entrepreneurial energy needs to go somewhere … and where much of it has headed is toward the design of iPhone apps. The sheer number of these apps that have been created in just 18 months is absolutely mind-boggling: more than 100,000 different programs, from guitar tuners to restaurant ratings to burp generators, and everything else you can imagine. It is one of the greatest outpourings of small, independent entrepreneurship in American business history, and all supported by the Apple Store. There have been more than 1 billion iPhone app downloads.

Some of these apps are superb, most are crap. But that doesn't matter. What does matter is that the sheer mass of all of these creations creates a gargantuan barrier to any competing smartphone initiative that wants to take it on. Apple, without surrendering much control, has nevertheless found an alternative way to harness the intellectual capital of thousands of its smartest and most ambitious supporters. So now, to compete with the iPhone you pretty much have to match the best of the iPhone App catalog – and even with a well-developed user community, that won't be easy to do. Android might be able to catch up – and I emphasize "might" – by building its own developer community. But it hasn't happened yet.

The only other ways to catch Apple right now is to either price bomb the iPhone with a super cheap, super powerful smart phone – easier said than done, especially since you're giving away all of your profits – or come out with your own, revolutionary, new design. But nobody's been able to end run Apple yet; revolutionary new design being what that company does better than anybody.

But if any could stun the phone world it would be Google. It, too, is full of smart, arrogant people, the company has lots of dough, and because phones are outside its core business, it can in theory take a big risk without worrying about legacy issues. For example, as many industry insiders have suggested, Google could stun the tech world – and hit Apple at its weakest point – by coming out with a "Webphone," a device that uses the Internet, a la Skype, as its transmission medium and thus escaping forever the tyranny of the phone companies. There's a lot of problems with that strategy, of course, but it would certainly shock the world and put Apple on the defensive.

Unfortunately, the early reports suggest that what Google will introduce next week, the Nexus One, will be a largely conventional smartphone. That's a pity because I suspect Google will never get this chance again. Meanwhile, strong on momentum and flush with cash, Apple isn't waiting around for the world to catch up with it. Two weeks from now, the company is expected to introduce yet another category-buster: this time it's rumored to be a tablet device – think of an oversized iPod Touch, but no doubt with much of the functionality of a personal computer (not to mention all of those iPhone apps). It will also no doubt, have one or two very cool and unexpected new features that will make it a gotta-have for Apple fanatics everywhere. Once again, Apple will have a new product that challenges convention, seemingly obsoletes an entire multibillion-dollar industry (in this case, handheld computers) while overwhelming a second, newer industry (netbooks, such as the Kindle) and yet is still stunning to look at. In other words, the Google phone will be a loser, even if it is a winner, because it will probably diminish Google's reputation as a tech juggernaut. Meanwhile, the Apple Tablet will be a winner, even if it is a loser, because (like those wacky iMac cubes and other designs of the last decade) it will continue to advance the company's reputation for risk-taking and cool.

Meanwhile, for the rest of us, at least after a miserable 2009 in tech, 2010 is starting out fun. It's as if the great consumer tech companies have been waiting to get last year over with and are now bouncing around at the starting line, waiting for the new year to begin so they can burst out of the gate. Despite everything else, the New Year in tech looks like fun.

TVXQ disbanding is false?

1/02/2010 12:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Only moments ago we reported on male sensation TVXQ, and their plans for disbanding in the new year. The source was from a Japanese article and SM Entertainment has yet to release a full legitimate statement, but things didn't look so good when Japan reported some unfortunate news.

A reporter said that tension within the group has become so high and bad that it's reached its limit, saying that Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu showed more passion to perform than the other two as they seem to have lost the will to go on. Even worse, the reporter stated that, "Currently the three have begun their activities with a new agency and the remaining SM members are forbidden from contacting the other three."

Plans for TVXQ was to apparently begin promotions for their last single BREAK OUT! on the 27th of January, and to release their last album on February 17th with one final goodbye concert in June.

However, SM Entertainment did not give a long detailed official statement but quickly replied to the situation by saying, "The reporter's statements are false. There are no plans of disbanding." But another source stated that, "Nothing has yet been officially decided."

There's much confusion going around and no doubt it's got fans very anxious. But could this be another foreign misinterpretation? Not too long ago, Chinese reporters said many false things about the the Hankyung lawsuit and this could be merely just another false rumor from a foreign country that didn't know any better.

More: TVXQ trio denies breaking up



We have previously reported that TVXQ is indeed breaking up, citing a Japanese source. SM Entertainment has denied the claims made by the Japanese article, and now the three members who seek to untie themselves from SME are also denying the claims.

According to Herald Business of Korea, representatives of the three members have stated "We have not heard of plans on the goodbye concert. Nothing is certain yet and we are still carrying on negotiations with the other party."

Edison Chen wants to get murdered for a legendary death; Faeces Thrown at Edison at Xmas party

1/02/2010 12:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

The other day, Edison Chen accepted magazine "GQ" exclusive interview and reveals that he "hopes to have a legendary death". He said: "maybe it sounds stupid, but I want to get killed, I don't care what method is used, on the street getting robbed or that I'm too old to walk and have to lay in the hospital then someone comes to pull my oxygen support out. I don't think this person would have a legendary death, but I want to die a legend. My death is part of my story."

Edison used "this issue" to describe the Artist Photo Scandal. He said: "If there was not this incident, I will become a megalomaniac at age 35, not knowing what is happening in the outside world, not understanding how life is. I am very happy to have this opportunity to stop and think, what is life, what is lifestyle. Through this incident, I learned who are my real friends, who are my so-called friends. Actually, I am a simple person, money does not represent everything, but I still love money. In Hong Kong, I can earn millions in a month, but in the U.S, just a few thousands could be happiness. I was thinking in life, is money making me happy? Or is it love that is making me happy? The answer is love is making me happy."

Recently, it was rumored online that when Edison held his low-profile birthday party at some hotel, a 20+ year old male threw manure at them. However, his management already denied this and said that Edison was not in Hong Kong.

Faeces Thrown at Edison at Xmas party



Hong Kong Actor Edison Chen, whose pictures in various compromising positions with several female stars circulated in the Internet last year, had faeces thrown at him at a Christmas party in Hong Kong.

Sin Chew Daily reported that a man held a bucket of faeces and went up to the stage hoping to empty it on him.

Fortunately, Chen saw it coming and managed to quickly move aside.

He ended up with only drops of faeces on his clothes.

The incident shook the Chinese entertainment world just like the exposure of Chen's sex photos scandal last year. The man was arrested.

Video games outsell movies in U.K.

1/02/2010 12:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments

In the last year, consumers spent more money on video games in Britain than on films, including both trips to movie theaters and films on DVD, new figures compiled for U.K.'s Daily Telegraph indicate.

In the 12 months leading up to the end of September, 1.73 billion British pounds (about $2.8 billion) were spent on video games, according to data-monitoring company GFK Chart-Track. The U.K. Film Council said 1 billion British pounds ($1.6 billion) were spent at the British box office during the same period, with an additional 198 million British pounds ($320 million) spent on films released on DVD and Blu-ray.

U.K. video games: 1.73 billion pounds ($2.8 billion)
U.K. film: 1.198 billion pounds ($1.93 billion)

This means that approximately 532 million pounds ($860 million) more was spent on video games in 2009, roughly 30 percent more than on films. And while 1.73 billion pounds is impressive, it's still well shy of the $20 billion predicted for U.S. game sales in 2009. In fact, the U.S. spent $2.7 billion on games in November 2009 alone.

Video games, by no means a niche in the U.K, or most other parts of the world, are obviously big business and these statistics clearly show that the growth in new forms of digital entertainment specifically available via a computer or game console is having a major impact on more traditional forms of entertainment.

Contributing to the success of gaming in the U.K. were price cuts to jump-start sales, as well as tie-ins to supermarkets, greatly expanding the potential number of buyers and targeting gamers at the check-out stand, according to The Daily Telegraph. Further, Amazon.co.uk reported that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the No. 1 seller for 2009, beating out DVDs of "Harry Potter" and "Twilight."

The industry data compiled by GFK Chart-Track also shows that the number of games consoles being used in Britain nearly doubled in 2009 to 25 million which means there are enough consoles for nine out of every ten households in the country to have one.

According to the report, only television--including DVDs of television shows, along with the cost of the license and satellite subscriptions--and music are bigger forms of entertainment.

Jake Gyllenhaal ‘Trying to Win Back Reese Witherspoon’

1/02/2010 12:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Jake Gyllenhaal is desperately trying to win back Reese Witherspoon.

According to In Touch Weekly magazine, Jake has been buying Reese expensive gifts in the hope she’ll take him back.

The actor reportedly splashed out $75,000 on vintage dinnerware from France for Reese’s home in Ojai, Calif.

Gyllenhaal has also been bombarding the Legally Blond star with e-mails and flowers.

“He isn’t giving up without a fight,” a source said.

It was previously reported that the pair split because Reese — who is divorced from hunky actor Ryan Phillippe – didn’t want to get married.

“As much as everyone thinks they’re right there, they’re really not near the whole marriage thing,” a source said in December.

“Jake would marry her tomorrow, but Reese doesn’t want to go there yet, even though he would like to.

“There’s a huge attraction between them, and they’ve becomes a team, partners, but Jake can be a little overbearing at times, and Reese is really happy with life right now. Why screw that up or change a good thing?”

G-Dragon caught red-handed after a wild night?

1/02/2010 12:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

G-Dragon of Big Bang was recently spotted with odd scars, leading people to speculate that he might be interested in some naughty things.


The above photo, taken at one of many year end ceremonies, got people talking with obvious scar marks on G Dragon's chest. Some netizens jokingly suggested that only a girl's fingernails can leave such marks, leading many to come up with stories on things that we should not describe to our younger readers. The star's past antics, such as sporting clothes with sexual symbols and performing naughty acts in a concert, did not help with netizens' wild fantasies about him and his scar.

More sensible netizens, however, appear to have agreed that the scars must have come from Gaho, G Dragon's Shar Pei.

The beautiful Kung Fu Sidekick

1/02/2010 12:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

The Treasure Hunter might star a charismatic Jay Chou as a gungho hero. But it's Taiwanese eye candy Lin Chiling who shines most brightly

In the movie, 35-year-old model-actress Lin Chiling plays Lan Ting, the clingy sidekick and childhood love of archaeologist protagonist Qiao Fei (Jay Chou).

Time and again, she gets rescued by the gungho hero who goes around the desert kicking grave plunderers' butts, so that he can return artefacts to their rightful owners.

In reality, it's probably Chiling's looks that will save this movie, which opens here today, from becoming a $21-million disaster.

After all, the combination of megastars and a colossal budget means expectations will be high.

Too bad these megastars are known more for their celebrity hijinks than acting chops.

In other words, The Treasure Hunter will probably fall short of meeting these expectations.

Perhaps director Kevin Chu was counting on Chiling's natural allure. She has been hailed by Taiwan media as the sexiest model on the island.

Well, she does ooze sex appeal onscreen.

The way the buxom beauty clings onto the 30-year-old Jay will appeal to males who may envision themselves as a hero saving a damsel in distress.

(The artificial sandstorms and ugly baddies on horses add to the hero fantasy too.)

Chiling also exercised her singing chops when she recorded the film's ending theme, Take Me Flying - in her famous girlish voice, of course.

She even penned its lyrics, with multi-hyphenate Jay writing the tune.

Kudos to the 1.74m-tall actress for shattering her image as a 'vase', or an ornament, as the Chinese metaphor goes.

The Chinese media had given her that moniker after she played Tony Leung's demure wife in the two-part Red Cliff in 2008 and 2009.

To film The Treasure Hunter, she had to brave the scenic yet harsh Mongolian desert for more than two months.

Sometimes, she went without a shower for two days.

Sand was everywhere, in the crew's food, in their tents. Chiling even had her face scraped by flying sand when the wind picked up.

But she told the local media it was 'all good fun' when she, Jay and Kevin flew into town last week to promote the movie.

She also performed all her own fighting scenes. (Jay did more than 90 per cent of his action stunts.)

In one particular scene, Chiling leapt on Jay's shoulders and wrapped her legs around him, as he swung her around like a rag doll.

She also wielded a spear in the movie.

Beefed up role

Pretty impressive for someone with no prior training in martial arts.

'My greatest regret is not preparing myself sufficiently before filming started,' she told FiRST.

She had to learn her stunts on the set.

Why so unprepared? Apparently, it's because her fighting role was only beefed up halfway into filming.

On the last-minute changes, director Kevin explained: 'Her potential in shooting action scenes surprised me so I increased the number of her fighting scenes.'

And although Chiling's terrified of horses - she fell off one in 2005 while filming an advertisement - she gamely shot a scene which had dozens of horsemen attacking her and Jay while they escape on a motorcycle.

'I was really afraid, so I begged Jay to ride faster. That wasn't in the original script,' she said.

Ah, no wonder there was a look of genuine fear on her face as she clung on to her co-star during the shoot.

The way she tossed her tresses in the wind - shampoo-ad style - and how she put her face on Jay's leather-clad shoulders gave new meaning to the term 'in hot pursuit'.

So the chemistry sizzled between the stars then?

Not really.

While Chiling and Jay claimed they share an excellent rapport - he had taken her on desert drives to secluded places to talk about 'personal stuff' in between shoots - don't expect first-class acting from them.

How bad is it? Let's just say other cast members like Chinese actor Chen Daoming and Hong Kong veteran Eric Tsang were more expressive.

Even the CGI-created demons showed more facial expressions than these onscreen lovebirds.

Lan Ting's sadness over the loss of her father, tragically, wasn't convincing at all.

And while Kevin praised Jay for his martial arts prowess (coached by top Hong Kong action choreographer Tony Ching), no number of high kicks can compensate for Jay's deadpan acting, which we have seen in his other films such as Initial D, Secret and Kung Fu Dunk.

Perhaps Jay was just being himself? Again.

Not that his gongfu moves are that great anyway.

Pitted against heroes of recent action flicks, Jay's skills would probably get thumped by Donnie Yen's ability (Bodyguards And Assassins) and Rain's abs (Ninja Assassin).

Even the vampires and werewolves from The Twilight Saga: New Moon would beat The Treasure Hunter, and that's just on their growls alone.

We can only hope that Jay, who's currently playing Kato, a superhero's sidekick in a re-make of The Green Hornet, will pick up a trick or two from gongfu icon Bruce Lee, who first played that role.

Yet, something is more disturbing than sub-par acting in The Treasure Hunter - like the director's poor memory.

In our interview with him, we asked 57-year-old Kevin whether he finds his film similar to past Hollywood adventure flicks.

He said in Mandarin: 'How can that be?

'I don't think they fought a mummy in a desert.'

Er, Brendan Fraser did that in The Mummy in 1999 - and its two sequels in 2001 and 2008, we reminded Kevin.

KAT-TUN Kamenashi Encountered Earth Quake when Wearing Nothing but Pants!

1/02/2010 12:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

From the drama "Kami no Shizuku", the musical "DREAM BOYS" to the movie "GOKUSEN (THE MOVIE)", KAT-TUN member Kazuya Kamenashi seemed to be more active as solo than in the group in 2009. Though he had rare private time, he revealed the "TOP3 Major Private Events" in the radio program "Kase by Kase of Kazuya Kamenashi". He had a lot of fun in playing golf in Okinawa during the concert, going to hot spring trip with parents, and playing baseball as a professional player. You may know the first and third one from musicJAPANplus news. But what's episode of his hot spring trip?

A few days ago, Kamenashi visited his parents in the suburb when attending relative's wedding ceremony. Because the relative liked the opening song "YOU" of the drama "Suppli" by KAT-TUN, Kamenashi was supposed to sing the song at the end of the ceremony as a surprise. His parents left the hotel earlier to the wedding venue, and Kamenashi can put on his outfit at leisure. However... "It was 3p.m. and we were living on the 7th floor. I just brushed my teeth and took a bath in the hot spring. The hotel was quite old...and all of a sudden, a seismic intensity 3 earth quake occurred! The building shook a lot when I was brushing the teeth and washing my face! I was really scared." Just as he said, on the 7th floor of an old building, it will shake quite severely under the seismic intensity 3 earth quake! The problem is Kamenashi was only wearing a pair of pants and was totally not prepared! So he learned a lesson from the incident: "You should put on your clothes even when you wash your face, so that you can flee as soon as possible!" That's right but...it seems he is a little bit out of focus...(laugh) It is heartwarming for a steady person like Kamenashi emphasize on such a thing, isn't it?

By the way, about one month ago, in the same program, Kamenashi said: "Of course it is different from standing in front of the guests, in the spotlight with KAT-TUN's style. I was very nervous when I was told to sing a song on wedding ceremony!" I really want to know how everything went about the surprise plan!

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