3/11/2010 01:29:00 PM
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After a mostly lovely, yet still partly lame, ladies' night, it was the guys' turn to sing it out for a spot in American Idol's top 12.
Only a couple had performed with any consistency up to this point, so our hopes weren't high as we tuned in Wednesday to listen to the top eight gents.
Were our suspicions correct, or have we all been a bit hasty in judging the guys to be finished before they even really began?
Lee Dewyze: The fan favorite who redeemed guys' night last week kicked off the show with a slightly grittier version of the oh-so-contemporary "Fireflies." And Lee managed to make the song more appealing, with the tone of his husky voice proving a better fit than Owl City frontman Adam Young's nasal twang. "I think you actually made the song a better song," Kara DioGuardi said. "A strange song choice," Randy Jackson agreed, "but you kinda made it your own." Simon Cowell thought there was "nothing to rave about," but he wasn't too worried about Lee's future on the show.
The new film The Runaways is really all about "sex, drugs and rock and roll," as Joan Jett told us today at the Luxe Hotel for the film's junket. (Also, it's a must-see, totally cool.)
Let's hit sex first: We all know by now that stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning share a big wet kiss onscreen, but that isn't the only racy thing this film has to offer. With Dakota snorting drugs off the floor and spewing some foul language, it's clear this film is a huge departure from the squeaky-clean New Moon, where everyone's celibate and mopey.
Not exactly family fare here, folks.
So what do Stewart and Fanning's own parents think about their babies going at it onscreen? We asked:
How do your parents feel about watching you act out some of these sexual and drug-infested situations? Is it hard for them?
Dakota: "One of the first movies I ever did was a pretty intense subject matter, so my parents have kind of gotten used to it by now. They know it's just acting. They know it doesn't come home with me."
Kristen: [To Dakota.] "Do you find that it's gotten easier [for our parents]? Because I find that it has."
3/11/2010 01:27:00 PM
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As Remember Me hits theaters this Friday, Robert Pattinson continues to make the press rounds, and keeps making make himself sound like the anti-heartthrob. Wonder why?
In Parade, R.Pattz talks to Jeanne Wolf about being wimpy and lady-shy. Haven't we heard all this before?
Says that adorable Twilight star:
"When it comes to the opposite sex, I'm not as fully confident as the guy I play [in Remember Me]. I don't even remember the last time I asked someone out on a date, like, just went up to them and that's the first thing I did. I'm much more self-conscious and not wanting to fail. So I tend to hold back."
3/11/2010 01:26:00 PM
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When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 Series, the company said that the new OS would not support Flash 10.1 at launch.
However, Adobe recently mentioned that Flash support will eventually come to WP7, and now Mike Chambers (Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations at Adobe) has reconfirmed this. According to him, Adobe and Microsoft are “working closely together” to bring to Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series devices.
3/11/2010 01:22:00 PM
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Many fans may know that before she joined 2NE1, Sandara Park had another career in the Philippines. Before she made her debut in Korea, old racy photos surfaced onto the net as her unfortunate past came back to haunt her. Now after four long years, she finally speaks out about the event.
In a recent interview she said,
“I had the photoshoot because I wanted to show a brand new side of myself. To my knowledge, it was just supposed to be along the lines of a top and a skirt.”
3/11/2010 01:21:00 PM
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Yang Hyun Suk shocked us all when he revealed that he will marry his girlfriend of 9 years, but his newsletter also included other important news concerning the future agenda of his artists.
Building on the previous report that Flo-Rida will be featured in a new rendition of G-Dragon’s Heartbreaker, more information on this ironic turn of events has been unveiled.
Yang Hyun Suk said, “Flo-Rida, the subject of plagiarism controversies last summer, will be featured in G-Dragon’s ‘Heartbreaker’.”
He added, “Last September, it seemed like the publishing company was going to sue YG anytime soon. However, we have yet to hear a response from the original holder of the song. We were frustrated so we contacted Flo-Rida last October, and Flo-Rida decided to feature in G-Dragon’s ‘Heartbreaker’ in November.”
3/11/2010 01:21:00 PM
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After VanNess Wu was baptized, he offered nearly all his time to the Church; God was his top priority. Because of his dedication and promise of abstinence before marriage to God, now, not only does he feel uncomfortable all over when he films bed scenes, even when he simply recalls the images, he would get the chills and must remind himself, "It's not real!"
A few days ago, during his shoot for the Trendy Men section of Beauty 321, he spoke frankly about his faith bringing purification and peace to him. 2007 was the low-point in Van ness Wu's life. Despite being supported by the popularity of F4, he felt empty inside. As a result, he decided to find himself again, and only at that time did he discover that what put him farthest from God was sex.
VanNess stated, "I struggle a lot at first to not play around with women. In the beginning, the pastor told me to start slowly, and now I have promised God that I will observe abstinence before marriage. After the promise and his alteration, in separate years, VanNess achieved his goal of making music, holding concert, etc. More than once, during interviews, he has testified, "Give your faith to God and everything around you will succeed." VanNess also openly said that he was a "beast" before, but now, even though there are still women who take the initiative around him, he "sees them with different eyes."
3/11/2010 01:20:00 PM
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The rise of the iPhone OS-based iPad could be the beginning of the end for Apple's 26-year-old personal computer platform.
The Mac's greatest enemy may not be Microsoft Windows. It may be Apple itself. In a conversation at a Goldman Sachs technology conference, Apple COO Tim Cook said that Apple is a "mobile devices company," and that more devices will get the iPhone OS. A bit later, AT&T's CEO said the iPad would mostly be a Wi-Fi (read: home) product rather than something you tote around and use on the street.
This jibes with something I've been thinking about Apple: if it could do the Mac all over again, it would use the iPhone OS. Don't think of the iPad as a big iPod touch. Think of it, rather, as the new Mac—a new mode of home-based computing that Apple hopes will bubble up through its product line.
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