Sunday, October 26, 2008

Catherine Zeta jones to play Cleopatra

The Oscar winning star of Chicago is to play the Egyptian queen in the upcoming $30 million 3D Hollywood epic Cleo.

Hugh Jackman, the Australian actor who starred in the X Men, is in talks to play her Roman lover Mark Antony.
The film, which is Hollywood's first attempt at a musical based on the life of two of history's most famous lovers, will be directed by Steven Soderbergh, who made his debut with Sex, Lies and Videotapes, and will feature a soundtrack by the punk band Guided by Voices.

Zeta-Jones, 39, astounded fans and critics when she revealed her musical skills in the Oscar winning 2002 big screen adaptation of Chicago.

The Welsh born actress, who co-starred in the musical film opposite Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger, won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as the gun-toting Velma Kelly.

The definitive film of Cleopatra's life remains the 1963 version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Actors with Top 10 Albums Ever

Chart Watch Extra: The Acts With The Most Top 10 Albums, Ever


Bob Dylan lands his 18th top 10 album on The Billboard 200 this week as Tell TaleSigns: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 enters the chart at #6. Only five artists have amassed more top 10 albums sinceBillboard published its first album chart (a top 10 listing) in March 1945.

A total of 14 artists have accumulated 15 or more top 10 albums since 1945. The list includes many of the greatest stars in recording history. Most of these acts are still adding to their totals. Twelve have had top 10 albums within the last five years. Ten have reached the top 10 within just the last two years.

Frank Sinatra is the act with the most top 10 albums (40) and also the act with the longest span of top 10 albums (62 years). Ol' Blue Eyes landed his first top 10 album in the first year of Harry S. Truman's presidency. He landed his most recent in the last year of George W. Bush's.

I counted only albums that made the top 10 on The Billboard 200, not on such lower-profile charts as Top Catalog Albums or Top Christmas Albums. I counted each album just once, no matter how many times it hit the top 10. Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas cracked the top 10 in 13 different holiday seasons between 1945 and 1960. That's a great feat, but it's still just one top 10 album. (I'm happy to report that "Der Bingle" made the list anyway.)

Here's a list of all acts that have had 15 or more top 10 albums from March 1945 to this week. I broke ties by listing the acts in order of the longest span of top 10 albums.

1. Frank Sinatra, 40. Sinatra landed his first top 10 album in March 1946 with The Voice Of Frank Sinatra. He landed his most recent in May with the compilation Nothing But The Best. Sinatra's first seven top 10 albums were released prior to the inception of Billboard's weekly album chart in March 1956. Sinatra's tally includes a 1963 collaboration with jazz legend Count Basie, as well as a classic live album, Sinatra At The Sands, which Basie conducted. Sinatra landed 14 consecutive top 10 albums between Come Fly With Me in 1958 and Sinatra & Strings in 1962 (discounting a compilation released by a former label). Sinatra received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1965 and a Kennedy Center Honor in 1983. He died in 1998 at age 82.

2. The Rolling Stones, 36. The Stones have had the most top 10 albums of any group, any rock act, and any non-American act in recording history. The band's first album, England's NewestHitmakers/The Rolling Stones, peaked at #11, but its next 26 albums all made the top 10. That remarkable streak began with12 x 5 in December 1964 and ran throughEmotional Rescue in July 1980. The band landed its most recent top 10 album, A Bigger Bang, in September 2005. The Stones' top 10 tally includes five live albums. The Stones received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1986. They were voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

3. The Beatles, 30. The Fab Four's debut album, Meet The Beatles!, made the top 10 in February 1964 on the strength of the earth-shaking single, "I Want To Hold Your Hand." The group's most recent top 10 album was Love in December 2006. The Beatles' top 10 tally includes soundtracks to the movies A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be and the British TV special Magical Mystery Tour. The Beatles made the top 10 with 23 consecutive albums from Meet The Beatles! through The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl in 1977 (discounting seven minor releases and oddities). The group won a Grammy Trustees Award in 1972. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

4. Barbra Streisand, 29. Streisand has had more top 10 albums than any other woman in recording history. The diva's debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album, made the top 10 in July 1963. Her most recent album to hit the mark wasLive In Concert 2006, which scored in May 2007. Streisand's top 10 tally includes the Broadway cast album toFunny Girl, soundtracks to two acclaimed TV specials (My Name Is Barbra andColor Me Barbra) and soundtracks to three movies (Funny Lady, A Star Is Bornand Yentl). Streisand received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. She is set to receive a Kennedy Center Honor at the ceremony to be taped on Dec. 7 for broadcast later in the month. (Note to Kennedy Center Honor voters: It's about frickin' time.)

5. Elvis Presley, 27. Presley topped the chart with his eponymous debut album in May 1956. He landed his most recent top 10 album, Elvis: 2nd To None, in October 2003. Presley's tally of top 10 albums includes his holiday perennial, Elvis' Christmas Album. It also includes soundtracks from 11 movies, stretching from Loving You in 1957 through Harum Scarum in 1965, and three TV specials, including his legendary 1968 comeback special. Presley reached the top 10 with 14 consecutive albums from Elvis Is Back! in 1960 to Harum Scarum(discounting a sacred album). Presley received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1971, six years before he died at age 42. He was in the first class of artists voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

6. Bob Dylan, 18. Dylan landed his first top 10 album, Bringing It All Back Home, in May 1965. The album spawned his first Hot 100 hit, "Subterranean Homesick Blues." He's back in the top 10 this week with the latest installment of his long-running The Bootleg Series. Dylan's tally includes three collaborations with The Band, including the double-live Before The Flood. (It doesn't include two top 10 albums he recorded with the all-starTraveling Wilburys, because they weren't marketed as Dylan albums.) Dylan was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1997.

7. Paul McCartney, 17. McCartney's post-Beatles tally includes eight solo albums, eight albums credited to his group Wings and one album on which he shared billing with his late wifeLinda McCartney. McCartney's eponymous solo debut album made the top 10 in May 1970. His most recent top 10 entry was Memory Almost Full in June 2007. McCartney's top 10 tally includes two live albums:  Wings Over America,which chronicled the group's heralded 1976 tour, and Back In The U.S. Live 2002. McCartney received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. He was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. He was announced as one of the Kennedy Center Honors recipients in 2002, but he backed out citing personal obligations. They said he'd get the honor the following year. That was six years ago. C'mon, Kennedy Center Honors voters. Let it be.

8. Madonna, 17. Madonna is second only to Barbra Streisand as the female artist with the most top 10 albums--and Streisand had a two-decade head-start. Madonna's hit-laden debut album cracked the top 10 in October 1984. Her most recent album, Hard Candy, hit #1 in May. Madonna reached the top 10 with 11 consecutive albums from Like A Prayer in 1989 through American Life in 2003 (discounting a belated single-disk version of Evita). Her tally includes three albums that reflect her checkered Hollywood career-the soundtracks to Who's That Girl and Evita and an album (I'm Breathless) that was concocted to capitalize on her role in Dick Tracy. Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March.

9. Elton John, 16. Elton's eponymous breakthrough album hit the top 10 in January 1971, on the strength of his classic hit, "Your Song." His most recent top 10 album was Rocket Man-Number Ones in April 2007.Elton was on fire in the mid-‘70s. He had 11 consecutive top 10 albums from Madman Across The Water in 1972 through Blue Moves in 1976. Elton's tally doesn't include The Lion King soundtrack from 1994, which he composed and for which he recorded three songs, because it wasn't marketed as an Elton album. Elton was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004.

10. Johnny Mathis, 16. Mathis is the only African American with 15 or more top 10 albums. The suave balladeer made the top 10 with his first 12 albums, fromWonderful Wonderful in 1957 to The Rhythms And Ballads Of Broadway in 1960. He landed his most recent top 10 album, You Light Up My Life, in June 1978. (It spawned his #1 hit, "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late," a duet with Deniece Williams.) Mathis' most successful album was Johnny's Greatest Hits, which remained on the chart for 490 weeks, second only to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon. Mathis' tally also includes Merry Christmas, which made the top 10 in every holiday season from 1958 through 1960. Mathis received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

11. Neil Diamond, 15. Diamond landed his first top 10 album, Neil Diamond/Gold, in September 1970. It was recorded at the fabled Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles. He landed his most recent top 10 album (and his first #1) in May withHome Before Dark. Diamond had 10 consecutive top 10 albums from Moods in 1972 through The Jazz Singer in 1980 (discounting four compilations released on old labels). Three of Diamond's top 10 albums are live albums. Two are soundtracks to movies that bombed at the box-office: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which he scored, and The Jazz Singer, in which he starred.

12. Bruce Springsteen, 15. Springsteen landed his first top 10 album,Born To Run, in September 1975, five weeks before he famously appeared on the covers ofTIME andNewsweeksimultaneously. He landed his most recent in October 2007 when Magic hit #1. Two of Springsteen's top 10 albums are live albums with the E Street Band: the five-disk Live/1975-1985 and the double-disk Live In New York City, recorded in 2000. Springsteen had 10 consecutive top 10 albums from Born To Run through Greatest Hits in 1995. The biggest of all was Born In The U.S.A., which logged 84 weeks in the top 10. Springsteen was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

13. George Strait, 15. Strait has amassed more top 10 albums on TheBillboard 200 than any other country artist in history. (Garth Brooks is in second place, with 14.) Strait also started his top 10 tally more recently than any other artist on this list. The Texan landed his first top 10 album, the Pure Countrysoundtrack, in November 1992. He landed his most recent in April when Troubadourhit #1. Strait was voted into the Country Music Assn.'s Hall of Fame in 2006.


14. Bing Crosby, 15. Crosby landed his first top 10 album, Going My Way, in October 1945. He landed his 15th, White Christmas, in late 1954. Both of these releases were soundtracks to Crosby movies, as were five of his other top 10 albums. White Christmas was Crosby's 15th consecutive top 10 album-and his last new release to make the top 10. The emergence of rock'n'roll made the genial crooner suddenly seem old. Crosby's tally includes two albums that also featured entertainer Danny Kaye. In 1962, Crosby became the first recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Crosby would surely have received a Kennedy Center Honor, but he died in 1977, one year before the awards were initiated. He was 74.

 

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Now For The Fun Part: I didn't combine group and solo releases (except for McCartney's post-Beatles output, which was part of one continuous flow). If I hadcombined group and solo releases, the individual Beatles would hold down four of the top six spots on this list. McCartney would top the list with 47 top 10 albums.George Harrison would have 38; John Lennon, 37; and Ringo Starr, 32.

Harrison's tally in this alternate, all-inclusive list includes the 30 top 10 Beatles albums, plus five solo albums, the all-star The Concert For Bangla Desh (which he organized and fronted) and two Traveling Wilburys albums. Lennon's tally includes the 30 Beatles albums, plus three solo albums, three albums billed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and one collaboration with his wife, Yoko Ono. Ringo's tally includes the 30 Beatles albums and his two top 10 solo albums.

Three other musicians would have made the list if I had combined group and solo releases. Since these acts, unlike the Beatles, weren't already on the list, I'm going to give them their due here:

Robert Plant, 19. Plant's tally includes 12 albums with Led Zeppelin, one with theHoneydrippers, three solo albums, two collaborations with Jimmy Page, and one with Alison Krauss. Plant first made the top 10 with Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut in May 1969. His most recent album to hit the top 10 was Zeppelin'sMothership in November 2007. Plant made the top 10 with 13 consecutive albums from Led Zeppelin to the Honeydrippers'Volume One in November 1984. Led Zeppelin was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. The group received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.


Eric Clapton, 17. Clapton's tally includes 11 solo albums, four albums with Cream, one with Blind Faith and one collaboration with B.B. King. Clapton first made the top 10 with Cream's Disraeli Gears in January 1968. He scored most recently in April 2004 with Me And Mr. Johnson, his tribute to blues legendRobert Johnson. Clapton's most successful album was Unplugged, which logged 38 weeks in the top 10 in 1992-1993. Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times, as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992, as a member of Cream in 1993 and as a solo artist in 2000. Cream received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.



Jimmy Page, 16. Page's tally includes 12 albums with Led Zeppelin, one with the Honeydrippers, two collaborations withRobert Plant and one with DavidCoverdale. Led Zeppelin reached the top 10 with its first 10 albums, from Led Zeppelin in May 1969 to Coda in December 1982. For all this success, Page has yet to reach the top 10 as a solo artist. His highest-charting solo album was Outrider, which hit #26 in 1988.


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Holly Madison lost her boyfriend.

Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison seemed to be making the most of her newfound freedom as she attended Sunday night's 5th Annual Hollywood Style Awards ... but she didn't look so happy to be hanging out with her potential replacement.

















Madison showed up to the event alongside one of the busty blonde twins now rumored to be romantically involved with the Playboy founder (although an insider told us that Madison "can't stand" her).

The girls kept to themselves for most of the event and Madison seemed particularly miserable, although she's obviously cashing in on her "Girls Next Door" fame for as long as possible with a string of hosting gigs lined up over the coming weeks.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Lisa Marie Presley gives birth to twins

Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces.

This Dec. 6, 2007, file photo file photo shows Lisa Marie Presley ...

A statement released Saturday says Presley gave birth by Caesarean section. She lives in the Los Angeles area and the publicist says the births took place somewhere on the West Coast but won't provide details.


Lisa Marie Presley - 2007 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Awards Party


The statement says "babies and mom are happy and healthy and resting at home."

Presley is the daughter of Elvis Presley and is married to music producer Michael Lockwood. She has a 19-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son by a previous marriage.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Angelina Jolie supports Obama

Angelina Jolie isn't giving away who she's backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.


The actress and activist tells the German edition of Vanity Fair that the Democratic contender for president comes down on the same side of several issues that she does.

Asked if she finds Obama and his background an example to her family, she replies, "Naturally that's good, but it's not a sufficient reason to vote for him.

"Obama fights for international justice, he wants to militarily intervene in cases of genocide, and close Guantanamo Bay. These are the things that could move me to vote for him, not his roots."

She then adds, "Naturally, an American president like Barack Obama would be nice for my family."

Jolie and actor Brad Pitt are parents to six children, three of whom were adopted from other nations — Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Obama's family similarly has members from different countries: his mother is American and his late father was Kenyan.

Jolie's father, Jon Voight, has campaigned for Republican candidate John McCain.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Ashley and Zac: Like Sister and Brother

Even though Zac Efron sets many tween girls' hearts aflutter, he just doesn't do it for his "High School Musical" costar Ashley Tisdale.

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"I've never been attracted to Zac, and he's never been attracted to me -- which is even more amazing!" laughs Ashley in the November issue of Seventeen. The 23-year-old actress tells the mag that she has more of a sibling relationship with the "Hairspray" hottie. "He's seriously like my brother." That's a good thing since her BFF Vanessa Hudgens has been dating Zac for a couple of years!
Ashley notes that in her business she's "always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron," so when it comes to picking a boy to date she looks for "someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene."

High School Musical, with Zac Efron as Troy and Vanessa Anne Hudgens as Gabriella, foreground, is a big hit with ages 9-14.  

Luckily, she's found that someone in her musician beau Jared Murillo. 

Of course, even when you're in a relationship you can still have boy problems, and when an issue arises Ashley admits she turns to Zac. "It's cool to have someone who's completely honest with you, who can give you a guy's opinion," she shares. "I know I can call him whenever."
 



 
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Jennifer Lopez in Malibu triathlon

Jennifer Lopez truly inspired us by finishing this year's Malibu triathlon in an impressive 2 hours and 23 minutes.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Britney Spears ready for trial in driving licence case

Troubled pop singer Britney Spears is ready to go on trial to clear her name for allegedly driving without a California license, her lawyer J. Michael Flanagan said in court on Wednesday.

Singer Britney Spears, seen in September 2008, speaks at the ...

By turning down a prosecution offer of one year's probation and a 150-dollar (110-euro) fine, Spears, 26, should be able to simply pay a fine and show the violation has been corrected, Flanagan told the court in the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles.

Britney Spears opens the show at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards ...

The charge stems from an August 6, 2007, fender-bender in a parking lot that was caught on video and in pictures by photographers who trail the "Baby One More Time" chart-topper whenever she ventures out in public.

Singer Britney Spears walks on stage at the 2008 MTV Video Music ...

Spears held a driving license from her native Louisiana at the time, even though she had been resident in California since at least May 2006 and was thus legally obliged to hold a California permit.

Her trial is scheduled for October 15.

Spears -- who hit rock bottom in January when she was twice rushed to hospital for psychiatric treatment after losing lost custody of her two young sons -- hopes to get her career back on track with a new album due out in December.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Bond Girl with 2 extra fingers

Bond girls have long been exceptional women.

From Ursula Andress to Halle Berry, they have each embodied the feminine ideal of their particular time. Gemma Arterton, the statuesque stunner who plays Agent Fields in next month's Quantum of Solace, has proven herself to be exceptional not only for her English Rose beauty, but also because she was born with six fingers on each hand."It's my little oddity that I'm really proud of," she said to Esquire magazine. "It makes me different." 


Different indeed. The condition, called Polydactyly, occurs in 1 of every 500 births.Don't bother looking for additional digits in the film, though. As a child, the surplus digits were "tied," which causes the boneless protrusions to fall off with time. She still bares bumpy scars where her extra appendages once were.Earlier this year, she revealed that she was also born with a crumpled ear, which was surgically corrected in childhood. "I was born with lots of deformities," the 22-year-old actress told the British press. 

Arterton, a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who was best known for a BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," beat out 1,500 contenders to become the latest Bond girl. She admitted to InStyle magazine that having to kiss Daniel Craig on her first day working on the film had her "giggling left, right, and center and being really immature."


Next up for Arterton is the movie adaptation of the videogame Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, coming the summer of 2010. To see more of the genetically unusual but undeniably extraordinary future star, watch the behind-the-scenes video from "Quantum of Solace" below.


Gemma Arterton\'s extra finger
The latest Bond girl, Gemma Arterton,  who will play Agent Fields in the upcoming Quantum of Solace, tells Esquire magazine that she used to have six fingers.
After undergoing an operation to have them removed, she still has bumpy scars as reminders of her extra digits.
The extra fingers were ‘tied’, which causes them to fall off naturally.
She tells Esquire magazine: ‘It’s my little oddity that I’m really proud of. It makes me different.’
Earlier this year, she revealed she was also born with a crumpled ear, which was corrected through surgery.
She said: ‘I was born with lots of deformities.’
This revelation brings to mind only one question. If Gemma still had those sixth fingers and she lifted them high in the air whenever she drank tea, would that make her upper upper class?

Vanessa Hudgens Buys First Home For $2.75 Million

STUDIO CITY, Calif. -- Most 19-year-olds move out of their parents' house into a college dorm or possibly an apartment with roommates -- but not if you're "High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens -- she just bought her first home for $2,750,000.

In a real estate purchase that even Sharpay would approve of, Vanessa bought an old-world Tuscan style home in Studio City, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports.

The house, which reportedly includes a city lights view, has six bedrooms and six-and-a-half bathrooms in its sprawling 5,200 square feet.

Vanessa will have no problem working on her tan at her Pebble Tec pool and spa, that includes tropical waterfalls.

In addition to pool time, Vanessa can entertain her "HSM" pals at the home's cabana and barbecue island.

And in two years, when Vanessa turns the legal drinking age, she will be able to enjoy the wine cellar, complete with glass doors and Mexican wrought iron.

In making her impressive new purchase, it appears Vanessa benefited from the current housing slump. The two-story home was on the market for almost a year and was recently listed at $3,299,000.