I really shouldn’t come out against OK! Magazine. They’re trying, they’re doing their best to be both an ass-kissing budget People Mag, while still retaining the cheap, cheesiness of a tabloid like Star Magazine. OK does get some exclusives, mostly from Kendra Wilkinson and the Kardashians, and occasionally they break a decent story. But I’ve been hearing for months that OK is on the verge of bankruptcy, and that there isn’t enough money coming in to support this schizophrenic half-tabloid/half-celebrity-ass-kiss magazine. So how, I wonder, are they going to get $1 million for Lindsay Lohan’s interview?

That’s right. According to many sources, Lindsay has sold her first post-jail/post-rehab interview to OK Magazine. For $1 million! Oh, this crackhead.

Lindsay Lohan has been offered $1 million for her first post-jail interview by OK! magazine, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter. She is also set to collect a slew of appearance fees and paychecks for stories of her time inside.

The first interview could come sooner than expected as Lindsay is set for an early release from rehab, possibly later this week. She left jail and entered rehab on August 2 and was supposed to stay for 90 days.

Doctors reportedly think her drug and psychiatric problems require less inpatient care than previously thought, but a judge will have to sign off on an early release from her rehab sentence.

While Lindsay will be shooting two low-budget films (‘Inferno’ and ‘Machete’) after rehab, her real source of income will be non-film work, sources tell THR. Just before her incarceration, Lindsay shot a series of Facebook greeting card messages and did several nearly-nude photo shoots.

She also tweeted ads for money and did a paid milkshake shop appearance.

[From Huffington Post]

And that’s what all of this has been about – Lindsay needs to make some money. Lindsay needs to hustle. The crackhead is doing fine, according to Mother Crackhead, just as long as the money keeps coming in. Speaking of Mother Crackhead, I would love to know how she’s been supporting herself in this past year. Lindsay hasn’t had that much money coming in, and I have no idea if she’s been paying Dina’s bills all this time.

By the way, you know that Lindsay was keeping a Jailhouse Crackhead Diary too, right? And that some tabloid is probably going to publish it. It’s going to be epic, you know.

My favorite photos of Lindsay ever, from October 2009. Credit: WENN.

Boo hoo for Chris Brown. He’s getting more hard knocks, thanks to all of us bitching ferociously about him getting to perform on Good Morning America. Especially after they’d canceled Adam Lambert’s scheduled performance for his questionable stage antics. Brown has been pulled from the morning show altogether, which is sort of good. And he won’t get to sing and dance and promote his career. The bad news is he’s been moved to 20/20, which could conceivably get him even more viewers. But it’s supposedly a serious “tell-all” interview, and Brown won’t get to plug his music and bounce around on stage like everything’s just fine and he’s a decent guy.

ABC had a change of heart over the weekend and will not let R&B singer Chris Brown sing next week on “Good Morning America.” Instead, Brown has agreed to “come clean” in a primetime interview about what happened the night he beat up former girlfriend Rhianna, according to reports,

The network was bitterly criticized last week after it canceled a performance by flamboyant “Idol” star Adam Lambert on “GMA” — following his raunchy performance on the American Music Awards show — then announced plans for Brown to promote his latest CD with a live show on the program.

When Brown appeared recently on “Larry King Live” and afternoon talk show “Wendy Williams” to apologize for the incident, he sidestepped questions about what happened last February on the night before the Grammy awards when Rhianna, battered and bruised, walked into an LA police station.

Now, he is promising to give details of the incident in an “in-depth interview” with “GMA” host Robin Roberts set to air on “20/20″ Dec. 11. His appearance follows by a month Rhianna’s shocking interview with Diane Sawyer on the same show that drew nearly 9 million viewers, unusually high for a news show.

On that show, Rhianna admitted she was “embarrassed” that she had gone back to Brown shortly after the beating and entertained the idea of a reconciliation. The interview with Brown — which is being billed as his reply to Rhianna — was taped over the weekend, according to reports. ABC did not say why it canceled its original plan to air a Brown interview and stage a short concert only on its morning show and move it to primetime — without the music.

[From the New York Post]

Well sure, obviously they couldn’t say, “We made such a bad decision that everyone freaked out so we had to do something more responsible!” Thus… no comment. I doubt this’ll be Chris Brown’s mea culpa. I doubt he has one in him. I mean the jackass has proven time and time again that he doesn’t think he did anything wrong, and he thinks it’s worthy of mockery. Oh, and let’s not forget how it’s our fault he doesn’t seem sorry. The only – only – thing that might ever make him have just a teeny, tiny sliver of doubt that maybe he wasn’t totally justified in beating the sh*t out of Rihanna are the consequences to his career. Which is why it’s so important that people continue to boycott Brown until he’s genuinely sorry. Or the end of time. Whichever comes first. Sadly, my money is on the end of time.

As much as the Post tried to make it sound like Brown will reveal some of the details of the event or actually tell the truth about what was going through his head, I don’t believe it. Once a temperamental asshole, always a temperamental asshole. It may take a long time, but I truly believe Chris Brown will eventually feel the repercussions. Even if it just means he ends up broke. At least he can sell that $300,000 “Oops!” necklace. That was a smart investment for the future.

Former “Full House” star – and former drug addict – Jodie Sweetin had an interesting interview on “The Today Show” this morning to promote her new book “Unsweetined.” What was most interesting about Jodie’s interview was what was lacking. She seemed nonchalant to the point of flippant throughout the entire thing. There were certainly moments where it was more shocking than others – like when she was talking about not being clean and sober since she’s been a mother. She just says it so casually. She talks about hardcore drugs the same way, and Matt Lauer has to interrupt her to clarify that she’s not talking about pot or other commonly used drugs, she’s talking about meth and cocaine. And the response is still just a very casual “sure” type of thing.

She never once struck me as being dishonest, but I always find it strange when people talk about serious, unusual things in a flippant way. Like in high school, didn’t everyone have a few overly-dramatic friends that did that for attention? It’s always struck me as a way to startle people by not just saying it, but acting like it’s no big deal. Which is very much what seems to be going down in Jodie’s interview.

Jodie also seems to try to explain or possibly excuse all those years she spent lying about being clean and sober. She said that her stint in rehab was revealed “not of [her] choosing,” and that it basically forced her to admit what she’d gone through before she was ready.

“When it first came out that I had gone to rehab and that I was trying to get things together, it wasn’t of my own choosing that that story came out, and I don’t think I was in a place at that point in my life to really do what it took to be honest and to get to a place where what I was saying was actually true and that I was actually living by those principles in my life.”

[Transcribed from the Today Show]

I’ve always been rooting for Jodie. But frankly, I was a bit disappointed, and I had thought she had her act together a little better than this. At the end of the interview she talks about how “everyone has to go through these things” – and I think she means personal struggles. But the way she phrases it, it seems like she’s just trying to act like meth and coke addiction is something that’s really common to struggle with. And that’s just not the case. I’m not saying it’s necessary for her to ostracize herself, but combined with her shoulder-shrugging, no-big-deal attitude, I didn’t feel like she had the self-awareness or insight I’d expect to see in someone who’s made a true and lasting commitment to sobriety.

This morning we were treated to a lovely “pity me” explanation from Jon Gosselin regarding his terribly selfish and juvenile behavior in the last several months. Now Kate’s getting her turn, though it’s not in response to Jon’s comments. And as far as I know, Kate has yet to align herself with a celebrity rabbi, though I’m sure those dudes over at the Kabbalah Centre are just chomping at the bit over her.

Kate had a sit-down with The Today Show’s Natalie Morales, and gave a one-hour interview that’s going to air on TLC (the same station that aired “Jon & Kate Plus 8”) tonight. She showed a short preview of the interview on Today, and from the little bit available it does look more interesting and revealing than a lot of the interviews Kate’s given. One thing both Morales and Meredith Vieira noted was that although Kate clearly has a tough, hard exterior, you can also tell that her emotions are still just right under the surface.

The stress of a very public divorce played out in the tabloid press is starting to take a toll not only on Kate Gosselin, but also on her eight children. The revelation came during an often emotional interview Gosselin gave to TODAY’s Natalie Morales for a one-hour special, “Kate: Her Story,” that will air Monday night on TLC. Morales shared excerpts from the interview and her own observations Monday on TODAY.

“She said some of the kids are starting to show signs of stress and behavioral changes,” Morales told TODAY co-anchor Meredith Vieira. ‘You tend not to trust’ Morales said that Gosselin said that she has become more isolated and alone since the breakup, as people she once trusted have rushed to cash in on the stories they’ve peddled to the tabloid media.

“You look around and very close, trusted people who you swear on your life would never ever, ever cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do that,” Gosselin told Morales. “When people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust people.”

Morales asked, “Who do you have on your side now?”

“A very, very small group of people,” Gosselin replied.

“How is this affecting you all that we don’t see?” Morales asked.

“I’m awake in the middle of the night thinking, ‘Am I making the best decision?’ ” Gosselin said, brushing away tears from emotions that are still raw.

[From MSNBC]

I think it was smart of Kate to admit that she questions her parenting. I’m assuming when she asks if she’s making the best decision, she’s talking about day-to-day parenting things, since I can’t imagine how she could possibly question the divorce, given Jon’s behavior. But she generally comes across as a know-it-all, and it makes her more relatable to hear she asks herself the same questions all decent parents do.

One thing that wasn’t shown in the clip was whether or not Kate had an affair with her married bodyguard Steve Neild. Natalie Morales said that Kate’s response was that Nelid and his family were some of the very few people she actually trusted and that wouldn’t “cash you in” – and she wouldn’t do that to them. I’m looking forward to seeing that actual segment. When it’s not first person it’s more difficult to tell if it’s honest, but from the way Morales phrased it, it sounds like she at least believed it.

Going through a divorce when you have kids is just about one of the most painful things most people ever have to endure. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have 8 of them under these circumstances. Everyone would need a few people that they truly trusted and felt they could go to. It must make Kate feel incredibly alone to think that most anyone would “cash her in” under the right circumstances. I guess that’s just one of those things where only time will tell. Hopefully the people she trusts now are deserving of that trust. She’s going to need adult interaction as she raises her kids. And hopefully she’ll get the some kind of family therapy or something of that nature to help the kids handle what they’re going through too.

Here’s Kate shopping at The Grove while being filmed for ‘Kate Plus 8′ in Los Angles on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Singer/woman beater Chris Brown is still bitching and moaning about how tough things are for him. He’s human, you know, he’s going to make mistakes. We’ve all got to lighten up on Chris, or how else is he going to get past everything that’s happened to him? That’s the just of most of Chris’ recent interviews. They’re all a lot of “I’m going to take responsibility for my behavior,” and then “Poor me victim statement, poor me victim statement,” over and over again.

Yesterday he was interviewed by Hot 97’s Angie Martinez. Brown complained about the industry and how hard everyone’s being on him. And how he’s happy when he’s making music and when he’s making his fans happy, but the industry itself makes him sad. Which is important, because all we want is for Chris Brown to feel happy. Loved. Warm. Accepted. I don’t remember the last time I wanted to kick someone in the face so badly.

Chris mentioned that Will Smith called him after he beat the sh*t out of Rihanna. Chris presents it as a positive, though it’s hard to tell the context. I really don’t want to think the worst of Will because I generally like him. Chris frames it like Will was offering him support, but I think there’s a decent chance Will was lecturing him. On Will’s call, Brown said:

“As a young black man myself, I need an older black male role models to step in and kind of mould me, not people bashing me, ’cause that’s not how you learn from mistakes.”

[Transcribed from audio clip at Miss Info.com]

He goes on to talk about how Will told him that’s not how you treat a woman, etcetera. Which makes me think Will probably had decent intentions, but narcissistic Brown is trying to phrase it like Smith was trying to save/help him, and is somehow on his side. I think he was probably trying to say, “Look you’re a piece of crap, stop being that way.” But more delicately – which was probably too delicately for Chris. Like I said, the guy’s a narcissist. If there’s any way he can turn something into an ego stroke, he will. That’s part of why people are being so harsh on him – if you tone it down even a hair, he thinks you’re given him a verbal hug.

There’s also a lot more talking about how his feelings are hurt and being human. Human. Don’t forget Chris Brown is a human. Why is everyone being so nice to Rihanna? Poor human Chris Brown.

Want more proof just how much pity Chris Brown wants us to feel for him?

Well, what are the chances? Just two days after Rihanna debuted her new single, chronic one-upper (among other things) Chris Brown has rolled out a new song of his own. And while those looking to link Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette” to her Brown beatdown did so courtesy of tenuous lyrical metaphors and heavy speculation, Brown isn’t making his listeners work quite so hard with “Crawl.”

Interestingly, while RiRi came out fighting, draping herself in barbed wire and peppering her dark tune with gunshots, Brown—still deep in character and career rehabilitation—went the Céline Dion route, releasing a slow jam that paints him as nothing more than a hopeful man who just so happens to be unlucky-in-love. Well, in his defense, you try finding something that rhymes with “girlfriend-beater.”

“Everybody says we’re through / I hope you haven’t said it too,” he sings in his second new track. “So where do we go from here with all this fear in our eyes?” Presumably, he means other than to the side of the road to pick up trash. “And where can love take us now,” he continues. “We’ve been so far down / We can still touch the sky… “I need one more chance / We can still have it all…So let’s crawl, crawl, crawl / Back to love.”

[From E Online]

My stomach is churning, and my fists are ready to give Chris some of what he knows he has coming. I honestly don’t know how the guy sleeps at night. I guess cloaked in the warm embrace of his personality disorder.

You can listen to Chris’ entire “I, I, I, me, me, me” interview here.

Here’s Chris Brown exiting Kitchen 24 at 4am after reportedly dining with six ladies on October 17th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

Madonna’s Rolling Stone cover featuring a photo from 1986

Jaybird already covered part of Madonna’s new Rolling Stone cover interview yesterday, but this thing is huge, and Madge covered a lot of subjects. For a refresher, Jaybird covered the parts of the interview where Madge talked about Lady Gaga (“I see myself in Lady Gaga”), and Madge’s own early hits (“I feel retarded singing ‘Into the Groove’”). Rolling Stone hasn’t released the entirety of the interview, they’re just releasing drips and drabs here and there, but I have to say, I think this is one of the most exhaustive interviews Madge has ever done. Here are some more of the highlights:

Madge on her divorce to Guy Ritchie: “It was a challenging year… I may have thrown myself off a building. I think work saved me, and I’m very grateful [for that].”

Madonna on Guy Ritchie’s joint custody of Rocco and David: “Life is an adjustment. My sons aren’t with me right now, they’re with their father, and I’m not very comfortable with the idea of my children not living together.”

On her “Benetton ad” family: “My like house is like a Benetton ad. I have French nannies, my security guards are Israeli, I have assistants from Argentina and Puerto Rico as well as a Japanese assistant and chef, and another chef from Italy. It’s wonderful. I love it.”

On son David Banda (who Madge adopted in 2006 from Malawi): “David is my biggest fan. Everybody says that when he watches [my concerts,] he stays frozen from beginning to end, and he studies everything, and he knows every dance step.”

On Justin Timberlake: “He’s sort of Cary Grant.”

On Eminem: “I wanted to work with him… But he didn’t want to work with me. Maybe he’s shy.”

On her nude (and hairy) photos showing up in Playboy and Penthouse: “That was the first time I was aware of saying ‘F- you’ with my attitude. You’re trying to put me down because of this? I [wasn't] going to let public opinion dictate my own feelings about myself. I [wasn't] going to apologize for anything I’ve done.”

She was never really a bad girl: “I didn’t really have my first drink until I got divorced the first time – from Sean Penn – when I was 30. I was kind of a geek in high school. ‘Geek’ is not a word anyone uses to describe me, except perhaps [Confessions on a Dance Floor producer] Stuart Price, who once said, ‘You know, you’re a nerd at heart, nobody knows it.’ I took it as a compliment.”

On her first “provocative” performance in high school: “I had my girlfriends paint my body with fluorescent hearts and flowers. I wore a pair of shorts and a midriff top, and I just went mad. … I’m sure everyone thought I was insane. That was the beginning of my provocative performances, I guess.”

On reinvention: “I think people put a lot of emphasis on the whole reinvention of my image, and it’s always been a lot less calculated than people think. I think it’s boring to stay the same. A girl likes to change her look.”

Worst fashion moment: “It was the purple lipstick, fluorescent-green sweater combo. … It’s OK, it was the Eighties. It was a bad-hairstyle era. Let’s face it.”

On Paul McCartney’s “boring” live performances: “People have told me, ‘You could just go out there and play guitar and sing your songs like Paul McCartney,’ but I’d be too bored. Most of the joy of the shows is the magic of creating them — theater. I’m a perfectionist. I like hard work. I like to sweat.”

[From Rolling Stone’s Rock Daily, Page Six, Us Weekly & Gatecrasher]

I actually liked Madge in this interview. She’s a lot better when she doesn’t edit herself or get too uptight about what she shouldn’t or won’t say. Trust me, I’ve read some absolutely horrific interviews with Madge (like Vanity Fair’s 2008 epic fail cover story) where she basically snipes “yes” or “no” at the reporter in between pontificating on why she’s so great. Could it be that Madge is turning a wee bit softer in her fifties?

Madonna is shown at the VMAs on 9/13/09. Credit: L. Gallo/WENN.com

Madonna’s on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, and in it she admits that she can relate to Lady Gaga and actually sees a lot of her early self in her. Reminiscing about the time before she was famous and had a lot of money, Madge notes that it’s nice to see the genuine talent Gaga had before she had the resources to get all dolled up for a show. Considering the nice things she has to say about Gaga, it makes sense that Madge was willing to share the stage with her on SNL a week ago.

Madonna says she sees a lot of herself in Lady Gaga.

The Queen of Pop insists she can relate to the Poker Face hitmaker — because, like Lady GaGa, she had no money at the start of her career.

“I see myself in Lady Gaga,” Madge tells Rolling Stone in a new interview. “When I saw her, she didn’t have a lot of money for her production. she’s got holes in her fishnets, and there’s mistakes everywhere. It was kind of a mess, but I can see that she has that IT Factor. It’s nice to see that at a raw stage.”

[From Rolling Stone via Showbiz Spy]

Of the little excerpts Rolling Stone has released, the one I like best is where Madonna admits there are plenty of her songs she doesn’t like. Because I totally agree with her. I’m not slamming on her, but I’d say when I hear at least a third of her song I think “This is utter crap.” There’s this “upbeat” radio station in my hometown of Seattle that I swear is the all “Holiday” station, and every time I heard that song I wanted to punch my windshield. Madge doesn’t seem to want to get physically violent over her bad music, but she’ll admit some of it blows.

But after all these years, she admits she still can’t sniff out a Number One. “I’ve never been a good judge of what things are going to be huge or not. The songs that I think are the most retarded songs I’ve written, like ‘Cherish’ and ‘Sorry,’ a pretty big hit off my last album, end up being the biggest hits,” she tells RS. ” ‘Into the Groove’ is another song I feel retarded singing, but everybody seems to like it.”

[From Rolling Stone]

Ignoring her very un-P.C. use of the word “retarded,” I’d agree with Madonna on all those songs. It really says something about her commitment to entertaining her audience that she still performs them. Think how many artists bitch and moan about having to sing the same songs over and over because the audience wants to hear them. Madonna isn’t doing that – she’s saying she doesn’t care for the songs, but they make other people happy so she does it. It’s not a big deal but it’s cool that she’ll still do her crowd pleasers – Lord knows she has enough material not to.

Madge also noted that she gets so many requests to work with other artists that she has to turn most people down. But she actually requested to work with Eminimen, and he turned her down. She chalked it up to “maybe he’s shy.” Or maybe he hates “Holiday” too.

Madonna is shown outside the Late Show on September 30th. Credit: WENN.com and Diane Cohen/Fame Pictures

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if a Twihard ever got the chance to interview Robert “Sparkles” Pattinson? Worry no more – for some advanced publicity for New Moon, Sparkles was interviewed by what I can only assume is a very young, very dedicated Twihard journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald (here for the full, hilarious interview). She interviewed in Paris, and the piece is called “Interview With A Vampire”. Original, eh? I think a better name for it would be “SPARKLES!!!” You know what’s even better? I can’t find the name of the woman/girl who wrote this sh-t. It’s like she was too ashamed of herself for a byline. As she should be.

The piece is full of wonderful little details for Twihards to pour over. Stuff like “he runs his hand through that tousled mop of his (a sign that he’s anxious)” and “Whenever he goes near the window to smoke, a crescendo of noise erupts from the street below.” Sparkles is playing with us too, playing the poor, vulnerable boy that we need to bring home and feed (whoops… that’s my fantasy): “It’s just a job and while it’s a job I love, girls scream out for Edward, not Robert. I still can’t get a date.” I expected the Twihard reporter to add, “He spoke with tears glistening in his eyes, his taut body drained of energy at the thought of another restless night filled with only despair rather than true love.” Too bad he’s nailing Kristen Stewart – although, to be fair, this interview might have been done a month ago or so, before K-Stew and Pattz were officially a couple:

Ask Robert Pattinson how he’s handling the global hysteria that now surrounds him and he says: “All right, I hope.” Then he runs his hand through that tousled mop of his (a sign that he’s anxious) and adds: “It’s still sort of new.”

It’s almost 12 months since the first Twilight film was unleashed on the world. Twelve months since we clapped eyes on the sensitive, tortured and fiercely handsome vampire named Edward Cullen from Stephenie Meyer’s massively popular novels. Twelve months since Pattinson, the 23-year-old British actor who plays the red-blooded teenage vamp, became an international heart-throb.

“To be honest, I still don’t really understand what’s going on,” he says. “Like yesterday, I was having lunch down the road. We were in this place for a couple of hours and suddenly there was like 400 people outside on the street. It was just so nuts and it’s like that all the time now.”

If Pattinson hasn’t come to grips with the global hysteria by now, how will he cope when New Moon is released next month?

“When the second one comes out, then I’ll see how I am. Mostly I can ignore things to quite a big extent and kind of pretend they’re not really happening,” he says, sounding eerily calm. I just don’t take any of it seriously. It’s just a job and while it’s a job I love, girls scream out for Edward, not Robert. I still can’t get a date.”

Pattinson has been peddling this line for months. He won’t fess up to dating Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella. Perhaps he’s under studio instructions to appear single? It probably boosts ticket sales.

The real reason Pattinson is so calm is simple: “I’m not the lead in the second film. Taylor [Lautner] is.” He grins idiotically. “I appear in Bella’s dreams. So I’m in it but the focus is not on me. I just have significant moments at the beginning … and the end. So I’m more of a supporting role in this one, which is why I felt so free. I didn’t have to deal with any of the bullshit of the first one. I don’t have to hold the movie or worry about the fans. I think I did it better without all those pressures.”

Pattinson is extraordinarily beautiful. He’s been called the Johnny Depp of his generation and been crowned Sexiest Man on the Planet by Glamour magazine, Top Hunk by Entertainment Tonight and Hottest Actor by Rolling Stone. Like Depp, he has the same asymmetrical beauty, the same gorgeous man-boy face. He’s 185 centimetres tall, lean and he, too, exudes a masculine femininity. Depp also started out as a teenage idol before he began furiously deconstructing that image. Ditto for Pattinson.

“After Harry Potter I could have done a lot more teen movies,” he says. Instead he starred as a young Salvador Dali who has a bromance with poet Federico Garcia Lorca in this year’s Little Ashes. “I had to do all these hardcore gay sex scenes, when I haven’t even had a sex scene with a girl in a film yet… I’m lining up so many different films so it’ll be harder to just label me the vampire guy.”

Before Twilight, Pattinson was on the verge of quitting the acting game in favour of music. “With acting, a lot of the time you’re doing scenes you don’t really relate to and you don’t really know why you’re being cast half the time,” he laughs. He “understood” music. He’s been playing the piano since he was five. He composes and sings. It’s second nature. Acting isn’t. He still feels “awkward in front of a camera”.

Pattinson has a lovely voice and performed two songs in Twilight – something he now regrets. “When the first film came out I felt like a complete tosser,” he says. “It looked like I was trying to be cool or something, like Eminem. You know, be in a movie and then do a song for the soundtrack. But I didn’t look cool, I just looked ridiculous.”

Pattinson’s lack of self-confidence is staggering yet endearing. Compliment his singing and he’ll change the subject. Compliment his performance and he’ll tell you you’re bonkers. But he’ll stick to acting for now only because he’d “starve to death” as a musician.

But now he has to go. A plane is waiting. He yawns and looks tired. So how does he unwind? “I don’t really need to do stuff to relax or get away because all my interests are part of my job,” he says. “Like I’ll watch movies to be inspired to do other movies. I read books to be inspired. I listen to music to be inspired to write music. Everything I do is to create something.”

Pattinson’s next film is Unbound Captives. He met Jackman in Japan recently for a little bonding ahead of the film. “We went karaoke singing,” he laughs. “We were singing Abba songs, it was pretty funny. It was sort of an Abba song sing-off, you know, last man standing.”

Who won? “I think he did, only because he can drink more than me and still sing in tune. He’s a cool guy and I’m really looking forward to that film.”

[From the Sydney Morning Herald]

The Twihard reporter also notes that Sparkles “chain-smokes during the interview” and that he runs out half-way through their meeting. So Pattz leaves the hotel room (where the Twihard reporter was probably getting undressed) to see if he could get some cigs off the hotel staff. The reporter notes: “When the French hotel staff, who are normally cool, calm and collected, lay eyes on him, they turn into an adoring mass of autograph-seeking fans.” Chuckle. Seriously?

Robert Pattinson is shown at Comic-Con on 7/23/09 and the Teen Choice Awards on 8/9/09. Credit: WENN.com

Fresh from her surprisingly high-fashion Toronto premiere – and getting the most epic of public bitchslaps ever – Megan Fox appeared on Today this morning for an interview with Matt Lauer. Megan and Matt start out talking about how Jennifer’s Body isn’t really a horror film, it’s just an “irreverent black comedy”. Sure.

A minute into the interview, Matt asks Megan about her career, and says she’s stuck between “this wild popularity… that you’ve been given, or that you’ve achieved through these movies, these huge Transformers movies and this other area where you want to be known as an actress.” Megan laughs and says “Right.” Megan then talks about Diablo Cody and her script for Jennifer’s Body, and Megan stays pretty gracious. When Matt pushes Megan to talk more about her “choices” Megan successfully fights the urge to be snotty, and says, “Mainly, I just happy to be working and I continue to get these opportunities. I try to make choices that are different from whatever project I was last working on… I’ve been lucky enough to surround myself with extremely talented people.”

Matt pushes again, saying that Megan has been very “honest” about her work (mentioning that Megan said she was “terrible” in the first Transformers), but then Matt asks if Jennifer’s Body allowed her to “expand” as an actress. Megan says she’s “green” and “very new” to acting.

Matt reads one of Megan’s quotes back to her, where she was talking about her own insecurities. Megan replies, “I think all actors are pretty insecure. I mean, in general. Obviously, I can’t speak for everybody, but I think that’s what drives us into this business, that insecurity. Especially being a woman, I think all women have some deep-seated insecurities. For whatever reason, because of how we’re raised, because of society. It’s hard having so much focus put on you all the time… because you’re always questioning yourself, second-guessing yourself… You can’t please all of the people all of the time.”

Megan keeps on going, saying that she feels “undeserving” of the attention lavished upon her, but that she thinks it happened because she was part of a project that was a lot bigger – Transformers. But she also says the “worst part” of her fame is the “lack of anonymity”. Megan says “it’s tough… when people are judging” what she says and then goes on to say that Hollywood is like high school. My response: if Megan is so terrified of how people judge her own stupid comments, she should stop saying dumb sh-t. Also, here’s a note to Matt Lauer – I don’t care how hard Megan’s publicist whined, you needed to ask her about the open letter from the Transformers crew members.

Megan is shown heading to the MTV VMAs on 9/13/09. Credit: CWNY/Fame Pictures

Whenever I read any quote from Miley Cyrus, it makes me so glad no one kept a record of the stupid stuff I said at 16. And then I sigh and hope it really is just do to the fact that Miley is 16, and eventually she’ll grow out of it. Miley is on the cover of this month’s Elle, and she’s chatting about her clothing line with Max Azria for Walmart. I know, it seems like a strange mix. Anyway, she had a few precious quotes such as “The jeans are my favorite part of the entire line. Because, like literally, this is going to be good for, like, Middle America, and it will be great for kids that really want to be in fashion but don’t have it available.” And the admission that she’d pay $500 for her $20 jeans, which doesn’t tell me much other than she just embarrassed herself.

Miley Cyrus is going to bring high fashion to “Middle America,” the “Hannah Montana” star said in the August issue of Elle magazine.

“Oh my God, I’m so stoked!” she said of her new line with Max Azaria for Wal-Mart. “It’s a lot of peasanty, flowy tops, hippie and loose and sexy, like boho chill mixed with English-rocker-esque. Plaids, studs, rips, cool colors. The jeans are my favorite part of the entire line. Because, like, literally, this is going to good for, like, Middle America, and it will be great for kids that really want to be in fashion but they don’t have it available.”

And the star added that she’d be willing to pay top dollar for the fancy couture.

“I would pay $500 for the jeans that we make for $20,” she said. “I’m really into high fashion.”

If runway style seems like more of an adult interest, it’s because the 16-year-old star is growing up, showing off mature poses in the mag’s photoshoot and talking about her relationship, now over, with 20-year-old model Justin Gaston.

[From Elle via NBC]

Well I’m sure the Walmart shoppers of middle America are so grateful they can be given some fashion and culture via Miley Cyrus. And all for the low price of $20! I’m not sure that it’s such a wise idea to have Miley doing interviews with more adult magazines. Obviously she’s trying to transition from the tween/teen market and be seen as more mature, but the problem is – she isn’t mature yet. Some 16 year olds are practically adults while others are still kids. Miley seems very much to fall into the latter category, and there’s nothing wrong with that. There also isn’t any big advantage to growing up before you have to.

I’m sure going with more mature magazines is partially a business decision, but I think it’s ultimately hurting more than helping. Miley’s responses make her come off as naive and stupid, when really she’s just a kid who’s chatting away. She should be doing more “Seventeen” and less “Elle” and “Vanity Fair.”