Gwyneth Paltrow: Apple Wants To Be A Singer Or A Baker

Iron Man 2 star Gwyneth Paltrow recently paid a visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show and dished on her globetrotting children, 6-year-old Apple and 4-year old Moses with Coldplay frontman/husband Chris Martin.

Paltrow’s mom, Blythe Danner has said that she could see a future in showbiz for her grandchildren, and the doting grandmother may not be that far off! The 38-year-old Academy Award winner said that Apple is a “really good singer,” though when Ellen pressed if Apple would like ..read more

From Y2K frenzy to a Tiger caught by his tail – this decade brought us … – Boston Herald

From Y2K frenzy to a Tiger caught by his tail – this decade brought us delicious, daring and disastrous pop culture milestones:

SEX: The decade should have been called the naughties, because everything under the covers was exposed.

Teens “sext” messaging (Thanks Vanessa Hudgens!)

Same-sex kissing went from taboo to totally TV (“Dawson’s Creek” “All My Children”) – Madonna and Britney on the “American Music Awards” and Adam Lambert’s controversial smooch.

The sex tape – highlighting the horizontal antics of Paris Hilton, Screech, Verne ..read more

Plenty of Ritchie on decade’s worst list – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Time flies when you’re having fun but has a way of slowing down when you’re getting pins stuck in your eyes. Vacations blur into a pleasant memory, and it’s even possible to have an entire romance without remembering, years later, what the two of you ever talked about. But the trauma of seeing something like “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” never quite goes away. Like toxic waste, those 151 minutes don’t degrade, don’t get reabsorbed into the soil ..read more

Eddie Vedder Fends Off Lawsuit, Covers Bruce Springsteen – TwentyFourBit (blog)

Eddie Vedder Fends Off Lawsuit, Covers Bruce Springsteen

Pearl Jam’s frontman keeps good company (Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna’s new producer, et al.), but Canada’s Gordon Peterson, aka Indio, probably won’t be getting an invite to Eddie and ..read more

Italian tenor’s album sales top five million – Gaea Times (blog)

Susan Boyle’s album creates sales history Down Under

December 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE – Susan Boyle has taken Aussie music industry by storm after her album ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ went on to enjoy the highest seven-day sales ever seen in the country. The ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ star sold almost 165,000 albums last week, breaking the record of Guy Sebastian’s 163,000 sales at Christmas 2004.

Lady Gaga’s happy tears

December 26th, 2009 LONDON – Lady Gaga burst into tears on stage after ..read more

Christmas 2009: We Know Who’s Been Naughty… Nice Is a Little Harder to Find – Huffington Post (blog)

A recent CNN poll found that during this economically troubled holiday season 68 percent of Americans are buying gifts that their friends and family need, compared to 27 percent who are buying gifts they think they would enjoy.

As for me, as part of my annual tradition of getting gifts for my favorite — and not so favorite — public figures, I’m going for the middle ground, choosing gifts they need… and that I think you might enjoy.

Here’s this year’s list:

Joe ..read more

Move up by Focusing on Your Strengths

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The conventional wisdom on moving up the corporate ladder often stresses the importance of gaining new skills or improving weaknesses. But in many cases, a more effective career strategy might be to focus on developing your main talents.

According to research by Gallup on more than 2 million workers over a 30-year period, those who prioritized ..read more

Judging By The Cover: The Best Cover Songs Of 2009 – NPR

Judging By The Cover: The Best Cover Songs Of 2009

by Michael Katzif

Every time a popular book is adapted for film or a beloved movie is remade, the first thing fans ask is “how does it compare to the original?” Of course it’s natural to want our favorite things — be it a book, a movie, a television series — to receive the love and careful hand they deserve. We want the new version to have something fresh ..read more

Vic Chesnutt Dead From Suicide (The Inquisitr)

Category: Celebrity News, Music Author : Duncan Riley Posted: December 25, 2009 Tags : vic chesnutt, vic chesnutt coma, vic chesnutt dead, vic chestnutt

Singer/ songwriter Vic Chesnutt has been pronounced dead following a short time in a coma following a suicide attempt Christmas Eve.

The paraplegic singer/song writer first came to prominence when he was spotted by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe; Stipe produced Vic Chesnutt’s first two albums, Little (1990) and West of ..read more

Vic Chesnutt Recruits Members of Fugazi, Godspeed for ‘At the Cut’ Tour – Spinner

Vic Chesnutt has known Fugazi for a long time. In fact, the singer-songwriter supported them on what he believes was their first real tour, back in 1988. “I’ve opened for them several times over the years — good buddies of mine and I love them,” Chesnutt tells Spinner. But love is not the reason Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto is now a member of Chesnutt’s band. That happy development happened several albums back, on ‘North Star Deserter,’ when producer Jim Cohen came ..read more