Madonna, daughter team up for fashion line for teens

Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, have collaborated on a fashion line for teenage girls that debuts this August exclusively at Macy’’s.

The “Material Girl” collection includes clothing, footwear, handbags and jewelry.

The line will initially be available only at 200 Macy’’s stores and online, reports The New York Daily News.

According to a news release, Lourdes, 13, helped her mother create the fashion line in connection with Madonna’’s partners at Iconix Brand Group Inc.

“We look forward to working with Madonna, Lourdes and the Iconix team,” said Jeff Gennette, Macy’’s chief merchandising officer. “Madonna is a fashion icon who can bring a new dimension to our juniors customer.”

Madonna turns “Marriage Ref” for TV

Pop star Madonna is joining British funnyman Ricky Gervais for an upcoming small screen series “The Marriage Ref” about domestic disputes.

The show is being produced by Jerry Seinfeld and will see a panel of celebrities judge the winner of domestic disputes between feuding couples.

Madonna is listed alongside Gervais as one of the panellists due to film an episode in New York next week.

“Jerry’’s doing a new show about marriage guidance and he wants me to be involved. I pointed out that my ambition was to one day be nearly as good as him. It was amazing,” the Daily Star quoted Geravis as saying.

The show is also expected to feature guest appearances from stars including Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey and “Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria Parker.

Adam Lambert Ama Performance

Adam Lambert Ama Performance: news update, American Idol runner up Adam Lambert closed last night’s 2009 American Music Awards show with a racy performance of his single, For Your Entertainment. As usual, the glam bad boy of American Idol didn’t fail to get his point across as he paraded across the AMA stage.
Lambert’s AMA performance of For Your Entertainment featured scantily leather- clad backup dancers, lots of groping, simulated sex acts and a spontaneous kiss with another male midway through the performance.
According to Rolling Stone, Lambert didn’t clear the male kiss with anyone in advance. Lambert told CNN that the kiss happened “in the moment”.
After a mostly tame awards ceremony featuring wholesome pop country singer Taylor Swift sweeping most of the major awards, Lambert’s closing performance left a bad taste in the mouths of many viewers, especially parents who let their tween Taylor Swift fans stay up to watch the show.

After the tongues instantly started wagging about his shocking performance, Lambert, who has a fairly cocky attitude for someone who lost on American Idol, pulled the discrimination card, saying there’s a “double standard” and telling Rolling Stone that it would be “discrimination” if his performance was edited for later broadcasts. Lambert was most likely referring to Madonna and Britney Spear’s controversial kiss during their racy performance at the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards.

Lambert’s song, For Your Entertainment, was in itself rather boring. It featured a few of Lambert’s infamous shrieks, but the song itself wasn’t all that memorable. If Lambert hadn’t turned up the heat on his performance, certainly no one would be talking about it today.
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I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album

I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album updates:- I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle, the upcoming debut album from the talent show sensation, has achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of Amazon.com, This title will be released on November 23, 2009.
About I Dreamed A Dream:- Inspirational and breathtaking, “I Dreamed a Dream” is the highly anticipated album from a global phenomenon whose dream has become reality.
She captured the hearts of millions and became a worldwide YouTube phenomenon with over 300 million hits. An inspiration for those who have a dream, the talented Susan Boyle presents her stunning debut album. Susan surprised the world with her powerful, heart stopping voice when she walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage. Now with a beautiful and diverse album she will, once again, defy preconceptions. I Dreamed a Dream, the album, crafted by world acclaimed producer Steve Mac, demonstrates Susan Boyle’s extensive musical ability. Featuring her signature songs, `I Dreamed a Dream’ & `Cry me a River’ the album also includes a haunting rendition of Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”, Madonna’s `You’ll See, The Monkees `Daydream Believer’ and “Who I Was Born To Be” an original recording written specially for Susan. Susan enthused; “It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it. This amazing journey has helped me find my own identity and fulfill my wish. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream.”
About Susan Boyle

January 21st 2009 is not a date that Susan Boyle is ever likely to forget. ‘I will never forget it,’ she clarifies, in her unmistakeably Celtic brogue. It was the day that the shy, devout 48 year old stepped onto the stage of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow for an audition on Britain’s Got Talent. Or to put it another way, the day her world turned 360 degrees on its head. In front of the three-strong panel of judges charged with divining which of this year’s British hopefuls really did have talent, the singing voice of Susan Boyle turned out to be a watershed moment neither she nor anyone involved in the show could possibly have foreseen. It is now both her and the show’s defining moment.

In her own haphazard fashion, during three and a half minutes of television airtime, later aired to slack-jawed intakes of breath in May of this year, Susan Boyle fashioned a new kind of fame. She elicited a moment of pure, molten zeitgeist. She broke every rule of the talent show book and tore up a considerable number of the pages of popular music marketing into the bargain. She symbolized an astonishing variety of the little-people’s revenge, quite by accident. Ms Boyle describes her own astonishing 2009 in refreshingly frank and simple terms. ‘All I did was to apply for a talent show. I was lucky enough to be chosen. That’s it in a nutshell.’ But something deeper was going on in the collective public consciousness. If the two watchwords of the 21st century have been ‘reality’ and ‘celebrity’, Susan Boyle had accidentally located a brand new point on the graph where they both intersected. One of Britain’s forgotten characters had rarely, if ever, been so memorable.

After her one audition for Britain’s Got Talent, in which she confounded the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to Youtube’s expectations by dazzling her way through a version of the song I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, a tornado of opinionated column inches, speculation, rumination and conjecture around Susan Boyle grew feverishly. 300 Million You Tube hits and counting. She became the subject of op-ed newspaper columns, a front cover sensation in her own right. This unlikely candidate for the melting pot of the new star machine in 21st century Britain caused computer crashes, miles of newsprint and the sophisticated approval of Hollywood’s well-heeled and super-groomed A-list. Though the content differed wildly, everyone proffering their thoughts on the self-confessed ‘wee wifey’ seemed agreed on one point. That in 2009, to be free of an opinion on Susan Boyle was to be free of opinion itself.
For one brief moment, vanity itself collapsed. As that ancient old maxim – ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ – clanked around the globe with speedy viral intensity, it was as if the world was about to offer its first unspoken apology for prizing beauty above all else. Perhaps it would temporarily forget its grotesquely accentuated new heights of judgement. Or perhaps Susan Boyle was just a fleeting icon by which a microscope was shone on our more fickle presumptions. Whatever history gifts the Susan Boyle story in the long term, it is now her time to prove that there is more to this incredible woman than being the symbol for a moment of international reflection. She will do it in the exact same way she entered our consciousness in the first place. With the raw combination of strength and fragility, beauty and solitude that is her singing voice.

In some ways, Ms Boyle’s story is just the same as any woman with a voice in any choir up and down the UK. In her home town of Blackburn, she had been schooled in singing in churches and choral societies. She says now that, as a shy young woman with some learning difficulties, being hidden in the blanket of a collective singing arrangement offered her comfort. So in one other, crucial way, her story is entirely her own. The most unlikely chorister in the sea of voices stepped out of line and put her head above the parapet to be noticed. For Susan Boyle, though she would never deign to say so much herself, this was an act of personal heroism, the like of which she had never contemplated before.

The speed with which reaction to her performance picked up gravitas proved an incendiary media hotbed. But it was most surprising for the woman at the centre of it. ‘It started off with the [Scottish newspaper] Daily Record visiting my door. And it ended up with TV stations from all over the world camping out on my street waiting for interviews and stories. I’d peak behind the curtains in the house, saying ‘what in God’s name is going on here?’ Then the phone calls started. My number was still in the book at that particular time, so anybody could get it and the phone was ringing 24 hours a day. It was constant. People were ringing me who I couldn’t understand because of their accents. All sorts of nationalities. Lots of Americans. It was absolutely unbelievable if I’m being honest.’ She is self-deprecating about why she should have caused such a furore. ‘A woman who went on with mad hair, bushy eyebrows and the frock I was wearing had to be noticed. Come on!’

Such is the quick nature of today’s star system, in September, just four months after her TV debut, Susan Boyle made her live TV comeback. She performed a rarefied take on The Rolling Stones Wild Horses, re-orchestrated to gently clasp the exact timbre of her natural talent, on the show’s US cousin, America’s Got Talent. An unprompted standing ovation followed. Outside of the unruly cyclone of her fame, there is something within the voice of Susan Boyle that is absolutely perfect for our times. At a moment when Dame Vera Lynn and Barbra Streisand are topping the album charts, there is something peculiarly modern about her improbably status as holding the international record for most pre-ordered album of all time. As the dust settles on the sheer wattage of conversation that she has prompted, it is time – as they say – to face the music.

Ms Boyle’s debut album was put together during the summer of this year. She first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, to test how her vocals would respond to tape. The results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac. Decamping to London, she fashioned the record over two months, picking songs that resonated with her, that pricked something within that she felt ready to unleash through music. ‘It was important that I could feel everything I was singing,’ she says, cutting straight to the core of why music can be such a useful release, an escape valve from the everyday.

A disarming mix of the sacred (‘My faith is my backbone,’ she says) and the secular, there is not a moment on it that is not moving. It is pitched exactly within the framework of the year she has enjoyed and, at well-documented times, endured. It is a collection of covers and original material that cuts a swathe into the interior life of the woman who is arguably the most intriguing, not to mention instantly recognisable character yet to be produced by the reality talent medium, the decade’s defining TV genre.

When she hurts, it hurts. Her rousing rendition of Madonna’s You’ll See is a riposte to the children that picked on her in the playground. The new composition Who I Was Born To Be is an astonishing testament to self-belief against some startling odds. Yet when she dreams, we dream too. Because of her uncanny knack of picking a song so perfect for her tale at that very first audition, Ms Boyle has become synonymous with the word ‘dream’. Her flawless album rendition of I Dreamed A Dream may come as no surprise, but it still manages to pick every individual hair from the back of your neck and yank them to attention. A country ballad version of Daydream Believer delicately seals the deal of her being synonymous with the concept of dreaming.

For this is Susan Boyle’s tale. The fearlessness to dream about something other than the lot life has handed you. The chance to escape. The pivotal role of music as a conduit to go to another place, sometimes lodged at the outer recesses of your imagination, and to allow that new place to blossom. Yes, this is Susan Boyle’s tale. It is why it connected with so many unsuspecting people across the world. In another nutshell? If she can dare to dream, so can you.

Robbie Williams set to top album chart with Reality Killed the Video Star

It looks like Brit singer Robbie Williams is set to top the album chart, with his album Reality Killed the Video Star outselling all other singers. Williams’s album has already topped the iTunes chart in 16 countries across Europe, and has sold more than 85,000 copies during its first day, reports the Telegraph. If it stays on top until the weekend it will mean each of Williams’s eight studio albums has been to number one and it would be his ninth chart-topper in total

Helena Bonham Carter doesn’t like watching her own films

Helena Bonham Carter has revealed that she sees no point in seeing her own films. The ‘Fight Club’ star said she turns her back on her own films because she has nothing to learn from them after they are finished

MJ’s daughter Paris gets haircut at top celebrity salon

Michael Jackson’’s daughter Paris got a haircut at a top celebrity salon last week. The 11-year-old visited Andy Lecompte’’s shop at L.A, with her two brothers- Prince Michael, Blanket- and bodyguards. The late King of Pop’s offspring got her nails painted black before her hair was washed and cut.

Madonna ‘to meet toyboy lover’s parents’

Queen of Pop Madonna is set to visit the parents of her 23-year-old toyboy lover in Brazil, fuelling rumours she”ll marry him. However, the 51-year-old singer’s friends have suggested that she is “slightly on edge” as her lover Jesus Luz’s mother Cristiane Regina da Silva is 15 years younger to her.

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy: A beloved, sparkling blue eyes, doyenne of stage and screen career of actress Jessica Tandy spanned nearly six decades and a half. In that time frame which enjoyed a remarkable revival film at the age of 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and beauty of consent. Jessie Alice Tandy was born in London in 1909, the daughter of Harry Tandy, a traveling salesman, and Jessie Helen Horspool.
His parents enrolled as a teenager in the Ben Greet Academy Of where she showed immediate promise. She was 16 when she made her professional bow as Sarah Manderson in the play “The Manderson Girls” and later was invited to participate in the Birmingham Repertory Theater. Within a couple of years, Jessica was making a series of premieres of others as well. His first West End play is “The Rumor” at the Court Theater in 1929, its Gotham bow was in “The Matriarch” at the Longacre Theater in 1930, and its role in initial film was as a maid in the indiscretions Eva (1932).

Jessica is married to British actor Jack Hawkins in 1932 after the couple met at the completion of the work “Autumn Crocus” last year. They had a daughter, Susan, before parting ways after eight years of marriage. An unconventional beauty with a little severe, sharp-eyed, hard-line features, was passed over for leadership roles in the movies lady, focusing heavily on transatlantic race across the stage 1930 and 1940. She grew in stature, while the promulgation of a succession of ladies premiere of Shakespeare (Titania, Viola, Ophelia, Cordelia). While enjoying personal success in other parts of works such as “French Without Tears,” “Honor your father,” “Jupiter Laughs,” “Anne of England” and “Portrait of a Madonna.” And then she gave birth to Blanche DuBois.

When the work of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire “opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, Jessica’s name became forever associated with this character fascinating southern belle. One of the most complex, beautifully drawn, and still coveted femme parties of all time, went on to win the coveted Tony Award. Apart from the introduction of Marlon Brando for the general audience, “Streetcar” hit the marquee value of Jessica to a thousand times. But not in the movies.

While his colleagues estimated stars Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden had the luxury of recreating his role in Elia Kazan Stark black and white film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Jessica was devastating overlooked. Vivien Leigh, who played on stage in London and had already immortalized another timid, manipulative Southern Belle on celluloid (Scarlett O’Hara), was a celebrity more commercial film at the time and signed on to play the delusional Blanche. To be fair, Leigh was nothing less than astonishing in the role and went on to deserved to win the Academy Award (along with Malden and Hunter). Jessica require his revenge in Hollywood in subsequent years.

In 1942 he entered a second marriage to actor / producer / director Hume Cronyn, 52-year union produced two sons, Christopher and Tandy, the latter an actor in its own right. The couple not only enjoyed great solo success, they enjoyed the show in each other’s company. Some of his resounding victories included the drama “The Fourposter” (1951), “Triple Play” (1959), “Big Fish, Little Fish (1962),” Hamlet “(played Polonius, played Gertrude) (1963),” The Three Sisters (1963) and “A Delicate Balance.” Also supported together in films, his first, (1944 The Seventh Cross). In the movie “The Green Years (1946), Jessica, who was two years older than Cronyn, actually played his daughter! Throughout the 1950s he built a solid reputation as” America first couple of Theater ” .

In 1963, Jessica made an isolated appearance in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds (1963). Under the hierarchy of the time (pun), Jessica Hitchcock gave a notable supporting role and Jessica did most of his scenes very fragile nervous, overbearing mother of Rod Taylor, that witnesses of terror along the California coast. It was not until the 1980s that Jessica (and Hume, to a lesser extent) experienced a mammoth back in Hollywood.

Along with Hume is delighted movie audiences in the tariff nice as Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985) * batteries not included (1987). In 1989, however, Jessica was handed octogenarian the role of elderly lifelong South as thorny Jewish widow who gradually form a bond of trust with their elegant black chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy Theater (1989 ). Jessica was presented with the Oscar, Golden Globe and British Film Awards, among others, for his outstanding work in the film that also won the “Best Film”. Consider now Hollywood royalty, she was given the cream of the crop in some parts of the old film and earned another Oscar nomination for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) a few years later.

Jessica also enjoyed some of his biggest hits from stage ( “tram” notwithstanding) during his sunset years, winning two Tony Awards for their outstanding work in “The Game Gin” (1977) and “Foxfire” (1982). Both co-starred her husband Hume and both were transferred by the beautiful girl on television. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, Jessica bravely continued to work with the Emmy-winning distinction in television. She died of the disease on 11 September 1994. His last two films, Nobody’s Fool (1994) and Camilla (1994), were released after his death.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

Spouse
Hume Cronyn (September 27mo, 1942 to September 11, 1994) (his death) 2 children
Jack Hawkins (October 22do, 1932-enero 2, 1940) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Mother of Susan Hawkins Jack Hawkins and Christopher Cronyn and Tandy Cronyn, with Hume Cronyn.

1990: Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful in the world.

1990: diagnosed with cancer.

She won a Tony Award in 1978 for “The Game Gin.

She won a Tony Award in 1948 for “A Sreet Car Named Desire.”

Favorites (with husband Hume Cronyn) and Liz Marriott on NBC Radio “The Marriage” (1953-1954).

1989: He became the performer 12 to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Tonys: Best Actress-Play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1948) and Best Actress-Play, “The Game Gin” (1978) and Best Actress-Play “” Foxfire “(1983); Emmy: Best Actress-Miniseries/Special, Blaze (1987) (TV).

He has won four Tony Awards: in 1948 as Best Actress (Drama) in “A Streetcar Named Desire”, an award he shares with Judith Anderson in “Medea” and Katharine Cornell for Antony and Cleopatra, “” as Best Actress (Play) in 1978 for “The Game Gin” and in 1983 for “Glow” and in 1994 a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn. He also received Tony Award nominations in 1971, Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for “Rose”, and in 1986 as Best Actress (Play) for “the request”.

Broadway producer Lee Shubert convinced her to change her name to Jessica Jessie during his years in the initial phase.

1974: He earned a law degree.

1990: She and her husband, Hume Cronyn couple received the American National Medal of Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington. DC.

At the age of 81, which is the oldest winner of an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Daisy Werth in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

1993 won a Tony Award Special (New York) Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Kate Hudson And Alex Rodriguez Update

Kate Hudson And Alex Rodriguez Update: Kate Hudson joined A-Rod on the 27th night sky, holding the Yankees win the World Series with a night on the town.
The third baseman and his “Almost Famous” arm candy were seen at the access point after the game 10ak Manhattan, where they partied with Derek Jeter and his girlfriend Minka Kelly, and a mother of Rod, Lourdes Navarro, and his sister Suzy, Usmagazine. com reports.

Rodriguez and Hudson arrived at 2 am, but Kate left after half an hour, while A-Rod remained around 5 am, “a spy tells the magazine. “Minka and Derek seemed very happy, like everyone, and did not leave until 5 too.”

Hudson applauded the Bronx Bombers, along with his father, Kurt Russell, at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday in a sold out crowd that included a list of New Yorkers, like Spike Lee, Donald Trump and Regis Philbin and Mary J. Blige, who sang the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Since connecting to the All-Star player in May, Hudson has followed the 2007 MVP to win all season, including away games at Miami and Toronto.

There are rumors that she loves to round the bases with stud slugger.

“I love sex!” a snitch tells the magazine. “They talk about all day. Kate gets graphic talking about his body, including his parents.”

Rodriguez is rumored to be something of a player, so he has had much practice bedding. He was photographed with a stripper while he was still married, has been linked to Madonna, and an adventure remembers seeing pictures of the slugger as a centaur that hangs over her bed.
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