Karma apparently is coming back to bite Elton John in the bum. The trash-talking, Madonna-bashing, tantrum-throwing diva's next big-screen Disney musical, Gnomeo & Juliet, has been scrapped, per the Hollywood Reporter.
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Olympics: Women's Figure SkatingLike your average Winter Olympics fan, I was hoping the figure skating in Torino (Turin, to you Shroud fans) would feature the Wrath of Kwan, with Michelle finally capturing the elusive gold medal. That was not to be, so all the U.S. pressure falls on Sasha Cohen, who should definitely be played by Alexis Bledel in any potential future TV-movies (the Shaun "Flying Tomato" White gig will, naturally, go to Carrot Top.) Let's just hope the ladies' programs go smoother than the ice-dancing competition, which featured more crashes than your average drivers-education movie.
Some of the night's highlights:Kimmie Meissner, U.S.: the second performance of the night sets the tone for the Americans as Meissner nails the combo of a triple lutz into a triple toe-loop. This, apparently, is very hard. Up unt
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Lisa Rinna on Dancing with the Stars
You never really know how hard dancing is until you get in there and start. Fortunately, I'm a workout fiend. I've done a lot of yoga over the past 10 years, and pilates, which is very dance oriented. So my body was ready for this. Or so I thought...
I've had a couple of ballet classes in my life, but ballroom? There's no comparison. The pros make it look so easy. But I'm slipping and falling all the time because I'm a klutz. I'm beat-up all over. The very first day of rehearsals, I got a big fat blister and I said, "I gotta put socks on." So I have this thin pair of black cotton socks — not very pretty — but they do the job.
The question was, could I? The waltz, the rumba, they're all hard as hell. But I thought, "OK, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones did this for Chicag
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Kelly Clarkson
48th Annual Grammy AwardsAfter proudly watching my pals Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez on TV Guide Channel's Countdown to the Grammys, followed, of course, by Joan and Melissa Rivers on our Grammy red-carpet show, I made sure my roommate's VCR was taping Idol and my own VCR was set for Lost. All systems go! Time for the Grammys.8:00 pm The animated group Gorillaz open with their hit "Feel Good Inc.," and since I love the song, guess what? It makes me feel good. But I totally picture my mother in Chicago being very confused.8:03 The goddess Madonna enters and I'm loving every minute of it. Can I please look that fabulous when I'm 47? After a brief lip-synched intro, she sings the rest of "Hung Up" live, and her hair looks like Lydia Cornell circa Too Close for Comfort.8:13 Kelly Clarkson s
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Madonna
Having shaken those tagalong Gorillaz, Madonna uncorked very big news on Thursday's The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "OK, are you guys ready? I can't hide it anymore — I'm going on tour this summer," the Material Woman announced to the studio audience. No details came forth, but the buzz is that any new stage show would focus on her latest Confessions on a Dance Floor disc. "Her last tour was kind of a 'greatest hits' tour, and I don't think she would want to repeat all the songs," Madge's rep, Liz Rosenberg, recently told Rolling Stone. "But there are a few off the list that she left out." Ooh, like "Jimmy Jimmy"?!
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Madonna, performing live with the animated band the Gorillaz, will open this year's Grammy Awards, airing Feb. 8 on CBS, it was announced on Access Hollywood. Paula Abdul and MC Skat Cat, meanwhile, are available for bar mitzvahs.
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Question: So, when you were in Gillian Anderson's bed (Ask Ausiello 1/18), did she go with her is-it-real-or-fake American accent or her is-it-real-or-fake British accent? She seems to go back and forth depending on the continent or her mood.
Answer: It's so funny you should ask this because I was wondering the same exact thing when I was listening to her gab at PBS' Bleak House session at press tour. One moment she was talking like Scully and the next she sounded like a highbrow Madonna. What gives? "When I'm in London I basically speak with a British accent," she told me while we were in bed together. "It's near impossible for me not to when I'm sitting around with a bunch of Brits. It was challenging to keep my focus on my American accent [at the press-tour session]." She also reminded me that she was "a British kid. My fir
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Question: You mentioned a shooting on ER. When is that going to happen? Any hints on who gets shot and who the implicated shooter is?
Answer: Think Madonna.
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The New York Daily News reports that Howard Stern's 22-year-old daughter, Emily, has abruptly quit off-off-Broadway's Kabbalah, in which she played a sometimes-nude Madonna, after some of the shock jock's fan sites outed her famous parentage, which the religious spoof's producers had agreed to keep top secret. Stern's manager had no comment for the paper.
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Madonna
It appears Madonna's officially got her groove back. Her latest album, the well-reviewed Confessions on a Dance Floor, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart with 350,000 copies sold. That's 109,000 more copies than her last effort, 2003's disappointing American Life, moved in its first week in stores. Also bowing strongly was American Idol champ Carrie Underwood's debut effort, Some Hearts, which took the No. 2 spot with nearly 315,000 copies.
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