Friday, February 27, 2009
Bono gets snarky, Jewel will go on, new Eddie Murphy flick

U2 frontman Bono has been forced to apologize after insulting Chris Martin during a live radio broadcast.

The Irish rocker called the Coldplay singer a "w**ker" during an interview on British station Radio One on Friday. The show's host, Jo Whiley, stopped the session and forced the star to apologize to listeners for the outburst. Bono retracted his previous comment, saying "Oops! Sorry, sorry, I'm a reformed character - I don't do that (swear) any more," before going on to label Martin "a completely dysfunctional character and a cretin" instead.

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Singer Jewel injured her knee this week while rehearsing for her Dancing With the Stars debut, leading many to think she would be dropping out of the competition.

But, just one day later she let everyone know that she was fully dedicated to getting better and performing.

Now she's updated her blog to give us all some good news!

Jewel says she went to her physical therapist and is thankfully feeling much better. And, according to her doc, if she rests now she'll be in good shape to compete next week.

She added:

"Anyway, I'm excited to get back to work next week dancing, hopefully it didn't cause me to get too far behind all the other contestants- I only had 3 weeks to prepare, and now it will be only 2 weeks - which isn't much considering how much I have to learn. All I can do is what I'm doing and to try and have fun- which I am! I will enjoy the days off to hang with my husband, and our family."

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American Pie star Chris Klein is about to take a major career leap -- literally.

The 29 year-old actor plays police officer Charlie Nash in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which opens today. Smallville actress Kristen Kreuk costars.

Klein says it was not an easy shoot.

"There was so much noise and so much going on. It comes off really good on screen," he told Kotaku.com. He remembered one particularly dangerous stunt where his only direction was "Don't get hurt."

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Veteran Heart rockers Ann and Nancy Wilson are to be honored with a lifetime achievement award from a prestigious songwriters' group.

The sisters, the only constant members of the group, will receive the Founders Award during publishing rights group ASCAP's annual pop music awards in Hollywood on April 22nd. Singer Ann Wilson, 58, and guitarist Nancy, 54, found fame in the 1970s with hits such as Crazy On You and Magic Man.

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Singer-guitarist Steven Page says he decided to leave the Barenaked Ladies because his songwriting contributions were being diminished.

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Oscar nominated actor/comedian Eddie Murphy is slated to star as Richard Pryor in an upcoming film about the legendary comic who battled drugs and M.S. Writer/Director Bill Condon is shopping his script entitled "Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?" to the studio subsidiaries and independent distributors around town.

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    Monday, February 2, 2009
    Will Brit cancel? Cold Play bans singer? New KISS music?

    Britney Spears And Kevin Federline To Move In Together For Sake Of Their Boys?

    Britney Spears has reportedly asked ex-husband Kevin Federline to play happy families at her new L.A. home, according to an unlikely new report.

    Britney Spears has said she'll cancel her upcoming Circus would tour - unless she's allowed to take her children on the road with her.

    The Toxic singer, 27, kicks off the 33 date tour in New Orleans on March 3, 2009.

    But she is threatening to pull plug as ex-husband Kevin Federline's lawyers continue to block an agreement allowing her to take sons.

    Perhaps this is why she supposedly asked him to move back in with them?

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    Simon Cowell has spoken out to deny rampant rumors that he is gay - insisting if he was, he wouldn't hide it.

    "I am not gay," he told British tabloid the Daily Star. "But in this business, if you were it wouldn't matter. It is not exactly unusual to be gay in the music business or the TV business. It is 2009, after all. So if you are, you are and if you're not, you're not."

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    Emma Watson says it's "unlikely" she'd ever date someone famous.

    The British actress, 18 - who shot to fame playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series - insists she would rather embark on a relationship with someone from her own circle of friends.

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    Chris Martin has been banned from recording with Coldplay.

    The frontman - who is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow - has revealed that he received a letter from Viva La Vida producer Brian Eno who is working on the band's new album, telling him not to come to the studio.

    He told Britain's Absolute Radio, "The letter was to all of us he said that he thought the last album was OK but it could have been much better. He said that he still wanted to work with us on the next album but that I was banned from the studio!

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    The founding members of Kiss are pushing 60, but they won't stop rocking. Paul Stanley tells Page Six that he, Gene Simmons and the band are headed into the studio to grind out their 42nd record for release this fall. "It's a Kiss album in the most true and classic sense - we're recording it in analog, not digital, and writing it ourselves," says Stanley.

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    NBC.com, Hulu.com, and NFL.com have all the Super Bowl ads collected on each of their sites. Strangely, NFL.com and Hulu make you sit through an ad before you get to watch a Super Bowl ad. Hulu seems to have the best video player of the three, the NFL site actually has game highlights, and NBC is probably the most convenient since you don’t have to sit through a pre-ad ad.

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