This morning we showed you Britney's hot new Rolling Stone cover, and now we've got another inside peek at her interview and photo shoot. The photos show a perfect balance of sexy and flirty, and it's refreshing to see Britney smiling and laughing again. Here are more highlights from the article where the pop star talks about her boys, her ex, and her music:

• On Kevin Federline: "I didn't think my husband was gonna leave me. Otherwise, I'd be with my babies 24/7. But since they're almost like twins, they both take care of each other. I think they look like me. They don't look like their father at all."
• On the boys: "Every time they come to visit me, I think about how they're such special people . . . Like, they're going to preschool now! I went there to pick them up on Friday, and seeing them in their little classroom and seeing Jayden being bad or not listening? It's like, those are mine, and it's just crazy, you know what I mean? And the things that are coming out of their mouths right now — they're learning so much, and it's new, and you never know what they're going to say, and they're so smart yet so innocent. They're obsessed with monsters, and every night we look outside, and we have to show them that there's no monsters out there. It's dark outside, but there's nothin' out there, you know."
• On using personal experiences in her music: "It's scary to put yourself out there and be like, 'Oh, God, is that cool?' If you're not going to really go for it, you can't just go there halfway. But sometimes, when you go for it, you can't lose."
• On choosing tracks for the album: "You just hear it, and you're like, oh, my God, if somebody else takes this song, you're gonna kill yourself, you know what I mean? Like, this one I'm doing tonight, I think it's good, and it's, like, really quirky and different and girly."

It sounds like Britney is growing up and coming into her own in both her career and personal life as a mother, but without losing the sweet Southern girl she always was on the inside.

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David Beckham looked like a quintessential California boy with his backwards hat and Jamba Juice playing with his iPhone in LA yesterday. Beckham has been a staple in the Lakers front row this year so far, but he'll have to miss the bulk of the season when he heads to Milan in January. While there has been some talk of Becks extending his stay in Europe, he seems to enjoy his sunny stateside life as much as Victoria does — and seeing how they're already raising mini Lakers fanatics, hopefully the Beckhams aren't leaving for good just yet.

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• Alex Rodriguez is foregoing Thanksgiving in Miami with his ex Cynthia and their children to spend it with Madonna in NYC. Cynthia called A-Rod her "6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband" and said he was "abandoning" his family. — Page Six
• Amy Winehouse is back in the hospital again after what her rep claims was a negative reaction to a mix of medications. Her husband's appeal for a reduction of his jail sentence was denied. — PopSugar UK
• George Clooney called Hugh Jackman to jokingly yell at him for winning People's Sexiest Man Alive title and campaigning to steal it away from George. — People
• Jay-Z will perform with Coldplay on their tour in September 2009 in Glasgow, Manchester, and London. — MTV UK
• The Vanity Fair Oscar party is back on. This year the event will take place at Hollywood's Sunset Tower Hotel and will be a "more intimate affair." — Us Weekly
• Patrick Swayze finished filming his TV show The Beast in Chicago yesterday and had cosmos with his wife and costars to celebrate. — The Sun

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Tom Cruise looks like his Color of Money character with his powerful stare on the cover of Details magazine. John Mayer, Robert Downey Jr., and Nick Jonas all made this year's "Power List" with Tom at No. 7 spot as Leading Man. Tom talks about controversial Valkyrie and what he has in common with his character. Here's more:

• On why he chose the film: "When you make people reconsider something that they're so certain of . . . I found it very compelling. It's the reason I'm doing it. When I was a kid, we'd play war, you know, and it was always 'Kill the Nazis.' I wanted to kill Hitler. [. . .] It's about doing the right thing, but also about finding out what the right thing is. You know what I mean? I do feel that this movie was the right thing to do . . . I love movies. Yeah, man, I love movies!"
• On people criticizing the movie: "There's always someone telling you not to make a movie. When I did Born on the Fourth of July, they said, 'This is going to ruin your career. What are you doing?' Suicide? I've committed it. There were people who didn't want me to make Top Gun."
• On whether he relates to his character: "Certain decisions at points in my life . . . I absolutely related. Stauffenberg went from saying, 'Someone should shoot that bastard' to realizing, I'm the only one who can do it. You can't really know until you're under that kind of pressure. I'm not saying this in some chest-pounding way, but I do feel I'd have that kind of courage."

Tom Cruise sounds passionate about his new movie, which opens up Dec. 26. It may not seem like cheery holiday fare, but it will be a typically action packed Tom Cruise film.