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Justin's Alpha Dog May be in Some Trouble

PopSugar — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:24:05 -0800

Justin may be single now, but he sure didn't look sad walking down the red carpet solo to show off his latest project. Last night JT attended the premiere of his new movie Alpha Dog in LA. It's a film about the kidnap and murder of a Southern California teenager that actually did happen, and now the real life drama may cause the film's January 12th release to be delayed. Here's more:

Despite having the characters' names changed, Hollywood is shown in a bad light throughout the film, attorney James Blatt said, and a jury pool could be tainted, infringing on Hollywood's right to a fair trial.

Universal Studios argued that prohibiting the public from seeing the movie would violate the First Amendment.

Last month, a federal judge refused to stop the film's release but Hollywood appealed the decision. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule in the coming days.

"Alpha Dog" is based on the kidnapping and slaying of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz seven years ago. Prosecutors believe Hollywood, portrayed in the movie by Emile Hirsch, was the mastermind behind the murder plot. The teen's body was later found in a remote Santa Barbara County camping area.

Markowitz was killed as part of a feud Hollywood had with the victim's older half brother over a $1,200 drug debt, prosecutors said. Four others have been convicted in connection with the murder.

Let's hope nothing comes of this. We're really looking forward to checking out JT's new flick soon. We're betting it will be a good one based on the fabulous acting skills he showed off a few weeks ago on SNL. For now, more pics including Hank Azaria, Sharon Stone, Amanda Seyfried, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Foster and Emilie Hirsch so just read more

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Justin's Alpha Dog

PopSugar — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:58:21 -0700

Will Alpha Dog ever make it to theaters? We have been seeing hot images of a tattooed JT for such a long time. We even heard this movie did well at the festivals but apparently the release date keeps getting pushed back. The latest is we will have to wait until January 2007 to see tough guy Justin on the big screen. Until then, check out pics of Justin all tattooed for his new movie Alpha Dog. Click here to see the trailer. If all else fails and the movie bombs then at least JT has a booming music career. SexyBack has claimed the top spot again for the sixth week in a row. Congrats JT!

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JT's Getting Busy

PopSugar — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:47:29 -0700

Justin Timberlake and girlfriend Cameron Diaz were spotted out for the first time in a while as they went to Il Sole for dinner. JT should be having a busy year with some movies like Alpha Dog coming out soon and a new album this fall. Rumor is Elton John is working on a pilot about his life and he wants JT to play the lead as the young Elton.

In case you have not seen the trailer for Alpha Dog, enjoy the extended version below.

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Justin's Tattoo Mistake?

PopSugar — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:13:33 -0800

We love this hot photo of JT with all his fake tattoos for his upcoming movie Alpha Dog. The movie got good reviews as it was this year's closer at Sundance. In fact, EW reported it as one of 5 of the Breakout movies. This is good news for JT who is trying to jump-start his acting career. Unfortunately, it looks like they may have made a mistake with one of his many tattoos his characters sports as the drug dealing Frankie. The Scoop reports:

Was something lost in translation? Justin Timberlake is covered with fake tattoos for his role as a drug dealer in the film â€œAlpha Dog.â€? One of them is a Chinese symbol which, according to the London Times, means â€œice skating.â€?

Can anyone out there confirm the goof or maybe it has multiple meanings? I love when people get tattoo's and they don't even know what they mean.

UPDATE: Thanks to all your responses - reader Rachel said the meaning is "wind, earth. water, fire" which makes a lot more sense than ice skating.

SECOND UPDATE: Apparently the Ice Skating thing is on his other arm so click here to see more tattoos on JT. Thanks to everyone for helping resolve the mystery.

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Sugar Shout Out: What's the Deal With the Alpha Female?

PopSugar — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:38:18 -0800

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Jessica Really Appeals to the Teens

Molly — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:05:00 -0700

Apparently Jessica and Cash didn't have time to take advantage of being in Paris after Eva and Tony's wedding, because the two were at the airport on their way out yesterday morning. And don't they just look thrilled as usual (though I'm loving her coat)? Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer may have been a bit overshadowed by the other Summer blockbusters, but the Teen Choice Awards committee took notice and nominated Jessica for 3 awards: Hissy Fit, Female Hottie, Action Adventure Actress. The show isn't until the end of August, but you can vote here. Mark my words, teens love Jessica, but she may have to lose to Seacrest in the Hissy Fit category.

To see the full list of 2007 Teen Choice Awards (there are a bazillion of them) just read more

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Choice Movie: Action Adventure
300
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Spider-Man 3
Transformers

Choice Movie: Drama
Step Up
Stomp the Yard
The Departed
The Guardian
The Pursuit of Happyness

Choice Movie: Chick Flick
Georgia Rule
License to Wed
Music and Lyrics
The Holiday
The Last Kiss

Choice Movie: Comedy
Blades of Glory
Evan Almighty
Knocked up
Night at the Museum
Ocean's Thirteen

Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller
Disturbia
The Number 23
1408
Hostel: Part II
Saw III

Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Ashton Kutcher - The Guardian
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed, Blood Diamond
Channing Tatum - Step Up
Adam Sandler - Reign Over Me
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Choice Movie Actress: Drama
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Lindsay Lohan - Bobby, Georgia Rule
Meagan Good - Stomp the Yard
Scarlett Johansson - The Black Dahlia, The Prestige

Choice Movie Actor: Action Adventure
Shia LaBeouf - Transformers
Chris Evans - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Orlando Bloom - Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man 3

Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure
Jessica Alba - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Kirsten Dunst - Spider-Man 3
Lena Headey - 300
Megan Fox - Transformers

Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Ben Stiller - Night at the Museum
Jon Heder - School for Scoundrels, Blades of Glory
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Steve Carell - Evan Almighty
Will Ferrell - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Blades of Glory

Choice Movie Actress: Comedy
Emma Roberts - Nancy Drew
Jessica Simpson - Employee of the Month
Katherine Heigl - Knocked Up
Sophia Bush - John Tucker Must Die
Kate Hudson - You, Me and Dupree

Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller
Josh Duhamel - Turistas
Jim Carrey - The Number 23
Ryan Gosling - Fracture
Jake Gyllenhaal - Zodiac
Shia LaBeouf - Disturbia

Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller
Jordana Brewster - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Amber Tamblyn - The Grudge 2
Elisha Cuthbert - Captivity
Jessica Biel - Next
Sophia Bush - The Hitcher

Choice Movie: Villain
Al Pacino (Willie Bank) - Ocean's Thirteen
Bill Nighy (Davy Jones) - Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Julian McMahon (Victor Von Doom) - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Megatron - Transformers
Topher Grace (Venom) - Spider-Man 3

Choice Movie: Hissy Fit
Cameron Diaz - The Holiday
Will Ferrell - Blades of Glory
Steve Carell - Evan Almighty
Jessica Alba - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Ryan Seacrest - Knocked Up

Choice Movie: Liplock
Keira Knightley & Orlando Bloom - Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Kirsten Dunst & Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man 3
Megan Fox & Shia LaBeouf - Transformers
Drew Barrymore & Hugh Grant - Music and Lyrics
Beyoncé & Jamie Foxx - Dreamgirls

Choice Movie: Breakout Female
Megan Fox - Transformers
Sophia Bush - John Tucker Must Die, The Hitcher
Jennifer Hudson- Dreamgirls
Emma Roberts - Nancy Drew
Rachel Bilson - The Last Kiss

Choice Movie: Dance
Columbus Short - Stomp The Yard
Channing Tatum & Jenna Dewan - Step Up
Ioan Gruffudd - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
John Heder & Will Ferrell - Blades of Glory
Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man 3

Choice Movie: Rumble
Spider-Man 3 - Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) & New Goblin (James Franco) vs. Venom (Topher Grace) & Sandman (Thomas Haden Church)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End- Orlando Bloom (Will Turner) vs. Crew of The Flying Dutchman
Transformers - Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) vs. "Blackout"
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) vs. Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon)
300 - Spartans vs. The Immortals

Choice Movie: Breakout Male
Chris Brown - Stomp the Yard
Justin Timberlake - Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan
Shia LaBeouf – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Disturbia, Transformers
Justin Long - Accepted, The Break-Up, Live Free or Die Hard, Idiocracy
Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Choice Movie: Chemistry
Shia LaBeouf & "Bumblebee" - Transformers
Ocean's Thirteen - Ocean's Thirteen
Seth Rogen & Paul Rudd - Knocked Up
Will Smith & Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Will Ferrell & Jon Heder - Blades of Glory

Choice Movie: Scream
Jonah Hill - Accepted
Jordana Brewster - Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Kate Beckinsale - Vacancy
Arielle Kebbel - The Grudge 2
Steve Carell - Evan Almighty

Choice TV: Movie
High School Musical 2
Jump In!
Life is not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
The Initiation of Sarah
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie

Choice TV Show: Drama
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes
House
Lost
Kyle XY

Choice TV Show: Comedy
Hannah Montana
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Ugly Betty

Choice TV: Animated Show
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Family Guy
Lil' Bush
South Park
The Simpsons

Choice TV: Reality/ Variety Show
American Idol
America's Next Top Model
Dancing with the Stars
The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll
The Hills

Choice TV Actor: Drama
Hugh Laurie - House
Jared Padalecki - Supernatural
Matthew Fox - Lost
Milo Ventimiglia - Heroes
Wentworth Miller - Prison Break

Choice TV Actress: Drama
Emily Deschanel - Bones
Evangeline Lilly - Lost
Hayden Panettiere - Heroes
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Ghost Whisperer
Katherine Heigl - Grey's Anatomy

Choice TV Actor: Comedy
Adrian Grenier - Entourage
Charlie Sheen - Two and a Half Men
David Spade - Rules of Engagement
Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
Steve Carell - The Office

Choice TV Actress: Comedy
Emma Roberts - Unfabulous
Miley Cyrus - Hannah Montana
Tia D. Mowry - The Game
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Eva Longoria - Desperate Housewives

ChoiceTV: Sidekick
Donald Faison - Scrubs
Allison Mack - Smallville
Jorge Garcia - Lost
Kevin Dillon - Entourage
Jerry Ferrara - Entourage

Choice TV: Personality
Nick Cannon - Wild 'N Out
Ryan Seacrest - American Idol, E!
Simon Cowell - American Idol
Tyra Banks - America's Next Top Model
Bruno Tonioli - Dancing with the Stars

Choice TV: Breakout Show
Ugly Betty
Friday Night Lights
October Road
Heroes
South of Nowhere

Choice TV: Breakout
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Matt Dallas - Kyle XY
Taylor Kitsch - Friday Night Lights
Hayden Panettiere - Heroes
Masi Oka - Heroes

Choice TV: Male Reality/Variety Star
Apolo Anton Ohno - Dancing with the Stars
Flavor Flav- Flavor of Love
Jojo, Diggy, Russy (Run's sons) - Run's House
Sanjaya - American Idol
Three 6 Mafia - Adventures in Hollyhood

Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star
Jaslene Gonzalez - America's Next Top Model
Jordin Sparks - American Idol
Lauren Conrad - The Hills
New York - I Love New York
Paris Hilton - The Simple Life

Choice TV: Villain
Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luther) - Smallville
Vanessa Williams (Wilhelmina Slater) - Ugly Betty
Zachary Quinto (Sylar) - Heroes
Michael Emerson (Ben) - Lost
Robert Knepper (Theodore Bagwell) - Prison Break

Choice Music: Single
Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America - Gym Class Heroes Featuring Patrick Stump
Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani Featuring Akon
Umbrella - Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
Give It To Me - Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

Choice Music: Male Artist
Bow Wow
John Mayer
Justin Timberlake
Ne-Yo
Timbaland

Choice Music: Female Artist
Gwen Stefani
Fergie
Carrie Underwood
Nelly Furtado
Rihanna

Choice Music: Rap Artist
Ludacris
T.I.
Timbaland
Fabolous
Young Jeezy

Choice Music: R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Ne-Yo
Rihanna
Akon
Beyoncé

Choice Music: Rock Group
All-American Rejects
Fall Out Boy
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Choice Music: Breakout Artist - Female
Amy Winehouse
Corinne Bailey Rae
Katharine McPhee
Lily Allen
Vanessa Hudgens

Choice Music: Breakout Artist - Male
Akon
Lloyd
Mika
MIMS
Robin Thicke

Choice Music: Breakout Group
Daughtry
Gym Class Heroes
Hinder
Shop Boyz
The Fray

Choice Music: Love Song
Don't Matter - Akon
First Time - Lifehouse
Lost Without You - Robin Thicke
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional
With Love - Hilary Duff

Choice Music: R&B Track
Because of You - Ne-Yo
Get it Shawty - Lloyd
Last Night - Diddy Featuring Keisha Cole
Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston
Wall to Wall - Chris Brown

Choice Music: Rap/Hip-Hop Track
This Is Why I'm Hot- MIMS
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc
The Way I Are - Timbaland Featuring Keri Hilson & D.O.E.
Party Like a Rockstar - Shop Boyz
Pop Lock & Drop It - Huey

Choice Music: Rock Track
Better Than Me - Hinder
It's Not Over - Daughtry
Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
Thanks for the Memories - Fall Out Boy
What I've Done - Linkin Park

Choice Music: Payback Track
What Goes Around... - Justin Timberlake
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Never Again - Kelly Clarkson
Irreplaceable - Beyoncé
U + Ur Hand - Pink

Choice Male Hottie
Josh Duhamel
Orlando Bloom
T.I.
Zac Efron
Taylor Kitsch

Choice Female Hottie
Megan Fox
Hayden Panettiere
Jessica Alba
Jessica Biel
Rihanna

Choice Comedian
Dane Cook
David Spade
Jack Black
Katt Williams
Will Ferrell

Choice Male Athlete
Tiger Woods - Golf
LeBron James - Basketball
Dwyane Wade - Basketball
Alex Rodriguez - Baseball
Peyton Manning - Football

Choice Female Athlete
Maria Sharapova – Tennis
Serena Williams - Tennis
Annika Sorenstam - Golf
Rutgers Women's Basketball Team - Basketball
Rags to Riches - Horse Racing

Choice Action Sports Female
Gretchen Bleiler - Snowboarder
Kristi Leskinen - Free Skiing
Hannah Teter – Skateboarding
Lisa Andersen - Surfing
Dallas Friday – Wakeboarding

Choice Action Sports Male
Ryan Sheckler- Skateboarding
Shaun White- Snowboarder, Skateboarder, Surfer
Andy Irons- Surfing
Kelly Slater- Surfing
Ryan Nyquist- BMX

Choice OMG! Moment
Paris Hilton goes to jail, gets out of jail, then goes to jail again
Britney Spears shaves her head
Lindsay Lohan goes to rehab, gets out of rehab, goes to rehab again
Larry Birkhead is Dannielynn's father
Sanjaya Malakar sports a faux-hawk on American Idol

Justin "Infatuated" with Britney

PopSugar — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:51:14 -0700

Justin gets real honest in the August issue of GQ which is on newsstands July 25th. In the article he talks about his new album, acting, Cameron and of course Britney. He even admits he was "infatuated with her from the moment I saw her."

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The Private Life of Justin Timberlake

"I didn't want to be the guy who dates girls in tabloids"

Locked & Loaded
With his second album about to hit stores, serious roles in two upcoming movies, and the older woman you dream about, Justin Timberlake is on the verge of something very big.

By Lisa DePaulo, Photographs by Steve Klein

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE picks me up in his black Porsche 911 convertible, in front of the Chateau Marmont. "Don't worry," he says. "We're not doing the Chateau Marmont celebrity interview. You know, 'We're at the Chateau! And Bobby De Niro walked in! And he ordered salad!'"

No, he's taking me to a little joint on Highland Avenue called Ammo that he likes because it's "cool" and he can go there without getting noticed and we can sit outside and smoke. (Even though Justin doesn't smoke, you kind of get the feeling he'd like to.)

"Didja eat lunch?" he asks. "Good. Neither did I. Fucking starving."

He peels out of the Chateau...and almost runs over Mos Def, who is walking up the driveway.

"Yo, bro!" says Justin. "What's up?"

"I'm mixing a record out here, bro," says Mos Def.

"I can't wait to hear it!" says Justin.

"It's good, it's good."

"All right, man."

"Take care, bro."

Nice wheels, I tell him, as he accelerates rather abruptly out onto Sunset Boulevard.

"Yeah, well, it's better than my extra-small penis car." And that would be...? "My Ferrari," he says, adding that he also has a Bimmer, which he lent to his parents for the week. Oh, and a Jeep and a Dodge pickup "with a winch" on it. A winch? "Wow, you really are from New York," says Justin. "A winch is a device that you attach to the front of the, uh, truck, and you can tow people out if they get stuck."

I see.

"I'm into cars. You know, boys and their toys."

He tears down Sunset, almost clipping another (lesser) vehicle. "You know when I'm an asshole?" he says. "In traffic. I get road rage so badly. I'm on my best behavior today. But I get road rage like you wouldn't believe!"

After some L.A. parking drama, Justin finds a spot near Ammo, steps out of the car...and a fan materializes on the sidewalk. (So much for not getting noticed.) "You're my favorite!" squeals the young woman, who just happens to have Justin's face on a button on her denim jacket.

"You're my favorite, too," says Justin.

The woman practically faints.

We sit at an outdoor table, and Justin orders the turkey meat loaf. Midway through lunch, Ben Stiller walks in, stops to say hi.

"Hey, dude," Justin says. "How's the missus?"

"Cool," says Stiller. "We got, like, the baby. A 10-month-old. Life is good."

"Awesome, man!" says Justin.

L.A. can be so scintillating.

Now a horn is honking. There's a fan sitting in a car just off the curb who, having spotted Justin, is beeping and waving frantically, trying to get his attention. Justin waves back. "I feel thankful," he says. "There are parts of my celebrity that are really cool. Like that. That might have made her day, you know? And by the way, don't get me wrong--it has nothing to do with me. It's just like she saw somebody that she saw on television. She knows not one thing about me."

After the meat loaf, we return to the Porsche, only to find that the fan, the one we encountered earlier, is still there. And now she has a camera.

"Hi," says Justin. "I'll bet you wanna take a picture with that camera."

"Ohmygod," she says. "I'm, like, your biggest fan!" She pauses and frowns, "Even though you guys haven't put out an album in, like, forever."

Justin smiles tensely. She is talking about 'NSync, Justin's erstwhile Boy Band, the one he'd just as soon forget.

"I even got 'NSync on my license plate," she adds.

(How adorable, I whisper. "Please don't remind me," whispers Justin.)

"All right," he says to the fan. She can take a picture. He lifts her camera out of her trembling paws and hands it to me. "Don't mess this one up," he tells me.

"Thank you soooo, soooo much," she says.

"You're quite welcome, sweetheart."

He hops back into his Porsche.

"Okay," he says. "That's the part that slightly freaks me out."

HE WAS NEVER supposed to be cool. Not Justin Timberlake. Not the kid who started his career, at age 10, on frickin' Star Search. Who then went on to become...a Mouseketeer. Who then went on to live in Orlando to be close to Disney World. Orlando! Who was known as Pizza Face in junior high school because of his zits. He was hardly destined to be Hollywood royalty, let alone a guy with hit records, movie roles, and Cameron Diaz--

But we digress.

At the age of 25, Justin Timberlake finds himself--some would say miraculously--at the top of the heap. A staggering feat for any 25-year-old, but more so for a former Boy Band member whose biggest claim to fame could have been, might have been, being Britney Spears's Ex-Boyfriend. But that was then.

Now there's the new album coming out--which is rumored to be better than his first solo album, the hugely successful but unfortunately titled Justified, which was better than anyone (except perhaps Justin) ever dreamed it would be. There are the movie roles--a supporting role in the soon-to-be-released Black Snake Moan (with Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci); a dark and already buzzed-about part in the upcoming Alpha Dog; a voice role in the indie underdog Shrek the Third.

And have we mentioned the clothing line?

There are those who might fairly wonder: Whaaa? Justin Timberlake? He's okay looking, yeah, but so are zillions of other 25-year-olds in L.A. He's talented. Ditto. Works hard. Ditto. He's generally perceived as a Pretty Nice Guy, well-grounded, a kid from the "woods" outside Memphis who, as they like to say in the country, hasn't forgotten where he came from. He has no vices to speak of (except for "a couple of beers" while watching ESPN); he likes to golf, snowboard, and bake--yes, bake. He lives in a house his mother picked out for him, and when asked to pinpoint the hardest, most trying time in his life, he replies, "Nothing." The biggest mistake? "The Super Bowl," he says, when he not-so-inadvertently helped Janet Jackson (whom he allegedly had a romance with, but "I'm not gonna go too far into that," he says) expose her tit on national television. That's his biggest regret in life. No tragic backstory. No stints in rehab. None of the usual trajectory for a former child star.

"You know, the words child star just never registered with me," says Justin. "Still. To this day. I guess because when I was a child, I didn't think I was a child. I always thought I was an adult. My mother always spoke to me like I was an adult. She never talked down to me. I was never pushed by my parents. It was always like, 'I want to do this.' Like, it was just something that was undeniable for me, and I didn't know where it was gonna go. Still don't know."

"Justin is together," says his manager, Johnny Wright, who has repped him since Justin was 14. (He used to rep Britney, too, but says she dumped him during the breakup.) "A lot of times when kids grow up in the business, they stray off the deep end. Justin has always been the opposite. You know, normal. He's not a bad guy, he's not a tyrant. He's not a druggie, he's not a drunk." Usually, Wright allows, people who are in this business since age 10 are a little fucked-up at this point.

"We always tried to keep him grounded," says his mother, Lynn Harless, who had him (her only child) when she was 20. "We tried to remind him that he was just someone who had a cool job. I remember when he was 14 and 'NSync [Lynn came up with the name for the band] was really getting big and the record company wanted to take him out on tour alone, and I said, 'No! You can't take my 14-year-old child. Are you crazy?'" She speaks in a rich Memphis accent. She still lives there but makes frequent trips to Los Angeles to care for her boy--she picked out his house, pays his bills, and with her husband, Paul (Justin's stepfather), manages his finances. "It wasn't like we were out there trying to make a career out of this."

"My mom is so cool," says Justin.

His first gig was on Star Search, when he was 10. He auditioned for it at a mall in Tennessee. At 11, he was in the Mickey Mouse Club. It was there that he fell for Britney Spears, a fellow Mouseketeer. "I was in love with her from the start," says Justin. "I was infatuated with her from the moment I saw her."

"Britney grew up on my living room floor," says Lynn. "We were family, and I still love her to death. They were together ten or eleven years and had, from day one, that chemistry between them. She's a sweet girl. And I just hate what she's going through now."

Justin would very much like to get past the Britney era, but that decade of his life isn't so easily erased. The breakup, when Justin was all of 21, made him tabloid fodder for months and was brutally hard on him, even as it made him more and more famous. As life-defining moments go, it was bigger than the Super Bowl. "Especially when you loved that person half your life," he says.

"I don't think his breakup with her was any different than anybody's breakup with their first love," says his mother. "It's usually not as publicized."

THE TRUTH IS, he got his ass handed to him by Britney. For a while, he dealt with it by pursuing, as he puts it, "the affections of many young females." Then, as time passed, he began to deal with it creatively: His hit song "Cry Me a River" from his last album was a lyrical fuck-you to Ms. Spears. (You told me you loved me/Why did you leave me, all alone/Now you tell me you need me/When you call me, on the phone/Girl I refuse, you must have me confused/With some other guy/Your bridges were burned, now it's your turn/To cry, cry me a river.) "When we initially parted ways, he says, "I felt like she had a couple of opportunities to just sort of stick up for me, and she didn't. Which is fine. But at that time, you know, I fought back, and that's the way I fought back. I used my mind. I came up with a song."

He says it's now "a distant thing" and that, contrary to reports, he doesn't talk to Britney (and never told her to lose the loser husband), but he does feel badly when he sees what the press is putting her through. "I wish her well, and I want to see her win," he says. "I don't think you can ever count somebody like her out. Because she may appear one way, but she's very clever," he says cryptically. He refuses to gloat over the fact that his career took off like a shot and she ended up crying through her mascara to Matt Lauer. "I mean, at the end of the day, it's like, be a man. You know? Some shit happened, it wasn't good, but be a man," he says.

Justin is smart enough to know that his reputation as a chick magnet has not hurt his music career. But his experience as "that guy in the tabloids" made him more determined to do something credible with his career. "I didn't want to be 'that guy from the Boy Band.' I didn't want to be that guy who was just, like, famous for being famous. I didn't want to be the guy who dates girls in the tabloids. That's why the [first] album was such a big deal for me. I had to fight harder for my respect, for my credibility."

He made the decision to go solo in 2002, at a time when, as he says, "'NSync was, like, bigger than bubble gum." They were selling "bagillions of records." Forty-two million, to be exact. "People said, 'Are you crazy? This is a good thing. Ride it out.' But all I wanted to be was taken seriously." And he was, to the tune of 7 million records worldwide, shocking both his critics and his fans. Suddenly, it was cool to listen to Justin Timberlake, and even cooler to be Justin Timberlake.

"I've made a career out of doing things I probably shouldn't do," he likes to say. "Like after the solo record, I wanted to do films, and everybody said, 'Are you crazy? Do another record. You're on a roll.' For me, it was just like, eh, I wanna do films. And now that I'm doing a record again, of course my record label's very happy." He laughs. "But I think there's that curiosity: Can he do it again?"

Not to mention the pressure to top the first one. "My mission wasn't to top it," he says. "Well, okay, my mission was to top it, but in a different way. I wanted a new sound. I wanted something fresh.

"This stuff is so progressive," he says of the new record, FutureSex/LoveSounds. He took his time with it and enlisted the help of legendary producers Timbaland and Rick Rubin. "It's very different form the last album. Like, the last album, so much of what was happening in my life was fed into the album. And people would psychoanalyze the songs. But I didn't care, because it meant they were actually listening to the songs. It sent everybody into this guessing game, which--I can't lie--was sort of fun for me."

Will there be anything to psychoanalyze on this one?

He smiles. "Probably. There's lots of love and sex. And sex. And sex and love. A lot of sex."

WHICH BRINGS US to Cameron. Justin is fiercely protective of his three-year relationship with her--which, of course, no one thought would las longer than three weeks. "For me, this time around, it's been important to stay, at least as much as I can, out of the limelight. And I think that's made it more enriching. I've received so much more from it by keeping it just between the two people it's supposed to be between. Some people, especially here, are happy to offer themselves up in that way. But I come from a small town where, like, to give someone privacy means to give them respect." Besides, he adds, being tabloid fodder "really affected me." (Case in point: A week after our interview, the gossips said he had dumped Cameron so he could "sow his wild oats"--precisely the kind of thing that pisses him off.)

He says that he came to the realization that that whole thing with Britney "was just so high school" (perhaps because he was in high school) and that what he has with Cameron is more "adult." She's eight years older than he is and golfs and snowboards with his mother. "We have a lot in common," says Lynn. As for her son, "Justin moved on [from the Britney thing] a long time ago, or he wouldn't be in another relationship. He's very monogamous. One piece of advice he never took from me was to date around. He just couldn't do it. He's always been a one-woman man."

So, what makes it work?

Justin pauses. "I think, uh--without being so ambiguous that I seem like an asshole? There's no pretense about anything. It's just a sort of coming together of two people."

People think that you traded up.

"Well, that's a lot of ignorance."

TONIGHT JUSTIN TAKES the Bimmer out to drive himself to the MTV Movie Awards. "Oh, yes, I loooove awards shows," he says sarcastically. In the backseat are his publicist, some dude from his record company, and Rachael, his personal assistant (who also happens to be his cousin). Which leads to some Memphis country-talk about his grandmother's peach cobbler and the revelation that Justin Timberlake likes to bake.

Does Cameron cook?

"Like the Devil. It's the way to a man's heart, you know."

What does she cook?

Justin turns up the music. I clearly have gotten too personal.

When he pulls up to the Sony lot, all hell breaks loose. Justin would like you to believe he doesn't notice that out of all the celebrities walking the red carpet tonight, he's the one who gets the most screams, the most hysteria, the most overheated shoutouts from the most underdressed women.

Justin! Justin! Justin! It just goes on and on and on. A few of them are trying to throw themselves over a wall. For Justin Timberlake. Who isn't even up for an award. He's just here to present the award for Best Kiss.

Ahead of him on the red carpet is Superman, behind him Jessica Simpson. Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell in his NASCAR outfit. But the crowd is stuck on Justin.

Access Hollywood jams a microphone in his face, with a pressing question: What does he think of the new Superman? "He looks, uh, super," says Justin.

He does what he has to with Extra and Entertainment Tonight. He talks to the southern chick from Jay Leno who commands his attention by shrieking "You're hot!" Someone wants to know where "his lady" is tonight. "I don't know," he says. "If you see her, let me know." A fan wants to know: Where's Cameron? "She's, uh, watching the kids," he replies. His publicist says that's enough, but a woman stuck in the pathetic "radio interviewers" section of the blue carpet is screaming Please! and Justin takes pity on her. "Just one question," she begs. Okay, says Justin, shoot. "What's the last thing you bought?"

Ah, Hollywood.

Later, he presents the award for Best Kiss--which of course goes to Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. "The fellas," as he puts it. Makes an ad-lib crack on the air about getting a hand job backstage, which will be edited out of the broadcast. Then bolts thirty minutes into the show. ("Can we leave now?" he asked his publicist.)

On the ride home, he talks about his favorite TV show, Grey's Anatomy. He wants Dr. McDreamy to choose Meredith.

Um, isn't that a chick show?

"It is a chick show. Fuck yeah, it is."

He has a moment of road rage on Robertson Boulevard, then suggests losing everybody before he heads back to his castle in the Hills, where he lives with his two dogs, Buckley and Brennan. "I live alone," he says. "Well, Trace [his friend from home] has a room there, and Rachael lives in the guesthouse--"

He doesn't live with Cameron?

"Uh, noooo." A pause. "I have my own house. It's very important. Healthy." He laughs nervously. "Don't you need your own space?"

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Link Time!!!

PopSugar — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:06:08 -0800

Evidently Alpha Dog isn't getting Justin any closer to this - CityRag
K-Fed's commercial already pissing people off - Mollygood
Katie the clown - Pink is the New Blog
J Lo's religious mentors say she's forgotten them - IDLYITW
Jessica Simpson is a little saggy - Hollywood Tuna
Hugh Hefner: Kelly Osbourne can't be in Playboy - Hollywood Rag
Are Mandy and DJ AM a sham? - Egotastic
Who would win the Hottest Actor at the Oscars? - BuzzSugar
Jamie Foxx is in The Foxxhole - A Socialite's Life
Who is Prison Break's John Doe? - Just Jared
ICYMI - Contestant Janita Burks and her confidentiality on Idol last night - D-Listed

JT On Tour - Going Solo?

PopSugar — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:18:19 -0800

Justin is performing tonight in San Diego, but he won't be alone. He'll kick off his US tour with Pink but what we really care about is what is going on with the other ladies he has been rumored to be with. JT sort of addresses the Cameron break up rumors while promoting Alpha Dog. One thing is for sure - he is moving on preparing for his tour and since the couple have not come out to deny a break up I am starting to think we won't be seeing JT and Cameron together anymore. Here's more:

Timberlake's friends say that the nine-year age difference between the pair proved too much of a problem, although the singer just shrugged and said: "I can't talk about it right now."

He did, however, hint that commitment to a long-term relationship may have been a problem for him. "As much as I've learned, I am still a man so I have some kind of learning disability," he grinned.

"And women wouldn't have us any other way."

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Justin Is a Ladies Man

PopSugar — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:47:47 -0800

Justin may be single again, but he surely wasn't dateless the other night at the premiere of Alpha Dog. He took his mom Lynn to the show. Then the two hit the after party together where JT met up with Scarlett Johansson. Justin and Scarlett then apparently danced and hung out until the club closed and JT took off with his mom. So maybe there is something more going on between these two besides shooting JT's latest video for What Goes Around Comes Around... Stay tuned. Hopefully they'll provide some excitement for us this weekend.