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The Robsession with Robert Pattinson

sharpysunshine — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:33:21 -0700

Girls strip off for him, fans mob his set, but the sweet little star of Twilight, and the world’s most wanted man, still struggles with his sex scenes Would I like to interview Robert Pattinson, the world’s hottest young actor? Yes, obviously - although getting close to the boy who plays the “devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful” vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight at first seems virtually impossible. Penned away in the Dorchester, like a rare Siberian tiger cub - he can’t stay at home in Barnes when he comes back from LA because the fans know where he lives - he is being firmly guarded by a brace of film execs when I arrive for the interview. A spiky PR woman for his new film, Remember Me - a romantic drama memorable mainly for the fact that it has Pattinson in it and is not a Twilight film - loudly repeats instructions that there are to be “no personal questions”. A Spanish reporter returns from the interview room claiming that when she asked him if he liked cooking, she nearly got thrown out. Another, a Brazilian, reveals that, in fact, he did get thrown out of an interview with Pattinson’s Twilight co-star and rumoured girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, back in Sao Paulo, for asking about boyfriends. “Her bodyguard asked me to leave,” he shrieks. “I said nao! And then he touched me on the shoulder, and I said, ‘Okay, I go.’” “Like, who the ferque is this diva?” says someone else, and by the time I am ushered next door to meet him, I’m thinking the same. But as soon as I clap eyes on him, and take in that kittenish smile, the tousled, leonine eyebrows and - of course - the lush whip of unwashed hair, all that instantly vanishes. Pattinson is calm, polite and pleasant: heaven on a stick. Swigging nonchalantly from a large bottle of Hildon like Stoli at a Facebook house party, he is also utterly oblivious to the commotion outside. And as for being a diva, well, let’s just say his agent, a jaded LA type who sits in the room with him, is far from impressed with his attempts so far, rolling his eyes when Pattinson asks: “Nick, am I a diva?” The actor furrows his brow. “I mean, I had a very diva-ish conversation with some people about some stuff in this film about a day ago…” Nick sighs and drawls: “He just said what he thought in a script meeting. Please don’t use that as an example.” “But I was very… bold,” protests Pattinson. Of course, that is exactly what he isn’t, because ever since his first knicker-melting appearance in Twilight, Pattinson, 23, has become a byword for shy hotness. Formerly a public-school hoodie from southwest London with a bit part in Harry Potter, he now commands £8m a movie and is such a huge lust object that he is unable to go anywhere unattended. During the filming of Remember Me, “3,500 people turned up and went completely mental”, he says. He is constantly asked for kisses and autographs, and recently, when he joked that the best way to get his attention was to take your clothes off, to his horror one girl in the audience promptly did so. Does he find the attention irritating? He shrugs. “I guess it’s part of your reality,” he says, before admitting he’s a “little bit harder to deal with” now. “I get stressed out much quicker.” Then again, being beautiful “is quite hard”, even though he insists that 50% of people don’t get his appeal: “They’re like, what’s that all about?” Certainly, today, he is trying his best not to be beautiful, in a greasy cap and sweats. Only his eyebrows seem manicured, although he insists they aren’t. He had them plucked on the first Twilight film, but “you get to the point where you think, ‘Okay, I look like a transvestite now’”. Not that the girls - Twilight’s obsessed fans are called Twiharders, and a documentary, Robsessed, has been made about them - were put off. Over the past 18 months, the actor has been linked to countless models and actresses, and recently appeared to confirm the rumours that he was dating Stewart, but then mysteriously claimed that he was “allergic to vagina”. Er, what was that about? Is he dating Stewart then? Or is he, in fact, gay? I heard his two older sisters used to dress him up and call him Claudia when he was a boy. Actually, he’s “straight”, he says. He found the male-on-male sex scenes he had to perform in a film, Little Ashes, last year “strange. I played Salvador Dali. We were both straight, but he was Spanish, so much more confident about being naked and stuff, although when it comes down to it, it’s just as awkward with a girl, especially if you are straight and with a girl you don’t like… Anyway, Javier was really cool. After we had been pretending to have sex on this balcony in Barcelona, he was like, ‘We have such a strange job…’” Poor Pattinson! Eyeing the bed in his suite, I dare a question about those sex scenes with girls. He famously had to pop a Valium to get through the audition for Twilight, in which he needed to make out on a bed with Stewart. For the love scenes in Remember Me, his co-star Emilie de Ravin “was very, very, very comfortable”, he sighs. “I’m always the one who’s the most uncomfortable. So we came into the room, and they said ‘It’s a closed set,’ blah, blah, and we got on to the bed and the director was like, ‘I got you these things, if just maybe you wanted to use them. You don’t have to use them, maybe it will make you more comfortable.’ They were these bondage things: lube and handcuffs and porn videos. It was so funny! „And when you end up doing it, you have this little patch on your privates. I didn’t really tape it up properly, so I’d spent so long taping it round myself and then literally it falls off within one second and it’s taped to the sheet. And you realise the whole crew are looking directly at your butt crack.” He blanches. “I can’t think of anything exciting for them about this. It gives you a lot of respect for porn stars.” I decide to dive in and ask him about Stewart. Does he believe in love at first sight? “Yes,” he says. Has he… ever been in love? “Ah, yes, I think so.” “What’s…” Nick looks up from his BlackBerry. “Let’s keep to the film,” he snaps. Pattinson looks embarrassed, but the moment has passed, and I am to leave. He gets up and gives me a kiss on the cheek: light and soft and not at all unfresh. I read somewhere one girl’s parents paid £20,000 in a charity auction for one of those. Remember Me is released on April 2

Even 1980's Pop Princesses could rock wearing anything sequined- Debbie Gibson edition video Clips

Taylormayde26 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:45:10 -0800

Only in My Dreams ( Live 1988) Debbie is wearing Jeans and a Blue Sequin Jacket with Patches on it.

Out Of The Blue( 1988 Live) same outfit from the prior video above

Lost In your Eyes- Debbie is wearing a Black sequin Letterman style Cardigan with a Big D on one side of it. she's wearing jeans yet again.

Jessica Simpson 'Angry' John Mayer Spilled Sex Details

kty — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:44:20 -0800

By Stephen M. Silverman
Likening Jessica Simpson to "a drug … like crack cocaine," a loose-lipped John Mayer told Playboy of their relationship: "Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm." Now, it's Simpson's turn to fire away – and she's doing it on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In an interview with Winfrey set to air Wednesday, Simpson sums up her reaction to what Mayer had to say with, one word: Disappointment. "There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody," she says. Asked if she's angry, she responds, "I'm not angry. I'm – well, I'm a little bit angry." What exactly is she angry about? "I don't want people to know how I am in bed," Simpson says. "I mean, I guess I could have been a lot worse." The pop star quips about the fallout from Mayer's comments: "My phone is ringing off the hook, I have to say." On another sensitive topic – her weight – Simpson, 29, tells Winfrey she's comfortable with her current shape. "I love my curves," she says. "I'm not going to ever be size 0, and I don't want to weigh 90 pounds."
RELATED: VIDEO: John Mayer Gets Emotional over Jessica Simpson
When the TV hosts points out that Simpson was thin for her 2005 movie role in The Dukes of Hazzard, Simpson responds, "I didn't weigh 90 pounds. But I was – I was definitely smaller. But that was Daisy Duke, that's a role. I was playing a role. I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day."

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Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative generates a childish pushback

liliblu — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:35:06 -0800

By Kevin Huffman
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Watching Shaun White drop into the halfpipe at the Vancouver Games, it's easy to forget that America is the most sedentary nation on Earth. The Daily Beast this week released the results of the Couch Potato Olympics, analyzing statistics for 24 industrialized nations in calories consumed, television watched, aversion to playing sports (yes, there's data on that) and Internet use. Congratulations, compatriots: We took home the gold!

And while Americans are most likely to celebrate White's Double McTwist 1260 with a double quarter-pounder with cheese, we're also excellent candidates for the Olympic committee's promotion: "Follow us on Twitter and you might win a cool video game!"
In this context, you'd think it would be hard to complain about Michelle Obama's childhood obesity campaign. The "Let's Move" initiative aims to improve access to healthful food and to encourage exercise. It's a good project for the first lady. She has the bully pulpit to make a difference, and it allows her to show off her guns on a regular basis -- kapow!
But if there is anything that upsets right-wingers more than Michelle Obama, it's people messing with our right to live the fat life. Combine the two, and it's on.
Michelle Malkin accused the first lady of "playing the national security card" by pointing out that one-third of our military's potential recruits are too fat and out of shape to qualify. (You can imagine how appalled Malkin must have been, since Republicans are so cautious with the national security card.)
Glenn Beck weighed in, too: "This is torn from the pages of the progressive playbook. You're too stupid. You need the government to fix your life . . . They're coming and they are slowly but surely taking away your freedom under the guise of helping you."
Sorry, guys, but someone needs to spell it out: Our kids don't eat well, they don't exercise and, just like their parents, they're getting fat.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a deeply troubling digital map showing the fattening of America over the past 25 years. You can watch the country chunk up state by state as the map flashes annually from 1985 to the present. Looking at the map, I felt the same foreboding sense I had watching tech stocks 10 years ago and housing prices five years ago. This is a human bubble. It can't be sustained. And when it pops, it's going to be ugly. We're quite literally whistling past the graveyard.
The first lady's initiative isn't going to wash away past excesses, but she's shining a spotlight on a critical issue and taking some important steps. As a parent of school-age children, I can join the amen chorus when Obama calls for more nutritious school meals, comprehensible food labels, helpful tips from pediatricians and changing the 1950s-era presidential physical fitness standards. (As long as they don't give up the rope climb. How many times in life have we all been grateful for the hard-earned lessons of the rope climb?)
Still, it's worth pausing to feel just a little sad that this is where we are as a country. This is least-common-denominator stuff, and we should all be disturbed that we need a White House initiative for basic health habits, that our aspiration is to do the obvious. Put down the Doritos. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Get off the couch. America may not be able to create "green" jobs or provide health insurance to poor people, but doggone it, we can make sure we don't have to roll our kids to school.
Beck's response typifies the childlike populist pushback to any effort to tell an unfortunate truth, particularly if resolving the problem involves a modicum of discomfort. We don't want to hear about global warming, especially if we have to give up the super-sized SUV. We don't want to hear about health-care costs -- we should be able to gorge on the diminishing returns of endless medical tests. And if the first lady wants us to eat more healthful food and hit the gym, she should mind her own beeswax. We pass on the costs and the girth to our kids, and hope it will somehow all just work out.
We're a week into the Olympics and the United States is hanging tough at the top of the medal standings. Our best athletes are clutch, and a little global butt-kicking is good for the national soul. Even better, though, would be a sustained commitment to building a healthier country, a nation with a little less watching and a little more doing.
The writer won The Post's "America's Next Great Pundit" contest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902169.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

U.S. Obesity Trends

Trends by State 1985–2008

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
First lady Michelle Obama: 'Let's move' and work on childhood obesity problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020900791.html

Michelle Obama plays the “national security” card

By Michelle Malkin http://michellemalkin.com/2010/02/10/michelle-obama-plays-the-national-security-card/

Website of the Day: Egg Watchers

GeekSugar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:15:56 -0800

Besides facilitating a perfectly cooked egg every time, London-based site Egg Watchers is "the egg timer that entertains you." While the site is hilarious in itself, it's particularly useful when trying to make the perfect boiled egg. First, select the size of egg you want to cook, then whether or not it's straight from the fridge (since cold eggs take longer!). Finally, choose how you want your egg: runny, squidgy, or firm. After entering your preferences, egg watcher tells you how long it'll take to boil your egg. Then click "Start the timer" for a funny video lasting exactly as long as your egg should be boiling. So far I've seen: an epic drum solo, a stage production of Star Wars, and an arrogant voicemail left for a woman by a sleazeball who tried to pick her up at a bar.

While this would be too distracting for me to use as an actual timer, the concept is cute. For now, I'll stick to using my iPhone alarm, but the site's design is adorable and the videos are a riot.

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FIRST PHOTOS: Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' Video

kty — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:36:02 -0800

By Aaron Parsley
Pick up the phone – it's Lady Gaga! The first official photos of the pop star in her new video for "Telephone," her addictive dance track with Beyoncé, have been released. And the singer, who rocked a hair bow in the video for "Poker Face," is showing off a hair-phone in one scene and an American-flag bikini in another. The song, about receiving endlessly irritating calls and text messages from an admirer while out trying to lose yourself on the dance floor, is from her recently released album The Fame Monster. This won't be Gaga and B's first collaboration. The duo teamed up previously for the remix of Beyoncé's "Video Phone.''

‘Dirrty’ video voted ‘Sexiest Female Pop Promos of all Time’

dirrtyhoney — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:18:02 -0800

Christina Aguilera’s ‘Dirrty’ music video has been voted the ‘Sexiest Female Pop Promos of all Time’.
The 28-year-old topped the MSN Music poll by winning 42 percent of the votes, reports the Daily Star.
Her ‘Dirrty’ video was released in 2002 after Aguilera was transformed from girl next door to sultry vixen.
The video features her performing various sexual fetishes, including mud wrestling, in a pair of leather chaps.

Following her was Britney Spears’ ‘I’m A Slave 4 U’ and Kylie Minogue for her ‘Spinning Around’ video, which saw her shimmying in a tiny pair of gold hotpants. Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake’s debut single ‘Like I Love You’ has been named ‘Raunchiest Male Pop Video’.
Timberlake and Spears topped a list of the couple people would most like to see make a music video together.
The poll also asked music fans what their sexiest, funniest and most cringe-worthy music videos were of all time.
Topping the funniest was Queen with ‘I Want To Break Free’ – with Freddie Mercury’s parody of Coronation Street.
Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ song, based on the Barbie and Ken dolls, was named the most cringe-worthy.

Source: xtinaweb.org

Favorite Onscreen Couples

jhilly123 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:22:11 -0800

1. Bridget Jones' Diary- Bridget and Mark (Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth)- I couldn't really decide what was my favorite initially because there are so many movies out there that I like and will watch 1000s of times without getting bored. I chose Bridget Jones because it's the one movie (including the sequel) that I could watch over and over again. I actually just saw it the other night because I wanted to procrastinate from doing work. And I would constantly swoon over Colin Firth/Mark in his scenes and scold Bridget when she chooses Daniel over Mark. Perhaps that where my love for British films and their accents started! You'll see a lot of that influence my favorite films.
2. Pride and Prejudice-Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden)- Is there really anything else to say? The perpetual argument between fans is which adaptation was better, the 1995 serial or the 2005 movie. I love Colin Firth, but the cinematography was amazing in the 2005 one, and I adore Keira/Matthew.
3. North and South-Margaret Hale and John Thornton (Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage)- Are tv serials considered "onscreen" enough? It's not a movie, BUT one of my favorite books (Elizabeth Gaskell) and the adaptation is lovely. It's a bit long but so worth it to stay up until the wee hours of the morning trying to finish the 6 part series. And well, Richard Armitage is very good eye-candy (check out the youtube video called "Womanizer"). Both actors are wonderful in their roles and I'd love to see them in something else again!
4. Love Actually- Jamie and Aurelia (Colin Firth and Lucia Moniz) -Okay this film is a no brainer (one of my favorites, if not my favorite movie), but picking a couple from the movie is so hard since all the couples are great in the film. If I could, I'd choose all of them, but I can't. Runners up?: Sam and Joanna, Juliet and Mark (even though they aren't a real couple, don't you want them to be??)
5. Titanic- Rose and Jack (Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio)- Well, um what else do I have to say? This definitely has to be one of the greatest onscreen couples of all time. I remember watching this when it first came out and it was probably one of the first "grown-up" films I had seen-think I was 9 at the time and the whole love story behind it is beautiful and sad all at the same time. Even when I watch it now, it may be a little cheesy since it was one of Kate and Leo's earlier films but seeing their recent films (including Revolutionary Road) just shows how much they've progressed and matured, and that they have great chemistry!
6. You've Got Mail- Kathleen and Joe (Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks)- It was hard choosing which of the Meg/Tom movies was my favorite, so I chose one, but honestly, I really like them together and it was difficult. These two just have a lot of chemistry, and it's one of the films I have no problem sitting down and watching with my mom (who isn't that keen on US TV series or films-she prefers Chinese soaps). It's supposedly based off of Pride and Prejudice too, and well you can catch a theme going on in my movies.
7. Down With Love- Barbara Novak and Catcher Block (Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor)- I only recently saw this movie (okay, more like 2 years ago, but it came out in 2003!) and I'm a huge fan of Renee already, and found Ewan to be very sexy in this film-which led me to watching his other films. These two are just great together and this film itself is fun, smart, and different in a good way.
8. How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days- Andie Anderson and Ben Barry (Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey)- This is one of the films my best friend and I can always agree on watching even though we differ in terms of the movies we go seen in theaters (I'm Romantic comedies, and she's action/horror). The plot is cute, light and fun-something I like to watch especially when I've had a stressful day, week, or month lol. Who else thinks Kate looked AMAZING in her yellow dress?
9. 10 Things I Hate About You- Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona (Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger)- This one won me over time. When I first saw it, I thought it was okay. I didn't like Heath or Julia's long hair (just because I'm so picky), but I watched it again later, and well the story and their interaction won me over. Love the film and well it's just one of those teen comedies that everyone likes. Plus having Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it was a plus!
10. Becoming Jane- Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy (Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy)- I'm pretty much obsessed with all things Austen (wish I could have added all of her books on this list done by BBC). I think Anne and James did a wonderful job.

Hope I'm not too late! Most of these movies aren't very old (last 10 years or so) but these are the 10 that popped into my mind, and the ones I could watch over and over again when I'm stressed out and need to relax. They are a bit British-oriented and Rom-Coms, but that's what I like! Let me know what you think.

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