Discovery cancels Michael Jackson autopsy TV show

The Discovery television network on Friday said it canceled plans to air a reenactment of the autopsy on Michael Jackson's body, citing an upcoming court hearing and concern by the late pop star's estate.

The show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson," had been set to air in several countries of western Europe and in the United Kingdom on January 13.

"Given the commencement of legal proceedings beginning next week, and at the request of Michael Jackson's estate, the scheduled broadcast of the medical documentary related to Michael Jackson's official autopsy has been postponed indefinitely," Discovery Networks International said in a statement.

A Discovery spokesman declined comment beyond the statement. Co-executors of the estate responded in their own statement saying they were "pleased" with the decision.

The "Thriller" singer died suddenly of a prescription drug overdose on June 25, 2009, age 50, only weeks before beginning a series of comeback concerts. An autopsy by Los Angeles officials showed Jackson died chiefly of an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol that he used as a sleep aid.

Discovery's show, which was not scheduled to air in the United States, was an unofficial, fictional account of what the autopsy must have been like and its results.

But Jackson fans worldwide protested in an online petition launched earlier this month, and the co-executors of his estate sent a letter this week to Discovery Networks calling the program "insensitive" and "in shockingly bad taste."

A print advertisement for the program shows a body covered by a sheet, with one hand poking out wearing the singer's well-known sequined glove.

Following Discovery's decision, McClain and Branca released a statement saying, "we are hopeful that this show will never run in any market in the future."

"While Discovery cited legal proceedings and our request as the reasons for its decision, none of this would have happened had it not been for the incredible passion displayed by countless Michael Jackson fans worldwide who knew they stood as one and that their voices could not be ignored," the statement said.

Jackson's physician at the time of his death, Dr. Conrad Murray, has admitted giving the singer propofol, which is often used in surgery, and Murray has been charged by authorities with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.

Murray has pleaded not guilty, and a preliminary hearing to determine if enough evidence exists to make him stand trial begins in Los Angeles on January 4.

Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Cooks Up Prison Time and PoBoys

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Paula Deen

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Poboy Sandwich

Well actually, it�s more of a Po-Girl, namely her former housekeeper Mary Alice White, who pled guilty as charged for her �Sticky-finger� activities in lifting an estimated $100,000 worth of jewels from the Food Network Star�s Georgia home.  Apparently, the sneaky she-culprit had been stealing throughout a nine month stretch, but got busted after attempting to pawn Deen�s $18,000 watch. The Po-Girl was sentenced to 18 months, but will be on parole for the next six years. No sympathy for the Po-Girl here though. What she did leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Rehab staffer accuses Lohan of battery then fired

A day that began with authorities confirming Lindsay Lohan was being investigated for battery on a female staffer at a California rehab facility treating the starlet ended with the worker fired after giving an interview about the incident.

Riverside County sheriff's detectives said Tuesday they are investigating the "Mean Girls" star for an alleged altercation with a worker at a Betty Ford Center facility in Palm Desert that occurred after 1 a.m. on Dec. 12.

The agency declined to say what prompted the fight, but said the worker was interested in pursuing charges against Lohan.

Betty Ford spokesman Russ Patrick said the staffer was fired for identifying patients at the center in an interview and "disclosing a privileged document."

Although Betty Ford and the sheriff's department did not identify the worker, she appeared in an interview on celebrity website TMZ on Tuesday afternoon and was promptly fired. She claims the 24-year-old Lohan and two other girls had sneaked out of the facility.

In the video, Dawn Holland claims she was trying to get Lohan to submit to a breathalyzer test when the actress became belligerent, pushed her and snatched a phone from her hand, straining her arm.

Attempts to reach Holland were unsuccessful. A phone number registered to her was not accepting calls Tuesday evening.

Lohan has not been arrested or charged in the incident. Her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, said in an e-mailed statement that it was the actress who called for police.

She declined to offer additional details, citing the ongoing sheriff's investigation.

While the fallout for Holland was swift, Lohan's situation remains unclear. A judge has ordered her to remain at Betty Ford until Jan. 3 and remain out of trouble until Feb. 25. He also ordered her to submit to all drug and alcohol screenings or face up to six months in jail for violating her probation on a 3-year-old drunk driving case.

Riverside County sheriff's Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela said Lohan's case would be presented to prosecutors, who will decide whether Lohan faces a new charge.

Lohan has been receiving treatment at the Betty Ford Center and its facilities, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles, since late September.

Patrick's statement said that until Tuesday, Betty Ford had upheld the confidentiality of 96,000 patients who had received treatment there since it opened in 1982.

He said Holland's interview was a breach of trust and the rehab process.

"When patients come to the center for treatment, they come to a safe place where their identity is protected, where anonymity is safeguarded," he said in an e-mail. "Their simple priority when in treatment is to learn how to live a life free of alcohol and other drugs.

"Confidentiality and trust are key to the treatment and recovery process."

Lohan's stint at Betty Ford is her fifth stay in rehab and her second this year.

Beginning in July, she was jailed for 14 days, followed by three weeks at inpatient rehab. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox agreed to release her early from treatment at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in late August based on doctor's recommendations.

Judge to decide Jackson syringe testing issues

A judge overseeing the criminal case of a doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death has scheduled a hearing to determine if medical items found in the singer's bedroom should undergo more testing that defense attorneys contend is crucial to the case.

Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray have been asking for months that fluids in two syringes and an IV bag found in Jackson's rented mansion be tested to determine how much of the anesthetic propofol and painkiller lidocaine they contained.

Coroner's officials ruled Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication.

Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor will hear the testing arguments on Dec. 29 � six days before Murray is scheduled to appear for what is expected to be a lengthy, detailed preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for the cardiologist to stand trial.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Murray's attorneys have struck an urgent tone regarding the need to test the medical items, saying the evidence is deteriorating. They have described the fluids in one of the syringes as having turned to "salt" and contended the testing should have been done after Jackson's death in June 2009.

Coroner's officials say in court filings the testing was not necessary to determine Jackson's cause of death.

Prosecutors have downplayed the significance and refused to enter into an agreement with Murray about testing the items.

The tests are likely to destroy the samples.

In a document filed Friday, coroner's officials laid out an experimental testing procedures they can use if Murray's motion is approved.

One of Murray's attorneys, J. Michael Flanagan, argued in a court filing the delay in testing the syringes might hurt the doctor's defense.

"An essential fact in this case is not only how much propofol was in Michael Jackson's body but how it was put into his body," Flanagan wrote. "Since further degradation and deterioration of the evidence makes it increasingly more difficult to test, the prejudice to the defendant is increasing."

District attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said prosecutors had not filed a response to Murray's motion.

Sofia Coppola goes inside Hollywood in Somewhere

Sofia Coppola knows what it's like to grow up with a famous dad: Jetting off to faraway places, spending long stretches of time in hotels and getting an inside look at the bizarre, privileged and often decadent world of Hollywood.

The 39-year-old filmmaker also knows what it's like to be a parent in show business: She has two young daughters with partner Thomas Mars, who fronts the rock band Phoenix.

In her new film, "Somewhere," which opens Wednesday, Coppola explores fame, Hollywood and parenting from both perspectives, with a style and approach completely distinct from that of her famous father.

Where Francis Ford Coppola embraces new filmmaking technology and high-def cameras, Sofia Coppola prefers classic film and her dad's old lenses from the 1980s.

Where he is known mostly for dark, action-filled dramas such as "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," she prefers simpler stories and character portraits � like those of a displaced college grad and an aging movie star in 2003's "Lost in Translation," which won her an Academy Award for original screenplay and made her the third woman ever nominated for a directing Oscar.

She approaches "Somewhere" with similar subtlety.

The film tells the story of Johnny Marco, a handsome, hotshot actor who lives in Hollywood's storied Chateau Marmont hotel, ignoring the stack of scripts by his bedside to instead fill his time with beer, pills and a pair of twin strippers who carry their own collapsible poles. His smoky haze is interrupted when his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo, arrives unexpectedly for an extended stay.

"I was just thinking about how having a kid really changes your perspective and your priorities, so I was imagining for a guy like that, having a daughter, what that might be like," Coppola said from a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel, where she was promoting the film. "It was fun to show another side of Hollywood that you don't normally get to see, because we're so fixated on celebrity culture today."

In Coppola's Hollywood, twin strippers are available for hire and the in-call masseuse might get naked to make his clients more comfortable. Models and topless beauties are everywhere, impromptu parties are the norm and publicists and other handlers are perennially perky.

Coppola said she wanted to take moviegoers inside modern fame and show how its superficial trappings may not satisfy the real needs in life.

"I think that because I grew up around it that I've seen another side of it and it doesn't have the same mystique," she said.

Never one for Hollywood's party scene, Coppola no longer lives in Los Angeles. After her divorce from fellow filmmaker Spike Jonze in 2003, she relocated to New York. Now she lives in Paris with Mars and their two girls, a four-year-old and a six-month-old. Coppola said she still likes L.A., "but it's pretty extreme that the whole city revolves around show business."

She shot "Somewhere" at Chateau Marmont, a kind of show-biz mecca on the Sunset Strip, where her team filled the hotel's fifth floor and her star, Stephen Dorff, took up temporary residence. She had to keep the crew small since the hotel was still open for business, and because she wanted to impart a fly-on-the-wall feeling to viewers.

"It felt more like a film-school project or something," she said.

Like "Lost in Translation," "Somewhere" evolves quietly, with long shots allowing the characters to slowly reveal themselves.

Dorff said he appreciated the change of pace.

"I love that in this life, where everybody's busy, everybody's texting, that Sofia kind of just says, 'Whew. Slow it all down, baby. This is going to be a portrait of my guy, and if you open your eyes a little bit and go with us, you're going to have a nice reward at the end,'" he said. "That's what she does with all her films, and I think this one even more."

Coppola spent more than two years on "Somewhere," writing, directing, producing and editing the film. She said she finds writing to be the hardest part, shooting the most exciting and editing the most enjoyable.

The film was a family affair, with her brother and dad serving as producer and executive producer, respectively. Mars and his band made the score.

Coppola said her brother is often the first to see her scripts: "I feel like he really gets me and I trust him, so it's not so scary."

Though a woman hadn't won an Academy Award for directing until earlier this year, when Kathryn Bigelow got the best director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," Coppola said she never considered her gender an obstacle in Hollywood.

"My dad treated me the same as my brothers," she said. "He was teaching me the same, so I never thought I couldn't do that."

Still, she didn't see a lot of female filmmakers when she was growing up and said she's glad there are many more women behind the camera now than when she made her first feature film, "The Virgin Suicides," in 1999.

Coppola already has "little ideas" for her next project, but she won't get to working on them until after the holidays, which she plans to spend with her own Hollywood family.

"We're going up to my parents' vineyard and we'll have some time just with the family," she said. "I can't wait to just stay in pajamas all day and have my parents cook."

Palace "Zara Phillips engaged to be married"

Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter, is engaged.

Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, said she was shocked but "very happy" that her rugby-playing boyfriend Mike Tindall had proposed.

No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29. Their engagement was announced last month.

Phillips, 29, is 12th in line to the throne.

The 32-year-old Tindall has played 66 times for England and was in the team that won the 2003 World Cup. It was during the tournament that he first met Phillips in a Sydney bar. Tindall plays for club side Gloucester and is still a regular in the national side.

The palace said in a statement that the couple got engaged Monday evening at their home in western England.

In a statement, Phillips said she was "really shocked when Mike proposed but I am very happy."

Tindall said: "I am delighted that Zara has agreed to marry me. We are both very excited about the next stage of our lives together."

Snow cancels Lady Gaga concert in Paris

Lady Gaga isn't having much luck in Paris.

In October, the pop diva's concerts in Paris were postponed amid nationwide strikes over a government plan to raise the retirement age. One show was rescheduled for Sunday, but it was called off because of snow.

The weather led authorities to ban big trucks from driving through the Ile de France region that includes Paris. Lady Gaga's trucks couldn't get to the venue on time, concert venue Bercy stadium said on its Web site.

A concert Monday is expected to go forward as planned, and the canceled show is likely to be rescheduled for Tuesday, Bercy said.

The diva vented on Twitter, writing that "all 28" of the trucks carrying sets for her elaborate show had been detained. She said had wanted to do a show without the sets, but even sound and power equipment was blocked.

"I am furious and devastated," she wrote, adding that it was "unfair to my fans and to me."

Lady Gaga also wrote that two of her employees were "arrested trying to get into Paris so we could perform," without elaborating. French police, the singer's representatives and the concert venue did not immediately return calls and e-mails seeking comment on that claim.

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Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut

Add Simon Rattle to the list of eminent conductors who have made belated debuts at the Metropolitan Opera.

The British maestro, his trademark mop of frizzy white hair bobbing enthusiastically above the orchestra pit, led the company in a revival of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande" on Friday night.

Setting an unusually leisurely pace that stretched the performance, including intermissions, to more than four hours, Rattle drew some magnificent playing from the orchestra. The crystalline textures of Debussy's impressionistic score stood out with clarity and precision, and the dramatic tension grew steadily as the opera headed toward its tragic climax.

"Pelleas" is a one-of-a-kind work, adapted by Debussy from a play by Maurice Maeterlinck and written in the composer's style of ever-shifting chromaticism. The elusive score is perfectly suited to the story, a timeless, symbol-laden love triangle about unhappy people trapped in an ominous world of shadow and foreboding.

Most mysterious of all is Melisande, who in the opening scene is abandoned and weeping in a forest. She is found by the much older Golaud, a prince who marries her and brings her home, only to see her apparently fall in love with his half brother Pelleas, another figure of immense melancholy. Goaded by jealousy, Golaud kills Pelleas, and Melisande dies in childbirth, leaving her guilt-ridden husband uncertain whether she had been unfaithful.

For the opera to weave its fragile spell, it needs vocally and dramatically charismatic performers, and the Met production met that test in the three key roles.

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena, who is married to Rattle, captured the look of the lovely, doomed Melisande with her tall, willowy figure. She sang with haunting allure, especially in her unaccompanied song as she sits by her window combing her hair � though when she let it hang down, it was too short for Pelleas to caress as called for in the text.

With his strong, at times achingly beautiful baritone sound, Gerald Finley made Golaud's transition from tenderness to rage painful to witness. As the wistful Pelleas, baritone Stephane Degout radiated a diffident charm and sang with growing romantic fervor.

There was strong casting in supporting roles, from baritone Willard White as the men's grandfather, King Arkel; mezzo Felicity Palmer as their mother, Genevieve; and boy soprano Neel Ram Nagarajan as Golaud's son, Yniold. The latter plays a vital role in the opera's most disturbing scene, when the tormented Golaud lifts the boy up to Melisande's window and forces him to spy on her and Pelleas.

The production, by Jonathan Miller, updates the action from vaguely medieval times to an oppressively grand 19th-century manor house and gives us glimpses of numerous members of the household who aren't in the original libretto. Despite the use of a turntable for quick scene changes, there are seemingly unnecessary delays in both the first and third acts.

Whatever the longueurs of the evening, it was good to see the Met engage Rattle, who is chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Under general manager Peter Gelb, the company has opened its arms to a number of famous conductors who previously had not appeared at the house.

In 2008, Daniel Barenboim led performances of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." Last season, Riccardo Muti made his debut conducting a new production of Verdi's "Attila."

Uma Thurman's stalker charged again jailed in NYC

A former psychiatric patient convicted of stalking Uma Thurman was jailed Friday after he was charged with again trying to contact the Oscar-nominated actress.

Jack Jordan was arraigned on charges of stalking and criminal contempt for violating a restraining order. Jordan pleaded not guilty in front of the same judge who warned the 39-year-old he would go to jail if he tried to contact Thurman after his 2008 conviction for stalking the "Kill Bill" actress.

Prosecutors said he made several calls to Thurman on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. He was arrested shortly before Thanksgiving at his family's home in North Potomac, Md. A police spokeswoman with the suburban Washington, D.C., department said officers sent to arrest Jordan found him sitting in front of a computer with Thurman's name in a Google search box.

Jordan was extradited to New York on Thursday. He told police, according to prosecutors, that the calls were a drunken mistake.

Michelle Kaminsky, Brooklyn assistant district attorney, did not say how Jordan got Thurman's number but said he may have been in Manhattan when one of the calls was placed.

"During one of the phone calls to a house guest, the defendant got very agitated and asked the house guest to step outside," Kaminsky said.

Jordan was being held without bail until his next court date, scheduled for Wednesday. His attorney had argued for protective custody because he said he could be attacked at Rikers Island, but Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro denied the request. A call to Jordan's parents was not returned Friday.

The former psychiatric patient was convicted of stalking and harassing the actress from 2005 to 2007. He was sentenced in 2008 to three years' probation and told not to try to contact Thurman for five years.

Thurman told jurors at his trial that she was "completely freaked out" by his behavior. He sent bizarre letter and cards � featuring such ominous images as a picture of a bride with her head torn off and such unsettling messages as "my hands should be on your body at all times" � called her family and employees, tried to get into her trailer on a movie set and showed up at her Manhattan home late at night, according to testimony.

Jordan testified that he'd developed a crush on Thurman in high school after seeing her in the 1988 movie "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."

He was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in late 2005 after being questioned about his obsession with Thurman, he said.

After Jordan's most recent arrest, Thurman said she would not comment on the case.

The case is being prosecuted in Manhattan by a Brooklyn attorney because Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance's former law firm represented Thurman.

Angelina Jolie praises Spanish food art in Madrid

Angelina Jolie is taking advantage of her Spain promotional trip for "The Tourist" to drink in Spanish culture.

Jolie told reporters Thursday she loves "Madrid and Barcelona mainly for art and great food."

She added: "There are extraordinary museums and collections of art here."

Co-star Johnny Depp says he's looking forward to seeing Pablo Picasso's iconic "Guernica" painting. He also has friends in Madrid.

"The Tourist" was nominated for the Golden Globe awards' best picture, best musical comedy actor and actress.

Sikiru Ayinde Barrister is Dead - Breaking News

Alhaji Chief (Dr.) Sikiru Ayinde Ololade Olayinka Balogun (Barrister) is dead. He died this morning at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London after a brief illness.

 

May his Gentle soul Rest in Perfect peace.

Courtney Love Can't Get No Love From Jeweler Jacob And Co.

Courtney Love

The way this news is being delivered may be a few days sloppy, but I assure you that it's right in line with the steamy tea that I'm about to spill to you my Cityrockajewelry Readers. Just when we thought Courtney Love might finally be getting her act together, this chick strikes again. It seems that Love hasn't given back $114,000 worth of borrowed gems from the Jacob and Co. so a lawsuit for damages is green light pending even though it's claimed that she told them that she lost the jewelry. Of course that wasn't acceptable to the Celebrity Jeweler; not when they already had an agreement in place which specified that she was responsible for them regardless of loss or damage.... As the Citrockajewelry Judge and Jury, we're not sure who to blame this one on. Is Courtney Love guilty as charged of the (alleged) theft of two white gold and diamond chains, a pair of white gold and diamond pave hoop earrings, and a gold mesh bracelet borrowed since September 2010? Or is Jacob and Co. guilty in handing over their pricey baubles to a mostly unstable, take-life-as-it-comes Rocker Songstress Courtney Love in the first place? It does make you go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......... doesn't it?

Black Swan earns 12 Critics' Choice nominations

Natalie Portman's ballet drama "Black Swan" led contenders Monday for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards with a record 12 nominations, among them best picture and actress.

Other best-picture nominees were the survival story "127 Hours," the boxing saga "The Fighter," the sci-fi smash "Inception," the British monarchy tale "The King's Speech," the Facebook chronicle "The Social Network," the heist thriller "The Town," the animated blockbuster "Toy Story 3," the Western "True Grit" and the Ozarks crime yarn "Winter's Bone."

Presented by the 250 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the 16th annual awards will be handed out Jan. 14 in a ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. VH1 will air the show live.

Along with Portman's lead-actress nomination, honors for "Black Swan" include a supporting-actress slot for Mila Kunis and a directing nomination for Darren Aronofsky.

"The King's Speech" and "True Grit" were second with 11 nominations each.

Among "The King's Speech" honors were a best-actor nomination for Colin Firth and supporting slots for Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. "True Grit" star Jeff Bridges also earned a best-actor nomination, while his newcomer co-star, 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, had two nominations, as supporting actress and best young actor or actress.

Also earning two acting nominations were "Winter's Bone" star Jennifer Lawrence, contending for both lead actress and best young actor or actress; and Chloe Moretz, who earned two spots in the young actor or actress category, for the action comedy "Kick-Ass" and the vampire tale "Let Me In." Her competition includes "Let Me In" co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee, while Elle Fanning rounded out the category for the father-daughter tale "Somewhere."

Besides Portman and Lawrence, best-actress nominees are Annette Bening for the lesbian-family story "The Kids Are All Right"; Nicole Kidman for the grieving-parent drama "Rabbit Hole"; Noomi Rapace for the thriller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"; and Michelle Williams for the marital tale "Blue Valentine."

Joining Firth and Bridges in the best-actor category are Robert Duvall for the backwoods romp "Get Low"; Jesse Eisenberg for "The Social Network"; James Franco for "127 Hours"; and Ryan Gosling for "Blue Valentine."

While "The Fighter" star Mark Wahlberg missed out on a best-actor nomination, co-stars Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo all earned supporting-acting spots.

For best director, Aronofsky is up against Danny Boyle for "127 Hours"; Joel and Ethan Coen for "True Grit"; David Fincher for "The Social Network"; Tom Hooper for "The King's Speech"; and Christopher Nolan for "Inception."

The Critics' Choice nominations are part of a flurry of film honors that will help sort out contenders for the Feb. 27 Academy Awards, whose nominations will be announced Jan. 25. The biggest announcements this week are the Golden Globe nominations Tuesday and the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations Thursday.

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Tackling a New Job at - The Company Men - Premiere

For writer-director John Wells, the premiere of "The Company Men" marks a serious job shift. The man known for creating, writing and directing hit television shows including "E.R." and "Third Watch" has made the leap to the big screen with his drama about corporate downsizing and its effect on the lives of a group of men whose jobs go down the drain. His fame as a creative force got him a dream cast, with Oscar-winning actors Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner and Chris Cooper joining Ben Affleck as the guys finding out the hard way what it is like to be unemployed.

Affleck joined Wells at the Paris Theatre in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Dec. 8, to celebrate the premiere, but it was earlier, at the Toronto Film Festival screening, that the actor discussed the film at a press conference. The married father of two explained that he tapped into his own life experience to get into the mindset of his character, a hotshot executive who suddenly finds himself adrift, which naturally affects his marriage and family life.

"I think it would be really hard for me to play somebody who was in a real marriage," he said, "without having one and being in one and understanding that and being able to bring that to bear or at least in a real relationship. When I was younger and not understanding what that was about, it would've been hard for me to understand the pressures, the complications, the nuances of the whole thing."

Playing a corporate guy was actually more of a stretch for Affleck, but not knowing where the next job is coming from is something he's very familiar with experiencing.

"Being an actor, you have one audition, you might get that part and then the job's over and you have no guarantee that you'll ever work again for the rest of your life. So that's really scary. One thing about working in the arts is that you internalize that reality and you learn it from a very early age," he said. "That's a fact that people who work in much more traditional corporate jobs are now learning, and it isn't easy."

Holiday Beauty

It's that time of year again and I'm excited to offer a few great tips for looking and feeling your best this holiday season. In preparation for KCAL 9 news segment today, I thought I'd post these quick and easy "how to's" for viewers to read on how to look red-carpet-ready for all the holiday cheer, without spending hours getting ready. I've always said the more natural you look, the more

Actor Snipes begins serving sentence at Pa. prison

Actor Wesley Snipes began serving a three-year sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Thursday for failure to file income tax returns. Snipes, 48, arrived shortly before noon at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in the tiny northwestern Pennsylvania town of Lewis Run, federal prisons spokesman Ed Ross said. He had been ordered to surrender by noon.

The minimum security prison camp is worlds away from the harsh prison fortresses depicted in the Snipes' films "Undisputed" and "Brooklyn's Finest." The minimum-security camp doesn't have fences around its perimeter.

The 300 nonviolent inmates live in barracks that feature two-man rooms, daily showers and double-feature movie showings Friday through Sunday. Alas, no NC-17, R or X ratings allowed, which knocks out much of Snipes' action-heavy repertoire.

The most jarring aspect of the celebrity's stay might be the five daily head counts, three during the overnight hours. And Snipes, who earned a reported $13 million for the "Blade: Trinity" sequel, will have to adjust to earning just pennies an hour handling kitchen, laundry or other campus chores. He can spend just $290 a month at the prison commissary.

Snipes has appeared in dozens of studio films, from "White Men Can't Jump" and "Demolition Man" in the early 1990s to the blockbuster Blade trilogy.

None of which will score him any points at McKean, officials insist.

"We recognize that he is high profile, but we treat all our inmates the same," spokeswoman Shirley White told The Associated Press last week.

According to U.S. prosecutors, the actor failed to file any tax returns for at least a decade, and owed $2.7 million in taxes on $13.8 million in income from 1999 to 2001 alone.

Snipes, a dues-paying member of a tax-protest group that challenges the government's right to collect taxes, described himself at his 2008 sentencing as a naive truth-seeker.

"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance," said Snipes, who had pursued theater and dance from an early age, attending the vaunted High School for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Tuesday night, he told CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was not nervous about reporting to prison.

Star of the "Blade" trilogy, Snipes was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns.

On Wednesday, he made a last-minute request for a new trial, but on Thursday a judge in Florida rejected the emergency motion. Snipes had argued said that a judge erred by not allowing defense attorneys to interview jurors about misconduct allegations, but U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges said the motion merely re-argues issues that have already been decided.

At McKean, he can pursue his spirituality at weekly meetings of nearly any religious group imaginable, from Wiccans to Jehovah's Witnesses to Spanish-speaking Evangelical Catholics.

The martial-arts enthusiast can get his exercise playing sand volleyball or indoor basketball, or work out on an elliptical machine or stair climber. And he can tap into his fun side through badminton, bocci or bridge.

Should he pull a muscle in a pickup game, the infirmary copay is just $2.

But it's not all fun and games.

The daily wake-up call is at 6:35 a.m. The mundane jobs run seven hours a day. There's little fashion flair to the prison-issued khakis. And contact in the visitors room is limited to "a kiss," according to the prison handbook.

Snipes has tried to delay his arrival while he takes his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. But the trial judge said he had gotten a fair trial.

Hodges saw in Snipes "a history of contempt" for U.S. tax laws, the judge said at sentencing.

Never mind that the actor, changing course, had delivered $5 million in checks to the IRS that day. Hodges imposed consecutive one-year terms for the three misdemeanor convictions.

"Someday, every fighter loses," says the prison boxer Monroe Hutchens, played by Snipes, in 2002's "Undisputed." "In the end, everybody gets beaten. The most you can hope for is that you stay on top a while."

Duncan Sheik psyched about American Psycho

Duncan Sheik didn't think a musical about a yuppie serial killer made a ton of sense.

"I said, `This is a terrible idea,'" the Grammy- and Tony-winning singer-songwriter admitted in a phone interview from Boston this week.

Now Sheik, who had the 1996 smash-hit single "Barely Breathing" and is the songwriter of the hit musical "Spring Awakening," finds himself deep in the process of trying to ready a stage version of Bret Easton Ellis' novel "American Psycho."

Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa are about halfway done. Aguirre-Sacasa, a comic book writer who recently worked on HBO's "Big Love," has completed the first act and Sheik has written seven songs.

"Now we're in the thick of it," said Sheik, 41. "There's a pretty long road still to go, but I'm psyched about it. The more time I spend on it, the more excited I get about it."

The 1991 novel � later made into a 2000 movie starring Christian Bale � chronicles a homicidal New York yuppie named Patrick Bateman who is obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products even as he slashes his way through Manhattan. Bateman also fancies himself as a bit of a music critic, but spews out mostly inane ruminations about Genesis and Huey Lewis and the News.

Sheik remembers buying the novel when he was an undergraduate at Brown University, but only got about halfway through it before throwing it across the room. "I found the book really frustrating," he says.

After being approached by producers at The Johnson-Roessler Co. a few years ago, Sheik was skeptical but bought the book again and finished it. After struggling to find a way into the work as a composer, he soon seized on dance music and electronic pop as its soundscape.

For the show, he envisions a four- or five-member band on stage with synthesizers and drum machines, a nod to moody bands like Kraftwerk or Depeche Mode. "It'll probably be 75 percent Duncan Sheik music and 25 percent music of the era and referenced in the book and/or movie."

With the musical still far from done, Sheik isn't sure where it should debut. Though he hopes it will get to Broadway someday, he says the work about a singing serial killer might start off in London or at a theater festival or off-Broadway.

The audience might be in for a wild ride.

"I'm hoping this piece can make 'Spring Awakening' look like 'The Wedding Singer,'" he says, laughing.

Let's make a Deal

LET'S MAKE A DEAL - WITH WAYNE BRADY
DECEMBER 2010

One excited contestant won a fabulous spa day experience including a makeover with yours truly - Billy Lowe. Check out the video here and enjoy.

Brazilian Blow-Out. Safe or not?

Personally, I'm a BIG fan. But I was passing by a salon the other day and saw a poor client with a towel over her face and wafts of smoke billowing up from the stylists hair dryer. A heavy cloud loomed in the stylists area as the client was doing everything she could to catch her breath.

Stylists who don't know what they're doing or who are ill-educated on product usage really damage the

Duffy looking to prove her mettle with 2nd CD

With her first album, Duffy became a Grammy winner, a platinum-selling artist and an international sensation.

But while the petite blonde from Wales had been working diligently for her moment in the spotlight, when it came, she didn't feel quite like she earned all that adulation.

"I remember playing for 60,000 people thinking, `You only know me for 10 songs,'" she said recently. "I want to show you that there's more. I want to earn that kind of celebration."

She's hoping to do that with "Endlessly." Her sophomore album (a new term for Duffy that she delightfully pronounces "soft-more") is a bit more upbeat than her debut, "Rockferry," and features collaborations with Al Hammond Sr. and ?uestlove from The Roots.

"I'm bringing more aspects of myself to this record," she said. "I'm a catalog artist now! ... It kind of feels surreal."

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The Associated Press: You're working with new people on this record. Why switch things up when the first album was such a success?

Duffy: It would be easy for someone to rest on their laurels. ... But for me, I wanted to keep testing myself, to (keep) challenging myself, and actually it happened quite accidentally that I ended up working with other people.

AP: What did Hammond and ?uestlove bring to the table?

Duffy: Well, it was an interesting mix of people: Myself from Wales, 26 years old; Albert Hammond from Gibraltar, sort of Spanish influence, who is 66; and then you had The Roots, who are a bunch of really cool young guys, notorious for their unbelievable hip-hop rhythm section. I think it was daring but I was very happy with what came back.

AP: You've said that you didn't want to make a sad album. Did you think your debut was sad?

Duffy: I don't want to exploit my music just to release the baggage. I don't want to say the things that I regretted saying or the things that I never said in my music. I want to use it as expression and I want to make people feel good. Whether it's crying, whether it's dancing, I'm very conscious of not plowing too much of the bad times into my music.

AP: Were you worried about following up such a successful debut?

Duffy: If you can be successful in your second record, you've kind of made it, you're kind of in it to stay, I think. So of course there's that element of pressure. But for me personally, I was looking forward to writing new music. I was looking forward to earn the respect that I was given.

AP: Your sound has that retro appeal. Did you consider trying something different with this one?

Duffy: I know I'm always compared to this nostalgic sound. I've often been asked whether me being retro is something that I try to do. But I've always been really old-fashioned. I've always had this way about me and a kind of longing for romance, idealism, the 1950s. I think things were a little safer then. I think it was easier for artists to keep hold of their quality control. I don't think anyone was taking pictures of Marilyn Monroe when she was in a shopping mall. ... I do feel as though I do belong to something nostalgic.

AP: How have you grown artistically since the last record?

Duffy: I've grown in so many ways. The experiences that I've had have been tremendous. The mistakes I've made have been tremendous. The accolades that I've received have been beyond anything that I could have comprehended. ... I'm more experienced with life. I came from a small town before, I really felt like I small-town girl as well. I was constantly saying things that I was embarrassed of in a business meeting. ... I had a lot to learn, and I think you can hear that in the songs that I've learned it.

Carrie Underwood Top Winner At American Country Awards

When it comes to Las Vegas Carrie Underwood is a sure bet. Underwood won her second country music artist of the year award of 2010 in Sin City on Monday night. She earned it at the inaugural American Country Awards about eight months after she won the top honor at the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.

In both cases, fans determined the winner. And when it comes to fan support, Underwood has no match. Her fans vote early and often � a holdover from her time as �American Idol� champion � and she made sure to give a shoutout to her supporters after winning six awards.

�We have had the most amazing year out on the road but we wouldn�t be doing anything if there weren�t people out there sitting in that audience,� Underwood said from the stage at the MGM Grand, where the ACMs also are held. �So to everybody that came out to see us (or) anybody else out here, you guys are awesome for supporting us like you do. God bless the fans.�

Lady Antebellum took home four Fender Stratocasters given out as trophies and Easton Corbin finished with three wins, including breakthrough artist of the year. The two acts were tied for the most nominations with seven.

Along with artist of the year, Underwood won album of the year for �Play On� and tour of the year.

Lady A won single of the year for the trio�s breakthrough, �Need You Now,� and artist of the year: duo or group. Brad Paisley was voted male artist of the year and Blake Shelton and host Trace Adkins won music video of the year.

The show was performance heavy and featured Rascal Flatts and Alan Jackson performing medleys of their hits after tributes, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan teaming up on �My Kinda Party,� and Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner and The Band Perry playing recent hits.

Adkins opened the show by declining to wear a pair of �meat chaps� offered by the show�s producers, a la Lady Gaga�s meat dress, in a pre-taped comedy skit. He also appeared to skip the monologue.

�It�s a live show,� Adkins said. �What are they going to do? They can�t fire me right in the middle of it, right?

Brittney Jones Pretends to Be Angry Over Sex Tape Release

Come on, Brittney Jones. We thought you were better than this. Of all the Z-listers to have released sex tapes, Jones - a complete unknown, something willing to say anything in order to keep her name in the news - seemed the most likely to simply own up to her on-camera actions and encourage people to purchase Brittney Jones Confidential.

Instead, she's gone the typical route of acting as if she's horrified at the notion of Vivid Entertainment releasing her sex tape. So horrified, in fact, that she's suing mad!

Lawyers for Brittney have fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Vivid, proclaiming she is "the sole and exclusive owner of the video" and that "any dissemination of the video by Vivid will cause her substantial emotional distress for which she will hold Vivid responsible."

Call us crazy, but we suspect a tidy six-figure settlement will soon be agreed upon, magically curing Jones of any and all emotional distress.

Director Jolie learnt from the cinema greats

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says she learnt from the best about taking a turn behind the camera and put the lessons to good use in her directorial debut, already making waves before it hits the screen.

"I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, we're kind of more isolated," Jolie told reporters, after wrapping up shooting for her film which focuses on Bosnia.

"It was fun to be more of a part of the family of the crew, and be more in the different layers of the process.

"It's a just different level of work that was very exciting for me, and I was very excited to watch other actors work, and do scenes that maybe I would have done different, and then do it better than I could imagine and I'm thrilled."

The film, focusing on a love story between a Muslim woman and a Serb man against the background of Bosnia's 1992-1995 inter-ethnic war, was mostly filmed in October in Hungary.

During a roundtable interview in Paris, Jolie refused to be drawn on the details of the plot, which triggered controversy in Bosnia from women's associations after local media reported rumors that it featured a Muslim rape victim who falls in love with her Serb attacker.

After initial problems winning permission to shoot part of the movie in Bosnia, Jolie sent the authorities a copy of the script which her Bosnian production company said did not include any such rape love story.

"I'm done filming it. I go back to edit in January," said Jolie clad in a classic black skirt and gray cashmere sweater for the interview at the posh Hotel Meurice.

"It was nice to take the spotlight off myself and put it on some brilliant actors from an area... I'm excited to show their work and their talent to the world," she added.

"I'm very proud of what they gave and what they did so I just felt lucky to be there for it."

Jolie said she had drawn on various influences from her stellar movie career as she stepped behind the camera for the first time to film other actors at work.

"I learned a lot from Clint (Eastwood), who is very economic as a director," the actress said, in Paris for a promotional tour for her new film "The Tourist" in which she stars with Johnny Depp, which opens in the US on Friday.

"I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and tries to capture them in their space instead of making it look too stagey," she added.

"Working with (Robert) De Niro, it taught me a lot about being an actors' director. Hopefully, I've learned from all of them."

Now a busy mum of six children with her partner and fellow movie star Brad Pitt, Jolie admitted: "It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working."

Laughingly, the Oscar-winning actress, who can command 10 million dollars per picture for a leading role, described herself now as "unemployed."

"I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much," Jolie said, adding she liked to find parts that are "extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply."

"I've never done anything for the box office. I've been lucky that I've been able to maintain a career where I don't do well at the box office."

She confessed that some films, such as "A Mighty Heart" in which Jolie played the pregnant wife of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 1999, took a toll.

"You do the projects you love, knowing that there are... subject matters that not a lot of people are comfortable going out of their way to see and sit through for two hours. It's very hard to do, emotionally," Jolie said.

"It's a very hard story to even talk about, to even remember. And how even it connects with the modern terrorism of today. A lot of people don't want to revisit it or relive it."

And she confessed that for a solitary person, she was surprised how easily she had adapted to family life and having little time to herself.

"You just give that up at a certain point. You even try to take a bath and everybody comes in," she laughed.

"As somebody who likes to be alone, I surprise myself that I'm very happy to be surrounded by everybody in my family. I feel that comfort."

Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct Has Her Plotting The Design Of Killer Jewelry?

Actress Sharon Stone

Don't get scared about icepick flashbacks though. The former Basic Instinct Femme Fatale has teamed up with Damiani Jewelry to create a new line of jewelry to support A Drop In A Bucket, an organization that builds wells in Africa. Sharon's fine jewelry line is called Maji, the Swahili word for water. After taking a trip to Uganda, the film star saw the need for having access to more of it. While many of us take having clean water for granted,  Sharon learned that for the African villages,  it's something that is really needed and a quality of life essential. For the record, the Cityrockajewelry.com Blog loves that. Sometimes, it's not all about taking, but more about giving back. The line will will include rings, bracelets, earrings and pendants with rough diamonds set on burnished gold or silver. Everything will be signed by her and Damiani, and if you purchase it,you'd better not post it on Ebay......Below is an earring photo from the line. No need to thank me. I knew that you wanted to see it. I don't just talk about it folks, I am all about the Jewelry Gossip.

Maji Earrings

Eminem Lady Antebellum likely Grammy favorites

Eminem's Grammy wins are in the double digits, but despite a career that has been as commercially successful as it has been critically acclaimed, he's never won a trophy for album of the year on music's biggest night. On Wednesday, he might get another shot at it. The rapper is a leading favorite when Grammy nominations are announced at the Recording Academy's annual nominations special, broadcast live on CBS at 10 p.m. EST from Club Nokia in Los Angeles. The hourlong show hosted by LL Cool J will include performances from likely nominees Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Miranda Lambert.

Eminem's "Recovery" is the top-selling album of the year so far, with almost three million copies sold. But more than a sales triumph, it's also a creative one, marking a return to form after years of battling prescription drugs, lags between albums, and sub par material with last year's "Relapse." There are no guarantees when it comes to the Grammys, but an album of the year nomination for "Recovery" is about as sure as it gets.

Eminem is also likely to get nominations for either song of the year, record of the year, or both, for hits "Love the Way You Lie," featuring Rihanna, and for "Not Afraid." He's also a virtual lock to be nominated in several rap categories, where he's won the majority of his 11 Grammys.

Lady Antebellum's sophomore album, "Need You Now," was almost as successful as "Recovery" and is the second best-selling album of the year. The country trio is likely to be nominated in their own genre category, but a nomination for song and record of the year for "Need You Now" is also a strong possibility. And they may get a nod in the album category as well. Country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert may also find herself in the album of the year category for her "Revolver," which won top honors at the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association awards this year.

Lambert rehearsed for the nominations concert late Tuesday at downtown L.A.'s Club Nokia, backed by a band that included a trio of guitarists as she performed her single "Only Prettier."

"I'm excited to do something for the Grammys," she said. "This is kind of a cool thing for me, an introduction to this world. There's other great artists on the bill, and it's not just country, it's across the board for music genres, and I'm just glad to be here representing country music." Taylor Swift took home the album of the year trophy for her multiplatinum "Fearless" at last season's Grammys. Could 2011 be another crossover year for country artists? "I hope so," Lambert said. "Country music right now, we have a great name for ourselves, and we've all worked real hard to get it out there and make it cool and I think it's working, so I'm glad to be part of it."

Sade is also a key contender for album of the year; her "Soldier of Love" received raves and was a best-seller when it was released in February, her first album in 10 years. Other possibilities for album of the year nominations include Arcade Fire for their CD "The Suburbs" and Jay-Z for "The Blueprint 3," which spawned the massive "Empire State of Mind," another top Grammy contender.

"Empire State of Mind," which features Alicia Keys, could get nominations for song and record of the year. Other possibilities for record of the year include Perry's summer sensation, "California Gurls"; Train for "Hey, Soul Sister"; and two from rapper B.o.B, who had two of the year's biggest hits with "Nothing on You" (featuring Bruno Mars) and "Airplanes" (featuring Eminem and Paramore's Hayley Williams). B.o.B may be nominated for best new artist; rapper Drake is another favorite, along with teen sensation Justin Bieber, a big winner at last month's American Music Awards.

Previous winners from last year, including the Zac Brown Band, Lady Gaga, and Kings of Leon, could also be among the overall nominees. While Eminem, Bieber and Jay-Z are among the biggest names as far as Grammy contenders, mainstream acts represent only a portion of the hundreds of nominees to be announced on Wednesday night in 109 categories ranging from pop to folk to polka to classical and gospel. The Grammys will be awarded Sunday, Feb. 13, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS.

Molly Shannon makes a promising run on Broadway

Molly Shannon wants to show off her toilet. The comedian has a mischievous look as she stands in the cramped little lavatory just off her dressing room at The Broadway Theatre in Times Square. It's nice, all right, but it doesn't look very special.

Then the actress pushes another door and suddenly she's inside the auditorium in a private box high over the orchestra pit.

"Isn't it cool?" she asks. Shannon has been putting her secret passageway to expert use: Her two children � daughter Stella, 7, and son Nolan, 5 � often visit the theater and go through the toilet to get a perfect view of Shannon on stage.

"They can actually sneak through to the box seats and watch me with an audience," she says. "So it's the first time where they're really like, 'Wow, Mommy is an actress.' I don't know if it ever all gelled that way. It's really cool for them."

Stella and Nolan are enjoying front-row seats as Shannon makes her Broadway debut in the musical "Promises, Promises," opposite Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. Last month, Shannon replaced Katie Finneran, who won a Tony Award in the role of bar fly Marge MacDougal.

"Now, I'm not scared," Shannon says, sipping tea in her dressing room before a recent performance. "Initially, I was really like, 'God, just let me get through this!' Now I'm having a ball."

The role is particularly a good fit for the novice Shannon: She's on stage for only a few scenes, gets to dance on a bar while acting drunk, receives quick laughs and uses the physical comedy skills she honed for six years on "Saturday Night Live."

"It feels like a jewel to me," she says of the role. "For me, this was the perfect way to dip my feet in." Another plus is that she gets to work with friends. She knew Hayes from appearing on "Will & Grace" and he hosted her last episode of "SNL." Plus, she worked with Chenoweth in "The Music Man" on TV in 2003 and then in the series "Pushing Daisies."

Chenoweth calls her new co-star "a comedic genius," who has made Finneran's old role her own. "Working with Molly just makes me happy," Chenoweth says. "Sean and I both wanted this woman. We knew she would kill in the role."

Shannon, 46, says acting on Broadway isn't like her stint on live TV aboard "SNL," where she created such memorable characters as the oddball schoolgirl Mary Catherine Gallagher and the high-kicking Sally O'Malley.

"They're different. This is more like a marathon � it's a longer run so you have to be careful not to pull a muscle or lose your voice," she says. "It's more of a long-distance run whereas 'SNL' is kind of an every-week-up-and-down."

Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a young Shannon and her father, James, would travel to New York to catch shows such as "Chorus Line," "La Cage Aux Folles" and "Agnes of God." She and her dad would sing Judy Garland songs at home.

"My dad would have loved to be an actor but he just didn't have the confidence. So I'm sure so much of the reason why I got into that was because he loved that," she says, pointing to a photo of her dad hung with pride in her dressing room. "He would have loved it. I feel him here with me. I kick for him."

Shannon, who earned a bachelor's in drama from New York University, initially considered herself a dramatic actress until she auditioned for a comedy review and friends said she was a natural. "I didn't know myself well enough as a performer so I didn't know what I wanted to do," she says.

Comedy has been her bread-and-butter ever since, with movie roles that include "Superstar," "Talladega Nights," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," "Analyze This" and the upcoming "Bad Teacher."

Since leaving "SNL" in 2001, Shannon has made numerous TV guest appearances on shows such as "Glee," "30 Rock" and "Scrubs," as well as tried her hand at her own sitcoms, including "Cracking Up" and "Kath and Kim."

After her Broadway run, she'll be starring in an as-yet untitled HBO show by veteran "The Simpsons" writer-producer Tim Long about a nun who decides to leave the convent and confront life outside.

Until then, she's happy to do eight shows a week and host her children when they come to the theater. She says she tries not to peek up at them in the box seats while she's performing, but always looks up during the curtain call.

"I can't see them that well, but I see their little heads a little bit," she says