Friday, September 24, 2010

The Weekly News Roundup - week of September 20 - 24

Bieberama
- Justin Bieber made his acting debut on Thursday night's CSI.
- Photos of Bieber kissing his tour-mate Jasmine Villegas almost took down the entire internet on Tuesday. Twitter will certainly never be the same.
- The Biebster went on a mini-vacation to South Africa on Wednesday, before his next scheduled concert - in Hawaii. No part of that sentence made sense.


Glee
- The Britney Spears episode is almost here! Watch the promo.
- Matthew Morrison used to date Kristin Bell back in college. Old news, but still apparentlynews.


Non-Glee TV
- Lauren Conrad is getting her own reality show on MTV, thus saving the universe from certain destruction.
- Sesame Street pulled a segment it taped with Katy Perry after parents complained that her costume was too revealing. The clip is going viral on YouTube, of course.
- Demi Lovato was spotted going bowling with her boyfriend Rob Kardashian this week. She also hit the red carpet for the Padres Contra El Cancer gala on Thursday. The charity supports Hispanic children who have cancer, and Eva Longoria is their spokesperson.
- Miranda Cosgrove will have a guest spot on an upcoming episode of The Good Wife, where she'll play a troubled pop star.
- Miley's boyfriend Liam Hemsworth will host the Australian Kids Choice Awards.
- Bailee Madison was on Law & Order: SVU this week, playing a girl who ran away from her foster parents to be with Desmond from Lost.
- Kyle Massey made it through to the next round of Dancing With the Stars.


Movies
- Mandalay just bought the rights to Firelight, the young adult novels about dragons. And here I was hoping unicorns would be the new vampires.
- The new Harry Potter trailer is out. Only 56 days left...
- And the new Twisted trailer is out, too, but we already knew that!
- Twilight: New Moon made the Guinness Book of World Records, ousting "The Dark Knight" for the title of Highest Opening-Day Gross with $72.7million.
- Lindsay Lohan is back in jail. The streets of Los Angeles are safe again... for now. I think this city needs superheroes to protect us from the celebrities.
- Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kickass) will play the title role in the upcoming movie Emily the Strange. She is currently the vampire in Let Me In, based on the movie Let the Right One In.
- AJ Michalka is the latest actress to join the cast of the Spielburg/Abrams movie Super 8. Already in the cast are Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler.
- Zac Efron still has his horrible little beard.
- They're making a movie of The Suite Life On Deck.


Music
- Selena Gomez was on Good Morning, America this week for an interview and a performance.
- The new OK Go video "White Knuckles" is mind-boggling. You know you want to watch it.
- This week Taylor Swift announced the full track list for her upcoming album "Speak Now."
- Pixie Lott released her EP "Broken Arrow" this week.


Doing Good
- A radio station in Canada offered free Bieber tickets to the fans who donated the most cans of food in their "Feed It to Bieber" food drive. Two girls won, but the real winner was the community: the food drive collected over 21,000 food items for the Saskatoon Food Bank.
- Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play is tomorrow in NYC (and presumably worldwide). On hand for the main festivities will be Nick stars Keke Palmer, Victoria Justice, Miranda Cosgrove, Robbie Amell, Matt Shively, Ashley Argota, Chris Paul, and Jeff Sutphen. Players can participate in basketball, climbing a rockwall, running an obstacle course, and playing Nick's Wii Fit.
- Jordin Sparks will be working with the Starkey Hearing Foundation in NYC this weekend to give free hearing aids to hearing-impaired underprivileged children in the area.
- The Jonas Brothers teamed up with Office Max to give $1000 worth of school supplies to each teacher at the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts this week. The Brothers also did a meet & greet with students and teachers.


Cashing In
- Selena Gomez was at a Kmart in NYC to promote her fashion line called "Dream Out Loud", and will soon head to London to promote her new album "A Year Without Rain." One of the shirts in her line does benefit UNICEF, though.
- Bieber signed a licensing agreement with a home fashions company. They will make bedding, beach towels, and bathroom sets with Bieber's picture on them. I can't be the only person who finds this creepy, right?
- The wait is over: Justin Bieber Silly Bandz are now available. Future generations will thank us.


Trends and Pop Culture
- McDonalds is redesigning 400 of its restaurants here in the US and renovating 1,600 others worldwide. No word yet on how that will affect the taste of the food.
- Proving once again that we're actually living in 1950, high school students in the town of Independence, MO, were forced to sign Homecoming Dance contracts that stated there would be no inappropriate physical contact on the dance floor. The list of specifically prohibited actions is extensive and hilarious/depressing.
- According to researchers at UCLA, from 2005 to 2007, the rate of gastric band surgeryamong California teens increased sevenfold. In just two years. Sevenfold.
- The CDC reports that last year 20% of high school kids were smokers, down from 36% in 1997. Clearly Mad Men isn't reaching the younger audiences.


Magazines
- Victoria Justice is in the new OK Magazine, modeling the new trends in makeup for this fall.
- Jessica Lowndes of 90210 is on the cover of the new Zooey.



Movies Opening This Weekend
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
You Again
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole
Waiting for 'Superman'

Last Weekend's Top Box Office Movies
1. The Town
2. Easy A
3. Devil
5. Resident Evil: Afterlife
6. Alpha and Omega
7. The American
8. The Other Guys
9. Inception
10. Machete
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Friday, September 17, 2010

The Weekly News Roundup - week of September 13 - 17

BieberWatch 2010
- In his cover interview with Teen Vogue, Justin Bieber revealed that the worst time for fans to approach him is when he's eating. I guess he hasn't had a crazy fan knock on his bathroom window. Yet.
- The girl in Bieber's "Baby" video, Jasmine Villegas, has joined the second half of his North American "My World" tour.
- Bieber finally met Greyson Chance backstage at the VMAs last weekend. I like to think Bieber got all giggly and starstruck, and Chance handled it magnanimously.
- Bieber performed a 4-minute medley at the VMAs ("U Smile", "Baby" and "Somebody to Love"), and also won his first Moon Man trophy for Best New Artist.
- There are rumors that the Biebster will star in a secret Will Smith-produced film based on Bieber's life. We'll finally find out if he can act!
- Bieber's other movie, partly taped at his Madison Square Garden concert, will be in theaters in 3-D starting February 11, 2011.


One Jonas To Rule Them All
- Nick Jonas turned 18 yesterday. Ladies.
- Kevin Jonas brought his wife Danielle to Disneyland on Wednesday. He's all growd up!


Taylor Swift is Everywhere
- Taylor Swift's new single "Mine" leaked several weeks before its scheduled release. I had nothing to do with that.
- At the VMAs last weekend, Taylor performed the song "Innocent", hitting back at Kanye for his shenanigans at last year's VMAs. It did not go over as well as she'd hoped. A year late and a dollar short, darling...
- Taylor Swift is preparing to release her new album "Speak Now" on October 25th, and she will mark the album release with a live performance at the United Nations in New York. MTV and CMT are running a contest where a few lucky fans will win a trip to this performance, and as a bonus they will then fly with Taylor back to LA, conducting live radio interviews with her during the flight.
- Emma Stone hit the red carpet for the premiere of her new movie "Easy A" with her BFF, Taylor Swift.


Movies
- Twilight's Kristin Stewart said in an interview that she was glad to leave school at age 13 because it "wasn't really her thing." Unlike 95% of 13-year-olds. Got it.
- Speaking of Kristin Stewart, Twilight, and ages, her character Bella's birthday was on Monday. In a weird twist of fate, Bella shares a birthday with her creator, Stephanie Meyer. Freaky...
- Emma Stone hit the red carpet for the premiere of her new movie "Easy A" with her BFF,Taylor Swift. Kendall and Kylie Jenner were also there, as was Keke Palmer and Aly and AJ Michalka.
- Zac Efron was in London this week for the British premiere of "Charlie St. Cloud" in Leicester Square. He is currently sporting a creepy beard. No word as to whether it's England-related.
- At the "Janie Jones" after-party at the Toronto Film Festival this week, Abigail Breslin sang several songs to entertain the crowd, which included the likes of Harvey Weinstein.
- Emma Roberts hit the red carpet for the NYC premiere of her movie "It's Kind of a Funny Story."
- The premiere of "Fred: The Movie" was on Saturday in Hollywood. Red carpet luminaries included Victoria Justice, Leon Thomas, Gia Mantegna, Joe Mantegna, Jolene Purdy, Italia Ricci, Robbie Amell, David Archuletta, Jenette McCurdy, Daniella Monet, Elizabeth Gillies, and of course Lucas Cruickshank.


Music
- 18-year-old Sky Ferreira's song "Obsession" is the focus track on the soon-to-be-released soundtrack to "The Vampire Diaries"
- A month before the release of her new album "The Sun Comes Out," Shakira made a new (second) video for her single "Waka Waka", which was the theme song to this summer's World Cup in South Africa. No word yet on which other Muppet catchphrases she will turn into hit songs.
- Katy Perry performed a free concert at her old high school on Tuesday. I'm jealous - the biggest star to come out of my high school was Big Bird, and he never gave back.
- iCarly's Jenette McCurd's new video for her song "Not That Far Away" has an interactive element - fans can upload photos of themselves, which become integrated into the video. Neat idea, but it can't possibly be cooler than http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
- Miley Cyrus was pulled over on Monday for talking on her cell phone while driving. It's a far cry from Britney and LiLo circa 2007, eh?
- Other reports claim Miley was actually parked when on the phone. They say paparazzi swarmed her car and she called the cops to have them escort her to safety. A likely story.
- Miley was also seen kissing her former-ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. Breaking up with Liam is the new Quitting Twitter.
- Lady Gaga is getting her own perfume line! Now you too can smell like flank steak, bubble wrap, gyroscopes, or robots.
- 19-year-old British pop singer Pixie Lott released the music video for her song "Broken Arrow!", but more importantly, she also nabbed a Guinness World Record for largest chart-leap: from #72 to #1 in one week.
- JustJaredJr covered Cody Simpson's walk with Zack Bonner on Tuesday in Santa Monica! The one we also covered! OMG!
- Big Time Rush unveiled the cover art for their upcoming debut album.
- Ryan Seacrest broadcast from Children's Hospital of Orange County on Monday. His guests included Emily Osment, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, and Kyle Massey, among others.


Glee
- Glee premieres next week, and the cast will be joined by Charice, playing a foreign exchange student named Sunshine Corazon whose singing prowess will put everyone to shame.
- Lea Michele posted an awesome photo on Twitter of Cory Monteith sporting a mullet for the upcoming religion-themed episode of Glee. Check out the totally tubular 'do: http://yfrog.com/5b4snqj


Non-Glee TV
- Demi Lovato appeared on America's Next Top Model this week, talking with the girls about her anti-bullying campaign. I have this horrible feeling they were only listening to get tips on how to bully each other.
- Chelsea Staub turned 22 this week, which means she only has 10 more years worth of teenage roles ahead of her.
- "Modern Family" starts back up again next Wednesday, September 22nd.
- It's rumored that Jennifer Lopez will be a judge on the upcoming season of American Idol. She might as well.
- SNL returns a week from tomorrow with host Amy Poehler and musical guest Katy Perry.


Trends
- Shakira wears Silly Bandz. We have proof.
- 9 out of 10 LGBT teens are bullied at school. Still. Seriously? What year is this?
- Quitting Twitter is the new Running Away From Home - everyone's doing it, but never for very long.


Web News
- Monique Coleman was joined by special guest Corbin Bleu this week on her webseries "Gimme Mo'"
- Demi Lovato has ended her Twitter break... after about a week. Of course, in teen years, that's like forever.
- Amanda Bynes quit Twitter this week, but will probably be back by next Friday.


Magazines
- The stars of "Teen Mom" are all over magazine stands right now. Don't worry, every generation has terrible taste in role models.
- Victoria Justice is doing a fall fashion spread in the October issue of Seventeen.



List of VMA Winners
Video of the Year - Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance
Best New Artist - The Biebster
Best Hip-Hop Video - Eminem's "Not Afraid"
Best Pop Video - Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"
Best Male Video - Eminem's "Not Afraid"
Best Rock Video - 30 Seconds to Mars' "Kings and Queens"
Best Female Video - Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"
Best Collaboration - Gaga (and presumably someone else. maybe her stylist?)
Best Dance Music Video - Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"
Best Art Direction - Florence + the Machine "Dog Days are Over"
Best Choreography - Lady Gaga "Bad Romance"
Best Cinematography - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind"
Best Direction - Lady Gaga "Bad Romance"
Best Editing - Gaga. Romance.
Best Special Effects - Muse "Uprising"
Breakthrough Video - The Black Keys "Tighten Up"


1. Shenae Grimes at Teen Vogue and ASOS Fashion's Night Out block party
2. Carey Mulligan at Toronto Film Festival
3. Chanel Iman at ASOS and Teen Vogue VIP dinner
4. Emma Stone at VMAs
5. Kelly Osbourne at Elise Overland Spring 2011 Runway Show
6. Leigh Lezark at Chanel Soho Store Opening Party
7. Leighton Meester at TCS The Romantics Screening Party
8. Megan Fox at Toronto Film Festival
9. America Ferrera at 2010 Deauville Film Festival
10. Olivia Palermo at TCS The Romantics Screening Party








Movies Opening this Week
Never Let Me Go (Keira Knightly, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield)
Easy A (Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley)
The Town (Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall)
Devil (Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine)
Jack Goes Boating (Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz)
Catfish
Alpha and Omega [animated] (Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Justin Long)


Current Top 10 Movies at the Box Office
1. Resident Evil: Afterlife
2. Takers
3. The American
4. Machete
5. Going the Distance
6. The Other Guys
7. The Last Exorcism
8. The Expendibles
9. Eat Pray Love
10. Inception
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Friday, September 10, 2010

The Weekly News Roundup - week of September 6 - 10

Bieber-Watch 2010
- Old yearbooks signed by Justin Bieber are up for auction on eBay! The most recent one sold for $3550. (JSYK)
- Justin Bieber threw a water balloon at a cop on Sunday and hit him right in the crotch. His manager talked the cop out of arresting him, and Justin played his gig at the Maryland State Fair. The only hitch came when his crew punked him during "One Less Lonely Girl," sending out a man in a tiara on stage instead of the usual - a swooning teenage girl. (JSYK)
- Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are suing Bluewater Comics for issuing unauthorised biographical comic books about the artists. (JSYK)
- At any given time, 3% of Twitter's resources are dedicated to tweets about Justin Bieber. (JSYK)
- Justin Bieber took part in Britain's Make Mine Milk campaign, chugging a pint of milk in 26.03 seconds. (JJJ)


Jonas Brothers
-The Jonas Brothers are promoting Allstate's "X The Text" campaign, urging teens not to text and drive. (JJJ)
- The Jonas Brothers hosted a 5k Fun Run in Florida on Monday to raise money for the Special Olympics. (JJJ)
- MTV Live's Paul The Intern punked the Jonas Brothers with a Between-Two-Ferns-esque interview


Trends and Fashion
- Kids have started wearing "I <3 boobies" bracelets in support of breast cancer research, and school officials don't approve. There are widespread reports of confiscations and demands that the bracelets be removed. (JSYK)
- Polka dots are in again. (Teen Vogue)


Music
- Willow Smith (9-year-old daughter of Will) has a new single out, called "Whip My Hair," and just signed a record deal with Roc Nation.
- Glee's Mark Salling will release his album "Pipe Dreams" next month.
- Plug In Stereo, aka Trevor Dahl (16), officially released the single "Oh Darling" on Tuesday.
- Selena Gomez released the video for her song "A Year Without Rain."
- JoJo premiered the video for her single "In The Dark," and was seen at the Christian Siriano show during Fashion Week this week. She also released a mixtape (mini album) called Can't Take That Away From Me.
- "The Vampire Diaries" is releasing a soundtrack in October, featuring Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, and more.
- David Archuleta debuted his new song "Things Are Gonna Get Better" during the Jerry Lewis MDS Telethon last weekend. His new album drops October 5th.
- Allison Iraheta is no longer with Jive Records
- Jesse McCartney's single "Shake" debuted on Tuesday on the Tap Tap Revenge game for iPhones.


Television
- The Stand Up To Cancer telethon is tonight. Some of the celebs scheduled to appear are Vanessa Hudgens, Naya Rivera, Brenda Song, David Archuleta, Leona Lewis, and Abigail Breslin. (JSYK)
- The 2010 VMA's are on Sunday
- Jane Lynch (Glee's Sue Sylvester) is on iCarly this weekend, playing Sam's mom. (JSYK)
- "Hellcats" premiered this week, as did the new season of "Vampire Diaries."
- Kyle Massey and his DWTS partner Lacey Schwimmer ditched dance rehearsal on Wednesday to have some fun at Disneyland.
- Monique Coleman premiered new show "Gimme Mo'" on Wednesday.
- Demi Lovato will appear on America's Next Top Model to talk about fashion and her anti-bullying campaign.
- The 2010 Nickelodeon Mega Music Fest aired Monday night, featuring Justin Bieber, Dr. Phil, Colbie Caillat, Wyclef Jean, Dora the Explorer, and Yo Gabba Gabba, hosted by John Leguizamo.


Movies
- "Eclipse" is back in theaters this weekend in honor of Bella's birthday - September 13th.
- The Toronto International Film Festival is getting started! Emma Roberts and Amanda Crew arrived in Toronto on Thursday to promote "It's Kind of A Funny Story" and "The Repeaters," respectively. (JJJ)
- Zac Efron left for Europe this week to promote "Charlie St. Cloud" at the Deauville Film Festival in France, as well as at premiers in Madrid, Munich, and London. (JJJ)
- Shooting for "L.O.L." wrapped in Paris, and stars Miley Cyrus and Ashley Greene returned to LA.


Video Games
- David Henrie and his little brother Lorenzo attended the XBox 360 "Halo Reach" launch in LA on Wednesday. Chris and Kyle Massey were also in attendance.
- The Lord of The Rings: Aragorn's Quest will be released on September 14th. Gamers play out Aragorn's quest, under narration from Samwise Gamgee.


Other News
- Demi Lovato is swearing off Twitter... for a while, anyway. (JSYK)
- Miley Cyrus has a new tattoo - an outline of a heart on her right pinky.
- New magazine covers: Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale on "Seventeen," Amanda Seyfried on "Elle", Selena Gomez on "Latina", Emma Stone on "ASOS: New York", Justin Bieber on "Teen Vogue"


Making A Difference
- Edward Bosson, a 17-year-old from England, just became the first person ever to wakeboard across the English Channel. He did it for the challenge and to raise money for charity. (JJJ)
- Taylor Swift joined Michelle Obama and NFL players Deuce McAllister, Derrick Brooks, and Eddie George, speaking out for the Play 60 campaign. (JJJ)
- Glee's Lea Michele is starring in a new PETA ad aimed at stopping horse-drawn carriage rides. (JJJ)
- Alyson Stoner and MDot Finley honored 11-year-old Olivia Bouler as part of Disney Friends for Change: Project Green. Olivia raised $20,000 for Gulf cleanup by making watercolor paintings of Gulf-region birds. (JJJ)
- Make It Or Break It's Cassie Scerbo launched her own foundation called Nothing's Impossible, which will help underfunded gymnastics gyms.



HIGHLIGHTS FROM TEEN VOGUE

Britt Robertson (Avalon High, Life Unexpected, The Family Tree)
Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, United States of Tara)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road, Hung, Let Me In)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone, The Beaver, Like Crazy, X-Men prequel)
Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf)
Ella Purnell (Ways to Life Forever, Intruders, Never Let Me Go)
Keir Gilchrist (IT's Kind of a Funny Story, United States of Tara)
Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Priest, Abduction)
Bella Heathcote (Beneath Hill 60)
Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson, The Three Musketeers 3-D, Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Harrison Gilbertson (What's Wrong With Virginia)
Max Thieriot (My Soul to Take, House at the End of the Street, Nancy Drew, Catch That Kid, Chloe)
Thomas Sangster (Love Actually, Nowhere Boy)
Nicola Peltz (The Last Airbender, Unbound Captives)


1. Elle Fanning at the Venice Film Festival
2. Jessica Alba at the Venice Film Festival
3. Natalie Portman at the VFF
4. Shanae Grimes at the Food & Wine's Taste of Beverly Hills
5. Jessica Stroup at the Food & Wine's Taste of Beverly Hills
6. Rachel Bilson out and about in LA
7. Annalynne McCord at the Food & Wine's Taste of Beverly Hills
8. Katy Perry in England
9. Jessica Lowndes at the Food & Wine's Taste of Beverly Hills
10. Winter Ave Zoli at the Sons of Anarchy Season 3 premiere






Hellcats
My Generation
World of Jenks
No Ordinary Family
Running Wilde
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