AN OLD VETERAN: Alice Cooper is warning the young ones to behave themselves or risk ruining their careers with drink and drugs. The music veteran enjoyed the rock and roll lifestyle to the fullest when he was in the spotlight. He says, “It was fun in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but those days are gone. If you’re living in this day and age there are too many ways to stop your success but not enough to keep it going. If you want to stick around, you really have to be professional. You don’t need enemies in the business, you need friends.”
AN OLD HOMEBODY: Britney Spears has found the perfect guy. She and her boyfriend, agent Jason Trawick, have devolved into a couple of homebodies. The pair love to work out and watch movies together at home just like ‘normal people’. The Femme Fatale album maker declares, “We love doing stuff together. We take walks, watch movies, and work out. Actually, we work out a lot! Jason hates it when he can’t beat me at an exercise and I love teasing him.”
HE’S MYSTIFIED: Hunkalicious Johnny Depp claims he just doesn’t understand why we women find him so sexy. He’s even admitted that he sometimes feels that sometimes when he leaves the house he knows he’s so unkempt that he has to “look unpleasant.” “It’s a complete mystery to me. I wake up and have to look at myself and brush my teeth every morning – it’s just weird,” he says.
A STAR FOR SURE: The proof-positive for an up and coming celeb that he’s arrived is when he can give a cast off article of clothing for a charity auction and be a home town hero for the gift. Justin Bieber’s former high school wanted to raise some money and was thrilled when the underage singer sent them a pair of his old sneakers. The school split the pair and auctioned each shoe separately. The shoes were so popular that a lock of his hair and a space suit worn during a commercial were eagerly accepted and auctioned earning a much needed cash infusion for the school.
NO WORRIES: Owen Wilson was so uncomfortable while shooting his naked hot tub scene in Hall Pass that he demanded and got a closed set. In the end it looks like Wilson needn’t have worried. The audience has been staying away in droves. Besides, his womanizing reputation has been well and long established and for sure he’ll find no difficulty in luring female companionship in the future.
NO GRASS GROWING UNDER HIS TOES: Pete Wentz hasn’t let any grass grow under his feet as he moves on since splitting from Ashlee Simpson. The Fall Out Boy musician and his estranged soon-to-be former wife only announced their separation last month and already he’s been seen around town in the company of an un-named “mystery woman”. Is she really Wentz’s new heartthrob or is he just trying to rub salt into Ashlee’s wounds?
SCARED OF THE ICON: Most women would be delighted to meet Karl Lagerfeld, but Blake Lively admits that for their first meeting she was terrified of the iconic Chanel designer. The beauty who is the face of Chanel’s Mademoiselle brand admitted, “I was wildly intimidated. He’s an incredibly intimidating person – he’s so accomplished and he’s such a genius. But, the moment you meet him, he’s so kind and humble and alive and filled with passion. I respect and love him so much!”
PINK AND BLUE: Mrs. Nick Cannon, perhaps better known to most of us as the gorgeous Mariah Carey, has made no secret of the fact that she’s expecting twins very soon. While the babies are twins they are a mixed pair – one girl and one boy. The shower was given inventive Mariah held a shower to celebrate her impending motherhood and since she already knew the mix and match nature of her expected arrivals the color scheme just recommended itself and Pink and Blue, it was! The parents have already prepared a gorgeous nursery in a whole wing of their Beverly Hills manse. These will be two very welcome arrivals!
OLD FASHIONED FAMILY MAN: Matt Damon’s star turn in the hit True Grit was punctuated with frequent weekend trips back to New York to spend time with his wife Luciana and their children. Damon is such a family man that he hates being separated from them and burned up his sky-miles flying from the Texas location of the movie back to where his heart really was on the east coast. He laughs, “I was never more than one week away from them, I felt sort of like a traveling salesman, flying from one airport to the other every couple of days.”
CLOSET RAIDER: Demi Moore has discovered that her twenty-two year old starlet daughter Rumer Wills has arrived at that very dangerous age, and size. Rumer is now the same size as her spectacularly beautiful mother and has discovered that they can wear the same clothes. The younger member of the household has admitted, “I’ve definitely raided her closet quite a bit. But, my real problem is when my younger sisters raid my closet and my stuff disappears.” Well, at least she understands what her mother is going through!
TWINKLE TOES?: English star Jamie Bell who burst onto the scene a few years ago as the young star of the movie Billy Elliot is currently co-starring in the hit The Eagle with Channing Tatum. Jamie says that he go for a dance off on the set with Tatum who made his dancing bones in Step Up so Bell doesn’t think the match up would be uneven. Bell does admit that, “He’s much more of a contemporary dancer and I come from a tap dancing background with a bit of ballet thrown in. I think we’d both win medals.”
NO GATE CRASHERS ALLOWED: If there’s one lesson that Kanye West learned in Paris last week it was that the fashion world does not like gate crashers. The American rap idol has been a wrapped follower of fashion for years but found out the hard way that when you simply show up during Fashion Week in the world’s capital of fashion, Paris you’d better be ready to be disappointed.
QUITE A COMFORTER: If a girl is going to be comforted, it would be very hard to find a comforter more inviting that Leonardo DiCaprio. Kate Winslet, whose marriage to director Sam Mendes recently collapsed found a warm reception in the arms of her Titanic co-star. Of Di Caprio, Mendes says, “He knows me better than anyone else in the world. He’s my rock. I don’t know what the hell I’d have done without him.”
GETTING CHEEKY: George Michael describes music giant Sir Elton John as a grumpy old woman. The singers dueted on “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” in 1991, but he has now decided to get cheeky with the Rocket Man star. Michael says “We all earn the right to get a little more grumpy as we get older.”
OBSERVING: Observationalist comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who became famous for taking everyday life and making a sitcom out of trivia, says, “People under fifty twitter a thousand people and say nothing, and people over fifty send a few notes to people they care about and say something.”
THIRTY YEARS LATER: Sharon Osborne who is one of the stars of “The Talk” says, “Ozzy and I have been married over thirty years and we’re still doing it at least five nights a week.” The head of the clan loves being married. He recently asked his better half, “Do you think we’ll still be like this when we’re in our eighties?” The kids have great role models and all hope to copy their parents’ marriage.