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One thousand already?!?! Sweet!!

Lady Gaga Claims 1,000th Hot 100 No. 1 with ‘Born This Way’
And you thought her entrance at the Grammy Awards was attention-getting.
By storming the Billboard Hot 100 song chart at No. 1, Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” makes history as the 1,000th leading song in the list’s 52-year history.
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s, from 1 to 1,000
“It is a tremendous honor,” Gaga tells Billboard of the milestone. “To be the 1000th no. 1 on Billboard…I would be silly not to say this is the greatest honor of my career.”
“I am so humbled and so honored and overwhelmed by the reception to ‘Born This Way,’ ” Gaga adds. “[It] has been so life changing for me as an artist, and between Billboard and the international number ones and the radio numbers…I couldn’t be more blessed to have the fans that I have.”
Fittingly for such a milestone, the first single and title track from Lady Gaga’s third album, due May 23, arrives in record-breaking fashion.
On Radio Songs, the Hot 100’s airplay component chart, “Born This Way” begins at No. 6 with a first-week audience of 78.5 million. That’s the highest bow and largest opening airplay figure for a song since the tally began incorporating all radio formats in December 1998.
The arrival of “Born This Way” bests the previous debut record on Radio Songs, set when Janet Jackson’s “All for You” soared in at No. 9 with 70 million in 2001.
With opening-week digital sales of 448,000, “Born This Way” likewise breaks barriers with the largest debut sum for a female artist. Britney Spears established the prior mark four weeks ago upon, the arrival of “Hold It Against Me” (411,000).
The opening of “Born” marks the third-largest debut among all digital tracks. Flo Rida’s “Right Round” started with 636,000 in February 2009 and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” with 465,000 two months later.
Notably, “Born This Way” rewrites airplay and digital history after just five days of availability at radio and three days at online retailers.
The song is also just the 19th title to debut at No. 1 in the Hot 100’s history.
The 1,000th Hot 100 No. 1 is Lady Gaga’s third chart leader, following her first two singles: “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis (the 968th No. 1), and “Poker Face” (972), both in 2009.
The Hot 100 currently ranks titles by employing a formula measuring radio airplay, as tabulated by Nielsen BDS; sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan; and, streaming activity data.
The weekly survey launched in the pages of Billboard magazine in the issue dated Aug. 4, 1958, with Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” reigning over the inaugural listing.
Among notable historic No. 1s, the Beatles’ first of their record 20 toppers, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (the 104th No. 1), reached the pinnacle the week of Feb. 1, 1964.
Mariah Carey tallied her first No. 1 Aug. 4, 1990 (the chart’s 32nd anniversary), with “Vision of Love,” her first of 18 No. 1s, the most among women. Her “One Sweet Day,” with Boyz II Men, logged the chart’s longest reign – 16 weeks – in 1995-96.
Michael Jackson, the leader among solo males with 13 No. 1s, first reigned as a solo artist on the Hot 100 dated Oct. 14, 1972, with “Ben.”
Having reached No. 1 the week of March 21, 1981, REO Speedwagon’s “Keep on Loving You” represents the chart’s 500th leader.
P.M. Dawn’s “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” (the 761st No. 1) marked the chart’s first champion since the Hot 100 converted to BDS electronically-monitored airplay measurement and SoundScan point-of-sale data in November 1991.
Breaking down the Hot 100’s history by decade, 226 songs ruled in the ’50s/’60s; 253 in the ’70s; 231 in the ’80s; 140 in the ’90s; and, 150 beginning in 2000.
With the chart’s 1,000 No. 1s spread over 2,743 weeks, the average leader has spent 2.74 weeks at the top spot.
Only one song has made trips to the summit in each of two chart runs. Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” led the Sept. 24, 1960, chart. Re-released, it returned to No. 1 the weeks of Jan. 13-20, 1962.
When Billboard celebrated the Hot 100’s 50th anniversary in 2008, Checker’s dance classic ranked as the top title of the chart’s first half-century.
All charts will be refreshed tomorrow (Feb. 17) on Billboard.com.

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But…she’d look sooo good in spandex!!!

Witherspoon rejects superhero roles
Actress Reese Witherspoon has ruled out ever starring in a superhero movie because futuristic films have no roles suitable for women of her age.
The Hollywood star admits the movie industry has changed drastically in the last few years and become more sci-fi orientated but she has no intention of trying her hand at that genre.
She tells Entertainment Weekly, “The movies that are being made feel different. There are a lot of really, really, really big movies about robots and things – and there’s not a part for a 34-year-old woman in a robot movie.
“I’ve never done the superhero movie. That doesn’t interest me too much.”
Witherspoon admits the shift in popular genres has prompted her to be more selective of the projects she takes on, but she insists her children Ava and Deacon keep her more than busy when she’s not working on a movie.
She adds, “I also have kids, so when I’m not working, it’s not like I’m sitting around doing nothing. I’m taking care of two kids who are rapidly growing up in some bizarre time warp. I mean, somehow I now have an 11 year old!”

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Here’s hoping he is resting in peace!!!

Rolling Stone releases Lennon’s final interview
NEW YORK ñ Three days before he was gunned down, John Lennon complained about his critics ó saying they were just interested in “dead heroes” ó and talked optimistically about his family and future, musing that he had “plenty of time” to accomplish some of his life goals.
Lennon’s final interview was released to The Associated Press by Rolling Stone on Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the musician’s death. The issue using the full interview will be on magazine stands on Friday. While brief excerpts of Jonathan Cott’s interview with Lennon were released for a 1980 Rolling Stone cover story days after Lennon’s death, this is the first time the entire interview has been published.
“His words are totally joyous and vibrant and hopeful and subversive and fearless,” said Cott in an interview on Tuesday. “He didn’t mince words.”
Lennon saves some of his harshest words for critics who were perennially disappointed with Lennon’s path, in both music and in his life, after leaving the Beatles.
“These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists ó it’s like idol worship,” he said. “They only like people when they’re on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again.
“What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I’m not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. .. So forget ’em, forget ’em.”
He also predicted that Bruce Springsteen, then hailed as rock’s bright future, would endure the same critical barbs: “And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God. … They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.”
But Lennon also talked about trying to be a good father to his youngest son Sean, learning how to relate to a child (he admitted he wasn’t good at play) and spoke of his strong bond with wife Yoko Ono: “I’ve selected to work with … only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. … That ain’t bad picking.”
At 40, he was also reflective of what he had accomplished so far in life and exploring life’s themes, and remained committed to his goal of peace and love on earth.
“I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.”
Cott interviewed Lennon at his apartment and at his record studio. The interview was originally planned for a cover story for Lennon and Ono’s upcoming album “Double Fantasy,” but in the rush to put out a story after Lennon was shot to death by Mark David Chapman, only snippets were used.
Cott said he never went back to the three hours worth of tapes until a few months ago when he was cleaning out his closet.
“On a strip of magnetic tape, it was sort of a miracle that first of all, the tape had not degraded after 30 years,” he said. “All of this sudden, this guy’s voice, totally alive … just made me feel so inspired that I felt that I should really transcribe the whole thing.”
Cott said he was struck by how much he was thinking about his life and mortality.
“There were a lot of strange consideration of where he was and what he felt like sort of in the middle of his journey,” Cott said. “I think it was like a mid-life meditation, I was struck by that.”
The magazine also included an essay by Ono recalling her final days with her husband.
Ono released a statement Tuesday night in tribute to Lennon.
“On this tragic anniversary please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect,” Ono said. “In his short lived life of 40 years, he has given so much to the world. The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn so much from him today. John, I love you!”

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Love that Bill Murray!!!

Bill Murray Reflects on Choice to Play ‘Garfield’
By GQ magazine’s math, Bill Murray has agreed to “exactly four prolonged media encounters in the past ten years — and when he does, it’s never clear what you’re going to get.”
Fortunately for us all, the funnyman with more cred than almost anyone to ever earn a laugh agreed to one more long sit-down, for GQ’s annual comedy issue.
“Sitting across from Bill Murray was basically the most terrifying, wonderful thing I have ever done in my career. The man is an American treasure and I still can’t believe I met him,” GQ senior editor Dan Fierman told PopEater of the experience. “Candid as hell, too.”
The results are dynamite — the 59-year-old star riffs on why on earth he made ‘Garfield,’ the many TV shows he’s never seen, and if he’ll be involved with a third ‘Ghostbusters.’
First off, why ‘Garfield’? “I didn’t make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I’d never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: ‘Christ, well, I love those Coens! They’re funny.’ So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, ‘Yeah, I’d like to do that.’ Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bulls***, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. Finally, I went out to LA to record my lines.
And what was it like, recording the dialogue for a movie that eventually notched a sorry 15% on RottenTomatoes? “Usually when you’re looping a movie, if it takes two days, that’s a lot. I don’t know if I should even tell this story, because it’s kind of mean. [beat] What the hell? It’s interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, ‘That’s the line? Well, I can’t say that.’ And you sit there and go, ‘What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense?’ And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, ‘Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we’re dealing with.’ So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, ‘Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the f*** was Coen thinking?’ And then they explained it to me: It wasn’t written by that Joel Coen.”
The saving grace of ‘Garfield’? “The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body’s one in a million? What’s her name? Help me. You know who I mean. [Interviewer: “Jennifer Love Hewitt?”] “Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie.”
Anything happening with a third ‘Ghostbusters’? “It’s all a bunch of crock. It’s a crock. There was a story — and I gotta be careful here, I don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. When I hurt someone’s feelings, I really want to hurt them. [laughs] Harold Ramis said, Oh, I’ve got these guys, they write on ‘The Office,’ and they’re really funny. They’re going to write the next ‘Ghostbusters.’ And they had just written this movie that he had directed…”
…which was ‘Year One’: “Well, I never went to see ‘Year One,’ but people who did, including other Ghostbusters, said it was one of the worst things they had ever seen in their lives. So that dream just vaporized. That was gone. But it’s the studio that really wants this thing. It’s a franchise. It’s a franchise, and they made a whole lot of money on ‘Ghostbusters.'”
He hasn’t seen ‘Community’: “I’m hoping it’s funny. It looks kind of funny. Chevy in life can really be funny. I don’t see him that often anymore, but in life he’s a hell of a lot more fun than I am — he’s always going; he really, really, really wants to make people laugh. But I haven’t watched it.”
What else hasn’t he seen? “I never saw the original ‘Office.’ I never saw this ‘Office.’ I never even saw ‘Clerks.’ Like I never saw, what’s-his-name, Larry David’s show. [Interviewer: ‘” ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’?”] No! The other one. With the other guy. ‘Seinfeld’! I never saw ‘Seinfeld.’ Really! I never saw ‘Seinfeld’ until the final episode, and that’s the only one I saw. And it was terrible. I’m watching, thinking, ‘This isn’t funny at all. It’s terrible!’ ”

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It does come with a great cover picture!!

LeAnn Rimes mag cover under fire
The editor-in-chief of fitness magazine Shape has apologized to readers for putting singer LeAnn Rimes on the October cover of the publication.
Valerie Latona has called the decision to publish bikini shots and an interview with Rimes, who split from husband Dean Sheremet in 2009 following an affair with married actor Eddie Cibrian, a “terrible mistake”.
In an email sent to some readers and obtained by TooFab.com, the editor wrote, “Please know that our putting her on the cover was not meant to put a husband-stealer on a pedestal, but to show (through her story) how we all are human. And this woman in particular found strength in exercise in what she said was her most difficult personal moment.
“It did not come across that way… and for that I’m terribly sorry.
“I hope that we can do better the next time for those of you that will give us another chance.”
The email comes after many Shape readers complained about the cover story.

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Really?!?!?

Kelly named ‘sexiest woman alive’
Actress Minka Kelly has been named Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive.
The former Friday Night Lights actress takes the crown from Kate Beckinsale, who was named last year’s most attractive star.
But Kelly, who is pictured posing seductively in lingerie for the November issue of the men’s magazine, admits she didn’t always feel glamorous growing up – as the daughter of a struggling stripper.
Opening up about hard times and her late mother, she says, “My mom lived a fast life. It was all about what we could do to have fun with nothing. She – for most of my life, she was a dancer. An exotic dancer. She was a stripper.
“So she would come home at like three, four o’clock in the morning and sometimes she would have a really great night, and she would wake me up in the middle of the night and we’d go to (Los Angeles grocery chain) Ralphs and go grocery shopping.”
But Kelly made the best of her upbringing: “And that was so much fun. We’d have the whole grocery store to ourselves, and we would have a blast and buy a hundred dollars in groceries. And it was just the best day ever. The best day.”

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I was ignored again!!

People’s best-dressed list unveiled
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Avatar” star Zoe Saldana, who played a sexy blue alien in the 3D extraganza, made People magazine’s annual best-dressed list Wednesday, alongside “Glee” actress Lea Michele and Prince William’s girlfriend.
Singers Gwen Stefani and Rihanna also appear in the top 10, which does not rank its entrants in order. Actresses Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Alba and Diane Kruger made the cut as well.
Saldana, 32, seen in “Avatar” wearing little but blue and an elegant tail, was dubbed the “Red Carpet Queen” by People for her grace, taste and sense of fun.
Michele, 24, who plays geeky Rachel Berry in the TV musical “Glee”, is “The Newbie” in the 2010 list, praised for wearing bold shades like scarlet and emerald on the red carpet.
And Kate Middleton, 28, the long-time girlfriend of the second-in-line to the British throne was dubbed the “Princess in Waiting” and won plaudits for always looking “chic and refined.”
Kruger, 34, who played a German double agent in last year’s “Inglourious Basterds,” was called the “Runway Renegade,” admired for doing her own make-up and putting style before comfort at celebrity events.
People also picked out some fashion moments that were just inglorious, including unfortunate red carpet appearances by Rita Wilson, the actress wife of Tom Hanks, and former screen siren Sharon Stone.
The magazine deemed the suicide of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, Chelsea Clinton’s multimillion-dollar wedding and Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber’s floppy, eye-brow grazing hair as the most memorable style moments of the year.
People’s Best & Worst Dressed 2010 issue hits newsstands on Friday. The 10 best-dressed women of the year are:
Zoe Saldana – The Red Carpet Queen
Gwen Stefani – The Hip Mom
Rihanna – The Daring Diva
Diane Kruger – The Runway Renegade
Lea Michele – The Newbie
Olivia Palermo – The Uptown Girl
Jessica Alba – The Mix Master
Jennifer Aniston – The American Classic
Rachel Bilson – The Denim Darling
Kate Middleton – The Princess in Waiting.

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Poor Pee-Wee!!!

‘Pee-wee’ opens up about sex scandal
Pee-wee Herman creator Paul Reubens still maintains he’s innocent of the public indecency charges levelled at him in 1991 – and would have won had the case gone to trial.
The funnyman pleaded no contest to accusations he had been caught masturbating in a Florida porn theatre, because he couldn’t bear the thought of being a public punchline for the duration of a trial – but he insists the officers who arrested him had their facts all wrong.
In a rare interview about the 19-year-old scandal, Reubens tells Playboy he had witnesses and experts lined up who would have proved his innocence.
He says, “Had we gone to trial, we had ready and expert from the Masters & Johnson Institute who was going to testify that in 30 years of research on masturbation the institute had never found one person who masturbated with his or her non-dominant hand.
“I’m right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn’t have been me.
“(But) did I want to have all that revealed in court and then to listed to Jay (Leno) and Arsenio (Hall) and others for another two weeks? So I pleaded no contest and all I got was community service.”
The scandal sent Reubens to therapy and he is now an expert on shock recovery: “I was in shock. There was a feeling like, ‘You’re going to wake up from this and it’s going to turn out to be a bad dream…’ As a result, I now know everything there is to know about scandal and shock – how you move through the first 12 hours, the first 24 hours, the first six weeks… and so on. I know how to navigate all this hideous, s—–, horrible stuff you go through.”
Reubens admits his therapy sessions came in handy when he was hit with another scandal in 2001 – the funnyman was wrongly accused of possessing child pornography.

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Love that Bill Murray!!

The Maddening Marketing of Bill Murray
At a recent press event for the indie film Get Low, two members of the cast ó Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek ó were good-naturedly trading stories about craft and character in a conference room at Los Angeles’ Four Seasons Hotel. Despite the considerable star power, though, something was missing: the third and arguably most intriguing wheel in Get Low’s acting triumvirate, Bill Murray.
“I don’t know where he is today,” said Duvall at one point. “He didn’t show up in L.A.”
Not showing up to a film’s press day is normally an inexcusable Hollywood faux pas punishable by severe tabloid headlines. But in Murray’s case, the absence was met with shrugs. For producers, co-stars and the gathered members of the media, it was another case of “Bill being Bill.”
Indeed, Murray not only missed the Four Seasons press event, but the television interviews the day before as well as the film’s Hollywood premiere. Right up until the Four Seasons event began, anxious p.r. people half-expected Murray to suddenly saunter into the room. When a film representative finally announced, “Mr. Murray will not be attending,” there wasn’t even a glimpse of surprise from the gathered journalists ó and when director Aaron Schneider later referred to Murray’s on-set joie de vivre by simply saying, “Bill is Bill,” it drew an unexpected laugh. Murray keeps a schedule that could be charitably described as mercurial: he’s largely inaccessible to all but his trusted associates, and insists that most inquiries be filed in the form of a message on his personal 800 number (or in some, lucky cases, through his lawyer). But because his legend is built not so much on inaccessibility as it is on unpredictability, his appearances ó and grand-scale absences ó make news.
All things considered, Bill being Bill will draw far more attention to Get Low than whatever the film’s frugal marketing budget can command. “I cannot help but think of the boost [Murray] can bring to this film,” producer Dean Zanuck tells TIME. “He adds a whole other dimension, crosses every generation. I don’t know if there’s a single other actor that could give that fine a performance onscreen but also capture the attention of filmgoers.”
Murray seems more media savvy than publicity shy: a week before ditching his L.A. events, he appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to take a swim in a water-filled Dumpster ó a well-publicized stunt that arguably did more to market the film than a day of interviews would. (He then proceeded to leave Duvall and Spacek hanging at a New York City event that night, possibly due to a minor head injury sustained in the Dumpster dive.) But his devotion to the project, Zanuck insists, is for real: Murray attended five film festivals to support the film, even hobbling through the icy streets of Park City, Utah, on an injured knee for its Sundance screening. “It was a pain in the ass ó uphill, downhill, snow. But he grinded it out,” says Zanuck.
Ordinarily, Murray’s appearances are so rare that when he does allow himself to be interviewed, it becomes an event in itself: his sit-down with GQ editor Dan Fierman for the magazine’s August issue was so noteworthy that AOL’s Entertainment site ran a breathless comment from Fierman about the experience (“Sitting across from Bill Murray was basically the most terrifying, wonderful thing I have ever done in my career,” he said. “The man is an American treasure, and I still can’t believe I met him.”)
Murray’s impetuous behavior goes back to the early days of his film career. Cindy Morgan, who played Lacey Underall in the 1980 film Caddyshack, recalls having a bad day on the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., set. That night, she says, Murray knocked on her door, asking simply, “Do you want to get out of here?”
“I woke up the next morning on a nude beach in Jupiter, Fla.,” she says, laughing.
Murray’s quirky dealings with the media have only grown in time. Luke Wilson, who co-starred with Murray in The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore, recalls Murray having a more “traditional approach” to his p.r. work back then. “But you forget that he’s been in the business for over 30 years. So I can see him getting a little tired,” says Wilson. “He probably doesn’t want to go on Entertainment Tonight.”
Regarding the stories that have emerged since then about Murray’s working without an agent and through an 800 number, Wilson says with a chuckle, “I hear that and think, This guy is a genius. There’s really no one else like him.”
To get Murray on board for Get Low, the filmmakers had to send materials to a post office box and wait to see if the actor would respond. Schneider says that after Murray expressed interest in the script during a phone conversation, “we jumped up and down and sent the script to this P.O. box. And then we thought, Now what?” It took several weeks of old-fashioned written correspondence, followed by random calls from Murray, to finally land him.
The filmmakers insist that once Murray was on board, he was a dream actor to work with. He even gamely took up publicity assignments that few actors would consider. Last fall, Murray spent the Thanksgiving holiday with Zanuck and Schneider promoting Get Low at a film festival in Lodz, Poland, at which Murray took the stage during one event to present an award for a short film. “Before the introduction, he said to the crowd in perfect Polish, ‘I love you, may I borrow some money?’ ” says Zanuck. “It brought the house down.” Murray followed up with a road trip to Warsaw, where he and Zanuck attended a stranger’s house party and sat in the front row of a Polish fashion show. “With Bill, you never know where you are going to end up,” says Zanuck. “You come to expect the unexpected.”
So when that means another event cancellation with no explanation and no recourse (without an agent or manager, there is no one to crack the whip in crisis moments), there is simply acceptance and continued gratitude ó even when the stakes are high for an independent film that needs every bit of p.r. help it can get.
“Bill leads an improvisational life,” says Zanuck with a slight smile. “I respect him for it.”

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Poor, poor Kim!!

Kardashian regrets playboy shoot
Kim Kardashian regrets posing nude for Playboy magazine, insisting the experience left her feeling “uncomfortable”.
The socialite-turned-reality TV star undressed for a special 12-page pictorial in December 2007 on the advice of her mum Kris Jenner, but the 29 year old now wishes she’d never stripped off for Playboy boss Hugh Hefner.
She tells Harper’s Bazaar magazine, “I’m sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable. (My mom said,) ‘Go for it. They might never ask you again. Our (reality TV) show isn’t on the air yet. No one knows who you are. Do it and you’ll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you’re my age.'”
Kardashian bared all again for a new photoshoot accompanying the Harper’s Bazaar interview.