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LifeStyle — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:00:29 +0000

2010 American Music Awards Red Carpet

Heidi Klum Treats Her Daughters To Lunch

LifeStyle — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:14 +0000

Heidi Klum enjoyed some girl time with her daughters, Leni and Lou: the three went out to lunch yesterday afternoon. Fun! What’s not so fun for Heidi, according to reports, are her estranged husband’s interviews (while Heidi’s only tweeted once). … Continue reading →

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Mac Miller Makes His Picks For Next Big Pittsburgh MCs

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:22 +0000

Miller took MTV News back to the ‘Burgh and introduced us to some of his city’s hottest up-and-coming talent.
By Rob Markman

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Photo: MTV News

Yes, the world knows Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller, but Pittsburgh has a wealth of hip-hop talent. With the Steel City’s two breakout stars already accounted for, MTV News took a trip to the ‘Burgh to see who’s got next.

“A lot of people are talented. There are just a million talented people out there,” Miller told MTV News when he took us on a tour through his hometown in December.

Acts like Boaz, Chevy Woods, B White and Mayo of the 58′s, Jabari X and Varsity Squad have been repping Pittsburgh locally for some time now, and while Mac supports all the city’s homegrown talent, if he had to pick one act to break out nationwide, it would be the Come Up, a.k.a. the duo of Vinny Radio and Franchise.

“I brought them on tour and I plan on bringing them out on tour, so if it’s up to me, they’re gonna be the next people that come out the ‘Burgh,” Miller said. “But there’s definitely a lot more people who could; it’s not just Vinny and Fran.”

Mac Miller introduces Pittsburgh’s hottest producers.

The Come Up exist as a part of a larger hip-hop collective called the 58′s, along with rappers B White and Mayo. That union exemplifies the type of unity that exists in Pittsburgh’s rap scene.

“It’s a small city … so pretty much we’ve all been familiar with each other for a long time,” Franchise said. “Everybody in this city who’s pretty much doing it legit, we’ve all been trying to get it and put the city on.”

Taylor Gang’s Chevy Woods echoed a similar sentiment. “Everybody’s hardworking, and it’s not like a big music scene out there, so when you got somethin’, you just go with it,” he said. “Everybody sees the light that shines on [Wiz Khalifa] and Mac [Miller] and now it’s trickling down to everybody else.”

Wiz Khalifa motivates Pittsburgh’s up-and-coming artists.

There is a pretty diverse group of rap characters that come out of Pittsburgh. Wiz is a hitmaker who dedicates a lot of his catalog to partying and getting high, while Mac embodies a youthful spirit. Boaz is street, and female MC Kellee Maize spits sociopolitical bars. “To be honest, I do think Boaz is right there on the cusp. I think I’m maybe close to the cusp too,” Maize said, laughing.

“I just bring that underground feel,” Boaz said, describing his deeply rooted street sound. “I embrace the culture of that poverty line that I’m speaking about.”

For years, Time Bomb has been an epicenter for Pittsburgh hip-hop. More than just a clothing store, Time Bomb has become a place for local ‘Burgh MCs to congregate and sling their mixtapes to hungry fans. The shop’s owner, Brick, has seen many young artists walk through his doors, including Miller and Khalifa. When it comes to the future of Pittsburgh hip-hop, Brick is a wide-eyed optimist.

“I think Mac and Wiz opened the door, but there’s gonna be an army of producers, an army of rappers, and they’re gonna be all different. People know: Pittsburgh, it is what it is, it’s a hardworking town,” he said. “I can name 100 people, because I want everyone to make it from here, you understand? This is Pittsburgh.”

Who do you believe will be the next rap act to emerge from Pittsburgh? Tell us in the comments!

Take a look back at MTV News’ Back to the ‘Burgh with Mac Miller and see how we spotlighted the city’s vibrant hip-hop scene.

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Photos | A History Of Britney Spears At The VMAs

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:15 +0000

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Justin Bieber Debuts Darker Locks

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:00:16 +0000

Teen superstar was spotted with new hairstyle in Los Angeles over the weekend.
By Jocelyn Vena

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About a year ago, Justin Bieber made headlines when he lopped off his famous locks in favor of a shorter do. Now, almost 12 months later, he's once again making some hair-related headlines.

So, what has Bieber done now that has everyone buzzing? Well, over the weekend, the Biebs was spotted in Los Angeles donning much darker hair than his trademark sandy blond. When Bieber cut off his hair last year, MTV News spoke to his hairstylist, Vanessa Price, who told us about his new look, noting that it had a lot to do with Bieber's growing pains. "We knew it was going to be a big deal," Price explained. "We knew it was going to shock fans, but we also knew it was going to be a change in terms of growing up. I think that's something that people adjust to. "We'd been talking about it for a while and shared some ideas, but literally the day of he was adamant about the haircut. He amped himself up for it," Price continued, before describing his momentary hesitation. "The minute we started cutting, he was like, 'Wait, wait, wait.' He loves it. He's enjoying it." The new hair color coincides with his girlfriend Selena Gomez's hairstyle changes. She recently tweeted a photo of herself sporting multi-colored highlights in her hair. Bieber's new look may be part of a makeover for his upcoming album, Believe, slated for release later this year. He confirmed last week that Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am will appear on the album. Not only does Bieber want to grow up when it comes to his look but also when it comes to his music. "The only conversation we've had about Justin's album that we're about to do is it's really important that it's the proper transition, because we've seen him [with] 'Baby,' now we're watching him grow up," Bieber's longtime vocal producer Kuk Harrell told MTV News in November. "And we can't just throw him into the adult game right away. It has to be the proper transition."

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Several Tricks For Gaining Better Romantic relationship Along With Your Physicians – For Persistent Suffering Individuals

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:00:42 +0000

People with continual suffering shell out a long time interior and exterior doctor’s offices, the majority of it wasted looking forward to meetings that seem to take flight by without having lots of time to question a subject or two. Occasionally, this almost endless cycle of patiently waiting and emotion raced over the best scheduled appointment leads to broken reactions and traumatic relationships with all the man or woman in charge for your health attention — your the treatment of health practitioner.
Underneath are several ideas to enhance your partnership with the the treatment of health practitioner.
1. Are available equipped – checklist questions out in advance. Convey a logbook – it will help your personal doctor monitor your indicators if you’re able to do a little advance spadework for yourself. Monitor food items, get to sleep, exercising, and stress levels each and every day, then look when placed against a standard ranking of your respective suffering over a 1-10 or (improved) 1-100 machine.
2. Convey an associate, or even a video tape recorders – having the capacity to focus on what the doctor says, and your dialog back in the puppy is useful. Enable someone else consider records, or start using a recorders. Find out the doctor thoughts — fair ones will likely not head in any respect simply because realize it helps you take better care of on your own. The companion has got the added benefit of supplying you with the second thoughts and opinions about regardless of if the health care provider to be real rude or obnoxious or speeding you, or no matter whether you simply had it incorrectly.
3. Local plumber — use common-sense when picking study methods but do try taking a little accountability for discovering that which you have, to the degree you can. No-one needs you to acquire a medical level but there are lots of dependable purchaser medical web-sites over the internet. Do a little Tramadol investigation in order to discuss considerably intelligently regarding your indicators in your health care provider. Communicating requires a contributed expressions. Show her you are taking accountability on your own health and fitness.
4. Cure him with admiration — there’s a widespread anti –health care provider sensibility amid some patients, specially people who have to pay out a long time in healthcare provider’s patiently waiting spaces. Several of it is really earned — some physicians are egotistic past thinking. But should you prefer a improved partnership with all the health care provider you might have, you should focus on the treatment of himPerher with all the admiration you would like to be addressed with in return for. And demand precisely the same in return for — decent partnership draws on mutuality of admiration. We train people how you can treat us – that is true of associates and doctors, too.
5. Esteem the limitations on the healthcare provider’s morning. Consentrate on important difficulties, not every little thing. Esteem hisPerher time. Make a further scheduled appointment for other difficulties. That is difficult simply because you won’t want to be rushed out. When your doc is spending less than a few minutes with you, that is definitely insufficient. But if you’re demanding greater than 15, that is definitely a lot to anticipate.
If this all is not able, and you’re amid a dropping-out with your personal doctor, discuss up. Physicians, just like all expert companies, need to know if their clients are unhappy. If inspite of your better endeavours to discuss the situation with all the health care provider, the situation does not get solved in your pleasure, then you’ll need to choose if they should come across a further health care provider or tolerate the situation.
Through using these Tramadol several points, even so, you’ll lessen your odds of at any time currently being set up that situation and i hope take a extensive, enjoyable partnership with the health care provider, 1 based on common admiration.

Daniel Radcliffe Reveals What Movies Give Him The Chills

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:21 +0000

‘Woman in Black’ star tells MTV News the giant spiders in ‘Jumanji’ used to keep him up at night.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Daniel Radcliffe
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For the star of an upcoming coming horror film, you might expect Daniel Radcliffe to know his way around the genre. But when it comes to movies that really scare the “Woman In Black” star, he doesn’t exactly name the cream of the crop.

“‘Jumanji,’ funnily enough,” Radcliffe admitted to MTV News’ Josh Horowitz. “The giant spiders in ‘Jumanji’ freaked me out as a kid, because I used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking I was seeing them around me.”

While the Robin Williams movie might not inspire nightmares for most people, it was enough to make an impression on the young Radcliffe. Not satisfied with his first answer, however, he vowed to give a more “proper horror film” that scared him as a child.

So naturally, Radcliffe moved onto the Jennifer Lopez classic, “Anaconda.” “I remember the first kind of horror-thriller thing that I ever watched was also ‘Anaconda,’ ” he said. “I’ve got some serious pedigree.”

The actor shared a story about his first time watching the film, at a friend’s birthday party, and his fondness for Ice Cube‘s character. “We all picked a character, and when our character died, we had to leave the room and weren’t allowed to watch the film. I was in it until the end because Ice Cube survives.”

Despite his less reputable horror-movie knowledge, Radcliffe insisted that he actually knew a thing or two about the classics growing up. “I never watched ‘The Exorcist.’ I never saw it when I was a kid. I’ve watched it since,” he said. “When I was 12, all my friends were saying ‘You should watch ‘The Exorcist,’ it’s really funny. You’ll just find it funny.’ I watched it later, thinking I would not have found that funny at 12. I’m terrified now. I would have been scared then.”

Still not satisfied with his defense of his own horror-movie knowledge, Radcliffe attempted to clear up any lingering questions about his cred. “I also like films like ‘The Shining,’ ” he said. “I should mention just because I really should mention a good horror film at this point.”

What horror films give you the chills? Let us know in the comments!

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LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:00:19 +0000

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Madonna’s ‘W.E.’: The Reviews Are In!

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:33 +0000

The magic of Madonna’s parallel romantic storytelling appears to have been lost on critics.
By Kara Warner

Madonna directing “W.E.”
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In addition to her heavily hyped performance at Super Bowl XLVI this weekend, Madonna has been busy writing and directing her second movie, “W.E.,” which follows the real-life love story of American divorcée Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII during the ’30s, as well as a parallel story of a fictional American woman set in 1998 who became obsessed with Simpson’s story.

The film has received some early awards-season love, including a Golden Globe win for Best Original Song and another Globe nomination for Best Original Score, but judging by its 17 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, the magic of the romance seems to have been lost on critics. Read on as we sift through the “W.E.” reviews:

The Parallel Storytelling
“Madonna and co-screenwriter Alek Keshishian try to fuse the threads of two very different tales, set several eras apart, to provide elucidation on the nature of love. But there’s not much illumination to be had. There is, however, plenty of pretentious folderol. Clothes, jewelry and expensive trinkets are fraught with superficial symbolism. The more intriguing of the two stories centers on the 1930s romance and marriage of chic American divorcée Wallis Simpson and Great Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry her. (The title stands for Wallis and Edward.) … Jumping forward to 1998, the second story is about Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) and her fascination with Simpson. Married to a self-absorbed and abusive psychiatrist, Wally roams New York City in a state of gloomy reverie. She forges an unlikely bond with Evgeni (Oscar Isaac), a guard at Sotheby’s, where she goes often to look at the royal paraphernalia about to be auctioned. The disparate strands of the two stories never make much sense the way they’re braided together. Presumably, the more Wally learns about the sacrifices Wallis made, the more she is emboldened to follow her heart and leave her own unhappy marriage. Yet what she uncovers about the Duke and Duchess is not always pretty.” — Claudia Puig, USA Today

Madonna as Writer/Director
“The upshot is that instead of a film about a love that conquered a king and nearly undid a kingdom, Madonna has come up with a female friendship movie, which would be fine if she weren’t busy trying to prove her art-film bona fides. At her entertainer best, Madonna distilled ideas and emotions into solid pop gold, transmitting a worldview through songs, music videos and her shape-shifter persona. The movies, by contrast, have largely defeated her both as an actress and as a director. As a mystical female friendship movie, ‘W.E.’ has its pull, but it never coheres, shredded by its editing and its pretensions, like Mrs. Simpson dancing to the Sex Pistols with a woman in African tribal regalia because, I’m guessing, Madonna likes the way Sofia Coppola used New Order’s music in ‘Marie Antoinette.’ ” — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

The Chick-Flick Factor
” ‘W.E.’ (which interlocks with ‘The King’s Speech’ — Bertie pops up in a couple of scenes here just as David appeared in that one) is very much a woman’s picture. The men, except the Sotheby’s security guard, mainly serve as obstacles or targets. That viewpoint is daring and kind of refreshing; a recent study noted that some two-thirds of the dialogue in Hollywood movies is spoken by men (in my experience, that is a reversal of reality). In the Wallis portions, Madonna presents a frank, unashamed defense of gold-digging, though she does unconvincing penance for this in the Wally story, in which the bride proves lonely and bored in her Upper East Side castle. After more than 40 years of feminism, the gold-digging subtext remains as central to female fantasy as it is in Jane Austen novels, and it’s implicit in most of those rom-coms in which, just by sheer coincidence, true love happens with the owner of a chain of bookstores, or the millionaire a gal meets while working the streets. If the woman virtuously chooses love over money, she gets the lucre anyway.” — Kyle Smith, The New York Post

The Final Word, Pro-Con Style
“If anyone, Madonna certainly understands the crazy pull of celebrity obsession, and it’s an intriguingly romantic premise she presents, interweaving Wally’s story with the Duchess’, often triggered by the modern woman’s handling of certain artifacts belonging to the late, almost-Queen of England, who even begins to appear to her in hallucinations, to offer world-weary advice and/or disapproval. The director tells the Duchess’ story with surprising verve, historical accuracy and style, a huge improvement over the nastily cartoonish way the couple was represented in the overrated ‘The King’s Speech’ last year. There are a few clichéd missteps, as when Edward’s mother, Queen Mary (Judy Parfitt), clucks, ‘This is a pretty kettle of fish!’ over her son’s scandal, but, for the most part, the historical sequences have a thrilling élan, aided by the crack photography, art direction and especially Arianne Phillips’ superbly accurate costume design for this most chic of fashion eras. Taking a cue, perhaps, from Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette,’ Madonna has also effectively interpolated modern pop-rock music along with the usual Deco cocktail standards of the era.” — David Noh, FilmJournal.com

“You can’t call ‘W.E.’ a total disaster; it’s too pretty, too nonsensical and finally too insignificant for that. Rather, it’s a heavily decorated and overly complicated exercise in female narcissism, which in its plotless meandering fashion seeks to draw a mystical connection between an unhappy Manhattan wife and Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the Baltimore socialite who married King Edward VIII. Riseborough gives a richly enjoyable performance as the prickly, strange and not especially beautiful American who pulled a king and emperor from his throne, and some of the 1930s scenes are pretty fun, after the fashion of outtakes from ‘The King’s Speech’ turned into music videos or haute couture shoots. Madonna and co-writer Alek Keshishian (who directed ‘Truth or Dare’ way back in 1991) go right at the historical reputation of Wallis and Edward as Nazi sympathizers, and to the extent that ‘W.E.’ is an attempt to rehabilitate them at least it has a clear agenda.” — Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

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Sunday Rose Urban: Pretty Preschooler

LifeStyle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000

Sunday Rose was seen with her nanny in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Friday (February 3).

The 3 1/2-year-old daughter of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban had just been picked up from school. Black pants with a striped black and white top was her outfit for the day.

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Source: http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2012/02/04/sunday-rose-kidman

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