Gisteren, op de première van Taylor's nieuwe film (waarin Lily Collins ook in meespeelt) zeiden de twee amper een woord tegen elkaar. En dát is toch wel raar voor een koppel... Ook vertelde Taylor dat hij een tijdje single wou zijn. Alles wijst er dus op dat de voormalige tortelduifjes uit elkaar zijn. Wat zou de reden zijn? Sara Hicks? Taylor Swift? Of Taylor Lautner zelf? We houden je op de hoogte!
Its an exciting time for Jennifer Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany - they just said hello to their newborn baby girl!
Agnes Lark Bettany is the third child for the couple- she was born in New York City on May 31st, says their rep.
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Everyone is healthy and doing well. The family is very excited, the rep added. Connelly gave birth in a birthing pool in her Manhattan apartment.
Earlier this year, Jennifer shared the challenges of the pregnancy. "The first three months were very sketchy. You know how like you have your cell phone and you have to stand in one spot? It was like that with nausea. I had to stand in one spot, which happened to be in front of my refrigerator, which was open with me dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth."
Amazon stumbled on Monday when it offered Lady Gagas new album in the MP3 format at 99 cents, a surprise one-day promotion that proved so popular it stalled the companys servers. But on Thursday it is trying the promotion again, and promises that it will be prepared.
Amazon will offer Lady Gagas new album in the MP3 format at 99 cents on Thursday.
Clearly customers are really excited for Lady Gagas new album we saw extraordinary response to Mondays promotion far above what we expected. She definitely melted some servers, Craig Pape, Amazons director of music, said in a statement. So were doing it again, and this time were ready.
The promotion is expected to push opening-week sales of Lady Gagas album, Born This Way (Interscope), above its early estimates of about 750,000 copies, to 850,000 or possibly more than a million. In the last five years, only two albums have sold more than a million copies in a week: Lil Waynes Tha Carter III in 2008, and Taylor Swifts Speak Now last year.
Amazons Lady Gaga deal has been widely interpreted in the music industry as a way for the company to compete with Apples iTunes store, the dominant music retailer on the Web, and to promote its new Cloud Drive service, which allows customers to store their music on Amazons servers and stream it over the Internet. But the company received a barrage of customer complaints on Monday when its servers failed.
Amazon introduced its Cloud Drive service in March, and earlier this month Google announced its own cloud music service.
Apple is in negotiations with the major record labels and music publishers for its service, which music executives say could be introduced as early as next month.
TV Season Finale Awards: The polls are open! Vote now!
TV Season Finale Awards: The polls are open! Vote now!
Weve reached the final round of EW.coms 2nd annual fan-voted Season Finale Awards, and after combing through more than 1,500 of your nomination ballots, weve got your short lists in 20 categories. Vote in the polls below through Monday, May 30. Winners will be announced Tuesday, May 31. If youre a spoilerphobe and theres a finale you still havent yet watched, proceed with caution. Also, judging by the number of shows that end up in both best and worst categories, showrunners arent lying when they say they cant please everyone all of the time. Have fun!
So imagine their excitement when a very well liked teacher told students at Maugham Elementary she was friends with the superstar singer, and they were going to meet her.
She said after the NJ ASK, which is a big test at our school, she would bring in a surprise for us. And we didnt know what it was. And then after the NJ ASK she told us it was going to be Lady Gaga, Waldman said.
I was really excited. I was happy that I was going to meet somebody famous, student Jessica Ranaldi said.
On Wednesday the teacher gathered students in the school library for a video chat with Lady Gaga and autographed pictures.
It was so exciting when we saw that picture and she was smiling at us, Waldman said.
Everybody was like oh my God! another said.
But fourth grader Michael Ranaldi said many students were suspicious when the woman they thought was Gaga only typed answers and never spoke.
At first I thought it was really weird because she had glasses on. And they said her microphone was disabled, Michael Ranaldi said.
School administrators discovered the woman online was an impostor. On Friday they sent letters home to parents and broke the news to heartbroken kids.
Ally tore up her fake autographed photo.
Its not fair because, like, she lied to us, Waldman said.
People started like crying, Sadler added.
I was disappointed, a parent said.
By all means I thought it was well intended, and the reality is sometimes these things happen, parent Ron Ranaldi said.
I would be disappointed if we didnt get to meet her and she just told us, but now I feel betrayed and just three times worse, Michael Ranaldi said.
The school superintendent said they are taking this matter very seriously and are taking appropriate action. School administrators would not say what punishment, if any, the teacher will face.
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Is Twitter Getting More Social Or Just More Complicated?
Is Twitter Getting More Social Or Just More Complicated?
Twitter has added a couple of features recently, that while adding more social elements may risk 'jumping the shark' a little. The new features are the ability to see what tweets your followers are making as well as those made by people they follow. They also added a "stumble through" button allows you to shuffle through your followers tweet streams.
Now how many people are scratching their heads wondering what all that was about and if it is something users really need?
The beauty of Twitter was its simplicity. Being forced to communicate in 140 characters at first seemed ridiculous but quickly took hold because it was simple. The company played with a few features over the few years of its existence but dropped most as they did not foster that simplicity. Now it seems Twitter wants more interaction between its users and are launching these new features to foster this. But should they?
"You can see above that you will be able to click on a person that youíre following and see Tweets from their followers. This means that you are effectively looking at their Twitter stream," the Next Web noted. The feature had been available a couple of years ago but was pulled, they added.
The 'stumble" feature has not rolled out globally but the pic below shows there will be a button to click to go through and see others tweet streams. This could come in handy, but is it essential? Social media sites have a tendency to get lucky with their initial service offer and then make changes to what they belive their users want and in many cases they are wrong. Hey, even Google has launched bad products and pulled them quickly.
Why do I want to randomly see a twitter stream of one of the people I follow? Is this a feature to just get more interaction? Twitter does not run ads so the extra pageviews will not add to their income - or are they ready to monetize and want to have some increased pageview generators in place?
One has to wonder if the people at Twitter are making moves that may become too intrusive and change the perception of this simple yet popular communication tool. Twitpics was a hugely successful feature - whether these two new ones become popular has yet to be seen. Personally, I don't think this feature will become very popular... but I have been wrong before.
Born in New York City in 1950, Conaway was a fast starter. Acting on Broadway at the age of 10. Opening for classic rock acts such as The Animals as a teenager. Starring as T-Bird leader Danny Zuko in the stage version of Grease in his early 20s.
As Zuko, Conaway joined an elite group of young leading men, including John Travolta, who'd strutted in the role on Broadway.
"I knew sooner or later that a movie would be made of Grease, and one of us would do it," Conaway said in 1978, "whoever was the biggest star."
By the time the film was cast, Travolta was the biggest stara bona fide heartthrob. And so he was anointed Zuko. Conaway was cast as the sidekick, Kenickie; his character's show-stopper from the stage, "Greased Lightning," was reassigned.
Released in 1978, Grease was an instant smash that made superstars of Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Conaway professed no bitterness. He was tall, blond and handsomea "stud," as Newton-John described Conaway to her sister, Rona, who would marry the actor. He moved from Grease straight into Taxi. The workplace sitcom won Emmys, but Conaway wasn't happy with his character, Bobby Wheeler, an actor who made a better cabbie.
"I didn't like the way he was being written to represent actors," Conaway said in 1981, the same year he left the show, three seasons into its five-season run. "It was coming down to that same old self-centered, egocentric stereotype everybody already thinks of."
While Taxi was hardly a ratings hit, the show was respected, and Conaway's departure was viewed as unwise, especially after his subsequent 1980s series, including Wizards and Warriors, for its day the most expensive show in prime time, came and went quickly.
Conaway again professed no bitterness. He said he didn't regret leaving Taxi, and he claimed to be glad to be done with TV, although it seemed just as likely that TV was done with him, too, at least as a leading man.
In his 40s, he landed a supporting role on Babylon 5, the cult sci-fi series that was a bright spot in his increasingly dark world, marked by DUI busts and more.
"I spent a good part of my life on substancesalcohol, pot, cocaine," Conaway told E! News in 2010.
The temptations dated back at least to his rock days. "I thought if I stay in this business, I'll be dead in a year," he said in 1985.
Death seemed to loom large in Conaway's thoughtsand he had his share of scrapes. In the 1970s, he credited his dog with saving him from a house fire. In 2008, he told Howard Stern he'd tried to commit suicide 21 times. "Mostly it's been with pills," he said. "I've taken enough pills to knock an elephant out."
Few who heard his slurred, slowed speech in interviews doubted the toll of his addictions; few who saw his two stints on Celebrity Rehab doubted his physical and emotional pain. (For what it's worth, Conaway insisted he was merely playing to the cameras.)
Maybe missed connections and lost opportunities caught up with him, or maybe they never mattered.
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