Wilson Pickett, the soul singer with the raspy voice and passionate delivery behind the hits "Mustang Sally" and "In the Midnight Hour," has died at age 64.

Pickett died after a heart attack in a Reston, Va., hospital, said Chris Tuthill of management company Talent Source, which represented him. The singer lived in Ashburn, Va.

"He did his part. It was a great ride, a great trip, I loved him and I'm sure he was well-loved, and I just hope that he's given his props," Michael Wilson Pickett, the singer's son, told WRC-TV in Washington.

Source: Foxnews

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There may be life after 'N Sync for Lance Bass and Joey Fatone - as television stars.

The former boy band members are developing a new series about their lives for UPN described as a modern-day "Odd Couple," said Dawn Ostroff, the network president, Thursday. Fatone is Oscar, the slob. Bass is Felix.

Tentatively dubbed, "Out of Sync," and planned for this fall, it's a hybrid of reality and comedy, she said. "They came to us," she said. "Joey and Lance are such fun, interesting people and they truly are an odd couple - even if you sit in a room with them, it's Felix and Oscar in many ways." It's a classic kind of story that could resonate with a new generation, Ostroff said.

--Puke.

Source: New York Daily News

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Teri Hatcher and George Clooney are playing coy about their rumored romance, by refusing to chat about their reported date.

Hatcher is staying quiet about the 'date', while Clooney insists "it's a good rumor". The actress says, "If I went on a date with George Clooney I would not be talking about it." And gentleman George adds, "She is my neighbor, though, and she's beautiful."

Source: Contact Music and Popsugar

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I feel you, Cameron. Golf frustrates the hell out of me, too.

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Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria will pose with her boyfriend, basketball star Tony Parker, in an upcoming issue of men's magazine GQ.

The beautiful couple will appear in a spread in the April issue of the publication.

--Hmm, not sure this is going to happen considering that word on the street is that she was all about Jamie Foxx after the Globes:

Eva Longoria has sparked speculation she has split from her basketball star lover Tony Parker, after cuddling up to Jamie Foxx at a Golden Globes after-party. The actress, 30, struck up a friendship with Oscar-winner Foxx when he invited her to star in his latest music video. Longoria and Foxx attended Mary J. Blige's surprise birthday party in Los Angeles last Wednesday, before speeding off together in the Ray star's silver two-seat Lamborghini.

After attending the Golden Globes alone on Monday night, the actors walked the red carpet of the InStyle and Warner Bros post-awards bash together and were photographed hugging at the party, before leaving together.

Source: Teen Hollywood and IMDB

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Recognize this guy?

It's a bulked-up Jared Leto on the New York City set of Chapter 27 on Tuesday. The actor – toting a copy of Catcher in the Rye and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy album, stars as Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman.

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Lindsay Lohan is so desperate to clean up her tarnished image, the teen singer has been prescribed anti-smoking pills in a bid to curb her nicotine addiction.

The singer, who has endured a battering from the press in recent weeks for speculated drink and drug problems, has been persuaded to seek help for a smoking addiction by her mother Dina. And she hopes her daughter will have kicked the cigarette habit soon, according to gossip site The Scoop.

She says, "Lindsay smokes under a pack a day. She's addicted." "The doctor put her on an anti-smoking pill. God willing, it will work within a month."

It is the second dose of medication the teen star is undergoing after a severe New Year asthma attack forced Lohan to take pills to control her breathing difficulties. Her mom says, "Lindsay's on Advair (asthma medication). She can't be around dogs and cats and certain foods." "And when you're 19, you don't deal with that. I'm her mother and I tell her, 'You have to stick to it.'"

Source: Teen Hollywood

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Movie star Shelley Winters realized her dream of marrying boyfriend Gerry DeFord hours before she died this past weekend.

The Poseidon Adventure star's partner of 18 years called off the couple's wedding plans after Winters' daughter Vittoria Gassman publicly opposed the marriage. Gassman, who took charge of her mother's estate while she battled drug problems, refused to give up her right to the actress' fortune and Winters eventually decided to give up on her wedding dreams.

But she became Mrs. Gerry DeFord on her death bed when actress pal Sally Kirkland, a legally ordained Los Angeles minister, wed the couple on Friday night. It was 85-year-old Winters' fourth marriage and DeFord's first. Winters died of heart failure 10 hours after exchanging vows.

Source: IMDB

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Only a year ago Andie MacDowell seemed resigned to being a single mother, but now the actress is preparing to walk down the aisle with her new fiancé, businessman Kevin Geagan.

As a mom to three kids, last year McDowell was content to stand on the sidelines solo as she cheered on her children at basketball, equestrian and dance competitions. "ItÂ’s work to have a relationship," she told InStyle. "And right now I just want to focus on my kids."

Still, when a friend introduced her to Geagan, a businessman who lives in MacDowell's Asheville, N.C., community, the actress agreed – and within months was sending a decidedly different message. "She called me around Christmas," MacDowell’s father, Marion, said, "and said, 'Dad, I'm in love.'"

Soon after that declaration, MacDowell, 47, and Geagan, 40, were celebrating their engagement. "They’re fabulous together,” says MacDowell's older sister Julia. "They are both very family-oriented. They both like the outdoors, and they're both into community work."

Another thing they have in common: parenthood. Geagan has three daughters, while MacDowell is mom to Justin, 19, Rainey, 16, and Sarah Margaret, 11, by her first husband, model-turned-contractor Paul Qualley, to whom she was married for 13 years before their 1999 split.

Source: People

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Actors are directing. Singers are acting. Drama directors are making concert films. Former presidential rivals Al Gore and Ralph Nader are hitting the big screen. And Hollywood's much-maligned system of rating movies stars in its own film.

The Sundance Film Festival, the country's foremost showcase for independent cinema, gets under way Thursday with an intriguing mix of role reversals among its cast. Gore and Nader lead what's shaping up as a powerhouse year for documentaries, always a strong suit at Sundance. Director Davis Guggenheim's "An Inconvenient Truth" chronicles former Vice President Gore's dogged campaign to convince a reluctant society of fossil-fuel profiteers and consumers about the dangers of global warming.

Nader, viewed by critics as the spoiler whose campaign kept Gore out of the White House in the 2000 election, is the subject of Henriette Mantel and Stephen Skrovan's "An Unreasonable Man," a portrait of the crusader for consumer rights and safety.

Sundance opens with writer-director Nicole Holofcener's "Friends With Money," starring Jennifer Aniston as a woman in limbo about her future after quitting her job and taking up temporary work as a housecleaner. The film centers on her relationship with three affluent friends (Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack).

Actress Joey Lauren Adams ("Chasing Amy") directs Ashley Judd in "Come Early Morning," a drama about a Southern woman struggling to turn around her self-demeaning life. Comic Bob Goldthwait directs "Stay," a romantic comedy about a relationship strained to the breaking point by a pact of absolute honesty.

Jonathan Demme, the Academy Award-winning director of "The Silence of the Lambs," is showing "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," which captures the rocker in concert accompanied by Emmylou Harris in Nashville last year.

Singer Justin Timberlake joins Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone in Nick Cassavetes' "Alpha Dog," a tragic tale of rivalry and violence among young drug peddlers. Musician Tom Waits is among the cast of "Wristcutters: A Love Story," Goran Dukic's offbeat film about a dreary afterlife reserved for people who have killed themselves.

Among other Sundance highlights: Finn Taylor's "The Darwin Awards," with Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes in a twisted comedy about people accidentally killed in idiotic ways; Dito Montiel's "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Rosario Dawson in a mean-streets drama set in 1980s Queens; Laurie Collyer's "Sherrybaby," featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a prison parolee trying to rebuild her life; and Isabel Coixet's "The Secret Life of Words," with Tim Robbins and Sarah Polley in the story of a nurse tending a temporarily blinded man on an oil rig in the Irish Sea.

As Sundance has grown from its roots as Robert Redford's little place of discovery and nurturing for new talent, celebrity hoopla and corporate marketing gimmicks often have overshadowed the films. Critics say Sundance has gone commercial, yet defenders insist such trappings are outside festival organizers' control.

Source: New York Daily News

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Condé Nast’s Teen Vogue in October will offer readers a crash course on the fashion business at Fashion U, a three-day event in New York.

The goal will be to have 1,000 participants attend seminars and lectures, conducted by Teen Vogue’s fashion team, which will cover everything from jewelry design to managing a clothing line. Attendees can pay for either the entire event—including a live concert and fashion show—or individual classes. A portion of the proceeds will go to a soon-to-be-named charity. Although the schedule is still being finalized, Teen Vogue vp/publisher Gina Sanders said course highlights will be available online, so budding designers from Duluth, Minn., can also access Fashion U’s curriculum.

The program, she added, will mentor readers looking to do more than wear fabulous clothes. “We’re hearing more and more from readers that they no longer dream of becoming fashion models, but they aspire to be in the business of fashion,” she explained. Moreover, program sponsors—Sanders said she will be approaching both high-end and mass advertisers—will have an opportunity to reach an educated fashion consumer. “Teen Vogue has carved out a specific fashionista person that they go after,” said Mike Labella, media supervisor for PGR Media, which counts Tommy Hilfiger as a client. “They’re actively seeking these women that have the qualifier of being a fashionista. [This program] is a good move to solidify that base.”

Source: Media Week

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Whatever Mrs. Trump wants, Mrs. Trump gets.

When Melania Trump stopped in with her sister at the trendy BCBG Max Azria store on Madison Avenue, she spotted a young employee from the Completely Bare spa upstairs trying on a low-cut black evening dress with an Empire waist. Melania, whose personal tastes tend more toward Dior, was so taken with the dress that she asked a salesperson if she could have the same frock for her sister, but she was told that the spa employee had scored the last size 2.

Melania would not be deterred. She approached the shopper, offering to buy her anything in the store if she would give her the dress off her back. According to a source, “The dress was absolutely darling, and the girl looked beautiful in it. She really had to think about it.’’ Ultimately, she caved at the sight of the pleading pregnant woman, and Melania made good on her offer: She paid for everything in the woman’s dressing room.

Souce: New York Magazine

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Hell To The No!

Superstar Whitney Houston and fallen R&B singer Bobby Brown's 14-year marriage is reportedly on the rocks, with the couple planning to divorce.

The New York Daily News reports the My Prerogative singer, 36, has been telling friends and acquaintances he is divorcing Houston, 42, after an infamously tumultuous marriage. Earlier this month, the former New Edition band member was reportedly seen flirting with a group of beauties backstage at an all-star concert featuring R&B groups SWV, Guy and Blackstreet at the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.

A backstage source tells the Daily News, "While flirting with a bunch of women, they asked, 'What's up with your wife?' Bobby said, 'We ain't together no more. We're getting a divorce.'" The couple are frequently at the centre of tabloid stories about their admitted drug and alcohol battles and in December 2003, Brown was arrested on charges of misdemeanor battery against Houston in their Georgia home. The couple have one child together - daughter Bobbi Kristina, 12.

Source: IMDB

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Socialite Paris Hilton and her friends have come up with secret signals to help each other escape when they're trapped talking to less than desirable lotharios.

They have developed a special language to bail them out of situations when would-be suitors come on too strong. The party-girl says, "My friends and I have code words and phrases that we use when we need help. If I say to them, 'Tiffany is crying!' then they know to jump in. That's one we use a lot. And then we run away."

Hilton admits she doesn't always get to talk to the most desirable people at parties she attends. She adds, "They're usually older guys, who try to talk to you, or women who look like they've had a lot of plastic surgery. They are to be avoided at all costs."

Source: Teen Hollywood

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David Hasselhoff has admitted that his marriage collapsed due to his alcohol problems.

Hasselhoff and actress wife Pamela Bach filed for divorce last week after 16 years of marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences". But Hasselhoff told German newspaper Das Neue Blatt about the effect his drinking had on his marriage and explained: "Alcohol destroyed everything."

The TV star has publicly struggled with drinking problems in recent years, admitting that he hit "rock bottom" in 2002 during a drinking binge that almost killed him. He checked himself into a number of rehab clinics since but kept falling off the wagon and in 2004 was charged with drunk driving.

Hasselhoff told the German paper: "I went through a horrible time during which I hated myself. I caused a lot of pain for Pamela through my behavior."

Source: Ananova

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Job Wanted:
Michael Jackson seems to be settling in to the Persian Gulf. He has shopped for real estate here, been spotted in glitzy malls — and now it appears that Jackson is interviewing for a job.

The singer, his reputation in tatters at home after winning a grueling molestation trial in California last year, is negotiating a position as a consultant with a Bahrain-based company that plans to set up theme parks and music academies in the Middle East, according to a press release.

AAJ Holdings Ltd., owned by Bahraini businessman Ahmed Abu Bakr Janahi, said it wanted to hire the 47-year-old Jackson to give advice on setting up entertainment businesses. AAJ, which focuses mainly on urban development projects, played a key role in designing Bahrain's ongoing Financial Harbor development and Oman's Blue City, a multibillion-dollar tourist resort with golf courses, hotels, and several dozen kilometers (miles) of sandy beaches.

According to the statement, Janahi believes Jackson could play an important role in the company. "Stagnant architectural structures need content in the form of entertainment to revive them and that's where Michael Jackson will play an integral role," the statement said.

Source: Yahoo

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Maroon 5 man-whore Adam Levine - who's been linked to Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton and Kirsten Dunst - tried to rekindle his romance with newly single Simpson Monday night, but was rebuffed.

Simpson and pal Eva Mendes were having drinks at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood when Levine "came running over, pulled up a chair and insinuated himself into their conversation," our source says. Simpson, who allegedly had a fling with Levine while married to Nick Lachey, managed to make a speedy exit.

Source: New York Post

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Hilary Swank and her husband, Chad Lowe, recently announced their separation, but the Oscar-winning actress says they hope to rescue their eight-year marriage.

"We're still trying to save it," Swank told syndicated TV entertainment show "Access Hollywood" at the Golden Globe Awards, which were presented Monday in Beverly Hills, California. "It's not over, we're not divorced. We've been together for over 13 years, and there's a lot of love there."

Swank, who wore her wedding ring to the awards ceremony, added: "We're still married."

Source: IndyStar

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Boston Legal Emmy winner William Shatner has sold an unusual souvenir to a fan for a good cause. The souvenir was his kidney stone. The cause was Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for the needy. The price was $25,000.

The sale of the 74-year-old Shatner's kidney stone was organized by the online casino site GoldenPalace.com, the Associated Press reports. "This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?" said Shatner. GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe called the actor's contribution " a bold new addition to our fleet."

"This would be the first Habitat for Humanity house built out of stone," joked Darren Julien, president of Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions, which handled the sale.

Shatner reportedly passed the stone last fall. It was so big, he said, that "you'd want to wear it on your finger." He added, "If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond."

Source: People

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Gene Simmons has signed a deal to promote Indy Racing.

The former KISS star and marketing partner Richard Abramson have signed a promotional deal with the Indy Racing League. The campaign will feature an anthem called 'I Am Indy' sung by Simmons and band BAG.

Simmons called the song "a personal statement that's sort of a personal allegiance to the United States of Indy." The lyrics preach individuality and top-speed performance, and can be found on www.indycar.com.

Other details surrounding the campaign are currently being kept under wraps, but Abramson said Indy Racing "is already is pretty hip and cool. We want to involve Hollywood more, we want to involve music people in it more. We want to get more individual people involved as opposed to flocks of people."

Indy Racing League president and chief operating officer Brian Barnhart added: "I think it's very aggressive and I think it's exactly what the IndyCar Series needs."

Source: Digital Spy

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