Check out this poster for the Gossip Girl season finale which will double as the pilot for the all new Gossip Girl spin off. We finally get to see Brittany Snow as the young Lily Rhodes in full 80s regalia, in a police station nonetheless. If this image doesn’t wet your appetite for the new show, I’m not sure what will. The episode will air on May 11th.[Read More...]

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Slumdog Millionaire, a joyous story of enduring love and unexpected riches among the lower castes of India, took home the Oscar for best picture at last night’s 81st annual Academy Awards, capping an unlikely awards season for a movie that barely got released in this country.

The movie, which was picked up at the last minute by Fox Searchlight Pictures, dominated the awards, winning eight of the nine categories in which it was nominated (its only loss came in the sound editing category). In addition to best picture, the movie’s awards included best director for Danny Boyle, best adapted screenplay, best original score and best original song for “Jai Ho.”  READ MORE……

“Slumdog Millionaire” added one more trophy to its hardware collection as costume designer Suttirat Larlarb picked up the excellence in contemporary film award Tuesday night at the 11th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards.

The period film award went to Michael O’Connor for the 18th-century designs in “The Duchess,” while the fantasy film award went to Lindy Hemming for the comics-derived duds of “The Dark Knight.”

At the Beverly Wilshire awards dinner hosted by Debra Messing, Donna Zakowska earned the TV movie/miniseries award for HBO’s “John Adams.”

ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” which won in the contemporary TV series category for the past two years, picked up award No. 3, with the honors going to Edwardo Castro and Patricia Field.

AMC’s “Mad Men” earned its first CDG award as Katherine Jane Bryant was honored in the period/fantasy TV series category.

A milk commercial called “White Gold” brought home the commercial costume design award for designer Casey Storm.

Sharon Stone presented the Swarovski President’s Award to actor-producer Michael Douglas. Prolific TV director James Burrows received the Distinguished Collaborator Award.

Costume designer Marilyn Vance (”The Untouchables,” “Pretty Woman”) was the recipient of the Lacoste Career Achievement in Film Award. Van Broughton Ramsey received the Career Achievement in Television nod.

Buffy fans can rejoice as yet another show alum returns to television. This time it’s Charisma Carpenter, who will join CSI as a guest star later this season.

TVGuide.com reports that her character, Mink will appear as a skydiver in the episode “Descent of a Man” and sources say she’s “fun and memorable.”

The actress, who played Cordelia Chase on the hit Buffy series, most recently starred in the Indie flick Vivid and can be seen in the upcoming Sci Fi Channel original movie House of Bones.

and It’s officially official: After a week of rumors, so-called confirmations and subsequent take-backs, it has been confirmed that both Katherine HeiglT.R. Knight will be staying on Grey’s Anatomy.

That comes straight from the mouth of the show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, and not its rumor creator James Pickens.

Castmember Pickens recently caused quite a stir when he “confirmed” the departure of Heigl and Knight.

But Rhimes took time out at Thursday night’s NAACP Image Awards — where she and her show won — to personally refute the rumors.

She told People, “That was a very interesting rumor, and it’s not true. That was absolutely taken out of context. Things happen, and … I think rumors become fact very easily. And you know I don’t like to tell you what’s going to happen on the show — but that is a rumor.”

Pickens, who was on hand at the ceremony, had his own explanation: “We’ve been living with these rumors for a long time. When the question was posed to me, I was more trying to congratulate Katie and T.R. on whatever they were going to do. But yeah, I don’t have any special info about it either way.”

So … oops!

If the apocalypse is here, we might as well enjoy it. Stomp down the doors of your comfort zone. Hook up with unlikely new friends. Get noisy. Have a party before the flames consume us all.

That seemed to be the prevailing attitude during the 2009 Grammy Awards telecast Sunday night. Times are beyond tough for the music industry and cultural endeavors in general. Neil Portnow, the president of the awarding organization, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, said as much during his admirably political welcoming speech. (Best moment: his call for President Obama to create a Cabinet position for secretary of the arts.)

Yet instead of a solemn mood, this jam-packed program offered the tonic of overstimulation as star after star took the stage and sold themselves hard, presenters proved as effusive as teleprompter readers can possibly be, and trophy winners were shoved aside to make room for more and more music.

London, Jan 06 : Hollywood actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has split from fiance Ross McCall, according to reports.

Ghost Whisperer star Hewitt, 29, and Scottish actor McCall, 32, got engaged in November 2007 after dating for two years.

But the pair is now set to go their separate ways, according to People.

The ‘Trojan War’ actress met McCall, while shooting ‘Ghost Whisperer’.

According to People, the duo split over the holidays.

“They broke up over the holidays and ended their engagement,” The Sun quoted a source, as saying.

Both Hewitt and McCall are reportedly disappointed with the split.

“They’re both really sad about this. Even their friends are surprised; they seemed really happy. Everyone just wants the best for both of them,” a source said.

New Delhi, Jan 6 : Demi Moore is a “diva” who treats gay men like handbags, says Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone.

The 48-year-old, who has openly confessed that he’s homosexual, last year released a tell-all book entitled ‘Life With My Sister Madonna’.

According to Ciccone, who declared in his book that the Queen of Pop is a control freak, a narcissist and a cheapskate, said the ‘Striptease’ star stopped speaking to him when she met her now-husband Ashton Kutcher.

After meeting at a Los Angeles Kabbalah centre, Demi and Ciccone became firm friends.

However, when Demi’s relationship with Ashton started to get serious, Ciccone claims she immediately dropped him, report the China Daily.

He told Britain’s Observer newspaper: “A certain kind of diva carries a gay man around like a handbag, like an accessory. And then once they find the right straight guy, they don’t need a male companion any more.”

This isn’t the first time Ciccone has spoken out against the 46-year-old actress. Last year he revealed she squirted her breast milk at his lesbian friends during a night out.

He said: “We went out and Demi was dancing up on me and humping me from behind. The one part that’s not in the book is that she was lactating at the time and she was squirting breast milk at my lesbian friends… the lawyers didn’t think it was wise for me to print that.”

Washington, Jan 06 : Hollywood actress Kate Hudson has revealed that during her teenage years she loved boys.

“When I was a teenager, like, when I turned 16, I loved boys. That was just my thing,” Us Weekly quoted Kate, as telling Elle magazine.

“My mom [Goldie Hawn] was like, ‘Oh boy, she loves boys!” Kate added.

The stunner, who has dated many Hollywood celebrities, made it public that she was a serial dater and was never without a boyfriend until now.

“First of all, I always had a boyfriend, this is the first time I’ve been single since I was 16!” Kate said.

“I’ve been on so many bad dates, I went on one where I just left because he was so boring. I felt really bad, and I didn’t want him to pay for dinner,” Kate added.

Kate revealed that she had her share of dud dates.

“It’s like, ‘It’s really nice to meet you’ - moving on!” she says.

“Then you call your friend and you’re like, ‘Really? Really? Is that who you think I would have a great night with?” Kate added.

London, Jan 6 :  Singer Lily Allen has started a feud with upcoming US singer Katy Perry.

There had been a strain in their relationship ever since Perry called Allen ‘fat’, reports thesun.co.uk. Now Allen is calling Perry ‘crass’ and is also threatening to post Perry’s number on the web.

Allen on her facebook page wrote: ‘I have Katy Perry’s number, someone did me a favour. I’m just waiting for her to open her mouth one more time then it hits Facebook.’

Allen also joined two groups. One is called ‘I hate Katy Perry and her dumb-ass song ‘I Kissed A Girl”. The other is ‘Katy Perry? Who in the hell does she think she is?’