Any doubt that the Billboard Music Awards are anything other than a gigantic infomercial for major label acts was crushed Sunday night after Justin Bieber was presented with the Milestone Music Award for “musical ingenuity and innovation.”
J-Bib got so many boos from the audience that he spent most of his acceptance speech explaining why he actually deserved it. “I am an artist and I should be taken seriously,” he said.
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“Spring Breakers” is a bikini, beer and bong romp in which writer-director Harmony Korine colorfully embraces the silliness of beach-party flicks while simultaneously enhancing and warping the material into something darker, bolder and deranged.
As his four heroines experience wild times in the Sunshine State, Korine’s film, at first, is promising. But by allowing luridness to dominate over story and character, he ultimately dooms the day.
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OK, maybe if someone had said that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were a phony couple, we could believe it, but Taylor Swift and Harry Styles?
Hollywood Life is reporting that a new tell-all by Louisa Jepson on Styles’ group One Direction makes the assertion that the romance was all a publicity stunt to get more attention for the British boy band.
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Taylor Swift has been very vocal lately about what sort of boy she wants to date, what a guy has to do to lose her interest and what all the love songs are about on her new album, “Red.”
If only she could transfer all that self-reflection into actually choosing a good guy, but, alas, it seems she is now dating the goofy-looking kid from One Direction, Harry Styles.
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Well, this is depressing. Kevin Clash, 52, the jovial puppeteer behind Elmo from “Sesame Street,” has reportedly taken a leave of absence from the show pending accusations that he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy when he was 45.
Clash adamantly denies the claim, telling TMZ he did in fact have a relationship with the person in question, but that it was “between two consenting adults,” and that the accusations of underage impropriety are false.
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So much for the breakup? Justin Timberlake and ex-girlfriend Jessica Biel allegedly hung out together in Toronto, and it didn’t seem like an awkward encounter.
“Justin and Jessica came into Ella’s Uncle coffee shop not once but three times this weekend: Saturday evening, Sunday morning and just this morning,” a witness insisted to Life&Style magazine. “They seemed so comfortable, happy and at ease every time.”
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The custody battle that flared up between Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry has apparently now died down. The model has filed papers to drop his bid for custody of daughter Nahla. He will now pursue a paternity action that will legally bind him to the 2-year-old, TMZ reports, since he and his Oscar-winning ex never wed.
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Lindsay Lohan has only been out of rehab since Monday, and already her life is full of drama.
First of all, the Palm Desert Police Department believes that the “Mean Girls” star violated her probation in a December altercation with a Betty Ford staffer (who was promptly fired for talking to the press).
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Singer Selena Gomez's concert in The City will be attended by 150 foster children from San Francisco and San Jose. Nonprofit organization Hear the Music Live is sponsoring the kids’ appearance at the Dec. 20 event at the Palace of Fine Arts. The kids will be treated to a preconcert party. Gomez also stars in her own Disney TV show, “Wizards of Waverly Place.”
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