Lady Gaga at a CD Signing at Best Buy in West Hollywood. After hearing fans camped out overnight to see her, she spent more than $1000 on pizza to feed them. (AP Photo)
LL Cool J is paying tribute the best way he knows how. The 41-year-old rapper-actor will kick off “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! — Countdown to Music’s Biggest Night” on Wednesday night by rapping to a medley of the past year’s hits from all musical genres. Sample lyric: “It’s not Hugh Jackman — Yes, it’s a black man.”
An initiative to encourage healthy teen relationships says songs by Jamie Foxx and Lady Gaga are the musical equivalent of junk food. A teen panel working with the Boston Public Health Commission has determined that their songs are among the top 10 with “unhealthy relationship ingredients.” The commission on Tuesday released its list based on a “nutrition label” rating popular songs on healthy relationship themes. Mario’s “Break Up” featuring Gucci Man and Sean Garrett and Jamie Foxx’s “Blame It” featuring T-Pain topped the list for the most unhealthy relationship songs of 2009. Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Pitbull’s “Hotel Room Service” were also listed. Among the teen panel’s top 10 songs with healthy themes: “Miss Independent” by Ne-Yo and “Meet Me Halfway” by the Black Eyed Peas.
Yahoo just released their top ten Internet searches of 2009 with Michael Jackson topping the list, followed by Twilight, WWE, Megan Fox, Britney Spears, Naruto, American Idol, Kim Kardashian, Nascar and Runescape.
Family Ties hippie mom Meredith Baxter came out of the closet on the Today Show Wednesday, telling Matt Lauer, “I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition. Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is – not at all. This has only been for the past seven years.”
The head of a British climate research institute has stepped aside after hacked e-mails were seized by skeptics as evidence that the case for global warming has been exaggerated. Calling it “Climategate,” skeptics accused some scientists of colluding to suppress data which might have undermined their arguments.
A newly unearthed home movie shows Marilyn Monroe smoking a joint. The silent color film was shot in either 1958 or 1959 at a private home in New Jersey, and had been stored in an attic for years until a collector purchased the footage for $275,000. The copyright of the image will go up for sale on eBay next week.
