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Squamish bares its fangs at Twilight reporters

Leah GolobAnja Konjicanin
Apr 11th, 2011

On-screen and off-screen couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, photo courtesy of Wikimedia Creative Commons

"I've heard people talking about it. Our managers told us: 'We honestly don't want you telling people about it. We don't want a mob scene.' They won't give me details," said a Tourism Squamish spokeswoman who identified herself only as Tammy.  She was answering a question about where the Twilight crew had been spotted in Squamish, BC. where they are said to be filming the wedding scene in Breaking Dawn.

"I've been off for four days. I didn't even know. People said 'Twilight is here, Twilight is here', and I'm like 'really?'" Tammy said.

At the Chamber of Commerce, a representative named Jane was equally mystified. 

“It’s a big secret where the cast and crew are, so I don’t know about their whereabouts,” she told The Observer. “Everyone has been excited for the chance to see them, but I don’t know anyone who has."

Local bakeries, cafes and restaurants gave curt responses like “I don’t know” and “I have no idea” when asked for information regarding local filming.

Nicki Minaj: superhero vs sidekick

Anja Konjicanin
Apr 8th, 2011

ZAP!! CRASH! BOOM!! Nicki Minaj wants to be a superhero. And being someone's sidekick will just not do.

The 26-year-old hip hop and r&b princess is featured in Elle Magazine's April issue with its glossy pages revealing a more fierce side to her. Check It Out.

“I always wanted to play with the boys. I didn’t want to be a pawn in their game or have a sidekick role. I wanted to be more of a lead character—a superhero," said Minaj to Elle Magazine.

“I’m fighting for the girls who never thought they could win.”

She want's to be bad.

Miley Cyrus has a cupcake problem

Anja Konjicanin
Apr 6th, 2011

Miley Cyrus has a cupcake problem. At Saturday's Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, she was absolutely bright eyed to see sprinkled mini cakes sitting on the stand backstage.

“Miley was with her publicist and told her to hang on for a second so she could come over to the Sprinkles cupcakes area and get a mini-strawberry and a mini-red velvet cupcake," said an onlooker to HollywoodLife.

They're her favourite kind of treats.

Vanessa Hudgens' ugly weeks

Anja Konjicanin
Apr 1st, 2011

Vanessa Hudgens has these "ugly weeks."

"I can have an ugly week. I go through days upon days where I just will not want to put on make-up or do my hair and just be in sweats,” said Hudgens.

Days upon days in sweats and no make-up? Ugly weeks are starting to look good...

Apparently, 22-year-old actress/singer isn't always confident when it comes to her appearance and has days where she won't make an effort.

Before filming Sucker Punch, Hudgens' latest gig, she starred in Beastly, a modern spin on Beauty and the Beast, where Kendra the witch curses a vain highschooler with an ugly spell and takes away his boyish good looks. Now, as Beast, he has one year to find someone who can fall in love with him, or he is to stay Beast... forever.

“It was really interesting because of the make-up and prosthetics. When you strip a person of their looks, their whole demeanour is different," said Hudgens.

Robert Pattinson wants to kill his Twilight contact lenses

Anja Konjicanin
Mar 28th, 2011

Robert Pattinson, Photo from Flickr

He can handle werewolves and bloodthirsty monsters, but, as reported in the Twilight Saga Central, contacts give Robert Pattinson the scares. He can't put the lenses in by himself, and longs for the day he can get rid of them. 

Pattinson needs them for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn to become Edward Cullen, his vampire character, says CelebEdge.

"It's so embarrassing for me after so many years. It's still a process every single morning. Everybody else has figured out how to do it, and then there's two people holding me down because I can't do it myself," Pattinson admits to Entertainment Weekly in AceShowbiz.

Whoopi Goldberg admits she smoked joint before her 1991 Oscar speech

Anja Konjicanin
Mar 25th, 2011

Think back to 1991 Oscars. Remember Whoopi Goldberg's acceptance speech? Perhaps not. But it has recently come up in media along with an interesting reveal.

When Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Ghost, as Oda Mae Brown, that year at the event, she apparently had speech jitters and took to cannabis to relax, according to Bang Showbiz News.

"So I smoked this joint that was the last of my home grown and honey, when he said my name and I popped up, I was like, 'Oh f**k, oh f**k, up the stairs one two three four five, onto the podium. There's millions of people, OK grab the statue.’ I knew I should have never had done it."

Well at least she admitted it... right?

David Suzuki turns 75

Anja Konjicanin
Mar 24th, 2011

It's David Suzuki's birthday. He's 75.  And, according to Carleton Library Geogenvirospecialist's Blog, both the cities of Ottawa and Vancouver are declaring March 24, 2011, David Suzuki Day.

On March 30th, over 200 schools across Canada will get to participate in Canada's biggest virtual birthday party. Students will have a chance to chat with Suzuki online," reports Fresh Fuzz. Thousands of teachers and students will take a nature walk around their school, as a gift to Suzuki.

 "It seems to me that as an elder now ... I hope there's a credibility that comes from being in the last part of my life," he told the Province.

Kim Kardashian loves her car dirty

Anja Konjicanin
Mar 24th, 2011

Kim Kardashian won't wash her car.

Elton John, Whoopie Goldberg and Michael Caine pay tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Linda Solomon
Mar 23rd, 2011

Photo of Liz Taylor from an Argentinian magazine, courtesy of Wikipedia

Tributes have flooded in for the late Dame Elizabeth Taylor in the wake of her death, with Sir Elton John describing her as a “Hollywood giant”, Bang Showbiz reports.

The screen legend passed away at 1.28am on Wednesday morning (23.03.11) at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – where she had been receiving treatment for the last few weeks for congestive heart failure – surrounded by her four children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd and Maria Burton.

Since the news, numerous stars who knew her, or admired her during her life have paid their respects.

Elton, 63, wrote on his twitter page: “We have just lost a Hollywood giant; more importantly, we have lost an incredible human being.”

Whoopi Goldberg mourned the loss of her “diamond loving” friend on her Facebook page, thanking the ‘Cleopatra’ star for helping her during her career.

Chris Brown smashes window and storms off Good Morning America set

Anja Konjicanin
Mar 22nd, 2011

An interview with Robin Roberts of  Good Morning America left Chris Brown enraged. When asked abut his 2009 assault on singer and ex-girlfriend Rihanna, Reuters reported that angry Brown "stormed out of a TV show studio leaving his dressing room window shattered."

According to an email from Bang Showbiz News, Roberts asked: “The restraining order against you that Rihanna had issued has been relaxed … have you seen each other, been around each other?”

Brown replied: "I mean not really, it's not really a big deal, that situation, I think I'm past that in my life, and I think today's the album day, so that's what I'm focused on."

"The 21-year-old singer - who was sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service for assaulting his then-girlfriend in February 2009 – reportedly threw a chair at a window in his dressing room," Bang Showbiz said.

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