Gwen Stefani Covers 'Elle' May 2011

Gwen Stefani graces the cover of Elle’s May issue, on newsstands April 12.

Here’s what the 41-year-old singer and fashion designer had to share with the mag’s Women in Music issue:

On her appearance: “I mean, I’m very vain. That would be my middle name. Of course I am, you know what I mean? I love the visual.”

On her marriage to Gavin Rosdale: “The first time we ever kissed was right around Valentine’s Day. We were in New Orleans on tour. So, yeah, I always think about that because it’s unbelievable that we’ve been able to stay together. I feel so proud of us. It’s one of my biggest achievements.”

On whether Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Katy Perry have taken a page out of her playbook when it comes to style: “Really? I don’t see myself in those girls. I usually put pants on. I see these girls as more going for the sex-symbol thing. I was more, in the band, like a tomboy. Of course, I think every girl is sexy, so there’s going to be a little of that. But I see a lot of younger artists going more toward the sexy thing.”

FYI: Gwen is wearing a stretch wool dress with leather trim from Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci with her own earrings.

For more of Gwen’s interview, check out Elle.com!

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Man with multi-talented penis uses condom

TBWA Paris put together this amusing PSA for AIDES, the French AIDS awareness group, featuring probably the most gifted and accomplished penis depicted on film since John Holmes. The whole thing leads up to the tagline/punch line at the end. Possibly NFSW, I suppose. TBWA Paris has a history of doing fun AIDES spots. Previous efforts have included last year's freaky bathroom-graffiti spot and the truly epic "Baby Baby" cartoon from 2005.

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Two More Arrests in News Corp. Hacking Scandal British police stepping up their investigation

Neville Thurlbeck, the chief reporter at News Corporation’s News of the World, and Ian Edmondson, the paper’s former news editor, were arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the ongoing phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the British tabloid.

The investigation into the scandal, which involves hacking into the phones and messages of people the paper covers, has been going on since 2005. Until now, though, only three people had been arrested. Two of them—former royal editor Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator who’d been employed by the paper—pled guilty to conspiracy charges in 2006.

Neither Thurlbeck nor Edmondson have been officially charged. They’re likely to be released soon, according to The Guardian.

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William Mortensen, self-portrait (as a kind of "Mad Hatter magician")


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Freida Pinto is finally happy with her looks after finding love with Dev Patel

SHE'S been hailed as one of the world's most beautiful women but Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has only recently become comfortable in her own skin.

Mumbai-born Freida admits she used to think of her latte-coloured skin as a drawback. She said: "There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark."

And it's a belief even Freida once shared. She admitted: "When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent."

In her modelling days, she even auditioned for jobs advertising Indian "fairness creams", supposed to lighten darker skins.

"I knew those products were wrong, so I'd show up with a heavy heart," said the 25-year-old.

Freida is now grateful that she didn't advertise any of those creams - and a chance encounter with a stranger in a Hollywood hotel made her appreciate true beauty.

She explained: "A woman came up to me and said, 'I'd love to have your skin because it's so beautiful.' She was as pale as could be, and my first thought was - where I come from, people want to be your colour."

"It was then that I realised people always want what they don't have. And I decided to be happy with the way I'm made."

Now Freida is a face for L'Oreal make-up and works hard to keep her skin looking good with exercise, a regular cleansing routine and plenty of water.

She added: "I make loads of fresh vegetable juices with coriander or pepper so that it's tastier. The concoction makes my skin glow and is good for the digestive system too."

Of course, there may be another reason for her happy glow - boyfriend Dev Patel, her co-star in Slumdog Millionaire.

Since starring in the Oscar-winning hit, Freida has worked all over the world.

For You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, which opened last month, she worked in London and New York with Woody Allen.

Then she travelled to Tunisia to play an Arab princess opposite Antonio Banderas in Black Gold, and in Hollywood she worked on a prequel to Planet of the Apes.

It's been hard for her to find time for former Skins actor Dev, last seen in the blockbuster The Last Airbender.

"Dev's so understanding," she said. "That's what really matters and that's how we make it work."

Despite being brought up in Mumbai, acting in Slumdog Millionaire opened her eyes to the poverty in the city.

"I've lived all my life there but I never really bothered about life at a slum," she confessed.

"But the movie, made by a foreigner in my own backyard made me more sensitive. It made me realise that people are so poor not out of laziness, but because of the lack of an opportunity to succeed."

In India, Freida and Dev, 21, are seen as the equivalent of Posh and Becks.

And when they went back to Mumbai to visit the city slums, they were mobbed. Or at least Dev was.

"Nobody recognised me at all," she laughed। "They all followed Dev, calling him crorepati - which means millionaire."

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Meat-child ad wows Wrath of Cannes judges

At Cannes, you win awards by surviving round after round of rigorous judging and proving your unparalleled skill in the persuasive arts. At Wrath of Cannes, you win by inserting a giant piece of steak into an elementary school photo. (Click the image to enlarge.) The anti-Cannes festival was held Thursday night in Brooklyn. The winning work, for Lea & Perrins steak sauce ("Every steak has potential"), was done by Alan Kwon, an associate art director at RTC Relationship Marketing in New York. There he is below, holding (and possibly sucking on) the Grand Coney trophy—a statue of a man with his head up his own ass. He also won a bike. UPDATE: We were misled. Kwon won because of this tearaway print ad for Crunch gyms. The steak ad is still groundbreaking.

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BK kitchen becomes a giant killing machine

Robots and obits are two of my regular beats hear at AdFreak. They go hand in hand, as robots are dedicated to the destruction of mankind. Which brings us none too smoothly to Burger King's tie-in with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. My colleague Rebecca Cullers has noted the "conspiracy" aspects of the campaign and warned us of "a series of worldwide robot sightings." Oh, it's far worse than that, people. As our flesh-and-blood world reels from the loss of the King of Pop, the metallic monsters have found their king: the Burger King! He's been robotized to massive proportions—transformed, if you will, into a digitized death-dealing demon! Someone would probably die if a giant King smashed through a BK like he does in the spot above. There’s be chaos and confusion, at any rate. And then my chance of getting no pickles, already abysmally low, would decline even more. Robots. They'll spoil your meal every time.

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Iconic TV pitchman Billy Mays is dead at 50

He was the man with no inside voice, the man who seemed to be on every late-night cable channel at once, the man who comprehensively convinced us we don't need a cabinet full of cleaners. And now, sadly, infomercial icon Billy Mays is dead. Details were scarce Sunday, though there were apparently no signs of foul play, so that probably rules out the Yakuza gangsters who were stalking Mays in the hilarious self-parody above. It's always been hard to pin down what made Mays so good at selling cleaning products, dubiously necessary inventions and just about anything else. Was it the beard? The wildly gesticulating hands? The tone that straddled the line between evangelism and straight-out screaming? Obviously it was all of the above that catapulted Mays from hawking wares at local garden shows to reality TV stardom on the Discovery Channel's PitchMen. So here's to Billy Mays, a one-man sales juggernaut who, like fellow commercial legend Ed McMahon, was never afraid to laugh at his own public persona.

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Ana Ortiz gives birth

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Ugly Betty star Ana Oritz and her husband, musician Noah Lebenzon, have welcomed their first child, a daughter, on Saturday, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

"She is elated and completely glowing," said Ortiz's rep. "She is surrounded by her friends and family and so happy to be a mom. She is just really enjoying the moment. The baby is absolutely beautiful."

The baby girl – Paloma Louise Lebenzon – was born at 4:25 p.m. in New York City and weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz.

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Lady Gaga Cancels Show, Makes Fans Unhappy

US pop star Lady Gaga is to miss performing at a second Take That concert in Manchester due to illness.

Angry fans complained after the star failed to appear as one of the support acts at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Saturday, with no explanation given.

A spokesman for Lady Gaga told the BBC the star pulled out at the last-minute as she was "feeling unwell" and would not be performing on Sunday either.

He added she was "currently resting on doctor's orders".

"Lady Gaga was feeling unwell on Saturday and, after consulting her doctor, the decision was reluctantly taken that she was unable to perform with Take That at Old Trafford last night and tonight.

"Lady Gaga is currently resting on doctor's orders, but is looking forward to rejoining Take That at Wembley next weekend.

"She would like to thank Take That for supporting her decision, and apologise to the band and her fans for being unable to perform," he added.
Take That will finish their tour at Wembley on 5 July


The 50,000-strong crowd booed after a big screen notice announced on Saturday the singer would not be performing.

According to fans, first support act Gary Go entertained the audience instead, but began an hour later than originally scheduled.

A 31-year-old fan from Stockport said: "It was a bit disappointing because there was nothing to get you going. You were stood there like a sardine."

Margaret Graves, 58, of Hoylake, Wirral, said: "Gary Barlow said 'thanks to Gary Go whose got us out of a real spot'."

She added he apologised to fans for Lady Gaga's non-appearance and said: "'Don't get me started, you should have heard me backstage'."

Fans have been posting their disappointment on Take That's website with one writing: "How dare Lady Gaga not turn up? She lost herself 50,000 fans last night!"

The star performed a one-hour set at Glastonbury on Friday night.

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Will Michael Jacksons funeral be the biggest since Princess Diana's?

Michael Jackson's funeral is likely to be the biggest in entertainment history, drawing tens of thousands of mourners and hundreds of millions of TV viewers.

It is expected to eclipse that of Elvis Presley in 1977, at which 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis, and could rival Princess Diana's 12 years ago when 250,000 gathered in Hyde Park alone.

Even the funeral of silent film star Rudolph Valentino in New York in 1926 drew 40,000 fans.
Enlarge Overwhelmed: Nadege Barnes prays outside the Jackson family home in Encino, California, where fans have laid flowers

Overwhelmed: Nadege Barnes prays outside the Jackson family home in Encino, California, where fans have laid flowers

Celebrity mourners at Jackson's service could include showbiz legends such as Paul McCartney, who sang with him, and Elizabeth Taylor. Even if his family insist on a private ceremony, it will be almost impossible to keep fans away.

Jackson was raised a Jehovah's Witness, who are forbidden from following funeral customs that are not mentioned in the Bible.

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Emma Watson in ELLE: First Look

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Emma Watson for Marie Claire Mexico

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Coolio pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine

The Grammy-winning rapper Coolio, below, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine on Friday, and will enter a drug rehabilitation program for 18 months, thus avoiding jail time, Reuters reported.

Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was arrested on March 6 at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of felony narcotics possession. He resisted arrest at the time, but in exchange for his guilty plea on Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom the authorities agreed to drop charges of battery and possession of a smoking device.

Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, said Coolio faced three years in prison if convicted on all charges. His 1995 single, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” earned him a Grammy Award for best rap solo performance, but in recent years he has spent most of his time on reality television shows like “Celebrity Fear Factor” and “Coolio’s Rules.”

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Shakira's new single "Loba"

Loba - Shakira

Shakira's new single "Loba" premiered today on imeem. It's in spanish and the english version "She-Wolf" will be released in mid-July.

Rise of the Cobra

The gossip story of the day so far is that Paramount's upcoming "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra" is so bad that the director may have been fired.

It all began when a posting on Don Murphy's message board, now removed, claimed that a test screening of the upcoming action film scored the worst marks in the studio's history. As a result Paramount exec Brad Weston had the film's director Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy," "Van Helsing") fired and locked out of the editing room.

Stuart Baird, a renowned "fixer" editor was brought it to try to see if it could be made releasable, while producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura was told "his services were no longer needed on the film either". When word of the firing started to get around, Sommers "was summoned back to the editing room but only to save appearances, Baird is still editing the movie with studio input."

Latino Review then followed that post up with a few checks of their own. While columnists have been quick to slam the film, it apparently is tracking quite well, and so the site got in contact with di Bonaventura himself to ask if the report had any truth?

"It's completely untrue he was never asked to leave or been fired or any of that. That’s ridiculous. The movie tested very well. Everybody was happy, the studio was happy, the filmmakers were happy, the audience was happy with the movie. We had three test screenings, three different times and tested it and each time it just got better and better. We started off in a good place and we ended up in even in a better place, which is what you hope on a film from testing it."

So what happened in the editing room? "Nothing that doesn’t happen on every other movie, which is that you constantly work and work and work and you make it better and better. We had a delay on visual effects so we waited a long time to finish the movie but that’s the only thing. I don’t really know why that would be interpreting it negatively but I guess it was".

Still, many remain dubious. There's been blood in the water on this film for a while and many online critics seem to have already made their minds up on the film. Sommers has generally provoked dislike amongst critics, and the word is with 'Joe' he essentially got total creative freedom to do what he wanted. Has that resulted in a workable film? We'll find out in two months.

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Wondergirl's Debut in America Update

WonderGirls will move on with the plans of their American debut.

The girls who had been confirmed to be the performing guests to Jonas Brothers‘ World Tour 2009, will be releasing a digital single on 27th June. And from 27th June all the way till mid August, they will be performing for the opening show to Jonas Brothers‘ World Tour concert. They will be performing the songs ‘Nobody’ and ‘Tell Me’ for the concert. And they will be performing the English versions to the songs.

One of the American staff said, ‘The song ‘Nobody’ is a great charming song for listeners of all ages from whatever nationality. Not only is the song perfect, the choreography is perfect.”

“The girls will debut with their own charms and not having to transform into the other American artistes.” Park Jin Young will be the producer to the girls’ American debut, and unlike the other artistes trying to hit into the American market, he did not work with other American artistes for the girls’ debut.

And it is said that the WonderGirls will release their American official debut album in September-October. The album will have songs written and composed by Jonas Brothers. The girls will also work with the Jonas Brothers to come up with a electronic house number.

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Bo Bice and wife expecting third child

There will be two American Idol debuts to look forward to in January – the premiere of Season 9 and a new arrival from alum Bo Bice!

The season four contestant announced wife Caroline's pregnancy on Friday evening at a fan club gathering in Nashville.

"American Idol has a new winner each year – seems things are the same in our house," Bice, 33, tells PEOPLE. "Can't wait to introduce our new little 'Idol' to the world January 31st!"

The latest addition will be the third child for Bice and his wife, who are also parents to sons Caleb James, 9 months, and Aidan Michael, 3 ½. The couple have been married four years.

On tour throughout the summer, the rocker will open for Lynyrd Skynyrd in August.

• Reporting by ANNE MARIE CRUZ and RANDI RADCLIFF
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Thirteen does Maxim July09

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David Cross talks about dating a lovely YOUNG lady (and other stuff)

The actor, who has the comedy 'Year One' coming out Friday, says he has been working without a break for a year and a half now -- not that he's complaining.

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June 14, 2009
Reporting from New York -- David Cross appears in "Year One," which opens Friday, with Jack Black and Michael Cera. He is dating Amber Tamblyn, late of ABC's recently canceled "The Unusuals." We met at his East Village apartment, where he keeps his truly awesome dog.

Is the publicist yours? Or the film's?

It's mine! I've never had a publicist before but my girlfriend, who's in the business, as they say, she's with them, and I said, wow, you know, I've got so much happening right now, in the space of a few months. I've got this movie, the London show, a book coming out ["I Drink for a Reason," due Aug. 31], and it just seemed to make sense. The whole idea of seeking out publicity was anathema to me and how I like to live, but I was also very ignorant and naive about what they do and she kind of explained it to me: No, they keep you out of those things you don't like. I'm still on the fence but then I discovered I might be able to get discounted or even free baseball tickets and I was like, let's do it. So it's a three-month trial basis. And, so far, I've gotten a free jacket and a free tie.

They help you with outfits!

I needed an outfit for the White House Correspondents' Dinner and they made a singular phone call to GQ and I went to their offices and got fitted with a suit for the dinner and they sent someone to pick it up the next day.

What's going on in London?

I shot a pilot for Channel 4. And it'll air, I believe, in December. When we picture-lock on Friday, it will be almost two years to the day that I was first approached by those guys. The cast is a crazy dream team. ["The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" costars Will Arnett and Spike Jonze.]

Is it worth getting paid in Euros?

You mean pound sterling? The time that I was going over there and working on this back and forth, the dollar was really in decline -- and prices are comparable to New York. I'd walk out of a pharmacy with toothpaste and soap, some Q-Tips, a thing of water, and I was like whoa, I just spent $39. Now that I'm getting paid, the dollar has risen up and I'm getting less. I did the math: man, 30,000 pounds, that's $60,000! Now it's only $42,000.

What is the subject of this book of yours?

It's a collection of humor tidbits. Some of it's fictional, some nonfiction, some essays, some really silly [stuff]. The font is quite nice!

So you're diverging. You're an octopus. You're going eight ways.

Are you saying I'm like Tad -- "8-Way Santa"? No one's going to get that reference except old punkers. I've always done a lot of [stuff]. I'm making another TV show -- my friend Jon Benjamin and I are shooting a pilot for Adult Swim.

What are they like? Are they insane?

Yes! . . . 'Wait, I thought you said do this, now you're saying do this?' That's my brief experience with them. It's been interesting. But we're making the pilot and I'm looking forward to it

There comes a point in a man's life where he wants to take it easier. And you're not doing that.

But you know why: because of the nature of this business and how work rolls in. Fairly recently, three years ago, I didn't work for six months. I got really depressed, I was angry, I was a [cruddy] person to be around. I didn't understand why or what was happening.

And now you're in "Year One."

I worked pretty nonstop from January of last year to now. I literally finished shooting the sequel to "Alvin and the Chipmunks" for three days, headed to London. It's been pretty nonstop but really great. Outside of the "Alvin" thing, which I could give a [brass farthing] about.

But that stuff pays!

Absolutely. "Alvin and the Chipmunks" paid me more than all my other projects combined: book, TV show, the two pilots, "Year One," yeah. And I'm contractually obligated to do it.

Good for you.

It was a sequel and the first one did insane business. Anything I've been a part of creating, "Alvin" paid me twice as much as those things combined -- for very little work.

It's the Laura Dern model.

That's your best example? Laura Dern? Your reference is 15 years old. Steve Buscemi, who was in "Con Air," who wrote and directed his own movie? I'm talking about not even acting in stuff but when you write and create something and produce it and you're not getting much money, you're adding 75% of your time.

What is up with Amber? I always feel bad when people get their shows canned.

She worked her . . . off on that thing. . . . She'd be gone 17 hours a day.

She's OK, right?

She'll be fine, yes! She's in L.A., her book comes out soon. It comes out basically the same week mine does. ["Bang Ditto," another collection of Tamblyn's poetry, is due out Sept. 1.] She's pretty amazing. I don't know what I did to luck out. I'm glad she pursued me.

Is work changing for people this year?

Oh, absolutely. I'm not complaining because I have plenty of money, more money than I certainly need, and for most of my life have been used to. As you can see, I don't have a lot of luxuries.

Just Rock Band.

And I got some art. And a dog. I don't live a lavish lifestyle. And so I'm not complaining at all. It's one of those things where, OK, you've got this offer for this movie, and it sounds great. But to tell you ahead of time, they're crying poverty, they don't have as much money as they used to, and everyone's getting less and there's nothing they can do. All the studios are going, "We just don't have it in our budget, you know." I'm sure it's down the line -- wardrobe, editing, everyone's getting less money. Except for the studios.

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