February 23, 2008

The fraternal members of the Jonas Brothers; Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas have all vowed to abstain from sex until marriage. Discussing that matter to Details Magazine, the threesome even reveal that they are all virgins.

In an interview for the March 2008 issue of Details, Joe said he and brothers Kevin and Nick wear purity rings as "promises to ourselves and to God that we'll stay pure (until) marriage." The rings are "just one of our ways of kind of like being different than everybody else out there," Nick was quoted as saying.

Unhappy with the way a Maxim's writer has reviewed their new album "Warpaint", The Black Crowes have released a statement lashing out the publication on their official site. The album received two-and-a-half stars out of five in the review despite the fact that the writer reportedly has not listened to the CD.

"The writer - who has not heard the album since advance CDs were not made available - wrote what appears to be a disparaging assessment anyway, citing, 'it hasn't left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth,'" read a post on the band's official Website. The review appears on the March issue of the magazine.

Another music figure has been involved in a run-in with the law during this week. In addition to Ne-Yo who was arrested on Tuesday, February 19 for reckless driving, Snoop Dogg was ticketed by police outside of a New York nightclub on Wednesday night, February 20 for possession of marijuana.

According to the New York Post, the rapper was handed a desk appearance ticket on Wednesday after he was caught smoking marijuana by the NYPD. New York police could not immediately confirm the incident and Snoop's lawyer Donald Etra declined to identify the club.

The end of last year, there were rumors that U.K. act The Kinks will reunite with all the original members on board. Member Ray Davis has put a break in this, saying that fans should not get their hopes up too high.

Ray admitted that there indeed have been several discussions regarding the reunion with guitarist Dave Davies, bassist Pete Quaife and drummer Mick Avory. However, Dave is still recovering from his stroke in 2004 although he had shown some progress and starts playing.

New couple alert, Paris Hilton and Benji Madden. Rumors on the street say the celebrity socialite is hooking up with the Good Charlotte frontman who recently ended his engagement to longtime girlfriend Sophie Monk.

Life & Style is reporting that Paris and Benji hooked up on Thursday night, February 21, while partying at Villa nightclub in L.A. The hotel heiress was with sister Nicky Hilton and a large group of girls. An eyewitness told Life & Style, "When she saw Benji, she only had eyes for him. She walked over and gave him a huge kiss. It was over the top and lots of tongue was involved!"

Once again Lil Wayne has put on a new release date for his new effort, "Tha Carter III" which was originally intended for January. The much-delayed album is now arriving in April and Wayne has some explanation for the delays.

"I make it worse for Universal (Records)," Wayne spoke to MTV on his tour bus. "I keep doing new songs every other day. I don't stop working, so I don't know when they gonna get that. Everything I do be better than the last, like, 'Oh, this gotta make the album!' "

Pamela Anderson's Website, PamelaAnderson.com, which mysteriously disappeared over a month ago has been replaced. The busty star has relaunched her Website with a tribute to actress-turned-animal activist Brigitte Bardot, it has been reported.

The so-called PamelaChannel.com has been claimed to be the new "official" web portal of the former "Baywatch" star. In it, the actress will post regular journals about her colourful life.

Though keeping much information as secrets, reports from the upcoming sequel of sci-fi film "The X Files" that is yet to be titled "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" often revealed key details of the movie as now it was said that Mitch Pileggi has been signed in. According to X-Files News, the 55-year-old actor will be reprising his renowned character Walter Skinner in the sequel.

Pileggi used to portray FBI assistant director character in the science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. As Skinner, he becomes a former Marine and Vietnam veteran who directly supervises the two leading FBI agents, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. The outing of Pileggi's coming back was revealed by the filming schedule and casting sheets retrieved by the X-Files News.

Paramore's cryptic message on their official blog earlier this week that announced their absence from the European tour has led to many speculations, including a break-up. In anticipation to this, frontwoman Haylie Williams has posted another message confirming that they are not splitting up.

Williams insists that they were just hitting rock bottom and therefore decided to be honest with their fans. However, when gossips started mushrooming about their plan to part ways, Williams set the record straight. The post read: "Since we posted the last entry, we've gotten tons of phone calls and people posting things on websites saying that we are breaking up. i just want to make it clear, though, that by posting two nights ago we weren't saying the band was over."

Earlier, many reported that the trailer of upcoming superhero flick "Iron Man" was going to be air attached to "Lost" on February 21 night as Marvel News let out the apparently false information. Following the airing of the hit drama television series, Marvel updated its reports correcting the date of the trailer premiere.

On February 22, the movie news site noted that the brand new trailer of the Paramount Pictures' film will be outed along with the next week's episode of the Emmy Award-winning drama series. The updated news read, "The brand new "Iron Man" movie trailer premieres during the Feb. 28 episode of "Lost" on ABC. "Lost" kicks off at 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central. Don't miss a minute of it!"

Parfums Givenchy is planning to bring sexy back to its scent portfolio by recruiting Justin Timberlake to front its new men's fragrance. The pop star has been unveiled as the new spokesmodel for the fragrance house, joining actress Liv Tyler in Parfums Givenchy's celebrity spokesmodel stable.

Justin, who's popular for his hit single "SexyBack", will begin appearing in print ads for the as-yet-unknown men's fragrance in June, while the actual scent won't be made available until October. Internationally, the cologne will launch in early 2009.

U2, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, and Justin Timberlake are names that possibly will headline World Peace One (WP1) concert later this May. Organizers are reportedly taking into accounts to tap big artists to deliver their message in bring the world to peace through music.

Should the deal is reached, then the stars will be traveling internationally starting from May 17 in Beijing, China; Istanbul, Turkey; London; Johannesburg; Miami; United Arab Emirates; Portugal; Brazil; Puerto Rico; Colombia; India and possibly other locations. They will be joined by local artists in each place.

As the Brett Morgen's documentary film "Chicago 10" about the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention is nearing its limited release on February 29, it was reported that the dramatic feature film based on the same story "The Trial of the Chicago 7" may be put on hold. According to Collider.com, the Aaron Sorkin's film is more likely to be delayed because its director Stephen Spielberg has left the project.

Reportedly, the director has bowed out from the project because he was not satisfied with the script. According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily, the acclaimed director backed out from the film because he believes that the film's scrips still needs more work and thus the film might not be finalized before the SAG's contract expires in June. On the actor's strike, a source close to the director explained, "It's a de facto casualty of SAG. He's still working on it with producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and still keenly interested. But because of the uncertainty over a SAG strike, he has to push the date."

The New York City Department of Health's Hepatitis-A-shot alert for her and the celebrity guests she invited to help celebrating her husband Ashton Kutcher's 30 birthday back on February 7, apparently, would not stop Demi Moore from partying. She along with BFF Madonna reportedly are throwing exclusive Oscar bash.

The Madonna/Moore party will be held in a home in the Westside hills and will begin around 9 P.M., Variety reports. As of now, the guest list is a few hundred people long, but is expected to grow.

A full-length trailer from the most awaited film "Sex and the City" has hit the Web. According to reports, the video footage of the HBO's romantic comedy film gives out a more decent look into the movie's storyline that has raised so much speculations.

Opened with a hovering shoot of the New York City's skyline at night, the almost two-and-a-half minutes trailer let out important details about the Michael Patrick King-directed film. This extended version of the previous teaser trailer has revealed that Carrie is going to be left at the altar by Mr. Big whose full name happens to be John James Preston. Further, it shows that Charlotte has adopted a little Asian girl and she gets pregnant, while Miranda deals with her own marital problems.

Another celebrity arrest has occurred and this time on the victim is singer Ne-Yo. The R&B star was arrested on Tuesday, February 19 for reckless driving while cruising through Cobb County, Georgia. TMZ was the first that reported the arrest.

According to the mainstream gossip site, Ne-Yo was pulled over after police spotted his 2006 Range Rover doing "well over 100 mph." And when they finally caught up with him, he was arrested for reckless driving and for not having a valid license.

Robert Gene Carter, the father of pop singer Aaron Carter, has spoken out about his son's arrest in Texas for investigation of marijuana possession. Shared his feeling to People, the older Carter revealed "I'm just totally floored by this. Other people suspected he had a problem, but I denied it and didn't believe it. But now I feel hurt and betrayed, because I see that everything wasn't what I thought it was."

Went on telling People that he believed his son was heading to Georgia to confront him about finances at the time of his arrest, Robert explained "His new managers are trying to convince him that I'm the reason he's going broke. It's not true; I don't live off Aaron's money." Though so, still Robert hoped the best for Aaron, hoping that the arrest will serve as a wake-up call to his young son. "Aaron has always thought he was invincible," Robert was quoted as saying. "Sometimes it takes a knock in the head to get people back on track. I hope that's what happens here."

Nominated for 11 Cesar Awards categories, acclaimed biopic drama "La Vie en Rose" didn't managed to make clean sweep at the winner announcement ceremony held on Friday, February 22 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Though able to bring home most of the awards given out that night, the Oliver Dahan-directed film only won five awards from the overall twenty prizes.

What made it even more disappointing, the film based on the life of French singer Edith Piaf has to let go the top prize of Best Film as well as the kudo for Best Director to its contender "The Secret of the Grain". Still, the film got its consolation prize when its leading actress Marion Cotillard who is also up for the 80th Academy Award - Best Actress nailed the coveted Best Actress kudo. Further, aside from getting the Best Actress award, the Picturehouse Entertainment's film also brought home four other prizes, that is, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

Good news travels fast. Soon after it was made public that Jennifer Lopez has given birth to her much reported twins, numbers of family members and friends of the new mom were seen paying a visit to her at the hospital in Long Island, N.Y.

Actress Leah Remini who's a good friend of Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony was spotted giving the proud parents a personal visit on Friday afternoon, February 22. Earlier that day, Lopez's sister Linda Lopez was also seen heading into the maternity ward where the actress-singer gave birth to a boy and a girl early in the morning.