March 08, 2012

William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman have become the second married couple to have been awarded with his and her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the same time. On Wednesday, March 7, the Hollywood couple who have been married for nearly 12 years stepped out to the Hollywood Boulevard for a rare "double-star ceremony".

During their joined acceptance speech, Macy joked about what went through his mind when he first saw Huffman. "The first time I saw Felicity she was doing a scene for acting class wearing a silk, cream-colored blouse with no bra. I thought, 'Man, this girl is talented,' " he said. Returning the compliment, Huffman quipped, "The first time I saw Bill, he was wearing an Izod shirt with a tie. I thought 'Man, is his wife gorgeous.' "

Hulk Hogan has personally addressed reports that a sex tape featuring him and a unidentified brunette woman was being shopped around. Calling in to TMZ Live on Wednesday, March 7, the 58-year-old was quick to note that he slept with many women following his split from ex-wife Linda Hogan that he can't remember the one in the tape.

The former wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea said during the phone interview, "It wasn't just one brunette I was running pretty wild for a few months." On another reasons why he can't seem to identify his sex tape partner, he claimed, "During that time, I don't even remember people's names, much less girls."

Dev has debuted a music video which supports her latest single "Kiss My Lips". The "In the Dark" singer seduces the camera with her lusty lyrics while parading a lot of colorful-painted lip snapshots. Her featured guest, Fabolous, throws his rapping line while being flanked by two hot-looking ladies.

"Kiss My Lips" is one of the singles from Dev's long-delayed debut album "The Night the Sun Came Up", which is due in the U.S. on March 26. "The album is very personal, even like the dancer songs, if you listen to what I'm saying, it's very personal, but it's still youthful because I wanted to capture that," she gushed to PopCrush.

A few days before it opens in the U.S. theaters, Eddie Murphy's "A Thousand Words" has unveiled a brand new clip. Entitled "Chalkboard", the fresh sneak peek revolves around the scene where Murphy's character Jack struggles to tell Clark Duke's Aaron the reason why he couldn't say a word.

In this comedy movie, Jack is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time and any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. However, Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack's life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard.

Whitney Houston has indeed appointed her daughter as her only heir. Although she first drafted her will in 1993 and amended it in 2000, the late "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" singer left nothing to her then-husband Bobby Brown. Instead, she gave all of her money, furniture, clothing, personal effects, jewelry, and cars to Bobbi Kristina.

The 19-page document was read on Wednesday, March 7, in Atlanta, Georgia where it was filed, Inside Edition reported. It was detailed that 19-year-old Bobbi will receive the money, which is placed in a trust, in three stages. She will get a portion of it when she turns 21, a little more at 25 and the remainder on her 30th birthday.

Another heavyweight rapper is confirmed to make merry this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. After Jay-Z is officially announced to hold a live-stream concert at the Texas-based gig, now 50 Cent is added to the already-crowded performer lineup.

The "In da Club" hitmaker is scheduled to headline a showcase for Shady Records at Austin Music Hall on March 16. The former member of G-Unit is going to perform his 2003 hit album, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'", live for the first time in its entirety.

With a massive success achieved by "Chronicle" in this first quarter of 2012, 20th Century Fox aims to double the victory by developing a sequel to the found-footage thriller. Though the film has just been released earlier in February, the studio already moves forward with a follow-up movie that will bring back the original writer.

Deadline broke the news screenwriter Max Landis is set to return to provide the screenplay for the sequel. Details of the plot, however, are still kept under tight wraps. It is also still unclear if Josh Trank will return to his directing seat since Trank himself is currently in talks to helm a much-talked-about standalone movie for Spider-Man's nemesis, Venom.

"Community" is around a week away from making its return to the small screen. To hype up the anticipation, a brand new trailer was debuted on Joel McHale's show, "The Soup", on Wednesday, March 7. It gave a preview on what to expect from the Greendale Seven in the reminder of the third season.

Around two-and-a-half minute long, the trailer teases that Jeff Winger and co. will be having some troubles with Ken Jeong's Chang, Jim Rash's Dean Pelton and John Goodman's Vice Dean Laybourne. Footage of epic pillow fight, Chang's birthday party and Dean Pelton's bizarre closet are also included.

Following a private listening party for Madonna's upcoming studio album "MDNA", new song from the CD continues to leak. The latest track, which goes viral ahead of the album release on March 26, is a upbeat tune called "Love Spent".

Madge previewed her album during an invite-only listening party at The Agency Group in New York recently. Shortly after the event, lyrics from a song called "I Don't Give A" came out and sparked rumor that she took shots at her ex-husband, Guy Ritchie.

"All-American Muslim" won't be back for second season, and some of its cast have reacted to the news. One of the cast members, Suehaila Amen, told the Detroit Free Press that she's "saddened that there will not be a Season 2" since she believed the show "helped to pave the way for the moderate Muslim voice to be heard in this nation."

Her brother, Bilal Amen, said "the first season was great." Praising TLC for doing "an amazing job," he added, "We opened up the eyes of many Americans, showing them that we are just like everyone else...I am sad it was not picked back up, it was an important conversation that needs to happen in a country where racist comments are being considered dialogue."

Just a few days after FOX decided to cancel the second season of "Terra Nova", another channel already expressed interest to revive the pricey prehistoric drama. Deadline reported that video streaming giant, Netflix, is currently having a discussion with 20th Century Fox TV to save the dinosaur series from extinction.

Multiple sources revealed that the discussion is still in the early stage and it is still unclear whether the two parties would materialize it into a formal negotiation. Should the deal be made, it will mark 20th and Netflix's new partnership after the streaming company recently revived "Arrested Development", another high-end series axed by FOX.

Lionsgate Films has debuted a new trailer for "What to Expect When You're Expecting". While the first trailer focuses on the perspective of the female gang, this promo video is more guy-centric because it highlights the "dudes group", which is made up of fathers who tackle their babysitting duties.

The sneak peek sees Thomas Lennon, Chris Rock, Ben Falcone and Amir Talai walking their babies at a park while teaching their newest member, portrayed by Rodrigo Santoro, the rules of becoming one of them. "Rule number one; 'Don't talk about what we walk about'," so one of them says. Another one adds, "Rule number two; 'We don't judge'."

Sandra Bullock and Brett Ratner are anything but romantically involved. The "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" actress and the director of the "Rush Hour" franchise have just issued a joint statement that shoots down a recent report of them hooking up at an Oscars party.

"We think that it's incredibly sad that in these times, this magazine would resort to complete fabrication, solely for financial gain," read the statement released by Bullock's representative. "There is not a shred of accuracy in their story. We have not seen nor spoken to each for over a decade. We both had a great time after the Oscars, just not with each other."

The life and legacy of Whitney Houston continue to be celebrated by her fans and fellow artists. When BET's "Celebration of Gospel" returns for its 12th annual celebration next week, the late New Jersey singer whose "singing gift was anchored in her gospel roots" will be honored in a special segment.

The two-hour special is going to feature the likes of Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, The Rance Allen Group, James Fortune and FIYA. There will also be special appearances by Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Ledisi and Kelly Price.

A week after he passed away due to severe heart attack, Davy Jones was laid to rest. A spokeswoman for the former member of The Monkees told Reuters that a private funeral was held near his home in Florida on Wednesday, March 7. The small service was attended only by his wife, daughters and other immediate family members.

Jones' publicist Helen Kensick additionally confirmed previous report that the late singer's body was to be cremated. As for what the 66-year-old singer's family had planned to do with the remains, the representative spilled that his ashes was returned to his birthplace in Manchester, England.

The covers of Whitney Houston's songs collided with the renditions of Stevie Wonder's tracks when "American Idol" season 11 kicked off its live-performance round on March 7. The female contestants were on hand to perform renditions from the late New Jersey singer's catalog, while the males were tasked to do songs from the Detroit music veteran. Mary J. Blige was one of the mentors.

The Wednesday night, which marked the 400th "Idol" episode, was opened by Joshua Ledet who did "I Wish". Randy Jackson praised Joshua for being able to do both ballad and uptempo, adding, "I loved the run at the end." Jennifer Lopez gushed, "I love that I just felt your performance more than anything." Steven Tyler also had nothing but good words, stating, "You brought it home...Beautiful."

Jessica Simpson has finally revealed the sex of her first child. The "Fashion Star" mentor confirms in the April 2012 issue of Elle magazine that she and fiance Eric Johnson are expecting a baby girl this Spring, and further shares that the one big fear she has about her daughter is her sense of style.

Talking about the fear, the 31-year-old singer says in her Dallas, Texas accent, "Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!" She goes on to point out the reason behind it, "Eric is so athletic. We're gonna have this ath-a-letic girl and I won't even be able to take her shopping."

The "Desperate Housewives" trial gets a little more complicated by the day. On Wednesday, March 7, former writer Lori Kirkland Baker gave jury a different version of creator/executive producer Marc Cherry's testimony on when a decision to kill off Nicollette Sheridan's character had been made.

Cherry claimed that he made the announcement at a writer retreat in May 2008 that he had received approval to kill Edie Britt from top studio and network executives. However, just hours later, Baker testified that she didn't hear it until December 2008, months after Sheridan claimed Cherry struck her on the set.

Adele shows no sign of stepping down from the throne on Billboard Hot 200. The 23-year-old British beauty extends her long-running reign at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart for another week as her album "21" shifts another 247,000 copies, which is more than any other album this week.

It becomes the longest No. 1 run for a female artist, surpassing the record held by Whitney Houston who hit 20-week No. 1 run with "The Bodyguard" soundtrack. It's additionally close to tie the mark scored by Prince & the Revolution's 1984 "Purple Rain" album (24 weeks at No. 1).

Back in January, it was reported that Katy Perry wanted to make her own concert documentary movie in 3D. On Wednesday, March 7, the "I Kissed a Girl Hitmaker" confirmed that her passion project has officially been approved by Paramount Pictures and has been scheduled to open wide in the U.S. theaters this summer.

Taking to her Twitter account, the popstar who currently dyes her hair blue announced the good news to her fans as writing, "FINALLY, my MOVIE is coming out with Paramount this summer!" She additionally revealed the title of her 3D film, tweeting, "It's called 'KATY PERRY: PART OF ME' Presented in 3D! KATYCATS-LETS TREND #KP3D."

Jerrod Niemann escaped injury when his tour bus caught fire after he performed a concert in Chattanooga, Tenn., thanks to Lee Brice. They were on the same bus that night after the gig, and Jerrod was urged by Lee and another friend to get off the bus because they thought it burnt.

"I smelled something when I got on the bus but I figured it was that smell a heater makes when it comes on," Jerrod recalled the scary moment to PEOPLE. "John Stone, a songwriter who was with us because he wrote Lee Brice's new song, said, 'Dude, I think your bus is on fire'."

Jake Gyllenhaal could end up playing an ex-felon in his next film. The Jack Twist in "Brokeback Mountain" is currently in negotiations to tackle the lead role in an revenge thriller called "Motor City", Variety reported. He is expected to replace former leading man Dominic Cooper, who bailed out the project due to scheduling conflicts.

Should the younger brother of Maggie Gyllenhaal close the deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, he will join Amber Heard and Gary Oldman who have previously been attached to the cast ensemble. Heard would play the protagonist's love interest, while Oldman would star as a mafia kingpin.

Snooki has officially confirmed that she's pregnant and engaged to boyfriend Jionni LaValle. As soon as the news was broken out, some of her "Jersey Shore" co-stars expressed their excitement for the expectant parents and shared their belief that the pint-size reality star will be a great mother.

Both DJ Pauly D and Deena Cortese used their Twitter to send love to Snooki and Jionni. "Congrats To My Girl @snooki So Happy For Her And Jionni!! I Better Be The Godfather :) #UncleDJPaulyD," Pauly wrote, while Deena tweeted, "Congrats @snooki my Lil meatball!! Can't believe we're gonna have a little baby meatball running around soon.. Your gonna be a great mommy."