By: preme | On: 19 Nov, 2008
Britney Spears says that since her breakdown, her life has been worse than a jail sentence – but that she’s slowly healing one day at a time.
“I have really good days, and then I have bad days,” the singer, 26, admits in a new fly-on-the wall, 90-minute documentary, Britney: For The Record, to air in the U.S. Nov. 30 on MTV and in the U.K. Dec. 1 on Sky1.
Struggling to gain control of her life again after her public meltdown earlier this year, she says candidly: “Even when you go to jail, y’know, there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like [the Bill Murray movie] Groundhog Day.”
She adds, “I’m having to pay for it for a really long time.”
Spears was hospitalized for mental evaluation in January, which resulted in her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, being granted sole custody of their sons, Preston and Jayden. Her father, Jamie Spears, also gained legal control over her affairs.
“If I wasn’t under the restraints that I’m under right now, I’d feel so liberated,” she says in the film, which follows the singer as she records and promotes her new album Circus. “When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear me, but they’re really not listening.”
A camera crew followed the singer for three months as she moved to pull her life back on track. “I wanted to make this film because I started to feel like I wasn’t being seen in the light that I wanted to be seen in,” Spears said. “This is an opportunity to set the record straight and talk about what I’ve been through and where I’m headed.”
Overall, she says, “I think I’ve learned my lesson now, and enough is enough.”
By: preme | On: 23 Oct, 2008
British comedian Ricky Gervais has been offered the role of a lifetime – hosting the Oscars. Apparently his agent was approached about the possibility of Gervais hosting next years Oscars, presumably after his amusing appearance at the Emmy’s. Sadly though, it looks like it’s just not going to happen.
Gervais has stated that he’d be too scared to host the Oscars, which is probably smart considering they’d end up getting him to read from a script rather than letting him run the show with adlibs. Many a career has been made and broken on Oscar’s stage so it would have been nice to see how the star of The Office handled it. Shame really… Me.. I say bring back Billy Crystal and make it the entertaining spectacle it once was.
By: preme | On: 23 Oct, 2008
Most people haven’t heard of the name Zeljko Ivanek, but many would know him if they saw him. Ivanek is one of those actors who seems to play outstanding roles, yet never really becomes famous. He recently won an Emmy for his work on Damages with Glenn Close and will now be appearing as ‘The Hunter’ in Heroes.
Ivanek will be hunting several of the Heroes main characters midseason in the next stage of the seemingly never ending saga entitled ‘Fugitives’. Fugitives is due to start when the current chapter ‘Villains’ ends. We should see Ivanek on screen around January or February 2009.
He’s no stranger to great guest starring roles, having appeared on a slew of top rated shows – Lost, 24, Law and Order, John Adams, The Practice, Oz, Bones, Shark, Numb3rs, The West Wing and The Mentalist. Here’s hoping he can breathe some life into Heroes.
By: preme | On: 21 Oct, 2008
Is it just me or is it a case of life imitating art imitating life for David Duchovny right now? I was a huge fan of Californication last season and I was filled with hope that this season would continue to be the social satire it was previously. Sadly I feel that the show has unravelled much like Duchovny’s personal life.
First we all heard that Hank Moody, sorry Duchovny, was in rehab for sex addiction, then going through a break-up with his wife amidst a number of affairs rumors. Then the show started and was all about… yes sex.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy some sex in a TV show when it’s there for a reason and Californication mastered this last season by combining it with clever socio-political commentary, but this season it seems to be there for nothing but cheap shots and an attempt at spicing up a flailing storyline. Looks like Duchovny’s bubble might be about to burst. His marriage has failed or is failing, his X-Files movie failed and now Californication is heading the same way. Damn shame for a really cool show.
By: preme | On: 25 Sep, 2008
Miley Cyrus dated Dylan Sprouse from the Suite Life of Zach and Cody when he was 12. They met at the Hannah Montana set and apparently Nick Jonas walked by and then it was over. Seriously, Dylan says this on the Jimmy Kimmel show!
Damn, Miley was a hoe since the beginning of time.