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Check out Keke Wyatt and Ruben Studdard and their rendition of the classic 1980s song, “Saturday Love” from Cherelle and Alexander O’Neal?. Keke’s new album titled ‘Unbelievable’ will be out June 14th, with special appearances from Kelly Price and Tweet. … Continue

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Roll 'em: Tyler's memoir is a wild ride

NEW YORK - Steven Tyler's memoir has a million of 'em.

Like that night in 1978 when he blacked out on stage while singing "Reefer Head Woman." Or when he and Aerosmith visited the White House on the day President Clinton was impeached. Or that weird weekend with Keith Richards at Bing Crosby's old house on Long Island. Everyone, Tyler writes, "was gacked to the nines on coke."

The Associated Press purchased a copy on Thursday of "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" ? scheduled for release next week. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richards' best-selling "Life."

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Katie Holmes settles $50M lawsuit against Star mag

Star magazine also published an apology in its May 9 edition and said it was making a 'substantial donation' to the Dizzy Feet Foundation.

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Star magazine also published an apology in its May 9 edition and said it was making a 'substantial donation' to the Dizzy Feet Foundation.

Actress Katie Holmes has reached a settlement in her $50 million defamation lawsuit against celebrity magazine Star over an article that falsely suggested she was a drug addict, her representative said on Wednesday.

Star magazine also published an apology in its May 9 edition, on news stands on Wednesday, and said it was making a "substantial donation" to a nonprofit dance foundation supported by the actress.

Holmes, the wife of Tom Cruise, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles in March over a January edition of the magazine with the coverline "Addiction Nightmare. Katie Drug Shocker!"

The inside story made no allegations of drug use but referred to counseling sessions in the Church of Scientology. Cruise is one of Hollywood's leading Scientology followers, and his five-year marriage to Holmes is a frequent source of speculation in celebrity media.

Star magazine said in its printed apology that the magazine "did not intend to suggest Katie Holmes was a drug addict or was undergoing treatment for a drug addiction."

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Holmes was seeking $50 million in damages but the financial terms of the settlement were confidential, her representative said in a statement. Star magazine is published by Florida-based American Media Inc, whose group includes tabloid weekly The National Enquirer.

"I'm pleased that this lawsuit could be resolved amicably and accept American Media's apology. With this dispute out of the way, I look forward to once again focusing my attention on my family and career," Holmes said in a statement.

Holmes' attorney, Aaron Moss, said the lawsuit should serve "as a lesson to other tabloids that if they print false and defamatory stories about Katie, she will stand up for her legal rights."

Star magazine's donation will go to the Dizzy Feet Foundation, a charity that helps underprivileged American youngsters pay for dance classes.

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Last night’s Glee was one of our favorites of the season. Slight spoiler alert: two characters admitted they are gay, New Directions got a new-old member, they sang “Born This Way” from Lady Gaga, and we got to see Quinn Fabray before she was “perfect.” We love when popular girls have mini-meltdowns on television. The [...]

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Fowler gives 'Exposure' to dangers of sexting

By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY

Novelists are always urged to write about what they know.

  • Mother knows best: Therese Fowler wants teens to "think twice."

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    Mother knows best: Therese Fowler wants teens to "think twice."

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Mother knows best: Therese Fowler wants teens to "think twice."

Author Therese Fowler has followed that advice with her third novel, Exposure (Ballantine, $25), in stores Tuesday. The plot centers on the red-hot issue of teens sexting, and Fowler's knowledge is hard-earned.

In 2009, Fowler's then-19-year-old son was arrested on a misdemeanor charge for e-mailing nude photos of himself to a 16-year-old female friend.

"I was astonished that simply sharing a photo of himself with a girl he knew could be considered criminal," says Fowler, 44, from her home in Wake Forest, N.C. (The charges were dismissed.)

Fowler used the experience to write a Romeo-and-Juliet drama set at a posh private school in North Carolina.

In this case, Juliet is 17-year-old Amelia, the sheltered only child of a wealthy, self-made auto dealer. Romeo is Anthony, the 18-year-old son of a bohemian single mom from New York. He attends the school because his mother teaches there.

The young lovers find themselves at the center of a national scandal after Amelia's father discovers naked photos of Anthony on his daughter's laptop. The police are called, an aggressive prosecutor gets involved, and the news media go ballistic.

Fowler tells each chapter from a different character's point of view. The mother of four sons, she knows "girls are so much more at risk" of having their nude photos going viral.

An Illinois transplant, Fowler also thought the North Carolina setting created a cultural battlefield, pitting liberal transplants like Anthony's mother against more conservative natives like Amelia's dad. "It wouldn't be such big deal in New York," she says.

Sexting can also be illegal. Exposure's plot hinges on Amelia being 17, which opens Anthony up to child pornography charges.

J. Tom Morgan, a former district attorney in Georgia, cites surveys estimating that one of every four teens are sexting.

"Parents are shocked that their kids have this stuff on their cellphones," he says. "Kids see that adults, specifically celebrities, are doing this, and then it's OK for them."

Morgan, the author of Ignorance Is No Defense, which looks at laws affecting students under 21, points to sexting's dangers:

? If a participant is under 18, sexting photos is legally considered child pornography.

? The images never disappear, often ending up on porn websites.

? Online sexual predators pretend to be flirtatious peers, luring girls and boys alike into sexting.

Fowler's son supports his mother's decision to write about their family turmoil, but he has not read Exposure. "He doesn't read fiction," she says.

The experience embarrassed her son, Fowler says. It made her determined to "help other parents ... and to make teens think twice" before they click and send.

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Jennifer Hudson: I've heard of Sheryl Crow but not Cheryl Cole

Cheryl Cole's profile in US is still very low

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Cheryl Cole is expected to leave the UK X Factor for the US version this year

Simon Cowell has all but confirmed Cheryl Cole as a judge on the US X Factor, but American stars still have no idea who the Geordie singer is.

Former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson was asked about Cheryl during a trip to the UK - but thought she was being asked about a different Sheryl - one with 9 Grammy Award nominations to her name   

'Sheryl Crow?' Jennifer, 29, asked.

Once put straight she replied: 'No, I'm not familiar with her.'

Jennifer Lopez admitted last month that she hadn't heard about the 27-year-old either. 

'Ah, someone mentioned her to me yesterday,' Jennifer, 41, told Fabulous. ?She's a singer, right?
 
'I don't know too much about her, I don't know her music.

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D'Onofrio back on duty in more relaxed 'Law'

By Nancy Mills, Special for USA TODAY

How difficult was it to persuade Vincent D'Onofrio to return to Law & Order: Criminal Intent after leaving the show more than a year ago? Not very.

  • Vincent D'Onofrio returns as Detective Bobby Goren in the Season 10 premiere of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Sunday.

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    Vincent D'Onofrio returns as Detective Bobby Goren in the Season 10 premiere of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Sunday.

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Vincent D'Onofrio returns as Detective Bobby Goren in the Season 10 premiere of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Sunday.

"All it took was (creator) Dick Wolf asking," D'Onofrio says between setups at the Chelsea Pier Soundstage in Manhattan. He is finishing up Episode 3 of Season 10, which begins Sunday (9 p.m. ET/PT) on USA Network.

After handing off his detective work to Jeff Goldblum, D'Onofrio left the series early in Season 9. He had been hospitalized briefly for nervous exhaustion in the fourth season but soldiered on for another five years.

"I liked doing the show," D'Onofrio says, "but after working on it for so many years, I did need a break. I tried for a long time to get off it, but I didn't want to leave anybody in the lurch."

But finally, there was an opportunity. "Dick eventually figured out a way to segue me out," says the actor, 51. "I have so much respect for Jeff Goldblum that I thought it was going to fly. But it didn't work out as great as they thought it would."

Now D'Onofrio's Detective Bobby Goren is back to figuring out the way criminals think. "But things have changed here," he explains. "We're not doing as many episodes (just eight) or working as many hours. They found a way to do it so it's more comfortable for Kate (Kathyrn Erbe, who plays his partner Alexandra Eames) and me."

He adds: "Mainly we're making shows like we did during the early seasons. They're straight-out crime dramas, with Goren being very quirky and doing things that surprise people. We got away from that a little bit in the later years."

Reports suggest that Criminal Intent will end after this season, but D'Onofrio says the final decision is yet to be made.

"Some people say it's the last season," he acknowledges. "Some people say it's not.

"If they have to end it, it will end," he says. "We have no control. But if they can figure out a way to make money off it, it'll stay on the air." And if it continues? "I'd stay with it."

D'Onofrio insists he shares only one quality with his character, Goren. "I have good intuition about people," he says. "I'm pretty good at it in my personal life."

Age brings confidence

D'Onofrio admires Goren's unpredictability. "But he's a little too dark for me at my age." The Brooklyn-born actor adds: "Maybe when I was young, it was OK to be like that. Now it's a bit too much. I've learned to let everything go and leave it at work."

He elaborates. "When you're a young artist, you're struggling to achieve all these things, and you wrap yourself into it and you're in this bubble. When you get older, your confidence is much greater, and your ability is much greater, and you're able to rely on the fact that (your acting ability) is going to be there when you pick it back up. So you can lay it down and go home and not think about it."

He credits his wife, Dutch model Carin van der Donk, with helping him reach this point. "I was kind of a loner, very introverted and pretty socially inept for a long period," he says. "Everything changed when I met my wife. She allowed me to be me, with all my flaws. To know someone truly loved me for who I was ... that relationship has been going on and on, and it's great. When you have that, you can focus more on the artistic things."

They have two sons, Elias, 11, and Luka, 3. D'Onofrio also has a daughter, Leila, 19, with Australian actress Greta Scacchi. "She's making films at the Sydney Film School," he says. "She's interested in directing and writing."

Finding his niche

When D'Onofrio was that age, he had no specific ambition. "I used to put on shows for the neighborhood with my three sisters," he says, recalling his early years in Florida with his divorced mother. "We collected canned food for families in Vietnam. In order to see the show, people would have to bring cans. But I never took performing seriously."

After graduating from high school, D'Onofrio went on a road trip with his best friend. "We drove from Florida to California," he says. "I ended up in Colorado, working construction and laboring jobs."

Eventually he went to New York. "I didn't know what I wanted to do," he says, "but deep down, I knew it would be something artistic. In New York, I learned to respect the arts more. I started to go to (acting) classes, I studied, and I took it seriously."

Theater work led to a starring role in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. Since then, D'Onofrio has appeared in nearly 70 films, including Mystic Pizza, JFK, Men in Black and the recent crime drama Kill the Irishman.

In the upcoming comedic drama Chlorine, he and Kyra Sedgwick play "a husband and wife trying to keep up with the Joneses," he says. "It's about the stress of what's going on these days with the recession and how families are trying to survive."

Don't Go in the Woods, a horror musical that he directed and helped write, is due later this year. He is producing Mall, a film version of Eric Bogosian's 2001 same-titled novel. "Eric used to be on the show, and he asked me to read it," D'Onofrio says. "He thought it might be a good idea to make a film of it. So I developed it with some friends, and we're casting it now."

He also wants to direct and star in Johnny and Me, about a father/daughter relationship. "It's not so much that I like being in charge. I just like being involved in the whole process."

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