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After a whirlwind year, the 16-year-old plans to chill with his family on Friday night.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Mawuse Ziegbe
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Unlike the multitude of stars descending upon Las Vegas, Miami and New York City on Friday to celebrate New Year's Eve, there are a few who will be keeping a much lower profile as they ring in 2011. Like 2010 superstar Justin Bieber, for example, who said recently that his big plans consist of him getting some much-needed rest and spending time with his family.
"For New Year's, I'm just hanging out," Bieber told MTV News last week. "I'm just going to be with my family. Just being with them and relaxing, because I've been go, go, go for the past three years."
Judging from his recent tweets, the 16-year-old phenom is making good on his plans so far.
"Another solid day hanging with the family and friends. love the #holidays," he wrote on Monday. "New years is coming....what is gonna be your new years resolution?" Then yesterday, he tweeted a message focused on R&R: "Need the rest. #grateful."
The soon-to-be big-screen star (his film debut, "Never Say Never," opens in February) later commented that he's grateful for everything, from his success to all the rumors about his love life.
"Chillin and happy. It's been a fun year with a lot of blessings," Bieber wrote on Twitter. "Some crazy rumors but so much love and memories. We r just gettin started!! So enjoy the holidays. Get crazy and have some laughs. Life is too short. At least that is what they tell me. #newyearsIsComin"
What are your plans for New Year's Eve? Big blowout or low-key evening in? Tell us in the comments!
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Charlie Brooker has scoured through a whole year's worth of cultural detritus to test your knowledge of what was really important during the last 12 months. View the answers here
Throughout the year, I wrote some characteristically cynical things as part of my ongoing quest to depress Guardian readers to death. But, shorn of context, can you tell what I'm going on about? Find out by deducing who or what is being described in the following extracts:
1 "A device that answers a rhetorical question you weren't really asking."
2 "A simulated man with a simulated face. A humanoid. A replicant. An Auton. A construct."
3 "It will be a staggering 5,600ft tall ? more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth ? and will be capped with an immense dome of highly polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs."
4 "A child who idolised ___________ would grow up to be a sanctimonious, flip-flopping, phone-tapping Peeping Tom who thinks puns are hilarious and spends half its life desperately rooting through bins for a living."
5 "Like a small piece of fried potato failing to recall a repressed abuse memory while sitting on your tongue."
6 "___________ sounds like a once-respected stage actor who's taken the Hollywood dollar and now finds himself sitting at a press junket, patiently telling a reporter that while, on the face of it, his role as the Fartmonster in Guff Ditch III: Fartmonster's Revenge may look like a cultural step down from his previous work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, if you look beyond all the scenes of topless women being dissolved by clouds of acrid methane, the Guff Ditch trilogy actually contains more intellectual sustenance than King Lear."
Several motion pictures were released during 2010, most of which had snappy poster taglines such as "A Journey Beyond Your Imagination" or "From The People Who Brought You Yentl". The following taglines weren't used, but should have been. What films are they advertising?
1 You Only Dream Thrice.
2 Because 162 Minutes of Sanctimonious Blue Arseholes Apparently Wasn't Enough.
3 Greedier Isn't Goodier.
4 Hey, At Least It's Not Scarecrow and Mrs King.
5 Abu Dhabi Bang Gang.
Technology is now so advanced that we've become accustomed to wearily shrugging at miracles. Which of the following is real and which have I made up?
1 The iDoser. Forget meow meow, the iDoser is a piece of software that plays audio files designed to stimulate your brain, allegedly mimicking the effect of various illegal narcotics in the process.
2 Pocket Heatwave. Aimed at campers who fancy a brew ? or lazy office workers who want to reheat their coffee without leaving their desk ? this is a handheld LED device, similar to a small torch or a laser pointer which, when aimed into a cup of water, uses light to heat the fluid from room temperature to boiling point in less than 45 seconds.
3 Kittylimpics. Yes, it's a videogame for cats, which uses Microsoft's Kinect motion-recognition system. Plop your feline in front of Kittylimpics, and laugh as it chases photo-realistic birds, mice and butterflies around the screen. The Kinect system tracks your cat's movements, marking it for speed, accuracy and grace; its score is automatically entered into an online league table.
4 Clothes in a Can. The ultimate in figure-hugging partywear: spray-on clothing you literally squirt over your body.
5 TV Hat. A personal cinema for your face, the TV Hat is essentially a baseball cap with headphones, blinkers ? and a built-in screen. Pop the hat on, connect it to your laptop, and watch movies or TV shows while remaining absolutely oblivious to the outside world.
6 iPhone Autopilot. Available from the App Store, Autopilot allows you to keep a conversation going during those times when you need to concentrate on something else. It stores your oft-used conversational tics ("uh-huh", "OK", and so on) and repeats them automatically in response to a caller when activated. Need to step away from the phone during a conversation? Just activate your autopilot for a few moments and they will be none the wiser.
Random quickfire entertainment
1 According to a protester's placard, why did Nick Clegg cross the road?
2 Why did millions of people watch 50-year-olds Yonni and Susana kiss on live TV?
3 What was going to be blown sky-high if it didn't get its shit together?
4 In perhaps the worst of the profoundly dreadful Halifax "radio station" TV commercials, which song is played to promote individual savings accounts?
5 Which soap character became a pipe smoker?
6 Why did so many of the cast of Andrew Lincoln's new TV series have non-speaking parts?
7 What is a human centipede?
8 What did John F Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Robert McNamara and Richard Nixon team up to fight?
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Sir Elton John, 62, and his long-time partner David Furnish, 48, ended their long journey to parenthood with the birth of their son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John on December 25.
For many years we have talked about fulfilling one of our greatest wishes by becoming parents," Sir Elton tells Us. "And now this wish has been granted to us, we feel so blessed and lucky. Zachary is a gorgeous little baby and we are so proud of him."
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Celebrities have a long history of engagement with development. We take a look at the stars who have got involved over the past 60 years
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'People can see the film and can see themselves in it or say, 'How do we keep that from happening?' ' he tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by: Josh Horowitz
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Photo: MTV News
We already know Ryan Gosling thinks his latest film, "Blue Valentine," is a "nice companion piece" to his 2004 romantic drama "The Notebook." And this is despite "Valentine" having much darker, more sexually charged elements and some MPAA ratings drama.
But we wanted to know, given the film's edgier theme, is it detrimental or beneficial for a couple to see together?
"I think it's the best thing for a couple to see, honestly. I'm not just trying to sell the movie," Gosling insisted when MTV News caught up with him. "Well, I am trying to hawk the movie," he laughed, adding that he thinks it's good for couples to see and experience together, since it might prompt discussion or bring to light existing problems in a relationship that the couple could be trying to ignore.
"If there is a problem in their relationship, they're not able to look at it, and they're caught in their own experience of it, there's no dialogue about any of the bigger issues," Gosling explained. "I think ['Blue Valentine' is] a cautionary tale about what can happen to love if you ignore it and you take it for granted."
He went on to say that, because the film highlights the "nitty-gritty" of what it takes to sustain a romantic relationship, it will get couples talking.
"I think that people can see the film and can see themselves in it or say, 'How do we keep that from happening?' "
Check out everything we've got on "Blue Valentine."
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Looking to chill out, Taylor Swift was spotted out and about in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night (December 29).
The ?Dear John? songstress was joined by a gal pal and her bodyguard as she hit up PEI WEI Asian restaurant for a quick bite to eat.
Taylor has been taking it easy as of late, thanks to the massively successful year she?s had, including a top album and a hunky new boyfriend in Jake Gyllenhaal.
Having spent time with her family in Turks and Caicos over the Christmas holiday, it?s likely Miss Swift will be ringing in the New Year with Jake tonight.
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Fans and supporters gather outside Fifth African Baptist Church to honor late Cash Money MC.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Akshay Bhansali
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Photo: Cash Money Records
As fellow Cash Money affiliates Lil Wayne, B.G., Juvenile, Mack Maine and Baby made their way into the Fifth African Baptist Church in New Orleans on Thursday morning (December 30), hundreds of fans gathered outside the church to pay tribute to fallen hometown rapper Magnolia Shorty.
In addition to Weezy and his crew, a number of other local bounce artists made their presence felt at the funeral, including Partners-N-Crime, Kilo G, DJ Jubilee, Big Freeda and Ms. Tee, who was the first female artist to sign with Cash Money, followed by Shorty in 1995, who was the label's second, and last, female member.
The closed funeral began at 11 a.m., and while more than 1,000 friends and relatives packed into the brick house of worship, the street outside was overflowing with nearly 1,500 fans paying tribute to the bounce legend. Many were wearing shirts in praise of Shorty (born Renetta Lowe), 28, with messages such as "R.I.P. Magnolia Shorty" and "We Love You Renetta," as well as buttons that read "Forever 'Shorty.' "
Wayne, Birdman and Mack Maine tweeted their condolences in the wake of Shorty's murder last week, but on Thursday, it was former Cash Money rapper and Hot Boyz member B.G. who remembered his fallen comrade after the funeral.
"Magnolia Shorty was like a sister to me and it ain't just what she meant to me; it's what she meant to Louisiana, it's what she meant to New Orleans," B.G. told MTV News, noting that he was the one who brought Shorty into the Cash Money fold when she was just 12 years old. "She was the queen of bounce. She was someone you loved to be around. She was the best at what she do. I'm really speechless right now, but it ain't sunk in yet. ... She owned this city, but she was this close to ownin' the world."
The program for the service featured a photo of Shorty under the headline "A Homegoing Celebration for a Phenomenal Queen." Shorty was gunned down last Monday alongside an unidentified man in a vehicle that crashed near a New Orleans East housing complex. Her murder came seven years after the November 2003 killing of another New Orleans rapper, James "Soulja Slim" Tapp, whose original stage name was Magnolia Slim and who grew up with Shorty in the Magnolia housing projects and gave her the Magnolia Shorty stage name.
The funeral was to be followed by a traditional New Orleans second line celebration in which her casket was be paraded down the street accompanied by musicians, friends, family and supporters.
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Bachelor alum Melissa Rycroft hopped on Facebook Wednesday (December 29) to share some sweet photos, from the past few months, of her now 8 �-month baby bump!
It looks like the soon-to-be mama is enjoying a wonderful holiday season with hubby Tye Strickland and their adorable dogs!
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Alice Douglas's children have spent much of the year competing in high-profile television talent shows. They say they have benefited from the experience but, she asks, was she right to expose them to the glare of celebrity at such a young age?
One day in May this year, Hero, my 11-year-old daughter ? a budding musician ? decided to do a quick internet search for music competitions she could enter. Little did I know that within a matter of months this would lead to both Hero and her younger brother Tybalt appearing in separate television series before millions of people and immersing the whole family in the dizzying world of television talent shows.
Hero went on to become a nightly fixture on Sky's Must be the Music, performing alongside Dizzee Rascal, Sharleen Spiteri and Jamie Cullum in front of 13,000 people at Wembley Arena and a TV audience of millions, while Tybalt won the BBC series My Genius Idea with a device he invented after a friend from school was killed by a car while on his bike. The device warns car drivers on rural roads if there is a bike, horse or broken-down car round the next bend.
That afternoon on the computer, Hero didn't just launch herself into living rooms all over the country ? she took us with her.
My children aren't classroom-clever or particularly motivated by schoolwork but at an early age have found what they want to do as a career. Hero writes songs and accompanies herself on the harp and piano, and has no doubt music is her future. Tybalt invents gadgets and is always fiddling with electrical circuits or dismantling my car engine or, to my horror, making mini bombs.
He has even designed a mummy thermometer for me to wear to tell him how cross I'm getting. He gave it to me as a present and it fits neatly into my iPod armband. When I press a button, it illuminates a series of red lights to show if I'm getting angry. One light is a bit cross and five means I am furious. He said to me: "At least I have some warning before your head pops off and you start screaming like a banshee." It also has a green section, which I light up if he's being exceptionally good. Five green lights means extra pocket money for perfect behaviour.
The family's foray into television started when Hero decided she wanted to find an outlet to perform her own music. She's been writing songs at a prodigious rate for a few years and had become a fixture performing in local folk clubs and festivals but wanted to find a bigger stage. She had always competed in eisteddfods and had just won the under-14 and under-11 girls solos at the Chester music festival, but wanted to go further.
The first email Hero sent off when she embarked on this search was to Sky 1's Must be the Music and, to be honest, I knew that if she was seen she stood a good chance of getting on the show.
Obviously it's hard not to be amazed by your child's talent, but it seems hers is obvious to other people. A top casting director once rushed up to me after Hero had sung in a cathedral in the south of France insisting that she hadn't seen that quality since casting a young Kate Winslet. More recently, when Hero was recording some solos for a CD of hymns, a music producer who won an Ivor Novello award and has worked with many children, including Charlotte Church, told me that Hero was the most talented and professional child he had ever worked with.
So I was hopeful when it came to the first round of auditions for Must be the Music. And I was proved right: the judges' jaws dropped when they heard her perform. Although her place on the show wasn't confirmed for a month, I felt pretty certain it would happen.
What took things to another level for the family was that, in the meantime, she had kept up her online searches, and discovered that CBBC were doing a series about young inventors, and excitedly told her brother there was an opening for him on telly. She printed off an application form, but Tybalt wasn't much interested. He said he wanted to invent, not be on telly ? but his sister persuaded him that if he wanted to succeed as an inventor he had to get his ideas out there. Tybalt eventually decided the day before the deadline to fill in the application form, with help from his sister, as his writing is so messy. I had mixed feelings. I knew he stood a good chance of an interview because I thought there couldn't be that many 10-year-old inventors. He had already won the design and technology section of the eisteddfod with a universal seatbelt that you can keep in your bag and use to clip on in vehicles without belts, such as the school bus. However, I wasn't sure he would make it through the audition because he isn't very tolerant of processes. When a producer rang to speak to him he had to be cajoled into chatting. He was nonplussed and said: "Why should I talk to her? She can see my inventions, look at the prototypes and see that they work and then she should make a decision." He thought his work should be judged, not him.
After his initial resistance Tybalt quite enjoyed the talking, once he had got used to it, and so he was selected for the show.
I know I might be criticised for allowing my children so much public exposure so young but it wasn't pre-planned. They both sort of stumbled into television projects that offered fantastic platforms for their interests. Its not as if I allowed them to go on some freak kids' version of Big Brother, where talent is irrelevant and a desire for celebrity pushes them to desperate acts. Both have talents that they are keen to pursue as proper careers in their individual areas of music and inventing.
Tybalt certainly doesn't want to be famous. The idea horrifies him. He wants to be a rich inventor and businessman and already earns a few thousand pounds a year running a jam-making business from my B&B. The only use Tybalt has for the media is in the hope that he might find investors for his ideas and also because he wants to get his inventions out to a wider market.
However, as a musician, Hero is aware that she needs an audience but she wants people to watch her because she is talented. Now she has tentatively dipped her toe in the fame market, I worry enormously as a mother about the horrendous nature of celebrity and the bad experiences so many people have when they become famous.
It is incredibly scary when there are YouTube clips of your 11-year-old daughter with horribly sexually explicit comments on them. I tried to get YouTube to remove one particular comment but that was a brick wall. I rang the police but it's not illegal and so I contacted the government's online protection agency but it was outside their remit. I felt really scared about the path my children were embarking on. Should I have allowed them to make decisions at such a young age? Was it my responsibility to protect them? I discussed with Hero the implications of being on television and suggested she quit the show. She decided she wanted to remove some of the stuff we have put online about her, but said she didn't want to lose this opportunity.
I wouldn't have let the kids appear on a programme such as the House of Tiny Tearaways where flaws are what make the programme compelling. I didn't have any reason for them to be on television other than to showcase their talents.
I have a professional background in television, and so has my mother, as have many members of my family and so the children weren't particularly anxious about being on TV. And filming seemed pretty normal to them as they have often been on film sets or hung around backstage. Hero's earliest memory is of falling asleep in a dressing room at the Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh festival when I was directing her father in a show. We'd have to rock Hero to sleep before the curtain went up so I could operate the lights. I'd nip back stage between cues to check she was still snoozing.
All the filming might have been hard work for both children, but it was also pretty idyllic. Tybalt got to hang out with the champion racing cyclist Chris Boardman at a velodrome while discussing aerodynamics. No one could have planned a more thrilling way to entertain him; the only drawback was holding fire on the questions until the cameras were rolling. Hero got to chill backstage with Fearne Cotton and go to costume fittings with a vast array of dresses that were better than any dressing-up box.
I mistakenly imagined I would be fantastically well equipped to help them negotiate the shark-infested waters of television having been there and done it myself, but I was out of touch and more of a hindrance than a help, and when it came to crunch time I was a liability. Tybalt had to give a presentation to Tom Lawton, the inventor and judge on his show, in front of an invited audience. I felt he should prepare a speech and typed one up for him. He refused to look at it, let alone learn it, and we reached loggerheads. I left it up to him, huffily expecting him to fall at the last hurdle. He felt he could only cope by saying what was in his head and that I was making it too complicated. He was right and simply and confidently sold his idea through his presentation. The other competitor had created a speech that was too complex to give off the cuff and stumbled through it. I realised that Tybalt knew what he was capable of and that's what enabled him to win the competition.
Hero was much more susceptible to my guidance and once again I proved a dud steer. She had decided on Swept Away, a song she wrote for the semi-final of the show. The five acts all played live and were critiqued by the judges, then it was opened to a public phone vote. Hero was voted through to the final. We had five minutes, post-show, of euphoria and watching her song climb into the iTunes chart before being closeted away backstage to discuss with the production company what she would record the next day. It had to be decided, as the final at Wembley was in a week's time and the song needed to be recorded in the morning for immediate delivery to iTunes.
The producers wanted her to do a cover of either Fields of Gold or Angel, which they had asked her to learn a month before. They said a cover was the best way of securing votes. Hero was adamant that she wanted to perform one of her own songs but was strongly advised not to. She looked at me pleadingly and asked what to do. I said I thought the producers knew best, and as she was a little unsure of reaching the low notes on Fields of Gold it was agreed she'd do Angel; a song about an addict giving into death. This was hard for a child whose dad is an addict and who had recently lost someone in the family to suicide. "The words mean too much," she said.
The following Sunday she was on stage in front of a few million people and performed Angel beautifully but two of the judges then told her they didn't like the song and she lost out on the chance of winning the �100,000 top prize. It was an epic moment for an 11-year-old standing in front of 13,000 people. She kept it together, but came off stage pleading with me to find a corridor where she could cry without anyone watching. I found a space that was out of the way and listened while tears rolled down her cheeks as she tried to grasp why they had chosen a song that the judges didn't like.
We sat on a speaker huddled together and her formidable spirit came through as she decided to focus on the achievement of making the final. She gave a tearful smile and reminded me that I had told her she would have to be thick-skinned if she wanted a career in music. She flashed a grin and skipped off to give her final interview.
I had been worried that letting the kids compete in front of such a large audience might be emotionally detrimental, but it has reassured me that they are strong enough to survive the ups and downs in life.
We've come a long way since May.
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Friends and family talk about Bieber's evolution as a drummer in new clip from upcoming 3-D film.
By Terri Schwartz
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Photo: Paramount Pictures
The February 11 release of John Chu's 3-D doc "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" is fast approaching, and in addition to the Biebs' many tweets about the flick, we now have another glimpse at what it has in store for eager fans. A new clip from the film shows how Bieber's talent for drums surfaced at a young age. It's also full of more cute Bieber baby videos.
"He never had any lessons or anything. I just never thought of it being anything other than for fun," Bieber's mother, Pattie Malette, says in the clip.
Bieber's drum collection quickly expanded from a handheld drum to a mini drum kit, and eventually, his family friends held a benefit concert and raised enough money to buy the young prodigy his own set of Pearl drums.
The 16-year-old pop star made waves at the 2010 VMAs when he rocked out on the drums during his amplified set. He also showed off his skills on the skins at the 2009 Jingle Ball in Sacramento, where he played an impressive drum solo during Cobra Starship's performance. Starship frontman Gabe Saporta, who had been trying to challenge Bieber to a dance off, tweeted after the fact, "Justin Bieber smoked me hard tonight. He couldn't win the dance off. But he shredded a gnarly drum solo. I back this kid on the real. Legit."
Bieber wouldn't be the first artist to start out behind the kit before his vocal capabilities propelled him to the spotlight. He joins the powerful ranks of drummers-turned-singers such as Dave Grohl, Phil Collins, Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr and Tommy Lee.
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Source reveals 'Newlyweds'-style spin-off will shoot in the spring.
By Terri Schwartz
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Fans might have thought they kept up with Khloé Kardashian before, but in 2011 they'll be seeing a whole lot more of her. The regular member of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," who ventured to Florida to "Take Miami" with her sister Kourtney, will be getting her own "Newlyweds"-style spin-off with her basketball-playing hubby, Lamar Odom, along the lines of Bravo's "Bethenny Getting Married."
"It shoots in the spring," an insider told Us Weekly. "They're so cute, playing off one another."
It seems as if the couple are waiting until after Odom's season with the Lakers is over to start filming the show. The two were married more than a year ago after dating for only a month, and "Kardashians" producer Ryan Seacrest said at the time he was "seriously thinking" about making a spin-off show for the newlyweds. Even though the marriage isn't really new anymore, there is plenty of interest around the Kardashian sisters' lives to warrant another spin-off.
After their marriage, Odom said their relationship was "real" and the ceremony was "a beautiful event." Shrugging off suggestions that he married a Kardashian to get more publicity, Odom said, "I don't need that. I get enough with the Lakers. I do well for myself."
He defended their hasty decision to get married, saying, "There's people who've been married for 25 years, and they get divorced. There's people who get married overnight, and the next thing you know they've been married 25 years."
Kourtney and Kim Kardashian have their own spin-off debuting on E! on January 23 called "Kourtney & Kim Take New York." Kourtney's son Mason won't be appearing on the show, though, because, according to Us, his father, Scott Disick, demanded E! pay $5,000 an episode for the 1-year-old, though Disick said it was because he wanted his son to have a "normal" life.
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