Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Heene Boy: Who the Hell Is Wolf?

Ah, from the mouths of babes.

Falcon Heene, the Colorado boy who was thought to have been carried off in a homemade balloon on Thursday, innocently blurted out, "Who the hell is Wolf?" during a recent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Check out the cute clip, below.

Can You Lose Weight With This Hot Diet Trend?

Eating cookies all day and losing weight might sound too good to be true, but Josie Raper, who recently shared her story on Good Morning America, went from a size 24 to a six doing just that. At 28 years old and 240 pounds, Raper had tried dozens of diets before finding Dr. Siegel’s Cookie Diet. In just six months, she lost 18 dress sizes.

Click on the video below to see Josie Raper talk about how she lost weight on the Cookie Diet.

Here’s how the diet works: Instead of having breakfast and lunch, dieters eat six protein-packed cookies, then eat a 500-calorie dinner consisting of lean protein and veggies.

The diet averages just 1,000 calories a day, which is far fewer than what most nutrition experts consider healthy for long-term weight loss. So while you could lose weight on the low-cal plan, you’d be less likely to keep it off in the long haul.

The promise of being able to indulge while losing weight quickly has even lured quite a few celebrities, including Denise Richards, to give the Cookie Diet a try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fuI9yzx4o

Rihanna Debuts Her New Single



Rihanna told everyone recently that the wait is "ova", and Tuesday, it finally was.

She debuted Russian Roulette, the first single from her hotly anticipated album,Rated R, on Ryan Seacrest's show.

Listen to Roulette here or check Rihanna's site.

The soaring ballad follows a woman on the verge of taking a turn at the suicide game: You can see it thorugh my chest/That I'm terrified/But I'm not leaving/I know that I must pass this test/So just pull the trigger.

The song, which eerily ends with a gunshot, was written and produced by Ne-Yo, who also wrote her 2006 No. 1 hit Unfaithful and dueted with the Grammy-winning singer on the Top 10 smash Hate That I Love You. The video for the song is expected to premiere in prime-time on ABC.

Gosselin Kids 'Wailing and Sobbing' Now That Cameras Are Gone


Kate Gosselin's kids are "angry" and "acting out," she says, now that their TLC show has been iced by the network. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the reality mom recounts what happened when she told her brood that 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' (renamed 'Kate Plus 8') was shutting down.

"Actually, times eight, there was wailing and sobbing," she says. "They love our crew, they love the interaction, they love the events. There is nothing harmful about it. They are angry."

The divorce of their parents, and the media storm clouds constantly hovering above, have resulted in noticeable changes in the children's behavior, Kate admits.

"I'm trying to give them the grace to see, if they're acting out of line, I'm trying to look deeper into why that is," she says. "Why the kids are acting out. Cause it's all inter-related. I mean, they don't see it, but it's all interconnected."

The absence of dad Jon Gosselin, who moved out and now lives in New York City, has played an obvious role. "They miss him," she says. "They say they miss him. I imagine they say the same thing when I'm away ... "


Kate also lashes out at the paparazzi, saying the kids have become so used to their presence, that she has to instruct them how to act.

"I always tell [the children], 'Turn your back and don't look at them, don't speak to them,'" says Kate. "I don't even let them use the word. I mean, no five-year-old should be using the word 'paparazzi.'"

"The ones claiming we are exploiting our children," Kate says, "are the ones exploiting our children!"

New John Mayer Video Features You via Webcam


In between his hectic schedule of making beautiful women swoon with his trademark dulcet tones, and making sure that his eyes are never more than 50-percent open, John Mayer, amazingly, has found time to revolutionize online music videos.

His latest single, "Heartbreak Warfare," from the album 'Battle Studies,' introduces what's being called the world's first "augmented reality music video," allowing fans to have cameos in the video as themselves. The true Mayer Maniac can log on to the singer-songwriter's Web site, turn on her webcam, and hold up a specific icon in front of the camera to activate the video. If the icon is aligned correctly, the video will play with the (probably shrieking) fan as an extra in the background. Getting into Mayer's virtual universe is easy; all you need is a webcam and the special augmented reality marker, which is downloadable from the site. Mashable reports that there are still a few kinks in the system, and that it can be tricky to align the marker exactly as needed. But then again, it's a pretty complex operation, as this Wired interview with Mayer (video also after the break) clearly demonstrates.

Whether or not you place John Mayer and his music closer to the Bubblegum or Blues end of the music spectrum, this is, undeniably, a pretty cool concept. We can't wait to see where some other artists go from here, and how viciously they riff on this new, intensely personal trope of fan interaction that Mayer has pioneered. And hopefully someday, they'll be able to implement this technology in throwback videos. Because we would love nothing more than to see ourselves in the middle of this