Taylor Swift - Song About Kanye; Really?

Taylor Swift “surprised” the audience at the VMAs (though word of the performance leaked last night) with a song “about” Kanye West’s now-all-too-infamous stage-crashing incident at last year’s ceremony. And a good thing word leaked yesterday, or we’d barely know this song she sang was vaguely, possibly, inspired-ish by said lapse in manners. The replay of the incident at the beginning of her appearance helped make it clearer, but then it was all moody lighting and red lipstick and sparkles. She looked gorgeous, as she is wont to do, but, um, the actual song was a pretty opaque: She seems to be saying Kanye “lost [his] balance on a tightrope” and “lost [his] mind trying to get it back” and also “who you are is not where you’ve been,” thus he is “still an innocent.” Perhaps the clearest reference to the rapper was when she said “32 is still growing up now” — lo and behold, he was that very age when he crashed the stage.

At any rate, she seems to have forgiven him: “Time turns flames to embers,” and “minds change like the weather — I hope you remember today is never late to be brand new.” So, yay. Let’s all toast to the (hopefully) final note in that moment that launched a thousand blog posts, apologies, and replays on YouTube. Everyone’s been wondering if her new album full of confessional tunes, Speak Now, would address the debacle — and now we have our answer! And she’s had the last word. There, don’t we all feel better now?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — New TV Spot

The new TV spot for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — which debuted during last night’s season premiere of The Vampire Diaries — is making the rounds, and while it doesn’t add all that much to the film’s chill-inducing full trailer, it works a similar vein of bleak desperation among the Hogwarts crew. See after the jump for the 30-second spot.



Is there anything creepier than Voldemort hissing, “I have seen your heart…and it is mine”? Among the fresh glimpses: A spectral Voldemort, a ghostly Dumbledore, and Hagrid and Harry on a motorbike. Perhaps it’s a measure of the film’s darkness, but the only moment of hope appears to be a friendly voiceover (Lupin?) saying, “You can’t fight this war on your own.” Presumably Harry will have plenty of help as the final chapters unfold. Just how excited are you for this?

Killin' It With Paul Crik - "THIS IS IT, F' IT, IT IS WHAT IT IS"

Teri Hatcher Shows Off Swimsuit for a Cause

Teri Hatcher is participating in the Malibu triathlon Sunday, and she posted photos of herself in a swimsuit on her facebook page.

She wrote,

I received a letter today from the father of a young patient at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. This is the charity benefiting from the coming Sunday's Malibu Triathlon in which I am tackling the swim portion of a Tri- Team including myself, Mr. Bob Iger and Julie Bowen.

The young patient is a girl named Sophia, hence the sign on her chest.

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Stan Lee is the Man!

Jessica Vega, accused of faking cancer for wedding freebies, treating illness with water, exercise

BY JOE JACKSON AND JOSE MARTINEZ

The cash-cow bride accused of posing as a dying cancer patient to score wedding-day freebies still insists she's really sick - and not just a sick scammer.

Jessica Vega broke her silence Wednesday, calling her estranged husband a bitter and abusive drunk who lied when he told the world she tricked kind strangers into showering the couple with a free honeymoon, gown and wedding bands.

"I'm not manipulative," Vega told the Daily News in an exclusive sitdown. "Why would I ever create this thing? ... I have a beautiful daughter to live for."

The 23-year-old Westchester County newlywed - who split from Michael O'Connell within months of their May wedding - swears that a doctor at a Bronx clinic told her in February that she has terminal leukemia.

She also said she was fighting the illness with "water, the right foods and exercise" - rather than chemotherapy.

"I had seen what it did to my grandmother," she said. "I said, 'No way.'"

Vega couldn't produce any immediate proof from her doctor - "maybe tomorrow," she said. O'Connell says that Vega is lying, that there is no proof and that she concocted her sob story to win his pity and a fantasy wedding.

"I have leukemia," Vega insisted.

"It's completely false what Michael is saying," she added. "We're going through a nasty divorce, and it's a shame he escalated it to this level."

O'Connell cackled when told Vega stood by her story and said he felt like a "complete moron" and a "jackass" for believing the woman he fell for at a Manhattan culinary school.

"I'm not one who usually gets the wool pulled over his eyes," he told The News. "But when someone tells you they have cancer, you believe them."

The tawdry tale of marital discord made a splash in news organizations around the world, just as their earlier woeful saga captivated big-hearted strangers upstate.

Tammy Purdy, the general manager of the Comfort Inn of Newburgh, said she was stung after leaving rose petals, a bottle of Ed Hardy Champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries inside a comped honeymoon suite that usually goes for $200 a night.

"We wanted them to be wowed," Purdy said. "My husband died of cancer, so it became very personal for me."

Wedding photographer Joel Schreibman said he was moved by the sight of O'Connell "bawling like a baby" at the wedding but was puzzled when Vega was "partying her head off."

"I felt we did something good and honorable," said Schreibman, who gave the couple a freebie wedding photo package. "Now I feel like a fool."

Vega said she was "grateful" for the gifts and scammed no one.

Her soon-to-be ex-husband said he'll continue waiting for proof that she's got cancer. "I just want the truth," he said.

The couple has a 1-year-old daughter, Ava.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/09/2010-09-09_i_do_too_have_cancer_bridezilla_tells_news_forget_the_chemo_shes_treating_her_le.html#ixzz0z2XDnfmD