Has Alanis Morissette finally been won over head over feet?

The Canadian singer was seen shopping for some jewelry with her new boyfriend at Fred Segal in Santa Monica, CA on Saturday (November 28). Looking happier than ever, Alanis was all smiles as she hunted for some gold and diamonds before brunching with her latest beau.

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Beyoncé has revealed that she had trouble convincing her label to release her first album.

The star recorded her hugely-successful debut solo LP Dangerously In Love in 2003 after departing from Destiny's Child. However, the singer has claimed that it almost remained unreleased, Contactmusic reports.

She said: "In 2003. I had my first solo album. But when I played it through for my record label, they told me I didn't have one hit on my album.

"I guess they were kinda right, I had five. 'Dangerously In Love', 'Naughty Girl', 'Me, Myself and I', 'Baby Boy' and 'Crazy In Love'."

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~lookin fly~



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tlcspice, where you @!?

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Here's a great piece at ESPN about Toronto Maple Leafs and U.S. Olympic Team General Manager Brian Burke, and his son Brendan's coming out:



"Your dad thinks through everything. Dad is big, confident and continuously radiates a persona that is rough, gruff, unrelenting and unapologetic. He has a cold, expressionless poker face straight out of a Clint Eastwood movie. Yet, he does this all with the most subtle of Irish smirks that says there is more behind this thick skin.

" And there is. He calls you "Moose" because you have always been a big kid. He cares very deeply about you and your happiness. You say he has always been there when you needed him. And he has a great sense of humor. Imagine that. But on this night in 2007, you are petrified of your dad. Because you, Brendan Burke, at 19 years old, are about to tell your dad, Mr. Testosterone, that you are gay."

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Moz on Desert Island Discs
MORRISSEY has revealed his thoughts about life, death, suicide and being alone, in a frank interview.

In the interview for today’s (Sunday) edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, presenter Kirsty Young asked him: “Have you thought about being in control of your death?”
He replied: “Yes, I have. And I think this self-destruction is honourable. I always thought it was. It’s an act of great control and I understand people who do it.”

Later asked which luxury he would take to make his life more bearable on the mythical island, Morrissey, 50, laughed:
“Well, I would either take a bed, because I like to go to bed. Or I would take a bag of sleeping pills because I might want to make a quick exit. I would really take the bed, I think, because going to bed is the highlight of everybody’s day. I like to be hidden and I like to sink – it’s the brother of death. It means we can switch our brains off when we go to bed and forget about ourselves.”

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Excerpt from Moz's Autobiography
"An excerpt from Morrissey's forthcoming autobiography appears in the book that accompanies the Tate St Ives exhibition The Dark Monarch, Magic and Modernity in British Art. It's a piece called The Bleak Moor Lies about a chance encounter on Saddleworth Moor in 1989."

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I've had my hair colored (at a salon) for the second time. The first time was to cover blonde highlights that I just got tired of. I have medium brown hair naturally, and she used a combo of gold and very dark gold, and it made the highlights look gold/red without being OMG RED which wouldn't work with my coloring (yellow undertones but v. pink cheeks and a tendency toward red eyelids). I've been growing out a super short pixie cut at the same time, so I went 8 weeks without any salon visits. Yesterday I had her cut it and she used the same color--although I had almost nothing left from 8 weeks ago, this time the color looks a lot darker, like darker than my natural brown, probably because most of the highlights are gone now. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. I'd like to lighten it just a smidgen without stripping a whole lot of color or lifting only some part of the color, thereby changing it to weird and ugly. She advises using a sulfate-free shampoo...I've been using some regular drugstore-type brand "for color-treated hair" and it made the first color job last very well.

What can I wash it with once or twice today to lift the dark color just a little?

And after that, what can I wash it with to bring out the red/gold tones and not lift the color any more? I'm going to Target today, I could pick something up.

It is going to be a lazy Sunday for the Wife and me, drained of any excess energy she is still sleeping. As usual, I am in front of the computer with a cup of coffee, wondering why I cannot sleep in. It has to be too many years of getting up at the crack of daybreak. Sure as hell, it must have gotten into my genes and has become part of my being. Alternatively, could it be I am going to break down and get a new computer? There is still a lot of small boy left in me during the Christmas season. That is the Wife and Daughters opinion; at least my Grandkids are on this old farts side.

You all have a great Sunday, enjoy life; take care.

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Also, I went to Sephora because I needed MUFE foundation (man that stuff lasts forever, I bought my last bottle in January), and I got the email about the Kat Von D tote that you had to spend $25 to get. Excepttt in Canada, you had to spend $50. I thought that was lame.

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Hattie Collins

There are many places you might expect to find an A-list star in Hollywood, but a scruffy dance studio at the wrong end of the Walk of Fame isn’t the first that springs to mind. The homeless and the addicted hustle the star-spotting tourists who wander wide-eyed into souvenir shops selling Michael Jackson memorabilia, utterly unaware that, two floors above them, his youngest sister is rehearsing the choreography for her new single, Make Me.

“I love the natural light,” says Janet Jackson, nodding towards the huge windows that look out onto the gritty streets below. She's devoid of make-up and dressed in black tracksuit bottoms and a grey cashmere top, a low-key look that matches the location. There is no big entourage in tow, either, just her personal assistant and a publicist. It’s surprising to find such a huge celebrity in such understated circumstances, particularly given the intense scrutiny the Jackson family is under following the loss of its most famous member in June this year.

“People don’t really know, they don’t look in,” she says, staring back to the boulevard once more. “Nobody notices.” Brief respite, perhaps — since she appeared on stage with the Jackson 5 at the age of seven, all people have done is peer portentously at Janet Damita Jo Jackson’s professional and private life. “Certain aspects [of fame] aren’t easy, but I’ve been fortunate,” the 43-year-old says of life in front of the lens. “There are always paparazzi, but there are restaurants or places that they don’t know you frequent. And the people there are loyal, so they stay quiet.”

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