Gwyneth Paltrow Sings For Charity
Gwyneth Paltrow Sings For Charity
Accompanied by good pal Stella McCartney, Gwyneth Paltrow made a grand arrival at The Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening held at Ronnie Scott’s jazz bar in Soho, London.
The Thursday night affair hoped to reach in excess of $1,000,000 for the charity through an auction in which the guests bid for the chance to be serenaded by the celebrity of their choice from the stage.
And although she’s ruled out a music career, Paltrow ended up hitting the mic - singing a karaoke version of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” to a standing ovation at the charity event in aid of Palestinian children.
According to insider reports, the 35-year-old Oscar-winning actress began the song shyly, “but soon got into the swing of it”.
Jennifer Aniston: Interior Decorator
Jennifer Aniston: Interior Decorator
Jennifer Aniston had a busy day in Beverly Hills on Thursday (June 5), shopping it up at JJ Custom Upholstery for a little home decor.
The former Friends actress, who recently finished filming the new movie Marley & Me, has been a hot subject in the gossip columns as her relationship with John Mayer keeps heating up.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the “Why Georgia?” singer got a big stamp of approval from Aniston’s BFF, Courteney Cox Arquette.
According to insider reports, “Jen brought John to Courteney’s Malibu home, where a well received Mayer chatted up hostess Cox Arquette and husband David Arquette, as well as celeb pals Toby Maguire and Jennifer Meyer, who also attended the get-together.”
Britney Spears Wants a Fashion Line
Britney Spears Wants a Fashion Line
While her sister Jamie-Lynn was celebrating her 17th birthday with a little shopping in Louisiana, big sister Britney Spears was busy checking out the latest trends, as well.
The Gimme More singer visited designer Christian Audigier’s corporate office at the “Ed Hardy” store in Los Angeles.
According to insider reports, Spears was there to check out his new spring collection and to get a few gifts for her little sis. But she also had business plans in mind, as she wants to work on a new line with the high profile designer.
In related news, an executive producer for “How I Met Your Mother” recently confirmed that he’s open to having Britney Spears return for another cameo.
“We always said, ‘You know, if her character pops, we’ll bring her back,’” Carter Bays told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I thought she was great. I was very proud of that episode.”
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Talks to Star in Rom-Com 500 Days of Summer
The last recent rom-com I watched (re: politely forced) was Music and Lyrics, which was so amazingly terrible it even made the domineering rental-picker blush. One of the problems nowadays with this genre is an utter void of chemistry between the leads in favor of “mall hot” eugenics. Feh to that! Without even knowing the plot or director, the words “Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, epicly in love” is not really deserving of an eye-roll. Let them and their tears and their city-chic pets make out in the rain, sounds totally opposite-of-mall-hot to me.
EW’s Hollywood Insider reports that the two young and talented actors are in talks to star in the “anti-romantic comedy” 500 Days of Summer, with Deschanel in chats to play a girl who doesn’t believe in love, while Gordon-Levitt would play the guy who does, indeed, believe and must show her. Ooh la la. Cue Elvin Bishop’s drunktastic “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” from Boogie Nights on your WinAmp. Director Marc Webb, making a crossover from MTV music videos for Good Charlotte (blech), Ashley Simpson (blech) and Weezer (hi high school) to features, will helm the pic for Slashfilm fave Fox Searchlight. The script is by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber who, uhhh, wrote The Pink Panther 2.
Deschanel is climbing the Tinseltown ranks in major upcoming flicks like M. Night’s The Happening and Jim Carrey’s Yes Man, and just released a cutesy folk album with M. Ward called She & Him. She was also eye-lash-battingly great on the third season of Weeds. Gordon-Levitt is currently cashing in on Stephen Sommers’s G.I. Joe in the role of Cobra Commander and can next been seen, next week in fact, in the dismally reviewed Iraq War fable Stop-Loss.