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'I don't think anyone gets tired of screaming girls,' Alex Pettyfer tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner
Channing Tatum
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Showing off her colorful summertime duds, a beautifully bright Miranda Kerr made her way to her latest gig in New York City earlier today (June 29).
Clad in a multi-hued print shirt, denim shorts and right blue wedges, the Victoria's Secret stunner quickly made the busy streets of the Big Apple her catwalk as she headed towards the West Village for her Vogue Italia shoot.
In other magazine news, Miranda, who covers Harper's Bazaar UK's August issue, opened up about getting her body back after having little Flynn.
“I didn’t feel pressure to snap back into shape. My priority was just having my son and breastfeeding, which was something I really wanted to do, and it came easily," the mom of one explained.
Kerr continued, “I do these exercises in the morning, they’re called chakra exercises. They’re a series of twists … It only takes about 10 minutes. It’s a great way to get your waistline back after having a baby!”
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Hot wife, mom, music maker Alicia Keys released a new single today called "New Day." Peep the track inside....
We told you earlier about Alicia Keys teasing fans with tidbits about her new album. And now the singer has released a single that backs up the hype. She tweeted fans,
Listen to the upbeat "New Day" below:
You feelin' it?
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Jet-setting with her adopted newborn, Katherine Heigl was spotted loading up her truck with her husband, Josh Kelly, before making her way to the LAX airport with Adalaide in Burbank, California on Friday (June 29).
The "One For The Money" actress held her daughter in her arms the entire time while dragging her luggage behind and looked relaxed for the flight wearing a long black scarf over a loose white tee-shirt and a pair of flats with her leggings.
Marking her second adoption, Katherine opened up about how different it is this time around with her second daughter, “I had never had a newborn before. I didn’t really have that experience." admitting to PEOPLE during the 40th AFI Life Achievement Awards on Thursday, "So it’s all been new. I was prepared for the nights and having to get up and all of that. But the beauty of it is it’s really only a few months of your life that you’re walking around like a zombie because you haven’t slept.”
As for what, exactly is different the 33-year-old explained, “I think it’s far more chaotic than I anticipated, and I think every parent probably says that and every parent tries to warn new parents about it. And we all go, ‘Pish posh, it’s going to be fine. What’s one more?’ ”
Katherine also dished about how her 3 1/2 year old adjusted to the new family member saying, “Naleigh was super excited about having a new baby sister — until she arrived. Then she was a little hesitant about whether or not she wanted her to stay, and then she became her little protector and is taking on the role of big sister very seriously.”
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Glam rocker tackled the legendary 1970 Led Zeppelin song for 'American Idol' rock night.
By Gil Kaufman
<P>Imagine a freight train speeding toward you at midnight. Or a rockslide barreling down a hill as you try to outrace it. That's the feeling of the ominous, chugging Jimmy Page riff that kicks off <MTVNLINK type="url" id="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/led_zeppelin/artist.jhtml">Led Zeppelin</MTVNLINK>'s 1970 Stonehenge of rock, "Whole Lotta Love." And that's before singer Robert Plant leans into one of the nastiest, ecstatic rock screams this side of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."</P><P>That's the song Adam Lambert chose to sing on <a href="/news/articles/1610708/adam-allison-shine-on-idol-rock-night.jhtml">"American Idol" rock night</a> Tuesday (May 5), and, needless to say, it was a challenge that the eyeliner-loving Los Angeles stage veteran was more than up for, hitting a series of high notes and rock screams that would have made Plant proud. It was a risky maneuver that paid off for Lambert, who chose a tune that came in at #75 on <I>Rolling Stone</i> magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004.</P><P></p><div style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;"> <embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:84215" width="256" height="223" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="dist=http://www.mtvmusic.com" allowFullScreen="true" AllowScriptAccess="always"></embed></div><p></P><P>The legendary British rock act recorded the tribute to Chicago blues icon Willie Dixon during their second U.S. tour after working it out in their live show, including it on their 1969 classic album <I>Led Zeppelin II.</i> Like many of the songs Zeppelin performed early in their career, "Love" was a blues standard turned on its head with a heavy dose of crunching psychedelic guitar and thundering drums, courtesy of late drummer John Bonham. The song was based on a 1962 tune by another blues forefather, Muddy Waters, called "You Need Love," which was penned by Dixon.</P><P>For Zeppelin's version, Plant customized the lyrics by adding some lyrical quotes from a few other songs Dixon wrote for Howlin' Wolf, "Back Door Man" and "Shake For Me," nailing the tricky vocal in a single take. It was also inspired by 1966's "You Need Loving" from the British rock group the Small Faces, for whom Zeppelin had great affection, but they also did not credit Dixon for his part in writing the original lyrics. The song became Zeppelin's first U.S. single and their only U.S. top 10 hit. Though their manager would not let them release singles in the U.K. because he thought it cannibalized album sales, the song was finally released as the band's only British single in 1997.</P><P>Dixon sued Zeppelin over the song in 1985, claiming it borrowed too heavily from his "You Need Love," and Zeppelin reached an agreement with him, with Dixon using the money he received to set up a program that provided musical instruments for schools. A cornerstone of heavy rock, the tune -- which was the theme song for the long-running British countdown show "Top of the Pops" in the 1970s and '80s -- has been covered by dozens of artists over the years, from Tina Turner and Ben Harper to Prince, Slash, Leona Lewis, Train's Pat Monahan, the London Symphony Orchestra and Jane's Addiction.</P><P><b>Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' <a href="/news/articles/1486475/mtv-news-american-idol.jhtml">"American Idol" page</a>, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.</b></p>
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During band's rehearsal break for Sunday's Movie Awards, we put Foos to the test.
By Ryan J. Downey, with reporting by Jim Cantiello
<P><b>UNIVERSAL CITY, California</b> — Hard rock, heavy metal, hardcore and punk have long gone hand-in-hand with evil wizards, magic, vampires and werewolves. And with a collective sub-cultural pedigree that includes stints in the Germs, No Use for a Name, Sunny Day Real Estate, Scream and some band called Nirvana, you'd think the <a href="/music/artist/foo_fighters/artist.jhtml">Foo Fighters</a> — set to perform at Sunday's <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2011/">Movie Awards</a> — would know their "Potter" from their Zeppelin. Certainly they can recognize a "wand" reference and pinpoint its origin?</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="The Foo Fighters Take The Movie Awards Quiz" id="vid:660301.id:1664959" width="240" height="211"></div><p></P><P>Right? Before we put MTV News' magically crafted trivia to the band, it seemed safe to assume the Foos would accurately distinguish between the words of Harry Potter, a "Twilight" character and Led Zeppelin. But was their underground nerd cred blown to shreds? Read on — and click the video! — to see how the Foo Fighters fared when we caught up with them on the Universal Studios lot, shortly after they finished rehearsing their <a href="/news/articles/1664297/foo-fighters-mtv-movie-awards.jhtml">Movie Awards performance</a>.</P><P>Our own Jim Cantiello played dungeon master as Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear were given a series of semi-famous lines and asked whether they originated with "Harry Potter," the "Twilight Saga" or the lyrics of hard-rock pioneers Led Zeppelin.</P><P>Here's a sampling of a few of those one-liners:</P><P><b>»</b> "The elder wand, the most powerful wand ever made."</P><P><b>»</b> "Why don't you let me be yours ever truly? Can I make your garden grow?"</P><P><b>»</b> "You're lying, Dolores! You mustn't tell lies!"</P><P>Can you guess whether the lines above came from the "Potter" flicks, "Twilight" or Robert Plant?</P><P>Watch as the Foos try their best to do exactly that. Then tune in to the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday to catch the Foo Fighters rock the stage with their new single, "Walk."</P><P><b>Will wizards, vampires or dream thieves steal the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2011/">2011 MTV Movie Awards</a>? Find out June 5, when the 20th annual show airs live at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Tune in at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT that night for the "America's Best Dance Crew" finale and Movie Awards pre-show, loaded with live action from the red carpet, exclusive movie clips and a special edition of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/after_hours_josh_horowitz/series.jhtml">"After Hours."</a></b></p>
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By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/spears_britney/artist.jhtml">Britney Spears</a> seems poised and ready to sit beside her fellow "X Factor" judges on the <a href="/news/articles/1685066/britney-spears-demi-lovato-x-factor.jhtml">revamped second season of the show</a>. At the Fox upfront this week, the singer appeared alongside fellow newbie <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/lovato__demi/artist.jhtml">Demi Lovato</a>, as well as returning judges Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid, and gushed about the Fox reality show.</P><P>"Just really being able to be there and inspire the other contestants ... they're so young and they're trying to fulfill their dreams," she said at the event. "It's just a whole beautiful concept. It's just really cool."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Britney Spears Explains Why She Wanted To Be A Part Of 'X Factor'" id="vid:769620" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>While her negotiations with the show had been making headlines in the weeks leading up to the official announcement, Cowell brushed off all the hoopla, which includes a rumored $15 million payday for joining the show. "A force of nature, I was somewhere in the middle, but I'm thrilled. I love these guys," he said of getting everyone, including Spears, on board. "I charmed her."</P><P>Spears seemed equally taken with the prickly Brit. "He's adorable. He's completely adorable. He didn't have to try hard," she admitted.</P><P>Spears' addition to the show is hardly the only casting making news: <a href="/news/articles/1685141/demi-lovato-x-factor.jhtml">Lovato also opened up about having the "X Factor."</a> While little is known about the final hours going into locking Lovato in for the show, she's rumored to be taking in $1 million, according to <a href="http://www.gossipcop.com/demi-lovato-1-million-dollars-x-factor-salary-paycheck-britney-spears-deal/" target="_blank">Gossip Cop</a>. Lovato was on a short list of possible contenders to appear on the show that also reportedly included Miley Cyrus and Avril Lavigne. "I'm so excited to be here," she said. "I guess you called," she added with Simon by her side. "And that's how it got set up, just a phone call." In addition to getting warm and fuzzy about each other in the interview, Cowell shared that the judges will be filming in the next couple weeks when they hit up Austin, Texas, to begin scoping out talent. And if you think the claws might come out then, Reid assured viewers that that won't be the case. "Oh no, we're gonna be really sweet to each other," he said. "Nothing controversial. It'll be perfect."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Simon Cowell Is 'Thrilled' To Introduce The New 'X Factor' Judges" id="vid:769268" width="415" height="255"></div><p></p>
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Follow-up to 2011's When the Sun Goes Down 'going to be the biggest one for me personally,' singer says.
By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/gomez__selena/artist.jhtml">Selena Gomez</a> is readying work on her brand-new music. She recently shared she wanted to work with a whole bevy of artists ranging from <a href="/news/articles/1687055/selena-gomez-fun-taylor-swift-new-album.jhtml">New York rockers Fun. to Nashville princess Taylor Swift</a>, but don't expect her to get another world-famous pop star on the album.</P><P>And, don't even expect her to sing about him, either. "It's not going to be necessarily, 'Here's my tell-all,' " Gomez explained to <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/selena_gomez_guess_what_shes_doing_again/325968" target="_blank">E! News</a> about the possibility of her getting personal about her relationship with Justin Bieber on the record. "It's going to be more of something that people could say, 'It could be that or it could be this or it could be that.' At the end of the day, I only make my music because I want it [to] be really fun, and if I could have people dance to it, relate to it, have a good time, that's all I want."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Selena Gomez Wants To Collaborate With Fun. And Taylor Swift" id="vid:790228" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>Having already met with producers to begin talks about this whole new set of music, her follow-up to 2011's <i>When the Sun Goes Down</i>, she wants to grow. She's met with the likes of Toby Gad and Rock Mafia. "I think this is going to be the biggest one for me personally. I want to be able to write about things I've never talked about before and tell a story with this album, because I've never actually had time to go in and do that," she said. "I've never worked on a song for more than two days."</P><P>In an interview with MTV News, Gomez shared that she wanted to get into the studio by year's end and confirmed she hoped to try out a whole new set of sounds on it. "Very different! I want to go for producers that probably wouldn't want me to do their songs," she said. "I just want to knock on their door. I also want to work with Fun. I want to work with just different styles of music."</P><P>Gomez has yet to announce a release date, but the album is expected to drop in 2013.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Why Selena Gomez Enlisted Fans To Help Create Her Fragrance" id="vid:767891" width="415" height="255"></div><p></p>
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Channing Tatum reveals to MTV News that Joe Manganiello's eye-popping penis pump scene was inspired by real-life events.
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Singer's seventh album give him his fourth #1 debut in a row.
By Gil Kaufman
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/usher/artist.jhtml"><B>Usher</B></a> is setting a fine example for his protégé, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml"><B>Justin Bieber</B></a>. A week before the Biebs plans to storm the charts with his eagerly anticipated <a href="/news/articles/1687837/justin-bieber-live-behind-the-scenes.jhtml"><I>Believe</I></a>
, Ush will debut in the #1 spot on the <I>Billboard</I> 200 chart with his seventh album, <a href="/news/articles/1687242/usher-looking-4-myself-reviews.jhtml"><I>Looking 4 Myself</I></a>.</P><P>According to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan, he sold 128,000 copies of the disc. The debut was the fourth #1 bow in a row for Usher, though it was significantly down from the 329,000 copies sold by his previous album, 2010's <I>Raymond V. Raymond</I>.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="MTV News Extended Play: Usher" id="id:1686957" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>The figures were not nearly what Bieber's expected to pull next week, but they were enough to hold back prog rock icons <B>Rush</B>, whose <I>Clockwork Angels</I> clocked in at #2 on sales of 103,000. The other debuts in the top 10 came from country singer <B>Josh Turner</B>, who hit #4 with <I>Punching Bag</I> (45,000), British singer/songwriter sensation <B>Ed Sheeran</B>'s <I>+</I> (42,000) and hyped rapper <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/waka_flocka_flame/artist.jhtml"><B>Waka Flocka Flame</B></a>'s <I>Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family</I> (33,000).</P><P>The rest of the top 10: <B>Adele</B>, <I>21</I> (#3, 63,000), <B>One Direction</B>, <I>Up All Night</I> (#6, 39,000), <B>Neil Young & Crazy Horse</B>, <I>Americana</I> (#7, 37,000), <B>Alan Jackson</B>, <I>Thirty Miles West</I> (#8, 37,000) and the "Rock of Ages" soundtrack (#9, 36,000).</P><P><B>Metric</B> debuted at #12 with <I>Synthetica</I> (27,000), while festival faves <B>Grace Potter & The Nocturnals</B> jammed into the #17 slot with their latest, <I>The Lion The Beast The Beat</I> (24,000) and TV funnyman <B>Jimmy Fallon</B> hit #25 with his all-star comedy effort <I>Blow Your Pants Off</I> (15,000).</P><P>Usher topped the iTunes album chart as well, followed by Sheeran, Rush, "Rock of Ages," rapper <B>Kid Ink</B>'s "Up & Away," One Direction, Waka, Adele, <B>John Mayer</B>'s <I>Born and Raised</i> and <B>Fun.</B>'s <I>Some Nights</I>.</P><P>On the iTunes single chart, <B>Carly Rae Jepsen</B> continued to top the list with "Call Me Maybe," with <B>Maroon 5</B> just behind with "Payphone," then <B>Katy Perry</B>'s "Wide Awake," Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me," <B>Gotye</B>'s "Somebody That I Used to Know" and <B>Pitbull</B>'s "Back in Time." Rounding out the list at #7 was Usher's "Scream," <B>Rihanna</B>'s "Where Have You Been," <B>One Direction</B>'s "What Makes You Beautiful" and Bieber's "Boyfriend." Bieber is expected to blow everyone out of the box next week with <I>Believe</I>, which could score the biggest first frame of the year.</P><P>Other new releases include the latest from <a href="/news/articles/1686557/fiona-apple-idler-wheel-btts.jhtml"><B>Fiona Apple</B></a>
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Rihanna was spotted in a bright red suit in London earlier today. See the eye-popping outfit inside and pics of Cheri Dennis hanging in NYC.
Obviously inspired by this morning's fire, Rihanna donned a blazing suit in London this evening.
Rih pulled off the red and pink collabo nicely.
In other music news....
We haven't seen Cheri Dennis for a while but she was recently seen walking around the East Village in New York.
She jokingly stuck up her middle finger while posing next to a mural.
Fine way to make a return to the scene.
As far as new music.....
She recently dropped a new EP called X/COKE available for download here.
Watch the making of the EP here:
X/COKE: "A NEW PLATEAU" from Cheri Coke on Vimeo.
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'That is so shocking and horrifying and kind of beautiful in some way,' actress tells MTV News of her character's tragic end in the comics.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man"
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The news of Emma Stone's casting in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was first met with almost universal approval. She would be the perfect Mary Jane Watson, fans thought. But when her true role as Gwen Stacy became clear, there was almost a bittersweet understanding.
If Gwen is remembered for one thing, it is her death at the hands of the Green Goblin.
When MTV News' Josh Horowitz spoke with the actress, she told him that the tragic end for the character was what initially drew her into the project. "That was part of the reason why I was kind of drawn to the role, that mark on pop-culture history," she said. "I read all about Gwen, and I thought that was so amazing."
Even with Gwen's death as an iconic moment in comic book history, canon is constantly rewritten for film adaptations. Stone sought answers from the filmmakers as to whether the film version of Gwen would respect the book, and she was pleased with the response.
"I spoke to the people behind the movie, and they said, 'Yeah, we're planning on staying true to the comics.' And I was like, 'If you're making a movie like this, that's something I want to be a part of,' " Stone said. "That is so shocking and horrifying and kind of beautiful in some way. The fact that people unsubscribed and burned their copies — I like anything that causes some kind of upheaval."
Her director Marc Webb couldn't say whether Stone's version of Gwen would meet the same fate in an upcoming installment, but he couldn't deny the allure of working with that moment. "I think that remains to be seen, but let me tell you this: The ultimate tragedy of Gwen Stacy is a really provocative and powerful part of the Spider-Man canon," he said. "I think it would be really extraordinary to explore that, but I don't want to take the wind out of the drama."
Check out everything we've got on "The Amazing Spider-Man."
For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com.
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Matt Barnes is covering the new issue of the men's fashion magazine BLEU. And the L.A. Laker is dishing all about his on-again off-again "Basketball Wives LA" star girlfriend Gloria Govan...and why he's unimpressed by the groupies in the league.
Peep his cover and London bathroom sex worthy quotables inside....
The Laker forward is posing on the cover of the new issue of BLEU, in what looks like his own gear out his own closet. During his cover interview, Matt gave a little insight into how he and his babies' mom Gloria get down.
On ignoring the groupie chicks around the league
"In the league, women come a dime a dozen. Not to sound stuck-up or anything, but that's just how it is. At some point you have to wake up and realize what your priorities are. Some guys wake up sooner than others. I woke up and I realized what was important to me."
On getting jealous of Gloria's relationships with other men during their breakups
"You like to go into a situation saying yes we are always going to be together forever and what's mine is yours, what's yours is mine, but sometimes it doesn't work out like that."
"Even when Gloria and I were dating other people, when people would say things about her, it bothered me. Even though we weren't together it was something that made me mad you know? It's different when they are talking about the mother of your children."
On how he and Gloria stay sexually happy
"So sometimes that means middle of the day sex. Sometimes that means after lunch you go and have sex in the bathroom. We do things outside the norm. I think we were in London last year in a really fancy nice restaurant and....the bathroom."
Matt is also prepping for his annual basketball camp with EA Sports for kids in the Bay.
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She was a prolific force in the entertainment industry, and Nora Ephron's death has affected many stars, including Meg Ryan.
The “Kate and Leopold” actress reacted to the Oscar nominee’s recent death, focusing on her widespread influence that will continue long into the future.
Meg explained, "Nora was an era. We pictured ourselves inside her dreams and they became ours. All wisdom, wit and sparkle lights, what a treat she was ... what a blessing."
“I marvel again and again, what a life... to have created a simple happiness in people, to have added to the sum of delight in the world,” she continued.
Meg Ryan starred in a trio of Ephron flicks, including “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “You’ve God Mail.”
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'Let's get going, summer is almost here!' Usher tells MTV News.
By Christina Garibaldi
<P>On top of his club-banging hits and soulful voice, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/usher/artist.jhtml">Usher</a> has another impressive skill: creating the song of summer. Usher has ruled the airwaves in the summer for years, with hits like "You Make Me Wanna" and "U Remind Me" making fans roll down their windows and pump up their radios to his infectious tracks.</P><P>Most recently, in 2010, Usher hit the #1 spot on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100 during the summer months with his <a href="/news/articles/1653969/ushers-omg-mtv-news-1-song-2010.jhtml">inescapable hit "OMG,"</a> and now he's looking to repeat that success with <a href="/news/articles/1685352/usher-looking-4-myself-scream.jhtml">"Scream,"</a> the second single from his seventh studio album.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Will 'Scream' Be The Song Of The Summer?" id="vid:789777" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>"Let's get going, summer is almost here!" Usher told MTV News. "It's intended to be that, but I don't think that was the only thing. We thought about live performance, we thought about mixing and matching and also giving people an energy that only [producer Max Martin] would be able to create."</P><P>"Scream" is the latest single from Usher's just-released album, <a href="/news/articles/1685178/usher-looking-4-myself.jhtml"><i>Looking 4 Myself,</i></a> which he hopes will not only get people on the dance floor, but also affect them in a more personal manner.</P><P>"If I'm gonna move you, I want to move you. I hope that it could be something that could be life-changing," the singer last month during <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/767984/usher-takes-over-fuerza-bruta.jhtml#id=1685137">"MTV First: Usher."</a> "You may be going through something real crazy, who knows, and just need to get out and just enjoy yourself. So I always think about the club, I always think about that song that will be able to let you out of that slump, if you're in it."</P><P>Usher's latest album, which he called an <a href="/news/articles/1686990/usher-looking-4-myself-evolution.jhtml">"evolution" of sound</a>, is just the next step in his musical risk-taking. He credits longtime producer Jermaine Dupri with the opportunity to reach many different genres of music.</P><P>"If I do track back to the first time I was about to take a risk, even though it wasn't about my direction, it was more so by Jermaine Dupri's direction with 'You Make Me Wanna,' " Usher said. "You didn't really hear that tone or that instrument on top of an R&B record, so it was an incredible collaboration or mixture of urban and classic R&B or pop... that really began to open up the conversation and allow people to understand, 'Oh, wow, this is not just an artist that you could put in a box or put in a specific category.' "</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="'Every Album Should Represent An Evolution,' Usher Says" id="vid:789771" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P><i>Are you excited for Usher's album? Let us know in the comments!</i></p>
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In 'AHS' season two, Lange is 'a bride of Christ,' writer tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Tami Katzoff
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While there have been scant details regarding the second season of "American Horror Story" floating around since it was announced it would be rebooted in a new time and place with spanking-new characters, what fans have been most clamoring to know about is how season one bad girl Jessica Lange will be re-imagined for the series.
"She's not playing this kind of ersatz Tennessee Williams character this time," "AHS" writer Tim Minear told MTV News about Lange in season two. "She's playing something that's a little more East Coast, a little more patrician."
While she was a bit of a darkly motivated, self-involved floozy in season one, her new backstory seems to paint a different picture for the character. "She's playing a nun," he said. "She's playing an administrator of a facility. It's different. In this instance, she's a bride of Christ."
Season one of the FX horror series took place in sunny Los Angeles, which served as the backdrop to Murder House and its disturbed inhabitants, both living and dead. But, season two will take place in the 1960s on the East Coast with a mental institution as the locale for all the creepiness. Lange will call the shots, which is sort of what she did in season one as well, but it seems she'll be motivated in a whole new set of ways.
"We thought it would be cool. I mean, the truth is, when I first met with [creators] Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk about the show, I came in, I read the pilot script, and I'm like, 'OK guys, this is all very well and good — I don't know how you make this into a TV show. I don't know how you sustain this,' " Minear recalled.
"And Ryan immediately had the answer, and that was, 'Oh, the way we sustain it is by the end of the season, we have killed off every character.' And I'm like, 'I'm in!' And then you revamp it. Basically, in season two, you have a whole new story, a whole new location, a whole new time frame. You just do something different," he added. "The reason we're doing it in the 1960s is because that fits the story that we want to tell."
Given that anything is possible in the "AHS" world, there's a chance that the infamous Murder House just might make a cameo. "I wouldn't rule anything out," Minear shared.
Sure, everyone has been salivating over details about Lange and her newly learned good-girl character, but there's another casting that has everyone intrigued: Maroon 5 leading man Adam Levine has been cast as one of "The Lovers." "Let's say that Adam's character is kind of a nod to contemporary sensibilities, as opposed to something from the mid-century," Minear noted.
Levine joins other returning castmembers Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Lily Rabe as well as Lange.
Levine and his bandmates will drop Overexposed on Tuesday. They will sit down with MTV News for an "MTV First" on Monday to discuss the new album, and perhaps Levine will share more details about his "AHS" role.
Don't miss the premiere of Maroon 5's "One More Night" video during "MTV First: Maroon 5" on Monday, June 25, at 7:53 p.m. on MTV, followed by a 30-minute Q&A with the band on MTV.com.
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'We created everything from a fictional place,' Tatum says, responding to allegations by former stripper co-workers.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Channing Tatum is reacting to a group of male dancers who allege that the actor quite literally stole their moves for his new movie, "Magic Mike," which takes place in the shirtless world of male strippers.
Two male dancers, Thomas "Awesome" Austin and London Steele, who danced with Tatum while he was a stripper in Florida, told TMZ last week that the experiences in the film, and even Tatum's character's name (Magic Mike), are all their own. Austin told the website, "He only danced for four months. How many events could have happened to him?" He added that even Tatum's move in the film, the Hot Seat, is all his own.
Director Steven Soderbergh has said that the film is loosely based on Tatum's experiences as a male dancer. And in a new interview, Tatum is opening up about the claims against him.
"Those guys have been trying to make money off of me since I got into this business," Tatum told reporters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Look, there's nothing that's factual in this whole movie other than that I was an 18-year-old kid and went into this world and I dropped out of college from playing football and was living on my sister's couch. There's not one character that I took from my real life; this is just a world that I went into, and I had a perspective on. And we created everything from a fictional place."
"Magic Mike" opens Friday, and Tatum is going into opening week with no ill will for his former co-workers. "I don't want to say anything bad about them because they're part of the reason why I think this world is so interesting," he said. "They're very interesting, intriguing and bizarre characters, and I'm thankful for weird people out there. They're some of the most creative people."
The June 29 film release also stars "True Blood" actor Joe Manganiello, "White Collar" star Matt Bomer and Matthew McConaughey.
In an interview with MTV News, Tatum recalled how the film came out of a conversation he had with Soderbergh. "I was having a beer with Soderbergh — we were doing a movie together — and I told him about [my past stripping]," he said. "I'd been doing it for eight months of my life when I was, like, 18 or 19, and he said, 'We gotta make a movie out of that.' And I was like, 'Why? Why do we need to do that?' And he said, 'I've never seen that world on film before.' And then we really started talking about that, and we thought it would be really hilarious but still grounded in reality."
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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were together yesterday when they arrived home in LA. They touched down at LAX after a few weeks of traveling that included multiple stops in Europe. Jennifer and Justin were in Paris for a romantic few days that included a stroll through the Tuileries Gardens and a visit to the Eiffel Tower. Jen and Justin then moved on to Rome, where they went sightseeing and checked out the Vatican Museum.
Their big getaway came after Justin debuted his latest screenwriting project, Rock of Ages. The musical underwhelmed at the box office, but that didn't get in the way of his having fun with Jennifer. Jen has a little bit of downtime before production on her next movie, We're the Millers, starts next month.
View Slideshow ›Love was in the air over the weekend as fab couples DeVon Franklin & Meagan Good, Victor Cruz and his boo plus and Amare Stoudemire & Alexis Welch were spotted spending cutesy quality time. See the pics inside....
Fab actress Meagan Good and her new husband DeVon Franklin were spotted walking to the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles last night.
The newlyweds attended the New Edition concert. These two could win the "Most Photogenic" Couple award. Fin laid back night out.
And in Milan, Italy.....
Newly engaged couple Alexis Welch and NY Knick Amare Stoudemire attended the Calvin Klein Collection Fashion Show.
Alexis' engagement ring....yes.
The show was part of Milan Fashion Week Menswear Spring/Summer 2013.
Also, NY Giant Victor Cruz and girlfriend Elaina Watley also attended the presentation.
The dapper gents later posed with Henrik Lundqvist. Looking good fellas!
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'Be willing to look stupid,' Anthony Mackie, who plays Lincoln's best friend in the film, warns.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
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Working with a director like Timur Bekmambetov guarantees a few things. You'll probably take part in some insane action sequences. And there will definitely be slow-motion.
When MTV News sat down with Benjamin Walker and Anthony Mackie, from Bekmambetov's latest film, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," they shared some helpful hints about how to properly act in super-slo-mo.
"Don't think about it," Walker said right off the bat. He probably had the most to do at the slow speed as our 16th president and first commander in vampire slaying, Abraham Lincoln.
But it's never that simple, as Mackie was able to attest. "Be willing to look stupid," he warned.
The final sequence of the film finds Abe and his best friend, Will Johnson (Mackie), atop a locomotive, riding along a burning bridge. It required a lot of slow-motion running and jumping. Mackie couldn't help but exaggerate his movement as he leapt from car to car.
"There's that whole sequence where we're jumping from one car to the other when the bridge is burning up, and I literally couldn't stop doing the 'swim' move when I was jumping. So Timur was like, 'Don't do the swim move,' and I was like, 'Sh--,' " he said. "So we're on the train, and he's like, 'Don't think about it,' and I'm like, 'All right, all right, all right.' Action, jump, swim. In order not to do the swim move, I do a shot-put move. Needless to say, I'm glad it looked all right in the movie, because I thought I was going to look like an idiot."
Similarly, during something as simple as a ballroom-dancing scene, Walker couldn't help act out the slo-mo. "When we were shooting the ballroom scene, it was in slow motion," he said. "I knew it in my mind, so I start kind of slowing down. He goes, 'No, stop. We'll slow it down later.' "
But if it came down to it, Mackie had one big piece of advice. "It's all about your face," he said. "They always say, 'Be careful about your face.' "
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