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Metallic beauty Britney Spears - MSN Indonesia News
Spears, Timberlake romance in opera debut - Digital Spy
Demi Lovato has the Disney brand, the hair, — and even the pipes ... - Pioneer Press
Pittsburgh Steelers have grist for mill - Baltimore Sun
Kendel Ehrlich weighing run? - Baltimore Sun

Metallic beauty Britney Spears - MSN Indonesia News

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:12 PM PDT

Britney Spears' beauty secret is aluminium foil.

The 'Womanizer' singer reportedly uses cool strips of the metallic cooking aid to give her lips an instant pick-me-up when she is feeling tired.

A source said: 'To keep her lips looking perky and fresh, her make-up artist takes a sheet from a stockpile of frozen foil in his freezer, pokes a hole in it so Britney can breath through her mouth and smoothes it over her face.'

The regime apparently helps reduce puffiness and swelling, leaving Britney with a perfect pout.

Britney, 27, is not the only star with an unusual oral beauty regime.

Jennifer Aniston apparently uses a homemade lip scrub containing sugar and water to banish flaky skin, while Angelina Jolie swears by a $4 lip balm.

A source said of the 'Tomb Raider' beauty: 'Angelina stockpiles the lip butter to preserve her to-die-for pout. She likes it because it also helps to freshen your breath and Angelina hates chewing gum'

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Spears, Timberlake romance in opera debut - Digital Spy

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 08:39 PM PDT

Rex Features

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's romance has been transformed into a fictional musical seven years after the couple split.

New opera Timberbrit will reportedly tell the story of Timberlake attempting to reunite with his first love.

According to Female First, composer Jason Cooper and writer Yuka Igarashi have made use of audio software to alter some of Spears's hit songs to achieve the effect of haunting arias.

An unfinished version of Timberbrit debuted in New York City in 2008, before being developed into a full stage production.

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Demi Lovato has the Disney brand, the hair, — and even the pipes ... - Pioneer Press

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:19 PM PDT

Several key figures of the last big teen-pop boom — Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera among them — got their start on Disney's short-lived "The All New Mickey Mouse Club." But they went on to find musical success elsewhere.

The suits at Disney clearly took notice, as the current teen-pop boom is populated by acts still signed to the entertainment giant. With Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers now firmly established, Disney's next breakthrough could well be 16-year-old Texan Demi Lovato, who headlined the Target Center on Saturday night.

Thanks to her starring role in last year's "Camp Rock" alongside the aforementioned Jonas Brothers, Lovato is already a household name — in households that watch the Disney Channel, anyway. She has also toured with the JoBros, but the 5,000 screaming tweens in attendance Saturday night were a far cry from the 18,000 who saw the boys last month in the same venue.

Still, if Lovato proved anything Saturday, it's that she's got terrific potential. For one thing, she actually sang her vocals live. And Lovato doesn't need to dress like Britney Spears to turn heads. (Her tremendous mane of hair had the moms in the audience turning green with envy, too.)

It helps that Lovato has worked with many of the same folks who make the Jonas Brothers' albums, including former Minnesotan John Fields. The result is a clutch of peppy, instantly likable tunes with huge choruses and nods to both late-'60s pop

and mid-'80s new wave.

Lovato, for her part, sold every last song, despite nursing a hoarse voice she said came from meeting a thousand or so fans earlier in the day at a Mall of America appearance. For the "Camp Rock" number "This Is Me," she even pulled one of those fans up onstage to sing along with her.

Given Lovato's raw talent — which often gets swapped out for raw ambition in the teen-pop set — it'll be interesting to see if she can develop it and mature into an even more engaging entertainer.

Fellow pop starlet Jordan Pruitt opened with a brief set that included "Jump to the Rhythm," the theme song to a Disney Channel movie about, uh, jumping rope.

Lip-licking "American Idol" vet David Archuleta performed a longer set, and one couldn't help but wonder if his famously pushy dad was judging his every move from the wings. Now 18, Archuleta still possesses that boyish quality that set millions of tween hearts aflutter last year on "Idol." He remains a charming performer, even if it feels like his sell-by date is fast approaching.

Pop music critic Ross Raihala can be reached at 651-228-5553. Read more about the local entertainment scene at blogs. twincities.com/playlist.

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Pittsburgh Steelers have grist for mill - Baltimore Sun

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 12:28 AM PDT

Mike Preston

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