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Oprah Winfrey to feature Justin Bieber and Charice on May 11

The May 11 episode of the Oprah Winfrey show is set to feature two young stars who both gained popularity through internet juggernaut wesbite, YouTube . 16-year old Justin Bieber , whose album My World 2.0 is currently #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums, is set to appear and perform.  He will be promoting the tour in support of his hit album which begins this summer. Bieber began his mainstream career after his YouTube videos were seen by former marketing exec for So So Def and now his manager, Scooter Braun.  Braun set him up to meet with Usher and Island Record execs where he auditioned, and the rest is music history. In one year since he released his first single, Bieber now has numerous Top 40 hits and a platinum album to his name. Charice Charice (full name Charice Pempengco) on the other hand, is fast becoming one of the music industry’s hottest new artists. She was recently described by The New York Post as the “newly crowned pop princess”, having performed alongside big name acts like Celine Dion, David Foster and Andrea Bocelli. Charice also gained popularity through YouTube. Hailing from the Philippines, she was invited to perform for major international shows like “ The Paul O’Grady Show”, “ The Ellen Degeneres Show ” and “ The Oprah Winfrey Show “. Her single “Pyramid” featuring Iyaz is currently #7 on the Billboard Dance Songs Chart, and she is set to release her debut album on Oprah on May 11,  a day after she turns 18. Oprah Winfrey to feature Justin Bieber and Charice on May 11 is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

REVIEW: Can The Joneses Keep Up with Its Own Premise?

A fantastic concept that frays under the rigors of narrative convention, the premise of The Joneses — a pre-fab family unit is hired to infiltrate and market to an affluent suburban neighborhood — sold half of Hollywood, attracting bucks and talent to the table. Yet as pointed out by David Foster Wallace, the man who envisioned entire calendar years being branded (“The Year of the Perdue Wonder Chicken” will never stop making me laugh), the obviousness of the target requires a more expansive execution: “We already ‘know’ U.S. culture is materialistic,” he said. “This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. [The] engaging and artistically real [question is] how is it that we as human beings still have the capacity for joy, charity, genuine connections, for stuff that doesn’t have a price?” First-time writer/director Derrick Borte does make a bleakly viable case for an extreme strain of our materialism, but the film’s attempt at a humanistic antidote diffuses its intriguing chemistry for the worse.

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Melanie Oudin

SPORTS BUZZ : Melanie Oudin is a 17-year-old superstar American tennis player who's tearing up the US Open. She's beaten all the Russian bigshots so far, but more importantly, she is cute as a fucking button. Her pink shoes!! I want to hug her every time she hits the court.

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‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’ Trailer

Herewith, the trailer for John Krasinski's adaptation of the David Foster Wallace short stories. I don't know whether I can handle watching this many dreamy men be total screw-ups. Especially not Dan Rydell

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