Over the weekend, I got engaged. I was never the type of girl to dream of what her perfect proposal would be like, but this one was perfect for me It was just the two of us, a tender moment…and no ring. When I told my loved ones I was engaged, they were all thrilled for me. But one friend said my engagement wasn’t “official” until I got the ring on my finger. Which got me to thinking: Do we place too much importance on the ring instead of what the ring means? More ….
To each her own… we suppose. Joran van der Sloot – the convicted killer who is the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway – will get married while serving his 28 years in a Peruvian prison. The convict’s attorney confirmed the engagement news to HLN, though the identity of van der Sloot’s fiancee is unknown at this time. But the couple met while she was visiting another inmate and they hope to be wed within two weeks. In January of last year, Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to the murder of Stephany Flores, whose corpse was discovered in a Lima hotel room registered in the Dutchman’s name 18 months earlier. He was also arrested twice in Aruba in connection with Holloway’s disappearance, but never charged. A Dutch newspaper, meanwhile, reported in October that van der Sloot impregnated a woman while behind bars.
Can’t keep a fine azz woman down… Zoe Saldana Says She Isn’t Bitter Over Break Up With Bradley Cooper Via USMagazine Zoe Saldana hasn’t thrown in the towel just yet when it comes come to finding love. The 34-year-old Star Trek Into Darkness actress may be back on the market after splitting from Bradley Cooper earlier this year — but she doesn’t feel discouraged. “I believe in love because I had it for so long, so I know it’s possible,” Saldana tells the June issue of InStyle UK. But her road to romance hasn’t been easy. The actress called off her engagement to entrepreneur Keith Britton in 2011 after 11 years together. She then began dating Cooper, her costar in 2012′s The Words, on-and-off for about one year before calling it quits for good in January 2013. Despite the heartache, Saldana says she’s ready to date again. “I’m not one of these people who’s going, ‘Oh, because I was with someone for so long I need to take a break,’” she explains. “What if love is just around the corner?” But she does have a type of man in mind. “A badass renegade! A pirate!” she joked. “A pirate who can cry. Oh my God!” Awww isn’t that sweet, Zoe wants a man who cries out of his one good eye. Image via Calivn Klein Continue reading →
Let’s face it: The Big Wedding was more fun when it was fat and Greek — or loud and French, in the case of this adaptation of Gallic laffer Mon frere se marie . Writer-director Justin Zackham awkwardly blends feel-good pablum and raunchy sex jokes with the expected nuptial ingredients: something old (just look at that cast), something new (the groom is an adopted Colombian with three moms to manage), something borrowed ( Nancy Meyers called, she wants her ideas back) and something blue (handjobs at the rehearsal dinner, etc.). It’s all catnip for the easily pleased, suggesting possible sleeper success amid louder early-summer studio fare. Skewing older than other recent R-rated wedding comedies such as Bridesmaids and Bachelorette , The Big Wedding all but ignores the happy couple in favor of the “bigger” sixtysomething names in its starry ensemble: Robert De Niro , Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon . As in Jean-Stephane Bron’s 2007 original, the grownups’ childish antics threaten to upset the whole event. Misleading title aside, young Missy and Alejandro’s union is a relatively small affair, held in the groom’s backyard and consisting of only about 100 guests. The vanilla bride ( Amanda Seyfried , who’s been down this road before in Mamma Mia! ) and her swarthy husband-to-be (British actor Ben Barnes , Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series) have known each other since childhood. What makes their engagement interesting is the fact that Alejandro was born in Colombia and raised by an upscale Connecticut couple with two kids of their own. Naturally, Alejandro wants his birth mother, Madonna ( Patricia Rae ), to attend, but he doesn’t have the nerve to tell the conservative Catholic woman that his adoptive parents, Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton, a million miles from The Godfather: Part II ), have been divorced for the past decade. Instead, he begs Don to stash his new g.f., Bebe (Sarandon), and pretend that everything’s still rock-solid between him and Ellie — the sort of arrangement that must seem all too familiar to The Birdcage star Robin Williams (unusually restrained as the ceremony’s Irish priest). Surely The Big Wedding ’s paucity of genuinely inspired moments is due less to Williams’ involvement than its other officiant, Zackham, who has captured the bright, hyper-sunny look of Nora Ephron and David Frankel movies (simply by using d.p. Jonathan Brown) without grasping those helmers’ gift for comedy. The film isn’t so much funny as it is merely amusing — a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh. The awkward situations begin with Ellie’s arrival at her former home. Letting herself in, she accidentally walks in on Don going down on Bebe (who was once Ellie’s best friend and, evidently, still manages to excite the man she stole 10 years earlier). After the three grownups agree to Alejandro’s charade, Ellie turns the tables, enjoying a 40-minute morning-sex session loud enough to convince not only Madonna but everyone else within a two-mile radius that she and Don are still compatible. Meanwhile, the Griffins’ two biological children show up with plenty of their own issues. Lyla (a high-strung Katherine Heigl) has just broken up with her long-time b.f., has unexplained barfing spells and faints at the sight of a maternity ward. You don’t have to be an obstetrician to recognize the symptoms, though her slow-on-the-uptake brother Jared ( Topher Grace ) inexplicably diagnoses her as having a mild concussion. Unlike the rest of his hot-blooded family, Jared has sworn to wait for sex until marriage, but at 29, he’s having second thoughts — and the first available female to cross his path is sister-by-adoption Nuria ( Ana Ayora ), who stayed behind in Colombia when Alejandro moved to the States. In the French version of such a scenario, one wouldn’t be surprised by the ensuing sexual antics, but all that rumpy-pumpy seems rather inappropriate in the remake’s upper-crust East Coast milieu. Presenting De Niro’s character as a recovering-alcoholic sculptor only goes so far to explain his licentious nature: He turns up drunk in one scene, reveals all the family secrets, and then sobers up immediately. Otherwise, he’s the pic’s go-to guy for delivering too-eloquent speeches, which occur with regularity whenever the script requires a heart-tugging moment. Such emotional ploys come more naturally to Zackham (who hit it big with The Bucket List script) than comedy does, offering a much-needed dose of charm to the otherwise formulaic festivities. More on Robert De Niro: ‘Silver Linings Playbook’: Alternate Ending Includes Jacki Weaver’s Braciole Recipe Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Let’s face it: The Big Wedding was more fun when it was fat and Greek — or loud and French, in the case of this adaptation of Gallic laffer Mon frere se marie . Writer-director Justin Zackham awkwardly blends feel-good pablum and raunchy sex jokes with the expected nuptial ingredients: something old (just look at that cast), something new (the groom is an adopted Colombian with three moms to manage), something borrowed ( Nancy Meyers called, she wants her ideas back) and something blue (handjobs at the rehearsal dinner, etc.). It’s all catnip for the easily pleased, suggesting possible sleeper success amid louder early-summer studio fare. Skewing older than other recent R-rated wedding comedies such as Bridesmaids and Bachelorette , The Big Wedding all but ignores the happy couple in favor of the “bigger” sixtysomething names in its starry ensemble: Robert De Niro , Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon . As in Jean-Stephane Bron’s 2007 original, the grownups’ childish antics threaten to upset the whole event. Misleading title aside, young Missy and Alejandro’s union is a relatively small affair, held in the groom’s backyard and consisting of only about 100 guests. The vanilla bride ( Amanda Seyfried , who’s been down this road before in Mamma Mia! ) and her swarthy husband-to-be (British actor Ben Barnes , Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series) have known each other since childhood. What makes their engagement interesting is the fact that Alejandro was born in Colombia and raised by an upscale Connecticut couple with two kids of their own. Naturally, Alejandro wants his birth mother, Madonna ( Patricia Rae ), to attend, but he doesn’t have the nerve to tell the conservative Catholic woman that his adoptive parents, Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton, a million miles from The Godfather: Part II ), have been divorced for the past decade. Instead, he begs Don to stash his new g.f., Bebe (Sarandon), and pretend that everything’s still rock-solid between him and Ellie — the sort of arrangement that must seem all too familiar to The Birdcage star Robin Williams (unusually restrained as the ceremony’s Irish priest). Surely The Big Wedding ’s paucity of genuinely inspired moments is due less to Williams’ involvement than its other officiant, Zackham, who has captured the bright, hyper-sunny look of Nora Ephron and David Frankel movies (simply by using d.p. Jonathan Brown) without grasping those helmers’ gift for comedy. The film isn’t so much funny as it is merely amusing — a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh. The awkward situations begin with Ellie’s arrival at her former home. Letting herself in, she accidentally walks in on Don going down on Bebe (who was once Ellie’s best friend and, evidently, still manages to excite the man she stole 10 years earlier). After the three grownups agree to Alejandro’s charade, Ellie turns the tables, enjoying a 40-minute morning-sex session loud enough to convince not only Madonna but everyone else within a two-mile radius that she and Don are still compatible. Meanwhile, the Griffins’ two biological children show up with plenty of their own issues. Lyla (a high-strung Katherine Heigl) has just broken up with her long-time b.f., has unexplained barfing spells and faints at the sight of a maternity ward. You don’t have to be an obstetrician to recognize the symptoms, though her slow-on-the-uptake brother Jared ( Topher Grace ) inexplicably diagnoses her as having a mild concussion. Unlike the rest of his hot-blooded family, Jared has sworn to wait for sex until marriage, but at 29, he’s having second thoughts — and the first available female to cross his path is sister-by-adoption Nuria ( Ana Ayora ), who stayed behind in Colombia when Alejandro moved to the States. In the French version of such a scenario, one wouldn’t be surprised by the ensuing sexual antics, but all that rumpy-pumpy seems rather inappropriate in the remake’s upper-crust East Coast milieu. Presenting De Niro’s character as a recovering-alcoholic sculptor only goes so far to explain his licentious nature: He turns up drunk in one scene, reveals all the family secrets, and then sobers up immediately. Otherwise, he’s the pic’s go-to guy for delivering too-eloquent speeches, which occur with regularity whenever the script requires a heart-tugging moment. Such emotional ploys come more naturally to Zackham (who hit it big with The Bucket List script) than comedy does, offering a much-needed dose of charm to the otherwise formulaic festivities. More on Robert De Niro: ‘Silver Linings Playbook’: Alternate Ending Includes Jacki Weaver’s Braciole Recipe Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Justin Bieber and Jimmy Fallon.Photo: Courtesy of NBC Dree Hemingway as Justin Bieber's Someday ad muse is beautiful, delicate and light as an angel, and I. Read more from the original source: Jimmy Fallon Parodies Justin Bieber's 'Someday' Perfume Ad | MTV …
Justin Bieber tweets he's Getting Better after collapsing at his concert, Kendrick Lamar is No. 1 in Hottest MCs in the Game + Miley Cyrus is photographed sans her engagement ring in today's Buzz Bites. Original post: Buzz Bites (3/8/13): Justin Bieber – MTV Buzzworthy Blog
Britney Spears’ rumored boyfriend David Lucado can drop “rumored” from his title. The duo was not shy about showing their affection for one another when they were seen out and about in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Friday, doin’ some shopping. Walking across the parking lot at The Oaks, the pair laughed and held hands – their first known-on-film PDA and one clearly designed as a coming-out of sorts. “She was here with her guy and she shopped for quite a while,” an onlooker says of the ex -X Factor judge. “She looked good! They were just casual and normal .” Britney Spears rocked a black-and-pink fitted frock with brown sandals and a pair of gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses, while David Lucado was his casual, cool self. The pop superstar’s new man is reportedly just a regular guy. He works at a law firm and does not have any show business ties or money to speak of. So, in short, he’s perfect? “He’s a good boy. He’s from a good family,” a family source says of the Virginia native, Spears’ first beau since she called off her engagement to Jason Trawick. “David grew up on a farm. He does alright for himself but he is just very nice and down to earth. What you see is what you get. He’s into restoring old cars and golf.” And apparently Britney Spears.
The name may be unusual. But the face is downright adorable! A couple weeks after giving birth to daughter Rainbow , Holly Madison has introduced the world to her first child via an In Touch Weekly picture spread. “Just holding her is so much fun,” Madison tells the tabloid. “Even the delivery was easy – I was actually laughing as I was pushing. I had an epidural, so it was fun. She made it easy on me.” Holly also says that she and Pasquale Rotella have plans to expand their new family. “We want Rainbow to have lots of brothers and sisters. I’d love to have six!” Madison says, aiming very high. For more cute photos and a lot more from the former centerfold, pick up the latest issue of In Touch .
