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Weeks after reporting that no illegal drugs were found in Whitney Houston’s hotel room, sources are now reporting that authorities did in fact recover cocaine in the room where the singer died, TMZ reports. Official documents show one of the …
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‘Bless you, Celine, but it does rather haunt me,’ the actress admits to MTV News of ‘My Heart Will Go On.’ By Fallon Prinzivalli Kate Winslet Photo: MTV News “Like throwing up.” That’s how Kate Winslet feels when she hears Celine Dion ‘s “My Heart Will Go On,” the once-inescapable theme to “Titanic.” “No, I shouldn’t say that,” Winslet added, thinking through her response before coming to this conclusion: “No, actually, I do feel like throwing up.” Since its release in 1997, the film has stuck with Winslet wherever she goes. It was the movie that helped her sky-rocket to the A-list, after all, and no one is likely to forget Dion’s iconic song from “Titanic,” set to be re-released in 3-D on April 4. “I wish I could say, ‘Oh listen, everybody! It’s the Celine Dion song!’ But I don’t,” Winslet admitted. “I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll.” Winslet went on to explain that every time she walks into a bar or a restaurant with a pianist, they never miss an opportunity to start playing the notes. “It’s thrilling for people to surprise me with the Celine Dion song,” she laughed. But they not only play the tune for her, they also encourage the Oscar winner to sing it herself. “I did a talk show recently in Italy and they actually had a live pianist who started gently playing the theme song. I was not even gently, rather severely, urged to go and sing it as though I had in fact sung it myself in the first place. It was like, ‘No! I’m not going to do that.’ They’re like, ‘Oh no, come on it will be funny.’ No, it won’t be funny. At all. And I’m not going to.” Unfortunately for the actress, it’s not just the theme song that haunts her. Whenever she boards a boat, she’s the butt of jokes. “Honestly, I actually now get onto boats and say, ‘No jokes, OK? No jokes. Can we just move on from that? And if you have any jokes, let’s just get them out of the way right now. Thank you. Anyone? Jokes, jokes? OK, moving on.’ And then they still tell jokes,” Winslet said. The most common joke is asking her to head to the front of the boat with them to reenact the iconic scene between hers and Leonardo DiCaprio ‘s characters on the rail. To that she replies, “Oh, yeah! Oh, that one! Oh, don’t worry, it’s my party piece. Sure, come on up, bring your granny.” But Winslet is actually an amazing sport about the jokes. She understands how deeply the film touched its audience. And now that it will be on the big screen again, it can reach a whole new generation — including her children who will see it for the very first time. “What’s negative about it? Really, nothing at all,” she said of the 3-D treatment. “It’s very different and much more present. It’s bigger — if you can believe that — but it is and you really do feel like you’re in it.” Audiences will be able to relive the tragic love story — or experience for the first time — when “Titanic” it hits theaters in 3-D on April 4. Check out everything we’ve got on “Titanic.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘Titanic 3D’ Premiere
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‘Jennifer Lawrence is the perfect Katniss Everdeen!’ one MTV News commenter writes. By Elizabeth Lancaster Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” Photo: Lionsgate After devouring the books and flooding movie theaters, “Hunger Games” fans have become fiercely loyal to the actors who embodied their favorite characters. And those die-hards are not taking kindly to suggestions that Jennifer Lawrence is too curvy to play Katniss Everdeen . Much of the backlash stems from New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis’ review of the film, in which she wrote: “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.” On Wednesday, when MTV News checked in with “Hunger Games” experts for their feelings on the subject, many of you took to our comments section and our Twitter to let us know just how much you disagree with Dargis’ take on the lead actress. MTV.com reader DavidB presented this quote from Suzanne Collins’ book, in which Katniss describes her own body: “I stand straight, and while I’m thin, I’m strong. The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me.” Another commenter, GrantGibbs1, wrote, “Jennifer Lawrence is the perfect Katniss Everdeen! She’s not even fat??? First racist comments now weight issues,” the commenter added, in reference to the issues some moviegoers have had over Rue being played by a black actress. For many fans and readers, it’s not about accuracy, but respect and admiration for Jennifer Lawrence as an actress, as well as defending young women from the pressures that create body issues. On Twitter, @PromiseKidrauhl told us Lawrence “was perfectly picked to play Katniss,” while @valvdg wrote, “As if young women didn’t have enough weight issues.” It’s not too late to make your voice heard: What do you think about the controversy over Jennifer Lawrence’s body? Check out everything we’ve got on “The Hunger Games.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos The Hunger Games
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‘I think I look nicer now,’ actress adds to MTV News at London premiere of film’s 3-D version. By Fallon Prinzivalli Kate Winslet at the “Titanic 3D” premiere Photo: Getty Images Kate Winslet has had a rough journey with “Titanic” premieres in the past. She missed the 1997 world premiere at Mann’s Chinese Theatre when her ex-boyfriend, Stephen Tredre , tragically died of cancer. During the U.K. premiere, she was in the hospital suffering from dysentery she contracted in Morocco while filming “Hideous Kinky.” But as “Titanic” sets sail again 15 years later in 3-D, Winslet finally made a long overdue red-carpet appearance at the London premiere on Tuesday. MTV News caught up with the Academy Award-winning actress to find out how it feels to see the movie again in a new dimension. “It feels amazing,” Winslet said. “I mean, it is a very strange experience because it’s a long time since I’ve seen the film in its entirety.” In 1997, the retelling of the ship’s disaster dominated the box office, raking in more than $600 million. The film stands strong as the second-highest-grossing box-office hit in the United States. But Winslet isn’t worried about moviegoers and fans passing up the opportunity to see it in theaters again. While she says it looks different, she also believes it’s much bigger, in a way. “It looks very different. I mean, it’s still as wonderful and as epic as it always was. But it does feel bigger, you know, bigger somehow even than it did then, so it’s very exciting,” she said. Having seen Rose again on the big screen, Winslet is critical of herself in the role, suggesting that there are things she would change if she could play the part all over again. “My American accent could’ve been much better. My acting could’ve been a lot better,” she said. Her Oscar nomination for the role says otherwise. And as far as seeing herself in 3-D, she’s happier with the way she looks now. “I think I look nicer now,” she said. “I prefer myself as a 36-year-old. It’s really weird ’cause when you’re 21 you think, ‘Oh God, when I’m 36, oh God, that’s nearly 40 and I’ll look really old and wrinkly by then.’ And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days.” Audiences will be able to relive the story as the 3-D version of “Titanic” hits theaters on April 4. Check out everything we’ve got on “Titanic.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘Titanic 3D’ Premiere
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Film’s 3-D conversion ‘takes it to a whole different level,’ director tells MTV News at U.K. premiere of re-release. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Vicky Nwosu-Hope James Cameron and his wife at the “Titanic 3D” premiere Photo: Getty Images Nearly 15 years after “Titanic” became the biggest movie ever to grace the silver screen, director James Cameron has expanded his blockbuster into the third dimension. On April 4, “Titanic” sets sail in 3-D after a painstaking conversion that Cameron believes enhances the picture’s overall effect. MTV News spoke with the director in London, on the red carpet for the U.K. premiere of the re-release, which hits theaters days before the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. “It’s really a dream come true to get this film back into cinema because it just has a whole different effect on people when they take three hours out of their life to just sit and have the unbroken experience and let the story take them along,” Cameron said. “It can be quite a profoundly emotional experience, and you’re not going to get that watching it on video. The 3-D just enhances the whole thing. It takes it to a whole different level. ” Cameron decided to begin the process in 2005, while he was prepping his next ambitious project, “Avatar.” “I was pretty convinced at that time that 3-D was really going to transform the cinema experience. I wanted cinema owners, the exhibitors, to embrace the conversion to digital projection, so that there’d be a place to show 3-D movies,” Cameron said. “I was thinking of ‘Avatar,’ but I was also saying, ‘Look, we can do films like “Titanic.” We can take “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” whatever your favorite movies are, we can convert them to 3-D and give them a whole new life.’ So we started doing test to see what a conversion of ‘Titanic’ would look like. We did a minute and a half of it, and it looked spectacular. ” The 3-D re-release offered Cameron the opportunity to reflect on what made “Titanic” a worldwide sensation. Cameron said he feels that it didn’t have everything to do with the movie’s young star Leonardo DiCaprio . “Women could relate to it, not just because of the Leo-mania thing, but because a lot of young women struggle with the sense of identity in societal expectation. The character of Rose was really written very much about those ideas,” Cameron said. “I think it was a simplification after the fact that [DiCaprio] is why women were so attracted to the movie.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Titanic.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘Titanic 3D’ Premiere
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Five contestants received standing ovations on a night Steven Tyler called ‘a magical mystery tour of over-the-top talent and emotion.’ By Adam Graham Joshua Ledet on “American Idol” Photo: Fox The Idols took on songs by their own personal idols on Wednesday (March 28), and time and again they brought the judges to their feet. Five singers — more than half the field — earned standing ovations from the judges, and if that isn’t technically a record, it certainly felt like one. And while several contestants surged forward — most notably Colton Dixon, whom Randy Jackson dubbed “a contender for the title” for the first time — it was Heejun Han who seized the opportunity to wipe the slate clean after last week’s flub and realign himself in the “Idol” ranks. The night kicked off in an odd fashion, with host Ryan Seacrest telling the contestants, “Hunger Games”-style, “may the odds be ever in your favor.” And from there it was a veritable bloodbath, with each contestant giving their all and making the “Idol” landscape as difficult to survey as ever. Han, who was criticized last week for not taking the show seriously following his goofball performance of Billy Joel’s “My Life,” dialed himself way down Wednesday and gave a straightforward reading of Donny Hathaway’s “A Song For You.” The result: a standing O, along with praise from the judges who felt he was finally done mocking the proceedings. “You did it man, you turned it around,” Steven Tyler told him, while Jennifer Lopez backed his performance and dispelled any notion he was a fluke contestant by telling him, “You don’t make it this far by mistake.” Jackson agreed the performance represented a major turnaround for Han. “Finally the Heejun that we selected came back to us tonight,” the Dawg said. “Welcome back.” Also bringing the judges to their feet were Joshua Ledet (singing Mariah Carey’s version of “Without You”), Phillip Phillips (taking on Johnny Lang’s “Still Raining”), DeAndre Brackensick (doing Eric Benet’s “Sometimes I Cry”) and Elise Testone (who closed the show with Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”). The praise was flying around so fast and furious it was almost hard to keep track of; at show’s close, Tyler called the evening “a magical mystery tour of over-the-top talent and emotion.” (We’re not 100 percent sure what that means, but we’re pretty sure it’s good.) Ledet’s performance was perhaps the evening’s most emotional; afterward, Lopez told the Louisiana native, “you’re a phenom, you are an absolute angel from Heaven!” Phillips, meanwhile, was told he “owned” his performance of “Still Raining.” “You’ve got big things in front of you,” Jackson told him. Testone wasn’t the first “Idol” to take on “Whole Lotta Love”; Adam Lambert memorably upped the song’s sexual mojo back in Season 8. Her version didn’t have Lambert’s same oomph , but Tyler told her, “you made Robert Plant proud tonight” while Lopez said, “that was some real rock star stuff.” Brackensick, meanwhile, earned comparisons to Prince for the high falsetto he delivered while singing “Sometimes I Cry.” “You gave Prince a run for his money, man,” Tyler told him, while Jackson gave him one of his customary “DeAndre’s back in the house!” declarations. Lopez pleaded with America to vote for the curly-haired singer. “People, pick up your phones and vote for DeAndre!” she said. “Please, I need to hear this voice some more!” Though he didn’t get a standing O, Dixon opened the show with Lifehouse’s “Everything” and was called “a dream come true” by Tyler. “You sing a song like it should be sung. You make it bleed, you have perfect pitch, and you’ve got star quality.” And with Jackson officially welcoming him into the potential winner’s circle, the playing field was again shifted. Jessica Sanchez, another of the field’s leaders, slowed down Beyonc
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ATL’s own 2 Chainz has dropped the video to his song “Stunt” featuring Meek Mill , off 2 Chainz’ TRU REALigion mixtape. Check it out and let us know what you think! RELATED: Nicki Minaj & 2 Chainz “Beez In …
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The lead single off Believe could sell 400,000 downloads in its first week. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber Photo: WireImage He’s beloved by millions of teenage girls who already think of him as their “Boyfriend,” and now Justin Bieber ‘s edgier track seems poised to be one of the teen star’s biggest hits yet. According to Billboard, the song, which dropped Monday, could sell upwards of 400,000 downloads in its first week, giving it a big push on next week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart. This would give the singer his best sales week for a song to date in his career. His biggest thus far belongs to “Never Say Never,” which moved 199,000 downloads in its first week, eventually peaking at #5 on the Digital Songs chart. Based on the estimates for his Hot 100 debut (which takes into account radio airplay, sales and streaming data), Bieber could land in the top five going into next week. So far, his most ubiquitous track, “Baby,” is also his highest debut on the Hot 100, having landed at #5 in 2010. It seems that radio is also embracing the lead Believe single . While Bieber has always had a large fanbase and solid record sales, radio airplay has eluded him a bit. But Billboard further reports that this song could land him in a solid place on the Pop Songs top 10 based on early airplay. So far, he’s only managed to land at #14 in 2009 with “One Time” and #16 with “Baby.” “Boyfriend” was co-produced and co-written by Mike Posner, who explained to MTV News that they always intended to make a song that would shift Bieber’s career from tween heartthrob to legitimate pop star. “I think our goal was to make something that me and my friends could listen to in the car,” Posner explained. “I think we’ve all known Justin since he was 13, and that’s not the kid I was in the studio with anymore. He’s an 18-year-old. He skateboards with Lil Wayne and hangs out with Lil Twist. Those are his homies. And he listens to hip-hop and he’s a really cool kid. He’s not like a corny guy.” Related Videos Happy Birthday, Justin Bieber! Related Photos Justin Bieber’s Birthday: Celebrating 18! Related Artists Justin Bieber
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