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my friend who is a k-federline fan ( ) jus sent me this... (so thats why its says britney)

The bubble gum popstar Britney Spears has just gotten voted on a recent LONDON poll of one of the worst films of all time

#5 "CROSSROADS"
#4 "Catwoman"
#3 "Revolver"
#2 "Gigli"
#1 "Bedazzled"


THE SAGA CONTINUES...

Jennifer Lopez has found a fault in her much-revered body - her stomach isn't flat enough.

The Jenny From The Block singer, whose ample derriere has helped win her admiration around the world, admits her physique isn't quite what it used to be.

She says, "I'm very lucky: I've got good genes, and I've been athletic my whole life. I'm ahead of the game - I'm more in shape than I would be if I didn't do what I did.

"But it's tough, and I do have issues. My body is not what it used to be; my stomach is not flat. People are like, 'Your stomach is flat!' But I'm like, 'It used to be really flat, like it was concave.'

"But I love all my body. I thank God for my body. It hasn't betrayed me.

"I was never raised to be, like, pencil-thin. You know, we saw it in magazines, and everybody's like, 'Oh, that's the ideal.'

"But the women around me - my mother and my aunts and the people in our neighbourhood - they were all fuller. They were normal woman and they were beautiful. So I didn't ever feel like I had to be anything but that, which was myself."

Superstar Jennifer Lopez accepts she may one day have plastic surgery, now she's getting older. While many of her celebrity counterparts have spoken out against those who go under the knife to maintain their looks, Lopez, 36, has opted to take a more neutral stance, as she's unsure how she'll feel about surgery in years to come. She says, "If people want to get enhancements here and there and little shots or whatever... I don't do it, but I don't want to judge because I don't know how I'll feel when I'm 40 or 50 and if that is something I would do.

"I know that getting older is tough; I don't want to judge because I'm not there yet. But anything in excess is not good, and I guess that would be my position on it. If somebody is cutting up their face and their body over and over again, it's got to be something inside that they're not dealing with, so obviously deal with that first before you go under the knife." She adds, "I think about getting older, constantly. I'm in my mid-30s now, so you start thinking, 'God, wow, I'm going to get there soon. This is crazy.' "I feel youthful, I have a youthful spirit, and I do youthful things. But it's there in your mind. It's something people don't talk about much; they just endure it. We should talk about those things more instead of letting people go through it all by themselves. It's a process."
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Jennifer Lopez has a macabre keepsake from the filming of new drama Bordertown - a scrapbook of murdered Mexican women. The singer/actress plays a journalist investigating the murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez in the film - and the mothers of the deceased wanted to make sure she never forgot the dead while she was filming. Lopez explains, "Some of the mothers of the women who were killed put together a scrapbook for me filled with photos and pieces of their daughters' lives. "It's been very intense. I did a lot of research for the role, because it was too important a project not to give 150 per cent of myself."
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Singing a song of Shakespeare
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Star-Ledger Staff

NEW YORK -- Creator of Bette Midler's early hit "The Rose," songwriter-performer Amanda McBroom once crafted for her own cabaret act a couple of songs from the perspective of several Shakespearean heroines.

Collaborating further on this notion with composer Joel Silberman, McBroom has now turned out a dozen such songs of Shakespearean femininity and strung them together into "A Woman of Will," a one-woman musical. The off-Broadway attraction bowed Sunday at the Daryl Roth Theatre, with McBroom as its star.

Sometimes a clever idea can be stretched way too far, and "A Woman of Will" is just such a case of diminishing returns.

McBroom depicts Kate, a middle-aged lyricist who's running out of inspiration during the try-out throes of a Broadway-bound musical based on "The Merchant of Venice." (Said to be set in 1950s Havana and starring Jennifer Lopez as Portia, yet.)

Barricaded in her hotel room in Cleveland, where the entire 90-minute show occurs, Kate is stuck on the "big second-act ballad" and is screening all her calls. And the calls keep on coming in from the men in her life -- hysterical director, clueless husband, anxious boyfriend.

Meanwhile, Kate riffles through the Bard of Avon's collected works, invoking the dames in his dramas whose concerns reflect her problems in life. Every so often a vast projection of a Shakespearean folio page engulfs the room and Kate launches into a song. Some of them aren't so bad, either, in an easy-listening sort of way.

Performed in a Scottish burr, "Lady Macbeth Sings the Blues" is a frisky saga of a desperate housewife and her ambitious mate: "We're not getting the respect that we deserve now/And I'm the one who's calling all the shots./Everyone is working my last nerve now./The Prozac's running out/And I'm so tired I'm seeing spots."

WILL POWER
Amanda McBroom may be best known as a songwriter (she penned the Grammy-winning hit "The Rose") and a cabaret performer, but her new theater piece A Woman of Will -- in which she plays Kate, a troubled songwriter who turns to the heroines of Shakespeare's plays for inspiration -- is in many ways a return to her roots. "Long before I was a songwriter, I was a Shakespearean actress, and his work has always been close to my heart," she says. "My dad was an actor and my mother was a drama teacher; they actually met while they were doing Henry IV in college. So, like Kate in the play, I learned a couple of Shakespearean speeches when I was a child, including Portia's big speech from The Merchant of Venice. It was really cute when I was 4, though I had no idea what it meant."

In the show -- which marks McBroom's first New York stage appearance since she was in the chorus of Broadway's Seesaw in 1973 -- Kate is trying to write a big showstopper for Portia, who is to be played in a fictional musical by Jennifer Lopez. Why is that character the focus of the show? "When I was younger, I loved Rosalind, but I've become more and more appreciative of Portia over the years," says McBroom. "I am struck by her honesty and integrity; she's the one person who keeps her word when all around her are falling by the wayside. Plus, she's smart and has compassion and a great sense of humor. While I was working on this, I saw the Al Pacino movie version of Merchant (which starred Lynn Collins as Portia), and I think it was the best version I've ever seen."

One of the most intriguing bits in A Woman of Will is that Kate, who's holed up in a hotel room in Cleveland, keeps receiving answering machine messages from the main people in her life, voiced by such actors as Andre De Shields, Patrick Cassidy, Alix Korey, Jay Rogers, and McBroom's real-life spouse, George Ball. Remarks McBroom, "My collaborator Joel Silberman knows so many wonderful people, and I think it was easy for them to say yes because they don't have to show up every night." But one guest voice stands out for McBroom: Tony Award winner Jim Dale as the Bard himself. "I love him so much from those Harry Potter books on tape," she gushes. "When he said yes, I was beside myself."

wait... so Jennifer gonna play in a Broadway musical??? or is she going to be in the movie version of the musical?? it sounds pretty official like she's gonna b in this. it sounds great tho. i cant wait to hear more bout it

not to sound like an ass (who am i kidding?) but thank GOD you are not Jen's little voice inside her...

Channeling Heroines From Shakespeare in a Musical
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By JASON ZINOMAN
Published: October 4, 2005
Poor Jennifer Lopez. If you thought "Gigli" was rock bottom, get a load of her new project, a musical version of "The Merchant of Venice" set in Cuba in 1959 called "The Merchant of Havana." At least that is the premise of this wrongheaded solo musical, "A Woman of Will," which features the songwriter and actress Amanda McBroom as Kate McNeill, the lyricist for "Merchant." At a creative dead end, McNeill is waiting in a hotel room for inspiration for a big second-act ballad.

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Amanda McBroom in "A Woman of Will."


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Written by Ms. McBroom, who is probably best known for "The Rose," the 1979 film's title song, and Joel Silberman (who wrote the pastiche score and co-wrote the book), the show's conceit is that Ms. McNeill works through the night by imagining songs in the voices of the heroines of Shakespeare's plays. Kate from "The Taming of the Shrew" dances to a synthesizer-laden disco tune. Lady Macbeth sings the blues while writing a letter to Ann Landers. And Goneril from "King Lear" roars, "No more Mrs. Nice Guy, she's such a dreadful bore./ I'm into vivisection, not polishing the floor."

If her dream life is any indication, Ms. McNeill's talent is for clich and schmaltz. Songs include beating hearts, metaphorical walls and the conviction that if passion is a crime, she's guilty. Ms. McBroom has a polished singing voice, but she struggles to bring urgency to this story of a middle-aged woman at a personal crossroads, stuck between a faltering marriage and a new life with a younger lover. Whom will she choose? And will she write the song in time? The suspense, to be honest, was not killing me.

Granted, it was fun to guess the actors playing the voices on her answering machine. (Hint: the wonderfully flamboyant director who starred in "The Full Monty.") Even Shakespeare pipes up at the end, providing words of wisdom, like "Growth is change and change is terrible. But not to change is death." Only in a musical as silly as this one could the greatest writer of all time sound like Dr. Phil.


Jen's not it, she's just a part of the plot line.

oh so its jennifer's project, but amanda stars as the main character.

Hey is Jen and Will Smith doin a movie or somthing togetha cuz i keep seein pics of the two of them put together like everywhere i go, so is there somthing up?

not that we know of... and where are these pics?

I kept reading those Merchant stories in Googlenews and i didn't understand, I thought it was a no-name Jennifer Lopez they were talking about.

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sorry if it's already been posted? i thought it was a cool stance:

Jennifer Lopez Gives Serious Thoughts to Plastic Surgery

Singer Jennifer Lopez has recently declared that she's thinking on having plastic surgery when she will get older.

Lopez, 36, unlike other celebrities, who stated they are against surgery, took a more neutral stance, saying she doesn't know what will happen and how she will think when she will be 40 or 50, but it's a possibility to appeal to this method to look younger.

She says: "If people want to get enhancements here and there and little shots or whatever I don't do it, but I don't want to judge because I don't know how I'll feel when I'm 40 or 50 and if that is something I would do.
I know that getting older is tough; I don't want to judge because I'm not there yet. But anything in excess is not good, and I guess that would be my position on it. If somebody is cutting up their face and their body over and over again, it's got to be something inside that they're not dealing with, so obviously deal with that first before you go under the knife."

"I think about getting older, constantly. I'm in my mid-30s now, so you start thinking, 'God, wow, I'm going to get there soon. This is crazy.
I feel youthful, I have a youthful spirit, and I do youthful things. But it's there in your mind. It's something people don't talk about much; they just endure it. We should talk about those things more instead of letting people go through it all by themselves. It's a process.", the Diva motivated her statements.

i totally agree...but i already know how i feel about myself NOW - there's a handful of surgeries i'm dying to try!! hehee

i would do plastic surgry for my nose.........

i think jennifer is gonna be the star of that 'merchant of havana' movie. cuz i kept readin it over and over, n dats wat it sayin 2 m lol

:Jennifer Lopez loves KFC, hates PETA?
Jennifer Lopez is apparently goading PETA by claiming she eats a bucket of KFC chicken after every concert. The Latin beauty has recently been targeted by the animal rights campaigners, fronted by Heather Mills McCartney, for using fur in her Sweetface fashion range.

And now sources claim she is purposely angering the group even more by saying she loves KFC, another of PETA's animal cruelty targets, because "you get free cake".

A PETA spokesperson fumed: "Is there not an ounce of compassion in this woman? It's no surprise that J.Lo would eat KFC."

Earlier this year, Pamela Anderson teamed up with PETA in a boycott of the fast-food giants. The former 'Baywatch' babe, who is a vegetarian, narrated a five-minute video produced by the animal rights group documenting the mistreatment of chickens, which eventually are served in the chain's eateries. She said at the time: "I'm asking people to boycott KFC until the company demands that its suppliers stop crippling chickens and scalding them alive. "No animals should have to suffer this way, whether they're cats or dogs or chickens

You know this is really pathetic now...50 Cent eats a bucket of Chicken before his concerts and you don't see people starting with him, they need to step off Jen with this, it is really sicken already damm!

I pretty sure they're talking about another Jennifer.I think this Jennifer is a theater actress.



LOL Sometimes I think Jennifer needs a little voice to tell her if its or -

ok guys not sure how true this is, BUT remember who told you first, i heard that JENNIFER IS INDEED PREGNET NOW! I guess we will see in time if i am right and my sources are right but looks like this time is the real thing, lets wait and see!

can be

It's worded oddly, that's why it's hard to understand. But, the show is a one-woman show. The woman just talks about Jennifer. Jen has nothing to do with it. She just talks about her. The premise is that Jen is supposedly making a musical of The Merchant of Venice. It's a story, lol.

Alright, and who exactly are these sources that have confirmed in YOU that she's pregnant...? Skeeeeeeptical!

Oh for @#%$'s sakes, IT'S FRIED CHICKEN!!