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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Boo!!! From Yahoo! News Kidman Uses the F-Word Tuesday May 16 5:28 PM ET Nicole Kidman may still have feelings for ex Tom Cruise, but that doesn't mean she's not ready for another go-round at the altar. In New York Saturday to host the 30th anniversary gala for UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, Kidman confirmed what's been the subject of tabloid speculation for months—that she and her country star beau Keith Urban aren't just dating—they're officially engaged. "He's actually my fiance," the 38-year-old Oscar winner told People magazine. "I wouldn't be bringing my boyfriend." Kidman and Urban first went public with their relationship back in July. But when the Moulin Rouge! star was photographed sporting a large diamond on her ring finger while the couple was cavorting around Boston last November, the gossip mill went into overdrive guessing when she and the 38-year-old Kiwi were planning to make their union permanent. The confirmation comes just days after Kidman's recent interview in the June issue of Ladies Home Journal when she revealed she suffered a "major shock" when Cruise filed for divorce in 2001 and said she still "loved him." "He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him," she told the magazine. While her superstar ex-hubby has just gone and had baby Suri with new fiancee Katie Holmes, Kidman and Cruise still share custody of their two adopted kids, 13-year-old Isabella and 11-year-old Connor. Urban, for his part, has no kids. So far no word on a wedding date. A rep for the country crooner couldn't be reached for comment. Kidman's camp was also mum on the report. Aside from her newfound love, the actress and United Nations goodwill ambassador was also happy to tout one of her favorite pet causes, three decades worth of work by UNIFEM to empower women around the globe and improve their lives. "Commemorating UNIFEM's 30th anniversary is a special opportunity for me to bring UNIFEM's accomplishments to the attention of a larger audience of concerned citizens," Kidman told 500 guests in a packed ballroom at New York's Hilton Hotel. As emcee, Kidman helped the organization pay tribute to two women whom UNIFEM has singled out for helping advance the cause of women's rights. Liberia's first female president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was honored with the group's Global Leadership Award for her historic election win while Terry Lundgren, the chief executive of Federated Department Stores, the parent company of Macy's, received UNIFEM's first Global Championship Award for giving Rwanadan female basketweavers an opportunity to sell their goods online and at Macy's flagship store in the Big Apple. Kidman's currently shooting an untitled project for The Squid and the Whale director Noah Baumbach in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York. She then is scheduled to segue into The Lady From Shanghai, Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai's update of Orson Welles' classic 1947 thriller. The erstwhile Interpreter will then star opposite Russell Crowe in a untitled Oz-based romantic epic that will reuniting her with her Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. // posted by Katie @ 6:26 PM Friday, May 12, 2006
If you knew me in high school you will see the humor in this.  // posted by Katie @ 11:59 PM Thursday, May 11, 2006
ixnay on the rushescay.....they are both gone. oh well, on to my next unsuspecting victim ;) // posted by Katie @ 12:41 AM Wednesday, May 10, 2006
I have two crushs. lord help me ;) // posted by Katie @ 4:20 PM Sunday, May 07, 2006
Ah yea! Bon Jovi finds a country "Home," makes chart history By Phyllis Stark Fri May 5, 10:09 PM ET Bon Jovi has reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 four times in its hit-studded career. But recently, it notched a first -- not just for the band, but for music history. The hit "Who Says You Can't Go Home" made Bon Jovi the first rock band to land atop Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart -- a position it now holds for a second week. The road to its first country hit began when the band's Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora created two versions of the song, both of which appear on their current album "Have a Nice Day" (Island). The band-only version is a hit on the adult top 40 and adult contemporary charts. The country version features Jennifer Nettles, lead singer of country act Sugarland. At the time the duet was recorded, Sugarland was little known. Since then, the band's album "Twice the Speed of Life" (Mercury) has sold 1.9 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and the group has landed three other top 10 songs. But it was Keith Urban, not Nettles, whom the band initially approached as a duet partner. Jon Bon Jovi asked Urban to sing and play banjo on the track. The collaboration wasn't what either artist had in mind, however. "Our voices were too similar," Bon Jovi says. "A banjo wasn't really the way to go. But I now had the idea that this could really work." Bon Jovi says he didn't want his group seen as "carpetbaggers who were going to say they're a country band suddenly." In fact, Bon Jovi already had some familiarity in Nashville. Jon Bon Jovi has made multiple trips to Music City for songwriting collaborations, and the group has recorded and performed there many times, including laying the tracks for the "These Days" album. Jon Bon Jovi even spent five weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1998 on a duet with Chris LeDoux, "Bang a Drum," and Bon Jovi's hit "Wanted Dead or Alive" was recorded by country artist Chris Cagle on his 2005 Capitol Records Nashville set, "Anywhere but Here." "Who Says You Can't Go Home" is available as a digital download. Starting May 23, the single and video will be available exclusively through Target as a CD shrink-wrapped with Sugarland's album, "Twice the Speed of Life." Reuters/Billboard // posted by Katie @ 3:55 PM Tuesday, May 02, 2006
And my ass was there.... From CMT.com McGraw and Hill Captivate Chicago Fans By: Alison Bonaguro Monday, May 01, 2006 CHICAGO -- They say the sign of a strong marriage is that you're just as good together as you are apart. If that's the case, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are set for life. That's how it felt Sunday night (April 30), when their Soul2Soul II tour closed a three-night stay in Chicago. Their 31-song set was a perfectly balanced mix of their hits, old and new. And a perfectly equal mix of solos and duets. Six years ago, during their first Soul2Soul tour, Hill played the role of opening act for McGraw's show. This time, Hill held her own and showed the nearly sold-out crowd of 17,000 that she is every inch the superstar her husband is. McGraw and Hill opened with "Like We Never Loved at All." When McGraw disappeared into the floor -- literally -- Hill took over the in-the-round stage with "Mississippi Girl" and five other tunes from her most recent CD, Fireflies. But there were plenty of classics to bring fans to their feet as the crowd sang along to "The Way You Love Me" and "This Kiss." Because of the stage setup, almost everyone at the Allstate Arena felt like Hill was close enough to touch. The main stage was in the middle of the arena floor, and there were four catwalks coming off the stage to extend into the first tier of seats. The floor of the stage was made of glass tiles, with lighting underneath to underscore each song differently. Hill shunned the usual uniform of female country artists -- tight jeans and stiletto boots -- and opted instead for loose pants, a sleeveless rugby shirt and black Pumas. When Hill's hour-long set was finished and she'd curtsied to all the fans, McGraw joined her again on the center stage. The couple was enclosed in a cylinder of mosquito netting, where they sang "Angry All the Time" and "Let's Make Love." In an unlikely change of pace from their usual stare-into-each-other's-eyes duets, McGraw and Hill sat back to back for these two songs. Their vocals were stronger that way. As soon as the netting came up, McGraw's love of the road came out. This is a man who harvests energy from his fans. His band, the Dancehall Doctors, were there to back him. But the crowd only had ears for McGraw. He started with some older hits like "Just to See You Smile" and "Don't Take the Girl." He joked that that was one of his first hits when he started 17 years ago -- when he was 12. McGraw's set included "My Little Girl," a song he and friend Tom Douglas co-wrote for his recently-released Greatest Hits Vol. 2. When he got to the part in his set list where he sings "I've Got Friends That Do," he thanked the Warren Brothers for writing it and pointed up to the heavens when he sang, "And I may not know how it feels/To hang there on that cross to prove that love is real/But I've got friends that do." McGraw's voice has come a long way since playing honky-tonks in Nashville's Printer's Alley. If he's lost some of the heavy twang and Southern drawl through the years, you can hear it in the live performances of his older hits. And when he's on to the new stuff, he manages to go up and down the vocal scale with conviction. While he played a little guitar at the concert during "The Cowboy in Me" and "Shotgun Rider," McGraw knows it's his voice that people come to hear. Hill came back to the stage for an encore that included Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and their own hit, "It's Your Love." McGraw and Hill finally faced each other for their last song "I Need You." After nearly three hours of watching them prove themselves as solo artists, it felt good to see them end the show in love. // posted by Katie @ 11:19 AM Sunday, April 30, 2006
Tim McGraw rocked my socks!!! And heres a video that I find amusing. God Bless Vincent D'onofrio! // posted by Katie @ 10:26 PM
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