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The Awful Truth ...Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, scarfing down a comped meal at the Standard, West Hollywood. Lucky for J.T., Cam-babe's a cheap date--she owns a third of the swanky hotel (along with Leonardo DiCaprio and André Balazs). When eager photographers started furiously snapping candids of the coy couple, C.D. leaped into a car, while Justin snuck back into the diner. J.T.'s bud from 'N Sync... Lance Bass doesn't have to worry about paparazzi trampling his ass. L.B. gleefully guzzled down shots of Patrón and Jägermeister with one gal and two guy pals at the Hideaway Bar in Waikiki. Prince tunes were blasting through the speakers, but who knows what actually brought L.-boy to this punk-rockish dive bar?...
Slate Schizo review As teen-pop bands of the '90s splinter, 'N Sync has consistently yielded the juiciest storylines. Chasez is the one who didn't want to explore Broadway, outer space, or Virginia Beach; instead, he's maintained a pose as "the misunderstood one." While Chasez's debut album retraces former band-mate Justin Timberlake's steps a little too faithfully, it's not without its own charms. Like Timberlake, Chasez freely submits to the whims of his producers, most of whom smartly avoid overextending his thin, workmanlike voice. Instead, Chasez plays the terminally confused (one could say schizophrenic) plug-in. He tries on different moods for size as the songs swing from gleeful to lonely to horny and back; the only thing he doesn't feel is a yearning to lead. On "Shake It," he defers to the noisy elasticity of Basement Jaxx's 21st-century version of BT Express' disco classic "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)." Better yet is "Some Girls," as Chasez playfully pursues bubbles, purrs, and diwali-inspired handclaps without challenging the primacy of the beat's conversing click-clacks.
Star-Studded World Space Party Circles Earth
In Los Angeles, VIP party guests included the first space-tourist Dennis Tito. Peter Diamandis, ISU Founder and Chairman-Founder of the X-Prize Foundation offering a $10 million prize to the first private group to build and fly a three-person spaceship to 100 km, was there. So was 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, a space enthusiast who actively advocates it on middle school tours... |
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LOS
ANGELES April 12, 2004--Some of the most brilliant and unhyped stars
were visible as human space flight was commemorated on April 12th
in global celebrations known as 'Yuri's Night.' Celebrities, the
young, the bold, and the brilliant, all space advocates, gathered
at synchronized parties worldwide. The grass roots effort to celebrate
Yuri Gagarin's 1961 orbit around the Earth and the first Shuttle
twenty years later began in 2001, this year marking the fourth world
rave. 
