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My Showbiz Life... JC Chasez WHAT'S THE LAST FREEBIE YOU GOT. AND HOW COME YOU GOT IT? I got a free T-shirt after I appeared on a TV show. You always leave with heaps of stuff after you do TV shows! I think I might wear it to bed or something. I do hang on to some of that stuff, it's wild when you go back through it and all the memories come flooding back. WHAT'S THE MOST AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU'VE EVER BLOWN IN ONE DAY? Oooh, I dunno! It'd have to be my house, I guess. I bought it a while ago, but any house costs a good amount of money these days! WHEN WERE YOU LAST SNAPPED BY THE PAPARAZZI? About a week or two ago. I was out in Vegas, and the paparazzi just appeared and started snapping away! You just have to deal with that stuff. But when you've been flying all day and the paparazzi rock up at the airport - that's rough. I just throw on some shades to cover my red eyes! WHAT'S YOUR BEST TIP FOR POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS? I basically stand there! The photographers just shout out, 'look over here! look over here!' and you just try to make everyone happy. WHEN WERE YOU LAST AT ANOTHER CELEBRITIES HOUSE? It depends who you think is a celebrity! I was at a friend's house last week for dinner, it was cool... no I'm not going to tell you who it is, I don't like to namedrop! WAS IT JUSTIN? Maybe. NAME A FAMOUS PERSON YOU'VE SNOGGED. I don't like to flirt with people who are in the business, because there's a possibility that I might have to work with them in the future - and that might be a bit awkward! NAME A FAMOUS PERSON YOU'VE HAD A FIGHT WITH. I've argued with every one of the guys in *NSYNC at one point or another! We always had silly arguments over stupid stuff when we were on the tour bus together. WHO GOT INTO TROUBLE THE MOST? We all had our moments! NAME A FAMOUS PERSON YOU KNOW HAS A CRUSH ON YOU. No! Everyone knows that I don't hit on people in the business, like I said. I think everyone looks at me more as their brother or something! WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT BEING A CELEBRITY? If you have an opinion on something, you have a platform, and you know that a lot of people will get to hear what you have to say.
'NSYNC's Joey Fatone To Marry Longtime Girlfriend
This Week To preserve the couple's privacy, no details will be available about the impending nuptials — other than that they will take place on the East Coast — until after the ceremony, Fatone's management rep, Melinda Bell, said Wednesday. After 10 years of dating, Fatone proposed to Baldwin, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter named Brianna, last summer. The couple has been dating since high school, and the singer recently had her name tattooed inside his lower bottom lip during a bachelor-party trip to Las Vegas. Rumors had circulated in June 2002, shortly after they bought a home together in Orange County, Florida, that the couple had already gotten hitched, but Fatone denied the reports. "My mom called and asked how the wedding went," he told the Orlando Sentinel at the time. "We haven't really had time to plan for a marriage, but probably later on down the line there will be one." He attributed the rumors to the friendship rings they'd started wearing at events related to his role in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Prior to proposing last summer, Fatone had taken about a year off from touring and recording to reconnect with Baldwin and their daughter. He told USA Today shortly before the proposal that after Brianna was born in April 2001, "it was hard to think of marriage," and even more so once she got older. "We're still trying to juggle our daughter, and at 2, she's really running around." Since then, however, it's been Fatone who's been doing most of the running around. The singer's kept busy furthering his acting career with a turn as a lounge singer in the indie film "The Cooler" as well as a starring role in "Little Shop of Horrors" on Broadway. (He had previously starred in the Broadway production of "Rent" in 2002.) He's been working on a comedy album of song parodies. He also has two more movies in the can: a musical adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood in which he plays Jack the Wolf and a comedy about wannabe gangsta rappers on an all-night crime spree called "The Bros." Fatone also has tentative plans to reunite with his bandmates for their next album, which is not yet slated for release.
League of their own The annual "NFL Opening Kickoff" concert is Thursday night before the New England Patriots clash with the visiting Indianapolis Colts, and, frankly, I'm sitting here in slack-jawed shock. After last season's Super Bowl halftime fiasco in which Janet Jackson amply demonstrated to 90 million viewers why TV is called "the boob tube," I fully expected we'd get the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, "Tribute to Sousa" by the Boston Pops (who will be performing on Thursday, by the way), and maybe a little something for the kids -- the New Christy Minstrels reprising their 1963 hit "Green, Green" -- with the whole shebang MC'd by Attorney General Scowlin' John Ashcroft. After all, the NFL vowed to take full-fisted control of its entertainment extravaganzas after claiming to be blindsided by a libidinous MTV production that gave this nation a mammary it will never forget. But lo and behold, we're actually getting a pretty hep lineup this year, daddy-o: Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Elton John, Toby Keith, and Lenny Kravitz from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, with Jessica Simpson chirping in from Jacksonville, site of this season's Super Bowl. Of course, there is language in the performers' contracts that prohibits anything unseemly -- smart money says ol' Elton eschews warbling "The Bitch is Back" -- lest the offending artist and his or her management and record label be held legally responsible and dispatched forthwith to Guantanamo Bay. The NFL will not let itself be embarrassed, especially in the stunning aftermath of Jackson's little wardrobe malfunction. The FCC came down hard: $550,000 fines against 20 CBS-owned TV stations that aired the Super Bowl. Media conglomerates, fearing that their profits or broadcasting licenses may go up in smoke, are now terrified to have their on-air talent say anything stronger than "wee wee." Just turn on the morning drive time radio shows. Howard Stern-wannabes are politely discussing corporal punishment with fully clothed nuns. Never in my lifetime did I ever think I'd see the day. It occurred to me that the NFL, with all its cultural and financial clout, may be the only institution in this country that could inspire an actual crackdown on gratuitous filth. After all, pro football is America's most popular sport and Super Sunday is its high holy day. The No Fun League has always had a grim, bristleheaded, buttoned-down demeanor, like the school principal who insists that if there is laughter in heaven, it must be officially approved. The league's emphasis has always been on mudcaked gladiators doing glorious battle on the frozen tundra while John Facenda's Voice of Zeus drones in the background. Woe be unto those blasphemers who wear do-rags, gyrate in the end zone, cavort with cell phones. or flash too little (or too much) sock. So when you present the world with a stage as monumental as the Super Bowl, MTV's sensibilities are tantamount to a drunken stripper lurching out of the cake at Dad's dinner party for assorted business and community leaders. You just know there will be H-E-two sticks to pay and how. Personally, I find smutty blather and crotch-grabbing to be offensive, mainly because they have become so mindlessly obligatory. Every radio show, every sitcom, every movie, every singer, has to do something to make the vicar blush. Now, before you light a torch and storm down here to accuse me of being a prig, a prude, a puritanical old fart, let me say that somewhere along the line too many folks in the entertainment industry bought into the notion that intelligence, talent, and originality are not enough and that John and Jane Q. Public are just too darn stoopid to pay attention unless you roll out the double and triple entendres and wiggle-waggle that groove thang every thirty seconds. I don't see Janet Jackson's exposed feeding station as the end of the world. In fact, I didn't see it all. I was in the kitchen when the offending breast made its appearance. My three young kids remained in the family room, though, and they said nothing when I returned. It's quite possible they didn't even see it, but we'd given them their requisite anatomy lessons, so it was likely no big deal if they had. Actually, I had been expecting the little buggers to ask why Kid Rock and Justin Timberlake kept grabbing at their Mr. Pee Dee. I had my matter-of-fact reply ready: "They have jock itch. It's a common condition in football stadiums." Yes, sir, nothing inspires the ol' creativity like parenthood. But Thursday night, I shall have nothing to fear from the Opening Kickoff gig. NFL Nanny is on the case.
ABC Hopes Delay Will Prevent Wardrobe Malfunction ABC's "NFL Opening Kickoff" hour-long musical spectacular on Thursday (Sept. 9) may feature a scandalous repeat of Janet Jackson's Nipplegate fiasco. If such a thrilling piece of live theater occurs, however, viewers at home won't get to see it. ABC is keeping things clean with a 10-second delay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has long required all live entertainment programming to go off with a five second delay. Given that this is the first make football-centric entertainment showcase since Justin Timberlake removed part of Jackson's top at the Super Bowl and sparked a lengthy national debate, it's unsurprising that extra precautions will be taken. "I have no plans on using it," says Charles Coplin, co-executive producer of the ABC kickoff show. "I would be surprised by using it, but there are always things that could go out of control." The musical event, which precedes the NFL's first regular season game, will feature performances by Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz and Toby Keith. Jessica Simpson was scheduled to sing from Jacksonville, Fla., but the impact of Hurricane Frances may force minor changes. The NFL is working directly with the performers on costuming and song selection to prevent a Nipplegate repeat. The actual game will feature defending the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champs, against the offensive powerhouse Indianapolis Colts.
The NFL exists to entertain The NFL, still groping for this season's second-string marketing chant, has a near-foolproof option. An option proposed by me, a near fool. And here it is: The NFL: Entertain at your own risk. Before we march on, please remember that the NFL works hard at enabling you to willingly burn at least four hours of your life while enjoying its product. That, according to American protocol, is entertainment. Unfortunately, during the last full-price, NFL event that actually meant something, the sidebar entertainment went a bit cuckoo. I'm referring, of course, to the halftime show-and-tell at Super Cup 38 in Houston, where Michael's baby sister forced the league into a coverage sack. Her co-star was the ruggedly harmless Justin Timberlake, who — by playing the "wardrobe malfunction" card — had his brand-new street cred card confiscated while attempting to purchase a vintage FUBU sweatshirt. Anyway, an NFL game that counts will arrive Thursday night in FOXboro, site of an AFC grudge rematch between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots. In addition to assuaging any lingering franchise-on-franchise bitterness, this September showdown will present the league's rule-emphasis upgrade. More on that later. The truly tricky new rule involves the NFL's hired musical entertainment. After the Super Bowl horror show, the league pulled some boy-band refugee from its Pro Bowl lineup and replaced him with an elementary school choir. That attempted halftime entertainment save attempt failed when several anarchy-inspired fourth graders led their classmates in a prepubescent cover of the rap standard "Baby Got Back." So the NFL is being even more diligent. To prevent further embarrassment, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue implemented the NFL Entertainment Combine. Just think of Simon Cowell with a stopwatch. The first wave of testing yielded an impressive lineup for Thursday's 2004 NFL Kickoff show, scheduled for broadcast before ABC trots out the Colts and Pats. For the record, this lineup (to be deployed in FOXboro and a few other locales) offers: Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson, Elton John, Mary J. Blige, Toby Keith and Lenny Kravitz. It would seem that the league has all of its crucial demographics aced. Simpson should pull in the anti-laundry/hubba-hubba/CAT-scan crowd. John will woo the alternative lifestyle/boomer crowd. Child is a cinch to attract the bootylicious/Austin Powers crowd. Keith was hired to win over the Republicans-With-Hats crowd. Blige has dibs on the hard-to-please, People-Who-Just-Like-Good-Music crowd. And Kravitz is expected to deliver the Higher-Than-Paul Hamm's Voice Running Back crowd. According to combine insiders, Simpson misunderstood the opening directive and bench-pressed the Wonderlich test (she completed 18 reps). Based on nickname application, she almost blew the interview in suggesting Chicken of the Sea coaches the Dallas Cowboys. When asked to prepare for being timed in the 40, one highly regarded rapper insisted he could polish off a can of malt liquor in 4.3 seconds. It should be noted that the NFL became sort of anti-rap after Nelly wasted most of his Super Bowl routine during a do-it-yourself hernia examination. Maurice Clarett showed up with an R&B routine, but was declared ineligible to participate. And the entire Combine process hit a snag when most of the prospects preferred comparing coiffure notes with Mel Kiper Jr....
'All Day Long' Arte Clip of the Week It's "Le Clip de la Semaine" (Clip of the Week) at Arte (which is a French-German tv station that mostly shows rather "arty" stuff. At least they used to be.) And they say this: Encore un ex-membre de N’sync devenu adulte! (which roughly translates into:
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Sync-er to wed According to Entertainment Tonight, Joey Fatone's getting married! This news made us tingly all over, till we realized we had one question: Who's Joey Fatone? Sorry, but we're that out of touch with the avant garde: The Brooklyn native is one of the masterminds of musical phenom 'N Sync. The singer will reportedly wed longtime flame Kelly Baldwin, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter, Brianna, tomorrow. Fatone is the first member of the boy band to tie the knot, a fact that has no real meaning, but which will no doubt get tongues wagging with nuptial rumors about the group's most famous boy, Justin Timberlake, and his gal pal, Cameron Diaz. |
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