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Gisele vs. Milla: Gisele wins the modeling war, although $7.5 million for the year is mighty fine loser’s compensation for Milla. Forbes dismisses Milla’s acting and singing talents. I don’t know much about the acting, but I liked her first solo album with “Gentlemen Who Fell” quite a bit. Amazon …

Now basically I like Mellonhead, and I respect him for the tenacity to stick it out in the face of some poor early-career marking decisions made by his labels, himself, or a combination of the two (the transition from “Cougar” back to “Mellencamp” was long and painful). He has turned …

This is quite clever and funny from our friends at the Specious Report, but Fred Kaplan explains that assumptions aren’t the same thing as lying: We may never know if Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction during the final months or years before his ouster, but it is …

InstaGlenn is beneath the waves of blue for a week, but he left a link to this interesting article before he left: For the last few years, top executives from all the major record companies have been giving interviews in which they criticize consumers for doing exactly what the execs …

PW Daily has a fun little tidbit on the Potter5 phenomenon: And a PW book reviewer in the Washington, D.C. area noted that a friend of hers got a surprise when she took the book to a doctor’s appointment earlier this week. “My friend told me yesterday that she took …

No, not blogoversary, REAL anniversary. Dawn and I have been married five years today. She is hot and cool at the same time and crazy and bizarre and freaky and I am the luckiest guy in the world. She’s a great mother and stepmother too – ask all 3.5 of …

Adam Mansbach with a treatise on the intellectual state of hip-hop: In ever-evolving forms, hip-hop rules planet Earth, or at least the global entertainment economy from Japan to Cuba. But is there something deeper going on than the flash of 50 Cent’s platinum chains and Eminem’s silver tongue? Where is …

Allow me to first say I hate tattoos, on anyone, but especially on women, the body being God’s temple and all of that. But I also don’t expect you to share my opinion – sometimes I think I am the only one left, even my sweet older daughter has a …

Interesting angle from Publishers Weekly on the overwhelming Harry Potter sales numbers: Sales figures for the opening months of Potter have shot up with each successive book, but they’re going up a lot faster than backlist sales are. Or, put another way, for Harry Potter, the initial release is becoming …

Kenny Loggins is the latest veteran artist (Sophie B. Hawkins, Natalie Merchant, Pearl Jam) putting out a record on his own after a lifetime with the majors. Will anyone be left at Sony? From his press release: On the cutting edge of a new trend, Kenny Loggins announced today that …