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| | Emily Ratajkowski Works The Streets | | Added 6 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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I know I like to talk a lot of trash about the state of the modeling industry, and how it’s practically 90% rich kid wannabes and professional Insta-hotties these days, but then I see something like this new lingerie photoshoot from a genuine supermodel likeEmily Ratajkowski and it totally restores my faith in this business. […]
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I guess Rita Ora‘s music career isn’t going too well these days, because she’s been doing an awful lot of modeling lately. Mostly on social media, but here she is doing a legit photoshoot. I’m not sure what exactly she’s supposed to be modeling in these artsy black-and-white shots. I think it might be her […]
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| | Britney Spears Will Pump You Up | | Added 6 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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I’m not gonna lie, back in the day, I was convincedBritney Spears was all washed up, and that it was all over for her. Unless she went on Dancing With the Stars or something. But she’s really managed to turn it around and make a major comeback. And I’m seriously impressed. Just to be clear, […]
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| | Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus went mansion hunting in LA on Valentine's Day | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus spent Valentine's Day doing a little house hunting: https://t.co/nHZmGbgBg1 pic.twitter.com/k2I9jwaOpH
— E! News (@enews) February 16, 2018
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| | Judge: Taylor Swift's lyrics are too 'banal' to infringe on anyone's copyright | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I absolutely loathe stories about copyrights and copyright lawsuits. On one side, most of the lawsuits are pretty junky and they deserve to be thrown out. On the other side, when there is a rare valid copyright dispute, it takes forever to actually come to any kind of conclusion. On a gossip level, it?s like watching paint dry. Taylor Swift has been involved with an unknown number of copyright disputes, some lawsuits or copyright-infringement notices which she served to people in which she claimed were copying her lyrics or music. She?s also been accused of infringing on other artists? copyrights. Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued her last year because they claimed her song lyrics in ?Shake It Off? infringed on their lyrical copyright from the song ?Playas Gon? Play.? Hall and Butler did not win their suit, but at least the whole incident did provide us with some excellent judge-shade.
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift for her 1989 track, ?Shake It Off?. In his ruling, Judge Fitzgerald delivered pointed criticism about the song while ruling that the lyrics she allegedly stole from the 3LW?s 2001 hit ?Playas Gon? Play? were too ?banal? to be entitled to protection. Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued Swift last year, claiming her song stole their lyrics, ?Playas, they gonna play/ And haters, they gonna hate.? On the chorus of ?Shake It Off?, Swift sings, ?Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/ And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate (haters gonna hate).?
Although short phrases are historically immune from copyright claims, Hall and Butler argued that their lyrics were ?sufficiently creative? enough to warrant protection. Judge Fitzgerald disagreed, ruling that ?the allegedly infringed lyrics are short phrases that lack the modicum of originality and creativity required for copyright protection.? He added that ?players, haters, and player haters? were already ingrained in American pop culture by 2001.
Here?s the specific quote from Fitzgerald?s ruling: ?In the early 2000s, popular culture was adequately suffused with the concepts of players and haters to render the phrases ?playas? gonna play? or ?haters? gonna hate?, standing on their own, no more creative than ?runners gonna run?; ?drummers gonna drum?; or ?swimmers gonna swim.? The concept of actors acting in accordance with their essential nature is not at all creative; it is banal. The allegedly infringed lyrics are short phrases that lack the modicum of originality and creativity required for copyright protection.?
[From Consequence of Sound]
?Banal? is a great word. We should use it more, because so much of pop culture is banal. Taylor Swift is lyrically banal. This lawsuit was a legal banality. But the whole thing has probably given Taylor some more ?ideas? for future lyrics: swimmers gonna swim, drummers gonna drum, idiots gonna idiot, smarmers gonna smarm, lovers gonna love, geese gonna fly, and on and on.
Meanwhile, enjoy this cheeseball little blurb from Star Magazine:
Ed Sheeran?s fiancee Cherry Seaborn isn?t afraid to tell Ed?s longtime BFF Taylor Swift that she won?t be performing at their upcoming wedding in Italy.
?Taylor immediately offered up her services the minute she heard they got engaged,? spills a source close to Sheeran. But Ed?s bride had another collaborator in mind: Beyonce!
?If wanting Beyonce to sing at her wedding make Cherry a Bridezilla, then so be it,? snickers the source. ?But Ed?s terrified of crossing Taylor.?
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Who would you rather listen to at your wedding, Taylor Swift or Beyonce? You could offer me Tay-Tay live versus a Beyonce CD and I?m still going to choose Beyonce. Why would you want to dance at your WEDDING to a Taylor Swift song?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux are done after two years of marriage | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve been saying for a solid year that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux?s marriage seemed very strange. They barely seemed to spend any time together, and it wasn?t like their time apart was just about competing work schedules at all. Things got even stranger in the past week, with Jennifer celebrating her 49th birthday in Malibu, all while Justin was in New York, hanging out with his dog and not doing anything particularly important. I told you guys I was getting a weird feeling about JustJen. And look, I was right. Justin and Jennifer are over.
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have split after two and a half years of marriage ? and seven years as a couple, the Associated Press reports.
The two spent quite a bit of time apart in recent months, with Theroux often spotted in New York City away from their L.A. home. They have also a busy year as Aniston signed on with Reese Witherspoon for a new Apple TV series and filmed Dumplin? in Atlanta, while Theroux, 46, filmed the comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me in Budapest.
The decision comes just days after the actress?s 49th birthday, which she and Theroux spent apart. Aniston celebrated in Malibu, California with a gathering alongside pals Courteney Cox, Andrea Bendewald, Leigh Kilton-Smith and Kristin Hahn on Sunday. Theroux, meanwhile, was spotted out in New York City on Friday walking his dog. Last year, the duo vacationed together in Los Cabos, Mexico with friends.
[From People]
I mean? again, I?ve been thinking for a while that they were barely even together at this point. He was always in New York or traveling for work. She stayed in LA. Was it all that time apart that ultimately destroyed their marriage? Honestly – and I?m not saying this just to be mean – I never believed they had the most solid foundation in the first place. They got together when he was living with his then-longterm girlfriend Heidi Bivens. He hated the idea of moving to LA, and she pretended to move to New York for a short time to make him happy, but she gave that up. And it took forever for them to go through with the wedding, and it was reported in People Magazine that HE was the holdout, that he was always wary of becoming Mr. Jennifer Aniston. I don?t know. It just felt like there was always too much going against them. Anyway, I?m sure we?ll be hearing a lot more in the days, weeks and months to come. So long, bizarre quartz engagement ring!
Update: Here’s the Associate Press’s piece, which includes the statement they made together:
The couple says in a statement released through her publicist Thursday that the decision to split ?was mutual and lovingly made at the end of last year.? The couple says they are making the announcement publicly ?in an effort to reduce any further speculation.?
?Normally we would do this privately, but given that the gossip industry cannot resist an opportunity to speculate and invent, we wanted to convey the truth directly,? says the statement released by longtime Aniston publicist Stephen Huvane. ?Whatever else is printed about us that is not directly from us, is someone else?s fictional narrative. Above all, we are determined to maintain the deep respect and love that we have for one another.?
Aniston and Theroux say they are ?two best friends who have decided to part ways as a couple, but look forward to continuing our cherished friendship.?
In case anyone was wondering if the “Poor Jen” narrative was going to be revived, there’s your answer. Poor Jen, still being hounded by gossip!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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