One of my favorite Hollywood actresses Julia Roberts opens up about young Hollywood, the press, children, and her career in the new Vanity Fair.

Julia on the frenzy surrounding today’s young celebrities: “I think it’s just grotesque. It’s like a circus sideshow. I don’t know why anybody would even want to go into show business these days, with all of the different magazines and shows. It just wouldn’t be worth it. And it’s too fast. Before, you could build a career over years and many movies. Now it’s like you do one good movie and they throw a ton of money at you and a ton of attention at you. You’re being constructed outside of yourself before you even know who you are, and what you are, and how you want to do it, and why you want to do it.”

Julia on paparazzi taking photos of celebrities’ children: “I just feel like it’s so demeaning the way they behave, and I hate the fact that I even put any of my energy into thinking about it or being stressed about it. And really, more than anything, it just has to do with my kids. There’s no reason to take pictures of celebrities’ children other than for people to say, “Oh, they’re cute.” I think magazines shouldn’t run pictures of people’s kids. I have a problem with that. I also have a problem with the whole notion that, if I have Henry in a sling, I’m hiding him. He’s a baby and I’m carrying him around, and so’s the lady across the street. I get pissed off, because I think that it’s inhuman to chase a woman with her children.”

Julia on how celebs are just like normal people: “We’re all the same. Why can’t we get on board with this? That we’re all the same. Some have cooler jobs, some have less cool jobs, some have longer legs, some are nicer people, but we’re all the same. We’re all orbiting the same sun.”

Julia on diapers: “I use Seventh Generation [chlorine-free, nontoxic] diapers for Finn and Hazel, and then I was turned on to the [plastic-free, flushable] gDiapers. Henry’s got a gDiaper on.… I would recommend them overall. It is flushable, but you’ve got to stir that thing! If you don’t really break it all the way up, it doesn’t go all the way down.”

Julia on if her kids wanted to get into acting: “I would call Natalie Portman’s mother. Natalie is such a good actress, but she seems like such a sensible person. I asked her about it one day when we were doing Closer, and she said she only worked with people that her parents trusted, and she only worked when it didn’t impact her school. So there were definitely guidelines. No one does it that way, but they did it, so it can be done. I hope I don’t face that, though, because I think kids should be kids and childhood should be filled with … you know that smell, when your kids come in and they smell like dirt and sweat and sunshine? That’s what I hope for my kids.”

Julia on how it felt to be the first woman to earn more than $20 million [for Erin Brockovich]:“Just as good as it would if you were a man, I bet. I mean, I guess I shouldn’t belittle it like that. I should take pride in being a forerunner, even if it’s something that seems kind of stupid, like being overpaid for a great job. But I don’t really think about it. Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas was my agent then, and she took a real position, as a woman in the industry representing a woman, to make strides in that way. So she really deserves credit. It was really a thing for her.”

Julia on getting back into shape after having children: “I have been working out, but listen, it is 97 percent genetics. Don’t let anybody tell you any crap about anything else, because that’s what it is: 97 percent genetics and 3 percent just get your ass moving. Because I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like.”

Can’t wait for the new movies she’s got coming out soon.

Eddie Murphy, Beyonce, and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx are on the cover of next month’s Vanity Fair–which is a notable event for the simple fact that it’s black people on Vanity Fair. There has not been a black woman on the cover of Vanity Fair since Tina Turner–and the only other black men have been Will Smith, Chris Rock, Denzel Washington, and Michael Jordan.

But my question is…where are Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose? Forgive me, but isn’t Jennifer the one getting Oscar buzz? Every person that has seen this movie has clearly stated that she steals the film. Disgusting.

Another interesting fact however..is that for whatever reason, they lightened Beyonce’s skin color when she was on the cover back in ‘05. There’s a write up on it here.

Matt Lauer has many more Todays in his future.

In the wake of Katie Couric’s decision to jump ship to CBS, her NBC morning coanchor has re-upped his contract through spring 2011 in a deal pegged at $13 million a year by the New York Times.

NBC confirmed the deal Tuesday, after Lauer spilled the beans in an interview with the Times.

The pay increase makes Lauer roughly as well compensated as Couric was on NBC and will be on CBS. Had she stuck around Peacock headquarters, Couric would have been upped to a reported $20 million a year. In contrast, Couric’s replacement, Meredith Vieira, will reportedly earn around $10 million a year.

Lauer joined the show in January 1997, replacing Bryant Gumbel as Couric’s sidekick. He maintains a relatively low profile on the show, beyond keeping up a rigorous travel schedule as star of the running segment “Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?”

His prior contract had been scheduled to expire in 2008, but the cohost had no qualms about extending his stay.

“I like it here,” Lauer, 48, told the Times. “I can be cagey about it and do all the things you’re supposed to do. I like this job.”

Meanwhile, Vieira, Lauer’s newly announced cohost, with whom he shares a Dec. 30 birthday, has found herself increasingly under the spotlight since being announced as Couric’s replacement.

In a recent interview appearing in the May issue of More magazine, the current View talking head revealed that she was once involved in an abusive relationship.

“He would slap me and then make up, saying, ‘I’ll never do this again,’ crying,” Vieira, 52, told the magazine of a man she dated years ago. “It escalated to the point where he actually threw me out of the apartment naked. I sat out all night in the stairwell, and the next morning he let me in.”

After that incident, Vieira said she decided to leave her boyfriend. “It took almost 12 months,” she said. “I consider myself a pretty smart woman, and I got into this situation…I can look back and go, Where was my respect for myself?”

In an effort to educate the public about domestic abuse, Vieira later made a news documentary about the Framingham Eight–women who were jailed for killing their abusers.

Today the newswoman is happily married to journalist Richard Cohen, her husband of almost 20 years, with whom she has three children: Ben, 17, Gabe, 14, and Lily, 13.

TVWeek reports Katie Couric and CBS have reached a deal in principle for her to anchor ‘CBS Evening News’ and an announcement was imminent.

Couric would become the first woman to be the sole anchor of a major network newscast, the TV industry news magazine said on its Web site.

CBS has reportedly agreed to let NBC first announce Couric was leaving ‘Today’ after 15 years, after which CBS will announce her new position behind Dan Rather`s anchor desk, TVWeek.com said.

CBS, NBC and Couric’s representatives all declined to comment on the report.

Couric’s $65 million contract with NBC runs out in May.

Teri Hatcher, a star of “Desperate Housewives,” has revealed to Vanity Fair magazine that she was sexually molested by an uncle when she was 5 years old.

The interview with Leslie Bennetts is the first time Hatcher has talked publicly about the abuse, which she says took place 35 years ago. Hatcher, 41, later helped put the man behind bars.

In 2002, Hatcher learned that her uncle Richard Hayes Stone had been arrested on child molestation charges and that an alleged victim, a 14-year-old girl, had committed suicide.

Hatcher contacted authorities and told them her story. The case was on the verge of being dismissed when she came forward, but her testimony was instrumental in persuading Stone to plead guilty to four counts of child molestation of two girls. The 64-year-old received a 14-year prison sentence.

‘Didn’t Intend to Talk About This’

“I didn’t intend to talk about this with you,” Hatcher told Bennetts in Vanity Fair, which will hit newsstands Friday. “But it is something that’s been surfacing with me for the past three years. This is something I’ve tried to hide my whole life.”

Bennetts said she doesn’t believe Hatcher had any intention of talking about the abuse. Bennetts said the interview was a gradual process, and the two spent a lot of time getting to know each other.

Bennetts said that at first Hatcher only told her the story off the record — Hatcher was very conflicted about going public with the claim.

Hatcher told Bennetts that she was afraid of going public in 2002 because cynics might accuse her of using it to get attention and resuscitate an expiring career. But she found herself tormented by the thought of the alleged victim who shot herself.

“I kept thinking, if she’d known me, especially me being famous, if I could have said to her, ‘Look, it happened to me!’ If I could just have said to her, ‘You’re going to be OK …’,” Hatcher said in the interview.

Hatcher said she never told anyone about what happened to her as a child, not even her parents, and she doesn’t mention the ordeal in her forthcoming book, “Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life.”

Chuck Gillingham, the Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who prosecuted Stone, told Bennetts that without Hatcher’s help the case would have been dismissed. “I have so much respect for what she did,” Gillingham said. “This is a person who had nothing to gain and a lot to lose.”

For all of Hatcher’s success, she told Bennetts about her emotional scars: “I have so much pain. I’m a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. I’m trying to be my powerful me.”

Bennetts told “Good Morning America” that by sharing her story, Hatcher might be able to put the ordeal behind her.

“This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years,” Bennetts said. “She’s unloading it, getting rid of it. She’s saying, ‘This is who I am, this is how it affected me.’ She’s trying to move beyond it. “

Now you can smell the Desperate Housewives–the show’s producers are manufacturing a scent for the autumn. Bosses at fragrance giants Coty Inc have teamed up with Disney-ABC TV to create the new scent, which is based on the hit show.

The tantalising scent, which is being designed to conjure up the smells of the ladies of Wisteria Lane, will debut in select department stores in America later this year.

ABC Entertainment spokesman Bruce Gersh says, “The Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series.” The project marks the first time that Coty has teamed up with a major studio to develop a fragrance inspired by a hit TV show.

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross crowned the hairstyle queen of Hollywood.

In a poll conducted by American magazine, In Touch, Desperate Housewivesstar Marcia Cross was honoured with having the most glamorous hair in Hollywood.

The amber haired beauty who recently wowed onlookers at the Golden Globes plays obsessive Bree in the hit TV series.

The Massachusetts born actress, 43, edged out her Desperate Housewives co-star Eva Longoria for the top spot. Also making the list were Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow.

British singer George Michael was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of possessing drugs after he was found slumped in a car in central London, a police source said.

Michael, 42, who has sold more than 80 million records worldwide during a 25-year career, was arrested in the Hyde Park area of the capital early on Sunday, the source said.

A London police spokesman would not confirm Michael had been arrested. He issued a statement saying a 42-year-old man had been held on suspicion of possessing Class C drugs, a group in British law which includes cannabis, tranquilizers and some painkillers.

“We were called by a member of the public to a man seen slumped over the steering wheel of a car,” the statement said. “He was arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled substances.”

He was bailed to return to a police station in late March pending a police investigation.

Michael’s manager and publicist could not be reached for comment.

Under British law, anyone convicted of possessing Class C drugs can be jailed for up to two years and face an unlimited fine, according to the Interior Ministry’s Web site.

The singer had a string of hits in the 1980s with the band Wham! before forging a successful solo career with albums such as “Faith,” “Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1” and “Patience.”

Playwright Tyler Perry, who turned his crazy-granny “Madea” character into a lucrative cottage industry, returned to the top of the box office on Sunday, exactly one year after stunning the industry with a No. 1 bow for his first film.

“Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion,” which Perry wrote, directed and starred in, sold an estimated $30.3 million worth of tickets in its first three days since opening on Friday, distributor Lionsgate said.

The comedy-drama revolves around a pistol-toting matriarch, played by Perry, who beats and lectures her chaotic clan into submission. It was not screened in advance for critics, a tactic usually employed when a studio knows a movie will get harsh reviews but fans will turn out anyway.

While Perry, 35, is one of the best-known black playwrights in the United States, with sold-out shows in virtually every city for his “Madea” plays, he was barely a blip on the radar of mainstream movie audiences until last February when “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” opened at No. 1. The revenge comedy, budgeted at $5.5 million, ended its theatrical run with $50 million and was huge seller on home video. It was also released by Lionsgate, a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Last week’s champion, Walt Disney Co.’s fact-based survival saga “Eight Below,” slipped to No. 2 with $15.7 million, taking its 10-day total to $45.1 million.

NEW DUDS

Two other films opened in theaters, not that many people noticed. The canine cartoon “Doogal” played dead at No. 8 with $3.6 million, while the mob drama “Running Scared” was whacked at No. 9 with $3.1 million.

“Doogal” was released by the Weinstein Co., the privately held firm established by former Miramax Films co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. “Running Scared” was released by New Line Cinema, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

Rounding out the top-five, Steve Martin’s comedy remake “The Pink Panther,” another former champ, was steady at No. 3 with $11.3 million in its third weekend. The film has earned $61 million to date.

The teen comedy “Date Movie” fell two places to No. 4 with $9.2 million, for a 10-day haul of $33.9 million. The computer-animated children’s book adaptation “Curious George” dipped one spot to No. 5 with $7 million and a three-week tally of $43.1 million.

“The Pink Panther” was released by Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp. while “Date Movie” was released by Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp. “Curious George” was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of NBC Universal, which is controlled by General Electric Co.

In a sign that Oscar buzz has largely been a bust for movie theater owners, three of the five best picture nominees earned a combined $3.4 million during the weekend, with leading contender “Brokeback Mountain” accounting for $2.3 million of that. To date, the gay-cowboy film has earned $75.4 million.

George Clooney’s newsroom drama “Good Night, and Good Luck” earned $600,000, while Steven Spielberg’s revenge thriller “Munich” pulled in $488,000. Their respective totals stand at $30.3 million and $46.1 million.

Of the two other nominees, the ensemble drama “Crash” is already out on home video, while official estimates for the Truman Capote saga “Capote” were not available. However, a rival studio estimated it made about $1 million, taking its total to about $23 million.

The Academy Awards will be handed out in Hollywood next Sunday.

My friends over at OhLaLaParis just posted this picture one of their readers sent them apparently related to a little…incident at Durham University.

What happened is that there were blockages in the mens’ showers, and it was determined that the blockages were being caused by a large amount of semen.

Haha….aren’t these guys having any sex?