There are also video and photo sections on the well-designed blue and pink site. For now the videos only include other people dancing to her new hit “Womanizer,” but there are also a few quick videos of Britney scattered on the blog, like one in which she waves to a bus of tourists outside her house. The photos are promotional and magazine photos, many of which you may have seen before.

Now that Britney has revamped her public image and career it only makes sense that she should expand her new image onto the web. Remember two years ago when she replaced her website with a big image of a tiger and a strange statement about how she was “mesmirized” by them? She doesn’t want you to remember that, or all the crotch flashing she was doing in late 2006, or that head shaving incident in February, 2007. All that is in the past and it’s been replaced by new, better designed, saner Britney 2.0. Perfectly packaged for your consumption.

Britney is on trial for a misdemeanor, for driving without a license in California
There’s one aspect of her troubled past that Britney might not be able to escape so easily. It seems minor compared to everything else that was going on for her at the time, but she is currently being tried for a misdemeanor, for driving without a license in California. The jury trial is underway in Van Nuys, but Britney is not required to be there given the charges.

She does have a valid Louisiana driver’s license, just not one for California, where it seems like she’s lived for the past few years. Her father was called to testify and it’s thought that he will claim that she’s a resident of Louisiana despite all the evidence to the contrary. Britney’s lawyer said in his opening statement that “She regards Louisiana as her [permanent residence]. She’s building a new house there, where she hopes to return as soon as her custody situation is straightened out.” Britney also pays income taxes in Louisiana.

If she plans to move back to Louisiana, how is she going to do it and see her boys? It doesn’t seem like she’s going to get full custody again, and she’ll have to travel back to California just to visit with them. About half of the jury probably sees through that excuse - all you have to do is read a celebrity glossy once in a while to know that she’s not going to move to Louisiana if she wants to see her children.

Do you think Britney will mention this trial on her new blog? It’s doubtful.

Steven Soderbergh must have wanted an actress with a bit of real-world experience for his new movie. Variety reports that the Oscar winner has cast adult film star Sasha Grey as the lead in his upcoming drama “The Girlfriend Experience.”

“Experience,” which was written by Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s 13″ scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien, follows the life of a high-price call girl. I think we can all assume it’s probably not as glamorous as movies and television might suggest.

But really, the life and career of Grey is nearly as movie-worthy as Soderbergh’s call girl. Only 20 years old, she entered the pornography business just after her 18th birthday, and according to her Wikipedia page, became hailed as the next Jenna Jameson pretty quickly thereafter. This past January, she became the youngest winner of Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year award.

Now, she’s moving on to more legitimate projects — she’s done modeling work, appeared in artwork and music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Navarro, and The Roots, and has landed small parts in the indie film “Quit,” and the Canadian horror film “Smash Cut.” Given her looks, her amazing taste in film (she lists Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Catherine Breillat as her favorites), and her obvious tenacity, she may just conquer Hollywood as easily as she did adult film. Landing a lead role with Steven Soderbergh on your third try? Not bad, Ms. Grey!

[From MTV.com]

There seems to be less stigma associated with making porn and that means there are opportunities for adult film actresses that weren’t there 10 or 15 years ago. It’s not really a wide open window to greater fame and stardom, though, and it probably won’t ever be. Hollywood is celebrating the success of former stripper turned screenwriter Diablo Cody, and adult actresses Traci Lords and Jenna Jameson have moved on to greater glory to some extent. Maybe we’re about to see another porn actress who makes the difficult crossover to major motion pictures. As long as she has the talent and can avoid the typecasting that is sure to follow her, she could achieve the kind of success she could only dream about while getting it on with random guys for the cameras.

Ms. Gray has her own channel on YouTube, where you can hear her talk about doing enemas and telling men to eat a healthy diet if they want their girlfriend to um, swallow.

Photos are from Sasha Gray’s myspace.

Kirsten Dunst has taken a lot of crap for her teeth over the years. For some reason she has never fixed her smile, even though she has prominent snaggle teeth. Honestly, every time I write a story about her there’s inevitably a few “why hasn’t she corrected that?” comments, even though none of the topics has ever been Kirsten’s mouth. So it does draw a distracting amount of attention. But I kind of like that she doesn’t feel the need to be exactly like everyone else and accepts herself for who she is. I also have a really bad overbite, so I might be sort of jaded and defensive.

All that said, it’s pretty clear Kirsten’s smile was photoshopped for the cover of October’s issue of Bazaar. However everyone over there claims that’s not the case – which would mean Kirsten’s smile miraculously – and temporarily – improved.

Say, what happened to Kirsten Dunst’s teeth? They’re looking so … straight! Dunst sports a brighter, whiter and less crooked grin on the October cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, prompting some to wonder if the famously snaggle-toothed star finally paid a visit to a cosmetic dentist.

It’s no secret that airbrushers run rampant on glossy magazine covers, but approving such a touch-up would be uncharacteristic for the “Spider-Man” star. Dunst - who recently split from summer love Justin Long - has always embraced her uneven smile, despite pressures from Hollywood and her own family.

“That’s one of the things I like about me. Messed-up teeth are so sexy,” she has said.

“Kirsten has a lovely smile and clearly she is happy to be on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar,” a spokesperson for the mag told WWD.com. “Her teeth were not fixed on the cover or on the inside pages.”

[From the Daily News]

I’m not sure if messed up anything is sexy, but whatever. I’d be fine with Kirsten fixing her teeth. And on a close-up head shot like that, I’d be fine with Bazaar photoshopping it. You can’t really blame them – otherwise the cover would be a distraction instead of an attraction. It just bugs me that it’s pretty clear that they’re insulting us with their lie and instead kissing Kirsten’s ass. We’ve got eyes. They do work. Those are not the same smiles. Thanks.

After the comedian was removed, he covered his head in one of the pieces velcroed to him, wrapped his black cape around him and Milan police took him down to the station.

Dressed in a velcro suit he was bundled away by security guards and taken to a nearby police station where he was formally identified.

A police officer at Milan Sempione police station said: ‘A British national by the name of Sacha Baron Cohen was brought here and identified.

‘He did not have any ID documents on him so someone was sent to his hotel when he got here to fetch his passport.

‘He was actually very funny and the first thing he said was ‘Can I make a phone call’ like they do on TV.’

Cohen was released without charge and was last night still thought to be in Milan.

[From the Daily Mail]

Security at Fashion Week had been increased especially for Cohen after earlier in the week he and his film crew found their way backstage of another show by Italian designer Iceberg.

Scantily clad models screamed and security guards dived on him and several others with him and bundled them away. TV footage screened on Italian TV showed Cohen dressed as his creation Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista.

[From the Huffington Post]

Sacha Baron Cohen is in Milan filming his next mocumentary style movie Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male.  I must admit, I have a thing for Cohen, so I’ll be seeing the movie, but the ridiculously long movie title was only funny the first time.  And even then only the first time I heard it.

Note by JayBird: Here’s Sacha on the catwalk. He doesn’t get very far before security pounces on him.

I don’t really know how this happened, but shocking recent pictures of Tara Reid have emerged. Shocking because she’s so thin? No. So bloated in the face? So very clearly on eight kinds of drugs? Nope. Shocking because she looks decent. Non-totally-freak show ugly. Dare I say even almost normal?

Tara showed up to the premiere of The Women on Thursday evening looking most presentable. I forgot what a pretty girl she can be if only she tries a little. Now I sound like my mother. Next I’ll be screaming at Tara to put down the damn Rolos while tears actually well from my eyes. Anyways, Tara was looking quite nice. You can tell her inner whore was just aching to burst out – quite literally. He nipples were barely restrained. Still, considering they were barely restrained, they were still tucked properly in their respective places (or so I assume).

And the fact that she’s gotten a decent amount of press for simply showing up and not looking like absolute trash… well things are really looking up for Tara.

Here’s Tara at the LA premiere of “The Women” at Mann’s Village Theater on Thursday. Images thanks to WENN and PR Photos.

Christina Aguilera, T.I., and Kid Rock were surprise guests at a press conference yesterday with Sunday’s VMA host Russell Brand. Aguilera said that she will perform a new single titled “Keep Getting Better” in a future-themed performance that showcases her new look. Aguilera branded herself as a retro pinup for her last album, but her next incarnation will be “all about the future,” and is likely to include red lipstick and plenty of caked-on makeup.

T.I. climbed down a nearby fire escape to announce that he will debut a new song, “Live Your Life,” on Sunday with Rihanna. Kid Rock was shown rehearsing his hit “All Summer Long.” He mentioned that he’ll be on stage with Lil’ Wayne at the awards. Also expect performances by The Jonas Brothers, Pink, Paramore, and Katie Perry. Madonna’s name was not mentioned:

A lengthy black limousine suddenly appeared on the scene, and out of it stepped none other than Christina Aguilera — looking svelte in some majorly high heels — who slinked to the microphone and purred that on show night, she’ll be performing her brand-new single, “Keeps Getting Better,” which is also the name of a best-of album she’s releasing in November.

“You’re going to get a first look and a first listen at my new image and my new sound,” she said. “The last album, the style and sound was about vintage glam — this one is all about the future…”

[T.I.] strode up next to Brand and Aguilera, posed for some photos and then broke the news that he, too, would be debuting a new song (from his forthcoming LP, Paper Trail) on the big show, this one a duet with none other than [Rihanna]…

Aguilera and T.I. then departed, leaving Brand to make even more VMA announcements, including news that in the first 30 minutes of the show, fans can expect appearances by Britney Spears, Rihanna, Pete Wentz, and performances by the Jonas Brothers (to be introduced by Taylor Swift), Rihanna and Katy Perry, who will apparently be trying her hand at replicating [Like a Virgin]…

So inside the stage we went, to watch Rock rip through “All Summer Long” (while wearing white slippers), and then announce one last — thoroughly huge — bit of news: that he’ll be sharing the stage with none other than Lil Wayne.

[From MTV]

Kanye West will be closing out the undoubtedly long ceremony, which will include celebrity presenters Jamie Foxx, Chace Crawford, Ashlee Simpson, John Legend, Kobe Bryant, Leona Lewis, Paris Hilton, Slash, Taylor Swift, Shia LaBeouf, the cast of “The Hills,” Michael Phelps, Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Ciara, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse. [Details from MTV]

I’ll tape it and watch the highlights the next day as it’s on super early in the morning my time. These awards ceremonies seem like they’re way too long for the average TV-viewer, even diehard fans, to sit through in their entirety.

“I’m big on therapy,” Mendes told me yesterday. “I’ve always said I love talking about therapy, because there’s nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?”

Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. “Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it,” Mendes says. “I just couldn’t deal with that. How can I have so much? It’s not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn’t know how to handle it.”

Things are different now. “I’ve really broken it down to this simple thing: I deal with everything by giving it away,” Mendes explains. “It’s genius. It works.”

She literally gives things away, like the new pair of Cartier sunglasses she insisted an elderly friend of hers keep when she tried them on. “I said, ‘You need to have them. They look really good on you,’ ” Mendes says.

[From E! Online]

Mendes also talked about her group of female friends and how they’ve helped her get through problems and mentioned the boyfriend she rarely talks about, filmmaker George Augusto, saying he understands her as he’s from a family of five sisters:

In director and writer Diane English’s upcoming The Women, Mendes plays Crystal Allen, a smokin’ hot Saks salesgirl having an affair with married businessman Stephen Haines. Like Stephen’s wife Mary (Meg Ryan), Mendes credits the women in her life for getting her through the tough (and happy) times. “I’ve run into some women in my life who are like, ‘I don’t have any girl friends. I only have guy friends,’” Mendes says. “And I’m like to the guys, ‘Run for the hills when you hear a girl who says she only has guy friends.’ That is a bad situation, because all women should have their base of girls.”

Where does that leave her longtime filmmaker boyfriend George Augusto? “He actually grew up with all women in his family,” Mendes says. “His mom has five sisters, so he gets it.”

[From E! Online]

Mendes next stars in The Women with Meg Ryan, Annette Benning and Jada Pinkett Smith. There are no men shown in the film, just like the 1939 original version it’s based on. Mendes joked that she pictured someone specific when thinking about the married man her bombshell character is having an affair with but says she can’t say who he was because “Those are secrets of the trade.” The Women is out the US on September 12.

“Both twins are suffering from colic, and Angelina is an absolute wreck from not getting enough sleep. Even though she’s raised four other children, the twins’ seemingly constant discomfort is stressing her out.

“She’s called in a doctor, who’s brought along his own medical team, and she has another doctor and nurse on 24-hour call.”

According to sources, the medical problems began shortly after the couple brought the twins home…

“Immediately after feedings, both babies start howling in pain, and Angelina has been running ragged trying to get them to sleep…

“She’s either trying to lull them to sleep in a rocking chair or pacing the floor with either Knox or Vivienne.

“Sometimes she puts the babies in their swings and sits nearby until they fall asleep. But when she gets them into their cribs, they’ll often wake up and start screaming all over again!

“Angelina says she can’t remember the last time she slept more than two hours straight.

“And even though she has a staff of nannies and assistants to help, the only other people she allows to handle the colicky babies are a doctor or nurse.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]

My son had colic for a few weeks after he was born, and I found that if I cut out all milk and bread/gluten from my diet he was much calmer and the colic went away. I limited my diet to just rice, turkey, chicken and only a few non-citrus fruits and non-gassy vegetables. It was difficult, but the improvement in his well being seemed worth it to me. That is just anecdotal evidence, and most doctors and even La Leche League will tell you that maternal diet has no effect on nursing babies, citing other cultures where mothers eat spicy foods. Some of my friends who nursed also told me that their babies were much calmer once they went on an elimination diet.

Nicole Richie has also touted the benefits of limiting her diet when nursing a newborn, saying after Harlow was born that “There’s just so much I can’t eat because she’s sensitive… I eat really bland [food].” Usually a newborn’s sensitivity to foods the mother eats goes away after a few months.

If Shiloh was a calm baby and wasn’t affected by Angelina’s diet maybe she’s not aware that the twins may be sensitive to the proteins from food that pass through into her milk. It’s also possible that something else is causing the twin’s colic and that it has nothing to do with what Angelina is eating. The babies are supposedly fussing right after they feed, though, which suggests that it has something to do with it.

The article also says that Angelina is upset that Brad had to go to the Venice and later the Toronto Film Festivals. It is said that she “resents that Brad pretty much comes and goes as he pleases,” but that she understands that he has work obligations and has to make appearances. They end with a funny story about how Brad called Angelina to tell her he loved her and she had to go because the babies were crying.

“On the festival’s final night [Brad] called in late just to tell Angie how much he missed her and to say, ‘You are the love of my life.’

“Angie was deeply touched and said she felt the same way. But a second later, she whimpered, ‘I’ve got to go - the babies are crying!’”

Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, is said to be fuming at reports that came out in the National Enquirer last week that Casey was cheating on her with multiple other women even after their daughter little Maddie was born in June. After hearing the allegations of his affairs, Jamie Lynn told Casey to get all this crap out of the house they’ve been sharing in Liberty, Mississippi and has called off their planned wedding:

Just a week after The Enquirer’s blockbuster interview with one of her fiance’s lovers, teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears has kicked Casey Aldridge to the curb for good!

“Jamie Lynn told Casey to ‘Get out!’ and remove all his belonging from their house,” revealed a source.

The young couple had been living in a three-bedroom home on five acres that Jamie Lynn bought in Liberty, Miss., where she and Casey planned to raise their new baby daughter, Maddie Briann.

“But there’ll be no happily ever after for Jamie Lynn and Casey,” continued the source. “Their planned marriage is now out of the question. Jamie Lynn is determined to raise Maddie Briann by herself.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]

That’s pretty much what people expected after hearing that story from the second woman to speak to the tabloids about an affair with Jamie Lynn’s fiance. Casey Aldridge is 18 years old and is obviously not ready to settle down. The first woman who spoke out about an affair may have been doing it for the money or fleeting glimpse at fame, but the second kind of makes it seem like he has a pattern of hound-dogging.

To add an interesting twist to this story is the fact that Casey Aldridge is said to be calling up Kevin Federline and asking for advice. It’s not for a father-to-father chat, though, he wants custody of Maddie and needs to figure out how K-Fed did it with his two kids with Britney, Jamie Lynn’s older sister:

“Casey has been talking with Kevin Federline, seeking his advice and strategy on how he fought and won custody of his two kids with Britney,” said the source.

“Kevin tells Casey to be strong and not let the Spears family cut him off from his child. Unless Jamie Lynn and Casey reconcile at some later time, it is easy to see how this is going to play out - in a huge fight over joint custody.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]

Jamie Lynn and Britney’s situations are entirely different and if she does permanently split with Casey he’s not likely to get more than visitation rights with his daughter. Jamie Lynn is now said to be ignoring Casey’s attempts to contact her. The insider is quoted as saying “She’s finally done with him and isn’t taking his calls. She only text messages him if there’s something to tell him about the baby.” That seems like the best course of action in this case, and Jamie Lynn probably would have made a huge mistake if she ended up marrying the guy.

The Jonas Brothers are taking over the world. At least, that’s how it seems to those of us who are tying to ignore them. It’s getting harder to avoid them, though: they currently have the #1 CD on the Billboard charts, and their TV movie “Camp Rock” is rapidly approaching mania of “High School Musical” status. I don’t really get it; they seem like little more than another Hanson to me. But they’ve garnered enough popularity to land their own show on the Disney Channel.

After the success of their TV movie Camp Rock, the Jonas Brothers are now prepping for their own Disney Channel original series.

“It’s going to be about us as a band but dealing with normal things like trying to take out the trash and not get hounded by fans,” Joe Jonas tells ELLEgirl magazine about the as-yet untitled series. “It’s going to be a funny show, and it’s going to be a great cast.”

The show – originally about the boy band living a double life as spies – has recently undergone a conceptual change. The trio, who just released their third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, told Ryan Seacrest on his KISS-FM radio show that the series will now be more like HBO’s Flight of the Conchords.

[From People]

Yeah, except Flight of the Choncords is funny, edgy and enjoyable to watch. You know, the one good thing about being the next big teen sensation is that sooner or later, you grow up and your voice changes, and there’ll be some other floppy-haired, squeaky voiced kid right behind you ready to take your place. So I’ll continue plugging my ears and crossing my fingers- after all, when was the last time Hanson had a big hit?