Katy Perry

Pop Singer Katy Perry will team up with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to write songs. Buzznet broke the story after speaking with Cuomo. Weezer’s seventh album, titled Raditude is to be released in a few weeks. His collaboration with Perry will be on her sophomore album, on which Perry will also record with the likes of All-American Rejects and Lil Wayne.

Perry and Cuomo have a mutual like for the Beach Boys.

Perry and Russell Brand have a mutual like for each other, it appears. They were seen kissing in Los Angeles last week at a party. This was after having spent time together in the most romantic city in the world, Paris during Fashion Week. And a stream of Brand’s exes also took a moment to give their opinion of the Brand-Perry match. Perry, the daughter of evangelical Christian parents, is hoping to introduce Brand to her folks soon.

The couple’s favorite song is “Whatever Happens, I Love You,” by Steven Morrissey. Brand is having the chorus, “Cold loving prose, we stole each other’s clothes/But when all is said and done, it’s you I love” tattooed onto an unspecified part of his body.

Halloween is the one day a year you’re allowed to be anyone you want to be. And according to costume retailers, a lot of people want to be celebrities, even celebrities who are no longer among the living.

Here are 5 more celebrity costumes that are proving popular for 2009, in alphabetical order.

Perhaps the easiest celebrity costume if you happen to be a middle aged dude is Billy Mays. If you’re clean shaven, you’ll need some facial hair substitute, add a big smile, thumbs up, and carry a bottle of OxyClean. Oh, and when you say “Trick or Treat,” say it really loud.

Evidently a lot of people this year are interested in dressing up like “The Octomom,” which sounds like a deep-sea creature, but is actually the mother of 14 (all under age who had eight babies earlier this year. Another famous female that will inspire a lot of costume ideas this year is former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

If you want to dress up as Kanye West, don’t forget the shades. And when that little kid in front of you tries to say “Trick or treat,” push in front of him before he can finish and demand your Halloween candy first. And finally, there are plenty of people both male and female who will be dressing up as Amy Winehouse. She may not have been as visible in 2009 as she was in 2008, but the costume potential is too huge to ignore.

Sound Bites

Katie Holmes
-On family life: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìIn my own life, my whole world really revolves around family. I do what I need to do, but it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s like, ?¢‚ǨÀúHow is everybody else doing??¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ And it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s wonderful for me as an actress to put some of that into a character.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

-On life: as a working mom on the Broadway set of All My Sons: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìSuri would sit in my lap in the makeup chair. She?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d hand the wig lady the bobby pins.?¢‚Ǩ?ì

-On fashion: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìI love Alaia, for sure. Stella McCartney. I like Ralph Lauren because I feel like it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s very American, and I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m pretty all-American, from Ohio. Isabel Marant and a new designer, Sari Gueron.

-On the genre of film she loves most: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìIt can be any genre. I even like vampire movies ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú they just have to be well done. I want to believe in the characters. The minute it starts to feel not real, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m not interested.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

Emily Blunt
-On adjusting to Hollywood life since moving from the UK: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìI feel the fear of the business creep under my skin in L.A. in a way that it doesn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t in England. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s funny ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú I feel like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, unless you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re in Hollywood! It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s shameful how you have to look a certain way. Women are simply not allowed to grow old gracefully. That?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s why I love playing character parts, because I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m not pigeonholed into trying to remain young forever to play the ing?ɬ©nue or romantic lead.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

Julianne Moore
-On types of characters she is drawn to: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìI think my connection to acting has been through reading. I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m interested in scripts. People ask me, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìWhat role are you dying to play??¢‚Ǩ¬ù It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s really, What story do I want to be in??¢‚Ǩ¬ù

Renee Zellweger
-On actresses from earlier eras that have influenced her: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìFor Leatherheads, I was thinking of Katharine Hepburn, the way she leaned forward with her shoulders back, speaking in her lower register the whole time. I like her confidence, her intelligence, her sense of entitlement. When I was making Chicago, I couldn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t stop watching the Marilyn [Monroe] videos. Not so much because of the sex kitten thing; it was more her vulnerability. That was a huge part of the Roxie character. But it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s not about emulating; it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s about a feeling.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

-On whether a successful movie career requires sacrificing your personal life: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìA friend of mine couldn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t decide between moving to New York or staying in L.A., and another friend said, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìDo Everything!?¢‚Ǩ¬ù I thought, That?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s it, do everything.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù
Zoe Saldana
-On being known as a beautiful Hollywood actress: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìI?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m sorry, but it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s sexy to know that guys find you attractive. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s empowering.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

To see the rest of the ?¢‚ǨÀúWomen In Hollywood?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ covers visit: elle.com

But there are no hard feelings: “I was pretty sad. But he was probably right. I did have a voice a bit like a goat.” However, her father told her never to give up, and he was right too. Her new album Sea Wolf has been getting great reviews.

But Shakira’s also been busy promoting another cause close to her heart. Last Friday, she was among the many celebrities who participated in a global event called “Moving Stars and Earth for Water.” The purpose was to bring attention to the plight of those around the world who do not have access to clean, safe drinking water.

Others in the star-studded event included Salma Hayek, Bono, Joss Stone, and Al Gore. Fourteen cities around the world participated, each with a different theme. For example, in Osaka, Japan, Tatuya Ishii did a performance, the theme was the melting of the polar ice caps, which will eventually cause sea levels to rise. In Johannesburg, the theme of water and education and how the two are linked was emphasized.

Lindsay Lohan

It’s Paris fashion week, and so far one of the biggest news items has little to do with fashion and much to do with celebrity. Lindsay Lohan, who was hired as an “artistic adviser” for Italian design house Emanuel Ungaro, presented her first collection at the Louvre, to the chagrin of style conoisseurs and struggling designers everywhere.

Largely seen as a publicity stunt for Ungaro - a brand that is rapidly fading into the background - Lohan’s collection was panned for being, well, tacky, with plenty of orange and pink, ruched orange slacks, and black, heart-shaped pasties. Guilty by association is Estrella Archs, who has designed for Prada, Christian Lacroix, Emilio Pucci, and Nina Ricci.

By way of explanation, president of Ungaro, Mounir Moufarrige, has said, “Twenty-first century muses are extroverts whose personal style and experience gives them strong creative and artistic focus.”

Even among the notoriously tough fashion crowd, fangs were out for this collection. It was only one month ago that Emanuel Ungar “hired” Lohan as as artistic adviser. Many in the fashion industry consider it a huge insult to anyone who had ever really worked in design or graduated from design school.

Then again, the fashion industry has in recent years emphasized flashy, disposable fashion over forward thinking and style. Lohan’s collection for Ungaro was no exception, with plenty of tight micro-mini dresses and emphasis on hearts as a design element. It appeared as a sequin pattern on one jacket and as cutouts on another. But it was the heart shaped pasties that were most universally panned, perhaps as a symbol of a fashion house in a desperate bid for attention from a house that has been fading from view since its founder retired back in 2004.

Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have been together and apart repeatedly for the past 20 years. But now it appears as if they are together for good, because celebrity spies have reported that the two are engaged to be married. Cruz was also seen exiting the office of an OBGYN in Madrid, fueling rumors that she is expecting. Other rumors are that the engagement was made to appease Cruz’s Catholic parents assuming she is with child.

A “friend” of Cruz and Bardem have said, according to the NY Daily News, that the two are telling friends they will get married. Nobody will confirm whether the couple are having a child. One of the interesting influences on this couple is that their relationship has been interwoven with their careers. The two first met when Penelope was 16 and Javier was 21 when both were working on a film called Jamon Jamon. Though Cruz put an end to the relationship after the movie wrapped, the two were back together by 1997, when they worked together on the movie Live Flesh. In 2008’s Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the pair’s on-screen chemistry was a large part of what made the movie so appealing.

Kate Gosselin

On November 2, hit reality show John & Kate Plus 8 will be renamed Kate Plus 8 due to the breakdown of the Gosselin marriage. Perhaps it was only fitting that she received custody of the reality show, since she’s now a single mother with 8 children age 8 and under. Jon has been busy with other things like travel and pursuing other career opportunities.

Eileen O’Neill, president of cable television channel TLC said recently, “Given the recent changes in the family dynamics, it only makes sense for us to refresh and recalibrate the program to keep pace with the family.” Jon will, however, show up occasionally on the show, according to TLC.

Jon’s newly single life is apparently costing him any good will he used to receive as husband and father of his brood. A source recently told People magazine, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìGiven Jon?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s recent antics, there was no way the show could continue to portray him as a doting Dad, not while all this other crap was going on.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

The series made its debut in April 2007, and once it became clear that the Gosselin’s relationship was in trouble, the show experienced a ratings spike. In the latest season to air, the two announced that they would divorce. The fifth season debut attracted 9.8 million viewers, more viewers than any other show that night, cable or broadcast.

However, the August 3 episode only attracted about half that many, and less than 2 million watched last Monday’s show. Kate has been busy recently, filling in as a guest host on syndicated talk show The View while Elisabeth Hasselbeck is on maternity leave.

The latest season of The Hills started up on Tuesday night without its original star Lauren Conrad. But she’s far from unemployed. Variety just announced that the executive producers of the Twilight series of movies has acquired the rights to her novel L.A. Candy. The book is about a 19-year-old who moves to Hollywood and becomes famous through the medium of reality television. It spent 14 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Conrad herself contacted Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, producers of the Twilight films, with an idea for adapting her book. They bit.

Said Bowen to Variety, “We loved her take. Her book is an honest portrayal of what it must be like to set out to be normal, then sign on to become famous and eventually realize, wow, this isn’t at all what I’d planned for myself.” For this, Conrad will get executive producer credit for the movie.

Conrad has already signed a three-book deal with publishing giant Harper Collins and plans to write more about Jane Roberts, the main character in L.A. Candy. It is as yet unknown who will write the screenplay for the movie. Conrad also recently launched a line of L.A. style clothing for Kohl’s stores.

Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson and Donatella Versace

Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri

Despite reports of a break up made public, Milan Fashion Week brought Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson back together once again. The two were seen together on Friday, the 25th of September holding conversation with Donatella Versace. After all that Janet has dealt with in light of losing her brother, has Jermaine come to her side to provide emotional support?