Lady Gaga will release a book of photographs with fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
Grand Central Publishing announced Thursday that it will release the book, “Lady Gaga,” on Nov. 22. The publisher said the book will include more than 350 color and black-and-white photographs of Gaga.
Richardson followed the singer for 10 months between Aug. 2010 and Feb. 2011. That time period includes Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour and the recording of her album “Born This Way.”
Lady Gaga will write the book’s forward.
On Thursday, the pop star surpassed 12 million followers on Twitter.
Book, Lady Gaga
With Musikfest’s main stage, its only other paid stage, its largest free stage and its only new stage all movingto the SteelStacks campus this year, organizers want to give the public a chance to get comfortable with the changes.
So Musikfest this year will have a preview night for the 10-day festival.
The evening, from 6-11 p.m. Aug. 4, will feature tours of the new Steel Stage main performance venue as well at Musikfest Café. There also will be performances at Levitt Pavilion, which will replace Americaplatz as the festival’s largest free stage, and at Town Square, the festival’s only new stage.
Musikfest officially kicks off Aug. 5.
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has insisted that she has no intention of trying to “sell sex” in order to help her career.
The former Destiny’s Child singer, who recently denied rumours that the band are planning to reunite, explained that she refuses to be told how to market her music.
The X Factor judge, who has just released her third solo album Here I Am, told the New York Daily News: “I’m not trying to sell sex. I’m just completely being myself. I don’t let nobody dictate who I am.
“I did that for way too long that I don’t care about those people no more. I really don’t.”
Rowland, however, said that she is comfortable with her body, following a topless photo shoot in the latest edition of Vibe magazine.
“I just wanted it to be skin, I’m so comfortable in my skin,” she said. Read more…
Sell, Sell Music
Hollywood sharpies spend endless hours at pitch meetings dreaming up hybrids of famous movies, and sometimes they hit pay dirt. “It’s like Jaws, but on a spaceship”: Alien. Then the hybrid blossoms into its own format until it devolves and devours its own with Alien vs. Predator and finally collapses, exhausted into the heap of Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus. That’s what happens when moviemakers take Spengler’s theory of the rise and decline of nations and use it as a business model.
The title Cowboys & Aliens suggesting a merger of the cowboys-and-Indians Western genre with science fiction triggered the salivary glands of some very important film people.
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FACEBOOK has removed an image of an iconic 1991 Nirvana album cover featuring a picture of naked baby for violating its terms of use, before changing its mind, according to a report from the US.
The social networking site removed an image of the “Nevermind” cover from the grunge band’s official fan page on the site, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
But the album cover, which shows a naked baby boy swimming towards a dollar bill, was back on the Nirvana Facebook page later, after an apparent change of heart by Facebook.
A source close to the band’s surviving members told Entertainment Weekly, “Facebook took down the product shots, they sent us a form message. I’m guessing it’s probably due to the baby penis … s
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