On February 3rd, the first single from Madonna‘s new album MDNA will be released!

Breathe slowly, now!

This will be her long-awaited twelfth studio album, and the first since 2008′s Hard Candy. The song, [Give Me All Your Luvin'], features Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.

An excerpt from the music video will be featured on American Idol on February 2nd, with the complete video available on Madonna’s YouTube channel on the 3rd.

MDNA will be released on March 26th.

Don’t forget to check out Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday February 5th!

Excited?  I am!

At least she looks better than the actual movie does!

Katherine Heigl stepped out on the red carpet for the premiere of her film One For The Money looking stunning in a red dress that hugged her curves beautifully.

Her new movie looks awful, but she never disappoints on the red carpet!

I’ve been fortunate to see the pilot of the new musical series Smash! Let me tell you, it is one! It’s my favorite pilot of the year thus far!

At first glance, it seems a bit like Glee, but that’s not what the final product is like at all. The musical numbers are exciting and fresh, as is the cast: especially Megan Hilty! She will be a household name very soon!

It’s a great premise, and I can’t wait to see where the rest of the season goes!

Smash Debuts Feb 6!

After a call to paramedics, Demi Moore was rushed to the hospital on Monday night!

While her reps say that she will be heading to rehab shortly to deal with exhaustion, sources have claimed that it is related to substance abuse.

Considering her past history of alcohol and cocaine addiction (she was dealing with that back in the 1980s), this doesn’t come as a surprise to some, even citing it as a contributing factor to the breakup of her six year marriage to Ashton Kutcher.

Well, I can certainly understand being stressed by the end of a marriage! Let’s hope that she gets whatever help she needs.

The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced this morning and there were a few surprises, including the highest number of first-time nominees ever!

I’m excited!

Leading the nomination count are Hugo with 11 nominations and The Artist with 10. Here’s how it looks in terms of number of nominations:

11 nominations:
Hugo (including Picture and Director Martin Scorsese)

10 nominations:
The Artist (including Picture, Director Michel Hazanavicius, Supporting Actress Bérénice Bejo)

6 nominations:
Moneyball (including Picture, Actor Brad Pitt, Supporting Actor Jonah Hill)
War Horse (Picture)

5 nominations:
The Descendants (Picture, Director Alexander Payne, Actor George Clooney)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Actress Rooney Mara)

4 nominations:
The Help (Picture, Actress Viola Davis, Supporting Actresses Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer)
Midnight in Paris (Picture, Director Woody Allen)

3 nominations:
Albert Nobbs (Actress Glenn Close, Supporting Actress Janet McTeer)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Actor Gary Oldman)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Tree of Life (Picture, Director Terrence Malick)

2 nominations:
A Separation
Bridesmaids (Supporting Actress Melissa McCarthy)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Picture, Actor Max von Sydow)
The Iron Lady (Actress Meryl Streep)
My Week with Marilyn (Actress Michelle Williams, Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh)

Competing in separate categories (drama, comedy) at the Golden Globes, Streep and Williams are now pitted directly against each other!

It was interesting to see Gary Oldman and Max von Sydow in the Best Actor list, as they had been overlooked for other awards and nominations so far this year.

Other races to watch will be Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, especially with the multiple acting nods for The Help. I would like to have seen Shailene Woodley being nominated for her performance in The Descendants.

Good friends George Clooney and Brad Pitt are competing against each other in the Best Actor category and while their films (The Descendants, Moneyball) are vying in the Adapted Screenplay category. This could be a very good year for Clooney; he’s also up for an Adapted Screenplay writing award for The Ides of March!

Of course, I have to mention a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for Canada’s Monsieur Lazhar!

The Oscars will be presented at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday February 26th. Billy Crystal will serve as host for the ninth time! I know I’ll be tuned in!

Who do you think will win?

Congrats to Bryce Dallas Howard and her husband Seth Gabel on the birth of their second daughter Beatrice Jean Howard-Gabel on January 19.

Beatrice is a sweet name. Not many people carry that name anymore. Can’t wait to see the first pictures!

Okay, so the best show that nobody is watching, in my opinion is HBO’s Enlightened!

Laura Dern just took hook the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a comedy for the series, and she totally deserved it. She makes you laugh, cry and go WTF all at once!

The series is about a woman who has a complete nervous collapse, and she returns from treatment “relaxed and enlightened” to the world around her. However this causes problems in her personal and professional life.

You must all watch this amazing series. I finished the first season in less then 24 hours! It’s that good!

Looks like somebody was cheering pretty hard at the Nicks Vs. Denver Nuggets game at Madison Square Garden on Saturday!

Naomi Watts and her partner Liev Schrieber put their hands in the air, and waved them like they didn’t care! (along with half the crowd!) Nice to see these two out and about for date night! I really like them together!