Christina Aguilera’s relationship with fellow pop tart Britney Spears is beautiful, no matter what they say.
Aguilera took to her Web site to shoot down reports that she allegedly said she “can’t see a comeback in the cards” for Spears.
“It’s really sad to see that some tabloid magazines still have to manufacture ill will between Britney and me,” she said in a statement. “We are both grown-ups and have the utmost respect for each other personally and professionally.
“I’m not falling for [certain journalists’] lies and neither should my fans or Britney’s.”
Aguilera ended by wishing Spears “continued success and future happiness.”
CATTY CORNER
No! We can’t just get along!
Terry the ripper
Talk about a Grimm outlook: “The Brothers Grimm” director Terry Gilliam doesn’t think very highly of a few of his fellow Hollywood directors.
He recalled to Entertainment Weekly how upset he was after being passed over for the first Harry Potter movie for Chris Columbus. “I remember . . . getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along (L.A.’s) Mulholland Drive just so angry,” he says. “I mean, Chris Columbus’ versions are terrible. Just dull.”
Columbus isn’t the only director on Gilliam’s hit list. “I saw ‘War of the Worlds’ and I thought, Steven Spielberg is a man who makes brilliant scenes but can’t make a movie anymore,” he says.
But Columbus and Spielberg get the last laugh. Reviewers have drubbed “Grimm”–which stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger–with the Baltimore Sun calling it “grim stuff indeed.”
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Iron deficiency
Sharon Osbourne admits now that she deliberately cut Iron Maiden’s power during the metal band’s bizarre last performance on this summer’s Ozzfest tour.
The wife of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne has accused the heavy metal group’s singer Bruce Dickinson of badmouthing her husband on stage. When Maiden took the stage in California earlier this month, Dickinson’s microphone and the band’s music faded in and out. Sharon said she was behind the technical difficulties.
But that wasn’t the worst of it–the band also was pelted with eggs and bottle caps from the crowd.
“Dickinson got what he deserved,” Osbourne wrote in a letter to the group’s manager. “Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking … about my family night after night?”
The group’s manager, Rod Smallwood, said the band deserved an apology “from a number of people, and you know who you are.”
ARRESTED: Jennifer Aniston’s man troubles continue, this time with a man who allegedly wandered into her Malibu, Calif., home and said he was looking for her. Creepy. David Hesterbey, 48, of Santa Barbara was arrested by sheriff’s deputies who found him walking along the beach near Aniston’s home around noon Thursday. He is being investigated for trespassing. So where was Aniston? Right here in Chicago, of course, finishing “The Break Up.”
KERR-AZY: Green Day is the best band on the planet, or so says British rock magazine Kerrang! (Let’s not get carried away, people.) The “American Idiot” rockers scored top honors at Kerrang!’s annual awards in London. And Iron Maiden, having escaped Sharon Osbourne for the moment, was inducted into the magazine’s Hall of Fame.
HOUSE HUNTER? If a weekend report in the New York Post is true, area real estate agents have good reason to be excited. Usher is said to be shopping for a loft in the $4 million range in Manhattan. He was spotted shopping at Ralph Lauren in the Big Apple last week, the Post says. Don’t spend that down payment!
