Justin Bieber has reached a new milestone. The 16-year-old singer from Canada has been mobbed by fans at malls, achieved the most YouTube video streams, and scored No. 1 on the charts. But now, he has officially hit a hip hop plateau, recording with the legendary Wu Tang Clan rapper Raekwon and Kanye West.
The Kanye-produced remix of Bieber's "Runaway Love," featuring rap verses from Raekwon and Kanye, was released Monday, and includes a surprise.
The revamped track incorporates a sample of the classic 1993 Wu-Tang Clan song "Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F*** Wit."
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The owner of an RV dealership recently sued by Taylor Lautner for allegedly failing to deliver a customized rig on time has issued a unique challenge to the "Twilight" star: push up or shut up.
Brent McMahon, owner of the Irvine, Calif.-based McMahon's RV, held a press conference Monday to challenge the buffed-up Lautner to settle his lawsuit with a push-up contest. That's right, whoever can do the most push-ups wins -- or at least gets some money donated to charity.
Lautner sued McMahon's last week for not delivering a $300,000 customized rig in time for the shoot of his new movie "Abduction." Lautner claims his dad, Dan Lautner, negotiated for McMahon's to refurbish a 2006 Affinity Country Coach RV by June but the dealership failed to meet the deadline.
McMahon and attorney Adam Obeid say the Lautners and their lawyers demanded $40,000 before filing the lawsuit. But they have a better idea. If Lautner shows up and wins the push-up contest, McMahon will pay him and his Shark Kid Entertainment the $40,000 to settle the case. If McMahon wins, he'll donate the $40,000 to Children's Hospital of Orange County. Not a bad stunt -- if Lautner has a good sense of humor and shows up.
"We're taking a negative and making it into a positive to benefit the sick children at Children's Hospital of Orange County," McMahon said at the press conference. He says he has other sponsors willing to chip in if Lautner appears.
How would McMahon fare against the superbuff "Twilight" heartthrob? "He works out regularly," Obeid said. "But he's a 47-year-old man. He's no Taylor Lautner."
Lautner lawyer Robert Barta turned down the push-up contest, but welcomed a contribution to charity:
"McMahon's RV's response to our client's legitimate claim further demonstrates the lack of professionalism that Mr. McMahon, his company and his employees have exhibited from the outset, and that compelled the filing of this lawsuit in the first place," Barta said in a statement.
"This suit is not about a 'customized' RV, it is about McMahon's RV's refusal to deliver the vehicle in the safe, drivable condition that was promised, as every purchaser has the right to expect. A cursory review of McMahon's RV's record with the Better Business Bureau shows that this is a repeated pattern of conduct; Mr. Lautner just happens to be a high profile customer that is holding them accountable. Indeed, Mr. McMahon, through his attorney, has already apologized to the Lautners for his and his company's conduct.
While we will not dignify Mr. McMahon's facetious suggestion of a contest to settle a legal claim with a response, we do welcome the opportunity for him to resolve this matter by making a $40,000 donation to the charity of Mr. Lautner's choice, and we will be in touch with his counsel to see if he will make good on this offer."
Do the Jonas Brothers ever take a break? On Saturday, the musical trio, along with Demi Lovato and David Archuleta, were the headliners at the 2010 Arthur Ashe Kids' Day in Queens, New York. The 15th annual event, which honors the memory of the late tennis champ/humanitarian Arthur Ashe, not only kicked off the U.S. Open, but benefitted the National Junior Tennis and Learning Network as well. Ashe founded the organization in 1969 along with Charlie Parasell and Sheridan Snyder in an effort to "develop the character of young people through tennis and education."
In addition to taking part in plenty of fun tennis-related activities, kids in attendance got to see exciting matches between professional tennis stars like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But the highlight of the day probably had to be the sold-out live concert, where the JoBros performed "L.A. Baby" for the screaming crowd, and Archuleta sang his new single, "Something 'Bout Love." Check out the clip below!
Year after year, the MTV Video Music Awards is where the unthinkable happens. It's the kind of unstuffy ceremony where, say, Kanye steals the mic from Taylor Swift, or Britney bombs onstage in what was supposed to be her big comeback. How cool would it be to watch all the craziness go down in person?
Yahoo! Music is giving away two tickets to this year's show on September 12, plus airfare and hotel. For details on how enter and complete rules, visit Yahoo! Music on Facebook.
Meanwhile, check out Drake in the latest retro promo for the bash. The black-and-white spot shows the rapper back in the Rat Pack era, wearing a suit and skinny tie and tossing on a hat that looks like it could have been a loaner from Frank Sinatra himself, before arriving for an eagerly anticipated gig.
In real life, Drake's just one of many performers, including Usher, Justin Bieber, Paramore, and Eminem, scheduled to hit the stage on the big night.
Forget Lea, Claire and Kim. Jessica Simpson's thinks curvy Christina Hendricks was the best dressed at the Emmys Sunday.
"Christina Hendricks is my pick for the Emmys' best-dressed lady..." she Twittered Monday. "Kyra Sedgwick comes in as runner-up!"
Like Simpson, 30, Hendricks, 35, has come under fire for her curves.
In February, a New York Times columnist slammed the Christian Siriano frock she wore to the Golden Globes: "You don't put a big girl in a big dress."
"I was like, 'Oh my God, people are so mean!'" Hendricks recently told Health magazine. "I still remember all those negative comments, despite all the wonderful positivity. That's why we're all in therapy!"
She said she is pleasantly surprised when she finds other celebs admiring her bod.
Said the actress, "It's such a compliment, because of all those times I had agents who were like, "You have to lose some weight," and all of a sudden, people are celebrating it."
I wanna hold your hand! Jesse James and new love Kat von D were photographed hand-in-hand Sunday in Fredericksburg, Tex.. (James and his three kids recently moved to nearby Austin, where his ex-wife Sandra Bullock keeps a home.)
It's the first PDA shot of the tattooed twosome -- who were seen sharing a "passionate kiss" at a museum exhibit in Las Vegas August 15.
L.A. Ink star von D (real name: Katherine von Drachenberg) confirmed the relationship via Twitter two weeks ago, writing "Yes, Jesse and I are dating" -- and then deleted the post. In a subsequent radio appearance on the Kevin and Bean radio show on L.A.'s KROQ-FM Thursday, she explained that she and James met when she was 22. "He had his show on Discovery; that's how we met. I was looking for some advice when I first started on Miami Ink," the star, now 28, said.
The tattoo artist added that she has forgiven James' widely publicized infidelity during his marriage to Bullock. "I am a believer that we're all human and we're all capable of making mistakes," she said. "I think if I were to be crucified for my drug addiction three years ago now, it would be hard to live with that. I'm sober now, and it's awesome. But I have made mistakes, too."
