Jonas Brothers
Morning Memo: Donald Trump Thinking of Someone Else; Jonas-mania!; Sienna Miller Not A Homewrecker
Donald Trump is reportedly planning to buy Star Search host Ed McMahon's $7 million Beverly Hills mansion--he can no longer afford to keep it-- and lease it back to him at a reduced price, presumably. [TMZ]
Guests of Blue Star Jets CEO Todd Rome's large wedding to Vanessa Brahms are filling up all the hotel rooms in Southampton. [P6]
30-year-old musician Ryan Leslie and 18-year-old model Chanel Iman were seen together at Da Silvano the day after they arrived at Vibe Magazine's Fifteenth Anniversary party together. (Last Item)
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Tweenage groupies have been staking out the Trump International at Columbus Circle in hopes of spotting the Jonas Brothers, who have been staying there this week. [P6]
Actress Sienna Miller's mother is defending her daughter's romance with recently-seperated actor and oil heir Balthazar Getty. [US Weekly]
The Brothers Scream-Your-Head-Off
The Jonas Brothers don’t occupy their prominent position in pop by accident, and they don’t owe their success to critics, music blogs, Imeem, Pandora, iTunes, or even a savvy Volkswagen commercial. New media be damned, they owe everything to the Disney monolith, a big old record label, and legion after legion of screaming girls.
With the release of A Little Bit Longer this week, the three brothers from Wyckoff, N.J. (just over the G.W.B.) will prove that the charts can still be dominated using the big-business pop-music model everyone keeps saying is dead, dead, dead.
Disney has been making a mint off the lucrative tween demographic for the better part of the last decade, with High School Musical, Miley Cyrus, and now the Jonas Brothers trotting out a never-ending supply of records (on the company’s Hollywood imprint), television shows (on its network), and tours (the most lucrative product of the music industry). read more »
Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood Loves Guitar Hero, Obama, Shoes
In an effort to name promising newcomers so that they can later say, "We Told You So!" Vanity Fair has come out with its Bright Young Hollywood package for its August issue.
The spread of young men and women features their answers to a hard-hitting questionnaire about their lifestyle preferences: Levi's or J Brand? BlackBerry or iPhone? Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin?
And what do we learn?
They love shoes!
Seventeen year-old Emma "Julia's Niece" Roberts, tells the magazine that she owns a little under 50 pairs of shoes and hopes to imitate the Olsen twin look. read more »
