Archive for March 11th, 2010

Jessica Biel may not be calling Lynn Harless “Mom” yet – but already Justin Timberlake‘s girlfriend and mother have formed a mutual admiration society.

“I love Lynn,” Biel told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s New York premiere of Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro, a documentary following her recent climb of Africa’s highest peak. “Lynn is the most wonderful woman. I am so in love with her.”

Less than a month ago, Harless was the one singing Biel’s praises. From her front-row seat at the William Rast fashion show during New York Fashion Week, she told PEOPLE: “She’s amazing. She’s so down-to-earth and her family is great.”

Harless’s esteem for her son’s girlfriend shot to a new level in December, when Biel borrowed her treadmill to train for her Kilimanjaro climb, in which the celebrity participants helped local villagers decontaminate their water. “She was at my house around Christmas and there was this crazy noise coming from my gym,” Harless said. “[She] had the treadmill to the highest level and was running with a 40 lb. backpack. I want to be her when I grow up!”

Biel, 27, said her training helped, though she had to focus on her breathing at such a high altitude when she was actually on the mountain. “I really had to take it slow because the second I started to get impatient or feel like let’s just go already, I would get nauseated or my head would start to pound,” she said. “You really had to respect the process of the mountain.”

Added her trainer, Jason Walsh: “If she feels good, she performs better.” Walsh has been working with Biel for 4 years, and started training Timberlake about 18 months ago. “Everybody would be surprised by how athletic Justin is,” Walsh said. “He’s really strong, has a good mentality – works hard.”

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not sure whether he went to Tao first or not, but he then hit up ” union “. seems like our boy was a club hopper last night.

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Documentary airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on MTV. Earlier this year, Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Lupe Fiasco , Santigold and others banded together to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about the global clean-water crisis.

Now Justin Timberlake has pitched in to support the effort. The singer is set to provide a personal introduction to “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro,” the 90-minute documentary about the celebrities’ climb that will air on MTV on March 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Masterminded by Grammy-nominated musician Kenna, the team took a six-day, 50-mile trek to the peak of the tallest mountain in Africa. “It was a combination of the mental and the psychological aspects of the mountain, of the slow-but-steady pace that you had to go up it, and that sometimes made your brain just want to explode, because you just wanted to get there so badly,” Biel told MTV News Wednesday. “But then you’d get this rush of inspiration of ‘I’m not doing this for me. I’m doing this for something bigger than me, for people who don’t have a voice, for people that need water around the world,’ and then you’d power through.”

In addition to raising awareness about the clean-water crisis, the “Summit on the Summit” raises funds for P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Water For People’s PlayPumps Technology . During the MTV broadcast, viewers will be able to text SEND to 90999 to donate $10 to the U.N. Foundation on behalf of “Summit on the Summit.”

Each donation will send 1,000 liters of clean water to people in need. “MTV has a long history of educating its audience to raise awareness on issues that are important to them,” said Dave Sirulnick, Executive Vice President, News and Docs. “More than 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe, clean drinking water. By airing this documentary, MTV hopes to mobilize a new generation of young people who may not be aware of this global cause and take action to get involved in helping find solutions to the water crisis.” Don’t miss “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

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Sorry, but that’s what I see when I saw these pics. You know you’ve been in a bar or a club yourself and had to move closer to someone to hear what they are saying.

Tabloid writers must have been Really good at those Picture Prompt essays in school (remember those ???), where ya see a picture and think of the craziest, most bizarre story you can think of. Cause of course the headlines/ captions that came with this set of pictures reads that Justin met this girl at the club, talked to her, flirted and then took her home. Which very well COULD have been the case, but let’s try another senario :

Party girl at the club notices her favorite singer walk in, tracks him down throughout the night. They share a few words, but because of the loud atmosphere Justin has to move in a little close to be able to hear the soft spoken young woman!!!

The girl then continues back to the gals to tell them who she just bumped into on the stairs, and Justin goes home!

Love Always – Jess

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Jessica Biel might want to give boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s next film a miss because it features a sex scene between him and his ex, Cameron Diaz.

The pop star and actor started dating Biel shortly after ending his four-year romance with Diaz in 2007. The former lovers have stayed friends – and now they’re going to be co-stars in comedy Bad Teacher.

In the film, Diaz plays a woman trying to steal a colleague’s boyfriend, played by Timberlake – and there’s one racy scene Biel might want to make sure she’s on set for.

Life & Style magazine has exclusively obtained a copy of the movie’s script, and in it, things get awfully steamy when the two exes’ characters find themselves alone in a hotel room.

According to the publication, Justin’s character begins “dry humping” Diaz’s teacher and he gets “way too excited way too soon”.

In the script, Timberlake’s red-faced character says, “That was a mistake,” to which his love interest responds, “That was fast.”

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Check out this article by Kyle Anderson on Justin going from Boybander to Solo Star. It’s a nice read!

They say a well-rounded education is the key to success, and if that truly is the case, the my schooling is woefully incomplete when it comes to the subject of pop. That’s why we bring you “Popology,” the guide to modern radio-friendly stars as seen through the eyes of a guy who grew up on punk and metal.

In this week’s installment, *NSYNC drop their swan song.

In 2010, Justin Timberlake is a multi-platform superstar who has succeeded in music, on television, in movies, on the golf course and everywhere else he chooses to go. But back in 2001, he was merely the likely breakout star of *NSYNC, the chart-topping, world-dominating boy band who started life out as Backstreet Boys tagalongs and ended up shattering sales records. Today, Timberlake is a pop superstar that everybody loves (even grizzled metal dudes think he’d be pretty cool to have a beer with), but that wasn’t always the case. It’s difficult to legitimize yourself once you’ve made your bones crooning prom ballads like “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You,” so how did Timberlake evolve from boy bander to dominant cultural force in less than a decade? Perhaps Celebrity has some answers.

People tend to remember the boy band era being a dominant pop force, but it really only lasted five years or so (about as long as grunge). The men of the Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, 5ive, O-Town and the like were regular guests on “TRL” and dominated airwaves, but fans tired of uber-populist sugar and moved deeper into pop sub-genres. However, *NSYNC never had to deal with any sort of backlash because they broke up just before the bottom dropped out. Timberlake’s debut solo album Justified (a title he must still regret) came out in 2002 (a year after Celebrity) and he never looked back (they’re like the Pixies of boy bands).

I adore Timberlake’s second album FutureSex/LoveSounds and was always fine with the singles on Justified, but I’ve never really explored *NSYNC. I always assumed that the gap between Celebrity and Justified would be massive, but it turns out Timberlake treated his group’s final original album as a test run for what would become a hugely successful solo career.

Celebrity opens with “Pop.” Timberlake opens the song with a blast of frustration and a justification of his group’s existence. “Sick and tired of hearing all these people talk about/ What’s the deal with this pop life?/ And when is it gonna fade out?” he sings over a stew of burping bass and scratches. Sonically, Celebrity has already aged better than many of the albums put out by *NSYNC’s contemporaries. “Pop” (which was justifiably a gigantic hit) then breaks into a bounce beat and a neck-snapping chorus with metal guitars and sweet harmonies.

Somewhat surprisingly, Celebrity isn’t just the Timberlake show. Rather, each member of the group has a distinct personality and a memorable presence. JC Chasez‘s lead take on “The Game Is Over” is pretty remarkable. He is aided by a plethora of “Galaga”-era arcade sound effects, which makes the track sound simultaneously futuristic and old school.

Speaking of both futuristic and old school, the Nelly collaboration “Girlfriend” is produced by the Neptunes, and they lend the track with a bombastic bass undertone and a sexy Spanish guitar. These explorations into the worlds of hip-hop, world music and contemporary R&B could have been dangerous, but they give Celebrity an unpredictable feel. For an album that sold nearly two million copies in its first week of release, it’s pretty free-wheeling.

In fact, the only times Celebrity stumbles is when they fall back into traditional boy band territory. “Tell Me, Tell Me … Baby,” produced by Max Martin, is pretty rote, especially sandwiched in between the delightfully bubbly ballad “Gone” and the progressive disco of “Up Against the Wall.”

“See Right Through You” hits pretty hard, but the ballad “Selfish” comes up a little bit short. In fact, the album stumbles a bit (both “Just Don’t Tell Me That” and “Something Like You” are forgettable) before ending on “Do Your Thing,” an odd little tune that multi-tracks every member’s voice and floats them on top of a sparse keyboard beat that morphs into top-shelf robo-soul.

Of course, Timberlake went on to become a cross-pollinating mega star, but the other men of *NSYNC have fared just as well. JC Chasez (who really should have become a bigger star) released the profoundly underrated album Schizophrenic in 2004 (it has two of the strangest and best singles of the past decade in “Some Girls (Dance With Women)” and “All Day Long I Dream About Sex”). Chasez currently makes his bones as a judge on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” and has written and produced tracks for a number of other artists. Joey Fatone narrowly missed winning “Dancing With the Stars” a few years back and has had several notable roles in Broadway musicals. Lance Bass wrote a best-selling autobiography called “Out of Sync,” tried to go into space and also appeared both on Broadway and on “Dancing With the Stars.” Finally, Chris Kirkpatrick competed on CMT’s “Gone Country,” did a regular voice for “The Fairly Odd Parents” and currently performs with the band Nigel’s 11.

While it seems like an *NSYNC reunion is unlikely (at least for the immediate future), the quintet can feel good knowing that if they ever do want to get the band back together, they have Celebrity to lean on. While it’s not nearly as accomplished and consistent as Timberlake’s solo work, it’s a solid piece of electro-pop that holds up relatively well. Plus, “Pop” pretty much rules.

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