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SideShow: Joaquin to sing again
Billboard reports that Joaquin Phoenix, who so finely walked the line as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, is recording an album with Charlatans front man Tim Burgess.
Burgess says Phoenix fell in love with the guitar when he took lessons preparing for the Cash role. "Once he learnt guitar, he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music," Burgess says.
Rescue the working woman
Hip-hop goddess Mary J. Blige is joining forces with Steve Stoute, who founded a youth-oriented brand consulting firm, to set up the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now. The nonprofit will be based in Blige's stomping grounds, Yonkers, N.Y. It will fund scholarships, grants and programs to help women gain confidence and career skills.
Stone: 'W' will be fair
Director Oliver Stone, who in less than two weeks is to begin shooting W, his drama about President George W. Bush, tells Entertainment Weekly his film will be a "fair, true portrait of the man."W, which might be out in time for the November presidential election, will star Josh Brolin as W and Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) as Laura Bush.
"Bush may turn out to be the worst president in history. I think history is going to be very tough on him," Stone says. "But that doesn't mean he isn't a great story."
Sienna vs. G.I. Joe
Sienna Miller will star as the villain Baroness - who is clad head to toe in black leather - in G.I. Joe, due out in summer '09. The flick will feature Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid, Marlon Wayans, Rachel Nichols, and Ray "Darth Maul" Park and South Korean pop star Lee Byung-hun as dueling ninjas.
Honoring Oprah
Black Enterprise has named Oprah Winfrey's company, Harpo Inc., its 2008 company of the year, and will honor her at a soiree Friday in Charlotte, N.C. Oprah, 54, who is worth $2.5 billion, tells B.E. magazine how she turned a five-person production company into a multimedia company that last year grossed $345 mil.Oprah, who says she will soon launch the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on cable, says that in her business - as in life - she relies more on inspiration than on calculation. "I haven't planned one thing - ever. I have just been led by a strong instinct, and I have made choices based on what was right for me at the time."
LiLo's tough break
Don't look for Lindsay Lohan to be back on the big screen any time soon. E!Online says the troubled wild child has been yanked from two high-profile projects before production - a romantic romp in the world of a Renaissance Faire costarring Jack Black, and a drama about the Manson Family.
Baldwin runs for office?
Alec Baldwin, whose political ambitions were dampened when news leaked about that nasty voice mail he left for his then-11-year-old daughter, Ireland, may try to get back on his horse. "There's other things I want to do" besides acting, the just-turned-50 Baldwin tells Morley Safer in an interview for tonight's 60 Minutes, according to the New York Post.
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