Of Britney’s Circus tour, opening night!

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SOOO excited to see this live.

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So I’m pretty conked out on sleeping pills right now, but still nowhere near sleepy, just a little unqualified to be writing anything extensive at this point. But I needed to get these pics up for you guys PRONTO.

What I will say is that I think she looks fantastic. Her body is as good as it’s ever been, and, while she’s obviously worked her ass off in the gym and in the dance studio, a portion of it is inarguably due to a little nip, and not from the bottle, either.

Early reviews from her show have been raves, which stands in stark contrast to the other much-hyped opening this week: Watchmen pre-screened this week to less-than-pleasant reviews. The rest of the media is technically embargoed until March 6, but I’ve had several people who were present at the early screenings tell me, in confidence, that it’s not a very good movie. Le sigh.

But Britney? Rocked it last night. It looks like I’ll actually be in LA for a bachelorette party the same week her tour comes to LA. Ummm, anyone wanna come with me to that show too?

Thoughts?

I think it’s just a movie of explosions and Christian Bale yelling.

Still, I’ll definitely see it.

UGH. You guys, it has just not been a good week for me so far. My cable went on the fritz tonight, so I didn’t get to watch American Idol or Toddlers & Tiaras, and basically the whole reason I exist during the rest of the week is so I can watch those two shows on Tuesday night. So I’m really bummed about that, and I’m just stuck alone at home thinking about how sad I am that I’m not at the Britney show in New Orleans tonight, and that I don’t get to see her until April. I need distraction!

At least I have Lindsay!

Puss ‘N’ Boots left a restaurant in WeHo with Samantha last night looking a little worse for the wear. Her outfit is fantastic, but her eyes are starting to get that sunken-in look you see when someone’s been, ahem, awake for awhile. And her extensions look the worst I’ve ever seen them look. That saddens me, because Lindsay is someone whose extensions usually photograph really well, and they’re just horrible here. It’s probably because it’s been so rainy in LA lately — extensions work better in dry weather — but still. She could have pulled it back or something.

I don’t watch The Biggest Loser these days, but my trainer was telling me the other day that one of the former contestants had recently completed a marathon at under four hours, weighing around 300 pounds. I was like “No way!” and she was like “Well, he’s a tall guy …” and I was like “NO WAY.” As someone who recently ran a half-marathon (WOOT WOOT GO ME!) I just didn’t see how this was possible, especially for someone who’d been in terrible shape previously.

It turns out, he didn’t run the entire marathon. NBC helped him cheat and then lied about it!

Dane said data from his heart-rate monitor told him he needed to slow down. The couple also stopped at every water station. At one, the TV crew asked the Pattersons to stop and talk about how the race was going. Temperatures climbed.

By the time Dane reached a water stop past mile 16, they’d fallen way off pace. He was exhausted, and a sub-six-hour finish was not going to happen. One of the producers proposed driving Dane and Carli up the road.

“I was irritated,” Dane said, “but I just wanted to make everybody happy. I knew the show wanted a finishing shot.”

“Plus, at mile 17, it’s not hard to talk a 280-pound guy into taking a ride,” he added.

The whole story is kind of fishy. Dane claims he took the ride (and he claims it was for only three miles) because he thought the marathon had a six-hour time limit, and he didn’t think he’d finish on time, and he wanted the show’s producers to get their shot. But if he only was in the car for three miles, and he finished the marathon at under four hours, then there’s no reason why he shouldn’t have been able to run three additional miles at a similar pace and finish well under six hours.

The truth came out after some fellow runners ratted Dane out to the press. They didn’t understand how Dane finished before them but they hadn’t seen him pass them.

Dirty reality TV stuff!!!

Thanks Keisha!

I’m hearing more information about the rumored “tell-all” that an American Idol ex-employee is writing. Here’s what the tipster is saying:

I was able to get a little more info for you regarding the new Idol employee tell all book. The medication/drug issues of Paula are going to discussed in detail and how she travels around the country during the auditions with at least 2 gallon size ziplock bags full of orange prescription bottles, as well as dozens of loose pills at the bottom of each bag.

Also how the producers of the show place “plants” during the audition process. These people have some sort of deal worked out with the show in which they avoid the audition process that everyone else must go through and instead they are ushered to the front of the line to register to audition for the judges. When they do this they are actually allowed to skip 2-3 rounds of auditions and go directly to the judging. Most of these “plants” are ushered by reps from 19 Management and/or major producers of the show.

And last but not least. The book is going to talk about how contestants are forced by the producers to sing certain songs during the weekly shows. If the producers do not like the way a certain contestant is singing a song or their song choice they will strong arm them into changing it. When they do this the producers usually make them sing an unknown or less popular song that the contestant does not feel comfortable singing and knows little about. The theory behind them doing is this is that they want to control the voting process and have certain contestants eliminated before others based on the voting at home. They feel that if contestants do a terrible job or sing a song that is not really known the public will vote them off.

The last two things are interesting, but really all I want to hear about is Paula’s drug problem. It fascinates me to no end. How have they not fired her?

Oooh, I hope this book does come out! And soon!

Thanks GOODNESS someone’s already on top of that.

A Sleepless in Seattle musical is in the works, and planning to hit Broadway sometime in 2010.

Eighteen songs have already been written for “Sleepless in Seattle – The Musical” and producers are aiming for a first reading in May 2009 and an official opening in early 2010.

Oscar-winning composer and lyricist Leslie Bricusse, whose past musicals include “Stop The World, I Want To Get Off” and the song “What Kind of Fool Am I?”, is part of the creative team along with Joel Zwick, who directed the 2002 breakout hit movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.

Producer David Shor, who is developing the musical, said he had recently acquired the theatrical rights to the movie and had already received an option to finance up to 50 percent of the production budget.

Jeff Arch, who co-wrote the movie screenplay, will write the book of the show.

I don’t know why this kind of excites me, but it does. I just HAVE to see how someone turns Sleepless in Seattle into a musical. I’m not usually very interested in Broadway, but this is the kind of shit I’d fly out to New York to see. Hilarious!