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In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Adam Lambert comes clean about his sexual orientation and his future in music. The interview, “Wild Idol: The Psychedelic Transformation and Sexual Liberation of Adam Lambert,” is now available on newsstands. Here are a few excerpts:

• “I realized that I wouldn’t be taken seriously as a recording artist unless I had a huge platform. I saw that and I knew that Idol was the only thing that would do it—if it worked.”

• “[Kris Allen] has a good heart and a good spirit. He’s so mellow, he’s so kick-back….Kris doesn’t need any advice, clearly…He’s got a very strong sense of self in a non-aggressive, non-intense way.”

• “I want to do something that has theatricality, a nod to the glam rockers that I love, but is also contemporary. It’s not all going to be happy-go-lucky because I think it’s important to explore other emotional parts of yourself as an artist, but there’s a time and place for it. I would love to work with Madonna. I’m a big fan. I just want to play dress up and be fabulous. When you’re a kid, you do the make-believe thing — you play dress-up and pretend. That’s the child mentality, and I feel like if you’re an adult and you can adopt the child mentality to something cool, that’s what being a ‘rock star’ is. It’s just playing. It’s Halloween. It’s make-believe. It’s fun. And who doesn’t want to do that? That’s the kind of music that I want to make — music that encourages people to play make-believe, escape and have fun.”

• “There’s the old industry idea that you should just make sexuality a non-issue, just say your private life’s your private life, and not talk about it. But that’s bullshit, because private lives don’t exist anymore for celebrities: they just don’t. I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder all the time, thinking I have to hide, being scared of being found out, putting on a front, having a beard, going down the red carpet with some chick who is posing as my girlfriend. That’s not cool, that’s not being a rock star. I can’t do that.”

After what must have been the most exhausting weeks of her life, Scottish singer Susan Boyle placed second on “Britain’s Got Talent” and was promptly hospitalized for exhaustion at a London mental health clinic. Although she was widely considered the favorite to win the reality TV show, Boyle lost the competition to a male dance group called Diversity.

According to published reports, Boyle seemed relieved when the winner of the show was announced, beating her by a 4.7% margin. Boyle said that the best act had won and wished Diversity all the best.

Boyle’s April debut catapulted the shy churchgoer into one of the most public faces in entertainment. The video of her first appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent” has drawn more than 220 million views, making it the fifth most-watched video in YouTube history.

Boyle told Oprah that she was “loving every second” of the media attention, but by the finals, she seemed less sure. The day before her appearance in the finals, Boyle exploded at aggressive tabloid journalists and seemed anxious during her performance, a reprise of “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables.

The media scrutiny, which Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond said contained “elements of a press who like nothing better than to build people up and then drag them down,” appeared to have taken its toll on Boyle. Everything from her appearance to her social awkwardness to her never-been-kissed remark was dissected by journalists, bloggers, and reporters.

Last Monday, TV company TalkbackThames said that Boyle had become “exhausted and emotionally drained” and needed a few days off to recover from her recent experiences. She was released later in the week and appeared to be in good spirits.

Google the word “frump” and you’ll mostly likely come across a picture of Susan Boyle, a frizzy-hair, bushy-eyebrow, saddlebagged 47-year-old schlump who makes Janet Reno look like Pam Anderson by comparison. Yet underneath the dowdy exterior are a pure heart and a voice that seems beamed into her expansive chest direct from some gentle, omnipotent source.

Boyle stormed onto the national scene with her impressive pipes and kooky sense of humor by appearing on “Britain’s Got Talent,” an “American Idol”-esque show that features notorious crank Simon Cowell, as well as a variety of acts besides singing. She mounted the stage to titters and palpable dread from both the judges and audience, but by the end of the first line of “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables, she had the entire theater on their feet, cheering and clapping, and Simon smiling the tender, unencumbered smile of a toddler adrift in dreamland. Later, he even conjured up a seldom-used word in his vocabulary and called her singing “extraordinary.”

The judges deemed Boyle’s performance the greatest surprise in the show’s three-year history and waved her onto the next round with an enthusiastic “yes.” Since then, videos of Boyle singing have cropped up all over the Internet, and the media has stormed her sleepy town of Blackburn, where friends and neighbors had only a mild idea of the talent that moved among them.

By all accounts, Boyle is a sweetheart. She lives along with her cat, having cared for her widowed mother for many years up until her mother’s recent death. She grew up in poverty and never married (and claims she’s never even been kissed) but found a place at her church, where she sang on occasion. The spinster also sang on the local karaoke circuit but struggled to form close relationships.

Boyle says that it was her mother who persuaded her to pursue singing on a greater level. She told the AP, “I did this for my late mother. I wanted to show her I could do something with my life.”

Way to go, Susan. Whenever you perform, we’ll be rooting for you.

In a new interview with W magazine, perennially happy-go-lucky actress Drew Barrymore talks about her latest role as eccentric American socialite Edith Bouvier “Little Edie” Beale in the upcoming HBO film Grey Gardens and reveals that she has “so much darkness” which she was able to tap into for the role.

Barrymore says, “Playing Edie, I felt like s—. I thought, I’m afraid beyond anything I’ve ever known. I’m miserable; I’m scared; I feel sick all the time. And I was like, Good! At least I have somewhere to put it. You know what? I’m not f—in’ happy all the time. I like making people feel good, but it was great not to have to please anybody. I was out there for myself and for her.”

According to the article, Barrymore went Method for the role, insisting that people call her “Edie” on set and isolating herself from the outside world by refusing to watch television, use her laptop, or make calls on her cell phone. The experience, she says, was not unlike her two childhood stints in rehab (recalled in her 1990 autobiography Little Girl Lost). “I got institutionalized as a kid, and I felt like I was back there. A lot of times I found myself unhappy and isolated, and the only other time I felt that way was when I was in there. It was absolutely trying to relearn to live. You are learning to become someone else,” she says.

To read more about Barrymore’s preparation for the role and her terse relationship with her parents,
visit W magazine: http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2009/04/drew_barrymore.

What was Jessica Alba thinking with these pants? Even the top is questionable. No the hottest outfit she’s ever worn; and apparently she wasn’t all that comfortable in it because she had to be adjusting the pants every minute it seems.

Kim Kardashian is still showing off her trademark bootie as if she’s pretty much accepted that her butt is her claim to fame. She as out at the Los Angeles Confidential Magazine’s Annual Golden Globe Pre-Party in West Hollywood the other day wearing strapless body-hugging black dress, showing off not just her ample behind but her ample bosom as well.

Courtney looks quite nice here. Her dress is nice and looks good on her. Love the bracelet on her right wrist. Not sure about the watch on her left wrist. Definitely think she needed to wear stockings. Her knees look dry and crusty and you can see how she’s aging just by looking at her feet and her calves.

Ok, the dress Drew Barrymore wore to TCA January 2009 Press Tour- HBO, Universal City three days ago was interesting. The color was nice and complimentary. The paisley designs were artsy. The jewelry she accessorized with matched; but what was with the turquoise nail polish on her fingernails?

Must say, although you can ever so slightly see the signs of aging around her eyes, she still looks remarkably young and in good shape. Love that she’s slim without needing to look emaciated.

Hmm, something about that dress Alyssa Milano is wearing just doesn’t scream golden globe pre-party you know what I mean? It looks more Easter Sunday mass at Our Lady of Mercy. The pleats down the middle have got to go. Her hair is interesing. It almost looks like a wig. Are bangs in again?

Hate everything about the dress Kirsten Dunst wore to the Art of Elysium gala. Hate the ruffles. Hate the hem. Hate the color. Hate the material. It looks like a something a 60-year old grandma who thinks she still looks hot wears to bed to try to tempt the 30-year old gold-digging gigolo who married her for her money but has her well convinced he’s hot for her even with her boobs reaching past her navel and her skin all saggy and wrinkled .