Lady Gaga got the best seat in the house for opening night at L.A. nightspot Trousdale. The pop star, in a short blonde wig and black hat, played musical chairs once she got to her table, whispering in her friends’ ears and moving around her booth. Gaga was in a pleasant mood, but got really excited and started dancing when the deejay played her hit “Paparazzi.” Meanwhile, Hayden Panettiere worked the room, chatting at friends’ tables when she wasn’t hitting the dance floor with a girlfriend.

Miley Cyrus, vintage shopping at the What Comes Around Goes Around boutique in L.A. with her puppy, Mate, and a girlfriend. Shoppers were especially attentive to her pooch, but Cyrus was focused on the clothes. She tried on various items, and left with some boyfriend jeans, cut-off denim shorts and vintage T-shirts.

Justin Timberlake was sampling his own 901 Silver Tequila during a night out at Lavo in Las Vegas. The singer-actor also danced to tunes spun by DJ Crooked, and was spotted dining at Tao earlier with friends and business associates.

It’s a Today show reunion – but was it also a business meeting? Matt Lauer and former co-anchor Katie Couric, lunching at Le Caprice inside New York’s Pierre Hotel along with Andrew Lack, CEO of Bloomberg LP.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, dining in an alcove at Rouge Tomate in New York with husband Michael Douglas and two friends. The group stayed for two hours, chatting about the Oscars, among other things, and drinking red wine.

Bravo is expanding to a fifth night of primetime programming and taking its “Real Housewives” franchise to Beverly Hills.

The cabler has greenlit three other skeins, along with development of a scripted skein from Darren Star and music and food competition series.

“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” from Evolution Media, becomes the fifth spinoff that Bravo has ordered based on the original “Real Housewives of Orange County.” Douglas Ross, Greg Stewart, Kathleen French and Dave Rupel will exec produce “Beverly Hills.”

Bravo is also moving forward with nonscripted series “Miami Social Club” (Michael McNamara and Sheri Maroufkhani of MC Filmworks exec producing), “Million Dollar Decorators” (Rich Bye, Brittany Lovett and Talia Lesak/Goodbye Pictures) and “Pregnant in Heels” (Michael Rourke and Gerette Allegra/Shout Media).

As for series pickups, in addition to Isaac Mizrahi-hosted “The Fashion Show” (Daily Variety, March 9), Bravo announced new seasons of “Million Dollar Listing,” “Real Housewives of Atlanta” and “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover.”

On the scripted development side, Star (“Sex and the City”) is exec producing the adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell book “I’m Not Myself These Days” — about a man who is a powerbroker by day and drag queen by night — into an hourlong musical drama. Sri Rao and Emily Branden are scripting.

Bravo is also working with scribes Damian Harris and Gary Marks to develop an hourlong dramedy about male escorts at a high-end hotel.

Unscripted series in development are led by cooking competition series “Around the World in 80 Plates” from Magical Elves’ Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz and “Commander in Chef” from Scott Stone. Cutforth and Lipsitz are also behind the development of two-hour design competition special “Fashion Masters.”

In addition, True Entertainment is developing singer-songwriter challenge series “Hitmakers,” with Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Tim Bogart and Evan Bogart serving as executive producers. And the life and career of “So You Think You Can Dance” choreographer Mia Michaels is the focus of a docuseries in the nascent stage.

Bravo said its ad sales growth has increased 19% over the past year and 50% since 2007. The network has added 140 advertisers over the past two years, and digital ad sales revenue increased 15% last year.

The network said all its programming going forward would be shot in HD.

Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are attached to star in romantic comedy One Day, reports Coming Soon.

Producer Nina Jacobson revealed that the duo are currently negotiating contracts for the project, which will be directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig.

“That is supposed to go this summer in London with Lone Scherfig directing and Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess,” Jacobsen said.

One Day centres on Dexter and Emma, who meet during their graduation in 1988 and decide to reunite for one day every year for the next 20 years. The movie is based on David Nicholls’s 2009 novel.

Gorillaz’s video for their new single ‘Stylo’ has become the most succesful music video premiere on YouTube.

The Bruce Willis starring clip amassed over 900,000 views in its first 24 hours on the site on March 2, beating previous record-holders U2 and Weezer.

Gorillaz are currently in the leading position in the albums chart battle with their third studio album Plastic Beach, the official midweek charts have confirmed.

Fox is expected to announce the cancellation of 24 in a matter of days, according to internet rumours.

Various sources suggest that the real-time drama has been axed by the network, with a formal announcement expected shortly.

The show has faced problems recently with declining ratings and Fox has made no secret of the fact that it is an expensive show to produce. Network president Kevin Reilly recently admitted that a renewal for 24 is “a very tough call”.

Last year, Carlos Bernard – Tony Almeida on the series – hinted to Digital Spy that the current eighth season would be the last.

“I do, honestly [think season eight will be the last]. It’s pretty hard creatively to find ways of topping yourself season after season, but we’ve gone for eight so far, so who knows? Regardless I think we’re going to have a very good season this year.”

Dakota Fanning spills the dirt on kissing Kristen Stewart in ‘The Runaways’.

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are having a blast. The duo play iconic rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie respectively in the new rock ‘n’ roll biopic “The Runaways” and are currently in the middle of a cross-country publicity tour. Normally, most actors would be sick and tired of constantly talking about one movie — and Stewart should know after all the hours she’s discussed the “Twilight” franchise — but you’d never know both actresses have been pushing this film since its debut at Sundance in January.

Laughing through a sit down with some assembled members of the press on Wednesday in Los Angeles, the actors discussed everything from the pressure of playing the founding members of The Runaways to their own eclectic musical tastes. More intriguing, however, was how the young stars handled questions about the on screen kiss and implied sex scene between Currie and Jett as they toured the country as teenage rockers.

Stewart notes, “It was in the script as a really fleeting thing. It was sort of also written very abstractly and vaguely. ‘Did they? Yeah, they did.’ Y’know what I mean? So, yeah and I feel it’s that way for them too. The fact it’s been called a ‘love scene’ or the fact ‘So, tell us about your romantic involvement?’ is like ‘What?’”

“I mean, I think it’s just something that happened,” Fanning adds. “I don’t even know if they have talked about it since. Y’know what I mean? It was just a thing and in the script it was just another thing. It’s not that big of a deal.”

One reporter surprisingly threw the gauntlet at Fanning asking her if she was concerned about criticism about playing a character who drinks, does drugs and has sex when she’s only 15-year-old. The actress was unequivocally ready for it.

“There is always going to be someone who doesn’t like what you are doing and doesn’t like, y’know, your movies and thinks you shouldn’t be doing [this or that] and you can never make everybody happy,” Fanning says confidently. “In this movie, I was 15 playing another 15-year-old. She went through all this when she was 15 and why am I too good that I can’t portray that when there are people everywhere younger than that going through much worse”

“We’re snorting vitamin B. C’mon,” Stewart says as laughter fills the room.

Was it good?

Stewart smiles and says, “Yeah, it was good.”

More on Stewart and Fanning’s thoughts on “The Runaways” are revealed in the Q&A transcript below.

Q: Is it wonderful to have two people still alive who you can refer to for your characters or is it easier to play original characters?

Fanning: I think it’s amazing when you have the actual people there. It’s like the ultimate. I think with all characters if they were a real person you could talk to it would be amazing. When you are actually living someone’s life over for them again, it has to be so surreal and you want them to be involved as they want to be and, luckily, they wanted to be involved as we wanted them to be.

Stewart: Yeah, yeah.

Q: Did you have any hesitation about doing the singing yourself? Or do you do a lot of singing on your own?

Fanning: Not really, I don’t. I never thought of doing it any other way. I just assumed that was what would be asked of me. I dunno, I feel like you are almost cheating if you don’t actually do it. I would have felt like I was missing something.

Q: Can you talk about your own musical tastes? And what you learned about rock n’ roll attitude from Cherie and Joan?

Stewart: Ah, I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both. This was a cool experience because there are a lot of bands that Joan is really influenced by like the Stones which she is obsessed with and just sort of obvious. Like, she listens to Zeppelin and loses her mind. And I just abbreviated both of those bands and I sound like…(Laughs.) Um, it was cool to get to know music that was just like a little bit harder or just a bit obscure. I mean Suzi Quatro is not something that is a staple of our generation. So, and in terms of being able to play Rock n’ Roll? I really, really love this movie because in many ways they were the first girl band which is crazy and people don’t know that too. And there’s an aggression and an assertiveness that comes through their music. And at the same time its so feminine. It’s a distinct aggression. It’s not a male. And I love that and that’s why the movie is cool or should be cool.

Q: Dakota, can you talk about your musical tastes and what you learned about rock ‘n’ roll?

Fanning: Well I think my musical tastes have definitely been broadened by this movie and I have really found that I can’t get out of listening to the Runaways and Joan, because it brings back the memories of the movie and I love it so much and it makes me happy. (Laughs). So, I listen to that a lot. Before that? I love music, but I’m not a huge music person. I don’t listen to a ton of music, but that’s definitely changed after doing this. And I really wanted to be a part of this to bring the Runaways to them before because I wasn’t aware of them before and I feel that’s a lot of people in our generation and I think that’s wrong.

Q: Dakota, how did you feel like doing that Ziggy Stardust inspired number at the beginning of the movie? Are you a David Bowie fan yourself?

Fanning: I am a David Bowie fan and for Cherie it was a huge part of her life, because that’s who she channeled on stage and that’s who she wanted to be and wanted to emulate. And yeah, I really loved doing that scene and that was like a dance that I had worked on with the choreographer and I had these huge bruises the next day from going down on my knees over and over again. But, it was so fun. I loved doing that and for Cherie that was sort of her moment of embracing being a weirdo and accepting that. Because she had lived her life under the shadow of her sister, her twin sister her whole life and that was her moment of stepping out and accepting she wasn’t like everyone else which I think was pretty cool.

Q: How hard was it to do the love scenes for you guys? Was it awkward at first? We are seeing something we hadn’t seen from either of you in your earlier roles.

Stewart: We never made out with a chick before? (Laughs.)

Fanning: I mean, it was only one scene. It was one day.

Stewart: It was in the script as a really fleeting thing. It was sort of also written very abstractly and vaguely. ‘Did they? Yeah, they did.’ Y’know what I mean? So, yeah and I feel it’s that way for them too. The fact it’s been called a ‘love scene’ or the fact ‘So, tell us about your romantic involvement?’ is like ‘What?’

Q: Did you improvise a little bit or have fun?

Stewart: Oh, yeah. (Laughs.)

Fanning: I mean, I think it’s just something that happened. I don’t even know if they have talked about it since. Y’know what I mean? It was just a thing and in the script it was just another thing. It’s not that big of a deal.

Q: Kristen, Joan Jett is pretty bigger than life. Was it hard to nail her down?

Stewart: She is bigger than life, that’s true and you get that from both Cherie and Joan. And I don’t know if it’s because I know them well, but you look at pictures and footage and it’s like, ‘Gosh.’ I’m sure it is because I know them and I know their dynamic and what is going on in those pictures where before they just looked really cool and awesome. And it was important — this is like the most important time of her life and she’s got a huge fanbase and she’s like the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll and she’s the first woman to start her own record label. It’s a daunting figure to play and then you know her and you’re like, ‘Wow, you’re so full of like weird little…’ Because I’ve got ticks, but they are all different ticks to hers and she’s got very idiosyncratic. She’s got all these little things. (Laughs.) It was fun. She’s probably one of the most rich, vivid, dynamic people I know.

Q: Kristen, your guitar playing is pretty great in this.

(Stewart shrugs)

Q: Well, it seems to be.

Stewart: I played along…

Q: Well, you got the chord. Still today there are prejudices about young women playing an instrument. What would you say to a young girl who says, ‘I want to rock out’?

Stewart: If you have any desire, if you are like filled with compulsion…you see Joan listen to music and she just goes, ‘I have to make that noise! I have to make that noise! I have to make that.’ And people want to see that. That’s why she is so successful. Who knows why women aren’t — obviously, rock ‘n’ roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don’t want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them. But I really feel like it’s a little different now. It’s so much easier. There are way more sort of musicians who are more — do you know what I am saying?

Fanning: That are girls? (Laughs.)

Stewart: Yeah, yeah. So, I would say just do what you need to do and if it hurts too much obviously don’t do it.

Q: Another that was pretty neat were the costumes. Were you able to keep anything?

Fanning: I kept the clothes, all the clothes I wore in the movie.

Q: Even the bustier?

Fanning: Yeah, oh, yeah. (Laughs).

Fanning: Yeah, they were really important, especially Cherie who kind of made her mark and her statement with her clothes and her make-up and her hair.

Q: How was it playing a performer where you are playing a person who is performing different than just playing a normal role where you aren’t…

Stewart: Performing? (Laughs.)

Q: Yes.

Fanning: I never played a character or sings or performs or anything and this is like double the load because you are playing a real person who performs and I was talking to someone else and they were like, ‘Yeah, I went online and compared you doing Cherry Bomb to her doing Cherry Bomb.’ So, yeah, there is that extra, not pressure, but kind of pressure to do it right.

Q: Dakota, I know ‘Hound Dog’ controversy is an old story for you, but were you concerned that people would be upset you’re playing this type of edgy, under age character again?

Fanning: Um, I again don’t want to say i don’t care, because obviously I do care. But [not] ‘She doesn’t care about her fans.’ That’s not what I mean. (Laughs.) But, at a certain point you can’t care because there is always going to be someone who doesn’t like what you are doing and doesn’t like, y’know, your movies and thinks you shouldn’t be doing [this or that] and you can never make everybody happy. In this movie, I was 15 playing another 15-year-old. She went through all this when she was 15 and why am I too good that I can’t portray that when there are people everywhere younger than that going through much worse.

Stewart: We’re snorting vitamin B. C’mon. (Laughs.)

Q: Was it good?

Stewart: Yeah, it was good. (Laughs.)

“The Runaways” opens nationwide on March 19.

‘24′ co-star goes from ‘The Forgotten’ to an ABC comedy. Elisha Cuthbert is looking to continue her brief relationship with ABC by starring in a pilot about a truncated relationship.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuthbert will play the lead in the comedy pilot “Happy Endings.”

Written by David Caspe, “Happy Endings” focuses on a bride (Cuthbert) and broom who split up at the altar, but then have to figure out how they can remain close to their shared four best friends.

Most recently seen in a recurring role in ABC’s “The Forgotten,” Cuthbert is best know for her time as Kim Bauer on FOX’s “24.” Although she isn’t necessarily known for comedy, Cuthbert has appeared on the big screen in “Love Actually” and “The Girl Next Door,” while she did the comedy pilot “Ny-Lon” for CBS in the 2009 development season.

Bad news if you’ve been looking forward to watching Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel Money Never Sleeps, particularly after the impressive trailers: the film is being bumped back from its April release date to a September slot.

The reasoning? Fox isn’t saying, but Variety speculates that it’s part of a strategy that includes the studio hoping that the movie will be included in the Cannes Film Festival – which runs from May 12-23 this year, and could provide the perfect, awareness-boosting international launch.

Despite the fact that the talent, which includes Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin, have already been promoting the movie, it’s been decided that the move to an autumn release is a smarter strategy than trying to find a spot in the crowded summer months.

So now we get to wait a little longer to find out what happens to Gordon Gekko after he gets out of prison and tries to reconnect with his daughter while attempting to rebuild his life.

The man accused of harassing American Idol host Ryan Seacrest pleaded no contest to felony stalking at a court hearing on Tuesday.

Chidi Uzomah, a special forces reserve for the U.S. Army, was charged in November with a felony count of stalking and two misdemeanour counts of violating a court order after he was found wielding a knife at Seacrest’s Los Angeles office.

The 25 year old pleaded not guilty to the charges at a hearing in L.A. on 3 November, but was arraigned again last month after the case was moved to a different court.

He was due back in court on 9 March for a pre-trial hearing, where he entered the no contest plea, reports TMZ.com.

Seacrest has been awarded a protective order against Uzomah, which bans him from going within 500 yards of the TV presenter.

According to TMZ, Uzomah could serve up to two years behind bars if convicted.

The low-key showcase of the designer’s final work – which he had been in the process of creating prior to his suicide last month – was shown to a small group of people and received a positive reception from the assembled journalists and employees.

The show – which was originally intended to take place in the Conciergerie, a former prison – was backed by the sepulchral 17th-century choral music Alexander had listened to while creating the collection, which consisted of high-necked, close-fitting satin dresses accessorised with high-heeled carved gold shoes and thigh-high boots.

The 15 looks were emblazoned with motifs of angels and other religious and medieval imagery.

Washington Post journalist Robin Givhan, one of the few people in attendance at the show, said she was “amazed” by the collection.
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She said: “It was 15 virtuoso performances. It was all done by McQueen as opposed to his staff or with his team.

“Looking at the work, I’m amazed at the talent and the beauty was incredible. It’s sad that talent is no longer here.”

Amy Winehouse is reportedly not marrying Blake Fielder-Civil, despite recent suggestions that they were planning a Las Vegas wedding.

The pair, who divorced last summer, are said to be back together after several months apart.

A source told The Mirror: “It’s basically rubbish. If and when Amy applies for a visa, it will be for work. Blake’s rehab means he’s not going to be rushing into marriage.

“So planning a wedding in Vegas within weeks is not only not wanted by them both, it’s also impossible!”

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler have laughed off reports that they’re romantically involved, but the Bounty Hunter costars sure look cozy on the cover of W magazine’s April issue.

Shot on a ranch about 45 minutes outside of Los Angeles in mid-January, the 13-page pictorial featuring Butler and Aniston, both 40, consists of seven photographs by celeb shutterbug Steven Klein. Ironically, Klein also shot W’s infamous July 2005 cover featuring Brad Pitt – who had then-recently separated from Aniston – playing house with Angelina Jolie.

For the April cover, on which hunky Scottish actor Butler wraps his arms around Aniston, the actress tapped into her inner fashionista and wore an Alberta Ferretti silk chiffon dress, Carine Gilson Lingerie Couture’s silk bra and silk lace briefs, Stella McCartney garters and Lanvin shoes. Total retail value for her outfit? $3,800!

As for the inside pictorial, it’s called “Speed Trap: Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler do a little role playing in the searing heat of the California desert where damsels aren’t always in distress and lawmen sometimes break the rules.” Hmmm … role playing?