New Moon star Taylor Lautner will soon grace the covers of the prestigious Rolling Stone Magazine.  Last October 8 by the waves of Malibu beach, Lautner did more than just posing but showed off his skills as he tossed around a football, drove around on a motorcycle, standing on one hand as well as doing back flips!

Check out some of the photos during the photo shoot!

Singer-songwriter and actor Jesse McCartney wasn’t hot during the NASCAR Pepsi 500 in Fontana California last Oct. 12th. The singer shockingly forgot a bunch of verses of his country’s national anthem and has been receiving not so good comments such as “Star Spangled Spoiler” and “lack of Patriotism.”

During an interview, McCartney claims he practiced and sang the ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ more times than he can count but obviously this just wasn’t enough.

After his flub performance, McCartney tweeted “Here At the Nascar race !So much fun! Can’t believe I forgot the words to the Anthem! I’ve performed it 100 times. Bad Nerves today I guess”. This guy might as well get Las Vegas Show Tickets.

Check out this YouTube video to judge his performance!

Yesterday at the VMAs, rapper Kanye West stormed on stage during Taylor Swift’s shining glory after receiving an award for Best Female Video for her music video “You Belong With Me.” The rapper was way over his head when he grabbed the microphone from Taylor Swift and announced to the crowd that he thought Beyonce deserved the award.

photo credit: popeater

His reported outburst were as follows…

“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!”

Taylor Swift was mortified after the incident and was reportedly crying histerically backstage after the incident. Even Beyonce looked astonished and mortified by Kanye West’s absurd behavior. It was also reported that he got booted from the show for his ridiculous. All I comment is what the heck was he thinking?

We all know Michael Jackson is not just a King of Pop, he’s a Legend. As they say since Michael has no definite religion, instead of giving a funeral service of all the religions he tried, they made a tribute. Different songs from his albums sung by popular artists like Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Lionel Richie and others. Here’s a video from MSNBC.com for the full coverage of his memorial service. May you rest in peace Michael.

Here is a transcript of Michael Jackson’s memorial service from TV.com

TV.com’s transcript of the Michael Jackson memorial service live blog
9:45 a.m. Welcome to TV.com’s live coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service! We’re tuned in to CNN, and they’ve reported that the service has been pushed back to 1:30 ET/10:30PT.

9:49 a.m. Looks like people are already being seated! And there are bootleggers outside … weird.

9:53 a.m. Where are you watching the memorial?

9:57 a.m. Now they’re reporting that the service is about to begin at its scheduled time. Less than five minutes away!

10:00 a.m. Staples Center is packed! It’s pretty beautiful to see everyone turn out for the event, despite work schedules, travel issues and personal beliefs. It’s a celebration of Michael Jackson’s life, after all.

10:05 a.m. Who was Michael Jackson to you?

10:07 a.m. Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Usher, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Hudson and others are scheduled to perform — what better way to celebrate the King of Pop than with more music?

10:10 a.m. Do you know anyone who’s attending the service? How far did they travel to be there?

10:13 a.m. Smokey Robinson is the first speaker. What a quote: “Thank you, Katherine and Joe, for sharing your son with the world.”

10:16 a.m. 1.5 million tried to get 11,000 tickets. That’s a tribute in itself.

10:20 a.m. There’s a pause in the service, but it’ll be back on soon. The anticipation builds — just like it did during his concerts.

10:23 a.m. How much do you think the yearbook-style programs will go for on eBay?

10:26 a.m. How will the performers honor Michael Jackson? We’re betting that Mariah Carey sings “I’ll Be There” and that Usher moonwalks.

10:31 a.m. Did you know that residents of New York, Florida and Rhode Island were not allowed to participate in the online ticket lottery? It had to do with state-specific sweepstakes rules.

10:35 a.m. Michael Jackson would have loved that gospel choir — he featured voices like theirs in “Will You Be There.”

10:37 a.m. Rev. Lucious Smith speaking now.

10:40 a.m. Mariah does her beautiful rendition of “I’ll Be There,” as predicted, with Trey Lorenz, who’s doing some solid justice to the falsetto notes in the song.

10:45 a.m. Queen Latifah now, speaking on behalf of fans, adds her smile to the somber but respectful mood.

10:47 a.m. Quoting Maya Angelou: “He gave us all he had been given.”

10:50 a.m. Lionel Richie now, singing “Jesus is Love” with more soul than he’s had in quite awhile. Here’s a throwback to the “We Are The World” days.

10:55 a.m. Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records: “He was the consummate student. He studied the greats and then became greater.”

10:59 a.m. What was your favorite Jackson 5 #1? “I’ll Be There,” “ABC,” “I Want You Back” or “The Love You Save”?

11:02 a.m. What do you think of the ambiance in the Staples Center? Is it respectful? Subdued? Flashy? Not flashy enough?

11:03 a.m.Gordy, again: “He was the greatest entertainer that ever lived.”

11:05 a.m. Watching this dance-moves montage is like being at a dozen concerts — it covers everything!

11:07 a.m. Stevie Wonder: “This is a moment that I wished I didn’t live to see come.”

11:10 a.m. Stevie Wonder, wonderful as usual, sings “Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer.”

11:13 a.m. Do you think that Michael Jackson would have liked costume tributes? We expected a few fedoras and white gloves …

11:16 a.m. Kobe Bryant & Magic Johnson, two Laker greats, now talking about Michael Jackson’s philanthropy. Remember the time Magic Johnson was in a Michael Jackson video?

11:21 a.m. Jennifer Hudson sings “Will You Be There,” one of Michael Jackson’s most powerful songs.

11:24 a.m. But Michael’s voice remains at the end of the song, as in the original version.

11:26 a.m. Rev. Al Sharpton speaking now about the strength of the Jackson family. He definitely puts the “rev” — as in “rev up” — in Reverend. What a powerful speaker.

11:27 a.m. Check out the Jackson family’s fashion coordination — sunglasses, yellow ties and black suits.

11:31 a.m. Sharpton to Jackson’s children: “There wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what he had to deal with.”

11:34 a.m. John Mayer gets the crowd clapping with an instrumental version of “Human Nature,” backed by a few singers. Nice song choice.

11:38 a.m. Brooke Shields now addressing her relationship with Michael: “It was the most natural and easiest of friendships.”

11:41 a.m. Shields is really showing the human side of Michael Jackson: “Both of us needed to be adults very early. But when we were together, we were two little kids, having fun.”

11:46 a.m. Michael’s favorite song was “Smile,” from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: Jermaine performs it for him.

11:48 a.m. … wearing a white sequined glove.

11:53 a.m. Martin Luther King III speaking now with his sister Bernice by his side.

11:57 a.m. Bernice King: “He was indeed a shining light, like our father Martin … May we all be inspired to go and let our lights shine.”

12:02 p.m. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee talking now about Michael Jackson’s leadership in the fight against AIDS and his devotion to people in need.

12:06 p.m. Lee: “Michael Jackson never stopped giving” — and they’re going to debate Resolution 600 on the House floor. A very cool tribute. Here’s a link to it.

12:09 p.m. Usher singing “Gone Too Soon” — sadly, too appropriate.

12:12 p.m. Usher looking at the casket — a powerful image.

12:14 p.m. Smokey Robinson admiring Michael Jackson’s maturity in his age 10 performance of “Who’s Lovin’ You.”

12:17 p.m. Robinson: “I’m glad I lived in this era.”

12:19 p.m. Child prodigy Shaheen Jafargholi (from Britain’s Got Talent!) really belts out “Who’s Lovin’ You” — the best performance of the memorial thus far. Michael Jackson would have been proud.

12:22 p.m. Kenny Ortega now speaking about the “This Is It” tour — it would have been his “triumphant return.”

12:25 p.m. “We Are The World” medley: Robinson, Ortega, Hudson, Richie, Michael’s kids and many others onstage for the ultimate tribute.

12:29 p.m. Straight into “Heal the World,” led by the First black Miss Indiana, Kellee Patterson.

12:37 p.m. Jermaine and Marlon represent the family in sharing their emotions and anecdotes — even in his disguises, Michael Jackson was recognized by his shoes.

12:39 p.m. Paris speaks. No words from us here.

12:39 p.m. The memorial ends as it started — peppered with shouts of love from the audience.

Here’s an interesting insite on the upcoming movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Kevin Polowy at moviefone.com, I quote…

School vacation has never seemed longer. ‘Potter’ heads who’ve been breathlessly waiting two years since the last movie from the mega-popular franchise can finally exhale — Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates are back for year 6 of Hogwarts training in ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ (opens July 15), which is shaping up to be the most romantic — and of course, mature — installment yet.

We visited the 500,000-square foot Leavesden Film Studios in rural London (imagine an interconnecting complex of 15 Home Depots, plus dazzling exterior sets) to see where Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have spent the better part of the last decade of their lives — and to get the scoop on their latest ‘Potter’ adventure. Keep reading for a sneak peek from the set of ‘Half-Blood Prince.’ — By Kevin Polowy

1. Army of One
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has long since come to terms with a fate that sets him up as the only wizard who can bring down Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). And in ‘Half-Blood Prince’ the training wheels truly come off, as Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) privately tutors Harry and even commands him to retrieve a key memory out of the newly arrived professor Slughorn (Jim Broadbent). “His want — or his need — in this film is basically to kill Voldemort, and he realizes that the way in which he’ll do this is to become Dumbledore’s favorite foot soldier,” Radcliffe says. “That’s the role you’ll see him gradually moving toward in this film.”

2. Big Man on Campus
“We see a cocky and arrogant side to Ron on this one,” says Rupert Grint about the awkward but lovable carrottop he plays. “He’s on the Quidditch team [as starting goalkeeper], he’s got a girlfriend, and he thinks he’s quite cool.” On the flipside, “at times he can be a bit cocky and he annoys Hermione quite a bit,” Grint adds. Says director David Yates: “There’s a sort of middle-aged quality that develops in the character, which is incredibly frustrating and irritating but very charming at the same time.” That’s Ron, frustratingly and irritatingly charming.

3. Plenty More Malfoy
One character who gets a much more developed role in ‘Half-Blood Prince’ is Harry’s Hogwarts rival, Draco Malfoy, who in this film receives direct orders from Lord Voldemort. Bad for Harry, good for Tom Felton, the actor behind Malfoy. “It’s really nice to take him to a higher level, rather than just being an annoying git at the back of the classroom,” Felton says. “It’s really nice that he’s grown, he was quite a two-dimensional character in the previous films.” He’s also got a girlfriend in this installment, Pansy Parkinson (Scarlett Byrne). Felton’s favorite scene this go-around? “To be able to stand on [Harry's] nose has been a lifelong dream.”

4. Bonus Footage
As faithful as ‘Potter’ directors have been to J.K. Rowling’s source(ry) throughout the series, fans have always delighted in the occasional extra scene. In ‘Half Blood-Prince,’ scenes involving the evil Death Eaters terrorizing the community — only referenced by Rowling in the book — are played out on screen. Says director Yates, “We’ve introduced two moments in the film where we see the Death Eaters do what Jo actually described them doing, but off the page as it were.” Also added: an early scene where Harry’s emerging mojo is put on display as he flirts with an attractive waitress on a train. “You immediately set up the notion that suddenly these characters are a bit more sexualized,” Yates says. “They’re aware of the opposite sex.”

Scenes on the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. Game On!
A conspicuous absence since the third installment, ‘Prisoner of Azkaban,’ has been that magical (and extreme) sport known as Quidditch. “I wanted to get Quidditch in the last film but we were so overstuffed with things that it was really hard,” explains Yates, adding that the fun gaming sequence in ‘Prince’ is “kind of comedy Quidditch.” Not everyone on set was thrilled about the sport’s heralded return though — or at least shooting it. “I have to say it was bit of an anticlimax,” says Grint. “I really sort of built it up and thought it would be great fun even though [Daniel Radcliffe] said it was painful. He was definitely right. It’s not the nicest experience.” Their director feels their pain: “[Brooms] aren’t the most seat-friendly contraptions.”

6. Scrapping Scrimgeour
Of course, not every scene, detail or even character can make the cut when adapting a 652-page book into a two-hour movie. A casualty of the page-to-screen condensation in part 6 is Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, who famously visits the Muggle Prime Minister in the book. “We struggled to keep him in,” says Yates. “It’s a great scene in the book … We loved that, and it was in and it was out and it was in and it was out again.” It was just announced that Bill Nighy has signed on to ‘Deathly Hallows,’ and though the actor is tight-lipped on who he’ll play, the presumption is he will indeed be Scrimgeour.

7. Love Triangle No. 1
Despite threats of terrorism (via the Death Eaters) and suspected turncoats roaming the halls of Hogwarts, there’s always time for a little romance, especially with a box of love potion-laced chocolates thrown into the mix with the raging teenage hormones. Yates says the story “deals with the politics of romance.” Ron must balance the affections of Lavender Brown (“Lavender’s completely crazy,” says Grint) with his long-gestating liaison with Hermione (Emma Watson). “I think Hermione’s beginning to acknowledge the fact that she has feelings for him, which she’s never done,” says Watson. “She’s always been in denial.” Adds Grint, “All the stuff with Lavender makes her go a bit crazy.” Poor guy, this Ron, surrounded by all these crazies.

8. New Kid on the Block
Jessie Cave, who makes her ‘Potter’ debut as Ron’s aforementioned love interest Lavender Brown, insists there are no initiation rites for new cast members (good news for you, ‘Deathly Hallows’ star Rhys Ifans). But while Lavender is spunky and brisk, Cave admits to being the opposite. “I’m quite shy and I’m not a loud character,” she says. “But it’s quite fun to play somebody who is because everyone has a loud character inside of them wanting to jump out.”

Read 5 fun facts from the set

9. Love Triangle No. 2
Meanwhile, Harry woos Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) away from her boyfriend, Dean Thomas (Alfie Enoch), and seeks her brother Ron’s approval. “The whole thing with Harry and Ginny is quite confusing for Ron, because he’s quite protective,” Grint says. But one scene featuring the three, where Ron obliviously plonks himself down between the two lovebirds, should be good for DVD bloopers: “I have this real problem with laughing through a take and that scene was quite hard,” Grint says. As for the hanky panky between Harry and Ginny, “It’s very odd because I’ve known Bonnie since she was about 9,” Radcliffe says. Wright agrees, sort of. “It is strange, but also it’s more comfortable with someone you know rather than just a random person.”

Scenes on the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

10. Introducing Your New Potions Instructor
With each ‘Potter’ movie comes at least one new teacher, played by some of the UK’s most venerated actors. New to the party in ‘Prince’ is Jim Broadbent, who plays Potions teacher Horace Slughorn. Says Radcliffe when asked if the relationship between Harry and Slughorn will be as strained on screen as in the books: “I think Harry ultimately likes Slughorn. I think he thinks he’s a very good person and his heart is in the right place, but he’s just very opportunistic and totally self-obsessed.” Fun fact: Broadbent played Tom Felton’s father in the young actor’s first film, ‘The Borrowers.’

11. Ist Bruno!
Also new to ‘Prince’ is director of photography Bruno Delbonnel, who shot the gorgeous French flicks ‘Amelie’ and ‘A Very Long Engagement.’ What does that mean to the average fan? “It’ll be warmer than the last film,” director David Yates says of the movie’s look. “‘Order of the Phoenix’ was dealing with teenage angst and it was dealing with that period in life where you start to rebel a wee bit and you’re struggling against authority and all of that, while this film is much warmer and much more romantic.”

12. Magical vs. Fantastical
One of the biggest goals (and challenges) on the set of ‘Potter’ movies has been to maintain a consistent look and feel. “We’ve established a world and it’s a parallel world to our own,” says David Heyman, the ‘Potter’ producer who obtained the books’ film rights. “We’re quite strict about making sure we don’t stray, because sometimes directors or contributors turn up for the first time, and it’s very easy for them to stray off into the realm of the fantastical as opposed to the magical. What we try and establish is a real world that has a magical element, which is obviously not real. But who knows? Maybe there are wizards out there. Maybe we are muggles, after all.”

3. Buddy Comedy
Harry, Ron and Hermione may be the tale’s inseparable trio of BFFs, but behind the scenes Radcliffe bonded most with an older soul — Michael Gambon, who plays Dumbledore. For the first couple months of filming, Radcliffe and Gambon were the only actors on set. “The relationship between me and Michael really built up over that time,” Radcliffe says, adding that the two have similar senses of humor. “When you know that you’re both going to have to work together very closely doing very difficult stuff, you really need to very, very quickly find something that you can bond over.” Radcliffe was especially tickled when Gambon responded to news that Rowling had “outed” Dumbledore by “camping it up around set for a couple weeks after that.”

Scenes on the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

14. Kissing Co-Stars
“There’s so much kissing going on in this book!” Watson says. And fans aren’t the only ones who get excited by the Hogwarts smooch fests. Radcliffe admits he was disappointed he missed the kiss between Ron and Lavender, “Just ’cause I thought it’d be pretty funny.” According to Matthew Lewis, who plays Neville Longbottom, kissing scenes are usually shot on closed sets, “so no one can go in and start laughing in the background,” but Ron and Lavender’s kiss was filmed in front of most of the cast. The reserved Grint describes the scene’s filming as “quite embarrassing,” but says, “I had a room full of people cheering.” Well, he must be doing something right.

15. Hints of ‘Hallows’
“We’ve kind of altered our story to make sure we don’t tread on the toes of what comes in ‘Deathly Hallows,’” says Yates about the final chapter, which was released in bookstores only months before ‘Half-Blood Prince’ went into production. Among the changes: A subplot surrounding Dumbledore’s wand, and a major development in the Ron and Hermione saga: “We had a kiss planned for ['Half-Blood Prince'], which we’ve sort of saved because we think it’s better to maintain that sexual tension.” In other words, fans yearning for a taste of that sugar will have to wait until Nov. 19, 2010, the day ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I’ opens. Unless, of course, it’s decided that the kiss will be better in ‘Part II.’

Photo credits from cinematical.com.