Pierce Brosnan's Wife -- Carrot Cake Screwed Me Up Bad!

Filed under: Pierce Brosnan, Celebrity Justice

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We now know why Pierce Brosnan's wife claims she suffered "permanent injuries to her health, strength and activity" at an L.A. restaurant -- she took a bite of carrot cake with a special surprise inside ... a rock-hard walnut shell.

We broke the story ... Keely Brosnan sued R&D Kitchen claiming she became "sore, ill, and injured" after eating at the joint in October, 2009.

The suit doesn't specify what she ate -- but a rep for the restaurant now tells us ... Keely had complained about a walnut shell inside a piece of carrot cake that may have fractured her tooth.

The rep tells us, the restaurant immediately contacted its insurance company after the incident -- insisting, "We take food safety and cleanliness very seriously."  Apparently, if a payout was offered, it wasn't enough.

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Ke$ha Touched By Fan's Tattoo

Singer tells MTV News about gay fan inspired by her song 'Animal.'
By Gil Kaufman


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Ke$ha knows all about the perks of being a headliner. On her Get $leazy Tour, the singer gets to call all the shots, blast her fans in the face with tons of glitter and handpick which dudes she wants to party and share the stage with.

But it's not all backstage shenanigans and groupie love. When MTV News sat down with the "Blow" singer in New York earlier this week before her gig at Roseland Ballroom, Ke$ha said that amid the nightly onstage parties there have also been some poignant moments on her first headlining outing.

"Best moment? There are so many. Every night's amazing. I have kids outside right now chanting my name and it's awesome," she said of the first leg of the tour. "There was one night a fan came onstage, I invited him onstage, and he had a tattoo of the dollar sign. I was like, 'Oh, that's awesome! Badass. You're part of the cult, man.' "

And then, she said, he began to cry and explained that he was able to come out of the closet to his friends and family thanks to her song "Animal."

"And I'm standing onstage about to sing a song about growing back a pair of testicles ["Grow a Pear"] and I had tears rolling down my face and chills all over my body," she said. "Because that's really the reason I do music, to inspire people to be themselves."

Ke$ha has been a vocal supporter of the "It Gets Better" video project, which aims to help gay, bisexual and transgender youth find hope in the face of teasing and bullying.

The "Get $leazy" juggernaut continues on Saturday night with a show at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

Are you planning to see Ke$ha on her Get $leazy Tour? Tell us in the comments.

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Usher To Donate Gadhafi Money To Charity

'I will be donating all of my personal proceeds...to various human rights organizations,' singer says of concert linked to Libyan dictator.
By Shawn Adler


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R&B superstar Usher announced Friday (March 4) that he was donating to various charities proceeds from appearing at a private event at St. Barts linked to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, according to a statement made to the Associated Press.

The Grammy award winner's renouncement comes after similar announcements from singers Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, and Beyoncé, all of whom were revealed to have performed at private concerts linked to the Middle Eastern leader, who has faced open revolt and major political uprisings since February.

"I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Bart's event that took place on New Year's Eve 2009," Usher said of the concert, at which he appeared alongside Beyoncé but did not perform. "I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations."

Usher has already begun the process, having made a donation to Amnesty International, the AP reports. The exact size of the donation is not known.

The New Year's Eve gig was reportedly for Moammar's fourth son Muastassim, who an unnamed music industry source told MTV News has a history of throwing lavish parties "jammed" with supermodels.

Beyoncé, who sang at the event, donated all proceeds from her performance to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, established in the wake of the Haitian earthquake.

"All monies paid to Beyoncé for her performance at a private party at Nikki Beach St. Barts on New Year's Eve 2009, including the commissions paid to her booking agency, were donated to the earthquake relief efforts for Haiti over a year ago," the "Halo" singer's publicist said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Qaddafi family, the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause."

Singer Nelly Furtado tweeted February 28 that she plans to make similar amends.

"In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Gadhafi clan to perform a 45 min. show for guests at a hotel in Italy," she tweeted. "I am going to donate the $."

The leader of Libya since a successful military coup in 1969, Gadhafi has reportedly lost control of much of his country as a result of widespread uprisings. The United Nations voted unanimously to refer the dictator to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

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Ryan Gosling?s Twitter Intervention: ?Should I Just Close it Down??

Ryan Gosling has a Twitter account, but doesn’t use it and his fans are sick of it! Thankfully, MTV’s Josh Horowitz has staged an intervention with the star to try to convince him to Tweet again. OK! GALLERY: RYAN GOSLING LOOKS GORGEOUSLY GANGSTER ON SET “Why do you suck so much at Twitter?” MTV News‘ [...]

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'American Idol' Winner Lee DeWyze Dropped By Label

Season-nine winner's album was lowest-selling by show champ.
By Gil Kaufman


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Season-nine "American Idol" winner Lee DeWyze has set a couple of records since taking home the title two years ago over dreadlocked rival Crystal Bowersox. Unfortunately for him, though, they're not the kinds you want to brag about.

After landing the worst-selling debut album from an "Idol" winner in history, the soft-spoken rocker has quietly been dumped by his label, RCA Records, after just one release.

The singer and former paint-store clerk failed to catch fire with an audience while selling just 168,000 copies of his 2010 major-label bow, Live It Up. With only sporadic touring and no single topping the charts, DeWyze was largely off the radar in the months following the album's release as he kept a much lower profile than previous winners. He becomes only the second "Idol" winner to be dropped after a single album, following in the footsteps of season five's Taylor Hicks, whose Arista Records debut sold more than 705,000 copies.

While a spokesperson for RCA could not be reached for comment at press time, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news. In an interview with the trade magazine last week, newly appointed RCA Records CEO Peter Edge let slip that Illinois native DeWyze, 25, is no longer on the label's roster.

DeWyze's option with the label expired in September, and his season was the final one of a nine-year partnership between "Idol," 19 Recordings and RCA's parent company, Sony Music. While DeWyze has been let go, a number of previous "Idol" winners remain on the RCA roster, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks, David Cook and Kris Allen.

An unnamed rep for the singer told THR that DeWyze is in a "good place right now" and he is reportedly working on new music and planning his upcoming wedding to model Joanna Walsh.

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Steve Jobs Made Computing An 'Emotional Experience'

'Geeks always felt empowered with new technology ... but he was able to bring that experience to everyone,' one tech blogger tells MTV News.
By Gil Kaufman


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For tech bloggers and digital gearheads, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was Yoda, Gandalf, Dumbledore and the ultimate dungeon master rolled into one. The tech guru, who died at age 56 on Wednesday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, didn't just make cool gadgets; he visioneered elegant, sculpture-like machines that made computing fun, exciting and effortless.

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"Steve Jobs was the first person who was able to turn computers and computing into an emotional experience for everyone," said David Pescovitz, co-editor of BoingBoing and research director for the Institute for the Future.

Pescovitz, who began a lifelong love affair with all things Apple more than 30 years ago in the basement of his Cincinnati home, where he would write rudimentary code on an Apple IIe, said the two crucial things Jobs did were to empower the individual with technology and create a new kind of technology experience. "Geeks always felt empowered with computers and new technology and it was always an emotional experience for them, but he was able to bring that experience to everyone."

Jobs, a notoriously detail-oriented taskmaster, demanded perfection from the legion of Apple employees who worked to create such landmark devices as the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPad and iPhone. Determined to break out of the bland, gray boxes produced by his rivals, Jobs brought that heart-touching experience to the masses by seamlessly weaving together technology, design elegance and engineering into devices Pescovitz said you wanted to "hold, touch and experience."

There were other MP3 players before the launch of the iPod in 2001, but John Gruber, an Apple enthusiast and founder of the technology blog Daring Fireball, said Jobs' insight was making music personal again. "Your favorite music — all of it, with you everywhere you go," he said of the devices that have become the standard-bearer for portable music storage.

It's easy to forget now thanks to the ubiquity of iTunes and the more than 10 billion songs sold since the store opened in 2003, but Eric Garland, CEO of leading online media metrix company Big Champagne, said for a time, the Apple boss was spurned by the major record labels. "It's funny now to think of the notion of 99 cent downloads or paid downloads as an utterly noncontroversial one, but it's hard to remember just how contrarian this play was eight or nine years ago," Garland said.

At a time when Garland was facing intense pressure from the record industry to stop seemingly "legitimizing and encouraging" music downloading (both legal and non) by measuring download numbers, he said Jobs seemed to be his only kindred spirit. "The most powerful people in the industry said, 'This [downloading] has to stop and go away,' and they intended to keep litigating it until people stopped downloading on the Internet."

While Garland admitted that he didn't have the clout Jobs did in arguing that the genie was out of the bottle already, he recalls hearing from one executive after that music boss had been paid a personal visit by Jobs during the initial iTunes pitch. "He said to me, 'Hey, you may be right,' " Garland said. " 'Steve Jobs was showing us this thing, and we think it's the future of the business.' And that was iTunes. Looking back, Jobs saw that this was not just the future of the music industry but, as has now been demonstrated, the future of all media and, in fact, connectivity among netizens."Though the labels initially said no, Jobs persevered and Garland said that when people wonder how Apple was able to convince the labels to do a 180 on their position, the answer is simple. "He wouldn't take no for an answer. It was the strength of Steve's passion, persuasive gifts, persistence and personality that managed to change hearts and minds," he said.

President Obama, Nicki Minaj, Bill Gates and more remember Steve Jobs. Jobs' unwillingness to compromise or settle until the design met his level of taste made the Apple CEO unique, but Gruber said it was his ability to give each of his new devices a unique purpose that really set Jobs apart from his peers.

"Think about the dramatic shift from the personal computer being this beige thing on your desktop that you wanted to hide to something people treated as an objet d'art, that they admired like they would a finely designed chair or an Eames recliner," Pescovitz added. "The reason the iPod did so well was because it was a product that told its own story. It beckoned to you to want to engage with it and interact with it. That came from the design and simplicity of it and the very idea that it would dramatically change your relationship to music." Steve Jobs' impact went way beyond computers. Check out his innovations in the film industry.

And while the science fiction-like idea of having every song you ever owned in your pocket was forward-thinking enough, Pescovitz said a counterintuitive move Jobs made shortly after introducing the iPod made us rethink how we interact with our music all over again. "When he released the first iPod Shuffle [in 2005], people thought, 'How could I use this without a screen?' The point was to shuffle. You could fill it with several thousand songs and continually be surprised by the next song you heard."

The concept of putting your music on shuffle now is another part of our modern digital lexicon that Jobs almost singlehandedly invented, creating yet another new relationship between people and their music collections. And, with the recent addition of the iCloud to the Apple universe, Pescovitz said Jobs made the crucial leap that cybernauts have been waiting for since the Internet became a daily part of our lives.

"The cloud plays against this notion that cyberspace is a place you go to through your laptop," he said. "Cyberspace is overlay on top of existing reality. Media can and should be everywhere all the time. The kind of emotional experience that you're able to achieve sitting at a desk or in front of your home stereo can now be achieved wherever you are. It drastically changes your relationship to media and the world." Steve Jobs changed the world, but how did he change you? Tell us on Facebook.

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Blake Lively Bounces Back From Her Breakup by Shopping Solo on the Upper East Side

Blake Lively seems to be moving past her breakup with Leonardo DiCaprio with the help of a little retail therapy. After getting a tarot reading yesterday afternoon, the Gossip Girl actress was spotted picking up a new outfit at the shop Edit on NYC's Upper East Side. Blake's hanging out solo in the Big Apple at the moment, while her other ex, Penn Badgley, kisses Zoe Kravitz, his own new love, around town. Blake, however, was recently seen visiting her Green Lantern costar Ryan Reynolds in Boston. She's not the only lady keeping him company, though, since Ryan's hot new ad with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for Marks & Spencer is out.

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