twitter.com/TraceCyrus

• Miley Cyrus' 20-year-old brother, Trace Cyrus, is on tour with his band, Metro Station, and doing all the kinds of things you expect the rebel Cyrus to do when he's a gazillion miles from his family: "So yeah. Beer is gross to me. Even Japanese beer. But I opened it so I must finish! Plus it's legal to drink here! So why not? Right." He's also diggin' the locals: "Japanese girls... Agh!! God must of felt very giving when making you. As my old man would say.. Can I get a amen!?"

• If Denise Richards' hair color is looking a bit off, here's why: "my house has copper plumbing.my daughters hair and mine is turning green..we've tried everything."

• Christina Applegate doesn't write often, but when she does, it's a burst of joy and sweetness: "Rode on the back of a scooter through a very busy and beautiful city last night. It was thrilling. How is everyone today?"

• Martha Stewart has some interesting neighbors: "This Baby Camel was born down the street from me yesterday at my friends the Steinharts."

• Jon Favreau is rather proud of his Iron Man 2 casting: "Scarlett [Johansson] kicked ass yesterday. All of her preparation has really paid off. She has a great work ethic. A real pro."

• Danny Masterson wants to be a casting director: " Can someone please make a movie starring tina fey and bonnie hunt! Id pay 2 watch them drink coffee 2gether......"

Cast us on your Twitter feed @eonline!

Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn probably didn't foresee Scarlett Johansson's marriage to Ryan Reynolds when he first approached her about a duets album in 2006. At that point, her love for Tom Waits hadn't yet been mocked or even made public—she was just another curvy starlet looking to break into the music biz.

Together, Johansson and Yorn (who has wooed the likes of Winona Ryder and Minnie Driver) put down nine duets they kept to themselves until now.

With all that's happened since—a wedding and an album sales stinker—the respected crooner and the actress are releasing Break Up on Sept. 8.

"I was having a strange week of insomnia, and when I finally passed out, it came to me in a dream," Yorn says in a statement. "I woke up, and the whole thing was in my head, fully formed."

"It sounded like an interesting little adventure," Johansson explains in the press release. "The idea of two people vocalizing their relationship through duets…I always thought of it as just a small project between friends. It perfectly captured where I was in my life at the time."

"Relator," the first track on the "hook-filled song cycle about a tempestuous relationship," can be heard here now.

Keep Reading

Alexei Hay for Elle Magazine; Greg Williams for Esquire Magazine

By now, we're all aware of Megan Fox's thing—she looks all hot (sometimes with her tongue out) and says whatever sexually charged thing pops into her head.

We approve. So let's see what kind of new material she's come up for the Transformers sequel after her "I was in love with a stripper" routine from the first giant-robot movie.

First, there's Esquire, which is easy pickings for Fox. Throw some lingerie on the girl and send some male reporter to fawn over her eating a plate of barbecue, just don't expect her to use any fancy words...

Keep Reading

John Shearer/Getty Images

•  Madonna isn't the only star looking to adopt. Newlyweds Fergie and Josh Duhamel are considering expanding their family that way as well. (Check out our whole gallery of adorable adopters!)

•  Despite photos of Scarlett Johansson and hubby Ryan Reynolds on the back of a motorcycle Sunday, the curve queen supposedly hates the hog and wishes her man would give it up.

•  Gwyneth Paltrow supposedly feels threatened by Frieda Pinto.

•  Mariah Carey drinks wine with a straw. She probably uses a fork and knife on chicken wings, too.

•  Harlow Madden, the 14-month-old baby of Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, twitters!

•  Dear Q-Tip-tossing photographer: How thoughtful of you to shower Zac Efron with the cotton-tipped sticks after he was snapped with ear wax buildup. Why can't more snappers be like you? Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Stars like Ashton Kutcher are on the rise, literally, in our Big Picture gallery.

NBC Photo: Adam Taylor

•  Heroes stars Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia have called it quits, blaming "a lifestyle conflict" and not (yeah, right) the starlet's recent makeout sesh with Jesse McCartney.

•  Despite how it may appear, Princess Suri Cruise is not starring in an ad for Disney (but she sure looks cute with Mickey and Minnie).

•  Speaking of cute, check out Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer in the Bahamas!

•  Here's a little schadenfreude for your Tuesday. At least three models took a tumble at the Hervé Léger fashion show. Perhaps they were distracted by the celebs lining the front row, including Michelle Trachtenberg, Jessica Stroup, January Jones, Sophia Bush and Lucy Liu. If you want more Fashion Week, check out our Runway Rundown gallery and minute-by-minute Twitter updates!

•  Seriously, Paris Hilton! Again?

•  Dear Emily Blunt: We will happily help you reconfigure your schedule so that you can be in Iron Man 2 and not be replaced by Scarlett Johansson. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Tom Cruise should probably get a hat if he wants to hang with the rest of the fashionables in our Big Picture gallery.

Bert Stern for New York Magazine; Dolce & Gabbana

With the scarlet lips and curly blond 'do, there's no question Dolce & Gabbana wanted the face of its new makeup line to channel Marilyn Monroe.

So who better to hire than Scarlett Johansson? There's no question she exudes Old Hollywood glamour.

But what about Lindsay Lohan, who re-created the icon's "Last Sitting" for New York Magazine last year?

Who do you think makes the better Marilyn (and, yes, lifestyle antics count)?

Alexi Lubomirski for Harper's Bazaar

Scarlett Johansson might call us sexist for putting that part about a brothel in the title. After all, she still seems pretty sore about being accused of having a crush on Obama in her Bazaar profile. 

But the whorehouse reference is all ScarJo, with no twisting of words. When asked what her ideal role would be, she replied:

"Every actor wants to work on a Western. I would run a brothel, like a madam or something. I'm working with what I've got. It's only so long that people are going to want to see me in a corset," she says with a laugh. "So I might as well do it now."

But on to what everyone really wants out of any Scarlett Johansson interview: How Much Will She Say About Her Marriage This Time?

Keep Reading

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater

Apparently $5,300 is the going rate for what is presumably the most expensive used tissue in the world.

Last week Scarlett Johansson got into the spirit of the holiday sniffles on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno. She claimed she caught the cold from costar Samuel L. Jackson. After Leno handed her a tissue and the starlet gave a good blow, she joked that the used hanky had some value.

To test her hypothesis, the tissue was placed on the auction block on eBay, with proceeds benefiting USA Harvest.

Seems an anonymous, recession-proof fan dug deep into his or her pockets and anted up the big bucks for ScarJo's snot rag during a last-minute bidding war.

The winner of the golden mucus will be confirmed and announced on tonight’s Tonight Show.