Amanda Bynes has landed her first role that doesn’t involve comedy. She’s been cast for a role in the Lifetime movie Living Proof, which is about the development of a breast cancer drug and is based on a book by Robert Bazell. Others cast in the movie Angie Harmon, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz and Harry Connick Jr. Amanda’s character is the student assistant to Connick’s character Dennis Slamon.

So this is a TV movie, it might seem a step down for Amanda from Hollywood movies but I understand the move. She has always said she wants to venture into more serious roles and this movie is a drama. It wouldn’t really make a lot of sense for anyone to cast her in a bigger production. This is just a way for herself to discover what she can actually do in the drama genre.

The movie will air in October so we’ll see what Amanda can do in the genre by then. If it’s a failure she won’t have too much egg on her face, she can just as quickly return to comedy. Though sometimes I wonder why she’s so very picky about movie roles, she really doesn’t make that many movies compared to other actresses in her age group.

Have Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes and Brittany Snow teamed up against Miley Cyrus? No they’re not turning against Miley because of the Vanity Fair pictures; this is another episode in the YouTube dance battle between the dance crews ACDC (Step Up director John Chu and Adam Sevani) and M&M Cru with a U (Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux).

While the first they made just consisted of dancers the new one also features celebrities, amongst these are some people of the Hairspray cast (in this case Amanda Bynes, Brittany Snow and Elijah Kelley) but also Lindsay Lohan and her galpal (somehow I hate that term) Samantha Ronson. Of those the biggest part is probably for Lindsay, including one where she knocks over two cardboard cut-outs of Hannah Montana. There actually are far more celebrities in the video but I’m not going to name them all.

As for the video itself, all those celebrities being in there is actually problem if you ask me. While the M&M video basically only had Channing Tatum as a celebrity, John and Adam tried to stick as many as possible in there. It just makes it more a parade of celebrities than an actual dance video. The dancing is of course of the highest level but the video itself just doesn’t really work for me, I actually think their first video was better.

Of course it took time to produce this video; seeing it only took a couple of days for the Miley & Mandy response to come online I don’t know if that will be the case this time. Mandy is away with her new band the Beach Girlz while Miley is in Tennessee for the Hannah Montana Movie rehearsals. So if they have the response prepared (which I think was the case last time) it will only take a couple of days. Otherwise we won’t see a response for another couple of months.

US Magazine has put out another one of those quite weird lists, this time the 2007 Hot Hollywood Power Players. I’ve questioned the use of rankings before but in this one I really wonder what their ranking criteria are.

Focussing on the younger women on the list we can see Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Bynes and Jamie Lynn Spears. They also included the Cast of Heroes (which makes the list even stranger) which also includes Hayden Panettiere. The Heroes show will lose a lot of support this year I think, the show seems to be overhyped a bit right now. So not that Hot Hollywood at the end of this year I think.

I can understand why they put Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens on the list; they’re having a good run with the younger crowd right now. Amanda Bynes is on there because of the success of Hairspray and because she is completely scandal free which the press likes these days.

Why put Jamie Lynn Spears on the list? Her sister isn’t exactly helping with her problems; she herself even had a pregnancy scare. The only thing she has going right now is her TV show Zoey 101, besides that she isn’t really doing anything. Compared to other shows on TV the show isn’t doing that great, if you compare it to her competition on that list she loses by a mile to Miley Cyrus. I really wouldn’t rate her as a power player.

I’m just starting to think they put this list together so they could invite these people to a party. If you put them on a list like that you’ll have a bigger chance of them coming than just inviting them. I can’t see any concrete criteria to how these girls were ranked in that list.

The thing with actresses starting at a young age is that you see them growing up on screen. You can of course never predict what they’ll be like in the future, sometimes they turn out to be different than you ever imagined.

There are two possible ways we can see people growing up on screen, there are the actresses that start out on TV and there are the ones that start in movies. With movies you see them growing up in steps, you see them once in a while. With TV you can literally see them growing up, they can even change over the course of a TV season.

One of the most famous examples probably are the Olsen twins, you could literally see Mary-Kate and Ashley start out as babies on Full House. After that they kept exploiting their cute twin factor in straight to DVD movies from their own production company Dual Star. But what everyone knew would happen really did happen; their cuteness factor wore off and now we just see two close to being anorexic fashion disasters in the tabloids. They’re now trying to get into acting again but solo; the twin thing isn’t that useful for adult actors.
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I’m a webmaster; as any other webmaster I like a lot of visitors on my site. I’m also a curious fellow and like to look at the statistics for the site, the main thing I’m interested in is the keywords people enter into their search engine to get to the site. The keywords on starletlinks.com are quite normal, a lot of cases of people misspelling names but nothing really dramatic. Then there are the keywords for starletviews.com; there’s some weird stuff in there.

Not too long ago I did a story about that there seem to be a lot of young Hollywood stars that smoke; since then key phrases like “miley cyrus smoking a cigarette“, “Emily osment smoking a cigarette” (actually the top search result for the last month) and even “elle fanning smoking”. The people that search for things like that should realise one thing, if someone like that would smoke you wouldn’t be able to find pics of it. The people behind them would do everything in their power to prevent from something like that coming out. And to the person searching for pics of Elle Fanning smoking; try to step into the real world, she’s nine years old. I don’t even know why someone would attempt a search like that.

Miley Cyrus seems to be a popular target for strange keywords anyway, I’ve also seen the phrases “miley cyrus getting in trouble with the law” and “miley cyrus going to rehab” coming by, not to mention that people are even searching for pics of her posing in Maxim. She’s fourteen! There won’t be pics like that, and people shouldn’t be searching for them. Not that Miley doesn’t dress to suggest otherwise. People also try to find out when she’s eighteen; they’ll have to wait a little over three years for that.

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As we all know the entertainment industry is more than just the movies and the music. These days there’s the internet of course but celebrities are more and more turned into brands. An actress or singer rarely is just an actress a singer anymore.

It has become quite normal that an actress records an album and that a singer makes a movie. That’s not I’m referring too; I’m talking about the vast array of products that are connected to celebrities these days. They’ve always done advertising and endorsed products but this is going further. Stars are no longer just people; they’re brands. A trend that was started by the Olsen Twins but it has expanded to a lot more celebrities.

Scarlett Johansson is a highly regarded actress; she’s pretty much one of the most wanted younger stars in Hollywood right now. We already knew she’s working on an album full of Tom Waits covers but there’s one thing a lot of people probably don’t know. Hearts RBK is Scarlett’s line of clothing with Reebok; it mainly consists of casual sportswear and sneakers for women. I know I’m not a marketing genius otherwise this site would probably get a lot more visitors.

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Last week we posted our doubts about the actresses signing record deals. And now there’s some interesting coming out; I haven’t seen Hairspray yet but critics are very positive about it, also about Amanda Bynes her singing performance.

This raised the question for some people to ask her whether she has any interest in recording an album. Her answer was clear; no. She doesn’t feel she has the time for it, which is find of course it’s her choice. I also wouldn’t see this as a permanent no, who knows she might change her mind in the future which is her right.

This in all isn’t really weird but another thing she said is. She was offered record deals before Hairspray, before anyone heard her sing. How does that work? How can someone in the music industry offer music deals to people where it’s unknown whether they can actually sing?

This basically just means that they wanted to sell records with her name. Makes you wonder how many of these actresses were signed because of their name on not because of their talent.

What’s wrong with a natural look? These days in Hollywood it just seems like everyone is changing something about them. I’m not talking about plastic surgery here even though some people do that. But we’re focussing on the younger generation here who haven’t quite gotten to that point yet; still they try and change themselves.

Of course Hollywood has always been a case of a lot of make-up. But when I recently saw an image of Amanda Bynes with bleached hair and heavy make-up I just thought why? I always had a weak spot for Amanda; she just had a cute look. What’s wrong with that? The Hollywood diva look just doesn’t suit her. I liked the way she looked before a lot more, I hope this is just a phase for her. Hairspray will come out this week and in that it makes sense that she has more extreme hair and make-up, but she shouldn’t take it out of the movie and put it in her own life.

Amanda isn’t the only one though. We don’t even know what some people’s natural look is, take Hilary Duff. From the very beginning she was in showbiz she was a bleach blonde. These days she isn’t anymore of course but the thing with dying with hair is that it’s not gone the next day so her current look isn’t natural as well. It might be close but it’s not her natural hair colour. I guess every actress has to go through a blonde stage for some reason though; most of them seem to be blonde at some point in their career.

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Lindsay Lohan once again crashed a car as we all know and we already went into that, now we’re going to talk about the cars. She crashed this specific car, a Mercedes SL65, multiple times. It made me think, why do people like Lindsay and her colleagues in both age range and occupation drive cars that are way too big and fast for them?

Lindsay has had multiple cars in her not that long driving career. She pretty much started off with a Mercedes SL55 but traded that in when the SL65 came out. The only real difference between those two cars is the engine; the SL65 has more power and is a bit faster to 60mph. The top speed is the same, German car makers (except for Porsche and Audi on their top of the range sport models) all limit their cars to 155mph. So why even bother getting a SL65 instead of a SL55?

It’s just a car that’s easier to crash because the electronics can handle the power of the engine in the SL55 but they can’t in the SL65. And I’ve seen pictures of Lindsay getting into that car on flip-flops, that’s asking for trouble. And the car is available with a V6, if you tell your local Mercedes dealer to make it look like an AMG they will. So there really isn’t a need to drive a car like the SL65. But she already has a new car besides that SL65; it’s a Porsche Carrera convertible. At least that’s a car that manages to get its power onto the road. Unless Lindsay finds out there’s a tuner in Germany that will modify it to 900bhp and 250mph.

Lindsay in the car she hasn’t crashed yet..

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You would think that in this day of age with all its technology that the younger generations of celebrities would go with the trend of everything being interactive. But apparently this isn’t the case; taking a look at the average official celebrity website tells the whole story.

Taking a look at the links list on starletlinks.com already tells you one thing; a lot of young celebrities don’t even have an official website. And I’m not counting myspace pages because for me those don’t really count, it’s rather effortless to set up one of those.

Taking a browse through the pages that are linked get from bad to worse. Take llrocks.com for example; Lindsay Lohan’s official website. To start of with you get a small intro with a single from her newest single from the album Speak. Call me crazy but I could have sworn her last album released was called a Little More Personal. When you go further into the site it doesn’t get any better, the last update is from November 27th 2005. The design in general is very outdated and the info on the site is of course outdated as well. And leaving the journal section online is just pitiful, seeing the last entry is from October 15th 2003. It just shows that Lindsay and her management don’t seem to care about their online presence. So there was an effort at one point but there just isn’t any anymore.

New single? Maybe two years ago.

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