Katy Perry: Russell Brand divorce because of work, success: Favorite people
The Associated PressKaty Perry has managed to keep very, very, very busy since Russell Brand filed for divorce.surging career for split with Brand
Katy Perry is finally talking about her split with Russell Brand, and she's not pointing any fingers, more or less.
In her new movie, "Part of Me," Perry says the biggest strain on their marriage, which all but ended when he filed for divorce six months ago, was her packed touring schedule, with Perry using her rare days off to take trips to see Brand.
In one scene, People reports, Perry is seen sobbing uncontrollably backstage just before her show. Eventually, she rallies. "Start time," she says before hitting the stage.
And it didn't help, she says, that her career was taking off.
"I thought to myself, 'When I find that person that's going to be my life partner, I won't ever have to choose (between the partner and my career) ... they won't be threatened or have weird motives," Perry says. "Then I started to realize, that's not true. That fairytale I had is not true for me right now."
She also says the last thing she wanted was for the marriage to unravel.
"I have that same belief system with everything, from career to my life to my personal life, everything," she says. "And I will do everything it takes to not fail. And I did everything it took but it still failed."
Justin Bieber flunks art
history test on 'Letterman'
But what about the 15th?
After David Letterman questioned still another tattoo on Justin Bieber, saying he's looking more and more! like "the Sistine Chapel" (we assume he means the ceiling that Michelangelo painted, not the entire chapel), the 18-year-old defended himself.
"I'm not going for the 16th chapel," he assured the late-night host.
Letterman laughed, then blamed the Stratford, Ontario, native's mistake on "Canadian high school."
Baldwin insists he didn't
hit newspaper photographer
Speaking of guests on David Letterman, Alec Baldwin denied punching a newspaper photographer during a confrontation outside a New York City marriage license bureau.
"If I had punched him, I would be in jail right now, rightfully so," Baldwin said during an appearance on, yes, Letterman's "Late Show" the day before Justin Bieber. "I kind of pushed him out of the way because he almost hit me in the face with the camera."
Baldwin's confrontation with New York Daily News photographer Marcus Santos was splashed on the newspaper's front page. Police have confirmed that Santos filed a complaint against Baldwin, saying he was punched.
Baldwin said in the Daily News photograph, he appears to be forming the letter 'f' with his mouth. "What I'm saying is, 'What 'f stop' are you using on the camera?'"
An NYPD spokeswoman says no charges have been filed and that police are investigating.
The Associated PressRichard Adler and wife Sally Ann Howes in 1961. ('Damn Yankees') dies at 90
Composer and lyricist Richard Adler, who won Tony Awards for co-writing songs for such hit Broadway musicals as "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees" and who staged and produced President John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration featuring a breathy Marilyn Monroe, has died. He was 90.
Adler died Thursday at his home in Southampton, N.Y., his widow, Susan A. Ivory, said.
Some of Adler's biggest songs are "You Gotta Have Heart," "Hey, There," "Hernando's Hideaway," "Whatever Lola Wants," "Steam Heat," "Rags to Riches," and "Everybody Loves a Lover."
Former Disney star sues
Bristol Palin show producers
Kyle Massey, former Disney star and Bristol Palin pal (we assume former on that front, too) has filed a suit claiming he and his brother Christopher created the reality TV show for Palin that eventually became "Life's A Tripp," only to get cut out at the last minute.
Their show would have been called "Bristol-ogy 101," but, the suit (which does not name Palin as a defendant) claims, a producer stole the project and renamed it, selling it to Lifetime.
The brothers want the $500,000 they say they were guaranteed to co-star in the show and more money for coming up with the concept.
Oh, and they want the show shut down immediately.