Reba McEntire has certainly had quite a successful solo career, but now she tells us she's turning her attention toward duets with the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Justin Timberlake.
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"Right now I'm doing a duets album. Kelly Clarkson and I have already recorded a song. Faith Hill and I are going to record one. I'll also have Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Don Henley, Justin Timberlake, and LeAnn Rimes. We're just trying to find time when we can get in the studio," reports McEntire, who is also busy filming her CW sitcom "Reba."
"What I'm trying to do is find the songs for the person that will really work with them and then I call them up. I don't want to say, 'Hey, you want to do one?' And then they say, 'Maybe. What do you got?'" McEntire says the new project is all a part of keeping her career fresh. "I've always said that maintaining is harder than breaking into this business, so what we have to do is keep putting out great material."
HARD TO BE A HUNK:
Sounds like John Stamos wasn't quite ready to film some naked scenes with Parminder Nagra for upcoming segments of "ER." "Oh, God. I'm not McSteamy. These guys take off their shirts all the time and pump weights and crap in between scenes. I tried to hide behind the set to do push-ups before a shower scene with Parminder but ended up banging my head on a pipe. I felt so stupid!" he admits in a wide-ranging interview in the issue of Entertainment Weekly that'll be hitting stands tomorrow (12/1).
Stamos also talks about his and Rebecca Romijn's marital breakup ("We were both very civil. We both took the high road.") and about such professional disappointments as his short-lived "Jake in Progress" series: "People look at other actors my age and with my fame, and go, 'Why are all those others big stars and you're not?' … You have a one-in-5,000 chance to get a show on the air and have people like it. I've tried it. Magic has to happen. Stars have to line up. It didn't happen for me."
Still, he's riding high again thanks to "ER," and has an attention-grabbing role as a gay party planner who takes a stand for same-sex marriage in A&E's Dec. 11 "Wedding Wars." Stamos says taking the role "was my way of saying I support that issue."
VIOLENT BY NATURE:
Brooke Langton reports that Disney is taking a new turn with its gory movie "Primeval," which, unlike most of its family-friendly flicks, will be rated, GASP, PG-13!
"It's a true story about a crocodile who gets a hunger for man. It's Disney's sort of turning point where they are actually having scary films. It's definitely a departure from their regular programming," says Langton, who plays a journalist in the movie hitting theatres in February. "In the movie, we are in America and we hear about this crocodile over in Rwanda where the wars are, and we go over there to document this crocodile. Of course we wind up right in the middle of trouble with him. It's a non-stop, action-packed adventure."
Meanwhile, Langton has slowed things down a bit with her movie "Beautiful Dreamer," which is currently doing well on the festival circuit. "It's set in the '40s, and I love that era. My grandfather was a B-52 pilot. He actually trained Jimmy Stewart and was in his company when they were learning how to fly these planes," she tells us. Langton plays a woman who finds her fiance two years after his plane has been shot down in World War II, but he has started a new life after suffering from amnesia. "Even when someone says they don't love you, this movie is about not giving up on love."
IN FASHION:
With the "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show coming up on CBS Dec. 5, one question that just might cross people's minds is, what is it about Brazil that makes the country such a leading producer of supermodels, including Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, Ana Hickmann, Jeisa Chiminazzo, Caroline Trentini, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros … "It's a lot of mixing of races and backgrounds. That's what makes Brazilian girls so exciting," in the view of Barros. "They're really different."
(With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster)
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