Last week we got to see a whole slew of new music video/visualettes from Tori Amos to promote the release of her new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which is due out on May 19. In that batch, one of the visualettes was mislabeled as Fire to your Plain but was actually Give. Today we get to see the real visualette for Fire to your Plain … here are a few screencaps from the vid:

As you can see in the second cap, Tori Amos’s daughter Natashya Lórien is featured in the video … which, I believe, is the first time Tori’s little girl has appeared in one of her music videos (tho, Tash was featured in the liner note photography and backstage video on her Welcome to Sunny Florida DVD release). Click HERE to check out this awesome new visualette for Fire to your Plain in full. While I really love the Ophelia and Give visualettes, I think this new one is my fave of the bunch thus far. What do you think? Which visualette is your fave so far?

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Newlyweds for the second time Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, who were recently spotted enjoying the sights of Vancouver, BC Canada together, have made their way back to NYC … and were spotted making their way into a medical center together. HMMMMMMMMMM. Might the happily married couple be going in for a check-up together? Might they be worried about swine flu? OR, might they seeing a man (or woman) about a baby?

Of course, there is NO evidence at all that the couple are expecting a baby or anything … but couples who visit medical centers (or OBGYNs) together usually do so when they are workin’ on the baby makin’. It would be really amazing if Tom and Gisele had a baby of their own (I know Tom’s ex and babymama Bridget Moynahan would be thrilled) so let’s just hope for the best, shall we? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if anything will come of this visit to the doctor. Hopefully everything will be fine … and hopefully their happy family will be growing very soon.

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Megan Fox, who will be starring alongside Shia LaBeouf in the Transformers sequel Rise of the Fallen this June and just started filming Jonah Hex for release next year, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Esquire magazine … here is her coverphoto:

Wowie wow! Megan looks great … but, curiously, don’t you think the trench coat/stockings ensemble looks an awful lot like the look that Angelina Jolie rocked in the spy romance flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith? The similarity can’t be a coincidence … Megan has been compared to a young Angelina many times before. After the jump, check out another alternate Esquire cover of Megan in another pose …

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Halle Berry stepped out over the weekend with her beautiful baby girl Nahla Ariela for a nice lunch for just the two of them and emerged from their restaurant to a sea of paparazzi hoping to get photos of mother and baby together. Halle, clearly annoyed at the attention, went into mama lion mode and stepped to the paps ordering them all to move back and give her space to get to her car:

I can absolutely understand Halle’s distress and commend her for handling herself with grace. I know I would not want to find myself on the receiving end of that finger … she looks about 2 secs. away from opening a can of whoop ass on the fool to dares to cross her. Halle rules!

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Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden took a break from showing off his bare, musclely arms on the streets of SoCal to put those arms to good use in Las Vegas, NV. Benji made his way to the Wasted Space nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Sin City this weekend to spin some tunes for the assembled partygoers … here are a couple pics of Benji doing his thang at the Hard Rock in LV:

While I am newly partial to Benji’s newfound affinity for his sleeveless strolls here in LA, I’m glad to see that he is also keepin’ bizzy with music as well. DJ Benji is a pretty prolific spinmaster so I’m sure the folks at Wasted Space had themselves a good time. That said, I’m hoping that Benj has already made his way back to SoCal to get back to the biz at hand … those bared arms aren’t gonna get nearly the attention the deserve inside a dark nightclub ;)

[Photo credit: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino]

Jessica Simpson is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Unfortch for her, the cover is prolly the fuglist one that the magazine has ever published … ever. The fugness has nothing really do with Jessica Simpson herself (tho, I should confess that I don’t really like the picture of her that was chosen for the cover) and everything to do with the horrible, jumbled use of texts and graphics. It looks like a total confusing mess. Here is Jessica on the cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair along with a portion of her coverstory interview (which was shared by her Dallas Cowboys beau Tony Romo):

Having professed her love for Tony Romo – whom she’s been dating since Thanksgiving 2007 – Jessica Simpson now has the Dallas Cowboys quarterback speaking up about her. “We’re very similar in that we both appreciate the hometown feel to a lot of things, and live our life like that,” Romo, described as “big, easy, handsome,” tells the June issue of Vanity Fair (on sale in New York and Los Angeles May 6 and nationally May 12). “She comes to a ton of games,” he says. “She’s a supportive girlfriend.” Not that this has been unanimously viewed as an advantage. In what at the time was perceived as a curse – and, as Vanity Fair’s Rich Cohen points out, in Texas where the Cowboys are a religion, Simpson’s dating Romo is like she’s dating the Pope – the couple vacationed in Mexico before the Cowboys lost to the New York Giants in the 2008 NFL playoffs. The Giants, meanwhile, went on to win the Super Bowl. According to Romo, 29, between games, “A lot of people head to Vegas, go back to their hometowns, colleges, and stuff. I was just like, ‘Let’s rent a house and sit around and watch football.’ It seemed like a good decision. But when you’re in the public eye, things can be perceived differently.” He adds, “You know, it’s very hard when you lose, because games are important, and so many people put so much time and effort in. It’s nice to have someone to come home to and try and make you feel better.” Simpson, 28, concurs. “That’s how the story goes,” she says. “Can’t help it. But we don’t let it affect our relationship. If we did, we wouldn’t be together, because it happened at the very beginning. Dating the Cowboys quarterback comes with hype, the fans, the bloggers, but I’ve never dated a guy that was more simple. I’m always there for him after a game, and he knows he has me to come home to.” Home is definitely an important refuge, because, as the profile also chronicles, life isn’t always easy for Simpson. Her “sudden weight gain,” though apparently now under control, left her looking “less than slender,” the magazine reports. Then there are her professional highs and lows, which include a not particularly enviable movie box-office record and a musical identity that is anything but constant, prompting Sony Music head Tommy Mottola to say, “I think she absolutely needs to re-invent herself.” At the same time, Mottola (who signed Simpson to her first label, in 1997), warns Simpson against flip-flopping between pop, Christian rock and country music – and thereby confusing her audience. In the face of such challenges, Simpson, underscoring her spiritual self, says, “We all go through trials, but not one thing has ever made me question God. I have a great relationship with God. I can talk to him, get mad at him, frustrated with him. But, ultimately, my faith is what defines me.” Besides, she adds, “There will always be another opportunity, another door to walk through.”

Ugh, the cover is really bad … but good for her for scoring the VF cover in the first place. She really doesn’t have anything of interest to talk about with the mag. I guess I’m not entirely sure why she got the cover in the first place … she’s got no new movies on the horizon (nor any old movies worth talking about) and no new album about to be released (she actually just got let go from her Country music label) … AND it’s not even football season to make Romo’s participation in the interview relevant. The entire feel of her VF coverpiece is focused on her apparent shortcomings and setbacks. Is any of this really worthy of a magazine cover? Surely the magazine, at the very least, published a stunning photoshoot to offset the lackluster interview … right? After the jump, check out a few photos from Jessica Simpson’s Vanity Fair photospread and judge for yourself …

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Last night I finally got to hang out with my dear friends Steph and Alek who, due to various circumstances, I haven’t seen in too many weeks and we mostly had a great time together. We met up for dinner at 8oz. Burger Bar on Melrose for some amazing burgers (duhvs) and then chilled out at their place for a bit while we waited for Darion to meet us (David stayed home to rebuild his computer that had to be wiped after it got infected with a virus). En masse we made our way to the ArcLight to see the Zac Efron movie 17 Again … which, it turns out, was a terrrrrrible mistake:

I really loved the Tom Hanks film Big when it was released back in the late 80’s so I was really looking forward to this retelling of the tale. I can’t say that I was really surprised at how disappointing the film was but considering it was the #1 movie the weekend it opened, I figured there’d be some redeeming charm or value in it. Not so. The whole thing was pretty much a piece of garbage. The plot was stupid, the acting was laughable and the writing was deplorable. I think the movie was supposed to be funny … or something? Yeah, I don’t recall laughing at a single joke. The only part that I thought was reasonably funny was when the friend character and the principal were speaking Elvish during their date. As much as Zac Efron is Hollywood’s fave prettyboy I didn’t really like him in this movie. I can’t really place all of the blame on him, tho, since the script was just horrible. I usually can find the best even in the worst scenarios but there wasn’t a thing I liked in this film. Sorry Zac fans, I just hated it.

And I must state for the record that it was Steph’s idea that we see the film.

No plans yet for today … we’ll prolly keep it simple. I’m totally amped for the Detroit Red Wings vs. Anaheim Ducks hockey game at the Honda Center tomorrow night … that’s really all I can think about right now.