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John Travolta will grieve for his late son for the rest of his life. The 56-year-old actor admits the pain of losing his 16-year-old son Jett – who passed away in January 2009 following a seizure while on holiday in the Bahamas – is still raw but he and his family are dealing with it the best they can.

Hilary Duff’s ABC Family movie Beauty and the Briefcase will premiere April 18th. The movie was formerly called The Business of Falling in Love.For more information check out the Beauty & the Briefcase Website.

Christian Bale hasn’t spoken to his family for 18 months. The actor’s mother Jenny is mystified as to why he has ignored all attempts she has made to make contact since he was arrested on suspicion of assault following a row they had on the evening of the London premiere of his movie ‘The Dark Knight’ in July 2008.

If you’re a gadget fan (and let’s face it: you are) then there’s simply no excuse for using disposable batteries. Environmental concerns aside, rechargeables have advanced such that it just makes economic sense to switch. We’ve been unapologetic fans of Sanyo’s Eneloop series of Ni-MH batteries for years. Hell, we like any modern rechargeable that’s sold fully charged and is capable of maintaining that state even after years inside the family junk drawer. Today, Sanyo is announcing its Eneloop lite series scheduled for a June 22nd launch in Japan with a global release set for sometime later. These cells are meant to tempt you by their relatively low, up-front purchase price of

Jennifer Garner and Seraphina were seen picking up Violet from school yesterday afternoon. The family then headed over to a park in Santa Monica for some outdoor fun. I love how sweet these two girls always look. What a joy it is to watch this family! Looks like Seraphina is getting ready to walk on her own. She still needed a little help from Jennifer while out playing with her sister, but those feet are eager to run! Photos by INF

1. What’s your backstory? I was the Weird Girl growing up (what writer isn’t? Well, the guy ones maybe) who took three years off before going to college. I traveled and wound up working as a maid in an Amsterdam hotel and therefore gained valuable Life Experience. I then went to college in Oregon and after that moved to New York to become a Journalist, writing about and for young people for Seventeen magazine, eventually backing into my calling as a young-adult novelist. But before all that, I was thisclose to becoming a flight attendant. Have you been on a plane lately? Dodged a bullet there! 2. Everyone has a “thing.” What’s yours? Oh, I wish I could give you something really cool and romantic about traveling and music. But really, my thing is this: I get shit done (am I allowed to say shit? If not, say stuff). My husband calls me the “charismatic leader’s right-hand man” for my ability to take care of business. Also, I am nice. 3. Everyone also has a karaoke song. Name yours (and don’t be shy). “Papa Was A Rodeo” by the Magnetic Fields. If you ever find it in a karaoke bar, please call me. 4. Who are your biggest influences? Are we talking literary influences? I’d have to say the obvious things like music and Oregon (which was odd given I only lived there for five years but it seared into my literary DNA). Teenagers. In life, I will have to nod to even more clichéd forces, like my family. Really, if we are talking about who exerts the most power and influence over my everyday life, I would have to credit the two three-foot creatures I live with. The taller creature, too. But the little ones are the boss of me. 5. What is it you most dislike? Inconsideration. It’s kind of a small world for all of us nearly 7 billion people so you kind of have to live with one eye open toward how your actions affect the guy next to you. And yes, upstairs neighbor who for some reason likes to move furniture after midnight, that includes you. 6. Whose job would you like to steal? Roger Ailes of Fox News. There are some changes I’d make over there. 7. What was your best date? It was after band practice with this band I was guest starring with (just getting to start a sentence with “it was after band practice” gives me a thrill because in spite of the presence of music in my books, I am so not a musician). I was supposed to go home but me and the guitar player wound up on this meandering date, going bowling, playing air hockey, pool (I lost at all three). Dinner at Taco Bell. We had the tiniest kiss goodbye. Seventeen years later, I’m still with that guy. 8. What was your worst? A Halloween party in which I painstakingly glued alphalpha sprouts to myself to perfect my Chia Pet costume. My date was dressed as Kurt Cobain (Oregon, 1990s) and was clearly channeling the spirit of Kurt because he got mad at me and threw beer on me, thus ruining both my outfit and my mood. 9. When I wake up in the middle of the night its because I’ve had a nightmare that I’m ___ . Driving a car across the Manhattan Bridge except there is no bridge and I’m driving over water and a wave is about to swallow me up when—Mama Uppy, the voice of a two-year-old wakes me up and it’s 4:47 a.m. and once the kid goes back down I’m wide awake, even though I’d happily return to the nightmare and take my chances with the East River at this point. And yes, I’m describing this very morning. 10. I feel my best when I’m wearing ___ . a sundress in the hot sun. Clean hair is nice, too. 11. Please settle the debate: New York or LA? Well, I grew up in L.A. but I live in Brooklyn, so does that offer some clues? 12. What’s on your playlist at this very moment? The New Pornographers. Regina Spektor. Belle & Sebastian. Bon Iver. Iron & Wine. American Analog Set. Magnetic Fields. Sufjan Stevens. That’s a sampling. It’s a long list. 13. What are you watching on TV? I watch The Office and 30 Rock on Hulu. I get Mad Men on Netflix (so I’m behind). I am waiting patiently for NBC to start airing episodes of Friday Night Lights and am not happy at all about the arrangement in which only DirectTV subscribers got to watch the season already. 14. If you alone held the power to pick the Oscar for Best Picture, would you give it to Avatar or The Hurt Locker ? I’ll answer this one without even taking the merit of the films into account: The Hurt Locker , for several reasons: Because I want to see Kathryn Bigelow accept the Oscar. Because it would spare us a James Cameron acceptance speech. Because Summit ( THL ’s studio) is producing the film version of If I Stay and I’m a team player. And because if there’s an underdog, I’ll root for it. 15. Given the chance, would you rather hang out with George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr. So a three-way is out of the question? Really? I’m a Gemini so the two of them would suit me perfectly. 16. If you were a character on any movie or TV show, past or present, who would you be? When I was younger, I liked to think I was Samantha from Sixteen Candles —I even intentionally bit my lip like Molly Ringwald did and have a scar because of it— but I never had Jake Ryan hanging on to my panties. These days? Mix about one-third Carrie Bradshaw and two-thirds Liz Lemon and there’s me. Oh, wait, nobody who reads this actually knows me so I can totally lie. I’m like Lola in Run Lola Run . Or Nikita in La Femme Nikita . Hot. Muscled. Foreign. 17. What is your drug of choice? Sleep. 18. What’s the last thing you think about before falling asleep at night? How much of my drug of choice will I actually score tonight? Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in Seventeen , Cosmopolitan , and Elle , among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Her New York Times bestseller If I Stay , about a 17-year-old girl in the 24 hours after a catastrophic car accident, will be available in paperback on April 6. A film version is currently being produced by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Summit Entertainment. Post from: Crushable

  BBC presenter Kristian Digby was found dead at the age of 32 in his East London apartment on Monday. The cause of death is said to be the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation, the act of cutting off oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal. Authorities are classifying his death as “unexplained” since detectives do not think it was suicide. Kristian was pronounced dead at the scene. Here’s what Kristian’s agent, Jo wander had to say: “I am devastated by the loss. He was a lovely guy and a very talented presenter,” Here’s what BBC had to say concerning Kristian’s death: “Kristian was a much-loved and talented presenter. He brought a real sense of energy and warmth to all the shows. Our thoughts are with his family.” Digby started hosting To Buy Or Not To Buy in 2003 and moved on to present Holiday , Living In The Sun and That Gay Show . That must be one awesome way to die. Nevertheless it is still very sad.

Beyonce is a great babysitter. Her sister Solange says her famous sibling is very hands on when it comes to 5 year old Daniel. “Beyonce’s very hands-on. I’ve had two weekends where I’ve been able to hand him over, and it’s been very nerve-racking for me, but she does a great job.” Solange also revealed Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z love spoiling Daniel when he stays with them. She told OK! magazine: “They actually request him more than I’m willing to give him. But the bedtimes we got to work on. Sometimes I’ll call expecting him to be asleep, but he’s still up!” The ‘Halo’ singer – who married rapper Jay-Z in a secret ceremony in 2008 – has always been very reluctant to speak about their home life, but Solange says they are a perfect match and Jay-Z makes a “very good uncle” as well as one that is “pretty cool”. Nice to hear this family is so close.

Beyonce is a great babysitter. Her sister Solange says her famous sibling is very hands on when it comes to 5 year old Daniel. “Beyonce’s very hands-on. I’ve had two weekends where I’ve been able to hand him over, and it’s been very nerve-racking for me, but she does a great job.” Solange also revealed Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z love spoiling Daniel when he stays with them. She told OK! magazine: “They actually request him more than I’m willing to give him. But the bedtimes we got to work on. Sometimes I’ll call expecting him to be asleep, but he’s still up!” The ‘Halo’ singer – who married rapper Jay-Z in a secret ceremony in 2008 – has always been very reluctant to speak about their home life, but Solange says they are a perfect match and Jay-Z makes a “very good uncle” as well as one that is “pretty cool”. Nice to hear this family is so close.

A new study found a direct link between the time teenagers spent staring at screens and their inability to have meaningful relationships with their parents and peers. This study obviously was conducted before that Russian kid blessed us with Chatroulette. You’ve likely been at one end of this debate—either you were a teenage TV zombie being told by your parents to go play outside, or you were that parent trying to keep your kid from spending another mindless hour on the Internet. In this battle, it turns out, the wisdom of age prevails. The study, published in this month’s Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that every hour of TV watched increased the teen’s likelihood of detachment from friends and family 4% and each hour of Internet increased it 5%. Let’s break that down: If you’re 16 and watch 4 episodes of 24 after school, you’re 20% more likely not to like hanging out with your parents. So it’s true, being glued to screens deprives kids of all those emotions that aren’t represented with emoticons. Thankfully, in the intervening months since this study was completed, Chatroulette has come and totally renewed young people’s interest in interacting with other human beings. And their genitals. [ PhysOrg ]

Jim Carrey has unveiled his grandson to the world. The Hollywood funnyman’s daughter Jane Carrey, 22, gave birth to baby Jackson last Friday (26.02.10) and he couldn’t wait to show off the new addition to his family to his followers on twitter.