John Mayer closes Twitter account
NEW YORK?John Mayer is losing friends?on the Internet. The pop singer says he has discontinued his Twitter account, where he had more than 3.7 million followers. An e-mailed statement says Mayer continues to communicate with fans through his blog. AP
Oprah?s surprise
CHICAGO?They shrieked, they gasped, they cried, they hugged?and that was before Oprah Winfrey?s studio audience got a trip to Australia.
Winfrey kicked off her 25th and final season of ?The Oprah Winfrey Show? on Monday with promised surprises. After teasing the 300 audience members with a suggestion she might take them on a trip to New York, Philadelphia or Los Angeles, she said, ?Maybe I should take you all with me to the other side of the world. We?re going to Australia!? AP
Defending his new find
TORONTO?Woody Allen doesn?t care for the gossip about his new star, France?s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Allen said he was shocked at gossip column reports that Bruni-Sarkozy was a handful on the set of his romantic comedy, ?Midnight in Paris? or that he hired another actress to re-shoot her scenes.
Reports that it took Bruni-Sarkozy 32 takes to shoot a scene were false, Allen said in an interview Sunday. ?She was no problem at all,? said Allen. ?I was delighted with her.? AP
Moved to tears
TORONTO?Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank on Monday brought to tears a Massachusetts single mother of two whom she portrays in ?Conviction,? about Betty Anne Waters? struggle to clear her brother of a brutal murder.
The film, directed by Tony Goldwyn, stars Swank as Waters, who devoted 18 years of her life to overturning her brother Kenny?s wrongful conviction.
?The difficult part (making this film) is that this is a true story,? said Swank. ?You can?t remove yourself from what you?re doing.? AFP
