E!News : JOHNNY Depp is taking his pirate role to the next level! The actor is apparently raising concerns on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 with his dedication to his Jack Sparrow character.

“He never breaks character,” says a source on the set. “Everyone calls him Jack now, even between takes.

“The only difference to the movie Captain Jack is that Johnny tends to swagger around listening to his iPod but even that he has playing old sea shanties to help keep him in character.”

Recent reports claimed Depp’s character will hook up with a mermaid in Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

“This will be a central part of the next movie,” blabbed one loose-lipped Hollywood insider. “Captain Jack will fall foul of these seemingly perfect and seductive mermaids but they are not all they seem.

“Auditions are taking place now for sexy girls who can also sing opera.

“There is also a lead mermaid role which is attracting some big-name actresses.” (showbizspy)

E!News : ANGELINA Jolie has spoken about her body art in the latest issue of Australian magazine Post-Modern Ink.

“I love them,” Jolie, who raises six children with partner Brad Pitt, said of her tattoos.

“They’re body art. I don’t think it’s abnormal that someone who spends their life in other skins wants to claim their own by marking things on it that matter to them. My most recent is five vertical rows of ancient Cambodian script. It’s on my back and looks very sacred.

“Getting my dragon was perhaps the biggest surprise. I was in Amsterdam and got a little crazy, dropping my pants at a tattoo parlour and woke up the next morning and saw this really funny dragon.

“I’ve always wanted a dragon but this one had a funny blue tongue. To me a dragon is very much a woman, strong and elegant.”

Jolie then spoke about claims she once stabbed her ex Billy Bob Thornton.

“There was one when Billy and I were together that said I had stabbed him and then went into a nut house or something,” she said.

“I thought that was kind of funny. If I wanted to have killed him, I would have killed him.” (showbizspy)

E!News : Wayne Rooney's career will not be affected by allegations about his private life, publicist Max Clifford said on Sunday.

Despite the lurid headlines in two Sunday newspapers, Rooney is set to travel to Switzerland on Monday for England's Euro qualifier.

Team-mate James Milner said he expects the striker to continue performing for the national side and Clifford said as long as he keeps scoring goals the fans will not care.

Clifford said: "The only thing Wayne Rooney has to worry about is his wife, whether she like all the others, is prepared to accept her husband's alleged infidelities.

"Nobody in football gives a monkey's as long as he's winning on the pitch.

"Man United fans love him. He could be a mass murderer as long as he's scoring goals.

"(England manager Fabio) Capello can't demote him because that would mean he couldn't play and the team needs him.

"Rival fans will have something else to shout about, but so what?"

Clifford said Rooney's sponsors were also likely to stick with the player, adding: "Will it stop people drinking Tiger Beer? No. Will it stop people buying Coca-Cola? No. Will it stop parents buying Nike for their children? No."

Earlier, a spokesman for electronic game firm EA Sports, one of Rooney's sponsors, said: "This is a personal matter and we respect Wayne and his family's privacy.

"We have worked together for six years and Wayne continues to represent EA Sports. We will be making no further comment at this time."

Clifford continued: "It's almost expected that if you are a Premier League football star you're going to be playing away.

"It's become a pantomime. It's a farce. It's as if it doesn't really matter."

A press conference ahead of England's Euro 2012 qualifier against Switzerland was dominated by questions about the allegations.

The News of the World said Rooney paid more than a thousand pounds a time to have sex with a prostitute while his wife Coleen was pregnant with their first child.

Manchester City midfielder Milner said it was business as usual for the squad this morning and Rooney took part in the full training session.

Asked about the Manchester United player's demeanour following the allegations, Milner said: "He is a top player, he showed that Friday. He trained fully this morning, that's all I can tell you.

"You're going to have to ask him the other questions."

He said it was important the team made sure matters off the pitch did not affect their performance on it, adding: "You have highs, you have lows, and it's down to us to make sure the only thing that matters is on the field, come together and make sure we get the result."

Asked about whether it was important for fans to like the players, Milner said: "It's important that we go out there and win football matches. That's what we're out here firstly to do.

"And control ourselves on the field and off the field as best we can." (espn)

E!News : The most Earth-shattering event in Brazil this weekend took place in New York, where singer Ivete Sangalo played a sold out show at Madison Square Garden. Too bad, few Americans even noticed.

A superstar in her native Brazil, where she can pack a 70,000-capacity soccer stadium and commands crowds of millions during Carnaval, Sangalo kept the almost-entirely-Brazilian audience on its feet over the course of three hours and five costume changes.

Dancing frenetically, the crowd of 14,500 sang along with every word of her samba-inflected dance pop songs like "Festa" (Party) and "Acelere" (Accelerate).

"I just want you to be proud of me, and I want you to be proud of the show I brought here," Sangalo said from the top of a massive, thrusting stage pulsing with lights and video — designed by the man responsible for this year's Super Bowl halftime show, Bruce Rodgers.

In Brazil, Sangalo's show was touted as her first step toward conquering the U.S., placing her in a pantheon with the likes of Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Beyonce and U2.

But a 100-foot-high banner that hung outside the Garden for weeks advertising the show still required the helpful caption explaining Sangalo is "A Brazilian Star."

At a pre-concert news conference, the statuesque brunette said the relative anonymity didn't faze her.

"When I started in Brazil, I was also unknown, and Brazil is a gigantic place with lots of talent," the husky-voiced singer explained. "I haven't come here with the pretension of being well known, but what I've come do to here, I've come to do right."

As a Portuguese speaker, Sangalo may have had her work cut out for her, but promoters say selling out the Garden is a real accomplishment.

Shows by non-English-speaking acts there tend to top out at around 3,000 to 4,000 people, unless they sing in Spanish, which is spoken by a large and growing percentage of the U.S. population.

The only other Brazilian to headline a show at the Garden, singer Roberto Carlos, did so by reaching out to Latin audiences and singing in Spanish.

The closest comparison might be the Korean pop singer Rain, who sold out two nights at the smaller Madison Square Garden theater, which seats 4,000, in 2006.

Concert promoter John Scher said people have been calling him to ask who Sangalo is.
"I don't think there's been anything quite like this. There are Latin (Spanish speaking) artists who can sell out the Garden, but this is a pretty unique situation really," Scher said. "There's a lot of interest in the music industry, if not with the public."

Sangalo, 38, got her start singing as a teenager from the top of the sound trucks that ply their way through the packed streets of Salvador da Bahia during Carnaval time.

When she left the Carnaval group Banda Eva to go solo in 1999 she was already one of the country's biggest stars.

But her brand of Carnaval-inspired dance-pop, known as axe (pronounced ah-SHAY'), isn't what U.S. listeners usually think of as Brazilian music, and her audience tends to be concentrated among teenagers and twenty-somethings looking for a chance to hook up.

Her lyrics express the irrepressible optimism of youth, and her sound is a world away from the cool, cerebral bossa nova of Joao Gilberto or the smooth sounds of Caetano Veloso and Marisa Monte, all of whom are better known in the United States, even if Sangalo outsells them all at home.

As many as 5,000 fans had been expected to fly in from Brazil for the show, organizers say.
So despite all the conquering America swagger, Sangalo's intent is actually something entirely different: The Garden show was mainly intended to serve as a backdrop for her new DVD and a TV special to be broadcast in Brazil in December.

"They want a packed house and want to say 'we've sold out Madison Square Garden' and they've probably achieved that through various other means than from straight ahead ticket sales,'" says Gene de Souza, development director of the nonprofit Rhythm Foundation, who promoted Sangalo's Miami show.
In Miami, with a larger Brazilian population, Sangalo sold only 6,500 of the 7,000 seats put up for sale, de Souza said, in an arena where Britney Spears was able to pack in 18,500 fans.
On Saturday night Sangalo appeared well aware of her target audience, addressing the crowd as "Brazil" and dedicating the show to Brazilians living abroad.

Her only nods to local audiences were covers of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and Lionel Richie's "Easy" and a duet with Nelly Furtado, in which her English sounded good with only a slight accent.

She also reached out to the Spanish-speaking audiences, performing duets with Colombian superstar Juanes and Argentina's Diego Torres, but the warmest applause was reserved for Brazilian guests like Seu Jorge and fellow axe star Netinho, who appeared, briefly transforming the 25-minute-long encore into a mini-version of Carnaval.

"I didn't come with the objective to transforming anything or parting the waters for Brazilian music or anything like that," Sangalo said before the show. "I am a popular singer for the masses, and I will continue to be one, and this is my greatest pleasure." (yahoo)

E!News : IN DECEMBER 2012, a new Superman will soar on to the big screen, with Christopher Nolan producing and his brother Jonathan Nolan teaming up with David Goyer to write the screenplay.

At one point it was said Chris Columbus (Harry Potter 1 & 2, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief) was offered the chance to direct but that proved to be a baseless rumour. Instead, it's been claimed that Jonathan Nolan is in line to helm the feature in what would be his directing debut.

The one major missing ingredient is who will be playing the new Clark Kent/Superman.

But that hasn't stopped the speculation. Here we take a look at the candidates and give you the chance to vote on your favourite.

Chuck star Zachary Levi was said to have auditioned for the role, but he later dismissed the reports, telling IGN: "It's complete fiction. I start getting these text messages from my friends, saying 'What is going on? You didn't tell us any of this!' And I'm asking, 'What are you talking about?'"

Although most fans online didn't seem too keen on the 29-year-old as Superman, he says he is definitely interested: "I go and read all these comments and even comments on IMDB. The vast majority are like 'He couldn't be Superman!' And I'm like 'All right! I get it!'. I guess one of the things that I fear is that people pigeonhole me in the nerd role, because a lot them say 'I can see him as Clark Kent, but not as Supes'. I'm an actor! Just give me six months and a gym. Give me something."

Friday Night Lights star Scott Porter, 31, and True Blood actor Joe Manganiello, 33, have also been campaigning for the role.

Manganiello (pictured right) has gone on record saying he'd love to put on the cape and tights. He said: "I'm from Pittsburgh so the Man of Steel - it's the City of Steel, so that would go a long way back home." Fans have started a Facebook page to try to land him the part.

Another name was thrown into the mix when Think McFly Think reported that Mad Men star Jon Hamm was among those being considered by Warner Bros. The only possible drawback is that he's 39 - and he'd be older when the new Superman film is filmed and released - but, on the other hand, age hasn't stopped 45-year-old Robert Downey Jr playing Iron Man.

Meanwhile, Brandon Routh, who starred in Bryan Singer's 2006 release Superman Returns, has made no secret of the fact he's keen to reprise the role. He told Cinema Blend: "I certainly would [love to play Superman again]. As much as I say I'm working to shake that off or shake it up, I certainly don't want to extinguish or get rid of it because it was a great honour and I would love to be able to return as that character.

"I think the brothers Nolan are both very talented and so that makes it a different kind of film than Bryan's vision, which I think was a very nice film that I'm very proud of."

There have also been campaigns and petitions online for Smallville actor Tom Welling to play Superman on the big screen.

Welling, who finally dons the character's iconic costume in the next season of the long-running TV show, addressed the issue at San Diego Comic-Con, telling The Flick Cast: "I've always been open to the idea but it's not as simple as everybody would like to think. It's not as simple as me wanting to do it or not wanting to do it.

"I know that a lot of people jump on me or jump on Warner Bros - it's just not that simple and so there's a lot of elements that have to come together. I've always been open to it." (blogs.coventrytelegraph.net)