Miley Cyrus has just got herself a Porsche Cayenne for her 16th Birthday and still it wasnt really what she wanted. What else could she get do you get when you are a teen disney star, that has just about everything, including the model boyfriend.
Miley Cyrus complained that the porsche wasn’t the one she wanted. “"I do have a car. I took my mom's old car," she tells Extra. "I got the old car, which wasn't so bad because it was a Porsche ... It was a pretty good hand me down."
Miley Cyrus' first car is a Porsche? And so it begins...
OK, it’s a hand-me-down, but it's still a Porsche.
After earning her learner's permit on Wednesday, Miley Cyrus, who turned 16 last month, received an early Christmas present.
Her mom, Tish, gave her daughter her "old" Porsche Cayenne.
Can a speeding ticket, DUI or an invalid license be far off?
"Tish got a new car recently, so she's giving Miley her old car," a source tells People. "She's so excited. Her mom lets her drive to work when she's with her."
Miley Cyrus told press earlier this year that her dream sweet 16 birthday gift would be "a car, but we'll see ... I don’t want to name a certain kind. I want my parents to know that I'm happy with anything that they get me. I know I'd be really lucky to even get a car."
Wow. Big week for Miley Cyrus. A Porsche and her first Golden Globe nomination for best song: "I Thought I'd Lost You" in "Bolt."
Kinda reminds us of another talented little girl who grew up too fast.
PHOTOS! Here are those pictures of Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon. But who is Adrienne Bailon? And with the photo scandal hitting Cheetah Girls, why yet again another Disney star?
Bailon appeared in a minor role in the film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.”
So what did Bailon want to do as a girl before … she found the wonders of using a laptop?
She wanted to be a obstetrician, she told the Daily News in July this year.
In an article called “Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon is on a fast career track”, Bailon was described as a hot new Disney property, starting as a movie for its cable channel, then CDs, then a c oncert tour. Bailon filmed in India here most recent film “The Cheetah Girls One World” Her description of herself for the film was reportedly the following: “It was a dream come true,”
Bailon says. “We’re such adventurous girls in real life.” Does Bailon’s whole saga u nfolding since Sunday seems all too ironic? She’s engaged to the brother of Kim Kardashian who herself successful channeled her own notoriety with Ray J into a reality tv show following the end of the Simple Life on E! And what about that laptop?
Adrienne Bailon this October reported the robbery of her laptop that led to this latest scandal. In fact, it was Kim Kardashian one year ago this month on November 8, 2007 who also reported a robbery of her laptop from the same airport. While Kardashian claimed the robbery as true, the New York Post reportedly questioned otherwise.
Semi-Nak*d Pics of Cheetah Girl Stolen
Hear what she told momlogic about being a good role model.
Adrienne Bailon reportedly took the racy photos as a gift for her boyfriend Robert Kardashian ... but then her laptop was stolen, and the pics landed on the web faster than you can say Cheetah-Licious.
TMZ reports Bailon was at JFK airport in late October and noticed her laptop computer was missing from her luggage cart. She filed a report with the NY Port Authority -- but later that day her record label received an anonymous phone call from a man saying he had her laptop and would return it for $1000.
A meeting was set up at JFK with the anonymous man, where he was given the money and in turn gave up Bailon's missing laptop. But several semi-nud* photos of Bailon were missing.
"The photos that have surfaced of Adrienne Bailon were stolen from her laptop over a week ago at an airport in NY and sent to several media outlets," Adrienne's representative Jonathan Jaxson said. "These photos were taken in private. Adrienne will be pursuing legal action against the person or persons sending these private photos out. Adrienne is deeply sorry for any pain this may have caused to her fans."
Adrienne Bailon joins a long line of Disney stars such as Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus who have had racy photos leak on the web. If your kids happen to see the pics online, what do you say? Rosanne Tobey, L.P.C. says it's key to help kids distinguish between the character and the real person. "Put her actions in context," Tobey says. "Point out that she obviously made a mistake. She didn't have maturity to make the right choice. Kids need to know that although her character is a role model, she is not." In other words, Bailon is a real person and real people, unlike heroes, are not perfect.
You could also use this as a teachable moment about the dangers of taking racy digital photos or posting questionable pics on the 'net, says Tobey.
By the time your private business has gone public, you can't take it away. "I think this is a perfect example parents can use to illustrate why NOT to take or post pics you don't want the entire world to see," Rosanne says. "Even though you think the pics will never get out, there's no guarantee. All it takes is one click of a button. And once it's out there, it's essentially impossible to get it back."
Kids must understand the permanence of the actions they take. "Teens tend to be so savvy, yet they sometimes have a hard time realizing the reach that the web might have," Rosanne says. "If a racy pic is up somewhere with your name attached, and a future employer Googles you and finds it, it can really come back to haunt you."
Even if you trust your teen, they can still make bad decisions. "Talk to your kids about this, even if you think they'd never do something like this in a million years," says Rosanne. "It's not so much that your teen's not trustworthy -- this is just typical behavior of their age."
In light of these new pics, is Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon still kid-friendly?
If Shakespeare had been alive today, he would have found abundant raw material in this most reimagined of comic book characters
An icon for our times ... Batman (Christopher Nolan version)
As the new Batman film - The Dark Knight - grinds towards us, like some slow-moving juggernaut whose driver isn't strong enough to turn the wheel, it occurs to me that the Caped Crusader is really something special. Batman is the icon for our times, Shakespearian in his ability to withstand multiple reinterpretation, a Hamlet or Lear for the 21st century.
In this, Batman is by far the most resonant superhero - far more fertile ground for modulation and restyling than that doughty veteran Superman, or that hyperactive new kid on the blockbuster block, Spider-Man. Johnny-come-latelies like X-Men, Hellboy or Iron Man are, frankly, knee high to all this.
In the same way that any given Shakespeare text is remodelled, refurbished and redesigned for one generation or another, so too has been Batman. The character is now part-way through its fourth serious movie phase. (Like another popular, but lesser, icon, Doctor Who, Batman regenerates as and when necessary.) The "Nolan" Batman is a serious-minded work, preoccupied with the inner life of the vigilante, and does its level best to ground the traditional tales of supervillains and hi-tech gadgetry in some kind of coherent sense of reality. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight share much with high-testosterone action thrillers like Die Hard and The Terminator: a high-myth narrative superstructure bolted on to a recognisable quotidian milieu.
Do you see this?!!!
How do we enumerate the Batman phases? The first, we can call the "Pop Art" Batman - Adam West and Burt Ward, fight-noise cards, and mini-skirted go-go dancers. Played strictly for laughs, they come from an era that couldn't take kiddie superheroes remotely seriously. The "Burton", or "neo-gothic" Batman, taking its cue from the Frank Miller graphic novels, inhabited a patently artificial and aestheticised universe, inspired by New York art deco, black-and-white gumshoe movies and trace elements of German expressionism. The third Batman phase - the "Schumacher" or "uber-camp" - concentrated on extravagant architectural design, fetishist rubberware, and narratives of sugar-rush complexity. (The original model, the first folio if you like, is of course the prewar Bob Kane comic strip.)
It's fair to say that the current Batman phase is a determined reaction against the Schumacher couplet (Batman Forever and Batman & Robin), which aroused deep hostility with its ill-judged foray into camp mannerism just at the point that, culturally speaking, the world was looking for something more serious. Nolan's films, whatever we think of them are giving us what we want.
Dark Knight’ : A Movie for the Times By Stephane Dunn
I exercise my deepest hero longings by escaping into the fantasy ones on the big screen. Unsurprisingly then, I am especially drawn to Marvel’s unlimited vault of superheroes whose mission is to save the world or at least their city from hopelessness or the bad guys.
So I braved the crowded parking lots and lines and dragged along a reluctant, anti-Batman lover to see Dark Knight. It would be too easy to get sidetracked by the tragic aura surrounding this newest Batman flick. Heath Leger’s tragic death at twenty-six has naturally stirred up more hype than Marvel’s big budget superhero flicks usually already do.
Before his death, word was already circulating around Hollywood that Ledger had turned in a stunningly brilliant turn as ‘the Joker’ a role imbued with more of the dark psychotic edge of the original comic strip’s character. The hype about that performance is true so much so that the fact of his death adds pathos amid the bleak, edgy undertones of the character but does not overshadow the fact that Ledger makes the Joker alone stand out.
Yet, there’s more to appreciate about Dark Knight beyond, even, the record breaking $166 million plus that it took in at the box office during this first weekend out. The action sequences, character complexity and fine performances all around from Christian Bale (Batman), Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent) and of course Ledger’s movie stealing Joker performance are but a few more reasons why this latest Batman film is a stand out. Sitting at the movie last Saturday night, I alternately cringed, laughed, and became just plain enthralled by the sophisticated treatment of that almost clichéd good vs. evil staple that defines superhero comics and films.
So how did it all end? Not when the fat lady sang (maybe she did) but Farmer Matt wanted a bride from Orange County.
Brooke Ward, a Texan who has lived briefly in Huntington Beach, won the competition on “Farmer Wants a Wife”.
Early in the show, Ward, emerged as a favorite of Farmer Matt. She had that Texas country accent, wore boots, and busted her tail competing in challenges around the farm, like catching chickens, picking corn and washing hogs.
But Farmer Matt also took a liking to Christa from New York City, who emerged as the bad girl on the show once Orange County’s own chick, Josie Goldberg, got the boot in the second episode of the reality show.
In the finale, Farmer Matt sent Brooke and Christa on a farm wife’s scavenger hunt – hunting down truck parts, the fish market, and most disgustingly (poor Christa!) fetching a frozen deer head from Farmer Matt’s freezer to the taxidermist.
Turns out Matt Neustadt didn’t just want a wife. He wanted Brooke to be that wife. On last night’s season finale of Farmer Wants a Wife, Matt remained true to his country form when he had a crop duster fly over the farm with a sign announcing the winner. Once Christa made her gracious exit, Matt and Brooke were covered in confetti and then proceeded to drive off into the sunset on a tractor. So, do you think this couple has staying power?
Brooke won over Matt’s heart on Farmer Wants a Wife.
Matt Neustadt, the farmer in The Farmer Wants A Wife, has finally chosen his wife. Brooke Ward (from Texas) and Christa (from New York) were the final two women left.
Brooke Ward & Matt Neustadt.
Matt Neustadt went on solo dates with the women. He made his decision. The announcement was done in a dramatic way. A crop duster flew in the sky and made a message to write the name of the winner. The words were: “Matt Loves Brooke.”
OK, it’s a hand-me-down, but it's still a Porsche. 
