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Jessica Simpson gets physical in the new issue of InStyle, breaking out her trainer's plan to "get your best body now!" But she turns inward as well, telling the magazine for its November issue — which hits racks Friday (check out the full cover here) — that, "I was the princess in the fairy tale — then reality came crashing in, and I learned that isn't always how life works." She insisted that "I am in complete control of my life" after going through her divorce with Nick Lachey and, while she didn't call out ex-boyfriend John Mayer by name, she did reveal, "I've had my heart broken since my divorce. That's OK. I believe you fall in love more than once and get your heart broken more than once. Trust me, I have cried myself to sleep." ... Kanye West isn't exactly the kind of guy who needs an ego boost, but Jennifer Lopez and Pharrell puffed him up a bit anyway in recent interviews with MTV Europe.
Intimidating groups of teenagers adorn the landscape
I usually come away with new respect for mothers of small children. You can learn much about people and our own demographic by watching shoppers at the mall. I am reminded of how my grandparents, many years ago would angle park their car along the main street of my small town so they could observe the coming and going of Friday night shoppers. I guess I am continuing a family tradition by mall watching. Archie, Betty and Veronica of long ago are no longer on the scene, nor is the local soda joint. The last time we saw that was on "Happy Days" on television. The same sociology is at work today at the mall as was in those old comic books, except that it seems we have more of the Jughead characters than we had in the 40's and 50's. Intimidating groups of teenagers adorn the landscape. Sometimes dressed in black T-shirts, low slung jeans and chains with evidence of body piercing.
Love-15, love-30. . . Mark Philippoussis loves them all
Slowly but surely, Mark Philippoussis, the former tennis star from Australia, closes in on the grand-slam that so painfully eluded him as a player. Will it be Amanda, a 25-year-old pompom shaker from Nashville, or will the man we knew as "Scud" plump for 48-year-old Jen as his perfect doubles partner? Welcome to Age of Love, shown on American television over the summer but now receiving UK exposure, on E4. Think Mr Right, in which a team of romance and publicity-hungry women competed for the heart of an eligible bachelor. Except, in that case, the bachelor in question copped off with Ulrika Jonsson, the presenter. No chance of that here. The authorities had to act after that embarrassment, which threatened to bring the entire reality love-quest genre into contempt, and Age of Love, one notes, is carefully presented by a man, in whom Scud has shown no interest so far.
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