The Candy Shop: Britney Spears, Sandra Bullock, Lady Gaga, more...

The Candy Shop

-Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives (played by 70 year old Kathryn Joosten) gets lung cancer in a new story line for the hit show. The concept is based on the actress's real life experience with lung cancer last year. She made a complete recovery (as will her character). Joosten is working with the writers to insure the topic is handled correctly. Via NY Post

 

-Dear God Amber Rose, what are you wearing?! If I was Kanye I would ask you in ALL CAPS to kindly change this horrendous outfit.

-Sandra Bullock doesn't have anything to wear to the Oscars yet! Only 3 weeks to go but the Oscar nominated star of The Blind Side isn't worried. "I'm oddly relaxed about it because it's someone else's job to finely stitch thousands of pleats and jewels into a gorgeous thing to make you look divine." She also admitted that she would be comfortable in anything, "Look, if I have to wear a trash bag I'll belt it with rhinestones and I'll make it work, but I'm not panicking for some reason because there are so many beautiful things out there that someone will not want to wear and I'll get it." via Contact Music

-Lady Gaga always knows what to wear to get people to turn their heads. She was the night's big winner at the Brit Awards winning Best International Female, International Album for The Fame and International Breakthrough Act. She also won the evening for most outrageous dress costume as usual.










-Britney Spears is the poster girl for Candie's and they just released their brand new campaign for 2010. She was shot by famed photographers Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger and Terry Richardson. She looks amazing and released a statement saying, "Annie, Mark and Terry are three of the biggest photographers in the world. I am honored to be working with them for my Candie's Only at Kohl's ads. It was an amazing shoot, and I know my fans are going to love the cool images." See the rest of the shoot after the jump...

January 1st, The first Candy Shop...

THE CANDY SHOP

This is a new feature on WEZ Candy. A new year, a new site! Now you can get the round-up of all gossip and news here in the Candy Shop, with links to the original stories on their original sites! Satisfy your sweet tooth for more gossip, movies, Broadway, news and reviews than ever before...

-Lady Gaga goes topless at the beach wearing a yellow wig. Only a story about Gaga could have a headline that bizaar! Read the original story HERE 

-AT&T drops Tiger Woods. Another name on the long list of sponsors who have dropped or reduced their usage of the dis-graced golfer including Tag Heur and Gillette. Read the original story HERE 

-Taylor Lautner goes to the gym. And looks yummy. What else is new? Story HERE (of course there is no story besides the fact that he left the gym looking yummy).

-Sandra Bullock is top box office star of 09 reports Quigley Publishing Co. who released their annual list on Thursday of top money making stars, based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives. Bullock is the 8th woman to top the list since it began in 1932. Read the full story HERE

-The NY Times finally reviewed Sarah Palin's Going Rogue. It's definitely worth a read / laugh HERE. Here's a highlight to wet your sweet tooth:

Her nasal voice, pitched in the upper register, with the upsy-downsy, singsong delivery of a kindergarten teacher, became, rather improbably, a great electoral asset. Her diction and accent were shaped more by class than region, and spiced with faux-genteel cuss words like "dang," "heck," "darn," "geez," "bullcrap," and "bass-ackwards."

-Jennifer Lopez (41) performed in Times Square last night wearing a skin tight jump suit that left nothing to the imagination. The star is well known for risqué fashion choices, and this one seems to be paying off - she was the top Yahoo search this morning. Full story HERE

   

Full list of Golden Globe Noms...

The Golden Globe nominations came out this morning and showed an unusually wide array of nominees. The only clear runners were Up in the Air and Nine with 6 and 5 nominations respectively. Others at the top of the list were Avatar and Inglorious Basterds each with 4, and Precious with 3 including a best picture drama nod for each. Avatar is a surprise nod as the reviews have been very mixed for the technologically advanced film. Sandra Bullock was nominated in both the Best Actress Comedy and Best Actress Drama categories for her work in The Proposal and The Blind Side. Other actors with two nods are Matt Damon (Invictus and The Informant!), and Meryl Streep (twice in Best Actress Comedy for Julie & Julia and It's Complicated) - really, do these nominations even mean anything to her anymore? Other crowd favorites with nominations are The Hangover, (500) Days of Summer, and Up. TV nominations for Mad Men, True Blood, Glee and 30 Rock.

The awards season is heating up and with so many contenders, the Oscars this year could go to anyone, especially now that they upped the Best Picture category to 10 films. See the full list of Golden Globe nominees after the jump...

Oscar buzz for Sandra Bullock...

2009 was a good year for Sandra Bullock. No. Make that a great year for Sandra Bullock (if you don't count All About Steve). The Proposal was this summer's surprise hit earning $164 million at the US box office to become her highest grossing film ever. Now, just four months later she is on track to beat that record. Her current film, The Blind Side took in $34 million in its opening weekend which is now her biggest opening ever. It has also surprised everyone by taking in $105 million in just 2 weeks and by holding the number 2 spot at the box office 2 weeks in a row.

On top of garnering a huge chunk of change at the box office, Sandra Bullock's performance in The Blind Side is getting both fan and critical acclaim. The film currently has a 74% on Rotten Tomatoes with most critics who don't like the film still praising Bullock's performance (NY Times) and the NY Post even went so far as to claim it was better than "Precious" saying:  "All Bullock's films promote an edifying sense of human experience -- she has an instinct for what people like to see -- and that gift makes 'The Blind Side' the perfect, God-sent antidote to 'Precious'." While that claim is highly debatable, one thing is certain, Sandra Bullock is gathering the winds that could take her to an Oscar nomination.

Warner (the distributor of the film) was not planning on promoting Bullock's performance for the Oscar race but they may be changing their minds soon. The studio distribution president just told The Wrap entertainment news site that he hopes "this movie makes the Academy's top 10 (for the best picture race), and Sandy Bullock gets a look, too."

It was also just announced that Sandra Bullock will be awarded the prestigious American Riviera Award at the 25th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Past winners include Mickey Rourke, Forrest Whitaker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The festival's director released this statement: “Bullock’s career-capping performance in ‘The Blind Side’ encompasses everything we have loved about her since the early '90s, from the deft physical comedy in ‘While You Were Sleeping,’ to the mettle of her role in the Academy Award-winning ‘Crash.’ What a most perfect time to salute this enduring movie star’s lengthy career.”

WEZ Sez: The Blind Side: The movie is predictable and a bit over sensationalized at times, but Sandra Bullock will make you forgive every imperfection. Her performance is Oscar nomination worthy.

 What did you think of The Blind Side? Is Sandra Bullock's performance good enough for the Oscars? Comment below...