Duff, Madden trick paparazzi; Green Day reissues dropping soon; PETA honors AFI, Reznor.
By MTV News staff
<P><b>Hilary Duff</b> is onto the paparazzi's moves, and she's got a surefire trick to throw them off. The singer/actress said in an interview featured in the December/January issue of <i>Jane</i> that she has a tactic to duck photographers trying to capture her in a tough moment with her boyfriend, <b>Good Charlotte</b>'s <b>Joel Madden</b>: "If we're out someplace, we could totally be fighting, but we'll be looking at each other like this," Duff explained, reportedly flashing a big smile, "because there's a camera right there. Then we end up forgetting we're in a fight, because we're laughing since it's not a real thing to do, and we're both such real people." Real people who listen to music you may not expect, Duff insisted. "I love the <b>Faint</b>. If they would do a song for me, I would blow a fuse." ... </P><P> </P><P>Reprise Records will re-release early <b>Green Day</b> material December 19. The band's <i>1,039/ Smoothed Out Slappy Hours</i> and <i>Kerplunk!</i> were originally issued on Lookout! Records, and then reissued by that same label in 2004, but Green Day removed the LPs from the Lookout catalog last year after allegations that the band was owed royalties. ... <b>AFI</b>, <b>Trent Reznor</b>, <b>Rise Against</b> and <b>Hellogoodbye</b> have been named winners of the Libby Awards, a new honor put on by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ("Libby" is short for "liberation.") AFI won Best Vegetarian Band, Rise Against's "Ready to Fall" earned them Best Animal Rights Song of 2006 and <b>Nine Inch Nails</b> frontman Reznor was honored as the Best New Fur Foe. Runners-up included <b>Silverstein</b>, <b>Motion City Soundtrack</b> and <b>NOFX</b>. ... </P><P> </P><P>We're just months away from seeing exactly how "<b>Harry Potter</b> and the Order of the Phoenix" translates from book to the big screen (<a href="javascript:launchOverdrive('id=1546376');">Feast your eyes on the film trailer right here</a>), and now the young wizard's fifth adventure is about to go interactive. The "Order of the Phoenix" video game, scheduled for a July release, will allow players to explore Hogwarts and control multiple characters, including Harry, Sirius Black and Dumbledore. The game is currently being developed by Electronic Arts and will be released for the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. ... </P><P> </P><P>Capitol/Priority is commemorating the 20th anniversary of hip-hop pioneers <b>N.W.A</b>, with <i>The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge,</i> due December 26. A deluxe version of the 17-song retrospective CD comes with a bonus DVD featuring previously unreleased interviews with <b>Ice Cube</b>, <b>Dr. Dre</b> and <b>Eazy-E</b>. In other N.W.A news, nine songs by the act will debut as ringtones on December 12. ... <b>Lil Scrappy</b>'s "G's Up TV," a weekly show recounting the rapper's journey to music from the streets, launched Tuesday at GsUpTV.com. In addition to Scrappy's firsthand accounts of his life and career, the series features skits — including a cognac tasting with <b>Lil Jon</b> — and celebrity guests such as <b>Three 6 Mafia</b>, <b>Young Buck</b> and <b>Jamie Kennedy</b>. The series will run through December 5 release, when his debut LP, <I>Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live,</i> drops. ... </P><P> </P><P><b>Angelina Jolie</b> made an unannounced visit to Cambodia on Wednesday (November 22), <i>The Associated Press</i> reports. The actress, who adopted her son Maddox from the country, spoke with government officials about the $1.3 million nature-conservation project she is funding there. ... The advice may be too late for <b>Britney Spears</b> and <b>Jessica Simpson</b>, but <b>Will Smith</b> is sharing his secret to keeping a celebrity marriage alive: "Divorce cannot be an option," he revealed in the current issue of <i>Reader's Digest.</i> Smith explained that he quit his marriage to first wife, Sheree Smith, when he "could have fixed it" — and he said he won't make that mistake again with <b>Jada Pinkett Smith</b>. "With Jada, I stood up in front of God and my family and friends and said, 'Till death do us part.' So there are two possible outcomes: We are going to be together till death or I am dead." ... </P><P> </P><P>After separate jaunts opening for <b>Killswitch Engage</b> and <b>Dragonforce</b>, piping-hot Massachusetts metallers <b>All That Remains</b> will head out for their first headlining track in support of this year's <i>The Fall of Ideals.</i> The band is hoping to have a permanent drummer by the time it kicks off the North American trek, slated for late January. ... <b>Bayside</b> — the New York band that lost a drummer in a van accident while on tour with <b>Hawthorne Heights</b> earlier this year — have assembled a short December trek with <b>Junior Varsity</b> and others called the Holiday Havoc Tour. The outing begins December 3 in New Haven, Connecticut, and winds down December 11 in New York. Bayside's junior album is due February 6. ... Pop punks <b>Cartel</b> will hit the road next year with <b>Cobra Starship</b>, <b>Boys Like Girls</b>, <b>Permanent Me</b> and <b>Quietdrive</b>. The 19-date trek kicks off February 7 in Carrboro, New York, and makes stops in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Dallas, San Diego, Las Vegas and Seattle before winding down March 9 in Milwaukee. ... </P><P> </P><P>This Christmas, <b>Pink Floyd</b>'s <b>David Gilmour</b> will release three live tracks that he's dedicated to former bandmember and friend, the late <b>Syd Barrett</b> — who died this summer of pancreatic cancer. An acoustic cover of Barrett's "Dark Globe" and two new versions of Floyd's "Arnold Layne" will be available for download through Gilmour's Web site beginning December 25. ... Reunited New Jersey hardcore pioneers <b>Lifetime</b> will release their first studio album in more than 10 years on February 26 through <b>Fall Out Boy</b> bassist <b>Pete Wentz</b>'s Decaydance/ Fueled by Ramen label. The self-titled outing will boast 11 tracks in all, but no song titles have been revealed yet. Lifetime plan to spend much of next year on the road touring in support of the disc. ... Influential Delta blues musician <b>Robert Lockwood Jr.</b> died Tuesday of respiratory failure in Cleveland. The Grammy-nominated singer/guitarist and W.C. Handy Award winner was 91. </P><P> </P><P>11.21.2006 </P><P> </P><P>Although he bombed at the World Music Awards last week, <b>Michael Jackson</b> is going to give another celebration a try. The singer will go to Japan for a December 19 Christmas celebration that is also commemorating the upcoming 25th anniversary of the release of <i>Thriller.</i> "I look forward to visiting Japan again, and greeting my fans and friends," Jackson said in a statement. ... </P><P> </P><P><b>Jay-Z</b> recently joined forces with another New York heavyweight — New York Yankees third baseman <b>Alex Rodriguez</b> — for a celebrity-poker tournament that benefited their respective charities, the A-Rod Family Foundation and Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation. The tourney, which raised a half-million dollars, was held at Jay's 40/40 Club in Manhattan and also counted <b>Nelly</b>, <b>Cedric the Entertainer</b> and baseball vets <b>Cal Ripken</b>, <b>Gary Sheffield</b> and <b>Mariano Rivera</b> among the players. ... </P><P> </P><P><b>Alicia Keys</b>' new Web site launched Tuesday (November 21), and one of the features on the way is a book club. "I always loved the way Oprah did that," she told MTV News. "To do that with my style and the books I like to read would be really fly." Keys plans to start the group with "The Temple of My Familiar," a novel by Alice Walker. "She is insane, in the best way, when it comes to writing. There's something about a book that engages you, when you become enraptured in the whole thing like it's your life and you're yelling at the book." Keys also plans to recommend the W.E.B. DuBois novel "The Souls of Black Folk," which she just finished recently. "I love to read. It makes you write better, and I just want to open that conversation up, to talk about many things, many styles." ... </P><P> </P><P><b>Green Day</b> have teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council for the Move America Beyond Oil campaign. "People are sick of our oil addiction and feel like nobody is doing anything about it," frontman <b>Billie Joe Armstrong</b> said in a statement. "Our message is that it's OK, and very rebellious, to take on that responsibility." Visitors to GreenDayNRDC.com can access a tool to send text messages directly to lawmakers and corporate leaders to demand change. ... Rock the Bells is about to get a little bit louder. The hip-hop festival's first world tour will now include <b>Ghostface Killah</b>, <b>Pharoahe Monch</b> and <b>EPMD</b>, in addition to previously announced acts <b>Redman</b> and <b>Raekwon</b>. The jaunt begins Tuesday in Washington, D.C. ... </P><P> </P><P><b>Smashing Pumpkins</b> drummer <b>Jimmy Chamberlin</b> has updated fans of the reunited rockers on the progress of their comeback album in a post on the Pumpkins' MySpace page. "We are moving along nicely in the studio," the drummer wrote. "[Frontman <b>Billy Corgan</b>] pulled off a magnificent guitar symphony last night and it is still ringing in my ears this morning. Eight guitars resonating in one big harmonic handshake. ... Today we will be working on vocals and solos. Tomorrow, who knows?" The Pumpkins' forthcoming LP, which is being produced by <b>Roy Thomas Baker</b> (<b>Queen</b>, the <b>Cars</b>), is slated for release next year. While Corgan and Chamberlin are back on board, it remains unclear who else will be in the resuscitated band. ... Come 2007, the <b>Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival</b> will be a year older and a day longer. The now-three-day fest will take place April 27-29 in Indio, California. ... </P><P> </P><P>It's a good thing the "<b>Borat</b>" movie is making so much cash, because the lawsuits just keep coming. The latest is from two residents of Glod, Romania, who claim they were tricked into participating in the</p>
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