New York - Beyonce Knowles' new album was due at her label this week, but it looks as if the 27-year-old rhythm and blues star won't make her deadline to ensure a mid-November release. "It's not going to be completed," an inside source told the New York Daily News. "She's got to get it out early in the fourth quarter, when there's so much competition among artists."
But Beyonce is not lazing around. Part of the delay is due to the large number of projects she's working on.
She spent three months filming Cadillac Records, where she plays gospel singer Etta James, and is deep into the thriller Obsessed.
Another delay stems from a duet with Justin Timberlake recorded for the album. The two did not like the initial outcome and kept reworking the song until they got it right, the paper said.
The first two single releases will be If I Were a Boy and Single ladies.
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Demi Lovato was bullied at school =
New York - Camp Rock starlet Demi Lovato was so unpopular that she had to leave school in 7th grade, she told The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"I never really understood why it was at the moment until looking back," she told Ellen. "I had a different lifestyle then everyone else. Whether it was because of my hair color or what ever the reason was, I pinned it on myself."
The Texan starred on TV when she was as young as 10. Now she wants to help other kids who are being bullied. "Because there are girls who can't just up and home school and focus on their career," said Demi, who recently had her album Don't Forget at number two of the Billboard charts.
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Sharon Stone wanted to Botox adopted son =
New York - No small wonder that Hollywood star Sharon Stone, 50, was found ill-suited to provide a stable home for 8-year-old adoptive son Roan.
According to San Francisco court papers the Basic Instinct star once diagnosed her son's constipation as a spinal condition and wanted to cure his smelly feet by injecting Botox, the New York Daily News reported.
Stone "appears to overreact" to many medical issues involving Roan, the judge wrote. "Unfortunately, the problem caused by mother's overreactions is painfully real for this child," Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo wrote and ruled that ex-husband Phil Bronstein, 57, was more capable of dealing with Roan.
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Alice Cooper banned from strangling women =
New York - Rocker Alice Cooper is not allowed to strangle show audiences on US TV - not even in jest. The 60-year-old singer's act in The Late Show with Craig Ferguson was censored by the CBS network.
Cooper, who was born under the name Vincent Damon in Detroit, had been on the show to promote his new album, Along Came A Spider.
The singer re-enacted the video of the single titled Venegance is Mine in the studio, strangling a woman from the audience with a silk scarf.
While Ferguson was amused, the CBS producers were not and the clip was cut from the show, Cooper's spokesman said.
