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Newsweek magazine profiles Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and their burgeoning fashion empire in this week’s issue.

While the two sisters are often dismissed as “pint sized,”  the business they have built is anything but. Working to keep their celebrity status low key, they’ve dug in to the fashion world and are earning respect.

The 24 year-olds are passionate about New York’s once flourishing garment district that has now virtually gone away. The Olsen’s say they want to really be representative of the American design and manufacturing that once was.

“I really believe in our being able to create here and utilize the skills that people have here,” says Ashley. “The skill set is here. Our main issue is that some of the machinery is gone, so some knitwear is produced in Italy. But whether it’s clothing or cars, I believe in manufacturing as close to home as possible.”

Ashley and Mary-Kate have gotten a huge boost when First Lady Michelle Obama wore a skirt from The Row when she appeared on The View last week. They’ve had to work hard for the recognition and that certainly helps.

“Scream 4” co-stars, Emma Roberts and Rory Culkin, the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin, share the cover of the upcoming Young Hollywood issue of Nylon Magazine (May 2011)- pictures below.

Both Emma and Rory confessed they are total goofballs and they clearly had lots of fun during the photo shoot. The 20 year-old actress talks about her Disney years and the desire to be on Glee, while the 21 year-old actor talked about boxing, music and his movie career.

Here are some highlights from Emma and Rory’s Nylon interview:

Emma, on her Disney years: “I loved that part of my life. A lot of people that were on Disney or Nickelodeon bash it afterwards. And I just think, That’s what got you your start! And also, from my experience, it was so fun. It was the calm before the storm… if you make the transition [as an actor] in the same way that you’re transitioning in real life, you’ll be fine. It’s when you’re 16 and you’re trying to play a 20-year-old hitchhiking stripper that people are gonna give you a hard time.”

Rory, on the choice between boxing and music: “Boxing is a little more mindless and takes me away from everything. Music can do that, too, but it’s another art form, you know what I mean? It’s something to be passionate about. Whereas boxing is like, I wanna kick some ass and get my ass kicked. It’s awesome.”

Rory, on his film roles up until now: “I’ve been sort of scared of certain roles in the past, almost to the point of being kind of snobbish… Now I’m just a lot more open to things – I’m starting to feel the need to exercise my acting and leave my comfort zone. I think Scream is an example of that.”

Emma, on Glee: “I love that Gwyneth Paltrow’s on Glee. That’s something you would never think she’d do. And the fact that she just thought, I’m gonna let loose and do this – that’s so cool!”

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Joe Jonas gives the Soul Surfer premiere a whirl as he headed to the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles on Wednesday March 30th.

Jonas, who is on the cover of Details magazine for April, spoke about his upcoming solo album.

“I’m growing up, the fans are growing up. I’ve gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven’t really been able to tell. When you’re writing with three people, you wind up with a sound that might be—not average—but, you know, expected.”

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The Cool Girl Cover of Glamour magazine’s May 2011 issue goes to Emma Stone.

The 22 year-old actress is one of three ready-to-break-big-time actress who grace the front of Glamour. Emma’s counterparts for May are Ashley Greene and Freida Pinto.

Stone shared she has only a vague idea of what she’s looking for in a guy.

“Honestly, I cannot put a finger on it. One guy could do something that I would find deplorable, and [with] another guy I’d find it charming…. It depends on the person,” Emma said.

“The one thing that needs to be there is that indefinable spark of sorts. But I’m 22 years old….I have no idea what I’m talking about.”

The Amazing Spider Man star also told the magazine that while she has to stay in shape, she isn’t one to forgo a sweet treat.

“You’re a human being, you live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake,” Stone said.

Read the rest of Emma’s interview here.

Ashley Greene is a bombshell, according to Glamour magazine’s May 2011 cover.

The 24 year-old actress is one of three ready-to-break-big-time actress who grace the front of Glamour. Besides Ashley, Emma Stone and Freida Pinto share her cover glory for the month.

Greene shared her philosophy on choosing roles after the Twilight phenomenon is done.

“It is difficult because people look at you as that character,” she said. “I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls.”

But she says she’s willing to hold out until she finds something that suits her.

“So I have picked a couple of films like Butter to show that,” Greene shared. “And it’s perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don’t find the right thing.”

It all plays into her belief that things have a way of working out.

“I’m a big believer in ’everything happens for a reason,’” Ashley said. “[...]But every time I thought, I’m going to fail, something happened that kept me here.”

Read more from Ashley’s interview here.

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson confessed to be a pretty old fashioned guy when it comes of love in an interview for the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair Italy. The 24 year-old believes in true love that last forever and claims to be a one-woman type of man.

Robert Pattinson ‘Water For Elephants’ Trailer

In “Water For Elephants”, Robert’s character falls in love with a married woman played by actress Reese Witherspoon, which is something he cannot understand in real life. Well, love is unpredictable, unfair, irrational… you make mistakes when you are in love!

Robert said, “Life is not black or white. There are married people that don’t see each other, can we define that as marriage? There is one thing I’ve never understood: why people cheat.”

Ah. Our Rob is a hopelessly romantic. “My parents met when my mom was 17 and my father 25, they are still together and seem very happy. I grew up believing that you can be together all of your life,” he revealed. Is that the type of relationship he and Kristen Stewart have?

[image: Vanity Fair Italy]

Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon grace this week’s cover of EW magazine and wow! do they look great – especially Rob!

The Twilight star says he’s ready to be able to live a more normal life once the vampire film franchise ends.

“It’s funny how it’s ending in 2012. This is how the world will end. But, um, I don’t know. I think most of people’s recognition is based on the magazines and stuff. All the gossip stories won’t work— they’re always combined with Twilight, so once that’s done and it can’t be combined with the promotion of the film, I think it will end. Because I have an obscenely boring life.”

But there is one thing in particular he really hates – those contact lenses!

“My God, I’ll be glad to see the last of those,” Pattinson says. “I actually want to get some kind of plastic explosive. I want to reanimate them into something so I can kill them. It’s so embarrassing for me — after so many years, it’s still a process every single morning. Everybody else has figured out how to do it, and then there’s two people holding me down because I can’t do it myself.”

In Water For Elephants, no contacts were involved for the 24 year-old but he did have a very romanticized vision of hoping on trains, joining a travelling circus and seeing America like his character does.

“I liked the aspect of living on a train,” the English actor says. “Just that whole frontier thing. It seems to me the definition of America.”

Water for Elephants is based on the novel by Sarah Gruen and will open in theaters on April 22nd.

AnnaSophia Robb has a relaxed vibe for her photo shoot in Foam magazine where she talks about her new movie Soul Surfer.

The 17 year-old actress immersed herself in surfing to portray Bethany Hamilton, the young competitive surfer who was attacked by a shark and lost her arm but never gave up and returned to ride the waves again.

Robb was lucky enough to have Hamilton be her instructor.

“She’s said to me, ‘I’m not a good teacher,’ but she really is!” Robb said. “She’ll mess around with me, and she always pushes me to go for a bigger wave and chastises me if I don’t. I’ve learned so much from her, which I’ll keep with me for the rest of my life. I’ll always know how to catch a wave and keep from getting pounded.”

The film costarring Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt and Carrie Underwood opens April 8th.

By the way, if you’ve never grabbed a copy of Foam magazine – get one today. It’s one of the few magazines out with a truly unique point of view.

More photos and outtakes from the magazine are under.  Read more »

Vanessa Hudgens gets an injection of neon yellow to her all black biker-chic ensemble on the cover of Nylon magazine’s April 2011 issue.

The 22 year-old star of the upcoming Sucker Punch shares her first impressions of her costar Jena Malone from the flick.

“I remember walking in the very first day, and Jena is stretching her back from side to side, and I remember looking at her like, Damn! Look at the back on that chica!  She was so cut!  I was blown away by her back muscles.  I was like, ‘Okay, I’m a little bit intimidated, I must admit.”

Hudgens goes on to say she’s really pumped about the empowerment message she feels the movie sends to young women:

“My adrenaline was kicking, my energy, my spirits were so high that I literally felt like I had just walked out of a rock concert… When I saw it, I was literally like, Woo, yes!  I can do anything! Yay! Go women!  Like, I feel so empowered.”

Hudgens cover is one of 5 for this month’s Nylon. Her Sucker Punch costars Emily Browing, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung and Abbie Cornish get their own cover shot too.

The Pretty Little Liars sexy high school English teacher, actor Ian Harding, who plays Aria Montgomery’s (Lucy Hale) forbidden boyfriend Ezra Fitz, confessed he does not consider himself a heartthrob in a an exclusive interview for Interview Magazine.

Pretty Little Liars Season Finale Is Shockingly Intense!

“If someone was like, ‘Describe yourself in one word,’ I would never say, ‘Handsome,’” Ian said. “I haven’t shaved in three days and I’ve been eating whatever the hell I want… I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive.”

Teens all over the country dream about having a teacher as hot as Ezra, but Ian doesn’t believe he is sexy at all because he doesn’t have the perfect abs pack. “I have no abs right now, I can tell you that,” he said.

Abs or no abs. Smart is sexy! Aria will most probably continue to be hot for teacher in the second season of “Pretty Little Liars”, which premiere on June 14, 2011 on ABC family. Did you watch PLL’s season 1 finale?

[image: Interview]