She’s got that seven-year itch
Christina Aguilera says she’s reading scripts in search of the right role to launch an acting career.
“I am looking forward to moving into another form of what I feel is another creative outlet for me and that would be acting,” she said Monday in Shanghai as she prepared for her first mainland China concert on Tuesday.
“It is something that, when I attempt to do it, I want to do it right so it’s important for me that I do choose the right first role for myself,” added Aguilera, 26.
Following her self-titled 1999 debut, she caused a stir with the release of her second album, 2002’s “Stripped,” with its sexual imagery and overall bad-girl attitude.
Her latest record, the double album “Back to Basics,” was inspired by the blues, jazz and early soul music of the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s.
Along with the new sound, Aguilera adopted the sexy, grown-up look of Hollywood vamps such as Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow and Veronica Lake.
“I wanted to revert back to a time and place in music that truly inspired me the most,” she explained.
Not willing to pay the price
“The Price is Right” superfan Rosie O’Donnell says she’s out of the running to replace Bob Barker as host of the game show.
“You know, if they were able to do it in New York, it would be a different story,” says O’Donnell, who lives there with her partner, Kelli, and four children.
“I don’t need the money,” she says. “So to get my entire family uprooted from their lives and move them across the country so that I can have a fantasy childhood indulgence, you know, job … it just doesn’t seem fair.”
Something about Maoism
Cameron Diaz has apologized for evoking painful political memories in Peru.
Diaz visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu carrying a bag with a red star and the famous Mao Zedong quote “Serve the People” – which recalls the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that left nearly 70,000 Peruvians dead.
She said she bought it as a tourist in China and “did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it.”
Foxy not the prey?
Foxy Brown, who’s on probation for assault and faces a battery charge in a separate case, reportedly was a victim of violence over the weekend herself – though she denies it.
Four people teamed up to rob the racy rapper of a Louis Vuitton bag, $500 in cash and credit cards, police say.
But Brown says, “A lot of the time, people mistake me for someone else.”
It’s not fair! Mom!
Actor Tom Sizemore (“Saving Private Ryan”) was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison for violating his probation in a previous drug case by being caught with methamphetamine.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Sizemore “abused the privilege of probation” and “needs to be in a lockdown setting.”
The birthday bunch
Singer Chris Isaak is 51. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (“Boogie Nights”) is 37. Actor Sean Hayes (“Will and Grace”) is 37. Country singer Gretchen Wilson is 33. Actor Jason Schwartzman (“Rushmore”) is 27.