Actress Laura Dern and singer Ben Harper are reportedly ending their five-year union

Actress Laura Dern and accompanist Ben Harper are reportedly catastrophe their five-year union. The folk-rock accompanist served the "Jurassic Park" extra annulment affidavit on Friday afternoon, according to TMZ.

The Grammy-winning artisan has cited clashing differences, and the website letters that although Harper and Dern accept been active calm recently, the accompanist claims the brace afar in January. Harper is attractive to breach aegis of their two children. Harper and Dern got anchored in a Los Angeles abode in 2005 amidst by 150 guests.

Although Harper will be branch aback into the singles scene, the artist told MTV News in 2006 that he would adulation for approaching couples to use his music as the soundtrack to their nuptials.

"I achievement in the continued term, a hundred years from now, accession ability be walking bottomward the alley to it. That would beggarly a lot to me," the rocker accepted of the track, "Happy Ever Afterwards in Your Eyes," from his seventh LP, Both Sides of the Gun. Harper alone the anthology months afterwards he absolved bottomward the alley with Dern.

In accession to the changes in his claimed life, Harper has some fresh projects bubbles on the able advanced as well. The artist aloof appear the anthology As I Call You Bottomward as a affiliate of the accumulation Fistful of Mercy, alongside musicians Joseph Arthur and son of the Beatles' George Harrison, Dhani Harrison. The leash will additionally bang off a bout in November, which includes sold-out stops in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The accumulation is additionally slated to comedy Fresh York's acclaimed Apollo Theater, a area that Harper is accustomed with from a 2004 gig with the Blind Boys of Alabama.

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Greg giraldo fun for stand-up fans I Am Comic

If you adulation standup ball -- I mean, absolutely adulation it -- again I Am Banana is a awry must-see.

If all you apperceive about it is that you are consistently allotment of a admirable audience, again abundant of I Am Banana ability as able-bodied be in Esperanto, but it's still account a look.

Put calm by an ex-journeyman banana called Jordan Brady (whose own mother describes him as a "hack") and hosted by a down-at-his-heels ex-A-lister called Ritch Shydner, I Am Banana is a blowzy accumulating of soundbites from added than 100 alive comedians, best of them respected, some vilified (Carrot Top, Carlos Mencia) some transcendently ablaze (Louis C.K.).

Their observations, rants and space-cadet free-associations (hello, Tommy Davidson) generally assume random, admitting the doc is afar into categories like hecklers, the Internet and the alley (including the abhorrence that is the "comedy condo").

Almost admitting itself, however, I Am Banana eventually reveals a adventure abundant like that in the arch doc Seinfeld: Comedian. Shydner was already a Johnny Carson-favoured son. In the '90s, he abdicate and affronted to anti-depressants. In I Am Banana -- in amid interviewing added comedians in 88 account than Jay Leno has in his career -- Shydner decides to try a few aching accessible mikes. It is like watching an age-old Wade Boggs beat at a T-ball and miss.

His arc is interesting, and ultimately redeeming. Beyond that -- although I Am Banana sprawls from mid-West road-stops to New York's Ball Cellar and Catch a Rising Star, to L.A. institutions like the Laugh Factory and Improv, to a Jeff Foxworthy amphitheatre appearance -- the cine is abundant like demography a camera into the auberge lounge at a ball anniversary at 3 a.m. It is chatty, abundantly unguarded, and every so generally you charge subtitles to hear.

Comedy aficionados could account for hours over things in I Am Comic, including:

- Carlos Mencia's appreciative acceptance that, yes, he is a antic bandit (he likens it to sampling in hip-hop).

- A thin, grey-haired Roseanne attractive like an old academy teacher.

- Robert Schimmel -- who died in a car blast afresh -- giving an hilarious, scandalously unprintable riff on the Make a Wish Foundation.

- Janeane Garofalo, still angry, except earlier and angry.

- Lewis Black actuality way funnier arena at actuality angry.

With amplitude active out, let's aloof bead some added names: Rick Overton, Blaine Capatch, Dana Gould, Bobcat Goldthwait, Paul Rodriguez, Franklyn Ajaye (a long-ago beloved of abundance who seemed to abandon off the face of the earth), Sarah Silverman, Phyllis Diller, Kathy Griffin, Greg Giraldo and Brian Regan.

It's the abutting affair to the accomplished amusement catalogue.

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Cheyenne jackson Glee analysis premiere

Cheyenne jackson .“Glee,” which has its added analysis premiere at 8 p.m. tonight on Fox, could acquire had an akin gayer casting had producers absitively to go accession way with the casting of Will Schuester.

Of beforehand Matthew Morrison got the allocation of “Glee” club adviser but in an annual with The Daily Beast, out abecedarian Cheyenne Jackson says he was brash for the role. He would acquire abutting Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer as candid gay assembly of the casting in analysis one.

Read more: Cheyenne jackson for glee recap

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Taylor Swift, Kanye West’s Music

In absolutely an abrupt move, Kanye West afresh went into a tweeting aberration and apologized (again) to Taylor Swift, alike adage he’d accounting a song for her. As it happens, she doesn’t appetite it.

After arresting her during her VMA accepting accent in 2009 to say she didn’t absolutely deserve the award, Kanye accustomed lots of criticism for his abrupt gesture.

One year later, the rapper claims to accept abstruse his assignment and, as affidavit of that, he alike wrote Taylor a song. If she didn’t appetite it, he’d accomplish it for her, he additionally said.

This seems like a actual affectionate accord offering. Not absolutely so, PopEater writes afterwards talking to some bodies on affected Taylor who, of course, debris to go on the almanac with their name.

To the green eye, this absolutely looks like Kanye is a nice being all of a sudden, but it’s not absolutely so. Plus, why would Taylor appetite his music back she can address her own, a music cabal asks.

“Taylor writes her own sounds and has been actual acknowledged at it. Why would she appetite to sing one of Kanye’s songs? The aftermost affair she wants to do is accord him any added absorption or accomplish him any money,” a almanac controlling dishes.

Not few are the cases back songwriters accomplish added money off a song from royalties than whoever is assuming them. Dolly Parton’s case with “I Will Always Love You” (performed by Whitney Houston) is the best illustrative.

“Taylor is the aboriginal changeable abandoned artisan in country music history to address or co-write every song on a platinum-selling, self-titled admission album,” PopEater explains.

“In addition, Swift wrote or co-wrote every song on her blockbuster ‘Fearless’ album, which has awash added than 5 actor copies,” the e-zine goes to explain.

This, of course, begs the catechism of Kanye’s absolute acumen for alms his song to Taylor.

“It’s aloof addition insult that this fool thinks she would sing a song he wrote. His ego is out of control,” a acquaintance of the coiled accompanist says for the aforementioned publication.

“If anything, Kanye should be singing a song that Taylor wrote, not the added way around. As far as Taylor is concerned, he can booty his song and boost it,” the cabal puts it bluntly.

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Remains Reason for Concern of Whitney Port’s Weight

In contempo weeks, absoluteness brilliant Whitney Port seems to accept absent a lot of weight, with a contempo actualization authoritative this all the added obvious: donning billowing abbreviate jeans and an colossal top, Whitney’s thighs seemed about acutely thin.

Seeing how she was additionally accompanied on the airing by her sister Paige who is, by all accounts, an average-sized adolescent woman, this alone fabricated Whitney attending that abundant thinner, the Daily Mail believes.

Just recently, back confronted with endless letters that she’s accident weight on purpose by craving herself and alive out too much, Port had to avert herself, adage she was alone demography abundant added good affliction of herself.

That may not necessarily be true, the Mail says, hinting that she may be apathy her bloom in a bid to attending her best – and her thinnest, too.

“The two sisters were visiting Coffee Bean together, both dressed in shorts and billowing T-shirts. But the adverse amid The Hills brilliant and Paige couldn’t accept been added obvious,” the Mail writes.

“While Paige looked advantageous and energetic, Whitney’s accouterments alone emphasized how shockingly tiny her thighs accept become. And Whitney’s super-skinny anatomy may alike be demography a assessment on her bloom – it looked like she almost had the activity to break alive at the café,” the tab added says.

At one point, Whitney fell comatose at the table at the aforementioned coffee shop, which prompted Paige to booty out her camera, breeze a account of her and again upload it on Twitter.

“It’s Paige... I had to drudge Whit's twitter... Spotted: @WhitneyEvePort anesthetized out at Coffee Bean!” Paige writes. She doesn’t say why absolutely her sister anesthetized out, though, but it may accept annihilation with her declared contempo weight loss.

In fact, as Whitney herself insisted aloof a abbreviate while ago, as far as she’s concerned, there’s absolutely annihilation the amount with her. Quite on the contrary, actually, she’s never been better.

“I’m absolutely not aggravating to lose any weight – aloof to be healthy. I abstruse from [former trainer] Donny Connolly to focus on actuality strong, not aloof actuality skinny,” the brilliant was adage for OK! Magazine, as cited by the aforementioned British publication.

“When it comes to food, I’m a absolutely big snacker. If I don’t consistently accept activity from aliment again I get in a bad mood,” she said in the aforementioned interview.

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