Taylor Swift may soon be playing Joni Mitchell on the big screen, Variety reports today. Sources say that Sony and Di Bonaventura Pictures are narrowing in on the country crooner for a part in the film adaptation of Sheila Weller’s book, “Girls Like Us,” about Mitchell, Carly Simon, and Carole King.
Aspiring actress Racquel Bailey spent $1500 on a billboard near Tyler Perry’s studio in Atlanta, urging the director to, “Let me be your next leading lady.” Bailey tells Gossip Cop this afternoon, “It’s all that I had. I believe in myself so much that I will take this risk.” Perry has yet to respond.
Selena Gomez doesn’t feel jealous that boyfriend Justin Bieber has recorded a duet with Taylor Swift. “It’s beautiful. It’s amazing,” Gomez said today during an interview with “On Air with Ryan Seacrest.” “It’s kind of like Taylor and Justin combined. So it’s a little bit of an upbeat song, but it’s very acoustic.” Gomez also calls being asked to kiss her beau on the Los Angeles Staples Center’s Kiss Cam this week “the most humiliating thing that has ever happened to me.”
Sharon Osbourne reveals that she will be a grandmother at any moment, since son Jack Osbourne’s pregnant fiance, Lisa Stelly, was due on Wednesday. “We’re waiting for the phone to ring to say ‘Just get to [the hospital]’ and we will be there,” she tells Us Weekly today.
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg will perform alongside a holographic image of Tupac Shakur again on Sunday night, for the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In the future, Dr. Dre says that he’d love to perform alongside deceased artists Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye using the same technology.