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The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift
The world's biggest new pop star is a little bit country, a little
bit rock & roll, and all control freak. What's behind her drive
for success?
On a bright sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift is on good behavior, as usual. In high school, she had a 4.0 average; when she was home-schooled during her junior and senior years, she finished both years of course work in 12 months. She has never changed her hair color, won't engage in any remotely dangerous type of physical activity and bites her nails to the quick. At 19 years old, she says she has never had a cigarette. She says she has never had a drop of alcohol. "I have no...
Bringing It All Back Home
With his third great album this decade, Bruce Springsteen tackles
love, loyalty — and the ultimate deadline
The Band on Bruce: Their SpringsteenA candid look at the legend from his "greatest friends" — the E Street Band
The sound is classic amateur 1966 — chaotic, jangling guitars, impatient drumming and crude raging-hormone vocal...
Sean Penn: The Rolling Stone Interview
Oscar's bad boy goes off the deep end on art, life, politics and
what his kids think of him going gay in Milk.
One afternoon in January, Sean Penn answers the door of his Bay Area home, shoeless, in jeans and a gray thermal undershirt, his hair sort of crazily mussed, looking as if he's just woken up. It's a couple of minutes past noon.
To say that Penn has "aged well" is to employ a nonstandard usage of the term. He does not look younger than his 48 years. His forehead is baroquely creased, his long face haggard, his hair soaring and gray-streaked and parted down the middle. Something Penn is...
Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give
W. comes clean - on his dad, Condi's farts and the time Dick
waterboarded the house boy
Despite a financial crisis for the ages, the catastrophic collapse of a Republican Party crippled by his political legacy, and the highest presidential disapproval rating in the history of American polling, outgoing commander in chief George W. Bush has not completely lost his sense of fun. When Rolling Stone caught up with him at the White House shortly after the holidays for what would turn out to be his final extended sit-down interview as president, the graying but still quite fit Texan had...
Brad Pitt: The Rolling Stone Interview
The actor on fame, life with six kids and how playing an old man
made him grow up
Brad Pitt is having technical difficulties.
"I normally need my kids to do this," he mutters, as he attempts to connect my iPod into his stereo. "They're so beyond me in technology, it's hard to keep up. Our seven-year-old was searching the word 'weapons' on Google the other day and ended up on some white-supremacist site. I'm sure now we're on all kinds of watch lists." Eventually, Pitt gives up and summons an assistant, and soon enough we're listening to Townes Van Zandt. Pitt has never...
The Best of 2008
The 50 Albums of the Year
TV on the Radio partied as the world collapsed, Dylan hit the vaults, Lil Wayne topped hip-hop and Metallica thundered back Read...
Britney Returns
A year after her very public meltdown, Britney Spears is back to
work and out of trouble. But what has the comeback cost her?
• Video: Go Behind Britney Spears' Cover Shoot
• Britney Spears: The Rolling Stone Cover Gallery
• Britney Spears' Life in Photos: A Timeline of Her Rise, Fall and Comeback
• Behind the Britney Story: Q&A With Writer Jenny Eliscu
There's an understanding among those who know...
The Hot List
From a futuristic pop star to Ambien tripping, the 70 hottest
bands, actors, drugs, movies of '08 and beyond
Illustration: Shepard Fairey
Yes we did. Barack Obama's on his way to Washington, Britney's got a new album, gossip girls are dying to kiss vampires, and Mickey Rourke — Mickey Rourke! — is an Oscar contender. The 2008 Hot List is full of hopeful surprises — just like the man headed to the White House.
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The Top 12 DVDs of 2008
Pop in these 12 Blu-ray beauties, which also look good on standard
DVD (I said good, not ridiculous good), and get yourself rocked
1. The Dark Knight
Everything gleams like sin on the Dark Knight BD (that's what they call a Blu-ray disc, get used to it). From the man in the Bat suit (Christian Bale) to the Joker in cracked clown makeup (Heath Ledger), the movie is a potent provocation decked out as a comic book. And oh, boy, is it a looker. If BD is the future of home-theater viewing, then The Dark Knight shows you why. Images...
The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
Our blue-ribbon panel of 179 experts ranks music's finest vocalists
1 | Aretha Franklin
by Mary J. Blige
Photo: Goodwin/Redferns/Retna
BornMarch 25th, 1942
Key Tracks"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Respect," "I...
