HEROES – David Bowie
CELLULOID HEROES – The Kinks
SAN DIEGO SERANADE – Tom Waits
THE LAST OF THE SUPERHEROES – American Heartbreak
DRAW THE LINE – Aerosmith
IT’S A WILD WEEKEND – N.R.B.Q.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN – Comic Book Heroes
THAT’S REALLY SUPER, SUPERGIRL – XTC
GEEK U.S.A. – Smashing Pumpkins
COOL – Gwen Stefani
MAGNETO AND TITANIUM MAN – Paul McCartney & Wings
SAVE ME – Aimee Mann
COMIC BOOK HEROES – Rick Springfield
LOST WEEKEND – Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
IRON MAN – Black Sabbath
SUPERMAN’S SONG – Crash Test Dummies
OH SUPERMAN – Laurie Anderson
CHALLENGERS – The New Pornographers
SUPERMAN – R.E.M

Now you draw the lines. What songs are on your playlist for Comic-Con?

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He’s created hit songs for himself, others, and his band. He’s also collaborated with a diverse mix of talent from Jay-Z to Gwen Stefani, and has his own clothing lines Ice Cream and Billionaire Boys Club. Talk to Pharrell Williams for five minutes, and you’ll instantly understand his need to work with others, push himself and expand his repertoire. It all comes down to his perception of “the American Dream,” and how he chooses to lives it.

“When you read about it in the press, it’s the house with the picket fence, the wife, the 2 ½ kids, two cars, and the pursuit of that but it’s flawed,” the Neptunes producer and frontman of N.E.R.D. explained. “It’s based on having something, not chasing something. Most successful people will tell you it’s not what’s in the bank, it’s the journey making it.”

That sort of explains Williams’ journey. Doesn’t it? The singer, producer, fashion designer, and Huffington Post fan (he notes his “Kidult.com” site aspires to follow the HP model: “tell it like it is.”), has owned the world of pop and hip hop since joining forces with Chad Hugo in the late 1990s to form one-half of the Neptunes. Never satisfied with the status quo, he spent the 2000s establishing himself as a solo artist and drummer/singer for hip-rock group N.E.R.D. He’s chosen to dive right into this decade.

Williams penned and produced four tracks for the Despicable Me soundtrack (“Minions Mambo” is a personal favorite, as is a track with Robin Thicke), and this September, he and N.E.R.D. will release their fourth studio album ironically titled Nothing.

What was it about Despicable Me that made you want to create original tunes for its soundtrack?
I’m a huge fan of animation. I’ve always loved cartoons and I never let it go even when it was not in vogue to talk about cartoons. I’ve always loved the way I feel when I watch them, so you can only imagine what a dream come true this film at the forefront of 3D technology was for me. When given the opportunity, I jumped on it.

I love collaborations, and I love to be the smallest guy in the room. Working with Universal and Illumination Entertaiment, [composer] Hans Zimmer, I was literally the peon in the room. I prefer it that way. I want to learn, and if you want to learn you surround yourself with people who know what to do so you can absorb everything.

Despicable Me is actually a wonderful film, but there’s a lot of crap movies out there. Did you realize it’d actually be a good film before signing on?

When you get involved with people who are the best at what they do, [you know.] They’ve made incredible movies that have changed the lives of children: Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who?… The Simpsons film. It’s incredible. [Despicable Me] has got a great storyline to it, a great moral to it, and it explains it clearly. The visuals are super vivid.

Would you ever develop your own cartoon since you love the medium so much?

Yeah, we have a couple things in semi-development we’re waiting for…

Maybe you could do a voice over?

I’d love to… I would certainly entertain any voice over opportunity in any kind of animation and concept.

What’s your favorite animated movie and character of all time?

The Incredibles was huge for me. I also loved Ice Age. Of course, you can never go wrong with Bart [Simpson]. Bart is pretty funny, but in The Simpsons, it’s always been Homer for me.

I realize you’re promoting the Despicable Me soundtrack, but the latest from N.E.R.D. is right around the corner — care to divulge any info on the upcoming album?

Working on Despicable Me expanded my mind. The opportunity to work with Hans Zimmer and seeing posters on his wall of spaghetti westerns, made me think. I thought of Ennio Morricone’s sound, and wanted that to [blend] with N.E.R.D and it went from there. It ends up sounding very Doors, America, Crosby, Stills, & Nash and Neil Young influenced. There’s a bit of Queen. I have to consider the world and not one small party of people making an album. It might sound one way to someone than it does to another. We’re really putting our hearts into Nothing.

You know… there are technical advancements in the world as much as there are technical failures. Oils spills are a technical failure. We’re failing the planet, but then you have hopeful advancements like the iPad. Thank god Steve Jobs was smart enough to let us know the machine wouldn’t take over the biggest kinesthetic: the ability to feel. That’s what makes us human. In the middle of the N.E.R.D. song “Hot n’ Fun,” I say “people don’t want to think anymore, they want to feel.” I think Nothing pinches people in the rat race and says “look up, you’re a human being. Don’t think about anything. Just dance.”

And that goes back to your take on the American Dream. People are so focused on everything around them that they can’t take time to appreciate life and the ride, right?

We need to redefine the American Dream. It’s the ability to chase what you want to do. When you die, you can’t take the fruit, but you can take the growth of the process.

http://birthday-bash Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale accompanied sons Kingston, 4, and Zuma nearly 2, to a birthday party Saturday in Long Beach, Calif.

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Love appears topless in some of the shots which are thought to have been taken a few years ago.

In one shot, she is crouching on all fours dressed in a leopard print underwear with matching hat and stockings as famous transexual Amanda Lepore prepares to whip her bare behind.

In another photo, Love recreates Michael Jackson’s famous crotch-grabbing pose in a revealing black mini dress. Other shots show the Hole singer sitting topless on a swing.

She is also seen nude, but for a pair of frilly panties, posing in a deserted warehouse.

Miss Love has often raised concerns about her mental well being with frequent rambling posts on her Myspace page. She recently claimed to have made out with supermodel Kate Moss, 36, before taking to her Twitter page to deny she made any such comment.

Meanwhile, her secret boyfriend, hotelier Andre Balazs is understood to have ended their relationship after Love made the accusations of a lesbian tryst with Moss in the 1990s. According to sources he is said to be “embarrassed” by Love’s outbursts.

Love also claimed to have had an affair with Gavin Rossdale during the early stages of his relationship with Gwen Stefani.

The ex-Bush frontman set the record straight on his Facebook page:

“Gwen and Gavin Rossdale would like to assure fans that anything that may have occurred prior to their marriage has no impact on their current situation.”

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Love, 45, told the Irish magazine Hot Press:

“It’s a great story for the grandchildren, so yeah. Kate wasn’t doing a lot of drugs. It was just a thing that happened in Milan in the Nineties. It happened and it was fun and whatever. And she talks about it and so I hope she doesn’t get mad that I outed her about it. I feel like such a kiss and tell. Kate’s great, though! Kate’s a good friend of mine. I almost bought her house in St John’s Wood, London.”

Moss, 36, has been linked with the likes of Johnny Depp, Pete Doherty and is now dating Kills guitarist Jamie Hince.

In the Hot Press interview, Love also elaborates on her affair with Gavin Rossdale after he started dating Gwen Stefani:

“Me and Gavin dated for eight months. There was some overlap between when I dated Edward [Norton] and he dated Gwen – but never when they were engaged. So we were like sorta fuck buddies. He was playing the field… one night Gavin made roast chicken and it was really, really good, and then we snogged and he was really good at it. And he’d improved vastly from the last time we snogged.”

She claims she got so good at sex because she was never pretty and had to work harder in the bedroom. She also says she has a powerful vagina.

Is it even more offensive for a celebrity to show herself breastfeeding her twins, on national TV?

Julie Bowen, who stars in ABC’s Modern Family made this controversial move on The George Lopez Show on Mon, May 17th. Not only did she voluntarily give George the photo of sons John and Gus, who just turned 1, she also demonstrated how you hold twins and breastfeed both at the same time — it’s called “the double football hold.”

Julie couldn’t have been more charmingly candid about revealing what is a beautiful photograph of herself doing what comes naturally — “I had the picture and I hope you are brave enough to show it,” she told George. “It’s the end of my career.” There has been a report that when Julie appeared earlier on The View, she wasn’t allowed to show the pic. But she did talk hilariously to “the ladies” about breastpumping, while driving!

Strangely to me, when we put this photo up on HollywoodLife.com — we had some immediate emails — imploring us to take it down.

“It’s offensive,” said one. “It’s too shocking,” said another.

But why? Why is a photo of a mom breastfeeding — something that has now been confirmed by numerous studies, as the healthiest way to feed your baby — either offensive or shocking?

To find out why, click to read more!

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