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She's also up for the "Women Who Rock" issue of Rolling Stone!
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Bradley Cooper has brushed off rumors he is set to romance Beyonce in a remake of A Star Is Born.

Clint Eastwood will direct a new version of the classic tale with the singeractress in the role of a young star who falls in love with an older musician mentor, following in the footsteps of both Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

A number of high-profile leading men have been linked to the project, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Tom Cruise and Will Smith.

The Hangover star Cooper has also been rumored to be in contention, but he insists the story isn't true.

He tells American newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times, "Me in A Star is Born? I have no idea what you're talking about... It is an interesting idea.

"Clint is one of our best directors. Everyone wants to work with him".

The xx guitarist Oliver Sim has revealed aspirations to write a track for Beyoncé.

The musician described the US singer as having the same level of talent and star-power as Michael Jackson and admitted to being overwhelmed when seeing her perform live last year.

"Beyoncé is very special. I think she's important," Sim told Q magazine. "I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there, with her.

"I saw her at Glastonbury and I may have shed a tear. Writing a song for her, that's the dream. The full Sasha Fierce."

Sim confessed that he has eaten out with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but found it hard to speak to them after feeling too star-struck.

"We all went for dinner. There may have been a husband of hers there. I always had a lot of things I wanted to say to her and I completely choked."

Beyoncé is said to be planning a surprise appearance at hubby Jay-Z's forthcoming Made In America festival.

According to The Huffington Post, the music event - which is set to take place over Labour Day weekend in Philadelphia, PA - will include a 'top secret' performance from the former Destiny's Child star on one of the two days.

Speaking of the I Was Here singer's involvement, a source told the newspaper: "Beyoncé will hit the stage in a surprise performance at her hubby's festival next weekend in .

"The performance is top secret but it will be filmed for Jay's documentary about the event. It's going to be epic."

As well as Bey's apparent gig, the likes of Drake, Jill Scott and Skrillex are also expected to take to the stage at the festival, which starts on 1st September.

Filmakers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will be on hand to shoot the festival, with the footage later being released as a movie.

Rita Ora has said that Jay-Z and Beyonce know all kinds of embarrassing stories about her childhood... because her mum fills them in.

Speaking to The Mirror, the 'How We Do (Party)' hitmaker said that her mother can't resist mortifying her in front of her mentor and his popstar wife.

She said: "My mum is so embarrassing around Jay-Z and Beyoncé. She starts talking about when I was a baby and my nappy rashes!

"When they first met, my mum said to Jay, 'Are you the one who sang you've got 99 problems and a bitch aint one?'

"He said, 'Yeah', and my mum goes, 'You've got the baddest bitch', and points at Beyoncé. After that it was, 'See ya later Rita' and it was all about my mum and Jay."

Rita Ora has claimed that she sees Beyoncé as a big sister.

The How We Do (Party) singer, who is signed to Queen B's hubby Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label, also told Grazia magazine that she is thankful for the support the superstar couple have given her.

Speaking of her relationship with Bey and Jigga, Ora revealed to the publication: "Jay-Z made me feel really relaxed but at the same time, he made me realise I had loads of work to do.

"He's been doing this for years and I've just started. I just hope my career can be as successful as his. He's my musical idol."

She added: "Beyoncé told me, 'Be yourself because we like being around you'. I guess I'm like the little sister."

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For nine years FORBES has ranked the 100 most powerful women in the world. These are the women who adhere to the traditional classifications of power (political and economic might) and those who have risen to the top of the social and cultural landscape. It is our annual snapshot of women who impact the world.

This year the list features eight heads of state–including our No. 1 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (plus one monarch who just celebrated her Diamond Jubilee), and 25 CEOs who control $984 billion in revenues and 11 billionaires. We feature some dozen entrepreneurs and 10 celebrities who do more than look good: they’re philanthropic do-gooders and entrepreneurial go-getters.

The New Celebrity Role Models: Sure, they’re famous but they deserve special attention for their outside work, be it ambassadors to meaningful causes and or as owners of thriving businesses. Oprah owns Harpo Productions and founded The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Lady Gaga (No. 14): she sings, she tweets and now she started The Born This Way Foundation, with funding from Harvard University and the MacArthur Foundation. Joining the efforts of the U.N. are Shakira (No. 40), Angelina Jolie (No. 66) and Gisele Bundchen (No. 83). Beyonce (No. 32) rules the House of Dereon and Sofia Vergara (No. 75) co-owns LatinWE. Jennifer Lopez (No. 38) is a multi-tiered empire.

Beyoncé and Tina Knowles unveil the campaign for their House of Deréon autumn/winter 2012 collection. Shot by famed international celebrity and fashion photographer, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, the images feature the brand’s muse Beyoncé, wearing several key looks from the autumn/winter ’12 collection.

The much anticipated fall/winter collection was inspired by Beyoncé’s historic performance at the Glastonbury Music Festival last year. The autumn delivery is focused around the ‘boho-inspired girl who attends the festival and includes floor length skirts, casual jersey tops paired with denim that is an homage to the alternative rock bands, their music and eclectic sense of style.

For winter, the inspiration is more focused around Beyoncé’s Glastonbury stage look. This delivery features sequined styles and an intensified color palette that uses strong shades of ruby and amethyst ground with black to create a bold, exciting fashion statement that evokes a luxe party theme and speaks to a rocker in all of us.

Brand co-founder, creative director and designer Tina Knowles said, “I am so excited about this autumn and winter ad campaign. The images of Beyoncé are amazing and we had a lot of fun using the festival experience as our inspiration. Like music, fashion has a universal appeal and we look forward to hearing the consumer’s reaction to the new campaign and to the collection.

Stockists include very.co.uk, Lipsy.co.uk, Bank, USC, Next.co.uk, Nelly.com and Amazon.

Tune in to VH1 tonight at 9:00 EDT for an appearance by Beyoncé on the Do Something! Awards as she meets with the five finalists who celebrate #WHD2012 every day.

Beyoncé and Tina Knowles unveil the campaign for their House of Deréon Fall 2012 collection.

Shot by famed international celebrity and fashion photographer, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, the images feature the brand's muse Beyoncé, wearing several key looks from Fall '12 collection.

Over 1 billion messages of good will were shared around the globe for World Humanitarian Day

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President Obama has said that Beyonce's hit number 'Crazy in Love' is a pretty good song to work out to.

"I've got a lot of old school R and B: you know, Steve Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, Marvin Gaye," the Politico quoted him as saying in an interview with KOB-FM in New Mexico.

"But I've always got a bunch of contemporary stuff: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Nas. You name it, I've got it.

"If I'm really trying to get my heart rate up, 'Crazy in Love' is a pretty good song to work out to," he said.

LD: You cite Beyoncé as an influence for your latest album Milk Famous. Can you elaborate a bit?

SP (Stephen Patterson): I think we wanted to go into this record with a sort of, for lack of a better term, a mix tape kind of vibe where each song feels kind of unrelated to one another, but as a whole, it kind of makes sense. That was kind of the feeling that I got out of her most recent record, 4, and she's so great at interpreting each song so differently and just always like shifting the tone of each thing, but still owning each sort of feeling in each song; there will be a party song or a very emotional song or whatever and use different sounds and arrangements for each song without any sort of care for a cohesive hold and I think that, for me, was sort of inspirational. That inspired me as a singer. She's one of the greatest singers of our time. I get the feeling that although she's one of the most famous people in the world, she still really cares about every small little detail that's going on and you have to appreciate that. It's hard to be at that level and still put out something that's such high quality. It's cool.

Bradley Cooper is reportedly mulling over an offer to star opposite Beyonce in Clint Eastwood's film "A Star is Born."

Eastwood allegedly wants Cooper as the leading man for the movie, according to Variety.

The director's version of "A Star is Born" will be a remake of the 1937 film. The movie is about an aging rocker who falls in love with a young, rising star. Screenwriter Will Fetters based the aging rocker character on Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, imagining how he would have fared in the industry 20 years later, had he survived.

The Press Association reports that Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Will Smith have all turned down the "Star Is Born" role. Tom Cruise was the latest to be linked to the part.

"The Hangover" actor may be contemplating the role in Eastwood's Warner Bros. remake, but, according to Variety, "there is no deal in place and Cooper has a very busy schedule."

Sunday is World Humanitarian Day--a day people around the world are asked to perform a humanitarian action--however big or small--in the spirit of people helping others--"doing something good, somewhere, for someone else."

And with a little help from Beyoncé, organizers of the global event say they made some social media history, too, inspiring more than more than 1 billion messages on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.

"This could arguably be the largest mobilization of good intention in web history, an amazing coming together of celebrity, brands and NGOs," Andrew Essex--chief executive of Droga5, which helped organize the event--told Yahoo News on Sunday. "Think of it as 'We Are The World' for the social media generation."

Droga said the campaign reached its billion-message goal--1,029,763,492 to be exact--with 20 minutes to spare.

The campaign's website launched earlier this month, collecting pledges and messages from would-be do-gooders, soliciting ideas ("Make a homeless person a sandwich") and encouraging visitors to spread the word using the #IWasHere hashtag.

And Beyoncé, who shot a new music video at the United Nations specifically for the campaign, told Anderson Cooper her goal was to encourage the spread of "positivity no matter how big or how small." The music video--for Beyoncé's "I Was Here"--was released on Saturday. (It didn't hurt that Beyoncé tweeted about the initiative to her 5 million followers, changing her Twitter avatar to promote the event.)

World Humanitarian Day was designated by the U.N. General Assembly in 2009 to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed 22 U.N. staffers.

The world premiere of "I Was Here" - Filmed in front of a live audience at the UN General Assembly for World Humanitarian Day.

CO-DIRECTORS: KENZO DIGITAL AND SOPHIE MULLER
PRODUCED BY DROGA5 AND RSA FILMS (Animation by Dirt Empire NYC)
LOCATION: GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, USA
DATE: AUGUST 10TH 2012
LABEL: Parkwood Entertainment/Sony Music Entertainment

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Diane Warren has found her latest muse, and it’s Beyoncé.

Warren, who wrote the ballad “I Was Here” for Beyoncé’s latest album, 4, said she’s writing material for the megastar’s upcoming album.

Warren said she played a few songs for Beyoncé in New York last week. “They’re great songs,” Warren said of the new tracks she wrote for the 30-year-old singer. “I think they’re on the level of (‘I Was Here’) and I’m really excited about that.”

She compared writing for Beyoncé to a screenwriter having Meryl Streep or Robert De Niro act in his or her movie.

“Some people come in my studio and I’m like, ‘Oh god,’ and you’ve got to fix them up and it’s just hard,” Warren said. “Some of the people that get deals, you just can’t understand. But then when you work with a Beyoncé or so sadly Whitney (Houston) ... it’s so beautiful.”

Beyoncé isn’t the only Destiny’s Child member getting the Diane Warren treatment: “I’m working with Kelly Rowland because Beyoncé was telling her to get together with me.”