Blog Posts by Carly Maga

A bearded David Hyde Pierce on April 9. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)

During the many hours we spent in front of our TV sets, eavesdropping on the posh, intellectual lifestyle of Frasier Crane and his little brother Niles on “Frasier,” we often couldn’t help but wonder how these two shared any of the same DNA (besides their mutual taste in wine and leather shoes).

But now that David Hyde Pierce, who played the wispy Niles on the classic sitcom, is rocking a big, bushy beard, we finally see the family resemblance! No, the 54-year-old actor is in no way related to 58-year-old Kelsey Grammer, but Pierce’s look at the 2013 Sundance Institute Theatre Program Benefit held on Monday night was definitely Grammer-esque.

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Actress Kim Cattrall, best known for playing the iconic Samantha Jones on “Sex and the City” as well as for her highly accomplished theatre career, recently revealed that her lifelong regime of exercise and healthy eating is the only way she has been able to play the blonde bombshell into her mid-50s.

“When I hit my forties I thought, ‘I can't play a sexy siren any more.’ Almost 20 years later, it's still going on,” she recently told Woman and Home magazine. “I think that's because I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimizing stress.”

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Today, it’s hard to imagine 56-year-old Cattrall, who was born in Liverpool but raised in Courtenay, B.C., playing anything but a powerful, sexy vixen on the stage and screen. But hey, we can’t say she didn’t work hard and earn her sex appeal.

“I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true. I like to eat, and my body type is not naturally this thin, especially at this age,” she said.

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He might be the “Hottest MC In The Game” to MTV, but in Canada’s capital, Rick Ross is still the MC in the hot seat.

The famous American rapper was slated to perform in Ottawa on Tuesday as the headlining act in the annual year-end Pandemonium concert co-organized by the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. But due to the public outrage over one of Ross’s lyrics in the song “U.O.E.N.O. (You Ain't Even Know It),” which many believe condones date rape, the concert was cancelled over the weekend – though “security reasons” were cited as the cause of the cancellation by the concert’s promoter, Urban Jamz Ent. Ticket costs reportedly ranged from $20 to $500.

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Hey, Justin Bieber: we understand it might not go with your harem pants, or those giant metal wings we’ve seen from your show, or maybe not even with your new swaggy haircut – but it might be time for you to start wearing a wristwatch on the regular.

Bieber was in Dortmund, Germany on Friday night for the latest leg in his “Believe” European tour, but left fans disappointed when he showed up for his performance about two-and-a-half hours late. The crowd at Dortmund’s Westfalenhallen arena apparently chanted, booed, and sat on the floor of the venue until the 19-year-old pop start finally took the stage – without commenting on his tardiness. Many of the young concertgoers reportedly even had to wait outside in the cold for several hours before making it into the arena.

Because of the area’s laws, adolescents under 16 years of age cannot be at a concert without parental supervision past 10 p.m. For a Justin Bieber concert, that’s a lot of ticketholders. So, as a result, photographers on the scene snapped long lineups of angry parents trying to get their money back. By 9:45, there were allegedly more than 100 adults in line for refunds.

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If you thought the power of the Beliebers was confined to the realms of Twitter and mall meet-and-greets, think again. Even governmental heads are bending to the force that is Justin Bieber fandom.

The 19-year-old pop superstar is continuing his European tour this week in Germany, followed by France and Belgium, and finally hitting Oslo on April 16 and 17. And the Nordic country is already feeling the effects of the star’s upcoming arrival: Five Norway schools have decided to postpone their exams until after the prince of pop has departed.

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According to the Associated Press, the schools of the remote Alesund region made the date change, concerned that the students would skip the tests in order to attend Bieber’s concerts (taking place on a Tuesday and Wednesday). And judging from the reaction to Bieber’s free concert in Oslo last year – the one during which the crowd turned into an ugly mob and injured close to 50 fans – there’s no telling what lengths Norwegian Beliebers will go to when it comes to the “Boyfriend” singer.

The cover for Avril Lavigne's new single.

Avril Lavigne was just a tiny little Sk8er Grrl when she broke out of Napanee, Ont. with her debut album “Let Go” in 2002. Now, Chad Kroeger's fiancée is 28, but if her new single is any indication, the singer doesn't plan on maturing any time soon. Titled “Here’s To Never Growing Up,” the single’s cover depicts Lavigne as nude as the day she was born. This time, however, Lavigne's body is strategically covered by a well-placed teddy bear.)

“Avril is back” was already a trending topic this weekend, but the big photo reveal also caused a storm on the Internet.

“Avril Lavigne is naked. Avril Lavigne is naked in her new single cover. Help me God, I'm dying,” posted @luizampinto to Twitter.

“Themes in the new Avril Lavigne single: Maturity; developmental arrest; temporal space; the irretrievability of the past; whoaaa-oohh-oohhhh,” wrote @SamLansky.

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora in January 2013. (Danny Martindale/WireImage)

At Bon Jovi’s concert this Tuesday night in Calgary, Alberta, the song “I’ll Be There for You” must have had a bittersweet tune -- guitarist Richie Sambora failed to show and is ditching the rest of the band’s world tour.

Bon Jovi announced on their website the following day that the 53-year-old lead guitarist will not perform in the upcoming leg of the tour due to “personal issues.” But there’s speculation that Sambora's absence was the result of a bitter feud between him and frontman Jon Bon Jovi. According to TMZ, the 51-year-old singer reportedly “constantly belittles” Sambora; money is also an explosive issue, and allegedly their feud came to a head before their performance in Calgary.

“I had two choices: pack up and go home or give you everything I got ... Richie Sambora won't be performing for a while. If there's ever a night I need you, it's tonight, Calgary!" Jon yelled to the crowd Tuesday night.

You’re never too old for a trip to Disneyland with your parents. If Rachel McAdams can do it, then so can we.

The 34-year-old actress was recently spotted walking around the grounds at the famous theme park in Anaheim, California, with a few friends and her parents, Sandra and Lance McAdams, in tow. This, we assume, is pretty much what a lot of McAdams’s childhood birthday parties looked like. And, we assume, it was a pretty fun time, even though the photos don’t show McAdams on any rides or posing with any characters, as is typical Disneyland fashion.

Nevertheless, McAadams looks pretty happy in “The Happiest Place on Earth,” dressed casually in jeans, a bright yellow shirt, leather jacket, leather boots, and a baseball cap (it seems to be a little chilly in California). Her dad Lance, a retired truck driver and furniture mover from St. Thomas, Ontario, dressed for warmer weather in shorts and a short-sleeved button-down shirt. Sandra McAdams was more properly dressed, in Capri jeans