'X Factor' Contestant Chris Rene Becomes YouTube Sensation (Video)

Santa Cruz, Calif. trash collector Chris Rene is now a YouTube sensation thanks to his premiere episode performance on The X Factor.our editor recommends'The X Factor' Redux: 5 Afterthoughts on the Shows Premiere Simon Cowell's 'The X Factor' Premieres Lower Than 'American Idol'Simon Cowell's 'The X Factor' Premieres; Viewer Reactions Mixed'The X Factor' Premiere: Simon Cowell Won Over by Young Rachel Crows Song, Emotional Backstory (Video) Related Topics•The X Factor The video of Rene singing his own composition "Young Homie" on Fox's new competition series has registered more than 2.1 million hits on YouTube to date. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes: THR's 'X Factor' Cover Shoot Additionally, the song has already inspired several cover versions which have been posted on the streaming video site as well, including 15-year-old Forrest Burnham's version with piano accompaniment, and acoustic guitar takes by Nicole Christine Pedraza and Eric May Pantay. The nearly nine-minute video of Rene's performance includes an interview with him in which he says, "I want to be on stages, singing for people, making money" and "I'm done with hauling trash, time to sing on stage and entertain America." PHOTOS: Fox's New Season TV Shows: 'Terra Nova,' 'The X Factor' and More Rene, who told judges Antonio "L.A." Reid, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell that he was 70 days sober, admits to a drug-addicted past in the clip, "I was smoking weed at 12, 13; drinking beer at 15, then [segued] to cocaine and methamphetamines. "I have this disease called addiction. The shame and the guilt just got to me. It broke me. There's always a chance and there's always a choice. Instead of doing nothing with myself, I want my son to see me singing on stages because life is too precious to change." PHOTOS: An 'American Idol' to 'X Factor' Timeline When asked what the contest's prize money would mean for him, Rene replied, "It would mean the world. Specifically it would mean stability for me and my son, my family." The judges' reactions to his performance were enthusiastic across the board. "Honey, I'm tripping on you. I can't even describe your talent," said Scherzinger. PHOTOS: The Hollywood Reporter Cover Stories "I work with some of the greatest hip-hop artists from Jay-Z to Kanye West and all of my boys, they would be proud of me today to tell you that you are the truth," proclaimed Reid. Cowell declared, "Always my favorite feeling in the world is when I sit in this chair and I meet a star for the first time. Ad there's something about you, what I like is that maybe you need the show, maybe we need you." Related Topics Nicole Scherzinger Paula Abdul Simon Cowell Antonio L.A. Reid The X Factor

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R&B Singer Vesta Williams Found Dead in L.A. Accommodation

Vesta Williams, the R&B singer who had several hits within the eighties and early ྖs, was discovered dead inside a La accommodation on Thursday. She was 53. La County coroner's Capt. John Kades told the Connected Press the singer, who recorded under her name only, might have died from the possible drug overdose. An autopsy could be carried out to look for the reason for dying. PHOTOS: Notable Hollywood Deaths Williams was created in Coshocton, Ohio in 1957. She'd six tunes achieve Billboard's US R&B chart, including Once Bitten, Two times Shy, Sweet, Sweet Love, Special and Congratulations, that also charted around the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. Her last album, Distant Lover, was launched in 2007. She also behaved, showing up within the TV series Sister, Sister and director Mario Peebles' 1993 western, Posse. Related Subjects

Fox Orders New Gordon Ramsay Series

Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay is going to stir some misconception once more - but this time around it will not be in the kitchen area. Around the heels of Hell's Kitchen's finale which attracted almost six million audiences, Fox introduced Wednesday it has purchased another unscripted series from Ramsay's production company.Fall Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back showsThe series, tentatively entitled Hotel Hell, follows Ramsay along with a team of hospitality industry veterinarians because they travel mix-country to update battling hotels."They are tales that everybody can connect with, because virtually all people have were built with a bad hotel experience that's switched a vacation or business travel right into a total disaster," Ramsay stated. "You're ready to place the hospitality industry towards the test."Fall TV: Begin to see the 17 stars and also hardwearing . eyes about this yearThe show's format will mimic those of Kitchen Bad dreams - with Ramsay supplying business refurbishments to hotels, hotels, and mattress-and-breakfasts in serious necessity of help.Hotel Hell would be the 4th addition to Ramsay's reality TV empire. Younger crowd stars in Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Bad dreams and MasterChef.

Clint Eastwoods 'J. Edgar' Trailer Premieres (Video)

Keith Bernstein/Warner Bros. Pictures "Even great men can be corrupted," says Leonardo DiCaprio's J. Edgar Hoover in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's highly anticipated biopic. And there are plenty of great men in the Warner Bros. film: Oscar winner Clint Eastwood directs, Oscar-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars, and the screenplay was written by Dustin Lance Black, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2008's Milk. With such a stacked deck, the Warner Bros. film has already been generating plenty of Oscar buzz, due to its very stacked deck. ANALYSIS: Why Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt Are the Frontrunners in Oscar's Best Actor Race Although there's been months of hype, the trailer that premiered Monday is the first hint we've gotten as to what the film actually looks like. J. Edgar follows the mysterious life of the man who started and ran the Federal Bureau of Investigations. PHOTOS: Fall Movies 2011: Warner Bros. The film, which will debut at the AFI fest on November 3, also stars Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas and Ed Westwick. It is set for a November 9 release. Watch the trailer below (via CinemaBlend), or in HD on Apple, where the trailer premiered. Clint Eastwood Dustin Lance Black Leonardo DiCaprio J. Edgar

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ABC Family Cancels Nine Lives, Builds up 12 More Cases Of Lounging Game

Up-to-date: I hear that ABC Family has canceled newcomer drama The Nine Lives of Chloe King after one season, while giving back 12 order to another newcomer, The Lounging Game. Both be a consequence of Alloy books and possess been softy inside the ratings. Nine Lives opened up up reduced June with 2.2 million audiences. The Lounging Game launched lately with 1.4 million audiences. ABC Family’s breakout summer season hit, Switched at Birth, remains restored for just about any second season.

South Korean Romance Film Inspires Real-Life Break-Up Agency

If your romantic relationship is doomed to failure but you simply cannot summon the courage to end it, then boy, does China have the service for you! For the equivalent of anywhere between $15 and $30 USD, Chinese residents can hire a break-up agency to end their relationship. Is it cowardly? Yes! Painless? Yes! (Well, for you.) Inspired by a romance film? Yes again! After seeing the Korean film Sad Movie, Tu Weiming, a 25-year-old man from Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, started up a break-up service to help smooth strangers’ heartbreaks. Offered via the e-commerce website Taobao, Weiming and his agents charge clients on a case-by-case basis depending on the time, travel and consolation gifts involved. Agents deliver news of break-up through phone call, e-mail or instant message, proving that there is indeed something worse than being dumped via IM: Being dumped by a third party via IM. Several competing break-up agencies have popped up in China and while their break-up services vary slightly by company, they all reject cases that involve libel, criminal behavior, a partner under the age of 18, a partner in an ambiguous relationship or a partner that is mentally unstable. (You’re going to have to handle that one yourself.) A break-up agent who spoke with WantChinaTimes.com added that agencies “usually” reject cases of married couples. So that’s great news for the institution of marriage, or human evolution or something. Sad Movie, the 2005 South Korean ensemble film that inspired this break-up industry, follows one character who takes a job helping other couples break up. Ironically, he finds employment to woo back his ex-girlfriend, who dumped him because of his career instability. Check out an excerpt below. Break-up agencies are not just limited to China though. According to the BBC News, there is a German businessman who informs unsuspecting spouses and partners that their significant others want to end their relationships. The 52-year-old goes by the nickname “The Terminator” and charges slightly more money to deliver the news in person. · Not In Love Anymore? Hire Break-Up Agents to do the Dirty Work of Breaking Up [Neatorama]

Watercooler: Charm-Free Agents

Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn Eesh. Am i made to like these people? Last evening, NBC did itself no favors by premiering Free Agents soon after its much-more enjoyable effort, Up With The Evening. Discuss suffering in contrast. Whereas the Applegate-Arnett comedy has charm, potential and Maya Rudolph, this Hank Azaria factor had... Hank Azaria's chest. Seriously, people jarringly hairless guy-mounds should have be a mention inside the credits involving the opening mattress room scene which way-too clingy t-shirt he was sporting soon after. Oh, Agents also had the fabulous Kathryn Hahn, who is able to do greater than just hamming up just like a widow susceptible to sleeping with Azaria's desperate divorcee otherwise guzzling wine and making by helping cover their portraits of her dead fiancé. With various British fave, the u . s . states adaptation - about spin doctors inside a PR firm staffed by grotesquely annoying stereotypes like the prerequisite lothario together with a bitchy secretary who may really inspire self-harming among audiences - wants us to find out Azaria's neurotic as with a way appealing. Nevertheless the writing just reduces him with a metrosexual Woodsy Allen with no backbone in addition to less game (crying after sex?!), which sucks, because Azaria generally is a wholly likeable artist. Range from the wasted talents of Hahn and Anthony Stewart Mind, here reprising his Uk role since the oddly lascivious boss, and honestly, we're thinking they need to all fire their Agents. Perhaps you have watch Free Agents? And more importantly, are you able to again? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

'All My Children's' Alicia Minshew Is Ready to Move On (Exclusive)

ABC Alicia Minshew has played one of the most popular characters on ABC's All My Children since 2002. As Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) daughter, Kendall Hart, fans have gone from hating her devious ways to loving the woman she has become. With the broadcast end of the daytime soap approaching next Friday, Minshew reveals to The Hollywood Reporter exclusively that she wouldn't return fulltime to Prospect Park's online continuation of the series. STORY: Susan Lucci Criticizes ABC Daytime Chief in New Epilogue "I know they are starting to approach people now," Minshew tells us. "If they were to come to me and ask me to do it [and] if I could work it out where I could maybe be recurring, I could pop in every now and then, I could work with these people that I love and still be a part of this. I would be open to that." Otherwise, the actress tells us that she's ready to do something fresh. "Something funny. Something light," she says. "I'd love to do a sitcom," she adds. "You know, but I don't really get a chance to do stuff like that when I'm on a soap, because it's a daytime drama, so everything is very dramatic. So, I'm really open to kind of whatever the universe is going to lay my way, whatever it is... but I'm leaning towards doing something funny in life, because I enjoy that and because I know I can do it. I'm craving something that's completely the opposite of what I've been doing." Meanwhile, her TV mom and close friend, Lucci, has been making recent headlines resulting from rewrites to her memoir that reveal she isn't happy at all with ABC brass for canceling the show. She writes among other critiques that the head of the network's daytime unit, Brian Frons, has "that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance." Minshew says even she's surprised by her cast mate's fury. STORY: 'Desperate Housewives' EP Bob Daily Addresses Susan Lucci Casting Rumors "I knew that she did not like it, but I did not know the level at which she was... I mean, she was really pissed," she tells us. " But, you know what? Good for her. I mean, for God's sakes the woman has been on that show for so long. It has been her life. And she should feel free to say however she feels." On the other hand, Minshew says she understands the business reasons for canceling the show. "If talk shows and reality TV is cheaper to produce," she says. "And you have to do it to save money, then you've got to do it. It is kind of changing with the times." And as for the big question of whether Lucci will be returning for the online incarnation of the series? "As far as I heard, Susan said no," Minshew tells us. Minshew is represented by Newman-Thomas Management. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter: @TheRealJethro RELATED: 'All My Children' Actress Mary Fickett Dies Carol Burnett Bids Farewell to 'All My Children' More 'All My Children' Coverage on THR ABC Susan Lucci All My Children

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Emmys Poll: Who's Your Pick to Win Drama Supporting Actor?

Peter Dinklage With reigning champ Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) out of contention this year, the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Emmy is up for grabs.Emmys poll: Who's your pick to win drama supporting actress?The six who are in the running this year include two Good Wife men - Josh Charles and Alan Cumming - Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Walton Goggins (Justified), four-time nominee John Slattery (Mad Men) and Andre Braugher of the defunct Men of a Certain Age.Who's your pick to win? Vote below. Who do you think should win the Emmy for Oustanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series? Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age Alan Cumming, The Good Wife Josh Charles, The Good Wife Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Walton Goggins, Justified John Slattery, Mad Men vote view results