Crystal Bowersox Is Engaged

'American Idol' runner-up will marry 

boyfriend Brian Walker,

Season-nine "American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox is heading down the aisle. The singer's rep confirmed to People that she's set to swap vows with her musician beau Brian Walker in October.

The impending nuptials come just months after Bowersox broke up with her longtime boyfriend Tony Kusian in the hours before her final "American Idol" performance. The singer explained that her bourgeoning fame wedged the couple apart. Both agreed that Kusian, who helped raise her toddler son, would prefer a low-key lifestyle.

"He's a small-town guy and that's fine," she told "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio program. "I'm a small-town girl, but I want this. I want this more than anything — this career, this lifestyle. I didn't think he was up for it. He didn't think he was up for it."

In addition to her upcoming wedding, Bowersox has been working on her major-label debut on 19 Recordings Limited and Jive. The earthy singer inked a contract within a day of the season-nine "Idol" finale but she has recently voiced her issues with her mainstream deal.

"Just frustrated with the politics of the industry. Not just jive just dissapointing how the industry has changed," Bowersox tweeted on Thursday. "Every1s hands are tied."

However, she didn't appear to let the music industry politics get her down, later adding, "regardless, im having the time of my life," before revealing she was recording "Farmer's Daughter."

"Thanks for all of the support, guys," Bowersox wrote to her Twitter followers. "I have more freedom than most signed artists, so imma stop complaining. I love what I do. I am blessed."

(source:mtv.com)

The Hurt Locker: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated film

1. ‘Hurt Locker’ is American military slang for being hurt by an explosion – you get “sent to the hurt locker”.


2. Mark Boal, nominated for Best Screenplay, developed the story after spending two weeks embedded with a bomb disposal squad in Baghdad. His experiences were then fictionalised for The Hurt Locker. He said: “It was difficult to quantify the threat when you don’t speak the language and the enemy is not wearing a uniform or engaging in traditional warfare but using hit-and-run ambush tactics. I tried to capture all this in The Hurt Locker.”


3. Boal has written for Playboy.


4. The film's opening quote, "The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug", comes from New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges’ 2002 book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning.


5. Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar - and none of the previous female nominees went on to claim the award.

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6. Bigelow, whose previous films include Point Break, is up against ex-husband James Cameron in the Best Director category. The pair were married from 1989-1991. Cameron is nominated for box office smash Avatar.


7. The Hurt Locker is an independent film made on a relatively low-budget of $11million. It is one of the lowest-grossing films to be nominated for Best Picture - it has made less than $17 million at the box office so far, compared to Avatar’s record-breaking $2 billion.


8. Best Actor nominee Jeremy Renner has previously appeared in 28 Weeks Later, where he played Sergeant Doyle, and as Jesse James’s cousin Wood Hite in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.


9. Co-star Anthony Mackie plays rapper Tupac Shakur in Notorious.


10. The film may be Oscar-nominated but it is not free of timeline errors. Set in 2004, soldiers play on an Xbox 360 which wasn’t released until 2005, YouTube gets a mention even though it did not launch until 2005 and 2008 game Gears of War is seen being played

Source:mirror.co.uk/

'Precious' Director Lee Daniels Describes His 'Crazy' Oscar Nomination Morning

FROM MTV.COM: Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" has already received a slew of awards love, from film festivals and the Golden Globes to the Screen Actors Guild and the Independent Spirits. Its string of praise stretches back over a year, to when the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.

But none of that acclaim makes the morning of Oscar nominations any easier, as Daniels told MTV News just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its 2010 selections.

Source:moviesblog.mtv.com/