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Pitbull Releases “Get It Started” Video Featuring Shakira

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Mr, Worldwide or Mr. 007?

Pitbull has released the music video for his latest single “Get It Started,” his hip-shaking collaboration with Shakira.

Pitbull's Get It Started Video

The James Bond-inspired clip starts off with shots of the 31-year-old Cuban American rapper sitting on a sofa, but  switch to him getting his spy on during a mission to save a sexy brunette her from a baddie.

In addition, the high-octane video features some action-packed scenes as Pitbull gets involved in a dangerous car chase to save his girl.

Shakira in Pitbull's Get It Started Video

Shakira, who doesn’t share any scenes with Pitbull, is featured throughout the clip. The 35-year-old Colombian singer looks flawless in a sequined gold dress while singing alone on a balcony.

The video culminates with scenes from a Pitbull concert, which is packed the ladies. Fireworks burst in the night sky as the concertgoers dance along.

The video was directed by David Russo, who helmed some of Pitbull’s other videos, including “Give Me Everything“, “Back in Time” and “International Love.”

“Get It Started” is the lead single of Pitbull’s seventh studio album “Global Warming,” which will be released in the United States on September 28.

Thalia to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame…

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Following in Shakira‘s footsteps… Thalia will be the next Latina singer to be making a permanent mark in Hollywood in the near future…

The 40-year-old Mexican singer/actress is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sometime next year for her career as a recording artist.

Thalia

During her 30-year career—as a member of the Mexican child group Din Din, a member of the Mexican band Timbiriche and as a solo artist—Thalia has sung in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Tagalog. And, she’s sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.

Along with Thalia, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced 23 other honorees who will be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, including Javier Bardem.

The 43-year-old Spanish actor, who won an Oscar for his role in No Country for Old Men, is being recognized for his work in motion pictures. Bardem, who is set to appear in the next James Bond film, one of only four actors and actresses selected to receive a star this go-round.

No word yet on when Thalia and Bardem will receive their stars.

Here’s a look at the complete list of 2013 Walk of Fame star recipients below.

Motion Pictures:
Rick Baker
Javier Bardem
Viola Davis
James Franco
Ron Howard
Helen Mirren

Television:
Simon Baker
Bryan Cranston
Ellen DeGeneres
Jane Lynch
Katey Sagal
Matthew Perry

Recording:
The Backstreet Boys
Jennifer Hudson
Jane’s Addiction
Janis Joplin (Posthumous)
New Kids On The Block
Usher Raymond IV
Thalia
Luther Vandross (Posthumous)

Live Theatre/Performance:
Olympia Dukakis
Penn & Teller

Radio:
Steve Harvey
“Shotgun Tom” Kelly

Bardem to Appear in Spanish-Film “Alacran enamorado”

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He received a Best Actor Oscar nod for his role in 2010’s Biutiful— the first entirely Spanish language performance to be nominated for that award… And, now Javier Bardem plans to return to Spanish cinema.

The 43-year-old Spanish actor will play a neo-Nazi ideologue in Alacran enamorado (Scorpion in Love), a film based on a novel by his brother Carlos.

Javier Bardem

Spanish director Santiago Zannou says Bardem, who won a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in No Country for Old Men, will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film.

“In my film (the character) is more realistic, not a wicked villain who wants to destroy the world, but an ordinary person. Those are the ones who truly frighten me, for having a type of ideology that separates people, that engenders violence,” Zannou told Efe.

Alacran enamorado tells the story of Alyssa, a seductive Latin American immigrant who had fallen victim to a prostitution ring and now makes a living cleaning houses, and Julian, alias “El alacran” (The Scorpion), a member of a neo-Nazi group.

Alex Gonzalez and Judith Diakhate have the starring roles, while Carlos Bardem plays a boxing trainer and former boxer Rudo Hovic plays the owner of the gym.

This will mark the first time Bardem has worked with a Spanish director since he won a Goya award for his performance in Alejandro Amenabar’s Mar adentro (The Sea Inside).

Bardem’s Going Blond in New James Bond Film

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Move over Madonna… Javier Bardem is having his own “blond ambition” moment.

The 43-year-old Spanish actor will sport a police uniform and blond wig for his villainous role in the next James Bond movie, according to set photos taken during the film’s shooting in London.

Javier Bardem on Skyfall Set

Despite the shroud of secrecy surrounding the next 007 saga, some details have emerged about Skyfall, which features Daniel Craig’s return as Bond.

In the published photos, Bardem—who plays a bad guy named Silva—is dressed as a British cop and wears a blond wig reminiscent in style to the one in the No Country for Old Men, a part that won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

The leading characters of “Skyfall” are in London, where several scenes have been shot in Whitehall, the site of most government offices, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.

During a press conference for the film last November, Bardem said that Bond movies bring “good memories” of his youth in Spain and that he was sure the experience was going to be “a lot of fun.”