“I love it here (in L.A.), but almost everybody does cocaine. I’ve never even seen cocaine. I can’t even use nasal spray.”

-The Hills star Lauren Conrad saying she’s one of the few in Hollywood who doesn’t do coke

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Shakira shaking her money maker

A lot of celebrities have the means to give to those less fortunate but not many put their money where their mouth is.

You certainly cannot accuse Shakira of being one of them. Not when she’s donating $45 million to those in need.

While at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, Shakira announced that she would be donating $40 million to help areas in Latin America such as Peru and Nicaragua who are dealing with natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes.

The other $5 million will be for poor children’s educational projects and schooling in Latin American countries.

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Eddie Vedder of the 90’s angsty grunge band Pearl Jam says he hasn’t mellowed in recent years. In fact he says he has gotten angrier than ever. Part of the reason, Vedder says, is that he wants the world to be a better place for his three-year old daughter, Olivia.

“When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it,” Vedder told reporters at Tuesday’s Into the Wild press conference in West Hollywood. “I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t.

It was a different reaction. It wasn’t the glowy lovey-dovey. It fueled my anger.

I realized that I was getting more angry – the exact opposite – and maybe it was because of the times, three years ago and what’s still happening. … All of a sudden, I saw the world as her world that they were [messing] with. That really pissed me off.

I don’t know what I’m going to say when she sees pictures of me hanging 30 feet off a rafter, over a crowd. At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I’m glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.”

Vedder wants to avoid the mistakes his parents made while raising him.

“I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. I know that she’s going to go through a time where she has to assert her independence. I’m going to have to just encourage that.

I think she’s going to have a great upbringing. Already, she’s provided a life of travel. I didn’t get to New York until 25 or Europe until I was 26. She’s been to all these places six or seven times. She’s beyond me in terms of her comfortability around other people, to this day.”

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Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ Video

Did Christina Aguilera look gorgeous or what? And not only did she look fabulous, that girl sang beautifully. It’s pretty hysterical to think that she and Britney Spears were once competition. In fact, for quite awhile Britney was the more celebrated one.

Luckily true talent prevailed.

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