After tragically losing two young Hollywood stars in one week, a handful of teen role models are stepping up to encourage young adults to steer clear of drinking, drugs and a partying lifestyle.

Hannah Montana’s Miley Cyrus, Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively and others want to inspire teens to be in charge of their lives and enjoy it to the fullest without living dangerously.

Amanda Bynes, 21, says, “I don’t like to drink. I have definitely stayed out of the party scene. I’ve been offered to go to those parties, but I feel like I would be the one who would die if I did something.”

Of reckless hard partying starlets she says, “I don’t know how they think they’re gonna live forever.”

Ashley Tisdale, 22, says has been inspired by her mother. “I don’t drink, and I don’t smoke. It’s a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom. I don’t understand how people do it —I work non-stop! Then when I’m done working, I’m just so tired I just want to be home.”

Young county singer Taylor Swift, 18, says she just isn’t into the club scene. “Clubs are just not where I want to be photographed.”

She goes on to say that every young star should remember that they are role models. “For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night.

I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI. Those are my moral values. I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.”

Miley Cyrus, 15, Hollywood’s hottest teen star reminds girls to believe in themselves. “The most important thing is really staying true to yourself. That’s what my mom taught me. She’s the most beautiful girl, not only on the outside but on the inside. She’s teaching me how to be a good person.”

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Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee - Rolling Stone, May 10, 2001

Source: RollingStone.com

(People and OK! had double issues last week/no new issue this week)

Robin Williams - Rolling Stone magazine, August 1979

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Christina Aguilera, Rolling Stone magazine, July 6, 2000

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Hilary Swank is on the cover of W’s January issue. The January issue hits stands nationwide on December 25th.

ON BEING IN LOVE WITH HER BOYFRIEND, FORMER AGENT JOHN CAMPISI…

“Of course I’m in love. Or I wouldn’t be in this relationship for as long as I’ve been. He’s a great guy.”

ON THE 45 SUPPLEMENTS SHE TAKES EVERYDAY IN ADDITION TO HER VITAMIN INJECTIONS…

“This is my Aloe C, which I dissolve in water. Here’s my flax. This one’s for my immune system, and this one is my BrainWave—it’s great, like if I have a lot of lines to memorize. I just took my most important ones, which are my Oz Garcia Longevity Pak. I shoved them in my mouth right before I met you, which I actually shouldn’t do, because I choked on my vitamins once before.”

ON JEFF ROBINOV’S, THE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCTION AT WARNER BROS., ALLEGED CLAIM THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER BE DOING MOVIES WITH FEMALE LEADS DUE TO RECENT BOX OFFICE DUDS…

“Who knows if Jeff really said that or not. I think that’s still up for debate. He says he didn’t say it, and I know that people attribute things to me that I didn’t say. But speaking in general, I think it’s really naive to say, ‘Oh, a woman’s vehicle is not successful,’ because men’s movies have failed at the box office too. Look, I don’t want to name names, but there’s been lots of movies starring men—with big names!—that didn’t do well.”

ON WHY SHE LEFT NEW YORK CITY…

“I looked and looked and looked for a place in New York. I just didn’t find anything. Prices have just skyrocketed!”

ON HER METABOLISM…

“I have a really high metabolism. Exercise is also really important to me. I think it gives me more energy. I would rather sleep six hours and get an hour workout than sleep seven hours.”

ON HER CRAZY SCHEDULE…

“In the past four and a half weeks, I’ve been to London, Texas, Chicago, China, New York, L.A. and New York again. You know, it’s tiring, but I can’t complain, because I’m getting to do what I love.”

W / Photo Credit: Steven Klein
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After three Oscars and a decades-long career defined by amazing roles, Jack Nicholson has proven himself to be one of the greatest actors working in film today. Parade magazine spent nearly seven hours with Nicholson in Los Angeles, his home for 54 years.

(Fun Fact: Nicholson was styled by Victoria Beckham for this photo shoot. He was introduced to Beckham by a mutual stylist friend.)

His Working-Class Childhood

“[New] Jersey’s the most parochial place in the world, but the Shore, from Red Bank to Point Pleasant, was a very great place for a kid to grow up. It’s a country club kind of mixed area with every kind of person there. All the way from the beach to Main Street, you could read the dollar sign on the houses. As little kids, we didn’t deal with class boundaries. We were all over one another.”

Hanging Out at New Jersey’s Monmouth Park Race Track…and Handicapping Horses

“Even that I felt was an advantage. I was a good handicapper. That’s where I got my spending money. The first car I bought was with racetrack money. Even when I worked at MGM, I ran football cards for the bookie there. In the entire season we paid off just two tickets. That’s how hard it is to pick three winners against a spread.”

His Catholic Family

“I’ve a very Catholic Irish grandmother, one of the Lynches. She is the root of the family, although my immediate family were failed Irish Catholics. So I had to haltingly investigate Catholicism by myself because nobody asked me to go to church. I was the oldest kid in my First Communion classes. In my opinion, if you’re going to be theocratic, Catholicism is the most intelligent belief system.”

“My family were tough-minded people who didn’t go much for what they called the ’shanty Irish’ or professional Irish. But they were Irish, and it manifested itself from an early age. I could always express my opinion, like everybody else, and things got talked about. I wasn’t inhibited by anything.”

The Passing of His Relatives

“My mother was the first to die, and then my grandmother. We were kind of on the outs because she thought I’d wasted enough time trying to make it in show business. I didn’t take well to the criticism. Then she got sick with cancer, and of course I took care of her.”

“The last time I saw her we talked quite a bit about life and death. You’ve got those bright, terminal eyes staring at you and asking you a lot of questions. I know everything about charity and hospitals because none of us had any money.”

Moving to Los Angeles

“In California, I didn’t know anybody except June [his birth mother], who was living here in Hollywood Park. She taught herself to type and worked her way up. I liked the idea of California. Anyway, I didn’t feel I was ready to go to college and work at night. I thought I’d stay here a semester and then go home to college. Frankly, when the time came to go back East, I didn’t have the money.”

“I always knew there wasn’t going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I’d have to do on my own. It makes you rather desperate when you’re 16 and you don’t know what you want to do with your life, but you know you have to do something.”

Read the rest of the interview after the cut!

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