I usually stay away from writing about the Z list stars of MTV reality shows because they are collectively annoying as hell but this is too funny to pass up.   MTV’s The Hills premieres its new season tonight @ 10 p.m. and “star” Kristen Cavallari (yeah I didn’t know who she was until a few weeks ago either) was enlisted  to drum up some press  for tonight’s premiere. How else to do that in Hollywood but by name dropping and name drop she did.

Back Story: National Enquirer writer turned gossip blogger Janet Charlton made up a rumor via Page Six that Cavallari and singer/songwriter John Mayer were having as secret love affair for the past 2 years. Mayer was quick to hilariously deny such rumors on twitter as well did Cavallari who said it wasn’t true and that she only met him one time for five minutes.

Flash forward: This morning Cavallari, in a change of story, told Ryan Seacrest that she turned him down in that five minute meeting because she “didn’t want to be another notch on his belt”. And as you know it that quote was picked up by Us Weekly, People and every other popular gossip outlet as hoped.

She knows damn well John Mayer did not ask her out. This obvious publicity stunt shows not only the stupidity of Cavallari but also how someone would sell their soul all in the name of fame.  Mayer semi addressed Cavalliri’s comment on twitter today and I give him props for keeping his cool.

He get’s a bad wrap on the female front; the media as they always do with celebrities found something negative to grab onto with Mayer. You know Cavallari woke up this morning and thought this would be the funniest thing to say because some how it’s come to the point that meeting John Mayer automatically means he hit on you. Move aside Spencer and Heidi there’s a new mediawhore in town!

Mayer has been making the gossip rounds lately anyway with rumors he was seeing ex Jessica Simpson although both have denied the claims repeatedly while the UK tabloids along with a few Us ones are saying he and recent ex Jennifer Aniston are on the DL again. This rumor has been around for about a month but neither Mayer or Aniston will comment. Regardless of his bedroom action, his new single “Who Says” hits radio waves this week while  his new album “BattleStudies” is out November 17th.

Academy Awards

Because the winter Olympics will be held in February the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences decided to move the ceremony from February to early March, so no competition for viewers attention with the Olympians. This of course changes when the nominees announcing from January to Feb. 2, 2010. Announced today is the Academy has up the limit of Best Picture nominees from 5 to 10 films.

The board’s decision to double the category to 10 nominees “may make it more interesting and less cloistered,” said Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences prexy Sid Ganis at a press conference Wednesday morning.

Ganis speculated that the longer list could include a documentary, foreign-lingo film, animated feature and, he deadpanned, “maybe even a comedy.”

The expansion to 10 slots increases the chances of films in those three categories, which have long been eligible for best-pic bids but may have missed out because they have their own categories, as some Oscar voters have said in the past. And indie films gain, because there’s more room for “little” movies. Variety

Now before you groan at the show already being almost 4 hours, the fims that will make next year’s Best Picture Nominees more interesting.Who wouldn’t love to see Iron Man 2 up for best picture. Huh, Huh, anyone? Ok. So I dream big. let’s continue.

Emmys

Earlier this year the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that because of the NFL 2010 season both airing on CBS the show was moved  to Sept. 13th so it wouldn’t have to compromise with Sunday football. However, when CBS made the change it was unaware that the MTV Video Music Awards are set to air on Sept. 13th as well.  With MTV claiming it couldn’t budge on their date, CBS was force to move the Emmys to Sept. 20th.  The Creative Arts Emmys will be awarded on Sept. 12th but instead of them ariring on E! a week before the Emmys, it will be aired the night before which usual never happens. Oh the drama. This change moves TV’s biggest night back to where it was originally as the ceremony use to air in Sept. until everyone played Award Season Shuffle the ’05 edition.

Grammys

Lastly the Grammy Awards have moved their date from early February to  late January.  January 31st to be exact. Wait isn’t that Superbowl weekend? Why yes it is but next year the Superbowl will air on February 7th instead which caused the move. This will be the earliest the ceremony has ever taken place. It get’s better. With the date moved up the window for eligible music for the 2010 Grammys has changed from Oct.-Sept. to Oct.-Aug. So if a artist wants his/her music up for some Grammys next year, they need to quicken up the release of their work. Releases in Sept. will be shuffled into the 2011 ceremony. Be prepared for alot of new music pumping in your ears before the summers out.

VMAS

MTV’s more anticpated ceremony use to air for years in late August or earlier Sept. No real reason why it’s airing so late this year, but let’s just blame them for all the problems involving the Emmys. You know CBS excs. are still pissed over this. The VMAS hasn’t aired this late on MTV since it’s first show back in the 80s. It will be taking place at Radio City Music Hall. Yeah I know, MTV is running out of host cities. I think with TRL gone they have just gotten lazy. How about D.C. as a host city, what a change of venue that would be!

Golden Globes

No real change, this award ceremony will air January 17, 2010 on NBC as schedule.

Did you keep up? It was as exhausting typing this up as it was reading it. Thanks for playing  Award Season shuffle ’10 edition. Hopefully we won’t have to play this for a few more years. Fingers Crossed.

As always updated air dates of  award ceremonies each year are available on the ’09 Awards page at the top.

Night at the Museum:Battle of the Smithsonian is in theaters May 22nd.

For the locals, Night and the Museum:Battle of the Smithosian will have it’s world premiere right here in Washington D.C. next Thursday May14th at the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. Cool! Not everyday big movie premieres come to D.C.

The role of those middleman — aka celebrity publicists — is shifting from primarily setting up media interviews and photo shoots, to schooling their clients about how to make the most of their 140-character postings called tweets.Though some celebrities have others twitter for them, Nate Schreiber, president of publicity firm PMK/HBH whose clients include Miley, Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson, said tweeting several times a day and in an authentic manner is most effective. Last month, Kutcher grabbed headlines when he beat CNN in a race to garner 1 million Twitter followers.(Source)

It’s true that some celebrities on twitter aren’t really the celebrities themselves and some accounts are regular people posing as celebrities or even hackers.

I think Hollywood as hit it’s internet peak. While it’s cool to find your favorites and see what’s going through their heads, I sometimes feel that twitter also feeds into their egos. Who wouldn’t feel good about themselves when they have hundreds of thousands of people “following” and hanging on to their every tweet. But twitter can be a benefit because celebrities can get the word out about things that mean the most to them like Ashton Kutcher did with Malaria No More.

Go here to find  favorite celebrity on twitter or even me.

This week “Pizza girl” is still talking but she’s now switched to taped interviews. Someone please give her manager a raise! Not only does she talk about how she met Jennifer Aniston last year, she goes on and on and on and on about John Mayer but not without mentioning AGAIN her stint on JONAS and how all of this is just so hard on her and her family. Maybe if she shut up it wouldn’t be.

Publicity Stunts for Dummies Chapter 2 clearly states that one must use Google to find out the background on the celebrity whose name you want to use to prevent possible embarrassment and exposure.  If Jancan had read that she would have know that Mayer has never appeared on SNL in a mankini or short shorts, that was Mayercraft I&II. She even went as far as talking about how much Jennifer Aniston liked her eyes and how she possibly flirted with Mayer while Aniston was in the room. Score! This is now on the level of these two idiots using Swine Flu as a photo op. No wonder Mayer seemed thrilled on Twitter earlier this week.

Seriously Jancan. I’m happy that JONAS is probably the biggest acting job you’ve landed, but don’t you know that Mayer or Aniston could end you’re little career before it even starts?  I sincerely hope she gets the break she wants so from now on instead of embarrassing herself by using others hard earn fame, she will be able to use her own merit.  She also needs to take a step back and reevaluate the meaning of friendship. You don’t sell out your friends!

Jancan is clinging on to these 15 minutes like her career depending on… Oh wait… Just don’t go all Sam Lufti on him!

Upcoming actress and waitress Scheana Marie Jancan, who I assume got tired of waiting tables and waiting on that right script that would catapult her into stardom, decided one day to drop some more notable names to get hers out there. Last Wednesday Star Magazine announced that musician John Mayer has a new girlfriend moving on from actress Jennifer Aniston.  In the three days of admitting dropping this story to Star Magazine, Jancan couldn’t help but talk to whoever would listen.

If you were to be one of the fortunates to pick up Star Magazine last week you would have read that not only did Jancan admit to spending time at Mayer’s recording studio home you would have also learned she dropped  more famous Aniston’s name saying all of Mayer’s new songs set to appear on his new album out later this year are about Aniston. Juicy.

Interestingly enough Jancan was not only telling tabloids juicy details she was also dropping them on her twitter. While this was happening suddenly everyone comes to find out that Jancan has a stint on the new Disney show JONAS that premieres this Saturday on the network. Blogs also conveniently acquired pictures and video of her on the show. Coincidence? Of course not. Someone got paid overtime for this publicly stunt. Now everyone knows her name. Expect to see her in more stints soon.

Saturday Mayer decided to have a early work out in Santa Monica picking up some paparazzi on the way where he later told them that he didn’t have a girlfriend. Burn.

I did witness for myself how suddenly the JONAS preview that had been airing for a few weeks on Disney Channel has now changed to feature Jancan as the “Pizza girl”.  Also Buzz Tv today uncovered that a script to the “Pizza girl” episode is available for download if you can find it as it is hidden on the JONAS show official site. Obviously not that hard to find since Buzz Tv found it.

Was this clever pr from Disney or did they just see a open opportunity for free publicity? Even though Jancan’s stint doesn’t air until May 16th, she got what she wanted and Disney got free publicity out of it. Jancan even went as far as deleting previous tweets about what she told tabloids after all was said and done. Unfortunately while Mayer had to play the Hollywood game and deny it all to paparazzi, this had to be a valuable lesson to him; just because you have a mantel full of Grammys doesn’t mean you can’t get played by up and coming actresses. He’ll live through it but Jancan better watch out, she might actual be the one to end up on his new album.

So where is all the visual aid for this? Not to fear follow the link to see what she worked hard on promoting the past few days and check out some of her now deleted tweets. It’s fun to see how the story from admitting she went to Star to denying she did, to deleting the tweets altogether. Also how on the undeleted tweets she is just so exhausted from having to answer to the press. She’s already knows how to act as if she is famous. She even tried to follow Jennifer Aniston on Twitter.  Doesn’t get more Hollywood than that!

Deleted Tweets on Twitter (thanks to clever fans who made sure to save them.)

scheanamarie: Wow… Star Mag, this is craziness.. At least quote me accurately!
2:30 PM April 24th from TwitterBerry

Three days later.

scheanamarie: again, i didn’t say any of the Star “quotes” no idea where this stuff came from.. kinda comedic if you ask me… another long day,bedtime!! 10:46 PM April 27th from web

scheanamarie: People=accurate…Star = BS… goodnight everyone!!! =) 10:50 PM April 27th from web

Following (a fake) Ms. Aniston on Twitter until she changed her mind sometime later.

And lastly a preview of her stint on Disney’s new show JONAS.

How long until her 15 minutes are up?