Orlando Bloom gives a funny interview in the Details May 2007 issue, hitting newsstands tomorrow, April 17.

He touches on his faith in Buddhism saying, “The philosophy that I’ve embraced isn’t about sitting under a tree and studying my navel, it’s about studying what is going on in my daily life and using that as fuel to go and live a bigger life. When your girlfriend dumps you, when the bill comes through the door, and your mom calls you and tells you she can’t handle the stuff in her life—that’s hell, but that’s just one world. If you are aware of what is going on, then you can grow and use that hunger, that fear.”

Orlando, 30, currently describes himself as “mildly dyslexic” and describes the rough time he had with the condition growing up. “School was a challenge, put it that way,” he said.

More great quotes from Orlando Bloom’s Details interview inside…

On discovering that his dad was not his biological father: “Think about that. Think about finding out when you’re 13 that your dad is not your dad. It’s like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.” (His dad was anti-apartheid lawyer and activist Harry Bloom. His actual father was a friend of the family named Colin Stone.)

On his filming two trilogies back-to-back: “I’ve been white-knuckling it for so long. Between the first Lord of the Rings and this [Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End], I’ve been going nonstop. I would come off one movie and straightaway start the next picture. I wasn’t even really thinking about it, I was letting the machinery sort of run me. So now, on a personal level, I just want some time and space from everything, from all that; from the environment and the phone and the communication.”

On turning 30 in January and for the first time in a decade having nothing to do: “Look, it all felt important, too important, but now I’m in a position to—look, I’m trying not to take myself so seriously, and in not taking myself so seriously, I think I’ll be more serious.”

On learning at 13 that his dad was not his biological father: “Think about that. Think about finding out when you’re 13 that your dad is not your dad. It’s like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.”

On being told by doctors at 21 that he might never walk again: “For four days I was thinking this was it, that I would be living my life in a wheelchair, and then I thought, no, and I knew I would walk. I just knew.”

On being famous: “There’s all this noise that happens. I was 22 when I got The Lord of the Rings. Nobody tells you what it is like to be famous—there’s no guidebook, you know what I mean?”

On the Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven: “When you’re [almost] 27 years old and Fox greenlights a movie with a budget of $150 million with you as the headliner, that’s a tribute. And then all the press afterward was like I hadn’t come through on something, sort of like I hadn’t delivered. But what did I not come through on?”

On his career: “I have the patience to trust my own journey. Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does. If I’m true to myself, then all the rest is like, f*** it, man.”

On being a Buddhist: “The philosophy that I’ve embraced isn’t about sitting under a tree and studying my navel, it’s about studying what is going on in my daily life and using that as fuel to go and live a bigger life. When your girlfriend dumps you, when the bill comes through the door, and your mom calls you and tells you she can’t handle the stuff in her life—that’s hell, but that’s just one world. If you are aware of what is going on, then you can grow and use that hunger, that fear.”

On spending three weeks aboard a Norwegian icebreaker bound for Antarctica: “I felt isolated and vulnerable and I just had all this time to think. I just had time to read and think and I figured out that this moment, now, is when I can use everything that I’ve done to my advantage, to choose a great project, to do something great and take a risk. I’m looking around and going, I cannot fucking believe how lucky I’ve been—Pirates has afforded me the luxury of choice, and with those choices comes responsibility but also freedom. I can figure out exactly what I want to do.”

On the downside of being in Pirates of the Caribbean: “There really is no downside, I’ve got to tell you. It’s put me in a position where I can wait and see what happens and now figure out what I really want to do.”

Read the online excerpt of the Details article here.

Halle Berry looks frakkin’ gorgeous in the April 2007 issue of InStyle!!

Here are some highlights from Halle’s interview with InStyle:

• On keeping a pair of Mickey Mouse blue jeans that she’s had since she was 15: “It’s my annual test — I try them on once a year, and if I can still fit into them, then all is good in the world!” (JJ Note: She still fits them. That is INSANE!)
• On having a positive outlook on life: “I’ve had to learn about optimism. At times I thought things were going to break me, but somehow, through those experiences, this optimistic person evolved. Now I know nothing will break me.”
• On gossiping: “While it might be a little quick fix, in the long run nothing good comes from talking about other people’s business.”
• On her first impressions of her current squeeze, male model Gabriel Aubry: “After my last relationship broke up I was feeling like, well, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to be in a relationship. it’s just that I thought it would be OK to be on my own. But he was disarmingly sweet and caring and different. In the past I’ve been attracted to (gesturing) big personalities. Gabriel was shy. He hardly talked to me at first. I had to work at this a little. It wasn’t a slam dunk; it wasn’t the guy just showering affection on me. It made it more interesting. We were equally matched — put it that way.”
• On Gabriel’s fashion sense: “He has certainly raised the bar. (laughs) He’s a fashionista. (looks at Gabriel’s watch that she’s wearing) It feels nice knowing it’s his. Now if he wears my stuff we’ve got a problem!”

Run out and buy those Gublo pumps. Those babies are hot.

“I’ve never done coke in my life, and I’m proud of that. Oh my God! I could never. I am 100 percent against drugs.”

Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne is Jane Magazine April 2007’s cover girl! She talks about spitting at paparazzi, getting into fights, and doing drugs. Check out all of her interview highlights after the jump…

Avril Lavigneon the cover of Jane hits newsstands nationwide on Tuesday, March 27.

ON WHETHER HER HUSBAND DERYCK WHIBLEY OF SUM41 DOES DRUGS: “He doesn’t do drugs. Clearly, he used to, because he talked about it, but I wouldn’t be with someone who did, and I made that very clear to him when we first started dating. I’ve never done coke in my life, and I’m proud of that. Oh my God! I could never. I am 100 percent against drugs.”

ON WHETHER SHE QUESTIONS HER HUSBAND’S FIDELITY WHILE ON THE ROAD: “No, we have a really good, strong relationship. There’s a lot of trust. I know how much I mean to him, and: I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to him.”

ON WHETHER SHE STILL GETS INTO FIGHTS: “Well, I don’t fight people anymore, I’m more mature now, and I just don’t think fighting is good. But I remember being in Toronto and walking into a CD store, and some guy with spiky hair was all, ‘Hey, Avril!’ and then started lippin’ at me. I was like, ‘Okay, this is embarrassing, I’m just going to leave.’ So I’m walking down the street, and the guy comes out of the store, still yelling. I turn around, f***in’ grab him and go, ‘What?’ And I f***in’ knee him in the balls, throw him down, and his f***in’ punk girlfriend comes over and goes, ‘What the f*** are you doing?’ And I go ‘What the f*** are you doin’?’ And it was like they totally didn’t expect me to do anything, because I’m just this girl on TV or whatever. I’m not proud of that. I think it’s funny, but I wouldn’t do it now. I’d just be like, ‘Okay, you’re a loser.’ Then I would leave.”

ON HER GLAMOROUS WEDDING: “I wanted to be like, ‘Oh, let’s totally have a rock ’n’ roll, goth wedding.’ But at the same time I was like, ‘I’ve been dreaming about my wedding day since I was a little girl. I have to wear the white dress.’ I wanted to be a princess, okay? People thought I would have done, like, some black wedding dress, and yeah, I would have. But at the same time I was thinking about our pictures, and I wanted—like, that’s why I have this ring—I wanted to be in style. It’s a classic. I didn’t want to be, like, 20 years later, ‘Oh, why did I wear my hair like that? It’s not cool now.’”

ON WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF HER: “I have a strong personality. And when someone has a strong personality, you either like it or you don’t. I’m a certain:style. And that’s okay with me.”

ON CO-WRITING KELLY CLARKSON’S HIT POP SONG “BREAKAWAY,” WHICH SHE REFUSES TO SING HERSELF: “I wrote ‘Breakaway’ when I was 15 or 16, and I didn’t like it. It kind of reminded me of a church song. But after my first record, someone said, ‘Kelly Clarkson wants to sing that song.’ I was like, ‘Okay.’ She has a beautiful voice and she’s a nice girl. She did a really good job with it.”

ON CHILDHOOD ROLE MODELS: “My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to!’ She was like, ‘You’re going to be a performer, you need to see other people!”

ON LIFE IN THE SPOTLIGHT: “Part of me is tough, like I’m really opinionated, outspoken, a bit of a tomboy—but I’m also a young lady, very girly, and I can be really quiet. It’s weird, because I’m famous, so every time I do something, people talk about it. But I don’t care. I’m going to live my life. I’m still me, I’m still a young chick who just wants to have a lot of fun.”

ON WINNING A RADIO CONTEST AT AGE 14 AND GETTING TO SING WITH SHANIA TWAIN: “They were like, ‘Submit a tape of you singing a Shania Twain song. I won and later sang onstage with her. It was at the Corel Centre in Ottawa. It’s, like, this massive venue, an arena, and then LIKE, THREE YEARS LATER I GET A RECORD DEAL AND I’M SINGING THERE, SOLD OUT! It was crazy, because I remember walking onstage and being like, ‘Holy f***, I want this so bad.’ Just seeing all those people. And now every time I do my tour there, I’m so grateful.”

ON WHETHER SHE WOULD EVER WEAR DRESSES WITHOUT UNDERWEAR: “Absolutely not!”

Lindsay Lohan leaves her hotel in New York City on Tuesday night looking fantastically fashionable.

Lovin’ this outfit from head to toe. The newsboy cap, the sunglasses, the hair, the corduroy blue jeans, the leather jacket, and even the shoes!

Lindsay, 20, also is the April 2007 cover girl for GQ Magazine, which she posed for in a revealing Louis Vuitton swimsuit.

Her interview with GQ was conducted while she was in the Wonderland rehab facility, where she shared her desire for a new boytoy!

Said Lindsay, “I need a boyfriend, geez, There are three different boys I like. Maybe five.”

The GQ ‘Love, Sex and Madness’ issue featuring Lindsay Lohan hits newsstands nationwide on March 27.

Patrick Dempsey, aka Dr. Derek ‘McDreamy’ Shepherd, tops TV’s 40 hottest stars who steam up the screen in TV Guide’s “Sexy Issue.”

Grey’s Anatomy co-star Ellen Pompeo on Patrick Dempsey:

“Derek Shepherd is the sweet, sensitive type. Whether or not he makes bad decisions, there’s a nobleness about him that’s very attractive. Patrick is more complex and interesting than Derek. He has those smiling Irish eyes and a bubbly, fun personality. Regarless on how everyone praises him or the attention he gets, he’s in on the joke and he knows that reality of the situation — that game and looks are fleeting. He and I chip in and get lobsters for the crew and we do those big lobsters bakes. He appreciates what he has — that Hollywood is a means to an end. It’s a way to get back to Maine with his family, which is ultimately where he wants to be. He knows what’s real in life, and that’s his family. He lives and breathes for those kids. He’s so excited about having twin boys. And Talula is daddy’s little girl. She can do no wrong in his eyes — until she’s 16 and stars dating!”

And boy does Woody Allen have it right…

71-year-old Woody describes Scarlett Johansson, 22, as “criminally sexy” in an e-mail sent to Vogue about his Match Point muse, reports USA Today.

“She is unlike anyone who has come before her, and while she is a much stronger actress in every way, there is a tiny bit of Marilyn Monroe in her zaftig humidity.”

Here are a few more highlights from Scarlett’s interview with Vogue:

• On singing praises about Woody: “I’d sew the hems of his pants if he asked me to.”
• On having “fun” with Justin Timberlake: “We had fun together, but it’s not like the first time I’ve ever hung out with him. I think this happens because we’re both single and in the spotlight, and obviously Justin’s a very high-profile person.”
• On her and Justin being an item: “Not true.”
• On her break-up with Josh Hartnett: “I’d rather not comment on my personal life in that way.”

Scarlett Johansson’s April 2007 issue of Vogue hits newsstands today.

Justin Timberlake is the cover boy for the April 2007 issue of Details Magazine. Here are some of the highlights from Justin’s interview with Details:

• On the tabloids: “I despise what they do. They create soap operas out of people’s lives. [Cameron and I] had our thing, and it’s over. They edit that stuff like MTV edits reality shows. It’s a spin game, and I choose not to take part in it.”
• On being considered the New King of Pop: “I tried so hard to be an R&B artist [with first solo album Justified] and it was the pop album of the year, and I was like, ‘F***. That’s the last thing I wanted but I was like, ‘So everyone considers me a pop artist? Well, fuck it. I’m going to do whatever I want to do.”

On surviving the boy-band apocalypse and becoming a man: “I could give you a bunch of analogies about why I’m still around that would sound like hippie self-help bullshit. ‘I saw an opportunity and I took it?’ Fuck you. Sure, there’s a lot of luck involved. But on some level I have to believe in my ability. And I’m not apologizing to anyone. I worked fucking hard to get here.”

• On being used by the Grammys for ratings: “I’m the nice guy who follows through on the things he commits to. But I don’t know if I’ll be going through that sort of thing again. I feel like the Grammys used me for ratings. And look at it-they were up 18 percent.”

This Justin Timberlake-centric issue hits newsstands in NY/LA today, March 20 and nationwide next Tuesday, March 27. Go get ‘em while they’re hot!

Thankfully, the inside pictures are better than the cover of Reese Witherspoon in Harper’s Bazaar April 2007. Here’s my an excerpt from the article and scans below courtesy of R-Witherspoon.

“I’m a very open person, but I don’t think there’s one sentence that can sum up an experience,” she continues “I think any life-changing experience sort of demands evaluation, really looking at yourself and your life. And it’s still a situation that’s not that far away.”

It’s a testament to the public’s sympathy for Reese that the tabloids have been (relatively) respectful. “I’ve had interesting experiences with the paparazzi recently when they’ve been apologetic about taking my picture,” she says. For now, though, she and her children will go to the grocery store only during weeks when Mommy and Daddy aren’t on the cover of the gossip rays.

Mandy Moore get a Paris-couture makeover in a photo spread for the April 2007 issue of Vanity Fair as shot by photographer (and V.F. fashion and style director) Michael Robert. There’s a behind-the-scenes video of this photo shoot you can check out all courtesy of MandyEffect.

MOORE THE MERRIER :: (1) In the Pomadour ballroom of Paris’s Le Meurice hotel, Mandy Moore reclines upon a golden Louis XV sofa, while French actors Paul Perier, Cyril Mourali, Axel Kiener, and Simon Erlhacher observe. Moore is wearing an ivory guipure-and-silf-chiffon Gaultier Paris gown, encircled with a pastel flower garland, and Manolo Blahnik for Gaultier Paris shoes: “As long as it looks O.K. lying down, then that’s what matters,” she says. (2) Repeat (3) In the Exclusive Suite of the Hotel Ritz, Moore, in a Versace Haute Couture tulle ball gown embroidered with crystal teardrop beads, observes, “I am not in Kansas anymore!” (4) Cyril Mourali and Axel Kiener admire Mandy Moore in an embroidered Valentine Haute Couture evening gown with a floor-length organza cape at the Pompadour ballroom.

Mandy, 22, also released a video preview of her album “Wild Hope.” Watch that exclusive sneak peek below!

A new inside photo of Reese Witherspoon from Harper’s Bazaar April 2007 issue has been released!

In this “Look Great At Every Age” issue, Reese describes her past fashion blunders and also reveals she celebrated her 30th birthday with friends last spring “playing Boggle and eating fried chicken.”

If you’re Reese’s friend and have the same shoe size, you are one lucky gal: “I give away a lot of shoes. It’s really nice to be me. And it’s really nice to be my friend who has the same shoe size.”