Miley Cyrus talks about her first love, saying goodbye to Hannah Montana and more in an exclusive interview with Parade Magazine.

The singer/actor is growing up and she wants everyone to know it!  Miley is coming into her own and taking charge, making the transition from child star to adult actress.

On people telling her what to do…
“I hate being thought of as a product. I am not a doll, and people want to treat me that way. They say, ‘Now this is what we need to do to your makeup, and this is what I want you to wear,’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, I choose.’ When I was 12, that was okay. But I’m older now. I have an opinion. I have my own taste.”

Miley calls her 19-year-old Aussie co-star her “first serious boyfriend,” but what about Nick Jonas and Justin Gaston?
“Nick and I were so young. We really did have a genuine love, but it wasn’t like this. We met when I was 12. I didn’t know who I was. I know who I am now and am so content and full of purpose.” As for model Justin Gaston, “He was a good person, so carefree. All I know is that I am so happy right now. I wasn’t last summer after I called it off with Justin and went away to film The Last Song. I cried all the way there. The last thing I was expecting to do was to fall in love. I went there thinking the summer was about me and getting focused on my career. But I guess God was like, ‘Girl, here is this amazing guy.’ ”

On saying farewell to Hannah Montana…
“What I am sure about is I’m going to rejoice and be happy to finally not have to be…well, to not be somebody I’m not exactly. As I’ve grown into it, I’ve grown out of it. Does that make sense? When I was 12, I thought, ‘I want to be famous all the time! I want everybody to recognize me!’ ” Now Miley says she is ready to have a private life. “When they’re putting me in sparkles and in pink this final season, I have to grit my teeth. I can’t breathe looking like that anymore. A friend came by the set one day and said, ‘You don’t look very happy.’ I said, ‘I’m feeling claustrophobic in all these frills.’

Be sure to read the web exclusive on Parade.com for more Miley!  Including why she is going to stay away from country music, the real reason she is a Twitter quitter and more!

Remember Me star Robert Pattinson (or R-Patz to you!) opens up in an interview with Parade Magazine. Robert, who is best known as Edward Cullen from the Twilight Saga, discusses how when it comes to dating, he is very different from the character he plays in Remember Me.  Here are some highlights from the interview.

“When it comes to the opposite sex, I’m not as fully confident as the guy I play. I don’t even remember the last time I asked someone out on a date, like, just went up to them and that’s the first thing I did. I’m much more self-conscious and not wanting to fail. So I tend to hold back.”

On what he learned from so-star Pierce Brosnan

“We went out to dinner in a restaurant full of all these guys who looked like bankers or brokers. They didn’t recognize me, but they recognized Pierce. And he said, ‘Notice those people looking over?’ I’m sitting there getting more and more self-conscious, even though I didn’t realize they weren’t looking at me. Suddenly, Pierce got up and introduced himself to everybody in the restaurant. At first I was like, ‘What are you doing? You’re like completely insane.’ But it worked. Everybody just relaxed and stopped staring and you could tell they were going to go home and say, ‘Pierce is such a nice guy.’”

On being compared to James Dean

“I think he was like the most influential person for young guys, especially actors, in the last 50 years. So yeah, I mean, I’m not ashamed to say I am very much influenced by him.”

In a second part of the interview, Robert defends New Moon saying;

“I didn’t like the way New Moon was treated by the critics. I think it was reviewed in the context of just being a big franchise movie. When something is so hyped, inevitably, there is a backlash against it. I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director. I really enjoyed the film. So the naysayers kind of annoyed me.”

Pattinson was noticeably absent from the Oscars, leaving Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner to work the red carpet alone. Robert is currently in London riding the Twilight wave of success and is very busy jumping right into his next project, Bel Ami, staring Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci.

Remember Me stars Emilie De Ravin, Robert Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan it opens March 12th.

You can read the full interview with Parade by visiting www.parade.com.

Gossip Girl star, Taylor Momsen, is opening up about her smoking, her celebrity status and her music in a new interview with Parade. 

Check out some of the interview highlights: 

‘I smoke, so what? Why do people give a s— what a 16-year-old girl who they’ve never met does? It’s not like I’m sitting there going, ‘Kids, you should go buy a pack of cigarettes.’ When I walk outside with a cigarette and someone takes a picture of it and puts it on the Internet, its not my problem. I’m just living my life and I’m not gonna live my life for other people.’

‘I’ve done an album. Music is where I can be me. I really do it because I love it, honestly. It’s what I want to do with my life. I mean, it’s my only goal. Acting is easy. I’ve been doing it for so long and I totally love it. But you’re playing a character instead of yourself. Music is more personal because you’re writing it and you’re involved in every step of it.’

‘I don’t read that crap that describes me as having an attitude, but I don’t know why that’s a bad thing. Attitude is in the eye of the beholder. I didn’t get into this to be a role model for 7-year-olds. I have no interest in doing that, you know? If parents don’t like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn’t let their kids watch me. I’m not Paris Hilton. I don’t really care about being a celebrity.’

‘It comes along with the territory so you can’t totally avoid it. But there’s a difference between doing the red carpet and having people invade my personal life taking pictures of me. And that’s why celebrity is so stupid. You don’t want to become something that a few million people watching your show want you to be. I want to be who I am because, if I lose that, then what am I doing this for? It’s not about fitting in. If you don’t fit in as yourself, then you don’t fit in.’

Hm.  ‘Little J’ is an interesting one, isn’t she?  Hard to believe she is JUST 16 years old!

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In an interview with Parade.com, Robert Pattinson opens up about being romantic and what it’s like to become a super star over night.

The love bug bites the deepest.

“What’s interesting about this story  is that it’s suppose to be about this all-powerful immortal creature.  But he’s completely destroyed just by falling in love with this normal girl.  He can’t control anything afterwards.  His entire life turns upside down.  So I guess love can be more lethal than a vampire bite.”

On Relationships:

“Getting involved in Twilight has definitely changed my mind about how people are kind of fanatical about wanting to have the perfect relationship.  I had no idea that people were so desperate and felt like it was so unobtainable.  They want to put this idea of unconditional devotion just so high above everything else, which is why they can’t get enough of this story.”

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Advice for Bella:

“I keep wanting to tell people who think she should choose between Edward or Jacob that she should choose someone else.  Jacob seems like the perfect viable option at the beginning of New Moon, but he turns out to be just as tortured as Edward is.  So I guess Bella is just an unlucky girl.”

On Being Romantic:

“I don’t know, I can’t think of a single romantic thing I’ve ever done.  That’s terrible.  Wait.  I put a flower in someone’s locker when I was 15-years-old.  It was a girl named Maria.  She thought it was somebody else that had done it and the other guy was trying to take credit.”

The good/bad news about becoming famous:

“It’s a scary situation to be in, in a lot of ways.  You really have to question yourself a lot more. Before Twilight, I did any movie that I could and I tried to make the best of it afterwards.  But now you’re expected to come and provide, not only economic viability at the box office, but also a smashing performance as well.  When no one’s watching your movies and you get a part, you can do whatever the hell you want.  I don’t have that luxury anymore.”

Go to Parade.com for the full interview.

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Kristen Stewart opens up about what it’s really like working under a microscope of fame, the gossip surrounding her and Robert Pattinson, and more in an interview with Parade.com

On shooting her toughest scene

“It’s when Edward tells Bella it’s all over and they’re never going to see each other again. There’s nothing like it in reality. It’s not even like a normal breakup scene because I know what it’s like to get broken up with. I don’t know what it’s like to get broken up with by a vampire. It’s like suddenly whatever has addicted an addict is taken away from them and they go through total withdrawal. That’s what Bella was going through. To portray that was really intimidating.”

On dating Robert Pattinson and all the rest of the gossip.

“I get why fans want to know more about the cast as real people and they want us to be together and all of that. I just have to sort of not think about that. People have a hard time separating us from our characters. There’s an incredibly large group that spends most of their time absorbed in the lives of people who’ve gotten some notoriety. It’s strange to me. I can’t have anything to do with it or else I’d step in and mess it up for myself, I just let it fall by the wayside. It doesn’t really affect me.”

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On her image and becoming famous
“As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture of me that came out, that’s when I became so much happier. It wasn’t like some big turning point; I’ve just grown into being able not to care as much. I realize that I’m not going to be able to influence the way everybody perceives me.”

She also shares a bit of the New Moon movie, and says the scene to watch for;

“Jacob and Edward, who are mortal enemies, are in a tent with sleeping Bella between them. It seems ridiculous, but it happens.”

My goodness!  Sounds awkward, but fun!

Kristen Stewart goes into a lot more detail in the full interview, you can visit Parade.com to read the rest

Sandra Bullock talks about being a step-mom, her marriage to Jesse James and more in Sunday’s issue of Parade magazine.

What Sandra says about herself
“I’m aware that I can be annoying. I am a big ball of high energy and organization and structure. Listen, I know I’m not easy to deal with. I’m controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I’m difficult on every single level.”

On getting married
“I didn’t grow up thinking, ‘I’m gonna get married and have someone take care of me,’” she says. “I always wanted to be happy, have a good time, work hard.”

Why her marriage with Jesse works

“I was good at bolting before. I didn’t want to do the work. And I was too selfish to have kids. Now I work at what I love. If I didn’t love him, I wouldn’t be putting in the effort. I do approach things differently now that I’m married. I would never do anything that would harm his heart.”

One being a step-mom to 5 year old Sunny
“The universe put this in our lap,” Bullock says. “I seemed to have stepped in right when I needed to be there. I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don’t have kids and animals, you don’t truly know what real life is about.”

For more on the Sandra Bullock interview you can visit Parade.com

In this weeks issue of Parade, Whip It star/director Drew Barrymore talks about the lessons she’s learned from marriage, rehab, and family pain.

Her are some of the interview highlights:

On her seemingly carefree spirit.
“I don’t know if I’m completely comfortable ever.  Sometimes I can totally let go with complete abandon–sing and dance and run around and not care what people think about me.  Still, there seems to be this ball of stress inside me that I can’t get rid of.”

Working for happiness.
“That is exactly what it feels like to me.  It feels as if I’m willing myself to be happy.  I do feel as if I am thrusting myself forward all the time.  Nancy, who runs my production company and is my favorite person I’ve met in my life so far, had on her refrigerator the sign HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE.  When I first saw it, I thought, ‘That is so simple and yet complex and wise.’  As you can see, I get verklempt just talking about it.”

Her own complicated mother/daughter story.
“I believe she will see the film [Whip It].  I believe she does feel pride in me.  I used to pull a lot emotionally from all the stuff with my family, but I did not do this movie to cleanse myself of the mother/daughter debacle that happened in my life.  I have been much more objective about my childhood and my relationship with my mother in these last few years.  I used to be more attached to all that.  I won’t deny that the baggage was there at one point.”

Battling long-term sobriety.
“No, I’m not [completely sober].  And I don’t claim to be — quite the opposite. I’ve tried to find the balance.  I hope it’s balanced.”

She’s in no rush to find a mate.
“Sexual love is secondary to me right now.  I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. But for the last few years, my life just hasn’t been about that for me.  It’s just not about the mother baggage.  It’s not about the boy.  It’s about something completely different, and it’s very refreshing.  I’m trying to understand it and relish it.”

What she’s learned from life’s ups and downs.
“I’ve stopped believing in happy endings.  I’ve started believing in good days. At the end of my movie, there’s honesty.  There’s truth.  There’s peace.  What tomorrow will bring is still in question.  There is a joy that’s earned by failure or triumph.  All those things add up to teach us, if we are open to it.”

On finally feeling like a grown-up.
“I’ve always wondered what it felt like to be an adult, because I’ve always had to mother myself.  I think maybe I finally am one.”

Barbra  Streisand is in this Sunday’s issue of Parade magazine discussing her wild past, early days on stage, growing older, double standards, and her “perfect” reputation.

Her wild child past.
“There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. I was kind of a wild child. I don’t know if it’s in the DNA or what. I got good grades in school but a D in conduct. I would question everything, very much like Yentl.”

Stepping into a man’s world.
“Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world. ‘What do you mean you’re going to direct? Women are the actresses, they’re frivolous, not the ones responsible for finances.’ That really got me.”

Playing dress up.
“I stopped wearing [costumes] when people said it was a gimmick–you know, Second Hand Rose. But the truth is, I didn’t know what you were supposed to wear. I’d never been in a nightclub until the first time I sang in one. I just knew women were supposed to wear beautiful gowns. So I bought what I thought was beautiful.”

Being her own worst critic
“I never hear the good things about me. My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.”

The ups and downs of fame.
“My early television specials were really good. I’m proud of the movies I’ve directed. I like those. But for all the public life–I get kind of embarrassed by it.”

Enjoying her Malibu home.
“I grew up in Brooklyn. When I’d get sent away to that camp during the summer, it always made me wheeze. I’d get asthma. I couldn’t breathe. I was used to the hot, steamy streets where we’d turn on the hoses and play with the water and look down at the rainbows in the ground. Here, the skies change, the cloud patterns change, the color of the sea is always different. I’m in heaven. I feel very grateful every day. It’s like a movie–I have my own piece of sky.”

On her reputation as a perfectionist.
“Really, there’s no such thing. The only perfection is imperfection, because otherwise it would be inhuman, too cold. What is perfect? Maybe a flower with its dewdrops in the early morning.”

How about her handsome husband of 11 years, actor James Brolin?
“Yes, it’s annoying. You’re right, he’s perfect. He has the most beautiful bone structure, jaw, teeth, nose, eyes, forehead. We meet people, and they always say, ‘Jim, you look so great.’ He looks like that sleeping, too. It’s really true.”

Understanding the opposite sex.
“In a relationship, you have to think what’s great about it, what works, the good qualities. And you try to overlook the things that bug you. He must do that with me all the time. It’s reciprocal. Even though I made “Yentl,” I see that men are different. The ego is different. You have to understand and appreciate the differences. And they’re kind of fun.”

Speaking her political mind.
“I was always political. You’re always a citizen first, an artist second. It’s interesting that a Paul Newman or Robert Redford wouldn’t get attacked for being interested in politics, the environment. It’s a double standard, but women are changing. There are nine women presidents in the world, and Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State. ”

On getting older.
“You get older, and it’s a bit of a shock. I still feel so young inside. And that’s me in the mirror? It must be harder to age if you were known as a beauty queen. So I’m kind of fortunate. But, in truth, I’m happier than I ever was in my life. I have a husband who loves me, and I have this beautiful piece of the Earth.”

To read more about Babs visit parade.com.

Jeremy Piven recently sat down to talk with Parade Magazine, with whom he discussed the controversy over his leaving Broadway’s Speed the Plow due to mercury poisoning, his upcoming projects, including comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and more.

The other side of Ari.
“For those that love me on Entourage, they’ll see some similarities in Don Ready in The Goods, who is kind of an abrasive, fast-talking car salesman. But the journey Don goes through, Ari Gold would never go through. He’s just a different human being, a great huckster who figures out he isn’t happy with his personal life. So in a way, it was completely cathartic to play a guy who desperately wants to evolve.”

Connecting with the search.
“I relate much more to the guy in The Goods, who’s sort of maxed out, putting everything into his job, and wants to settle down and find something more in life. I need more time in my own life to find the right balance, to be honest with you, and I’m trying to do what I can. Balance is something I’ve been seeking and I did take some time off, which I haven’t done in years.”

Getting pumped up to play Ari.
“I have to kind of whip myself up into a frenzy to get to his level. He’s always in a state of movement and high energy. But it’s a gift to be able to play that guy. I just am incredibly blessed that I have this role that allows me to keep exploring the dualities of a tragically flawed, type-A wrecking ball.”

No aid from artificial substances.
“Espresso is the deepest I’ll go in terms of getting amped up. Back in the day, I did dabble. I’m not running for office, so I can say that.”

The selling of Gold.
“I know they have like ‘Ari Gold Entourage hotel suites’ now. I think someone is making a great deal of money out of it, and I’d love to find out who it is. I have no idea. People say like, ‘Wow, you have your own line of jeans. I’m like, ‘I do?’ So you go to the store and there are the Ari Gold jeans. There is a lot of merchandising, but I don’t really have anything to do with it, and I don’t think I’m getting a piece of the action.”

Check out the rest of the interview on Parade.com, and also watch the video of his interview below:

And watch the trailer for his upcoming movie The Goods here:

Brad Pitt is in this Sunday’s (Aug 9) issue of Parade magazine where he opens up about his decision to become a father, why he won’t marry Angelina Jolie, and his past pot-smoking habits. This looks like one juicy issue.

Here’s what Brad had to say:

On when he’ll marry Angelina Jolie: “I have love in my life, a soul mate–absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don’t get married, I replied, ‘Maybe we’ll get married when it’s legal for everyone else.’ I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it–hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I’ve had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.”

On the right to love: “It’s ridiculous that Prop 8 took away gay people’s right to marry! I have no understanding of that kind of hatred. Maybe it’s fear of difference or of the unknown. If you feel belittled, maybe you need someone else to belittle to feel powerful. It’s the only way I know how to explain it. You’ve got religion telling you what to think about homosexuality, about marriage. They say homosexuality is a choice, a lifestyle, something you can be cured of, and that isn’t true. But if you’re tucked away and have no friends who are gay, you’ll believe what the preachers say. Just think of it in terms of being in love–how would you feel if someone told you that you couldn’t be with the person you loved?”

On wanting the best for his children: “Would it bother me if a child of mine turns out to be gay? No, not one bit. Listen, I want my kids to live the lives they want to live. I want them to be fulfilled. I hope I teach my kids to be who they really are.”

On the secret stone grotto behind the waterfall in his pool: “[It's] a great place for sex.”

Check out Brad’s Parade photo shoot at Parade.com.