European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 2 2007 stars and stripes Page 23 faces usher engaged to longtime Girlfriend usher is engaged to his longtime Girlfriend stylist Tameka Foster the singers spokeswoman said Friday publicist Simone Smalls didst provide further details usher a five time grammy win Ner confirmed the engagement wednesday to mtg news ending speculation that he had popped the question Foster has been photographed recently with a Diamond ring on her Finger usher 28 said he could be walk usher ing Down the aisle before the end of the year his hits include confessions Burn you make me Wanna and yeah Martin defends right to come out Ricky Martin defended the right of pop stars to come out of the closet saying he Felt Soli Darity with Christian Chavez of mex ican band bad who recently said publicly that he is Gay life is too Short to live closed up guarding what you say said Martin sexual orientation has been the subject of speculation in an interview with the associated press Christian has to be free in Many aspects i wish him much strength Martin who was named person of the year in 2006 by the latin record ing Academy has hits including Liv Martin in la Vida Loca and shake your Bonbon he will tour the us in april and May red which spun off Mexico wildly popular soap opera Rebelde has achieved Success throughout latin America and among Spanish speakers in the United states Sean Lennon Mccartney daughter Sean Lennon is accustomed to people recognizing him because of his famous parents but one incident really caught him of guard when i was 15 a cabdriver asked me if i was Paul Mccartney daughter the 31yearold Singer told a radio in a recent interview that really blew my mind Lennon said he usually finds himself unfazed by All the attention he gets As the son of Yoko Ono and former beat be John Lennon who was killed in new York City in 1980 i dont have any perspective on a life without people freaking out about my parents so i dont know what it would be like for that not to happen he said people Only have glimpses of like you know who i might be and i dont think people have a real sense of what in like necessarily he said i get the spoiled Richeid thing a lot and i get the serious thing a lot but i think people Are misunderstanding me Lennon is on tour in support of his latest album Friendly Marie Osmond and husband divorcing Singer Marie Osmond and husband Brian Blosil Are divorcing after 20 years of marriage the pair announced Friday Osmond 47 and Blosil a record producer have eight children some of whom Are adopted the two married in a mormon ceremony in october 1986 and briefly separated in 2000 though our marriage is ending we continue to have a very amicable relationship our marriage has Al ways been a faithful one and neither of us is assigning fault for the divorce they said in a statement re leased by Osmond publicist our children As always Are our top priority and in our deep love for them we will continue to jointly Ful fill our roles As Active parents in their daily lives they said Osmond earned Fame at age 13 with the hit song paper roses and starred with her brother Donny Osmond on televisions Donny and Marie show during the 1970s she and her first husband Stephen Craig divorced in 1985 stories and photos from the associated press Osmond shia Labeouf is hoping to make the often awkward transition from child actor he starred in the Disney series even Stevens to adult roles with disturb a dugout later this month in the states Lebeouf is ready to grow up by Christy Lemire the associated press Austin Texas shia Labeouf is in the position so Many former child actors have found themselves in that murky area Between boyhood and manhood Between cute and com manding and Hes impatient for it to be Over i want to get bigger in sick of being a boy the lanky actor says of his recent regimen of running and working out i know that theres this innocence that i have but i feel like Ive played that Guy the whole goal for me has been diversity and diversifying your portfolio and making sure you do a whole Bunch of different things and you dont get typecast if i become a Type my career is Over i want to be an intimidating pres ence i want to be a killer Strong words from the former Star of the Disney Channel series even Stevens which earned him a Day time emmy in 2003 since then though Labeouf has put together an Eclectic filmography for a 20yearold Hes appeared opposite will Smith and Keanu Reeves Hes played a wrongly accused juvenile prisoner a drugged out Campaign worker and a would be thug guide to recognizing your this year alone he stars in the thriller disturb a a High tech teen up Date of rear the big screen version of transform and the animated surfs up in which he provides the voice of a surf ing Penguin and then there Are those persistent internet rumours that Hes signed on to play Indiana Jones or in the fourth instalment of Steven Spielberg fran Chise even Bill Paxton who directed Labeouf in the 2005 Golf movie the greatest game Ever played approaches him during a lunch inter ii to be sitting around with them is very surreal and it never gets Normal in shia Lebeouf on working with legends View with the associated press with a boisterous hug and congratulations on Landing the role which Labeouf is Quick to say he Hast the Way that thing started if s just wild How it snowballed he says be tween bites of a cheeseburger and Fries at the South by Southwest film festival where disturb a screened before its april 13 theatrical release i dont have a Deal on the table its just a Rumor would i do it in a Sec Ond if d be working for a legend and working with legends who  but is it something in doing right now no in an out work actor but Labeouf Hast been out of work much since he flipped through the yellow pages looking for an agent As a 10yearold he was cast As the precocious Lewis Stevens that year growing up As one of the few White kids in los Angeles heavily hispanic Echo Park Section the setting of i Vida Loca and la Beouf started doing standup comedy Hes Quick to admit he was drawn to this profession for both creative and financial reasons i grew up on mat show and it was the Best thing that had Ever happened to me took me out of my House it was real dramatic at that time my dad was on drugs heroin and All kinds of wild stuff and he was in a rehab facility my mom was trying to hold Down the fort and that want work ing so when the show came along it was a Savior it saved my life my Fame Lys life Labeouf s parents eventually divorced As an Only child he remains close to both his father he says was a mime and a Clown who used to grow pot in the Brush along the sides of Las freeways his Mother was a dancer i feel like my childhood was kind of lost it was adulthood right away he says turning Over his right Arm to reveal a Tattoo on the inside of his wrist that reads 19862004 period from his birth until he turned 18 i feel like you forget a lot of your childhood so i put the timeline on my wrist i just dont want to forget the childhood i did have when asked about working with Beouf on the greatest game Ever played Paxton jokes that he had to break him like a Mustang i feel very proud to have directed him and to have kind of helped him at a crucial time in his life and in his development As a craftsman As an artist you know if s hard to make that transition to go from being a child actor and then you know you grow up and they dont love you anymore Toure not cute anymore youre not funny looking anymore you grew up but Hes someone who making the transition Paxton is one of Many people Labe ouf says Hes looked to As a Mentor and father figure Jon Voight Jeff Bridges and John Turturro Are others if s nuts because in my lexicon those Guys Are All in my tops so when you get to work with them and be on that level with them if s just its Jar ring if s jarring when they consider you equals and youre sitting there going this is impossible How did this happen to me he says these Are my heroes these Are my Captain americas and my spider ans to be sitting around with Mem is very Surre Al and it never gets Normal