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Britney Spears says her life is so dull under her father’s watchful eye that she feels old and boring.

With her new album “Circus” out next week, the 26-year-old singer is working on a comeback after seeing her life spiral out of control with a run of strange behavior, a bitter custody battle over her two sons and the loss of her rights to administer her own affairs.

“I feel like an old person now,” Spears told Rolling Stone in an interview for the music magazine’s December 11 issue.

“I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night and I don’t go out or anything, you know what I mean? I just feel like an old fart.”

In 2007, the Louisiana native was a near-constant figure on the Hollywood party scene. She shaved her head, then wore a pink wig and spoke with a fake British accent. By early this year, she was hospitalized twice for psychiatric evaluation.

By February, a California court named her father as a conservator of her estate, giving Jamie Spears control over her personal and business affairs. Since then, she seems to have put her life back in order.

“Womanizer,” the first single from “Circus,” reached the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart in October. The album is set for release on December 2, the singer’s 27th birthday, and she plans to tour this spring to promote it.

In excerpts posted online on Tuesday, the story “Britney Returns” — www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24612561 — details limitations put on her life by her conservatorship and notes she is watched constantly by guards hired by her father.

The interviewer was restricted from asking Britney about her troubled months.

Instead, she talks about her current life and going on chaperoned dates with men who failed to impress her. She jokingly describes one as “an older version of Harry Potter but skinnier.”

Spears also discusses being a mom to her two sons, Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2, whom she sees three days a week.

“To be a really good mom, I feel your child needs to be your full-time job,” Spears told the magazine. “I want to raise my kids and share all of those precious moments with them.”

The Rolling Stone with Spears on the cover hits newsstands on Friday.

Kevin Spacey received a drama award Monday for reviving London’s historic Old Vic Theatre. Spacey, an Oscar winner for “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects,” received a special prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards “for bringing new life to the Old Vic.

” Spacey took charge of the Old Vic in 2003, reviving the 190-year-old theater with a series of acclaimed and popular productions. The award judges cited a recent revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” starring Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, and the theater’s current production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests.

” London’s tiny Donmar Warehouse was the big winner at the awards, taking four prizes. Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for the Donmar’s production of “Othello,” while Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack were jointly named best actress for “The Chalk Garden.

” Donmar artistic director Michael Grandage won the best director prize for several productions at the theater. The award for best new play went to “The Pitmen Painters,” the story of a group of miners-turned-artists by “Billy Elliot” playwright Lee Hall.

Twenty-eight-year-old American writer Tarell Alvin McCraney was named most promising playwright for “In the Red and Brown Water” and “The Brothers Size” at the Young Vic. The Young Vic, a publicly subsidized theater aimed at new actors and directors, also won the best musical category for its production of Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene.

” Now in their 54th year, the Evening Standard awards are sponsored by London’s afternoon newspaper.

Taylor Swift’s “Teardrops On My Guitar” won country song of the year, and Hank Williams Jr.

was honored as a music icon during the 56th Annual BMI Country Awards. The awards were presented Tuesday in Nashville.

Casey Beathard won songwriter of the year for the second time. Beathard co-wrote several recent hits including Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink.

” Swift co-wrote “Teardrops On My Guitar.” The song earned iTunes’ No.

1 country song honors of 2007. Williams joins Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and others as a BMI icon.

His hits include “Family Tradition” and “Country Boy Can Survive.” Even non-country fans know his “Monday Night Football” theme.

BMI, or Broadcast Music Inc., is a performing rights organization.

Tony-winning actress Edie Adams, a blond chanteuse with a funny streak who was married to the late comedian Ernie Kovacs, has died. She was 81.

Adams, who starred in the movies “The Apartment” and “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,” died on Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling cancer and pneumonia, her spokesman, Henri Bollinger, said in a statement.

In the 1950s and 60s, Adams rose to fame as a sexpot spokeswoman for Muriel cigars, with the catchphrase “Why don’t you pick one up and smoke it sometime?”

Adams won a Tony Award in the 1950s for her role as Daisy Mae in the Broadway version of the comic strip “Li’l Abner.”

She also made appearances on “The Ernie Kovacs” show in the early 1950s, and she married Kovacs in 1954. They stayed married until Kovacs died in a 1962 car accident.

Adams will be buried next to Kovacs and their daughter, Mia, who also died in a car crash in 1982.

Film: ‘Baa Bega Chandamama’; Cast: Deepak, Suhasini, Avinash, Bullet Prakash and others; Producer: Kumara Swamy; Director: H.G. Murali; Rating: *

‘Baa Bega Chandamama’ is an illogical film which lacks excitement in narration. Director H.G. Murali, who worked as a dubbing artiste in Kannada films, takes up too many responsibilities on his shoulder including composer and lyricist. Perhaps this has not given him ample time to scrutinise the strengths and weaknesses of the script.

The result is that the film suffers from uninspiring narration which spells boredom for the audience from start to finish.

Prince Deepak, usually seen in gangster based action films, plays a romantic role in the film. He has fails to deliver. However, newcomer Suhasini adds some life to her role.

The story lacks freshness and too many loopholes in the screenplay makes it a tedious watch.

Deepu (Deepak) and his friend make a living out of stealing bikes. But Deepu has a heart of gold and is always helpful. Deepu moves into the house of Poonachcha with a fake identity to steal Rs.20 million. But instead he falls for Preeti (Suhasini), the daughter of Poonachcha. And how this love survives under odd circumstances forms the rest of the story.

Barring one twist in the whole story, there is nothing to hold the interest of the audience. Deepak looks too tired in the role. Avinash and Bullet Prakash have done the same roles umpteenth time.

The only solace is that ‘Baa Bega Chandamama’ is free of violence and sex which have become a permanent feature in most of Kannada films.

The debate season that has chewed up its moderators comes to a close Wednesday when John McCain and Barack Obama meet for the third time, with CBS News’ Bob Schieffer directing the discussion

The veteran “Face the Nation” host won’t telegraph what he will ask. But he said he will be seeking more details about their potential presidencies than have been evident so far.

“By now we’ve all heard their talking points,” he said. “We’ve heard the general outlines of what they are talking about. The time has come to be a little more specific.”

Jim Lehrer, Gwen Ifill and Tom Brokaw had great plans going into their debates, too. Each had their own frustrations.

Lehrer tried hard to get McCain and Obama to speak directly to the other when it was evident they didn’t want to.

During the vice presidential debate, Republican Sarah Palin took pride in not answering Ifill’s questions. “She blew me off,” a bemused Ifill said later.

The advantages of a town hall style meeting were muted in Brokaw’s presidential debate. The longtime NBC newsman was spoofed by his own network’s “Saturday Night Live” for overseeing a dry debate: “From this list of penetrating, insightful and provocative questions, I have chosen the eight least interesting,” said Brokaw impersonator Chris Parnell.

The “SNL” skit’s running gag was about debate rules with time so short that Brokaw cut off the contenders before they could answer a question.

“Why can’t we have a debate that allows the candidates to go deeper into the issues and actually engage each other?” wondered Richard Greene, a public speaking coach and author of “Words That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events.” “At this point the moderator stands in the way and it’s the fault of the campaigns for setting up these rules.”

The two candidates will sit at the same table for the third debate, so close that will be able to reach out and touch each other. Schieffer hopes this will encourage more interaction.

He’s not reluctant to press the men to stay on point.

“It will not embarrass me, if they go off in a different direction, to say `excuse me, could you focus on the question that I just asked?’” he said.

Good luck.

“He’ll try,” said Vincent Hutchings, a political science professor at the University of Michigan. “But they’re pretty good at avoiding that.”

It’s always a tough call for a journalist in this situation. Do you ask the question, and trust that it’s evident to viewers when the candidate is completely ignoring it? Or do you press persistently, taking the risk that your conduct becomes the issue as much as the question itself — as CNN’s Campbell Brown found when her questioning of a McCain aide angered the campaign.

Bruce Cain, director of the Washington program for the University of California at Berkeley, said he hoped Schieffer could compel the candidates to speak more specifically about the steps they would take to solve the economic crisis, both short- and long-term.

“We didn’t, as many people have noted, hear anything in the (second) debate that we didn’t hear three months ago, other than they support the bailout plan,” Cain said.

That’s not entirely true, as McCain used the forum to discuss a plan to buy the mortgages of struggling homeowners. Making new proposals carry a risk; MSNBC’s measurement of what undecided Republican voters were thinking while listening to the debate found an immediate negative reaction to the idea.

To a certain extent, the debates at this stage are almost moderator-proof, Cain said. The candidates have long since figured out what they do or don’t want to say, and they’ve had a year’s worth of practice making their points in regular debates.

“It may be that our expectations of what the debates are all about have to be adjusted to reality,” Cain said.

Sam Feist, political director at CNN, said he believed the debate’s format allows for some flexibility. “It sets the stage for the last debate to be the most interesting of the debates,” he said.

Since he knew he would be moderating the debate, Schieffer has been clipping articles and consulting think-tank experts to come up with ideas for questions. He was sitting down to read the transcript of the first two sessions.

When he moderated a Bush-Kerry debate, Schieffer showed up with three times as many questions as he had time to ask. He said he had a nightmare that all of his questions had been used up with a half-hour to go.

He believes the election is still very close and many people will finally make up their minds based on what they see on Wednesday.

“I don’t want to think about it too much,” he said, “but I think it could very well determine who our next president will be.”

Angelina Jolie, an advocate for adoption, was determined never to get pregnant until Brad Pitt came along and changed her mind, the actress said in a magazine interview.

The screen idols, dubbed Brangelina, welcomed the birth of their first biological child, daughter Shiloh, in 2006. Their twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, were born in July in France.

Jolie, 33, and Pitt, 44, have been together since 2005.

“I think one of the life-changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant,” Jolie said of Pitt in an interview to appear in the November issue of W magazine.

“I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world,” Jolie said.

Jolie adopted son Maddox from Cambodia, and later daughter Zahara from Ethiopia, before having Shiloh with Pitt.

Before the birth of the twins, Pitt and Jolie adopted another boy, Pax, from Vietnam.

Jolie told W that Pitt’s attitude toward her adopted children helped convince her to have biological children.

“He stopped talking about having other kids in the other way,” Jolie said.

“So I suppose in my heart I realized he was happy with them as his children, completely. I knew he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace,” she said.

The W magazine interview is accompanied by family pictures taken by Pitt, including a cover shot of Jolie breast-feeding one of the twins.

Jolie and Pitt have emerged as a one of Hollywood’s most influential couples, traveling the world for humanitarian causes and managing six children while continuing their movie careers.

Jolie was married and divorced twice, first to actor Johnny Lee Miller and later to actor Billy Bob Thornton, before meeting Pitt.

Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston, but the couple divorced in 2005.

Composer-singer-actor Himesh Reshammiya, who plays the lead role in the remake of the 1980s superhit ‘Karz’, admits Ranbir Kapoor would have been a better choice for the role and would have ensured the film’s box office success.

Himesh plays the lead character of Monty,originally played by Ranbir’s father Rishi Kapoor in Subhash Ghai’s musical thriller ‘Karz’.

‘Ranbir would have been a better choice as he would have brought success instantly. The film would have been a superhit before its release, but since I’m into the movie, we will have to wait for its release to see how it fares,’ Himesh told IANS.

Himesh was all praise for Ranbir’s acting capabilities in his recently released ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’ and said his legacy of acting was unchallengeable.

‘I have seen ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’ and I found his acting impressive. Acting is in his blood because of his great legacy.’

On the comparisons being drawn between the original and the remake, he said: ‘There can be no comparison between the original film and ours. The original was a classic and no one can go near it. We have tried to do our best by adding a new twist to the story.

‘I think the audience should see the film keeping in mind that they are watching a non-professional actor and dancer. They shouldn’t compare it with the original.’

After ‘Aap Kaa Surroor’, ‘Karzzz’ is his second film.

‘I consider ‘Karzzz’ as my first film because in my debut film ‘Aap Kaa Surroor’ I played myself. All other actors have performed well, but I can’t comment on my performance. The audience will decide and give their verdict,’ he said.

Himesh said the success of ‘Karzzz’ was important to his career because its box office performance would affect his other forthcoming films. While ‘Karzzz’ is releasing Oct 17, ‘Kajra Re’ is set for a 2009 release.

Besides these, his other releases are ‘Mudh Mudh Na Dekh’, ‘Ek Love Issshtory’ and ‘Hey Gujju’.

‘These five films will be releasing over a period of time, so the success of ‘Karzzz’ becomes really important for me, otherwise the pressure would again be on ‘Kajra Re’, my next release.

About the music of ‘Karzzz’, Himesh said he had retained the original songs with a lounge flavour, besides two songs of his own.

‘I have sung the ‘Ek haseena thi’ without my nasal tone because it was Kishore Kumar’s song,’ he said.

The song was originally created by composer duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Himesh said that Pyarelal had heard his version and liked it.

Himesh said that he has sung, acted and composed in the film, but it was the acting part that he found most interesting.

‘Music and singing is my profession, but I am acting to achieve something. So acting is what I enjoyed the most now.’