Horses By Lea Michele

Friends,

My name is Lea and I grew up in New York. Growing up, I was the little girl who always wanted to save the animals. I even would ask my mom to buy me stuffed animals that looked sad because I felt bad for them. When I was about 10, I found a box of kittens someone had left on the beach. I tried my best to care for them, and while some were able to be saved, many were taken from their mother too early and we didn’t get to them fast enough. To this day it’s still sometimes so hard for me to not get overwhelmed by all the animals out there that … Read the rest

GLEE star LEA MICHELE is putting off plans to follow her TV co-stars MATTHEW MORRISON and MARK SALLING into the music industry by releasing her own album, because she’s not ready to make such a “big commitment”.

The singer/actress, who has shown off her powerful vocals on Broadway as well as on the hit TV musical, admits she would love to one day record a disc of her own songs, but she would need enough time to nurture the project from start to finish.

She tells Us Weekly, “I think it’s definitely in my future, but that’s a really big commitment. (Her Glee character) Rachel’s my baby, and making an album would be like taking care of another baby. And … Read the rest

Could Glee star Lea Michele try defying gravity on the big screen? Maybe so says Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz about plans for the film adaptation of his smash hit musical.

“Lea Michele is fantastic,” Schwartz told Broadway.com, “and it’d be silly to say she wouldn’t be under consideration [for the role of Elphaba].”

Schwartz also revealed to Broadway.com that the movie version may require audiences to put on 3D glasses to see the witches of Oz fly.

“It’ll probably be in 3D because that’s where all [movies] are going,” Schwartz told us. “We’re talking to a lot of potential directors, as a lot of people know, and I think we’ll make a decision pretty soon.” Among the considered directors is … Read the rest

The whole world’s gone Glee: The teenage musical comedy is back on the air, its poppy cover songs hold the top spots on iTunes’ most-downloaded list, and judging from the turnout at Glamour‘s dinner last night—in honor of the magazine’s October cover girl, Lea Michele—the fashion crowd is tuning in every Tuesday. “I watch Glee religiously,” said Pucci’s Peter Dundas. “Olivia Newton-John appeared in an episode singing ‘Physical’—I mean, come on!”

Joining him for dinner were Margherita Missoni, Narciso Rodriguez, Giambattista Valli, Peter Copping, Coco Rocha, and Zac Posen—not to mention the diva herself, Michele, here for her first time in Paris. (She’ll be taking in only one show: Stella McCartney. … Read the rest