Fan mail sent to Taylor Swift found in a recycling bin

Kylee Francescan was recycling her newspapers when she saw hundreds of letters addressed to the singer. "I didn't know if they were stolen or discarded," she said. "So I threw them in a box. And I'm like, 'Somebody needs to let Taylor know.'" She said that some of the letters had been opened but that the majority remained sealed. "It didn't bother me because I know how much her fans mean to her," she added. Kylee Francescan then forwarded them to a local television station, who got in touch with representatives of the pop star. 'Accidentally' recycled A spokesperson for Taylor Swift suggested that a mistake must have been made. ''Taylor gets thousands of fan letters every day and they are delivered to her management office," the spokesperson said. "After the letters are opened and read, they are recycled. "The only explanation for any letters being unopened would be that a small batch of mail that was supposed to be delivered to Taylor was accidentally put with letters headed for the recycling centre. "We sincerely appreciate [local television station] Channel 2 bringing this to our attention." Last year Taylor Swift scored the biggest first week sales for an album in a decade in the US with her fourth album, Red. She recently performed at the Brit Awards ceremony in London.Fashion Day

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‘Spring Breakers’ Generates Buzz, James Franco Presents ‘Interior. Leather Bar.’: SXSW

Harmony Korine‘s Day-Glo crime thriller Spring Breakers had its U.S. premiere Sunday night at SXSW, where stars Selena Gomez, James Franco, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine (minus Vanessa Hudgens) joined their director onstage for a Q&A. “I’d been collecting Spring Break imagery for a couple of years from fraternity sites and co-ed pornography for paintings and artwork”, said Korine, who wrote and directed the pic about college girls who commit robbery to finance their dream Spring Break only to become entangled in the dangerous lifestyle of a Floridian thug named Alien (Franco). “Here were all these hypersexualized, hyperviolent subjects with childlike details — nail polish, bags, stuff like that. So I imagined girls on a beach in bikinis robbing fat tourists”.Grumblings in the audience ranged from delight to bewilderment. The pic earned only a few walkouts — a slim margin for a film this aggressively provocative — and audience members in the post-screening Q&A roared the loudest when Franco obliged a “Spring breaaak” in the heavy drawl of his character, based partially on St. Petersburg rapper Dangeruss. Disney icon Gomez (Wizards Of Waverly Place) drew a contingent of younger fans outside the Paramount Theatre as she walked the red carpet. Inside she sobered the mood when asked about taking on the racy project given her tween idol past: “I didn’t really have too many reservations. I had been a part of something for a while that I was super blessed to be a part of and I wanted to do something that would be different for me”. Anticipation was so high for the SXSW premiere that tickets sold out quickly and lines wrapped around the block. (A priceless exchange came late in the Q&A moderated by SXSW head Janet Pierson. Pierson: “Do you know what ‘prurient’ means?” Korine: “No”.) Meanwhile, Franco made the most of his SXSW visit. After the screening Q&A and after party, he hosted a 2 AM screening and Q&A of his Sundance pic Interior. Leather Bar, programmed last-minute at the Alamo Drafthouse. Upstart distributor A24 and Annapurna Pictures release Spring Breakers this Friday in New York and LA, expanding to wide release next week.

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