Months after being attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, people.com reports that Rihanna is speaking out about her healing process in December issue of Glamour magazine.

"My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see," she says. "They have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women."

Named Glamour's 2009 Woman of the Year, Rihanna, 21, will be honored in a special ceremony at New York's Carnegie Hall on Monday.

And, she says, the past nine months have been a source of growth and strength: "I am stronger, wiser and more aware."

The singer has already released the power ballad "Russian Roulette" off her fourth album, Rated R, due in stores Nov. 23. "I've put everything I've wanted to say for the past eight months into my music," she says. "(It's) super fearless -- which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place."

Film is bittersweet for Ortega

"This is It" director Kenny Ortega told an audience at an Entertainment Weekly event in Los Angeles on Monday night that he's "happy" for Michael Jackson, and that the film, which opened to $101 million worldwide last weekend, is now the highest grossing concert film in history.

"Michael had filmmaking in his future," Oretga said at EW's tribute to him at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. "So I'm just glad that this film -- even though he didn't get to have that experience -- has in fact made him a movie star."

Ortega, who choreographed "Dirty Dancing" and directed all three "High School Musical" movies, was rehearsing Jackson's planned 50-concert event in L.A. last summer when the singer died suddenly. (In the wake of that death, Sony bought the rehearsal footage and Ortega ultimately decided to direct the film.)

Ortega, 59, had worked with Jackson in the 1990s and knew the singer well.

Wilson gives voice to Marmaduke

Owen Wilson has been cast to voice Marmaduke in Fox's CGI/live-action movie adaptation of the comic, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The star-studded cast also includes Judy Greer, Lee Pace and William H. Macy as humans, and Fergie, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, Damon Wayans and Marlon Wayans, who all lend their voices to characters.

-- From Our Press Services

Today's birthdays

Actress Doris Roberts, 79; actress Loretta Swit, 72; singer Delbert McClinton, 69; actress Markie Post, 59; actress Kathy Griffin, 49; actor Ralph Macchio, 48; "Survivor" host Jeff Probst, 48; actor Matthew McConaughey, 40; rapper- producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, 40; singer Shawn Rivera of Az Yet, 38.