Movies
- In preparation for the July 1 release of "Monte Carlo," Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, and Katie Cassidy are going on a 10-city mall tour to promote it, starting June 10. (JSYK) UPDATE: Selena Gomez was hospitalized after appearing on The Tonight Show on Thursday, and is undergoing "routine tests". No word on when the CDC will quarantine Jay Leno for the safety of the American public. (JSYK)
- Dakota Fanning graduated from high school this week. Show-off. (JSYK)
- And in other scholastic news, Emma Watson quit Brown University back in April, and now we find out that she'll be a student at Oxford in the fall. She claims she's transferring because of what she wanted to study, but I suspect she just missed Hogwarts. (Cambio)
- A poster has been released for the upcoming "The Three Musketeers" that manages to make the movie look even worse than I'd thought. It's impressive. (JSYK)
- Shia LaBeouf said in an interview this week that Transformers 3 will be his last Transformers movie. In other news, Shia LaBeouf is a big fat liar. (Cambio)
TV
- Michelle Obama will do a guest spot on "iCarly." I guess Sasha and Malia must be fans... (Cambio)
- Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Chord Overstreet did a "Thelma & Louise" skit for the CMT awards that apparently set a new gold standard in comedy. We should all take notes. (JSYK)
- Justin Bieber and Rascal Flatts won the CMT Music Award for Collaborative Video of the Year, but then JB had to go and ruin everything by saying he was so honored to be at the "Country Music Awards" instead of the Country Music Television Music Awards. Dumbass. (JSYK)
- YES! Snoop Dogg is making the rounds, pitching a hip-hop version of American Idol. That show has to happen. It has to. (Cambio)
- Naya Rivera is the latest Glee castmember to get a record deal. Well done there! (JSYK)
- But she's still got a ways to go to catch up with Chris Colfer, who has already written a screenplay that is currently in preproduction, a pilot for Disney, and has now signed a 2-book deal with publisher Little Brown Book group. (Cambio)
- MTV canceled "Skins." Can't imagine why. (JSYK)
- It seems like a million years ago, but the MTV Movie Awards were only last Sunday. Complete list of winners here. (Cambio)
Music
- Kat Graham (of Vampire Diaries fame) is now also a singer. She just released the video for her single "I Want it All." (JSYK)
- A rough cut of the music video for the Justin Bieber/Chris Brown collaboration "Next 2 You" was leaked online this week. Still no word on why they used the number 2 but not the letter U in the title of the track. (JSYK)
- In one of those all-too-perfect moments, Lady Gaga had a "wardrobe malfunction" while she was accepting the CFDA Award for Fashion Icon. Brilliant. (Cambio)
- Shania Twain will take over the Las Vegas stage built for Celine Dion. She has signed on for a two-year run at the Caesar's Palace venue. (Cambio)
- Florence + The Machine are going on tour this summer, kicking off at Bonnaroo this week, and finishing in Milwaukee in July. (Cambio)
- Katy Perry created a dorky teenage alter-ego for her single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and set up Facebook and Twitter accounts for this Kathy Beth Terry. (Cambio)
- Jason Mraz is single again, ladies. He and now-ex-fiancee Tristan Prettyman split after less than 6 months of engagementship, with Mraz publicly siting his heavy workload and "clinging" too much too his art. (Cambio)
- Forbes released its list of best-paid celebs under the age of 30, and surprise-bloody-surprise,Lady Gaga is #1, and Justin Bieber is #2. Lebron James, Roger Federer, and Taylor Swift round out the top 5. (Cambio)
- MDot Finley is out of the hospital, Sean Kingston is still in but is walking around, andJennifer Hudson checked in with stomach pain. Maybe all these medical stories should go in the "Trends" category. (Cambio)
Seriously, WTF
- A teenager in China literally gave his right kidney for an iPad 2. He sold the organ for $3,400 and immediately bought the iPad 2, but the gadget got his mom all suspicious because where could he have gotten that kind of money? She figured it out and filed a police report, but it looks like karma is providing the bigger punishment: the hospital where he got the kidney removed isn't exactly qualified to perform surgery, and the kid is having a bit of a hard time recovering. Hence the commandment "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's iPad 2." (JSYK)
- Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream shop in Columbia, Missouri, created and immediately sold out of a new flavor of ice cream: cicada. Yes, the bugs. The gross, ugly, crunchy, disgusting bugs. The department of public health has, thankfully, taken umbrage with the practice of adding cicadas to ice cream, but the locals apparently love it. (TweenTribune)
Doing Good
- When Prince William and Kate got married in that splashy wedding in April, they asked guests, well-wishers, and fans to make donations to a wedding fund in lieu of sending gifts. That fund raised $1.6 million, which they distributed to 26 charities that support the armed forces, children, conservation, the elderly, art, and sports. (Cambio)
- Angelina Jolie and Missouri-born Brad Pitt donated $500,000 to relief efforts in Joplin, MO. (Cambio)
- Lady Gaga is auctioning off her grand piano and plans to donate the proceeds to Ten O'Clock Classics, a charity that provides classical music venues for young musicians. But according to Forbes, she could have just given them a crapload of money. (Cambio)
Movies Opening This Weekend
Super 8
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Trollhunter (limited)
The Trip (limited)
Bride Flight (limited)
Viva Riva! (LA/NY)
Top 10 in the Box Office last weekend (imdb)
1. X-Men: First Class
2. The Hangover Part II
3. Kung Fu Panda 2
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
5. Bridesmaids
6. Thor
7. Fast Five
8. Midnight in Paris
9. Something Borrowed
10. Jumping the Broom
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