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New Couple Alert?
May 20th
So much for staying single!
While the boys of One Direction were apparently warned to stay away from coupling up as to not incite the wrath of their more, ahem, ‘intense’ female fans, Harry Styles has reportedly begun seeing Inbetweeners actress Emily Atack!
According to insiders:
“They’re perfect for each other, they really are. They’ve been getting to know each other and keeping things quiet but they’re close. Harry has always had a crush on her and hoped he could get it together with her and they eventually did. Everyone hopes they will become an item, but they’re both being realistic. Harry’s about to start a world tour and Emily’s working non-stop. Harry is spending so much time out of the country he finds it hard to settle down and make a long-term relationship work. But he really likes Emily. She’s thinking about going to see Harry during the tour and they’ll be speaking to each other all the time.”
Awww! Must be tough, maintaining these things with such busy schedules!
But it definitely sounds as though they’ve hit it off, so who knows?
Best of luck to you both!
Just enjoy each other’s company and don’t get bogged down with the other stuff!
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Family Drama Over Whitney Houston’s Billboard Awards Tribute!
May 20th
Such an unbelievable shame that egos couldn’t be put aside for the greater good.
Whitney Houston will be honored at tonight’s Billboard Music Awards with the Millennium Award, but sources close to production have revealed that there has been all kinds of behind-the-scenes drama and complications – all because members of the late icon’s family are at war over who will accept on her behalf!
Apparently, daughter Bobbi Kristina was scheduled to make a speech in honor of her mother, but sister-in-law Pat Houston was adamant about appearing in the segment as well, and put up such a stink that finally, producers relented and allowed the two to take the stage together!
Seriously?
We give the producers some well-deserved credit for handling this as delicately as they did, as we think we would have been much more impatient with the woman attempting to upstage the only daughter of an icon during a tribute to her life and memory only MONTHS after her tragic passing.
For shame, for shame, for shame.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Week: $19 Billion And A Wedding
May 20th
Facebook co-founder celebrates two grand achievements by making his company public and marrying longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
By Natasha Chandel
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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Photo: Priscilla Chan/ Facebook
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had quite a week! Not only is he now worth a cool billion after the Facebook IPO, but he also got hitched to long-time girlfriend, Dr. Priscilla Chan, in an intimate wedding on Saturday. Of course, the announcement became official when Zuckerberg changed his Facebook status to “married” and uploaded a wedding picture of the young couple.
Facebook became a public company on Friday in the second largest IPO in financial history, with shares selling at each.
If that wasn’t enough pressure for a week, Zuckerberg took the big plunge when he swapped out his signature hoodie and jeans for a dark blue suit and tie for his surprise nuptials with Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nine years. The couple met at Harvard, when Zuckerberg was still developing his infamous social network, and have been an item ever since.
Despite Zuckerberg’s rockstar status with fans and users alike, the technology mogul has led a significantly low-key life. His weekend ceremony included approximately 100 guests, including family and friends, none of whom had any idea they were attending a wedding. They were invited under the pretense of a graduation party for Chan, who also had an eventful week after graduating from medical school. Once everyone had gathered, it was announced the couple was finally tying the knot.
According to reports, Zuckerberg designed a simple ruby ring for his lady love, who looked elegant and chic in a vintage-inspired lace gown. Guests dined on the couple’s favorite foods, including mouse-shaped chocolates — a treat the couple shared on their first date.
Share your well-wishes for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan in the comments!
The Avengers Is The Highest-Grossing Disney Movie EVER!
May 20th
How many more records can this movie BREAK?!
The Avengers once again maintained the number one spot in the US and Canadian box-office this weekend, making a whopping .1 million and securing the title of the highest grossing movie for the Walt Disney Company EVER, with .18 billion in global sales!
Paul Dergarabedian, president of Hollywood.com’s box-office unit, explains:
“Great marketing can buy you a big opening weekend, but only a crowd-pleasing and solid movie can get you to where ‘The Avengers’ has gone.”
We guess so!
Battleship came in second, but the ticket sales were million LESS with .4 million!
And the previous record holder for Disney was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest with .07 billion!
We have a feeling the only movie that would be able to top these records would be an Avengers 2!
Well done!
Community Star Says Showrunner’s Firing Had Nothing To Do With Chevy Chase!
May 20th
Well, one thing is for certain!
Community castmembers OTHER than Chevy Chase are bummed about creator Dan Harmon‘s abrupt firing from the series!
According to Jim Rash, who plays the Dean on the NBC comedy, the decision not renew Harmon’s contract was out of their hands, and they “couldn’t love him more!”
Of course, he also stated that the very public fued with Chevy Chase nothing to do with the recent turn of events, but forgive us if we tend to think what the inside sources are saying is a little more true!
Such a shame!
There are a LOT of factors that make the show so great, but we think so much of its heart was really directly linked to Dan Harmon!
It’s a sad day at Greendale.
Red Hot Chili Peppers Go Long And Hard At Hangout Fest
May 20th
Band’s Saturday-night set was lively and loose, capping a day that also saw spirited sets from Mac Miller and Skrillex.
By James Montgomery
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Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performs at the 2012 Hangout Music Festival
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GULF SHORES, Alabama — Having been at this for more than two decades now, the Red Hot Chili Peppers clearly know how to headline a fest: play the hits, thank the crowd, occasionally swat at a beach ball, exit stage right. Maybe work a few well-placed curse words in there too. These things tend to be the same.
So it’s a testament to both their versatility and their dedication that the Chili Peppers’ Saturday-night set at the Hangout Festival was anything but by the numbers, as the band jammed long and hard, stretching songs to the breaking point (and beyond), much to the delight of the raucous, sun-baked crowd.
Perhaps it was because their headlining slot kicked off just minutes after seasoned jam-meisters the String Cheese Incident finished their two-and-a-half hour set (which, for them, was basically just a warm-up), or maybe they were taking their cues from Friday night’s headliner, Jack White, but from the minute the Peps strode on stage, they were playing fast and loose. Drummer Chad Smith, bassist Flea and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer started things off with a reverb-heavy psych jam that only morphed into “The Monarchy of Roses” when frontman Anthony Kiedis bounded on stage, then kept that momentum rolling into “Can’t Stop,” with the trio trading solos while Kiedis nodded in time to the beat.
There were, of course, more straightforward moments too: the Peppers tore through a string of hits, including “Dani California,” “Under The Bridge” and “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,” and attacked songs like “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” and their version of “Higher Ground” with impassioned pounding. Flea was his usual non-sequitur self, spouting stuff like “Sweet Home Alabama, motherf—er!” and “Forgive your parents!” into the mic, and Kiedis was, as always, the warrior-shaman showman, posing and preening, always in motion (he and Flea also made the rather interesting decision to wear pants with one leg cut off above the knee). But there was a general, genial looseness throughout their two-hour set, showcasing Smith’s lock-step drumming, Flea’s precision playing and Klinghoffer’s wild, winding fretwork.
At several points, they seemed to be making it up as they went along, gleefully turning a few stray notes into lengthy, twisting jams: Klinghoffer would summon a solo from his guitar, while Flea would flail and pound along, Smith and touring percussionist Mauro Refosco kicked off the band’s encore with a twisting back-and-forth exchange, and after blasting through “Give It Away,” the band closed their set with a lengthy, voluminous instrumental. The Peppers have always drawn from funk, and Flea’s dabblings in Jazz have paced them for nearly twenty years now, but on Saturday night, the improvisational nature of both were readily apparent. Rather than do the usual headlining set, the band wanted to just play.
It seems to be a recurring theme of the Hangout fest … and it served as a perfect capper on a day that also saw lively and loose sets from the likes of Gogol Bordello, Mac Miller and Skrillex (who, in a bit of inspired scheduling, kicked off opposite Randy Newman). The Red Hot Chili Peppers breathed new life into time-tested favorites — “Suck My Kiss” was pounding and primal, “Californication” soared to new heights, “Soul to Squeeze” was sanguine and sweet — and appeared to have a blast whilst doing so. You can’t teach old dogs new tricks, but, if you bring them to the beach (and scheduled them after a jam band), well, you can certainly make them push things to the limit … with fantastic results. If this whole “world-famous rock band” thing doesn’t work out for RHCP, their Hangout set was proof that they’d make a killing on the jam circuit. Your move, String Cheese.
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Quote Of The Day
May 20th
“My first sexual fantasy was about Cyndi Lauper.”
Andy Samberg, on his childhood crush, to Elle Magazine
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Electric Daisy Carnival Headliners Avicii, Steve Angello Bring Mayhem To New York
May 20th
‘New York City, tonight, electronic dance music won the Super Bowl,’ Swedish House Mafia’s Angello tells the crowd.
By Nicholas Philippou
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Armin van Buuren at Electric Daisy Carnival New York
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — A different breed of giants owned MetLife Stadium on Saturday during day two of New York’s inaugural Electric Daisy Carnival. Armin van Buuren, Avicii and Swedish House Mafia‘s Steve Angello closed the day’s festivities under a sea of red, white and gold fireworks, after taking an estimated 60,000 fans for an unforgettable ride.
“We put a nightclub in Giants stadium,” Angello proudly told the crowd during EDC’s closing moments. “New York City, tonight, electronic dance music won the Superbowl.”
Angello reveled in the moment and called the night “historic,” after delivering a two-hour set that evolved from dark and dirty to euphoric, ending with Angello in the spotlight, arms wide open, nearly hugging the crowd during SHM’s remix of Coldplay’s “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall.” SHM fans got their serving with classics like “Greyhound” and “One” as well as the revved-up Knife Party remix of “Save the World” that capped the night’s exhilaration.
Thomas Gold was Steve Angello’s Eli Manning inside the stadium, where Size Matters took over the end zone. Gold had one of those days where it was like he couldn’t miss, from the moment he hit the stage he turned the red zone into the Gold zone for two hours.
He fired off a monster set with his remix of Miike Snow’s “The Wave” and rode on a high-energy, song-switching filter-fest of songs we all love, but have never heard quite like this before. Gold played up the Police’s “Message In a Bottle,” against his track “Abart,” with Leventina’s “We’re Gonna Start,” followed up with a mash-up of “Agora” and Avicii’s “Le7els” in what was a fun, feel-good set that scratched every itch.
Outside of the stadium, at the Kinetic Field, Alesso and SHM’s Sebastian Ingrosso both killed it with amazing sets, with Alesso even making a return trip to the stage when Seb cued up their smash hit, “Calling,” while the huge crowd hummed out the chorus. Ingrosso played up every element of his show, leveling the crowd with a mash-up of SHM’s “One” against Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” while a giant eye familiar to SHM fans stared back at them, creating a definite feeling of surreal, a reoccurring sensation throughout the festivities.
And a surreal experience is really what EDC is all about. It’s a costume party, a rave, a carnival, an amusement park, a concert and a madhouse in whatever direction you turn. Wherever you were, you were most definitely entertained.
Were you at New York’s Electric Daisy Carnival? What did you think? Leave your comment below!
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Mr. and Mrs. Chow Sued By an Idiot
May 20th
Michael and Eva Chow — the purveyors of the ultra-famous eatery Mr. Chow — are being sued by a guy who claims the couple didn’t properly mark a clear glass door in their home … with disastrous results.*We now refer you back to the…
‘American Idol’ Finalist Joshua Ledet — Targeted By Male Strippers
May 20th
He won’t be the next “American Idol” … but recent cast-off Joshua Ledet has already gotten an offer to appear in a real-life stage production … with a bunch of naked men. TMZ has learned … the top banana at the Mantasia male strip club in NYC…