METAMORPHOSIS

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As Tavi Gevinson Turns 17, The Young ‘Rookie’ Prepares For A Kind Of Death

By Elizabeth C.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FASHION’S YOUNGEST MUSE TAVI GEVINSON WHO TURNED 17 April 21.

The darling of publishing celebrated at Chicago’s Storefront Company with her parents and Jonah Ansell, her co-collaborator on the animated short, Cadaver, as well as his parents.

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

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Cleared Elvis Impersonator Sings Unchained Melody On Today

By Elizabeth C.

FREE AFTER BEING CLEARED OF CHARGES THAT HE SENT PRESIDENT OBAMA and a Mississippi senator letters tainted with ricin, Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis was singing an unchained melody this morning on the TODAY show. And his message to authorities: Think twice, it ain’t all right to charge him with crimes he didn’t commit.

For starters, when Homeland Security and FBI agents showed up with hoods and machines guns pulled April 17, Curtis says knew not a whit what they were looking for. “I had never heard of ricin,” Curtis, 45, told Savannah Guthrie. “I thought they said ‘rice,’ and I said ‘I don’t eat rice.’

FRESH

Guys Get A Clue With MTV’s Cheeky Girl Code

By Kyra Senese

“I LOVE BOOBS. I SUPPORT THEM…I’M A BRA.”

That’s Alice Wetterlund, just one of the 10 comedic co-stars of MTV’s new Girl Code, cracking a joke during Tuesday night’s series premiere.

Sprinkled with glamour and vulgarity, the series aims to give the men watching at home lessons on what makes women tick while exploring the daily issues they both create and endure.

REIGNING & UPSTARTS

2013 Billboard Music Nominees: One Year You’re In, The Next You’re Out

By Jacob Wittich

LAST YEAR’S BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS nominees included nods to usual suspects such as Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for their domination of pop music charts.

But 2013 BBMAs recognizes a new round of superstar artists vying for the Billboard throne. Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 and Fun. lead 2013’s potential winners, snaring nominations in a total of 11 categories. And both Psy and Baauer crash the party for their epic “booty poppin” hits, Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake respectively, earning nods as Top Streaming Artists.

SHARDS OF PERSONALITY

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Secrets Of J.D. Salinger, Literary Man Of Mystery, Betrayed By His Own Words

By Elizabeth C.

FOR A WRITER WHO SPENT HIS LAST DECADES ALIVE ESCHEWING THE FAME HIS LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT BROUGHT HIM, J.D. Salinger’s private world continues to be violated by his own words.

The notoriously private Salinger, creator of the teenage protagonist Holden Caulfield, recoiled from the public eye after his novel Catcher In the Rye became a perennial bestseller. Despite retreating from the publishing world and refusing to publishing his later works, Salinger continued to be vexed by attention, including books written by both his daughter Marjorie Caulfield and his-once teenaged lover, Joyce Maynard. He died in 2010 at the age of 91.

The latest unmasking comes through nine letters Salinger author wrote to a fan who struck up a correspondence after reading his short stories. Between 1941 and 1943, his pen pal was Marjorie Sheard of Toronto, who claimed she was an aspiring writer. Now 95 and with the cost of her care increasing, her family decided to sell the private letters to The Morgan Library & Museum, which shared them with the New York Times.

THAT’S WHACK

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Kimye’s Housing Crisis, Lauer’s Torture & A “Cunt Odyssey”

By Miz J

KIMYE HAS A BIG PROBLEM with a little crib.

Specifically, the new Bel Air manse Kim and Kanye bought back in February, which is totally gutted at the moment. Since they’ve sold their separate houses—Kanye’s Hollywood Hills bachelor pad went for $3.3 million and Kim’s Beverly Hills place for $5 mil—they don’t have to go home, but they can’t stay there.

Now, tongues are wagging about Kimye being “homeless,” to which we say “bitch, please.”

RUNNING LIKE SHE’S OUTTA TIME

Ke$sha On MTV: Crazy Mixed Up Beautiful Girl

By Jacob Wittich

“LET’S GET DRUUUUUNK!”

The premier episode of Ke$ha’s My Crazy Beautiful Life aired last night, offering an intimate look at two years of the party princess’s first headlining tour.

As expected, the first episode of the six-part series is full of wild adventures involving glitter, alcohol, kart wheels and “lady boners,” but the show also reveals a surprisingly vulnerable side of the star.

MISCALCUATING THE BIG PICTURE

Scientist Concludes Fred Flinstone Really Couldn’t Stop Car With Feet

By Elizabeth C.

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A BACHELOR’S IN ENGINEERING WITH A master’s in communications?

A drip, that’s what. Or, more specifically, “impersonality,” which is code for engineer.

Because Kyle Hill, research assistant at Marquette University, wants us to know that Fred Flintstone‘s stone car “sits on a wheel of lies. ” Because the cartoon character couldn’t really stop it with his feet.

WHAT UP?

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Hashtag #Fresh For Twitter’s New Music App

By Jacob Wittich

AFTER BEING THE EXCLUSIVE PLAYTHING OF CELEBRITIES like Ryan Seacrest, Blake Shelton and Ne-Yo, Twitter’s new music streaming app is now delivering music to the masses.

Twitter #Music is an interactive music streaming app that helps users to discover new songs and artists based on what their followers are listening to. The Guardian calls it “an impressive app: easy to use” that reveals as much about the social network’s ambitions as it does new music. Mashable anoints it a “discovery powerhouse for Your iPhone.”

Thanks to the app, in addition to being able to update your followers on when you’re showering, eating, sleeping and peeing, you’ll now be able to tell them what music you’re listening to as you go about your ‘bizness.’

THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Dave Spade Deadpans ‘Reese Is ‘Falling To Pieces’

By Elizabeth C.

TMZ’S SCORED SOME GRAINY VIDEO SHOWING REESE WITHERSPOON IN HANDCUFFS THAT you can check out here, but we think far more worthy of your time (okay, not really) is
David Spade’s off-the-cuff guideline on when it’s okay to pull the ol’
‘Don’t you know who I am’ excuse.

“Reese is falling to pieces, is that what I’m hearing?,” Spade cracks to TMZ’s reporter on scene.

“I think the general rule is when you say, ‘Do you know who I am?,’ the answer is most likely no,’ ‘ the gum-chewing comedian opines. “If you have to explain to someone you’re famous then you’re technically not that famous.”