The star of an internationally renowned teen-friendly movie franchise hits the red carpet at a prestigious film festival to promote a cinematic portrait of the Beat Generation -- one in which the star in question gives a sexually explicit performance seemingly designed to draw a thick line between the adolescent past and the adult future.

Am I talking about Kristen Stewart, whose nude scenes in On the Road dominated a day of conversations at last year's Toronto International Film Festival? Or am I talking about Daniel Radcliffe, whose raw depiction of gay sex in Kill Your Darlings is presently the subject of titillated whispers among Sundance Festival attendees here in Park City, Utah?

Actually, I'm talking about both -- and the only way the parallels could be eerier would be if Radcliffe were exactly the same age as Stewart, instead of nine months older.

On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, premiered at Cannes last May, but it was Stewart's appearance at Toronto in September -- her first public outing since the cheating scandal that imperiled her relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson -- that created the bigger sensation, and kicked off a frenzy of Internet searches for screen shots showing the actress with her top off.

Daniel Radcliffe, by contrast, has no major scandals to his name, and bares no body parts that wouldn't be visible on any public beach. But, with his performance in Kill Your Darlings as a young Allen Ginsberg, Radcliffe takes on an entirely different set of taboos. Plenty of male actors have passionately kissed male co-stars in films, as Radcliffe and the excellent Dane DeHaan do here, but it's hard to recall a Hollywood star as famous as this one simulating the act of homosexual lovemaking this explicitly -- knees in the air, lover on top of him -- or this vulnerably.

Radcliffe, of course, is not the first movie star to depict Ginsberg's sexual adventures onscreen in recent years. James Franco played the poet in Howl, which debuted at Sundance in 2010, but that film left more to the imagination than Kill Your Darlings does, and Franco, for all his successes, does not possess a global teenage fan base of the kind enjoyed -- or perhaps endured -- by Stewart and Radcliffe.

What is it about the Beats in particular that attracts these stars and entices them to take such chances? Well, it's probably not an accident that On the Road is and long has been a popular choice for high school kids who yearn to put childish things away and test the limits of their newfound independence. Seen from that perspective, a sexually explicit movie about Ginsberg and his larger-than-life friends Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs is a natural next step for actors tired of embodying pre-pubescent fantasies on the big screen.

Because they wrote poems and novels, the Beats also have a patina of literary credibility that surely appeals not just to these young actors but to the managers, agents and publicists who make a living shaping their careers and reputations. Kristen Stewart is not about to go topless in an adaptation of some 50 Shades of Grey knockoff, but when the reference material is something as iconic as On the Road, she has every right to say, "This book celebrates being alive and it celebrates being human, and if you want to cover up and deny any aspect of that, you are denying the spirit of the book."

Radcliffe, for his part, is simply shrugging off questions about his gay-sex scene. "It was something new," he told a reporter for E! last night. "But you know what, we shot that whole scene in maybe an hour and a half so it was incredibly fast-paced. I didn't really have time to stop to think and worry about it." He was also spotted, coincidentally or not, kissing a female co-star, Erin Darke, during a dinner in honor of the film.

I know, alas, that we live in a world where Stewart's brave performance was destined to be immortalized in sleazy Internet stills; I still dare to hope we live in a world where Radcliffe won't have to contend with speculation about his personal life following this performance. But I also believe both actors took these roles, and ran the attending risks, for a reason.

It might even be the same reason. After years of amusing the kiddies and fattening the bottom lines of Hollywood studios, Stewart and Radcliffe are both testing their mettle as artists -- and following the lead of Ginsberg himself, who, in a piece of advice to young writers, famously said, "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."

Is it possible to make a feminist film about a porn addict? Viewers of "Don Jon's Addiction," the screenwriting and directing debut of actor Joseph Gordon Levitt, may find themselves arguing the point after watching this raunchy yet well-intentioned comedy about a New Jersey Lothario who can't stop pleasuring himself with the help of Internet smut.

At the Q&A following this morning's Sundance screening of the film, Levitt, who also tackles leading-man duties, invoked his mother's feminism and the compassionate Christianity of Martin Buber as he explained the film's genesis. "I wanted to tell a story about love, and in my observation what's always getting in the way of love is how people objectify each other," Levitt said. "Boys do it to girls and girls to it to boys."

Levitt plays Jon, a gym-toned guido who divides life's pleasures into a categorized list of "things": his body, his apartment, his car, his family, his church, his porn. He's quick to emphasize that he doesn't have any problem attracting flesh-and-blood sex partners -- in fact, he's so skilled that his friends call him Don Jon. But only in the presence of porn can he truly lose himself. "I think it's true that a lot of guys are learning what they think love and sex are supposed to be from the unlimited amount of porn available on the Internet," Levitt said.

But women have their own objectifying impulses, rooted, in Levitt's view, in standard-issue romantic comedies. Scarlett Johansson plays Barbara Sugarman, a gum-snapping, booty-shaking Garden State goddess whose ideas about relationships owe more than a little to the rom-com rule book. Skillfully delaying the sexual gratification Jon is so used to finding with his conquests, she lures him out of his one-night-stand comfort zone and teaches him the meaning of something that feels like love. But in time, her ideas about love and sex are revealed to be as artificial and inflexible as his.

Julianne Moore plays the film's most unexpected character, a middle-aged pot-smoking student at the night school Barbara more or less forces Jon to attend as a prerequisite to sex. Without giving too much away, Moore's character gradually emerges as the true representative of those lofty values Levitt absorbed from his mother and Martin Buber.

In his directing and screenwriting debut, Levitt exhibits an impressive command of narrative, tone, tempo and structure. The film gets substantial comic mileage out of a series of repetitive sequences that underscore not just the paradoxical extremes of Jon's existence -- he's a relentless womanizer who never goes a week without confessing his transgressions to his parish priest -- but also the routines that simultaneously comfort and confine him.

The funniest scenes are those that take place around Jon's family's dinner table, where Levitt and Tony Danza, as his father, face off, dressed in matching white tank tops. When Barbara comes to visit, it's immediately clear that father and son share an excessive appreciation for the female form.

The buzz around the film has been strong, and it's likely to find distribution and a commercial release. Before that can happen, however, its many montages of pornographic video clips will probably have to be edited in order to ward off a dreaded NC-17 rating. That said, Levitt assured the audience that the film is not as explicit as it seems: "It actually feels like you're seeing more than you are, and we spent a lot of time carefully … cropping the clips so technically you're not seeing anything you wouldn't see in a rated-R movie," Levitt told the audience. "We decided to take out all the penises and vaginas, and that's what we have here."

The "McConaissance" -- a word coined to describe the recent renaissance, if you will, of Matthew McConaughey's career -- has officially now steamrolled into Park City, Utah. The actor, who starred in four wildly different films last year ("Magic Mike," "The Paperboy," "Bernie" and "Killer Joe") is at the Sundance Film Festival with new film, "Mud," which has already garnered some serious buzz.

McConaughey and I met on the roof-deck of a Park City restaurant. When you first meet Matthew McConaughey, he is both cordial and charming. When he speaks to you, he leans in and looks you dead in the eye. McConaughey, with a tight haircut -- and looking healthy again after loosing a considerable amount of weight for his upcoming film, "Dallas Buyers Club" -- is not the type to offer bullshit. He's keenly self-aware of what you think of some of his romantic comedies and is not about to offer any sort of ham-fisted apology for them; as he told me the last time we spoke, those films provide "mailbox money."

In "Mud," director Jeff Nichols' follow-up to the brilliant "Take Shelter," McConaughey plays the title character, a fugitive who murdered his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. After befriending two young boys, Mud devises a plan to escape to the Gulf Mexico with the love of his life (played by Reese Witherspoon). I spoke to McConaughey by phone about a month ago after he won a best supporting actor award from the New York Film Critics Circle. In that conversation, we looked back on the brilliant year that McConaughey had; here, we pick up where we left off and look ahead to what might be an even better year (in addition to "Mud" and "Dallas Buyers Club," McConaughey also co-stars in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street"). Just don't expect him to ever give up his now-iconic catchphrase, "all right, all right, all right."

Last time we spoke, we discussed the McConaissance.
I've seen it. It showed up other places.

It should. It's a great word.
It's the "sance" part of it that sounds so cool. It's got a good meter, doesn't it?

When you mentioned that, my first reaction was that it was so much better than "The Year of McConaughey."
Yeah [laughs], it's got a little more of a zoom to it.

I've decided, though, that this year is the Year of McConaughey, not last year. Because last year just set the scene that you're doing these good movies
Right, right, right ...

And now we're used to that. I mean, "Mud" premiered at Cannes last year, but it didn't get a lot of buzz until now. Do you think that's because people are now thinking of you differently?
Ah ... well, it doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt. Because "Mud" doesn't feel like a "knock, knock, knock, can I come in?" It feels like we're all in the room.

But why is the buzz hitting now?
Well, we're coming out in April, so obviously there's a machine that kind of gears up. And the fact that I had a successful last year sure as heck doesn't hurt it. It helps the film, for sure. It doesn't make it like a, "What?" or a, "Oh, that's novel." It's coming on the back of some work that I've done that people have liked and they go, "That's different and we liked it." Do you know what I mean? [McConaughey makes a trumpet-sounding noise].

How do I transcribe that noise?
[Makes the trumpet sound again] That's the opening music to the McConaissance. That's the "sance" in the "McCon."

From now on when you're introduced, that should play.
So I've got to go, "All right, all right, all right" ...

You don't do that one anymore -- we're moving on to your new theme.
I can't give that one up though, man. Those were the first words that I ever said on film. [Trumpet sound] That's the "sance" in the "McCon." There were some sort of satellite views on "Mud" from Cannes, but Cannes still felt like it was "over there." And now people are seeing it -- and I'm interested to see what happens. So far, it seems like there's been a lot of positive reaction to it for very specific reasons, which is cool. And I sure hope it gets ink because I'm endeared to this movie. It's got an innocence and, oh, it takes me back in a wonderful way.

For some reason from the description I thought it was going to be a comedy. I think it's because Mud is referred to as an "outlaw," so I got "cowboy" in my head.
Oh, you wrote that he's more of a fugitive.

I think that's the better description.
Outlaw sounds like there are more guns blaring and he's much more of an aristocrat of the heart. And, yeah, he did kill a man -- for one reason. Really, the only reason he kind of would: over the love of a woman that has kicked him off the porch a thousand times. And he ain't countin' and he don't care. And there's also more mystery. I love the mysterious aspect; the superstitions. It's not an aggressive movie.

I feel like you and Jeff Nichols are a good team.
It is a good team. I hear you. I love working with Nichols because, look, he wrote this thing. And we didn't change hardly a word. Didn't need to. I mean, I had things I'd go off on, but it was just to really help me understand and explain the actual text that he wrote -- which was always better. It's simple working with Jeff. This movie is very representative of who he is -- he's a really decent man. And confident enough to not insert himself when something is going well, you know? But, specific enough to go, "it needs to be this and this." Also, confident enough to go, "That's it, we got it." Let's move on, basically. A lot of directors who are younger will go, "OK, we've got that, how else can we do it?"

I feel bad because last time we spoke I may have been a little hard on "Fool's Gold." I mean, I do get your point about what you said about "mailbox money" and "90 days of Saturdays."
Yeah, that's the Saturday characters, those are ...

But I didn't mean to pick on "Fool's Gold."
I don't give a shit if you pick on it. I don't care. I don't care of you don't like me in a film. I don't give a shit -- we can still sit here and talk about it. I mean, thank God people have different tastes. But it is Saturday. Something like "Fool's Gold," something about romantic comedies -- they're built not to grab a hold. You can't have a character obsessed 100 percent. Mud is obsessed. You can grab a hold of that. it's not about coming back to the center because we've got to hit a plot point. All of the characters I've been doing lately, they're obsessed about something. And I've been able to get feverishly drunk on their obsessions. Now, you can't get feverishly obsessed in a romantic comedy. They're built not to do that.

The movie that I think was the transition from a movie like "Fool's Gold" and where you're at now is "Lincoln Lawyer." I think that movie started the McConaissance.
I think you're right.

It caught people off guard.
Well, what people did is -- and this is the objective awareness I'm throwing at you now -- what happened there, people went, "I like that thriller ... yeah, 'A Time To Kill,' man!" They flash-backed a little.

So a callback to your '90s work?
A callback ... so it switched that view on me a little bit. They didn't go, "Oh, it's brand new." It called them back a little, is what I felt. It called them back and they say, "That's right, he's good in that type of movie."

Was that the plan with "Lincoln Lawyer" from the start?
Well, I knew it had some of those aspects -- the drama and the thriller aspects. But I didn't know. I figured if it worked and people saw it and liked it, that they would go, "Oh yeah, we haven't seen him in something like that before." Because it had it in the script -- it could pop enough to be something that goes around and makes $50 million, or whatever it made. You know? And we didn't make it for that much. But I also thought it had enough solid drama in it, so it could balance that. It's not a serious film, but it's about some pretty serious shit. And it was a fun thriller. I love getting manipulated in that film, as viewer. And a good thriller, that's what it does: it manipulates.

You've done serious movies in the past, but something about the movies you're doing now feels different than doing a movie like "Amistad." These feel like real risks where "Amistad" had "big awards movie" written all over it. Does that makes sense?
I think in a way it does. Not only are in the roles I'm choosing are the guys outsiders, the whole subject matter is coming from the side. It's not coming in straight. They're coming in off the exit, getting on the autobahn. They're not on the autobahn taking the exit. When they're working, they're coming in -- "Killer Joe" came in like a lightning bolt.

People knew what they were getting with "Amistad."
Yeah, that's packaged as ... Spielberg, slavery, the middle passage. So, it comes packaged with that sort of expectation. You could argue "Contact" did with Zemeckis and Jodie Foster. It was packaged as Carl Sagan ...

I didn't see that ending coming.
Right. But those were both, in some ways, just as personal for me. Those were subjects that I had written about in college. But, then, here's the other thing -- here's the thing we don't know about: I could have done all five of these and I could have given the exact same performance and we might not be sitting here because maybe some of them didn't see the light of day. The thing is, they all had an identity. Some of them made bigger impacts -- "Magic Mike" is a $7 million movie and it makes $100 and a googol. "Paperboy" gets seen by a small group of people and it's really split down the middle. "Bernie," the little movie that could -- keeps on just hitting it. "Killer Joe," if you saw it, it left a brand on you. What I'm saying is: there's no guarantee that they get above the waterline.

But they did.
Because they're independent. That's what's cool with independent, it's just getting them to make it -- you get the friggin' money to go out of of escrow, because now we're making it. Then, after that, guess what? There's no machine behind us. So, we have to go, "Let's peddle. If it's good, it sits in front of us and all we have to do is speak about it. People talk about it, it gets a buzz and people go, "I'm going to choose that over this blockbuster." And then they get a life.

I hope it continues.
I'm gonna keep goin' to work. I'm lovin' it.

Mike Ryan is senior writer for Huffington Post Entertainment. You can contact him directly on Twitter.

WASHINGTON -- Mallory Hagan says her first week as Miss America has been amazing, but she's not sure she's going to Inauguration Day because of the weather.

Hagan said in an interview Saturday that it may be too cold to attend President Barack Obama's public swearing in ceremony Monday. She says she has a ticket and is "in the middle of deciding if she'll go" because "it's going to be freezing."

Hagan spoke at an event for OurTime.org, which featured will.i.am and John Legend.

Hagan won the Miss America title last week. The 23-year-old was born in Alabama, but moved to New York at 18. She was named Miss New York last year and lives in Brooklyn.

She says she feels "overwhelmed, excited, humbled" after having the crown for a week.

PARK CITY, Utah — As Dave Grohl took to the stage at the Park City Live, he gave the audience an expletive-laced warning: "It's going to be a long night."

But fans were rewarded Friday night as Grohl brought out members of the Foo Fighters, ex-bandmates in Nirvana, plus John Fogerty, Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, and several others in a three-hour plus concert that celebrated his directorial debut – the film "Sound City."

Earlier Friday, "Sound City," a documentary about the music made at the recording studio of the same name, had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "Sound City" includes interviews with some of the key musicians who made music at Los Angeles-based studio, including Nicks, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and others.

At the packed concert, Grohl brought on stage some of those same players, named, appropriately enough, the Sound City Players. Fogerty performed some of his classics, including "Proud Mary," "Traveling Band" and "Centerfield"; Springfield jammed with Grohl and others for his hits, including "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything for You"; and Nicks performed songs including "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around."

"I wish we could play 100 songs, but we have 17 musicians tonight," Grohl said at one point.

One of the concert's highlights came when Grohl brought out Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, his old Nirvana partner Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear together for a set that included Taylor belting out the Fats Domino classic "Ain't That A Shame."

"This, without any (expletive) is a dream (expletive) come true for me," Taylor said, echoing the sentiments of many in the crowd as well.

The Sound City Players are featured on an upcoming album that came out of the documentary: "Sound City – Real to Reel."

Grohl has more appearances scheduled for his Sundance film premiere this week, and the Sound City Players plan to perform other shows in the near future.

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Celebrity tattoos are like lightening: you never know when they're going to strike.

At least that was the case yesterday when we were surprised at the sight of some photos of Gwyneth Paltrow passing through LAX airport. Is that a bird tattoo we spy? In addition to her go-to jeans and t-shirt, it looks as if the 40-year-old was sporting some permanent arm candy.

Of course, this wouldn't be the first time Gwynnie got inked. Back in 2008, rumors flew that the actress got a "C" tattooed on her hip in honor of husband Chris Martin. Still, we can't help but take this latest body art with a little grain of salt. Perhaps it was all just part of a day of fun with Apple and Moses? Besides, it kind of looks like it might be fading already.

So what do you think: Did Gwyneth really put a bird on it? Check out the photos below and tell us what you think!

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PARK CITY, Utah -- The Eagles picked the producer of their new Showtime documentary "The History of the Eagles" – but they insist that's about all the control they had in the making of it.

"It's really not a film that represents our point of view so much," Glenn Frey said Saturday as the quartet spoke at the Sundance Film Festival hours before the film's premiere.

The film was directed by Alison Ellwood and produced by Alex Gibney, whose other documentaries include the Academy Award-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."

"The History of the Eagles" will be shown in two parts on Showtime Feb. 15-16. It includes 40-year-old footage that was in the band's archives, as well as recent interviews with the band.

Henley said he was interested in someone making a documentary about the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers but was unimpressed with recent music documentaries. So, he asked to see the work of Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers and was led to Gibney.

From there, he worked to convince Gibney that he should tell the band's story, and they had "zero" influence on its outcome.

"We have a good story to tell and I think he's a great storyteller," Frey said, adding that Gibney told him, "We're going to make a movie, and we're going to tell the truth."

Don Henley said the band hasn't even seen the final cut yet. "I hope we like it," he joked.

Frey said what surprised him most about the film, and seeing the old footage, was "how much fun we had."

That may surprise people who are familiar with the band's well-documented discord, including their acrimonious breakup in 1982 (they got back together in 1994).

"Most of the things that have been written about this band have focused on conflict – the journalism of conflict," Henley said. "It sells papers and magazines, but one thing that Glen said that people will see in this documentary is that we had a lot of fun. Some of it's not on film, and that's good."

"The bitter fighting that the media loved to talk about really didn't take place. We argued a lot, we discussed stuff a lot, and that tension had a lot of to do with the creative process," Walsh said. "We didn't hate each other; we didn't have fist fights, none of that."

Walsh, Henley, Frey and Timothy Schmit were expected to attend the premiere later Saturday.

Frey said the band might eventually make new music together. Their last album together was 2007's "Long Road Out of Eden."

"I think what we realized is how good we are together and how things have changed, and it would be a shame if we didn't try to find a way to create some more new music," Frey said. "People really like to hear us sing, we really do well, we still perform at a very high level, so for me, it would be great."

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LOS ANGELES — "The Last Stand" could very well be just that for Arnold Schwarzenegger as a box-office draw.

Though Schwarzenegger was for years a generally dependable star, his stature has been diminished by age (he's now a 65-year-old action star), his political pursuits (eight years as California governor) and scandal (a highly publicized affair while married to Maria Shriver).

Liongate's "The Last Stand" opened over the weekend to just $6.3 million, taking 10th place at the box office. He has bounced back from box office disaster before, though; 1993's "The Last Action Hero" famously bombed.

Here's a look at Schwarzenegger's box office history before taking office in 2003. His top 10 weekend openings before he became California's governor:

1. "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," $44 million.

2. "Collateral Damage," $34 million.

3. "The 6th Day," $31.8 million.

4. "End of Days," $28.6 million.

5. "Batman and Robin," $25. 9 million.

6. "Eraser," $25.6 million.

7. "Jingle All the Way," $24.6 million.

8. "True Lies," $20.5 million.

9. "Junior," $18. 6 million.

10. "Last Action Hero," $15.3 million.

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"The Following" cast has been at work on one of TV's buzziest new shows for months and Monday, Jan. 21 will see their work debut to the world.

"I think I'm most excited for fans to be surprised," Kevin Bacon told HuffPost TV. "That's the kind of thing that makes this show interesting, in the same way that I -- when I picked up the script and read it, I said 'Wow, I didn't see that coming.' I didn't know anything about it. They just sent it to me and I just picked it up, all I knew was Kevin Williamson was involved with it. It's a page-turner and I feel like it's a great thrill ride."

The cast, including Bacon, James Purefoy and Shawn Ashmore, assembled for the premiere at the New York Public Library on Friday, Jan. 18 and told The Huffington Post who they'd follow and what they're most excited for fans to finally see.

The series hails from "The Vampire Diaries" and "Scream" veteran Kevin Williamson and centers on Ryan Hardy (Bacon), an ex-FBI agent with a smorgasbord of problems. He's come out of retirement to help re-catch a serial killer, Joe Carroll (Purefoy), who has developed a cult following of people willing to murder in his name.

"The story, Kevin Williamson's story," Purefoy told HuffPost TV. "That's the most exciting thing about it because the twists and turns on this show are more varied and more numerous than that in your intestine."

Williamson said he's ready for fans to see what the show has to offer besides the scary aspect of blood and violence.

"I'm excited for people to sort of -- I want them to see what else is there," Williamson said. "You see the previews and it comes off as this scary thriller starring Kevin Bacon. It is that, but it's also a hybrid show. There's a drama going on, there's a love story, there's all these other elements running through it. There's a lot more than just sort of the scare and the blood. I'm excited for the audience to see that."

Find out who the cast would follow in real life by clicking through the slideshow below.

"The Following" premieres Monday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. EST on Fox.

Former "One Life to Live" star Scott Evans has pled guilty to attempted cocaine possession following his arrest last month -- but TMZ has learned, he won't spend a day in the slammer.

At the presidential inauguration Monday, all eyes will be on Obama. But it's also a time for us to celebrate the First Family -- particularly First Lady Michelle Obama, who turned 49 this week.

At the last inauguration, we couldn't take our eyes off Michelle, not just because she looked stunning, but because we wondered how she would define herself in her new role. Since we haven't had a woman president (yet!), presidents' wives have so far been the female face of the presidency and also in many cases reflected the social issues of their era. See Betty Ford's support for the ERA in the 70s and Hillary Clinton's controversial statement after years of climbing the 80s career ladder, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession." A few of them in have especially captured our admiration (you all know how we feel about Hillz), so this seemed like the appropriate moment to commemorate their characters and contributions. How? With a little quiz.

If you were First Lady, who would you be most like? Do you prefer to change things from behind the scenes, like Abigail Adams, or out in the open like Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama? Are you willing to speak publicly about an illnesses or addiction to reduce stigma around it, as Betty Ford did, or do you prefer to work out your issues in private like Eleanor Roosevelt? Take the quiz below to find out:

Earlier this month James Franco recorded a parody of Justin Bieber's hit song "Boyfriend," posting the music video to his WhoSay account. The video was celebrated by Franco fans -- and even Bieber's ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez -- but apparently The Biebs himself wasn't particularly pleased.

"I was asked to take it down by some people," Franco said in an interview with E! at Sundance. "Bieber didn't contact me, but I don't think he was too happy. I wasn't trying to diss him."

The video, which is shown above, has Franco emulating Bieber, rocking a hoodie, flat-brim hat, and the teen sensation's trademark bangs.

For her part, Gomez addressed her recent breakup with Bieber in a less-than-subtle way this weekend. The singer performed at the third annual UNICEF charity concert and played a cover of Justin Timberlake's breakup jam "Cry Me a River" and Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble."

Franco is currently at the Sundance Film Festival promoting three movies, "Kink," "Lovelace," and "Interior. Leather Bar."

Actress and liberal activist Ashley Judd continued to field questions about a prospective Kentucky Senate run over the weekend, telling reporters that she still hadn't made up her mind about jumping into politics.

“I am incredibly honored and frankly overwhelmed by the outpouring of support -- that the people of Kentucky are interested in having me represent them is the greatest honor of my life so far, and I am certainly taking a close look at it,” Judd, a current resident of Tennessee, said Saturday before attending The Kentucky Society of Washington’s Bluegrass Ball in Washington, D.C.

Admitting that she was "taking a close look" at challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Judd declared that "the people of Kentucky need a fighter."

As HuffPost reported earlier this month:

Judd, a Kentucky native and vocal Democrat who has supported President Barack Obama in his two presidential campaigns, has reportedly been mulling the prospect of challenging McConnell, a political powerhouse in Kentucky. The stirrings led to preliminary polling on Judd's potential candidacy -- by both Democratic and Republican-aligned firms -- which showed Judd within four points of McConnell.

But a deeper look at the survey by the Republican pollster showed support for Judd plummeting when respondents were provided with details about the actress, such as her outspoken views against certain forms of coal extraction and current residence in Tennessee, which she represented as a delegate at last year’s Democratic National Convention. HuffPost's Jason Linkins also reported last month that Judd's liberal politics could be a tough sell in the Bluegrass State, which last sent Rand Paul, son of libertarian-leaning former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), to the Senate.

Judd's calculations hadn't changed as of Sunday morning.

“I’ve traveled all over the world,” she told Roll Call after attending a brunch for EMILY's List, a group dedicated to getting pro-choice Democratic women elected to office. “There are no people that have captured my heart, and that I am more dedicated to, than the people of Kentucky.”

With that said, Judd clarified that she was not ready to do anything more than "hedge" on the prospect of mounting a Senate campaign.

These days, our knowledge of celebrities too often originates with paparazzi images and snarky quotes by anonymous "insiders." After a while, it's easy to forget that stars are real people. That's why HuffPost Celebrity decided to launch its all-new #nofilter quick-fire question and answer series. Because how well do you know someone until they've shared their guiltiest pleasures?

Ashley Madekwe, 31, might play manipulative go-getter Ashley Davenport on ABC's hit series "Revenge," but in real life the British beauty is as sweet as pie. While on-screen Ashley is back to scheming the Graysons (she promises to keep the snide comments coming between her and Victoria), off-screen Ashley talks openly about Mariah Carey fandom, favorite songs and taking tips from Kim Kardashian.

What do you think of Honey Boo Boo?
I’m equally fascinated and scared at the same time. It all comes from her -- you can't teach a child to behave that way -- and that's what I find fascinating.

Have you read "50 Shades of Grey"?
Yes, just the first one. I wasn't interested enough to read the other ones.

What’s the last song you downloaded?
It was an album actually, Rihanna's “Unapologetic.” I really like it. My favorite track is “No Love Allowed.” I sing along to it in my car.

What New Year's resolution can you never keep?
I don’t make them because I can't keep any of them. The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

Do you have a Google alert set for yourself?
I have one set for my husband [actor Iddo Goldberg], not for myself. You might read something you don't like, so what’s the point.

What/whom have you been jealous of lately?
I'm very jealous of Miroslava [Duma], the Russian fashion It Girl. She's got a collection of Chanel bags I'm envious of, to say politely.

What's your guiltiest pleasure?
I love trashy reality TV, all of it. I watch "Housewives," "Shahs of Sunset," everything.

What's one thing you do when you're alone that you wouldn't do in front of someone else?
If you have a husband the mystery is gone from the relationship, so pretty much nothing. There's nothing I wouldn't do in front of him. Or maybe … I draw the line at the bathroom.

If you were on an online dating site, what would your profile name be?
CrazyCatLady25.

If you could ask Kim Kardashian any question, what would it be?
Who does the highlights and shading on her face. She highlights that face amazingly.

Who's your ideal drinking buddy, living or dead?
I think that I would like to drink with Mariah Carey. I've always been a fan of her, since I was a little girl, and now I'm having a renaissance. I'm enjoying her on "American Idol." She’s silly, but in a good way.

What's your biggest peeve?
Impoliteness. I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that, it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Vodka tonic or whisky neat?
Vodka tonic, for sure.

Unicorns or leprechauns?
Unicorns.

Inauguration Day is here -- coincidentally falling on Martin Luther King Day, which speaks for itself. But as the world watches Barack Obama being sworn into office for his second term Monday, the spotlight will also shine on the bevy of patriotic celebrities who are performing in honor of the 44th President of the United States.

In anticipation of Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry and Usher, check out these photos from other notable performances surrounding Inauguration Day festivities of years past.

As you probably remember, Joaquin Phoenix has feelings about awards season.

"I think it's bulls--t," Phoenix said to Elvis Mitchell during an interview last year. "I think it's total, utter bulls--t, and I don't want to be a part of it. I don't believe in it. It's a carrot, but it's the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life. I don't want this carrot. It's totally subjective. Pitting people against each other ... It's the stupidest thing in the whole world."

Phoenix later walked back some of those comments -- "I wouldn't have the career that I have if it weren't for the Oscars. I haven't been in a lot of movies that have made a lot of money ... and getting nominated [for 'Gladiator' and 'Walk The Line'] has probably helped my career tremendously," Phoenix said to the Sydney Morning Herald -- a gesture which may helped secure his Oscar nomination for Best Actor at the 85th annual Academy Awards. Not that Phoneix, who starred in "The Master," necessarily thinks he should win an Oscar.

Picking up an award from the London Critics' Circle for Best Actor, Phoenix released a statement expressing both his great thanks, and also a little disbelief that he bested Daniel Day-Lewis.

"I struggle with the idea of winning awards for acting. Stating I'm Best Actor for something as subjective as film seems strange to me. To the uninitiated it implies I'm solely responsible for the creation and implementation of the character. I am not. I suppose that's why we thank our colleagues. There are those who you all know such as Paul Thomas Anderson, to whom I am eternally grateful – a man who has persistently searched for the truth. I am fortunate to have been under his guidance. Philip Seymour Hoffman for his patience and advice. Amy Adams for being angry. Megan Ellison and everyone at Annapurna for their support of the film and ensuring that I was able to cover my mortgage. But there are many others who you do not know by name such as Mike Kenna, who I believe was the grip but he did 20 different jobs so I can't be sure; Adam Somner, the first assistant director; Karen Ramirez in the office; Tommy – I don't know your last name… there are too many to list. The truth is, you cannot separate my work from their's. We were a unit bolstered by the same goal: to do our part in helping Paul to achieve his vision. I view this award as recognition of all of our work. I am very cognisant of the fact that for me this award is an encouragement to continue my lifelong passion of being an actor. I will not squander this high regard. P.S. There's an up-and-coming actor named Daniel who's in a movie called 'Lincoln.' You should check it out."

Day-Lewis is expected to win his third Oscar at the Oscars on Feb. 24. Along with Phoenix and Day-Lewis, Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook") and Denzel Washington ("Flight") were also nominated for Best Actor.

For more on the London Critics' Circle awards, head over to Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood blog.

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Will we ever move on from our obsession with "post-baby bodies"? Elizabeth Banks certainly hopes so.

The actress' remark that she's "really a mom" now that she has two children made headlines last week. But that story overshadowed another interview in which the "Hunger Games" star talks about the experience of being a mom.

Banks' episode of the "WTF" podcast went online on Jan. 14, and in it, she tells host Marc Maron about her decision to use a surrogate for her two children. "The fact that we were able to have our own children, despite the fact that my womb basically doesn't work, is amazing to me," she says.

Then, after Maron jokes about a time he was surprised to see her "really up and out" after she told him she had just had a baby and before he knew the circumstances, she takes the opportunity to discuss the pressure women feel to "bounce back" after pregnancy:

"I like to believe that if I had carried my own baby, I would have bounced back. But who knows? And by the way, it's such a horrible -- women should not be expected to bounce back ... it's a, I think, a true disservice what's going on right now with all these celebrity moms ... first of all, I just want to remind people that celebrities generally are genetically superior human beings on a certain level anyway ... they're mostly thin, you know, they got trainers, they work out, they've got money, they've got the ability, you know, and they are normally genetically predisposed to being thin people anyway, so like these women who are holding up, you know, certain people as their benchmark after they've had a child, like just go be with your kid for a minute ... don't get to the gym right away. It's alright. This is not how it's supposed to be, everybody. Calm down."

Banks is hardly the first woman to address the unrealistic expectations placed on new moms, famous or not. Last summer, Hilary Duff responded to criticism of how she looked in a bikini months after giving birth to her son, telling "In Touch," "This is how it goes for most women -- the weight doesn't fall off overnight."

And, here on HuffPost Parents, blogger Devon Corneal railed against this pervasive problem as well, defending all moms who don't lose weight immediately: "These are mothers, not blow-up dolls who deflate upon popping out a new life. Let's give them a little respect."

We're so excited for all pomp, circumstance, and of course, style of Inauguration Day 2013!

Yesterday the President was officially sworn into office for the second time in an intimate ceremony that took place in the White House's Blue Room. It was fitting since Michelle Obama, First Daughter Malia Obama and the President were are all decked out in the hue. Although, Sasha went a bit more bold for the occasion in pink lace.

For Monday's Inauguration Day festivities the FLOTUS kept with the color theme by wearing an indigo checked Thom Browne coat. We can't quite see what's underneath the fit-and-flare coat as of yet, however she did accessorize with J.Crew kitten heels and a multi-strand pearl necklace.

As for the First Daughters, they were adorable per usual!

Malia, 14, chose a magenta J.Crew coat (she also wore one on Inauguration Day 2009) and violet tights for the big day. And it looks like a blue dress was peaking from beneath. The 14-year-old has been impressing us with her fashion moments for a while now. Did you see that super stylish outfit at Friday night's Kids' Inaugural Concert? Can't wait to see what she steps out in over the next four years.

Sasha, 11, opted for a purple Kate Spade coat and white statement necklace Monday morning. And after attending services at St. John's Episcopal Church, Sasha unbuttoned her coat to reveal a full-skirted, purple-on-purple striped Kate Spade dress. So pretty!

What do you think of the Obama's Inauguration Day looks?

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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Key & Peele reposted a couple of sketches inspired by the civil rights leader, and we couldn't resist sharing them as well.

First up, Obama and Luther remark upon the importance of the day, and after that, archival footage of Pastor Robert Jones attempting to follow King's "I Have A Dream" speech. It doesn't work out.

Watch the clips and let us know how you're remembering MLK today.

On ‘Bamazon,’ the guys from Alabama are just learning about the dangers of the different animals and parasites in the Amazon.

This episode -- one found this, a wolf fish with teeth like a piranha and an eel in its mouth, ‘Alien’-style. And then -- Chris got a cut in his foot, and after walking around in mud and water -- a parasitic insect nested in his skin.

“You have to get the egg sac out. It can actually hatch. Babies will then bleed off of your blood supply,” a nurse tells Chris.“Lay eggs and they eat the inside of your skin so you become what they call a host.”

“Yeah. It’s pretty scary,” Chris replies, adding, “I don’t wanna lose my foot either.”

The nurse warned Chris if he didn’t keep his foot dry, he could face amputation. He followed orders.

On Twitter, viewers felt for Chris -- saying he looked to be in a lot of pain.

But they don’t consider the show painful -- many aren’t ready to see its season end next week.

"Bamazon" airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on History.

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