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Jada Pinkett-Smith Shares ADORABLE Photo!

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It may not be Instagram, but it sure was 'Throwback Thursday' on Jada Pinkett's Facebook page. The actress shared an adorable photo along with a powerful message on the social network.

The proud mother and wife treated her Facebook followers to a precursor to the days when her husband and son were starring in films together, flashing back to the days when Will Smith was mastering the art of fatherhood, and Jaden was--well, just being so darn cute.

The star shared this photo with a heartwarming caption:

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Before Will and Jaden starred in AE, they starred in...Daddy Trying to Figure It Out

I have been blessed with one of the best baby daddies in the world.

To the young ones:
Just because he or she is fine, doesn't mean they'll make a good mom or dad.
Just because he or she is a good lover, doesn't mean they'll make a good mom or dad.
Just because they love you, unfortunately does not ensure they will make a good mom or dad either.

How they value and treat existing family... tells all.

Who we make babies with…is an important decision.
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The father and son duo's new movie "After Earth," hits theaters on June 7, and we're pretty sure this photo just made us even more excited for the magic these two will make on screen.

Jada has taken to Facebook in the past, sharing her thoughts on blended families and marriage, and even some secrets on how she keeps her body looking as amazing as it does.

Keep 'em coming Mrs. Smith!


Kate Walsh Returning To TV

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The cast of DirecTV's "Full Circle" is full of TV veterans.

Kate Walsh, David Boreanaz, Minka Kelly and Julian McMahon are just a few of the small screen favorites who will star in the new 10-episode drama. This is Walsh's first TV project since "Private Practice" ended in early 2013 and "Bones" fans shouldn't worry: Boreanaz will return for the Fox procedural's Season 9.

The series from Neil LaBute aims to examine "the human condition and relationships through a series of conversations between 11 people," whose lives are intertwined, unbeknownst to them. Each episode takes place in a restaurant and is a conversation between two characters. One of the character's storylines then will carry over into the next episode through a conversation with a new character.

The "Full Circle" cast also includes "Harry Potter's" Tom Felton, Keke Palmer, Devon Gerhart, Billy Campbell, Noah Silver, Ally Sheedy, Cheyenne Jackson, and Robin Weigert.

Check out DirecTV's in-depth description of "Full Circle" and get to know the cast:

Characters passing the torch from one episode to the next include Tim (Felton) an exchange student from England and his love interest Bridgette (Kelly); Bridgette’s husband Stanley (McMahon), a charismatic and intense entertainment lawyer; Stanley’s client Jace (Boreanaz), a famous comic known for his outlandish behavior; Chan’dra (Palmer), whose life was irrevocably altered as a result of a joke that Jace took too far; Cliff (Gearhart), a classmate Chan’dra secretly has a crush on; Cliff’s father Trent (Campbell) and his wife Trisha (Walsh); Peter (Jackson), an aspiring singer who intrudes on a special night between Trent and Trisha; Robbie (Silver), Trisha’s student who purports an unusual connection to his teacher, and his mother Celeste (Sheedy), with whom he shares an unnerving bond. The final episode brings the characters together, with the unexpected addition of one (Weigert), for an explosive ending that is sure to change all of these characters lives irreparably.

"Full Circle" is scheduled to premiere on DirecTV's Audience in fall 2013.

A Handy Guide To Summer Festivals

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Festival season -- that time of year when beer flows freely from makeshift taps into clear plastic cups, clothing is shed and tanlines grow upon us like zippers on Michael Jackson's jackets -- is among us. Each year's summer brings with it more and more choices, so we are here to help make picking which festival to invest a few hundred of your hard-earned dollars on a bit easier. Should you dance with the young'ns at Electric Daisy Carnival or fashion yourself an art car and head to Burning Man? Does indie-shuffling with hipsters at Lollapalooza make more sense than getting a good dose of real hip-hop at Rock the Bells? Or does a Circuit Party offer the best bang for your buck? Take a look at the options below, and, no matter what you decide, remember to wear sunscreen.

The Softer Side Of Stan

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All season on "Mad Men," Stan Rizzo (Jay R. Ferguson) has been getting attention for his facial hair.

But there is another side of the gruff "Mad Men" character: the one who pines after Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and even went in for the kiss.

Ferguson opened up to GQ about Sunday's episode, titled "The Crash," in which he and Peggy engaged in a halfway-decent kiss.

"This was the first time the audience was getting a chance to kind of see this softer side. For so long now, people have started to wonder, is there even any other part of Stan than what we see?" he said. "So that was fun and liberating, as the character, to be able to go there a little bit. And just to be able to do that with Lizzie [Moss], that was a very special gift that they gave me."

Ferguson added, "There was a moment there where as an audience, you wonder, is there maybe a little bit of a two-way street here? But then it just gets yanked right back in the other direction."

As much as he enjoyed the scene with Moss, it looks like Peggy-Stan shippers might not be seeing what they want just yet.

Despite the beloved potential couple's moment, the real star of "The Crash" was Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton), who performed an impressive tap number for Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

"There are already GIFs all over the Internet. I want it to be the screensaver on my computer," Ferguson told GQ.

Staton told The New York Times that he didn't even know if he'd be able to do the number. "The truth of it is, it’s not something I’ve done in a while. It’s been a few years. First I got a text message, 'Do you tap dance?' And so I had to go: 'Do I? Let me check.' I’m still holding the phone -- 'What do I still know, if anything?'"

For more from Ferguson, click over to GQ.

"Mad Men" airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on AMC.

WATCH: Celebs Join Matt Damon's 'Toilet Strike'

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These famous philanthropists really have a can-don't attitude.

Bono, Richard Branson and Olivia Wilde have joined Matt Damon in his jokey pledge to not go to the bathroom until the world water crisis is solved. And they've invited us all to achieve stardom by saying no to nature's call.

"If you don't use the toilet, you're a celebrity," Damon cracks in his latest video (watch above). The spot follows a viral PSA he appeared in a few months ago for Water.org, an organization he co-founded to combat water shortages and contamination. It was then that the actor first declared his potty boycott.

Like the first video, the tone is in good fun. The three new toilet strikers banter about a secret meeting of "the illuminati" and other silliness regarding who is the superior do-gooder. But the message is serious: "780 million people -- that's one in nine -- lack access to safe water," Bono explains.

According to water.org's website, almost three children die every minute from "water-related illness." Much of that is prompted by "fecal matter."

WATCH:

Visit here for a list of things you can do to help ease the water crisis.

Want to donate money to Damon's cause? (You'll be flush with pride!) Click here.

PHOTOS: Kat Von D Hopes To Ink A Deal

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Former “L.A. Ink” reality TV star Kat Von D hopes to sell her Gothic castle-style home (what, were you envisioning her in a track development ranch?) for $2.5 million. She bought the place in 2011 for $2.175 million.

The massively body-decorated Von D has been romantically linked to several bad boys, but is currently engaged to Canadian music producer Joel Zimmerman, known professionally as DJ Deadmau5, who in December proposed to her over Twitter. She gave him a star tattoo below his eye to match her own, establishing that true love is at play. Previously, Kat Von D was involved with Sandra Bullock's ex-husband Jesse James.

The 4,148-square foot house she is selling has four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There's an outdoor entertainment area that includes a fire pit and spa. The listing agent calls it a Spanish style home. We think said agent needs to look at the dining room again.

Photos courtesy of Realtor.com.

Is There Hope For Jaime & Brienne Shippers?

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There is certainly a lot of sex happening on HBO's hit series "Game Of Thrones," but one duo who haven't consummated their intimate, yet heated relationship are Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

Though things have long been tense between the two as Brienne attempts to keep her promise to Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) of bringing Jaime back to King's Landing, when the Lannister son lost his sword hand, things took a turn for the better. There was, of course, their communal bath moment and later, Jaime saved Brienne from a gladiatorial pit with a massive bear. If that's not love, we don't know what is.

Christie knows that many "Game Of Thrones" fans are hoping for something romantic between Jaime and Brienne, but she's not sure if it will happen or if she wants it to. "The world of 'Game of Thrones,' the world that George R.R. Martin has created and that Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff]'s translation adapts brilliantly, is a world that's never straightforward," Christie told Rolling Stone. "I genuinely have moments of absolutely no idea. I don't even know if I want them to, because what they're experiencing is a bond that is quite unusual and quite pure bond. He did come back and save her life, which is enormous. I think it makes us examine a lot of possibilities and angles of what love is, and what love makes us capable of."

The actress added that Jaime and Brienne's sexual history -- incestuous and non-existant, respectively -- makes them "two highly unusual individuals." She told Rolling Stone, "I don't think that anyone genuinely can predict the way in which their relationship will go in any regard. Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes ... We all want to see the impossible actually happen, to see these two extraordinary characters reach that amazing stage. Everyone's a sucker for some love and romance and whatever that may bring. But with those two? Lord knows," she said with a laugh.

Coster-Waldau previously told The Hollywood Reporter that "Game Of Thrones" fans should expect "a lot of twists and turns" for Jaime and Brienne. He added, "I think he deep down recognizes, and I don't think he realizes it, that there's something about her that he uniquely identifies with."

But for those serious Jaime and Brienne shippers, here's something to hold you over.

For more from Christie, click over to Rolling Stone.

"Game Of Thrones" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. There will not be a new episode on May 26, but tune in for a big one on June 2.

Three Years Later, People Are Still Livid About 'Lost'

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Three years ago, on May 23, 2010, 13.5 million people tuned in for the series finale of "Lost."

After six seasons of barefooted Others, Dharma Initiative snacks (specifically ranch dressing), Saywer's zingers, smoke monsters, "Walt!" and flashing backward, forward and sideways, fans of the series -- which was run by Carlton Cuse and co-creator Damon Lindelof -- were hoping the "Lost" finale would answer their many questions.

What viewers got, though, was a happy ending wrapped in a bow: All of the major "Lost" characters, dead, in a church, lovingly embracing and "moving on" to the after-life.

But after watching the two-and-a-half-hour series finale, many "Lost" fans and critics were dissatisfied ... to say the least. Gawker's Max Read wrote the show "ended in the worst way possible"; Charlie Brooker of The Guardian said "the plot made less sense than a milk hammock"; and Jace Lacob of The Daily Beast noted that fans were "infuriated."

Now that we've had three years to think about the "Lost" finale, titled "The End," HuffPost TV asked fans to share their feelings on Twitter. Lindelof is not over the show, but are others still upset? Check out the slideshow below to find out.


'Grey's Anatomy' Scoop: 'Callie Isn't A Victim'

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"Grey's Anatomy" fans have a lot to be worried about for Season 10. But one of their biggest concerns after the Season 9 finale earlier this month is the fate of fan-favorite couple Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and Callie (Sara Ramirez).

In the finale, titled "Perfect Storm," Arizona cheated on Callie with Lauren (Hilarie Burton), which Callie found out after seeing Arizona's engagement ring pinned on Lauren's shirt. (That's how the couple prevents their rings from getting in the way during surgeries.) At the end of the finale, couple had a fight that revealed emotions that have been suppressed for months: Arizona clearly has yet to forgive her wife for breaking her promise that she'd save Arizona's leg after the plane crash that ended Season 8.

"What the bigger question is, is what's Callie going to do next?" "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes told The Hollywood Reporter of Season 10. "Callie isn't a victim; she's never really been a victim, and she's been cheated on before with George [T.R. Knight]. So how she's going to take this and what she's going to do next is going to be the bigger issue."

Capshaw previously told THR that the there's a lack of trust exhibited from both women. "What you see in her very core is that Arizona does not forgive Callie," she explained. "When you're watching it, if you're really listening, you understand both people's point of view."

And the actress understands why fans are so heartbroken. "It's devastating ... It's really scary to feel this way," Capshaw told TV Guide ahead of the finale. "My goodness, Callie and Arizona have been through Africa, they've been through the baby, they've been through a car crash, they've been through a plane crash. They've been through so much and it just started to seem like it was getting back to normal again."

Is there hope for the fan-favorite "Grey's Anatomy" couple to get back to normal again in Season 10? "Infidelity is horrible, there's nothing worse than that ... I hope it doesn't turn into a year of self-flagellation for Arizona. I think you can do something bad and it doesn't make you a bad person," Capshaw told THR. "We are the sum of our experiences and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better. I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level -- unless you're dealing with a sociopath -- there's always a reason. There will be an exploration of what that reason was and that will give the 'Grey's' writers fertile ground to play with next season."

For more on "Grey's Anatomy" Season 10, click over to The Hollywood Reporter.

The 13 Best TV Episodes To Celebrate Summer

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Does peeing on a jellyfish sting really work to soothe the burn? And if you're drinking in the sun all day, can you really call it heatstroke? These are the questions that some of our favorite TV characters have left us with after they've taken vacations.

As the weather heats up and you're dreaming of your own sunny summer getaway, don't forget that TV shows like to vacation, too -- some sitcoms never miss the chance to jet off to someplace exotic, and a few dramatic jaunts have happened on the small screen as well.

From "Seinfeld" and "Friends" and their now-infamous sabbaticals on the shore to "Mad Men's" Palm Springs reverie, we've rounded up our favorite TV vacation episodes, just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend.

Tell us: What are your favorite summer-themed television episodes?

Is The New 'Bachelorette' Engaged?

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NEW YORK — ABC's newest "Bachelorette," Desiree Hartsock, says it's not hard to keep the details of her experience on the show a secret from her friends.

"Ironically, I'm kind of a private person anyway, so my friends know not to ask," she said in a recent interview.

Hartsock has some experience with the matter, although her last reality TV romance ended in heartbreak.

The 27-year-old competed for the affection of Sean Lowe on the last season of "The Bachelor." She was sent home after a disastrous date where he met her family.

"I think after all the questions they asked last season, they got an idea that I can't talk about it and it's best that they don't ask. They just let me be and I'm excited to talk about it once it's all over," she said of the new season.

Whether the bridal designer is excited to share some good news, Hartsock is also keeping that close to the vest.

"I can't give away if I'm happy or anything but this season I think is a little different because there are a lot of twists and turns. Everybody's gonna have to wait and see what happens," she said.

Hartsock marvels at how her life has changed in a short amount of time.

"It just blows my mind, to be honest," she laughed. "I wasn't even expecting to be on `The Bachelor.' It was more of a `hey, if this works out, it works out.'"

It didn't work out with Lowe, who's engaged to Catherine Giudici, his final pick on "The Bachelor." But Hartsock won over viewers with her girl-next-door looks, attitude and raw vulnerability when Lowe sent her home after meeting her family.

Although it seemed at first that her older brother was onboard with the relationship, he told Lowe in a one-on-one chat that he didn't think he was right for his sister.

Hartsock says there are no hard feelings over her brother's skepticism and stresses it was "very Sean specific."

"He's my brother! He trusts me and he supports me," she said.

The drama this time comes from 25 male contestants. Hartsock says they have "a lot of strong personalities" and she's looking forward to seeing what led up to their conflicts when she wasn't around.

"The Bachelorette," hosted by Chris Harrison, premieres Monday on ABC at 8 p.m. EDT.

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Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar

What Is Up With Rob Lowe's Face? The Actor On His Crazy 'Candelabra' Role

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Rob Lowe thought the script for "Behind the Candelabra" was great and he jumped at the chance to work with stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, who play Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson in the glitzy, perceptive movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh.

But Lowe's character in the HBO film, plastic surgeon Dr. Jack Startz, looks like a cat. A cat with shiny skin and lustrous, early '80s hair. The absurdity of the situation was not lost on Lowe.

"There were days when I would go, 'This is the end, for sure, of my career,'" Lowe said in a recent interview. "When I walked on the set and looked at Michael with his fat suit and caftan, Matt in his velour, butt-hugger shorts and Farrah wig, and me as Startz -- I said, 'It’s over for all of us. This is it.'"

The film is not a career-ender for anyone, certainly not for Damon, Douglas, Lowe and fellow cast members Debbie Reynolds, Dan Ackroyd and Scott Bakula. (Many will be drawn to "Candelabra" by the spectacle of Liberace's lavish shows and his gaudily appointed homes, but for me, the sight of Bakula's magnificent mustache was more than worth the price of admission.) Still, as Lowe said, the fact that no major studio would make the film, which follows the progress of Liberace and Throrson's glittery but secret relationship, is a sad comment on the state of the modern movie industry. As the actor noted, if the script for "The Outsiders" -- Lowe's first major film -- surfaced today, no studio would want to make it unless all the characters were zombies.

There are no zombies or vampires in the tale of Thorson, Liberace and their strange-looking plastic surgeon, but there's quite a bit of subversive commentary on the toxic nature of celebrity and the ways in which both fame and secrecy can distort intimacy and corrode good intentions. Startz may look odd, but he thinks he's actually helping his clients, and Lowe handles the strangeness of the man and the excesses of the era with the kind of light touch he also displays on NBC's "Parks and Recreation."

Below, Lowe talks about "Candelabra's" glittering surfaces and surprising depths, about how he transformed himself into the tight-faced surgeon and about the kind of LA guy he modeled his character on.

The following interview was edited and slightly condensed.

My first reaction on watching "Behind the Candelabra" was to think it was smart and interesting and fun. And my second reaction was wanting to speak to you, because you certainly made an impression in that role. Dr. Jack was a trip.

Thank you. I'm so glad to know that that character could punch through all of the amazing elements that are in that movie.

Can you talk a little bit about how you actually transformed into that character?

The makeup, as difficult as it was in terms of the pain level of getting my face pulled around and trying to find the look, was really tough, but we had a great visual team on the movie. I think that's the gang that Steven works with all the time, and they did a really good job.

But finding the character was more important even than the look, because I'm coming in to this after [the rest of the cast and crew] has been up and running, and the tone of the movie is so specific -- anybody could slip off the edge really easily. The tone is pushed right to the edge without going over the edge. Matt and Michael were there every day and had the ability to really get comfortable. I was just jetting in and jetting out, so I was a little concerned about fitting in to the movie in the appropriate way, if that makes any sense at all.

That makes a lot of sense. And I think that you make an excellent point, because I the character is kind of comic relief, but the concerns that these men have about their appearance, and the fragility of their egos -- that's one of linchpins of the movie. I think you found the right tone, I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

Well, it's such a great screenplay, number one. So a lot of the battle is done for you by Richard [LaGravenese's] amazing screenplay. But my inclination was to lean in to the absurdity of it and the hypocrisy and the funny of the entire situation. That's the tone [in one scene] when I'm sort of looking at [Scott] like an alien. [Another director might] take you aside and go, "You know, I think that might be a bit much." And Steven was really game for bringing the comedy out.

There are definitely comedic moments, but you also feel sorry for these people, because it seems as though they're beautiful and wealthy and untouchable, but ultimately they're very insecure and they turn to drugs and plastic surgery to keep up a façade. So there's pathos there as well.

Right. That's what's so great about Michael's and Matt's work in this, and I tried to do it on my own end -- they're real people. They're not caricatures and they're not cartoons, and all of the things that could potentially make them freaks don't stand in the way of people being able to understand them.

When you talk about the specific things that were done to create that look, were there any prosthetics that were applied? Or was it a matter of pulling things around, as you said?

It was matter of pulling things around. I had new teeth that I used and they did this very specific type of makeup. There weren't any photos of Dr. Jack Startz at that time -- no one in the research department could find a great photo of him when we started. So we sort of swung blind at it, and all we had to go on was the two lines in [Scott Thorson's] book, "Behind the Candelabra," that say Dr. Jack Startz was -- I think the quote is "face pulled extremely tight and skin so shiny it made him look like a doll." The shiny skin was a great concoction of a very particular type of makeup.

Then as I was doing the camera tests, spending time in the makeup [allowed me to] discover interesting things, like when your eyebrows are pulled up like Jack's are, your eyelids are inclined to open. So with my eyebrows pulled up, [the effect] is really freaky.

I think what one of the most disturbing parts of the film is just the knowledge that people with this much plastic surgery can't quite close their eyes.

There are 10 lines in this movie that could be on T-shirts -- one of them is definitely when Liberace says, "Will I ever be able to close my eyes?" and Startz says, "Not exactly. You'll always be able to see people's reactions when they see how wonderful you look."

As an actor, that's a big part of your toolbox -- the facial expressions that you're able to work with. So was having with these limitations inhibiting? How did you work around that?

No, it actually was more freeing. Although his face is definitely frozen, I was able to find ways to look that just made Matt laugh. There's a scene where [Scott] comes to me -- he wants to have something additional done. The scene ends, and we are just literally making faces. I mean, that’s what I love about Steven. When I saw [the film,] I thought, "I can’t believe he not only put some of that in, but he underlined it." I mean, that scene just ends in the middle of us making faces. But it made Steve laugh and it made Matt laugh.

Matt wouldn’t even look at me. He really wouldn’t. He got the point where he would look at his feet while he acted with me. And we had a parlor game of who I reminded people of.

Who did Dr. Startz remind you of? Who was your leading candidate?

I designed the whole guy after a sort of template of a man that I would see in the mid-'80s, [guys with] with semi-good seats at the Laker games. It'd be, like, an East Coast transplant -- he’s that tough guy, but he's been in L.A. too long, he's drunk the Kool-Aid and now he's really off the reservation. Of an indeterminate age and sexuality.

And really, really tan -- like, he has an almost frightening tan.

Yeah. Absolutely. If Margaret Mead in her heyday were to come and do an anthropological look at Los Angeles, absolutely, that is a very specific type. Happily or unhappily, I think they may be endangered.

I hope not. I live in the Midwest, and I come out to LA a few times a year and I just love to see these kind of people, in a weird way. I call them the gargoyles, and I say that with fondness, because it’s just not something that I see in my everyday life. And I kind a love that they enjoy their own look, you know? They seem to be happy, I guess.

Oh, absolutely. Are you kidding me? Dr. Jack -- he’s the cat's meow.

Quite literally. He looks a like a cat.

Yeah. A little bit. He’s got a little cat thing going, and yet he talks like he might be more at home in "Goodfellas." He’s like, [Brooklyn-esque voice], "I can do that." It’s a weird [mixture].

I mean, literally, there were days when I would go, "This is the end, for sure, of my career." When I walked on the set and looked at Michael with his fat suit and caftan, Matt in his velour butt-hugger shorts and Farrah wig, and me as Startz -- I said, "It’s over for all of us. This is it."

"This is the end of our careers, but what an ending."

I was like, “We used to be hot guys. What has become of us?”

As much as there’s that element of just complete bizarreness to what was going on, the film has this interesting subtext too. This is also something I saw in [Soderbergh's] "Magic Mike" -- the idea of men being being insecure about their bodies or how they're treated a certain way because how they look. I think Steven has done something really subversive, in that he's wrapped up these questions in this candy-colored, shiny package. But there's something serious at the heart of this film, some ideas about intimacy and celebrity and how people are insecure even within that cocoon.

I agree. That the film would have levels that are deeply surprising is not surprising, because Steven is the smartest guy in any room he’s in and operating on a completely different level.

Steven had so many ideas that he put into this, and it has such a high-level cast. Is it kind of sad to you that this kind of film could not find a home at a big studio?

It’s actually shocking, and it's all you need to know about the current state of the movie business. And unfortunately, the story only gets sadder with the happy result of the movie. It’s now pretty clear that if it had been a movie, it would certainly be on the best-of lists of the year and maybe nominated for best picture based on the reviews that it’s gotten. So here’s Hollywood passing not only on Michael, Matt, Steven and this amazing screenplay, but on an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often, to make one of the best pictures of the year.

I’m both encouraged that HBO did this and also, as you said, very discouraged that it was so hard for this particular film to get made. You would’ve thought studios would be just dying to have this cast and this kind of story.

Dying. But, you know, I went to a movie last night, and I don’t really go see "movies" anymore, because they’re not made for me. Why would I? I get the message that [movie marketing is] trying to say, and that message is, "We’re not interested in you." And you know what? I’m in a place in my life where I go, "Message received, delivered and accepted."

That said, I actually did go see a big movie last night. And I had a great time, but I realized it literally is Disney World. It's like, when you would go to Disney World and sit in a kind of theater you’ve never been in before, with seats up to the rafters and they’d give you [special] glasses. It has nothing to do with the era where you would go to a theater and see "Network" or "Heaven Can Wait" or "The Electric Horseman" or "The Way We Were." It has nothing to do with that -- it’s Disneyland.

I was just thinking the other day, would a movie like "Kramer vs. Kramer" or "The Outsiders" get made today?

"The Outsiders" would be made if, instead of disenfranchised youth, we were disenfranchised zombies or vampires. And Francis Ford Coppola would not be directing it, that’s for sure.

Liberace's [life], as weird as it is, actually makes you think about your own life. And the movies that the studios make are designed for you to not think about your life.

Running through “Behind the Candelabra,” there's this sadness about how Liberace was ultimately trapped by his life. His connections to other people weren't fully realized and it was sad that he couldn’t truly just be himself and own who he was.

Yeah. The movie works on a bunch of different levels, and one of the more beautiful ones is, he was a trailblazer for artists who came after him who are comfortable [with who they are]. Not only are comfortable with who they are, but -- and I don’t say this in a pejorative way -- use who they are to be even more successful. As opposed to hiding who they are to be more successful.

On The Huffington Post, I saw a thing on the music business, on this Ke$ha character drinking her own pee. Can you imagine? That’s the era we live in now. And Liberace was afraid for people to know who he loved. That’s how far we’ve come.

Turning to your work on "Parks and Recreation," was signing on to do that show part of a conscious effort to turn your career more toward comedic projects?

It was really just embracing the opportunity to be able to do both drama and comedy at a high level with people that I love. It was always a dream for me to have the kind of career where I wasn't pigeonholed as a dramatic actor or a comedic actor. And to get to that point you have to be able to actually do both. So when the opportunities came up to focus more on comedy, I was really happy about it. And I’ve been really blessed to work with amazing collaborators, because it’s easier to be funny when there are really funny people around you.

It seems like next season when the show comes back Chris might be faced with fatherhood along with Ron Swanson, and it made me wonder, would Chris and Ron be the kind of people who trade parenting tips, or just kind of secretly feel horror about how the other person is raising their child?

Anytime Chris and Ron are together it always makes me laugh. One of the things I like about "Parks" just in general is the combinations of characters -- it’s one of the rare shows where you can put any two characters together and it’s gold. Whether it’s Chris and Ron, Ann and Chris, Ron and Tom. The sort of mix and match -- all of it is genius. So I’m really looking forward to seeing how not only Chris and Ron handle it, but how everybody handles it, because every character brings so much. It’s going to be a cool year.

I enjoy the fact that the writers are really willing to put the characters through changes. Chris went through kind of a crisis and had a lot of therapy last season.

Chris had a huge arc last year. I mean, he was one step away from sanitarium at the beginning of the year. And now he’s laissez-faire about stuff that [previously] would’ve put him in bed for a week.

What's interesting is that he seemed very together when he first joined the show, and then he was revealed to be kind of a mess. That’s a great arc.

I’m glad you like it. Chris has been such a tremendous gift. I've been doing a lot of traveling, and when you get out of Hollywood and you meet people who are actually watching the show, their enthusiasm is so gratifying. It really is.

Note: I review "Behind the Candelabra" and talk about it in depth with critic Ryan McGee in this week's Talking TV podcast, which can be found here, on iTunes and below.

"Behind the Candelabra" airs 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on HBO.

Game Of Desks Is HERE!

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In the days leading up to Friday night's show, Jimmy Fallon had been teasing his followers on social media with sneak peeks at "Game Of Desks", "Late Night's" sure-to-be-epic "Game Of Thrones" parody. And when Friday finally rolled around, he did not disappoint.

Complete with an animated title sequence showing a map of "Rockefell", the digital original saw Fallon as a Ned Stark-ish version of himself fighting to hold onto the "iron desk" of Studio 6B.

To say more would be to do the story a disservice. Watch the whole thing for yourself above.

WATCH: The Fresh Prince And DJ Jazzy Jeff REUNITED!

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You might remember that the last time Will Smith was on 'The Graham Norton Show' he treated the audience (and us) to a rendition of the theme from his old show 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air'.

Well on this week's show, he went one better.

Not only he did he beatbox while his son, Jaden Smith, showed off his impressive rapping skils, but he then introduced his old partner, DJ Jazzy Jeff, who took to the stage to DJ as Will and Jaden performed the theme song again before another VERY special guest joined them on stage.

Cue a very excitable studio audience, Heather Graham having a little boogie/hair shake on the couch and a very bemused looking Bradley Cooper.

TV gold.

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Lena Dunham Always Gets It Right & More Tweets Of The Week

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Oh Lena Dunham, we can always rely on you to speak our minds exactly. This week, the funny star expressed her thoughts on one of the realest lines in Demi Lovato's song, "Heart Attack." And Into The Gloss shared an amazing picture of a young and quite dapper looking Karl Lagerfled.

Our entertainment editor, Kia Makarechi, riffs on how Jason Derulo's name must constantly be sung, comedian Jenny Johnson shares a funny conversation she had with her mom about Tom Ford, and Bette Midler expresses an intelligent thought on the gun issues in this country.

Click through to see our favorite tweets this week!

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PHOTOS: Slits Reach Dangerous Heights This Week

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The successes and stumbles of this week's dangerous outfits can be sectioned off by event, each of which boasted more risqué fashion than the next. The winner was the amFar Cinema Against AIDS Gala, where Kylie Minogue wore an ivory gown that boasted three risky moves: a high slit, cut-outs and a plunging neckline. Karolina Kurkova showed off her model body in a dress with plenty of cut-outs, too... but, to no one's surprise, she actually pulled it off pretty well.

Things didn't go quite as well at the Cannes Film Festival and the Billboard Music Awards. At the latter, Jenny McCarthy wore a mismatched getup that included a cropped tank top and a shredded skirt, and Ke$hashowed the world her "sidebutt." Oh, and Rosario Dawson took a major risk at Cannes. We know how tempting it is to bare it all during the summer, but it's still important to handle your wardrobe choices with care.

Click though to see who showed just enough skin and whose outfits were "stumbles." Do you agree with our verdicts?

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Tyler Perry Makes BIG Donation

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools.

The Columbus Dispatch ( ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a TV report about teacher Mary Mulvany starting a foundation to raise scholarship money to cover fees. http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR

South-Western schools earned national attention when athletics and extra-curricular activities were eliminated after a failed levy in 2009. The ballot request was later approved by voters, and sports, clubs and other activities were resurrected for a fee.

Perry says he wants to sponsor as many children as possible and wants part of the money to go toward Finland and some to the foundation.

Race For Coveted Cannes Honor Wide Open

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CANNES, France -- After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or.

The prestigious award, given to the best film in competition, will be handed out Sunday night, decided upon by a jury headed by Steven Spielberg. And while this year's festival has boasted a cinematic feast, no single film is believed to have clearly set itself apart from the pack.

At least half a dozen films seem to have a realistic chance of winning Cannes' top prize, including the Coen brothers' 1960s folk tale "Inside Llewyn Davis," Paolo Sorrentino's rollicking Roman party "The Great Beauty," Asghar Farhadi's domestic drama "The Past," James Gray's 1920s Ellis Island melodrama "The Immigrant" and Abdellatif Kechiche's lesbian coming-of-age tale "Blue is the Warmest Color."

Consensus is always hard to come by in Cannes, but it does happen. Last year, Michael Haneke's "Amour" was the far-and-away favorite, and went on to win best foreign language film at the Oscars and earn the rare best picture nomination for a non-English film.

In 2011, Terrence Malick's cosmic rumination "The Tree of Life" too was obvious Palme material. But the year before, Cannes was fairly shocked when Tim Burton's jury picked the existential Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives."

Palme d'Or oddsmaker Neil Young currently has Farhadi in the lead with 5-to-2 odds to win. The Iranian director, whose film is in French, was honored as the best foreign language film two years ago at the Academy Awards for another domestic drama, "A Separation." Having grown into an internationally renowned filmmaker, Farhadi could be in position for the Palme.

But some found his film, with its succession of reveals of past misdeeds, more a feat of mystery novel-like plotting than revealing drama. Certainly, its star, Berenice Bejo ("The Artist"), as a single-mother balancing an ex-husband and a new fiancé, is a possible best actress winner.

So, too, is the star of "Blue is the Warmest Color," Adele Exarchopoulos. The 19-year-old actress was one of the breakout stars of the festival in the three-hour French film.

But the American entries this year have been very strong. Perhaps no film was better received at Cannes than "Inside Llewyn Davis," along with its newcomer star, Oscar Isaac, who performed live songs for the film. The Coens won the Palme in 1991 for "Barton Fink."

Gray's "The Immigrant," starring Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, divided critics between those hailing it as a classically made masterpiece and those unmoved by its operatic emotions. But the handsomely photographed, finely acted New York period piece may have played well with Spielberg's jury.

"I'm trying to live in the bubble as best I can," Gray said Saturday. "If a film's reception is great, then you believe your own hype. If it goes poorly, then you think of yourself as a bum – neither of which is usually the case. Usually the case is you're either hostage to or a beneficiary of a certain kind of festival gestalt."

Alexander Payne's father-and-son story "Nebraska," starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte, could also stir the jury with its austere, black-and-white Midwest road trip.

Psychological guesswork of jury presidents is de rigueur at Cannes. This year, many expect Spielberg will steer away from rewarding a filmmaker from his native country. He leads a starry, international group of eight others: Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, French actor Daniel Auteuil and Bollywood star Vidya Balan.

One of the boldest, most ambitious films in competition was Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," which stars Toni Servillo as a Rome journalist who begins to question a lifetime of late nights. Wildly stylistic but also emotionally personal, it was one of the biggest critical hits at Cannes.

On the outside are wild cards like Steve Soderbergh's Liberace melodrama "Behind the Candelabra," Kore-eda Hirokazu's switched-at-birth drama "Like Father, Like Son" and Chad-born Mahamat-Saleh's disabled dancer tale "Grigris."

Soderbergh's film, starring Michael Douglas, will air on HBO in the U.S. just hours after the Cannes closing ceremony. The director is withdrawing from moviemaking, so a win at Cannes would be fitting symmetry. His first film, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," won the Palme d'Or in 1989.

On the first day of the festival, jury member Lee said he was praying the jury would be overwhelmed by a self-evident Palme winner, so they would have to avoid "rationalizing" their choice through debate. Perhaps the jury was hit by a thunderbolt that didn't resound as clearly for festivalgoers. But most likely, Lee's prayers went unanswered.

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Kanye West's Project Blocked By Police

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Kanye West reportedly ran into trouble with the Houston Police Department on Friday night.

The 35-year-old rapper had planned a projection of his "New Slaves" video on the city's Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational sanctuary. The chapel was one of three places that "New Slaves" was to be shown in the city.

The projection on the Rothko Chapel was shut down by police, The Houston Chronicle reports. Members of the crowd who had gathered to watch the video were reportedly told to leave as they could face charges for trespassing.

West has been promoting his "New Slaves" single by showing it on the sides of buildings across the globe. He first debuted the track last week by showing video of his face performing the song on iconic buildings such as Chicago's Wrigley Field.

"New Slaves" is one of two new songs that West has recently released. He also performed a track called "Black Skinhead" on last week's episode of "Saturday Night Live," hosted by Ben Affleck. Both songs are expected to be featured on West's upcoming album "Yeezus," hitting stores on June 18.


PHOTOS: Is Yellow The New Blonde? Rita Ora Thinks So

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Rita Ora has rocked a signature platinum hairstyle for as long as we can remember. This week, the British singer opted for a crazy color change-up, when she swapped her classic blonde locks for blue, and then settled on a bright yellow hue.

"Yellow hair don't care," Rita tweeted, perhaps the boldest update on the oft-cited carefree hair phrase. Ora faded her new shade from the bottom up, literally staying true to her roots. We've seen plenty of bold neon hair, we've seen a lot of ombré... but we're not sure if we've seen a star combine the two trends in such a wild move.

Review Rita's new look in the photos below. Do you think her Barbie-inspired choice is crazy, or just crazy enough to work?

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