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We're often quick to declare a social network "dead." Sure, plenty of them have come and gone in recent years, but few have had such a massive fall from grace as MySpace, which has come to be known as "DeadSpace." The unpronounceable "My____" logo rebranding did not help. Now it's rumored to be at the dawn of a complete overhaul, but this article isn't about that. It's about the hole that MySpace has left specifically in the music community.

MySpace was the first social network that I joined. I snubbed Friendster previously. I would riff about how odd it was to try to make friends online and how checking out your friends' friends encouraged leeches, moochers and social-climbing. But I caved into MySpace because it had some useful features for musicians. The first one that drew me in was simply the events listing. The year was 2006 and I was about to embark on my first extensive headlining tour. Here was a way for me to not only announce the dates but also post the flyer art and blast out updates if we decided to change venues or add more cities.

As I delved into its functionality, I found a complete set of features to serve the DIY artist. One that was surprisingly meaningful was the option of customizing your page's layout and background. The same way that producers were suddenly able to make their own music at home on affordable software, artists were more than ever in control of their image and branding. Before branding was even a buzzword, we were all recruiting our friends to help us learn basic HTML to design our MySpace pages.

Take my friend Kavinsky for example, of Drive soundtrack fame. I can assure you that in 2007 he was already MySpace-famous for having the coolest looking page on there, complete with a tri-dimensional Tron moving floor. Compare that to Facebook where everybody has the same blue-grey theme that looks like the Post Office. Then of course, before murders were committed over relationship statuses, there was the choice of "Top Friends." This was by far the most strategic chess move on the network. Placing someone in your Top 8 meant forging an alliance, one which you hoped would be reciprocated. You would put a few of your obvious allies, a couple of extended peers, and some oddball selections to show the depth of your character. A mysterious hot girl? David Lynch? An über-cool niche label from the '90s?

Even the most straightforward functions of MySpace haven't been replaced. Look at Facebook's Fan Pages. How do you post your songs on there? Most people use Bandpage, a third-party app developed by Root Music which you have to embed onto a tab and grab your songs from your SoundCloud account, yet another social network. It's astounding how complicated that is. MySpace had a music player where you could post six songs (another strategic selection from the artist), and non-musician users could grab one of your songs for their personal page, which turned the "Daily Plays" metric into an extremely useful measure of someone's popularity beyond their number of friends.

Are you nostalgic yet?

Think about it. I run a record label, Fool's Gold. We signed a great deal of our artists simply based on their MySpace pages. If I heard about a DJ, rapper or band, I would type out myspace.com/theirname and get their full list of tour dates and venues ("oh wow he's already playing Mercury Lounge"), their pictures, a glimpse of their aesthetics from the page design, their popularity and of course listen to their songs. What website gives your all that info today? None! We have to juggle data from SoundCloud, YouTube and Twitter into an esoteric algorithm that I haven't figured out yet. No wonder I haven't signed anyone in 2012. And you can forget searching for an artist website: MySpace made those obsolete, and now that it's gone it left a hole even bigger than before it arrived.

My final point about what MySpace brought to the music community is the ability to communicate. You could send a message to anyone, regardless of whether you were "friends." I'll give you an example: there's a German techno DJ called Boys Noize. I saw him DJ in Miami one year and although we ran in different circles back then, I wanted to tell him that loved his set and was a fan of his work so I wrote him a message. We spoke a couple times and he asked me to remix one of his songs. The whole thing was set up on MySpace. The remix was released and I won some sort of award in electronic music at the end of the year. The system worked! Now if you want to reach out to a peer that you don't know, you either look up their birth name and write to their personal Facebook page, which is very creepy, or you tweet them to follow you so that you can send them a short Direct Message. What is this, a telegram?

The point of this article isn't that I want MySpace to come back. It doesn't matter if it's MySpace or another site. I just want there to be a destination that gives me the full picture.

Now pardon me while I clean up my past on Facebook's Timeline...

Miley Cyrus, she of paparazzi-shydom, has done the obvious thing that someone who hates being in the media does: tweeted a suggestive photo of her long legs while clad in lacy shorts. The 19-year-old singer and actress wrote "As you can see i have a very busy Monday" on her Twitter page, accompanied by a photo of her tanned stems with blue toenail polish in front of a fire.

As you can see i have a very busy Monday ;) twitter.com/MileyCyrus/sta...

-- Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) April 23, 2012

Hot or not? Sound off in the comments below.

Check out photos of Miley growing up in the biz:

Jon Lovitz doesn't seem to be a fan of President Obama.

The former "Saturday Night Live" star, who made a name for himself playing characters such as Hanukkah Harry and Tommy Flanagan the Pathological Liar, slammed Obama on his podcast, "The ABC's Of SNL." The show, co-hosted by filmmaker Kevin Smith, is billed as being recorded "live from the Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre."

In a clip highlighted by Breitbart TV, Lovitz jokes that Obama is "a fucking asshole" for "saying the rich don't pay their taxes":

"This whole thing with Obama saying the rich don't pay their taxes is fucking bullshit. And I voted for the guy, and I'm a Democrat. What a fucking asshole. The rich don't pay their taxes? Let me tell you something, right. First they say to you, you're dead broke, 'the United States of America, you can do anything you want, go for it.' So then you go for it and then you make it, and everyone's like 'fuck you.'"

The comedian went on to explain that Obama "is the perfect example. He's amazing. He had nothing. He had no father. He was, you know, of mixed race which is a burden in the United, don't kid yourself, you know, growing up like that, and no money, and the guy ends up being at Harvard. He's the President of the United States. And now he's like, fuck me!"

"If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?" asked Lovitz. He continued, "It's half. HALF?!"

It's unclear whether Lovitz's comments were sincere or made in jest. Although the rant occurred this January, the podcast itself was just released on Sunday.

Lovitz isn't the only "SNL" cast member to jab Obama. Of the show's alumni, Victoria Jackson is perhaps the President's most outspoken critic. As HuffPost reported, Jackson has said that Obama "was raised Marxist" and "is a communist." HuffPost caught up with her at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, where she said she wanted to "save America from Communism."

LISTEN TO AUDIO OF LOVITZ'S COMMENTS ABOVE

Rumors that Megan Fox is pregnant continue to persist, but they might not be rumors after all.

In March, RadarOnline first reported the 25-year-old actress was expecting her first child with husband Brian Austin Green, and now E! News is reporting a source has confirmed the actress is indeed pregnant.

Fox is already a stepmother to Green's son 10-year-old Kassius, and she's often spoken of her desire to start a family.

"I've always wanted kids. It's just about the timing being right," Fox told The Hollywood Reporter. "I have a number in my mind of what amount of money I want in the bank so that I can protect that child's future. And really protect it, so that kid never struggles. Once I feel safe with that then I'll have them."

The actress' most recent role was a young dancer who has no desire to have children in "Friends With Kids," which has meant repeated questions about Fox's own future as a parent. She most recently told Cosmopolitan magazine, "I want at least two, probably three [kids]. I've always been maternal."

Last month, a source close to the couple told RadarOnline, "They just found out and are incredibly excited. It's still early, so they are only telling close friends and family members.

Neither Fox nor Green had commented to confirm or deny initial reports. Calls to Fox's rep had not been returned at the time of publication.

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A recent New York Times article, "The Road Gets Rougher for Judyism's Faithful," asked whether Judy Garland is still a gay icon. On his SiriusXM radio program, HuffPost Gay Voices editor-at-large Michelangelo Signorile asked listeners to weigh in, eliciting a variety of opinions. Responses ranged from diehard "Judyists" expressing their undying love for the singer, to those who expressed respect for Judy but are admittedly out of touch with her influence due to generational shifts in icons. Most gay men had moved on to Madonna, and some even said Lady Gaga has taken over as gay icon du jour.

In reading the article and listening to these responses, a bigger question emerged for me, as a 31-year-old diva-phile: not whether Judy Garland is an icon, but why gay men draw battle lines between ourselves in how we express what it is that makes us gay.

One caller said he was embarrassed that other gay men identify and obsess over female icons, and would rather that we focus on politicians enacting change for gay rights. It really struck me that this person wanted to support the equal rights for himself as a gay man yet is embarrassed by the way other gay men behave.

Gay rights begin with the way we treat each other. When I hear comments like the embarrassed caller, I'm reminded of the way feminine gays get maligned for being who they are and for supposedly perpetuating a stereotype. The "straight-acting" myth and the incessant need to heteronormalize ourselves is part of why Judy Garland is becoming less of a gay icon than she used to be. We still live in a society that treats gay people in a hostile way. Dissing a diva-phile isn't doing us any favors.

If we examine the history of what made Judy Garland a gay icon in the first place, we'll find that in the 1950s and '60s, the gay men who were out of the closet never really had a choice but to be who they were. The gay men who passed as straight didn't just pass; they lived straight lives with wives and children.

The gay men and drag queens who stood up for themselves in the Stonewall riots of 1969 -- coincidentally the week of Judy's funeral -- were living as out men, probably because they couldn't help their obviously effeminate characteristics. These gay men need to be acknowledged for making it possible for the non-effeminate gay men to exist out of the closet. Instead, what has happened is that gay men who live comfortably out of the closet, bucking stereotypes, have rejected what an attachment to Judy Garland represents.

I'd like to see gay men celebrate more of what it is that makes our culture rich and fabulous. We don't listen to Judy and Madonna and Gaga because we're gay. We listen to them because they are amazing! I just wanted to tell Mr. Embarrassed to get over himself.

Judy Garland is a gay icon to me because despite her personal life being chaotic and unstable, when she was singing, she was free, free to be everything her spirit contained. She was completely open to the force that made her great. Her performances were fearless yet vulnerable. This energy is present in every gay icon since Judy: Barbra, Tina Turner, Madonna, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga. When Judy sang, she inhabited the sense that she was the person she was born to be, and the awful things anyone said about her just weren't true.

Regardless of how difficult each of us gay men had it growing up, whether accepted or bullied, we all had a sense that we were "different," "wrong," or "sinful." We listen and identify with these icons like Judy because through their voices we can silence the one we hear inside ourselves that tells us we're wrong for being who we are.

Check out my Judy playlist:

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's attorney general went after White House party crasher Tareq Salahi for a second time on Monday, this time claiming Salahi cheated customers who purchased wine tours from his companies in northern Virginia.

Ken Cuccinelli filed the lawsuit in Fauquier County Circuit Court. It comes two months after the attorney general reached a settlement with Salahi and his Journey for the Cure Foundation over accusations the nonprofit made false statements, submitted inaccurate financial statements and solicited donations without being registered with the state.

Salahi and his wife, Michaele, gained notoriety in 2009 when they crashed a White House state dinner and were able to meet President Barack Obama.

The lawsuit filed Monday accuses Salahi and his Virginia Wine Tourism Inc. and Celebration Entertainment Productions LLC of not delivering tours as promised, not providing refunds for tours they canceled and misrepresenting reputable businesses as "official partners."

An attorney who represented Salahi in the past did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Cuccinelli's office said Salahi is the sole officer, director and presumed sole owner of Virginia Wine Tourism and the presumed sole member and manager of Celebration Entertainment Productions.

The companies offer tours of wineries through the web site VirginiaWineTour.com that can range from $200 to $1,350 per day and more for weeklong charters.

Cuccinelli accuses Salahi and his companies of violating the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits the deception of consumers. He said in a statement that the lawsuit was filed based on complaints filed with the Virginia Office of Consumer Affairs and the Better Business Bureau and an investigation by his office.

Some customers reported their tours were cancelled the morning they were scheduled to begin due to a "vehicle malfunction," and that some never heard from the company again. Some complained they were not taken to the wineries they were promised or that the mode of transportation wasn't what was advertised. Others complained that refunds, even those promised in writing, were never delivered.

Cuccinelli said VirginiaWineTour.com's web site also displayed logos of several businesses as "official partners," including United Airlines, the Bed and Breakfast Association of Virginia and Facebook, but that he had reason to believe that many, if not all, were not partners.

In the lawsuit, Cuccinelli asks for civil penalties of up to $2,500 for each violation and requests that VirginiaWineTour.com be required to return money to those are deemed to have been defrauded.

In Cuccinelli's settlement with Salahi's Journey for the Cure Foundation in February, the attorney general claimed that the organization used only 33 percent of its funds in 2007 and less than 1 percent of its funds in 2008 for disease prevention-related charities, while a significant amount was spent on fundraising overhead costs. The charity was formed to support people with diseases such as multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, leukemia and lymphoma, and claimed on its website that 100 percent of its financing went to charity.

The charity agreed to pay $32,500 in civil penalties and attorney fees, while Salahi had to pay $2,500 in civil penalties. Both the charity and Salahi are prohibited from further violations of Virginia Solicitation of Contributions laws.

The publicity-seeking couple has stayed in the spotlight since the state dinner incident. Michaele Salahi was a cast member of the reality show "Real Housewives of D.C.," but the show was canceled after one season. She was thrown off the reality show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" when it became apparent she wasn't addicted to anything.

Last year, Tareq reported that his wife had been abducted but it turned out she had run off with Journey guitarist Neal Schon. Tareq later sued Michaele for $50 million, claiming her affair with the guitarist was part of a calculated attempt to make money for herself and the band at his expense.

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CBS is revving up for a sizzling summer!

The network has announced that the season premiere of "Big Brother" will air on Thursday, July 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

The hit series, hosted by Julie Chen, follows a group of people living in isolation together who are constantly monitored by cameras as they struggle to avoid being evicted.

In addition to the show's return, fans have something else to get excited about: "Big Brother" will be broadcast on Wednesdays, Thursdays (the eviction episode) and Sundays, starting its second week. The first Sunday show of "Big Brother" will air on July 15 at 8 p.m. ET and the first Wednesday episode will air on July 18 at 9 p.m. ET. Then, it's back with its Thursday installment on July 19 at 9 p.m. ET.

The dating show "3" is also headed to CBS, which chronicles the lives of three very different single women who come together with the common goal of finding true love. "3" will kick off with a 90-minute premiere on Sunday, July 22 at 9 p.m. ET, with one hour episodes airing in the following weeks.

The good news: several of this year's standout films at the Tribeca Film Festival are by women. The bad news: some of the fest's worst misfires are also by women.

The good news first. Your Sister's Sister by Lynn Shelton (Hump Day) is pure delight, from its opening scene to its teasing wrap-up, and with any justice should cross over from art house to mainstream. It beats Hollywood at the rom com game, nimbly dodging the usual pandering character of studio product.

The set up: Jack (the inimitable Mark Duplass) makes a toast at his brother's memorial that sounds perilously close to a nervous breakdown. To the rescue comes his best friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who persuades him to chill out at her family's country house on the Puget sound. On arriving, Jack discovers the house has been already claimed by Iris's sister Hanna (Rosemarie Dewitt -- and are all these Hannas, with or without the "h," a salute to Woody Allen?). Sister #2 is holed up there knocking back the tequila after a breakup with her girlfriend of seven years. Jack helps her polish off the bottle and in a 'why not?' spirit they hit the sack. Iris, meanwhile, has somehow figured out that she's in love with Jack and appears the next morning for a meeting of the hearts.

A chamber piece with a candidly contrived premise, Your Sister's Sister offers nary a hint of a world beyond the groins of the characters (like most Amerindie films, alas). But what makes this one a must-see is the way Lynn Shelton has honed improvisation to a fine art. Sister boasts dialogue so spontaneous and true, it makes most of what you currently hear on movie or TV screens sound wooden and canned. Emily Blunt and Rosemarie Dewitt ride with the improv spirit -- "you are freaking me out on so many levels," says Hanna in response to Jack's come-on.

But the master of this game -- and irresistible -- is Mark Duplass. Let's hope he's not co-opted, ground up, and spat out by Hollywood. LOL funny throughout, Duplass's "seduction" scene with Dewitt -- complete with a well-timed "ta da!" -- is a comic gem. Seemingly spun from the conversation you just finished, this film demands a second viewing just to watch how Shelton and Duplass work their magic.

Make a 360 degree turn and you'll bump into Polisse by beautiful French multitasker Maiwenn. Winner of the Jury Prize at last year's Cannes, this hit from France follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the Parisian police. With Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow demonstrated that women can make ballsy "men's films." Similarly, Maiwenn wades right into a lot of gritty, nasty stuff involving child molestation and exploitation, while exploring the inevitable stresses the work places on individual members of the team.

The film is not all grim; the unit's rambunctious evenings and a hot love affair diffuse the daily horrors. The acting is aces all round -- and includes a turn from director Maiwenn (her beauty almost distracting ) as a photographer assigned to document the unit's work. Particularly fine is Karin Viard, a naturally elegant actress who here reinvents herself as a vice cop.

Two other notable films by women at this year's TFF include Future Weather by Jenny Deller about the superhuman resilience and resourcefulness of a 13-year-old girl (Perla Haney-Jardine) abandoned by a trailer trash mom. You'll root for this preternaturally wise teen who surmounts emotional abuse through her talent for science and passionate concern for the environment, nurtured by an empathic teacher (Lili Taylor). Nisha Pahuja, another female director, weighs in with the illuminating The World Before Her, which lays out two equally dismaying avenues for women in India looking to better their situation. Docs such as this are truly, in the words of fest founder Jane Rosenthal, "mind-blowing."

Now for the misfires. According to the TFF catalog, Elles by French-Polish director Maigoska Szumowska is about the "entangled female experience" and conflicting imagery of female sexuality. Entangled is the operative word here. Nothing makes an iota of sense in this farrago about a journalist (Juliette Binoche) with a seemingly happy domestic life, who goes into erotic freefall as she researches a story on female college students working as prostitutes. Essentially porn gussied up as insightful drama, the film exploits the superb Juliette Binoche, who somehow toughs it through. Explicit scenes with the production values of an internet jerk off site are punctuated by excerpts from Beethoven's 7th!

Equally vile is the doc Sexy Baby by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, which purports to expose the extent to which sex saturates American culture by focusing on a pole dancer, a pre teen girl, and a kindergarten teacher about to undergo plastic surgery of a highly intimate nature. Ladies, thanks but no thanks for sharing. This smarmy baby is enough to make you join the Republican war on sex -- or at least move to Canada.

Vengeful! Ruthless! Cruel! Romantic! Compassionate! Regretful!

These are among the adjectives that describe the vast spectrum of emotions that actor Jonathan Frid most capably incorporated into his rendition of vampire Baranbas Collins on the Gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows. For me, every episode of that series was a special treat when he was included in the cast! Hearing his voice and seeing him on screen made that day memorable.

Sadly, Frid just passed away at age 87, only a few weeks before the new cinematic version of Dark Shadows starring Johnny Depp will be hitting the theaters, including a cameo appearance by him as a party guest (along with 3 other co-stars from the series, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker, and David Selby). Of course, I would have wanted him to have a more substantial role, but I am grateful that he was at least invited for a walk-on.

Without a doubt, Frid was responsible for the program's success. It was floundering in the ratings when Fate moved its huge hand! In April of 1967, he had his bags packed and was planning to move from New York to California to become a drama professor. But, as he left his apartment, he heard the phone ring, and raced back in to answer it. The caller was his agent who convinced him to audition for the role of a vampire, a part that tentatively would last only a few weeks and provide him with some additional wherewithal.

Fortunately, Frid consented and the rest is TV history! Had he left a few minutes earlier, we would probably have never heard of him, and the soap opera might have been cancelled that year. His centerpiece role invigorated the show and made it a cult hit. He was indeed born to portray Barnabas Collins!

He starred in the first theatrical version, House of Dark Shadows in 1970. Unfortunately, he was locked in a coffin and not seen on the TV series while filming his cinematic scenes. Although he was dispatched in this film, the writers could have devised a way to revitalize him for the 1971 sequel, Night of Dark Shadows, but that would have taken him away once again from the soap opera, so the production did not include his character, which was a profound disappointment. For the record, the series was cancelled in April of 1971.

In recent years, Frid had been attending Dark Shadows conventions. Indeed, he was slated to be a key guest at the upcoming convention in July in New York , which indubitably will now be dedicated to his memory.

In conclusion, may the Power of the Cosmos be with you, Jonathan, wherever you may now be! You will not be forgotten by your vast legion of devoted fans!

Scenes of Barnabas Collins in action on "Dark Shadows":

After Pip and James Massone went home as a result of Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green's instant eliminations on "The Voice" (Mondays at 8 p.m. ET and Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC) on Monday, it was time for America to weigh in on Tuesday night.

On Team Adam, Tony Lucca's rendition of fellow former Mousketeer Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" won America over. The voters saved him, leaving Mathai and Katrina Parker to sing for Adam.

As for Team Cee Lo, Jamar Rogers' inspired take on Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" earned him a save from America, meaning Juliet Simms and Cheesa had to sing for their judge's save.

Team Adam was up first in the last chance performances and Mathai belted out Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova," while Katrina went with Pink's "Perfect." Christina said she could "feel the nerves" in Mathai's performance, while Cee Lo liked her "aggression." But after Katrina took the stage, Blake told Adam it was clear that "Katrina's the best singer on this stage."

Coach Adam told his bottom two that making this decision "breaks [his] heart." After complimenting Mathai's "infectious" spirit and Katrina's "diamond in the rough" voice, Adam said it "boils down to who [he's] seen more from so far." After dragging on, he said Katrina "blew his mind" and "knocked him out" and Mathai hadn't had her moment yet. Finally, he saved Katrina.

Then, it was Team Cee Lo's turn to take the stage. Cheesa went with "Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson and Blake said he "detected a little bit of flatness." Adam and Christina agreed, but Christina did think "Cheese," as Cee Lo called her last night, was a force to be reckoned with. Finally, it was a terrified-looking Juliet Simms' time to give her last-chance performance with Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn." Blake apologized for not pressing his button for Juliet back in the blind auditions and says he "love[s] her now." He and Christina both said they'd go with Juliet if the choice was theirs, but it's not.

Cee Lo asked both ladies "to smile in the face of this adversity" before he explained that he loves Cheesa and her voice sounds so "classically trained," but Juliet's "voice is like art imitating life and life isn't perfect." He thought America was invested in Juliet so he invested in her, too and Cheesa headed home.

Do you think Cee Lo and Adam made the right decisions? Weigh in in the comments below!

"The Voice" airs .Mondays at 8 p.m. ET and Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.

During her "Today" show appearance Tuesday, Rosie O'Donnell made it clear she doesn't think Lindsay Lohan should play Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming Lifetime TV movie. "I think she needs a lot of help. She needs a lot of time away," the typically outspoken O'Donnell said. She continued, "She's had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including 'SNL.' She was out and not in rehearsal. I think she's not in a place to work."

Lindsay Lohan's rep Steve Honig fired back, issuing a statement to PerezHilton.com that said, "I think Rosie should focus on her own career instead of worrying about everyone else's."

And now Michael Lohan, Lindsay's father, has a few strong words for O'Donnell. In an email to The Huffington Post, Michael wrote:

From what I remember, the Bible says for he/she who is without sin, let them cast the first stone and judge not, lest you be judged. With that being said, is Rosie in ANY position to judge anyone? Failed marriage, two failed shows, slamming other celebs and high profile people. PLEASE! My daughter and even I, may have had our issues in life, but it's about making things right and turning things around, right Rosie? I was and am the first one to point out my own faults, Lindsay's and even others' when we are wrong, but when we are not, I will fight tooth and nail for what's right! In this case, Rosie, you are wrong. So why don't you, and all in agreement with you, just sit back. Shut up and see if Lindsay proves herself before blabbing your unwarranted opinions.

O'Donnell also called Donny Deutsch a "crackhead" for proclaiming Lindsay "our generation's Elizabeth Taylor." Click here to see what else O'Donnell said about Lohan.

Celebrity Photos Of The Week:

Looking good, Heidi Klum! The fashion icon posed for a new ad for the beauty brand Astor to celebrate its 60th anniversary, and left little to the imagination.

Klum appears nude in the new ad, but is covered with an elaborate and colorful design by makeup artist Joanne Gair.

The "Project Runway" host, who has been in the news lately due to her split from her husband of seven years, Seal, wrote about her experience on her blog:

It took 12 hours for Joanne to complete my look, but this actually wasn't the first time she has painted me from head to toe. This was probably close to the 13th time I've been body painted by her, so I'm used to getting it done--the process takes awhile, so you have to be good at being patient!

While sitting still for hours just for one outfit -- or lack thereof -- may seem extreme, Klum is definitely used to all the preparation. She and her soon-to-be ex used to dress up in extravagant costumes and body art for their annual Halloween parties.

Check out Heidi's colorful photo below. For more, head over to Heidi's blog.

Tina Fey, the star and creator of "30 Rock" said the show is doing another live episode for one reason: NBC asked them to.

" ... I’m always paranoid," she told The New York Times. "I'm like, 'We've got to say yes so they don’t let someone else do it.'"

Like last year, Beth McCarthy-Miller will direct both the East and West Coast versions. Fey said one the biggest lessons they learned was the show cannot have the same feel as a taped one.

"[T]his time we’ve just let it have a different style and structure," she told The New York Times. "Some people -- I would say at least half the people I could find -- could get on board perfectly fine with it."

And keeping with what is now tradition, the "30 Rock" live episode will feature guest stars. When "30 Rock" went live in 2010, Jon Hamm, Matt Damon, Bill Hader, Cheyanne Jackson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared. Louis-Dreyfus, who is currently starring in HBO's "Veep," played Liz Lemon in flashbacks.

"Tina was in like every scene, and we had to figure out how to get her from set to set," "30 Rock" director McCarthy-Miller told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. "Using Julia Louis-Dreyfus to play Liz Lemon in flashback scenes was the most genius idea in the world. She was so perfect."

The plot for the Season 6 live episode of "30 Rock" -- read NBC's description below -- certainly lends itself to guest stars, and Fey said there will be plenty of famous faces stopping by. "We have a lot of people coming -- people I would call friends of the show and friends of comedy in general," she told The Times.

The future of "30 Rock" has been a much buzzed about subject with sinking ratings and tweets from series star Alec Baldwin. Fey recently appeared on "The View" and confirmed the end of the series is near. When asked to explain Baldwin's tweet about leaving NBC, Fey said, "I think that he just maybe means that the end of the show -- we're in six years -- that the end of the show is visible on the horizon. We're all still on the show."

Fey told The Times that she's hoping she gets word of the ending, so she has time to write the ending of the series.

Read the official description for "30 Rock's" second live episode below and for more from Tina Fey on "30 Rock," click over to The New York Times.

When their Kabletown bosses announce they will no longer pay for 'TGS' to be a live show, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) realize their lives will actually be easier if they shoot canned episodes fast and cheap. Only Kenneth the Page (Jack McBrayer) objects, urging that nothing can replace the communal experience of live television. He tries to convince the 'TGS' staff to fight for their right to be live by taking them and our audience through a magical look back at the illustrious history of Studio 6H.

Zach McGowan is a married man, but he doesn’t mind getting naked for a living, playing Jody in Showtime's "Shameless." And although he did not need to show all his, er, talents to get the part, he admits that he knew exactly what he was getting into.

"John Wells actually just asked me if I was cool,” McGowan told me about the show's executive producer. “It was very important for the character because he was a sex addict and kind of a nudist. It wasn't a big deal to him, so they wanted to make sure it wasn't going to be a big deal for me," he added.

"It was, but I did it anyway!" McGowan said. "No, I didn’t wear a sock; that was just me. You wear your robe and walk on out there. What's going through your mind is 'It's cold in here!' It's funny because the director told me I could give it a little slap if I wanted to."

McGowan has also sought help from the makeup department. "Every once in a while you have a pimple on your butt you have to cover up,” he said.

He also revealed that going to several art classes and drawing live nudes helped him prepare for the role but now nudity is just part of the job.

"No, no I've never gotten excited," said McGowan with a laugh, adding that if he ever did, "I would put my robe back on for sure."

Celebrity Photos of The Week

"The L.A. Complex" is The CW's newest teen series (premiering Tuesday, April 24 at 9 p.m. ET).

And in celebration of the Canada-takes-Hollywood drama, which originally aired on Canada's MuchMusic, the show's star Cassie Steele tweeted a picture from the set of guest star and TV vet Alan Thicke.

"First shot with @alan_thicke here with me, on the set of The L.A. Complex... be sure to watch tonight's premiere on The CW," Steele tweeted.

The former "Growing Pains" star is set to appear in a four-episode arc in the second half of "The L.A. Complex's" 13-episode season.

Check out a first look of Alan Thicke on set below:

"The L.A. Complex" premieres Tuesday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

Cheaters may never prosper, but apparently, liars do on ABC Family.

The network -- which has a smash hit with "Pretty Little Liars," which has its third season premiere on June 5 -- just announced the pick-up of a second season of another original series, "The Lying Game." The new season of the drama will begin production this summer for a winter premiere.

Ratings grew considerably during the first season of "The Lying Game" -- which follows the story of identical twins Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer (both portrayed by Alexandra Chando) who were separated at birth and reconnected, unbeknownst to most other people in their lives. "The Lying Game's" winter run was up 28 percent amongst women 18-34 over the first half of the season, according to an ABC Family press release.

Chando tweeted her excitement on Tuesday after the news was announced:

Finally happy to announce that #lyinggame has been picked up for a second season!

— Alexandra Chando (@alexandrachando) April 24, 2012

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Levon Helm's friends and fans have been invited to a memorial at the home where the late drummer and singer for The Band staged his "Midnight Ramble" barn concerts in New York's Hudson Valley.

Helm's family says on his website that parking will be available at three locations in Woodstock and there will be shuttle bus trips to the Woodstock property from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. A private funeral is scheduled for Friday.

Helm died April 20 at the age of 71 from complications of cancer.

Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson and Richard Manuel's first album as The Band was 1968's "Music From Big Pink." Songs including "The Weight," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and "Up on Cripple Creek" are rock standards.

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Online:

http://www.levonhelm.com

Jack Osbourne is officially on diaper duty!

HELLO! Magazine is reporting that the 26-year-old, who is the son of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, and his girlfriend Lisa Stelly have welcomed their first child together.

Lane Garrison's lawyer says his client will not be charged with felony domestic violence for allegedly brutalizing his former girlfriend Saturday night ... at least not immediately.

Harland Braun spoke with the D.A. this morning and was told prosecutors don't have sufficient information right now to file a case, but that could change as the investigation continues.