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Is Drake Dropping A New Album This Year?

Young Money's Mack Maine says a quick album turnaround 'makes sense' for Drizzy, in Mixtape Daily.By Shaheem Reid





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It was spring 1998. DMX was the hottest cat in hip-hop and released his SoundScan-murdering debut LP It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. That winter, X came right back with another scorcher, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood.
OK, speed up 12 years. We all know about Drake's popularity. His debut, Thank Me Later, came out this past spring, and believe it or not, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Drizzy could come right back with another album just in time for Christmas.

"Drake's crazy," Young Money president Mack Maine told MTV News last week. "He's doing a mixtape right now. He called me one night, like 2 in the morning. He has the intro done for the new album. We was discussing dates where he should come back. That'll be soon. And this mixtape, he's gonna put that out quick. His formula is crazy. He works fast. I can't give the secret away to the formula. He's a musical genius. The way he and [producer] 40 put things together is crazy."
When we asked Mack if Drake was putting out another LP before next summer, he simply said, "Real possible! What we discussed, definitely, what me and him discussed."
Such a quick turnaround between Thank Me Later and its follow-up is a simple case of supply and demand.
"It makes sense," Mack said. "Like DMX and those guys [at Def Jam]. They dropped two in one year. I think 50 [Cent] did two in one year. If it wasn't a year, it was right around that time. [Drake's] hot like that. Why not? Give them what they want."
When asked if Drizzy would have an album in the marketplace in time for it to be a stocking stuffer around the holidays, Mack Mizzle smiled and advised us to "expect the unexpected."
Regardless of when the new LP comes out, all signs point toward Drake's R&B mixtape, It's Never Enough, to come this year. There has been a smattering of Drake records popping up randomly on the Internet recently, such as "What If I Kissed You."
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'The Last Exorcism' Leads The Way At The Box Office

'Takers,' starring T.I. and Hayden Christensen, lands at #2 for the weekend.By Adam Rosenberg





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[Editor's note: After this story was published, recalculated box-office numbers put "Takers" over "The Last Exorcism," with $20.5 million to the horror movie's $20.3 million. "Takers" star T.I. called MTV News to thank fans for making his heist flick #1.]
The Box-Office Top Five
#1 "The Last Exorcism" ($21.3 million)
#2 "Takers" ($21 million)
#3 "The Expendables" ($9.5 million)
#4 "Eat Pray Love" ($7 million)
#5 "The Other Guys" ($6.6 million)
It was a close weekend race at the box office, but in the end the powers of evil overtook the powers of, well, less evil. The Eli Roth-produced, Daniel Stamm-directed horror mockumentary "The Last Exorcism" took the #1 position this weekend with $21.3 million in ticket sales spread out over 2,874 screens. Trailing only slightly behind in the #2 position was the heist flick "Takers," with a take of
$21 million from 2,206 screens.
Even though it emerged on top, "Exorcism" is a bigger winner than it seems to be. While no budget has been reported, the single camera format, absence of big stars and minimal special effects couldn't have driven the film's cost very high. Even factoring in marketing — which has been largely focused online with viral campaigns like — a $20+ million box-office take is a considerable win.
"Takers," by comparison, boasts a star-studded ensemble that draws from both Hollywood and the music biz. Chris Brown and T.I. star alongside Hayden Christensen, Idris Elba, Matt Dillon and Zoe Saldana in a crime drama about a high-level, high-stakes bank robbery. The film's budget is reported to hover around $20 million.
It's a sharp dip after that for positions three through five, which are filled by movies that came out earlier in August. The action throwback "The Expendables" came in at #3 with $9.5 million, slightly more than half of what it earned last week. Still, with a total gross of roughly $82 million — more than double its reported budget — in just 17 days, the Sylvester Stallone-directed/ written/ starring flick is no small success.
Spots four and five went to a pair of Sony releases, "Eat Pray Love" and "The Other Guys," which brought in $7 million and $6.6 million, respectively. The surprise for the weekend was the theatrical re-release of "Avatar." Opening on roughly 800 screens with the benefit of 3-D and an added nine minutes of footage, the movie only managed to pull in $4 million, good enough for a #12 spot on the weekend list.
Check out everything we've got on "The Last Exorcism," "Takers" and "The Expendables."
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David Bowie Denies Lady Gaga Collaboration

Rock legend's official site calls document claiming that Bowie and Gaga would work together a 'hoax.'By Gil Kaufman





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Lady Gaga has often spoken about her love for chameleonic rock icon David Bowie and his gender-bending, glitter-splashed style. Last week, when rumors emerged on a Gaga fansite that the Thin White Duke would be working on Gaga's upcoming album, fans of both artists were understandably intrigued, excited and a bit skeptical.
But Bowie's official website has denied rumors that he would lend his legendary croon to a song reportedly titled "Vinyl." The statement, written by the site's news editor, read in part: "When this tall story first surfaced a few days ago it was denied as a hoax in an update to the same article, and we thought that would be the end of it. I guess some folk see what they want to see though."
The scanned document that popped up last Thursday, which bears the hoax-y title "confirmation of recorded music," also lists Gaga collaborator RedOne as one of the album's producers and engineers. Also named on the fake list are famed R&B producer Teddy Riley and his daughter Taja, as well as former Gaga collaborator Fernando Garibay (Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears). Song titles cited include "Hooker on a Church Corner" and "Scream Loud."
"The rumor that David Bowie has been working with Lady Gaga seems to have taken off," continued the statement on Bowie's site. "The hoax was started by some bright spark or other with the above forgery ... However, in a nutshell, the suggestion that David Bowie is producing and participating in the production of Lady Gaga's next album is untrue and a hoax."
Gaga has kept a tight lid on the details about her second full-length studio effort. In an interview with i-D, she said, "The new album is my absolute greatest work I've ever done, and I'm so excited about it ... The message, the melodies, the direction, the meaning, what it will mean to my fans and what it will mean to me in my own life — it's utter liberation.
I'm on the quest to create the anthem for my generation for the next decade, so that's what I've done."
Though she's had a close, hit-heavy relationship with RedOne, Gaga promised that she's updating her sound on the still-untitled album with a slate of new producers who she's declined to identify.
"I will never tell because as soon as I tell, everyone starts working with them," she said of her new album's production team. "So all I can say is that nobody knows who they are. They're all new."



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Stanley Tucci Says 'Captain America' 'Design Is Stunning'

The actor says the film is shot beautifully.By Mawuse Ziegbe





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Marvel hero Captain America is known his unstoppable brawn so it's a safe bet that moviegoers will check out a feast of out-of-this-world action scenes when "Captain America: The First Avenger" lands in theaters next summer. In addition to heart-stopping thrills, Stanley Tucci, who spent some of this summer filming the 2011 release, said that fans are in for a visually creative experience.

"[Director] Joe Johnston is a wonderful guy and I love the way he's shooting it, it's really interesting, it's beautiful-looking," Tucci told MTV News. The actor seemed awed by Johnston's approach. "There's a real power to it and the design is stunning."
Tucci will portray Dr. Abraham Erskine, the lab wiz who develops the potent serum that endows Steve Rogers with super-human strength and effectively turns the weakling into Captain America. The Oscar-nominated star dished about the nuances of his character who, despite having developed the muscle-popping serum, is not just a crazed genius tinkering with chemicals. Tucci revealed that "he's a combination of both" mad scientist and mild-mannered researcher.
Tucci, who will be seen next in the high-school comedy "Easy A," heads back to shooting "Captain America" in the fall. So far, the actor, who is known for diverse roles ranging from Julia Child's doting husband in "Julie & Julia" to a mega-fierce fashion insider in "The Devil Wears Prada," is relishing his time on the "Captain America" set.
"So much fun," Tucci gushed about filming. "I have to go back and ... finish it in October but I was there for a few weeks in ... end of July, August. It was great; a great experience." The star chalked up his good times behind the scenes to his co-stars.
"Chris [Evans, who plays Captain America] is great, he's a wonderful guy," Tucci said. "Dominic [Cooper] and Hayley [Atwell] and Tommy Lee Jones - it's great people."
What are you looking forward to seeing in "Captain America: The First Avenger?" Let us know in the comments below!
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Britney Spears Tweets A Picture From 'Glee' Set

'Can't wait for you guys to see the episode!' Spears writes on Twitter.By Mawuse Ziegbe





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For fans who may have doubted whether the Britney Spears "Glee" episode is happening, the pop sensation has just provided photographic proof.
The star gave fans a glimpse of her inner-"Gleek" on Wednesday (August 18) by posting a TwitPic of herself next to her assistant Brett Miller, a Spears doppelgänger, both sporting similar specs and wavy blond locks.
After devoting episodes to the dance-floor-filling repertoires of Madonna and Lady Gaga, "Glee" is hard at work bringing Spears' string of hits to William McKinley High. So far, Spears, who makes a cameo in the upcoming episode, is enjoying the process.
"About to do my first shot of the day for Glee tweeties! Here we goooo!" Spears tweeted. The "Circus" singer later added, "What's up GLEEKS? Having so much fun on set!! Can't wait for you guys to see the episode!"
The "Glee" cast is also pumped to turn out Spears' smash-hit catalog. "I get to do Britney Spears!" Heather Morris exclaimed to MTV News earlier this month. "I like 'Toxic' the best or the 'Slave' video. It was always her best performance. She's rocking! I don't care what I do."
Jenna Ushkowitz confirmed that Lea Michele would take on Spears' star-making debut hit, " ... Baby One More Time." Aside from Spears' TwitPic — in which she's presumably in costume — and "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy's recent comments that Spears will "kind of" play herself, details about the episode have remained under wraps.
"Some old Britney, some new Britney, some Brittany of our Brittany from the glee club. So it should be funny," Ushkowitz hinted about the song selection. "We're really excited. I love Britney Spears."
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Usher, Justin Bieber, Ciara Inspire Youth With New Look Foundation

President Bill Clinton also attends the organization's inaugural World Leadership Awards in Atlanta.By Mawuse Ziegbe, with reporting by James "FLX" Smith





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He's a chart-topping entertainer by trade, but Usher also looks out for the kids.
The singer celebrated his New Look Foundation's first World Leadership Awards on Friday night (August 6) in Atlanta, alongside some high-profile pals. ATL star Ciara and Usher protégé Justin Bieber treated guests to a performance. Former President Clinton, also stopped by and So So Def boss Jermaine Dupri showed up with his daughter, who has a serious case of Bieber Fever. "Justin Bieber's here — she ain't gonna miss that," the mogul riffed.

With his celebrity pals showing their support, Usher said he was excited to witness the success of the event. "As a philanthropist I'm very happy to see this incredible event come to fruition. It was an idea that was born in New York City with President Clinton," Usher told MTV News. "Being a part of the Clinton Global Initiative every year has given me the opportunity to do something with the youth that I felt like would talk to the rest of the world."
The singer added that he enjoyed empowering young people and helping them create change around the globe. "Us donating $150,000 dollars from the foundation with the help of the youth to a mobile clinic that will go to Haiti, is a huge step towards youth addressing world issues. I really am just happy that I'm able to not only recognize the kids but to see the New Look Foundation do something that is on a world scale."
Usher, who is gearing up to drop Versus, the re-release of his album Raymond v. Raymond, also said he has some music videos and some possible acting gigs in the works. Despite everything he's got bubbling on the entertainment front, the singer insisted, "music is what I do as my day job, philanthropy is my passion," and broke down what helping others means to him.
"As a philanthropist, I'm happy to do what I do," Usher said. "The idea of it comes from who I am as a businessman. That model is something that I share with the kids. That ... you can do anything you want to do, as long as you have the belief and come up with an idea [and] a goal [and] set it at a very young age. I remember being 18 years old saying that I wanted to do all of what is a reality now."
Usher's star pals were inspired by the evening as well. Ciara tweeted,"Tonight was sooo much fun performing. Both Usher and Justin Bieber rocked the show! today was all about positive energy and love! #perfectday."
Justin Bieber typed, "Proud of my big bro @usherraymondiv for putting 2gether the world leadership awards 2night. He is inspiring the youth. Great mentor and guy!"
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Demi Lovato Says Frankie Jonas Has 'Swag Like Justin Bieber'

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When fans tune in to "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam" this Friday, they may be surprised to see that the fourth Jonas brother, 9-year-old Frankie, has a part in the sequel to the hit 2008 flick "Camp Rock." And co-star Demi Lovato says that the kid has some swagger.
"He's the biggest rock star of all of them," she told MTV News. "He's got swag like Justin Bieber and he rocks out like Mick Jagger, so he's kind of a combination of the two. He's kind of like the ultimate rock star. Watch out, Justin Timberlake!"

While he may be as cool as Bieber, the Bonus Jonas says that of all his brothers, he most relates to Joe. "We never bully. We never even fight. We just have little bickers," he said. "I'm most like Joe because I've been a role model with him ever since we lived in Wyckoff, New Jersey."
And much like Joe, Frankie would love a career in Hollywood. "I would like to pursue my acting career and do a little music in the middle," he explained. Having now starred in "Camp Rock 2," lent his voice to "Ponyo" and made appearances on "JONAS," it seems Frankie is well on his way to catching up with his brothers in the fame department.
However, he still needs some encouraging words from his superstar brothers to keep him focused on his way to the top. "I'm feeling great because it's awesome [to be here]. It's my first live action [film] and to have my brothers with me is way more exciting because they make you feel more comfortable," he explained, adding that they've given him some great advice.
"They've given me a great one that my dad gave to them and they passed on to me during the filming of 'Camp Rock.' It says, 'Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top,' " he explained. "Remember where you came from."
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Michael Jackson's Brother Jermaine Celebrates King Of Pop On 'Larry King'

The Jackson family still hasn't 'come to terms' with MJ's death a year later, Jermaine says.By Eric Ditzian





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On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson's family and friends gathered at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California, to lay the King of Pop to rest in the Grand Mausoleum. Almost one year later, shortly before the actual anniversary of his death, MJ's brother Jermaine returned to the site to tape an interview with Larry King.

"It's been tough," Jermaine told the talk-show host. "It went so fast. We've been just putting the pieces together and the family's been having a lot of meetings and we're just trying to hold on. We haven't come to terms. It's something we're learning to live with. We will never accept it."
Speaking softly and quietly, Jackson said the inside of the mausoleum is dark and cold. "To walk this corridor, and all you hear is your footsteps. Michael shouldn't be here. I always felt that," he said, adding that MJ should have been buried at his Neverland Ranch estate.
A year later, Jackson said Michael's three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, are enjoying as normal a life as possible. They love movies, Jermaine said, though he is not sure if they've seen "This Is It," the documentary about Michael's final months as he prepared for what were to be his comeback shows in London. Jermaine also revealed that they do not visit their father's gravesite at Forest Lawn.
Each of the family members, Jackson said, continues to grieve in their own ways. And they continue to raise questions about the circumstances surrounding MJ's death. Jermaine acknowledged that numerous interventions had been made concerning Michael's use of various prescription medications but denied any suggestion that his brother did not want to live. Rather, Jermaine said the family believes Michael was murdered and that Dr. Conrad Murray, the singer's personal physician who was charged with involuntary manslaughter as a result of MJ's propofol overdose, is not the sole person responsible for the death.
"All of us feel that he's the fall guy," Jermaine said. "It's higher up than just the doctor.
"He did say on numerous occasions, at times to my mother, that he felt that he was being threatened, someone was trying to kill him," Jermaine added about his brother.
While the Jackson family awaits the start of Murray's trial, which they plan to attend, they lament the way the pop singer has been treated by the media, the public and prosecutors in the years before his death.
"If you listen to the content of his lyrics and his music, that's what he is, that's what he wrote from his heart, from his soul," Jackson said. "And it's sad, because now people realize what kind of person he was all along. But he's not here to see that. He got a bum rap because he was so misunderstand. He was trying to take the world on his shoulders and to bring an awareness to the world of what we need to do as people."



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The Oscars may get blitzed by the NFL. The producers behind the biggest night in movies (well, except for the MTV Movie Awards), are considering moving the Academy Awards from its Sunday night seat to Monday nights in order to avoid competition from the National Football League.
According to Variety, Oscar runners are keeping a close eye on the negotiations between NFL owners and players over a new collective bargaining agreement that could add two games to the regular season, which could push the Super Bowl to the same night as the Oscars.
Unnamed sources told the magazine that the expansion from 16 to 18 games will almost certainly begin with the 2012-13 season. However, the shift will probably not result in NFL action starting earlier, because scorching August preseason games and scheduling conflicts with Major League Baseball's regular-season action are not desirable to the league. The NFL will likely continue to start its regular season just after Labor Day, which would kick the playoffs into February.
If that scenario unfolds, then the Super Bowl — typically held the first Sunday in February — could air on the same night as the 2013 Academy Awards in late February. The executive director of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Bruce Davis, said he's keeping an eye on the NFL situation and is prepared to possibly shift the Oscars back to Monday, the night on which the show aired for decades before moving to Sunday in 1999.
"Yes, it's a concern for us," Davis said of the NFL scenario, noting that the academy and football league have had some back-channel discussions, though he doubted the NFL would take the needs of the Hollywood awards show into consideration when making its decision on the new schedule.
"I think our inclination would be to go earlier rather than later, but we need to see," Davis said of possibly moving the show to a Monday in February rather than back to the first week of March in order to avoid the most-viewed program of the year. "There's no rule it has to be on a Sunday ... we're looking at a lot of different options."
The Oscar-cast has moved around quite a bit over the years, shifting up to February in 2004 after complaints about the too-long awards season and moving back a week twice in the past six years to avoid competing with the Winter Olympics.
The NFL expansion could also affect the Grammys, which also air in February, although a scheduling shift for that awards show is unlikely.

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'The Last Exorcism': The Reviews Are In!

Critics praise the film's story and actors, but not everyone is impressed.By Eric Ditzian





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Not all of us on the MTV Movies team are horror fans. Some have admitted in public that knife-wielding maniacs and rivers of blood freak us out.
What a delight, then, to find "The Last Exorcism." Though, honestly, there is nothing delightful about this low-budget flick, which delivers plenty of tense jolts and sweaty-palmed anticipation, forcing us scaredy-cats to hide our eyes. It's just that "Last Exorcism" is such a delightful surprise.
The film is a character-driven drama tethered to everyday reality by its faux-documentary style. The disillusioned preacher, the frightened small-town teen — these are people to whom we can relate, for whom we can come to care. We'll take this sort of horror flick any day over the torture porn of something like "Hostel" or the paint-by-numbers scares of so many ongoing franchises.
Not everyone agrees. The film has received largely positive reviews, but many dissenters remain. Still, "Last Exorcism" is expected to compete with the crime thriller "Takers" for the #1 spot at this weekend's box office. Here is what the critics are saying about "Last Exorcism":
The Story
"[The film is a] portrait of preacher Cotton Marcus (smoothly played by Patrick Fabian). Having performed fake exorcisms since he was a child, the clean-cut family man, undergoing an apparent crisis of conscience, is planning to cop to the 25-year charade by letting a documentary crew in on all the tricks of his trade. But soon after they show up at the rural Louisiana home of a strict fundamentalist farmer (Louis Herthum), it becomes readily apparent that his tormented, wide-eyed teen daughter (an impressive Ashley Bell) is going to require much more than just sideshow sleight of hand." — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
The Performances
"Both Fabian and Bell are outstanding. Yes, Marcus is kind of a creep, preying on the beliefs of others for his own gain. But Fabian makes him likable anyway, someone who's willing to take us inside the game, even if it's at his own expense. His character loves the camera, and it returns the feeling. Fabian makes him a show-off but not a boor. Bell is even better. How could a girl this sweet do the things for which she's supposedly responsible? Is she really possessed? Is she disturbed? Sometimes a simple smile can more thoroughly creep you out than all the head-spinning and pea-soup puking in the world." — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic
The Scares
"The suspense is finely crafted. 'The Last Exorcism' doesn't rely on cheap shock effects but locates scares in weird images — many of which cut deep because the camera is caught out of position, or isn't in focus, or is far from the action. Director Daniel Stamm stimulates the imagination rather than shunt it aside: The horror genre is all about exercising restraint in the presence of the unrestrained." — Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Dissenters
"The pieces are all there: Marcus' desire to atone for decades of bamboozling, the utterly screwed-up Sweetzers, weighty questions about the costs of spiritual solace delivered cheaply or disingenuously. But despite mostly solid performances (particularly by Fabian, who quickly gets you rooting for the slick Marcus) and a satisfying, slow-building tension, things fly apart rather than come together. It's like director Daniel Stamm and his crew realized they were treading awfully close to making a film with real depth and edge that horror audiences might hate, and they just couldn't pull the trigger. This explains a final sequence that spectacularly squanders all the potentially stimulating material from the previous 86 minutes. There may once have been a good and a bad film fighting for the soul of 'The Last Exorcism,' but in its final moments, cinema's dark forces triumph emphatically." — Jesse Singal, The Boston Globe
The Final Word
"Possessed by suspense, talent, brains and a gothic sense of humor, 'The Last Exorcism' makes first-rate use of religious doubt and religious extremism to concoct a novel horror-thriller clever enough to seduce unbelievers while satisfying the bloodlust of its congregation/fanbase. While spasmodic handheld camerawork has become increasingly tiresome as a shock device-cum-convention, it's deployed here with enormous restraint and skill by d.p. Zoltan Honti, and helmer Daniel Stamm knows when to trim the visual frills and stick to the demonic vs. the divine. Expect collection plates to fill up for the August 27 release, and to hear hosannas from Lionsgate." — John Anderson, Variety
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Brad Pitt Returns To New Orleans For The 5th Anniversary Of Hurricane Katrina

Today is the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which, as you may recall, devastated much of New Orleans, LA and especially the Lower 9th Ward district of the city. Even 5 years later, the catastrophic effects of Katrina can still be seen in the area. In an effort to keep awareness in the public eye, [...]

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Young Money's Mack Maine Debuts 'I'm From New Orleans' Video

MTV Jams' 'Louisiana Love' day is paying tribute on the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.By Shaheem Reid





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As we reflect on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, MTV Jams is paying special tribute to survivors of the disaster with "Louisiana Love." All Sunday (August 29) on the channel, you'll see videos from New Orleans artists. MTV Jams is celebrating the strength of the people in the Gulf Coast rather than making it a day of mourning.

One of the videos fans will see today is courtesy of director Scoob Doo and the Young Money family. It's called "I'm From New Orleans" and stars YM president Mack Maine. Fellow N.O. natives Lil Wayne, Lil Chuckee and the Birdman have cameos in the vid.
"The New Orleans video is basically a song with some guys from New Orleans: Lucci Lou and T@," Mack explained to MTV News. Mack Mizzle was in New York to visit Lil Wayne at Rikers Island. "The name of the song is 'I'm From New Orleans.' I got pretty New Orleans on my verse. The video is pretty raw. It's low-budget, capturing the raw and real of New Orleans. It's a good look. It'll make the city proud and kinda let other people see our heritage and basically how we live, our way of life."
The Cash Money/ Young Money family obviously has a well-documented history of showing us New Orleans in videos, starting back in the '90s with such videos as Juvenile's "Ha" and five years ago with Lil Wayne's "Fireman." However, since Katrina's destruction hit, many of the signature landmarks are no longer standing in the city.
"I was just in town for my birthday party, and I rode through the neighborhoods to see the new developments that are coming up and what's being torn down," Mack said. "A lot of the uptown part, the projects are basically gone, like the Magnolia, some of the Calliope are still up. They're trying to give the city a new face. It's a lot of memories gone at the end of the day. But we basically shot uptown, we caught the Superdome. Uptown, my little brother has a house. We caught some footage by him. We caught some of Hollygrove. The guys on the song are from New Orleans East. So we caught the East in there too. We tried to capture all the city. I don't think we went on the West Bank, but shouts to the West Bank as well. Uptown, downtown and the East."
Mack says his song co-stars, Lucci Lou and T@, have worked with the YM family before, and the two are just stepping up to the spotlight now.
"Lucci Lou, he was on the No Ceilings mixtape," Mack explained. "T@ is one of the guys who works for Wayne. He started messing around with the rap and started making beats. That's how the song came. He hit me when we was in the studio. He hit me, like, 'Pull up some of the beats we made on the I Am Music Tour.' I don't write; I freestyle. I went in there and went from the verse to the hook. I didn't know if it was nice at first. It was like 5 in the morning. I was tired. They called me like, 'It's a hit.' I listened to it two days later and said, 'It's a nice song.' They did their verse, and here we are."
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The Paris Hilton Mug Shot

I know that I haven’t been around lately and haven’t been writing my nice fluffy posts I write lately. So here you go. This one should make up for it all.
Paris Hilton’s mug shot was released from her arrest the other day. What she was arrested for isn’t important. Well not to me anyways. She’s [...]

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Q&A: Michael Symon Talks About Being An Iron Chef & How Easy It Is To Make Really Great Food

Battling in the heat of Kitchen Stadium is something Iron Chef Michael Symon is no stranger to, and now he wants to bring his tips and tricks for imparting huge flavors to the home cook with his ne...

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Paris Hilton Declined Limo The Night Of Her Arrest

Before Paris Hilton's arrest in Las Vegas, she did an interview with the local NBC affiliate and was offered a limo afterwards, according to E! News. Paris reportedly declined the offer, saying:
"My boyfriend [Cy Waits] will drive me."
This falls into one of those head-slapping oops moments with the knowledge of hindsight. Apparently, the limo brought her to the interview and took her back Cy's house afterwards so she could change to go out.
"When the limo took her back to Waits', she was asked if she wanted the limo to wait for her," [Alicia Jacobs, entertainment reporter] tells E! "But Hilton said, 'No, my boyfriend will be driving us tonight.'"
BIG mistake.
Although I have to say, looking at Paris' mugshot (main picture above), she doesn't seem too upset, does she?
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UPDATE: Breaking News: Paris Hilton Arrested

Paris Hilton was arrested last night in Las Vegas after being found in possession of cocaine, according to TMZ.
According to police, Paris was the passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over outside the Wynn Hotel. The driver was arrested for DUI (drug-related, not alcohol) and when cops searched Hilton, they found her in possession of a controlled substance.
Police say tests revealed the substance to be cocaine.
She was arrested and released on her own recognizance.
Oy vey. You know we're going to hear more about this, so stay tuned...
Update: TMZ reports that Paris is using a defense similar to what she claimed in South Africa.
Sources who have spoken with Paris since her arrest on the Vegas strip late last night tell TMZ ... she insists the purse -- with what we're told contained a small amount of cocaine -- was not hers.
Paris has hired "powerful" defense attorney David Chesnoff to handle her defense. Although she was the only woman in the car when police stopped it, apparently there were other women in the car earlier that evening.
Yeah, 'cause women leave their purses behind all the time. Do you think Paris will manage to get away with this again?
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Paris Hilton Poses Pretty In Her New Mugshot

Paris Hilton posed with stylist Michael Boychuck at his COLOR salon in Las Vegas yesterday, just hours before she was arrested for cocaine possession early this morning. Her latest mugshot, released by the LVPD, bares a striking resemblance to the ones taken during her previous arrests. She had two other drug-related incidents while abroad Summer, but that didn't stop her wild nights and champagne filled days. Since returning to the States she's had legal issues including a $35 million lawsuit over hair extensions and last week the cops came when an intruder tried to enter her home. As usual, Paris denies any wrongdoing and her new lawyer, David Chernoff, claims the bag containing the cocaine does not belong to her.


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Vampires Suck Us Dry: Why the Sexy Beasts Are Making Billions

They're devouring our blood and our money. And still we crave more vampires. And more ... and more ... and more.
The obsession with the sultry, immortal beasts is currently a deliciously lucrative business, especially when you add up revenues from movies, books, TV shows and merchandising. Citing its own projections, The Hollywood Reporter estimates that vampires are pulling in a staggering $7 billion in total sales.
Is it true? How can it be?
"It doesn't surprise me. That number shouldn't shock us," box office tracker Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com tells PopEater. "There's no question that it's a multibillion-dollar industry. Vampires actually do have power over mortals and are causing people to spend more money."
THR broke it down into segments, calculating that vampire movies are making a lip-smacking $3 billion; TV and DVDs account for $1.2 billion; publishing sales total $1.6 billion; and merchandising plus an "other" category each bring in $600 million.



Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' books and the movies based on them are a major piece of the bloody pie -- the three movies alone have made $1.76 billion at the box office -- but so is the smash HBO phenomenon 'True Blood' in all its foxy gore, as well as parodies like 'Vampires Suck' (which grossed $20 million during its recent opening weekend). Not to mention the monstrous influx of clothing, jewelry and other paraphernalia consumers have taken a sizable bite out of.
"Seven billion dollars. That's a lot of blood," Dergarabedian jokes. "I don't want to be in trouble with the vampires, but the vampire mythology is something very romantic, very sexual and very relatable to a lot of people. It's like this forbidden lust."
Of course for mere mortals who believe the fascination has only recently taken flight, a little Vampires 101 might be in order. Dracula flicks have been around since the silent film era (1922's 'Nosferatu'), Syracuse University pop culture expert Bob Thompson reminds us. And there's more.
"Some people think this vampire thing came out of thin air," he tells PopEater. "But when I was a kid, vampires were teaching us how to count on 'Sesame Street,' and we were eating vampire cereal called Count Chocula. It's been a pretty popular culture genre for a long time."
Not to mention legendary novels like Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (1897) and John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1819), which spawned the numerous 'Dracula' films. Anne Rice got into the game with her 'Vampire Chronicle' novels, and TV shows like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' lured huge audiences. The word "vampire" itself dates back to the 18th century.
But there's no question that their image has changed, which is why we're falling in love with them all over again. Gone are the spooky capes, foreign accents, purplish skin and hideous fangs. Today's incarnations are smoking hot, lusty, devilish, dangerous, armed with supernatural powers, endearing and charmingly tormented. Oh, and did we say smoking hot and lusty? Whether they're virginal like in 'Twilight' or trampy like in "True Blood,' vampires ooze sex. And sex sells.
"It's no coincidence that vampires went from being very grotesque to being very good-looking leading men," says Dergarabedian. "The vampire is a tortured soul who feeds on blood and has a sexual drive. Audiences seem to have an insatiable appetite for them, so to speak."
They've also become much more like us in modern incarnations. And we're bewitched by beings like us.
"We've taken the vampire and totally domesticized it," Thompson says. "You take away the thick Middle Eastern accents, the black capes, and you turn it into the vampire next door: Someone you could fall in love with, pine over."
Yet vampires still represent "the other," a universally enticing and timeless theme. "The idea that these things are outsiders is very appealing. We've all felt like outsiders," says Thompson.
Is there any hope for the vampire loathers out there, the ones who are so tired of them that they fantasize about vampire genocide? Is there an end in sight?
"The vampire haters have a huge uphill battle because history is on the side of the vampires," Dergarabedian says ominously. "It may change, but I don't see that happening any time soon ... Part of me thinks there may be something more metaphysical at work."



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Erin Brockovich -- 2,600 New Problems with California

8/29/2010 12:45 AM PDT�by TMZ Staff��


The real Erin Brockovich (aka not Julia Roberts) may have a tough time lawyering her way out of this one -- according to the State of California, the famed corporation-destroyer owes $2,600 in back taxes.According to the documents, obtained by TMZ, Erin Brockovich, Inc. -- which Erin personally runs -- owes $2,621.55 in unpaid taxes from 2007 and 2008. Attempts to reach Brockovich were unsuccessful.Meanwhile -- somewhere else in California -- Julia Roberts is probably doing something really cool and rich person-y.
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