Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' with Beyonce is out and it is wilder than their last collaboration.

The nine-minute video starts with Gaga being escorted into a prison cell and stripped of her clothing by two female guards.

"I told you she didn't have a dick." says one of them.

"Too bad," the other replies, and Gaga leaps against the bars of her cell, exposing a blurred out view of her genitals. (She already proved she is not a hermaphrodite with her skimpy Grammys costume.)

Gaga goes on to don sunglasses made of smoldering cigarettes, nothing but yellow security tape and an array of bodysuits. As usual there is murder, masturbation and lots of impractical headwear.

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Sadly, not every episode of Survivor can be as much fun as last week's dynamite combination of Voldepussy's crying jag and James dripping baby oil, but at least we had a fast-moving episode this week, with injury, betrayal, and Voldepussy's unique combination of weird ego and utter stupidity. All that, and chocolate too. The only things missing were Oompa-Loompas, and frankly, I'm not convinced Russell isn't an Oompa-Loompa, except that the Oompa-Loompas sang moral lessons, and Russell has no morals.

Once back at camp, after betraying his word to most of the team and voting out Cirie at Tribal Council, (thereby earning my gratitude and Colby's, but few others), JT was doing damage control by saying it was a last minute decision made at Council, and that it was "for the good of the team," making it sound like he was sorry he'd made them all eat broccoli. Some of the tribe were of different opinions.

JT swore repeatedly to Amanda that he'd never turn on "you guys" (I'm almost 85% certain that Amanda is not a "guy"), yet oddly, she didn't believe him, and Amanda's been known to sell cows for magic beans. She told us that she thought he'd made "twenty alliances already." This would mean he had an alliance with everyone on both tribes, including the players who have already been sent home, and with himself. I do not believe he's made an alliance with himself, as he knows better than to trust himself. But then maybe Amanda just can't count. (maybe?)

For the opening credits roll, the producers were now using images of James all oiled up in last week's challenge, bless them. They also used shots of Rupert and of Rob covered in mud, making them look like Martin Sheen in the final reel of Apocalypse Now. Creepy. Now if only they would use shots of Voldepussy (Coach Wade for the uninitiated) weeping in his self-pity party, everything would be perfect.

Speaking of Voldepussy, last week Tyson the Nude Mormon gave him some good advice: "Do your Tai Chi in private, where nobody can see you." Voldepussy, "thinking" for himself, took the opposite approach, and instead made the whole tribe come out to the beach with him for a "class" in what he called "Dragonslayer Chi," because just claiming it was Tai Chi would be insufficiently pretentious for the self-worshiping nutball. We heard him give them this instruction: "The key is making your mind tell your body to flex every muscle." Isn't there an extraneous step there? Aren't you your mind? Shouldn't he just say, "Flex every muscle"? Does Voldepussy have to send his mind instructions? Does he write himself letters? I suppose one does have a harder time communicating with one's mind, when one has lost it years ago.

What made this delicious though was his "chanting" while so deeply into his self-delusion that he didn't see his tribemates looking at each other, rolling their eyes, and giggling. They may be "villains," but they know a total idiot when he's preening right in front of them, teaching them "Dragonslayer Chi." Watching his team mock him behind his back, and in front of his back, when he's too self-involved to notice it, made me laugh out loud.

More wisdom from "The Master" (No insult intended to Doctor Who's arch-enemy, who, though a mass-murdering, megalomaniacal, would-be ruler of the universe, is still a more pleasant, and saner, companion than Voldepussy): "It just basically tells your mind and your body to get on the same page." So does his mind and body often head off in different directions, like his body is in Samoa, and his mind is in Narnia? You know, the English have a wonderful word for guys like Voldepussy: "Wanker."

But of course there was one person who skipped class: Sore-Loser Russell. He had his own classy way of putting it: "Everybody this morning walks out on the beach, starts doing a little Coach-Chi in a circle. You know, all that meditatin' crap." I'll grant that "Dragonslayer Chi" is crap, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of meditation. On the other hand, perhaps Russell is wise to avoid self-knowledge. If he ever got to know himself, just look at whom he would be meeting. (I must add that Russell has visibly lost weight, something he didn't do during the previous season.)

He was, of course, looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol: "It's a very important tool, so I'm a get it; I'm a find it." That makes some sense. After all, Russell is a very important tool himself. Okay, he's not actually important; be he is a tool. And if he thinks his tribe doesn't know what he's up to, he's a very stupid tool as well. For Heaven's sake, he was in full view of the tribe when he finally found the idol. He's going to need it.

Reward Challenge: The reward for this challenge was Chocolate! Lots and lots of chocolate! I want to play! My interests in life are, in order of importance: Vodka, sex, and chocolate. Why do you think I'm so in love with James? He's two-out-of-three! Chocolate: it's not just for breakfast any more.

The challenge involved moshing about in a muddy pit for footballs to toss to elevated teammates who then use them to shoot baskets. Yes it's Like Mud for Chocolate!

Jeff, the perfect host (he has an Emmy to prove it), passed plates of sample chocolate around before the challenge. The Insufferables wolfed it down, but the Likeables ignored it. "We'll take theirs," Jerri selflessly offered. Turning down free chocolate? Has the Samoan sun addled their senses? Did they stuff themselves full of James before they came? (I would have!)

Jeff found this bewildering (and rude), as any sane person would. He asked them about it. Said Colby, making no sense: "I'm not annoyed with you. I'm ready to get to the challenge." He doesn't think a bit of chocolate might just deliver a teensy bit of extra, sugar-rush, energy? Because need I point out what a second-rate job Colby's been doing on challenges up to now? "Don't eat it. Let's go." Colby snapped.

Jeff, now a bit annoyed himself, replied, "I got the message, brother. We'll go when I'm ready." They're letting Jeff Probst's brother compete? Doesn't that violate some FCC law?

Rupert's explanation was even more sanity-challenged: "We don't care about the reward. We just want to win the challenge." Rupert, you're not playing for immunity. The challenge is for the reward. If you don't care about the reward, why play at all? You're not making sense. I guess he's saying that the Likeables just play for the glory of the loss.

But it's for chocolate! That's better than immunity! Chocolate will get you through times of no immunity better than immunity will get you through times of no chocolate.

And then, when the Likeables were told they had to sit out a man, Colby sat out. Now it truly makes no sense for him to have gotten all huffy about being offered chocolate. "Don't eat it. Let's get to me sitting out."

But the God of Chocolate (King Hershey of Heaven, Lord of the Hershey Highway, the most-pleasurable drive in the Universe) did not take this insult from the Likeables lightly. "If thou dost refuseth my Chocolate before this challenge, then thou shalt not have any chocolate during this challenge!" and verily, he smote Chocolate James, injuring him in the knee 30 seconds into the game, forcing him out, as his left kneecap kept popping in and out of where it belongs. (I've had this particular injury myself once, in a vodka-and-stairway related incident, and it hurts like heck!) My tears fell like The Rains of Raunchy-Pour, at the thought of no chocolate and no James.

JT showed the compassion which is second nature to him: "If James is pulled from this game, you know, a lot of my strategy is changed." What a selfless man. A lot of James's strategy will change too.

And did they get to put Colby in to substitute for James? Nope. Learn from this. Offend not the Chocolate Gods.

Amanda scored the first point. At one point in the pit JT picked up one of the balls. Unable to take it from him, Rob just picked up JT, like he was a leaf, and carried him over to his own side of the field, slamming him against the Insufferable's platform. Don't get between Rob and chocolate.

Tyson score the next point, but the scoring was being upstaged by the unnecessary-but-enjoyable roughness in the pit. Although neither was anywhere near a ball, JT attacked Voldepussy, and gratuitously slammed him around, and then Rupert picked up Jerri and smashed her face-first into a pole. Good times.

"I did not mean to do that," said Rupert, whose foul occurred after the point was scored, so technically during a timeout. And if he hadn't meant to do it, why did he do it? It wasn't an accident by any meaning of the term I know. For someone who doesn't care about the chocolate, Rupert was a beast.

Jerri scored the winning shot. The Likeables looked awfully depressed for a team that didn't want the chocolate.

As medical wrapped up James's leg (which was what I did when I had that injury. I had a show to do that night, and existing video of that performance shows me limping about the stage even worse than usual.), the Insufferables were turned loose into Willy Wonka's Samoan franchise. Thank Dog I had some chocolate in the house. I could not have watched this chocolate orgy without eating any myself. It would be like my trying to watch The Thin Man or The Days of Wine and Roses without a drink or ten.

"I have never eaten so much chocolate in one sitting in my entire life," said Jerri, showing she has no idea how to live.

They also got to swim in a lovely salt water lagoon in a natural pit. Rob described it: "I mean it's like something I've never seen before," although it looked nothing like a table napkin to me.

Parvati was pleased Russell had the idol, and said how everyone thought of her as an "evil mastermind." Actually, she's more of an evil mini-mind. Just her being pleased that Russell has an immunity idol shows she's not very bright. (Oh, and they had a pitcher of milk and glasses, but Russell, Mr. Class and Couth, was seen drinking directly from the pitcher.)

Russell decided to try to enlist Voldepussy as an ally, so they can blindside Rob. Russell understands that his Jedi Mind games only work on weak minds, and there's no mind weaker than Voldepussy's. In fact Vodle's mind is AWOL, and can only be communicated with by Owl-Mail. Mind you, their team needs Rob at least until the merge, but Russell can not bear that Rob is perceived as the leader instead of him, even though Russell has done no leading, and indeed, is not a leader of any sort.

In any event, this sort of strategizing and power move is what you do after losing an immunity challenge, and they haven't even had the immunity challenge yet. Lining up Voldepussy and then winning immunity would mean trying to hold a weak alliance together for several days, while other alliances and powers shift. It's premature, unless they're planning to throw the immunity challenge.

Of course, the deal Russell is offering Voldepussy involves lying and the betrayal of a friend, the sort of "dishonorable" and "ignoble" tactics Voldepussy constantly claims is not how he plays. But then, Voldepussy's mouth and reality have never met.

Voldepussy told us how he wants to play with Rob, but Russell playing into his ego wins him instantly, and he was up for betraying his loyalty, even as he explained to us that he's all about loyalty. Meanwhile, he's blithely unaware that Russell is only using him because he knows he's an idiot. He even falls for the old, "I'd give the idol to you if you needed it" ploy, which is right up there with "I did not have sex with that woman."

But being Voldepussy, he can not merely be mundanely stupid; he has to be elaborately and pretentiously stupid. "I feel like I need to do something monumental now, like the knights of the round table," he said, as he knelt before Russell and had Russell "knight" him. What is he, 12? Russell, knew to humor the big dope, and went along with it, while the words "What a wanker" never left his eyes. Somehow, fortunately, Russell resisted the urge to whip it out, and merely used his hand to "knight" Voldy, and not his - ah - "sword." (Looks more like a shiv to me anyway.) I'll give Voldepussy this, it was monumental, monumentally childish and ridiculous. What a wanker.

"The king and the dragonslayer," was how Russell described his silly new alliance. A queen and her fool was how it played to me, a couple of wily wankers.

Back at Camp Likeable, Amanda was in tears over the possibility of losing James. Me too, kid. Tom, on the other hand, was okay with it, though he feigned happiness when James came hobbling home. Meanwhile, Candice was licking her lips at the idea of sending James home, calling him "dead weight." Mind you, James went along with her get-Tom-or-Colby plan last week, while JT betrayed her, and is out to get her. But Candice has the true instincts of a buzzard, and was circling over James, while ignoring her true enemy.

Immunity Challenge: "I'm glad for one [James] is still in the game, because you never want to see a worthy competitor fall out like that," said Voldepussy, even as he was joined into the plot against his own worthy competitor and "ally" Rob. One of the differences between Voldepussy and the rest of the Insufferables is that the rest of them aren't so hypocritical. They're openly glad to see a competitor fall.

This one is another challenge involving blindfolded players and one player calling out instructions, this time for collecting large pieces of a huge friggin' jigsaw puzzle cube. Oh please, Palin's Pimp, aren't you listening when I tell you, week-after -week that watching jigsaw puzzles being assembled isn't good viewing? No. You're too busy trying to get a TV deal for that walking piece of excrement Sarah Palin.

(Palin's Pimp has already put Donald Trump and Rod Blagojevich on TV. What's next? Tickle Me, Congressman Massa? Rush Limbaugh's Find the Hidden Prescription Meds?)

Not terribly surprisingly, James was chosen to sit and call out instructions for the Likeables. It was perfect. He didn't have to move, and telling his tribe what to do at the top of his lungs is what he does best anyway.

Barrels were scattered about as obstacles, so we had some bashing into them, but at slow speed. We had players from opposite teams trying to pick up pieces together, not realizing they weren't with the right people. The nice thing is that, if the caller isn't watching everyone, someone is bound to bash into something. Also, the pieces were very big and very heavy, plus James was getting very hoarse.

The Likeables got all their pieces first, which gave them the illusion of a lead. But we've seen this a couple times before. The Insufferables have a history of coming from behind in puzzle assembling. Would it happen yet again?

Yes.

Russell will have to try to keep Voldepussy's loyalty intact, and mouth closed for three more days. Meanwhile, James would have to try to deflect the send-the-injured-player-home logic into somehow sinking Tom. Good luck with that, Gimpy.

The two plans were immediately lining up. Tom and Colby were firmly for sending home James, never mind that his guiding the blind players had been the successful part of the challenge. It's not his fault that his team can't do puzzles to save their lives.

Rupert and JT were just as quick to say Tom should go, though what JT says is pretty much irrelevant. Whom JT votes for matters, but that we now know is unrelated to whom he says he will vote for.

Candice was campaigning against James, Excuse me? You're talking to your enemy JT. Why aren't you going for him?

Amanda is solidly for keeping James, just as I am solidly for keeping James solid. Rupert now is up for voting out Tom or Candice. I'm up for losing Candice. The problem is of course, JT is going around agreeing with everyone. Everybody's strategy depends on lining up his vote, and he's already clearly demonstrated that his word is meaningless. Frankly, a player whom you can trust to betray anyone is really the player you should be getting rid of. They should be going after JT. He can't be trusted, can't be used in a strategy, and he has already won the game once. So who is trying to get JT out?

No one.

Going into Tribal, the only suspense is, which will JT betray? He's told Tom, Candice, and Colby that he'll vote for James. He's told James, Rupert, and Amanda he'll vote for Tom. He's told Nancy Pelosi he'll vote for healthcare. He's told Glen Beck, he'll vote to deny healthcare to anyone who's sick. He told James Cameron, he was voting for Avatar for Best Picture. He told Kathryn Bigelow he was voting for The Foot Locker. My guess? He'll vote to evict Voldepussy.

Tribal Council: "My niece could beat James in a race right now," said Jeff.

"No she couldn't," said James, unaware that Jeff's niece is the The Female Flash.

James and Amanda vs Tom and Candice was a conflict that quickly emerged under Probst's probing, or "Probsting" as it should be called, while JT quietly kept trying to play both sides. Tom was careful to refer to James having a "busted knee" when in fact, it was merely dislocated. Time to vote. Whom would JT betray this week?

The promos for Survivor all week made James look doomed so, sure enough, Tom's gamble failed. The tribe voted to keep an injured player (as they have been keeping Rupert and his broken toe), and Tom was voted out. When the previews or the promos point a finger of doom at a player, that player is always safe!

The irony is, Tom is a strong player. He got himself evicted ahead of the girls by relentlessly moving against James. JT or Candice would have been smarter players to remove, but Tom just insisted on making himself a target. Colby better get himself some new allies fast.

The shocker came when we saw who had voted for whom at the end. Candice, who had been lobbying to get rid of James, saw where the wind was blowing, and betrayed Tom and Colby, by voting for Tom just as JT did.

No Survivor next week (and after reviewing The Wolfman for my own blog, covering last week's Survivor and doing my Oscar write up, The Our Gang Oscars, frankly, I can use the week off. When it returns, it will be a Wednesday episode, so look for my next column here on Thursday, March 25th (The same day Dame Edna Everage will co-host The View, a program not to be missed, the first-ever episode of The View worth watching.). The previews show Rob and Russell gunning for each other, which can only mean one thing: The Insufferables will win immunity again, because Russell and Rob must both be safe. Until then Cheers darlings.

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While the tabloids and Internet have been abuzz with rumors of a possible pregnancy for Katie Holmes--intensified by new photos of her visiting a doctor's office--the actress is not expecting with her second child with Tom Cruise.

"Katie is not pregnant," her rep tells PEOPLE.

Corey Haim celebrated his last birthday on December 23, 2009, an event commemorated in this video.

The former teen star, who died Wednesday March 10 from an apparent accidental drug overdose, appears to be having a decent time at the event, surrounded by friends in the this compilation of photos set to music. Noticeably absent: His the other half of the Two Coreys, Corey Feldman.

You can watch the full video here

Lisa Derrick writes LaFiga for firedoglake.com

How hard is it to maintain your privacy in the information age? In this day of the unquenchable database maw, pretty hard.

That's the message of Erasing David, which begins a video-on-demand run today (3/12/10) on the iTunes Movie Store and Amazon VOD (it's also playing today at South by Southwest). Directed by David Bond and Melinda McDougall, this occasionally overblown documentary finds a gimmick to illustrate just how hard it is to keep your personal information to yourself in an era of seeming total access.

Bond, a London-based filmmaker, is the first-person subject of the film. He decides to see if he can literally take himself off the grid and, to enhance the drama of the challenge, he hires a private security firm to put its best operatives on his trail. He'll attempt to disappear; they'll attempt to find him.

The film intertwines three storylines. There's Bond himself, on the run, bopping back and forth between England and the European mainland. There are the private eyes, stealing the garbage from his house, monitoring his email and his cell phone, spying on his pregnant wife. And there's the backstory: Bond's earlier efforts to find out just how much information is out there about him that he's unaware of.

The answer to the last question is: a ton. As he discovers, every phone call, every credit-card purchase, every website he visits and car trip he makes into London are recorded somewhere. A resourceful or unscrupulous private eye can easily build a dossier on his habits without a lot of effort.

You run into this every day without even realizing it. Amazon.com has software to analyze your purchases and recommend books or other products you'd like. That's what the whole Genius program is about on iTunes. And most people have seen enough high-tech thrillers on TV to know that their credit cards, their cell phones, even the E-Z Pass on their cars render them visible and trackable, if anyone cares.

Bond goes a little further, interviewing people who have had negative experiences based on their names appearing in faulty databases. A man whose identity was stolen - and then used to subscribe to child-pornography websites - recounts stories of being arrested and unable to clear his name. Something similar happened to a young woman, who was rejected for several jobs because someone with a similar name and the same birth date popped up as a felon in a database.

Bond's great escape is a tad hokey and seems not particularly well thought out. On the one hand, he's on the run; on the other, he's trying to have a normal life. So he visits his parents and continues to use email and his cell phone, practically begging his pursuers to find him. Though he avoids using credit cards, he finds that he's barely a step ahead of his pursuers - at least until he goes off to hide in the woods.

Bond himself is a likable if unremarkable presence, amiable and empathetic without being a smart-ass a la Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock. On the other hand, there's not much that's compelling about him either.

Still, the information he offers is intriguing, if only for the way it raises your level of paranoia. It's the kind of doc that keeps you watching, if not enthralled.

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LOS ANGELES — Teen power won out on "American Idol" as Katie Stevens claimed a place in the top 12 while a more experienced singer got the ax.

Stevens, 17, earned viewer support even though the show's judges were disappointed earlier this week by her performance of "Breakaway" that Randy Jackson likened to karaoke.

Lilly Scott, despite earning praise for her artistry on "I Fall to Pieces," was among the four contestants dropped Thursday. They included Alex Lambert of North Richland Hills, Texas; Todrick Hall of Arlington, Texas, and Katelyn Epperly of West Des Moines, Iowa.

Scott, who had been warned by Simon Cowell that her version of the country standard might be risky, stood onstage next to Stevens to hear which of them would be going home. Scott appeared stunned when her name was announced.

"I thought I did really well. I put my heart into every performance," said Scott, 20, of Littleton, Colo. "I just know there's an audience out there for me."

Judge Kara DioGuardi, comparing the two, acknowledged that Stevens of Middlebury, Conn., had the advantage of a more contemporary sound but didn't know herself as a performer yet, while Scott did.

It was no surprise that the judge's favorite from previous weeks, Michael "Big Mike" Lynche, made the cut.

Lynche, 26, of Astoria, N.Y., especially dazzled the panel Wednesday with his performance of "This Woman's Work," which brought DioGuardi to tears.

The other finalists are Crystal Bowersox, 24, of Toledo, Ohio; Siobhan Magnus, 20, of Marstons Mills, Mass.; Lacey Brown, 24, of Amarillo, Texas; Paige Miles, 24, of Houston; Didi Benami, 23, of Los Angeles; Andrew Garcia, 24, Moreno Valley, Calif., Casey James, 27, of Fort Worth, Texas; Tim Urban, 20, of Duncanville, Texas; Aaron Kelley, 16, of Sonestown, Pa., and Lee Dewyze, 23, of Mount Prospect, Ill.

Lambert, 19, who had trouble overcoming his shyness on stage, looked downcast and tearful when he learned his fate.

"There's a lot of things America hasn't seen me do yet," he said, adding, "I wish could just have broken out of my shell."

Judge Ellen DeGeneres gave him a verbal pat on the back.

"You're so good. Don't ever stop believing in yourself," she said.

Hall, however, looked on the bright side.

"This has been an awesome experience. I came here to prove that I'm not just a dancer, I can also sing. I think that I've done that," he said, earning encouragement from Jackson. "Fantastic, dude," the judge told him.

DioGuardi had criticized Epperly for "going through the motions" on her version of "I Feel the Earth Move" earlier this week. Cowell compared her performance to request night at a restaurant, but added that he did like her full, curly locks that evoked the song's composer, Carole King.

"I'm not stopping now. It's just a push actually, for me. I'll do more stuff," Epperly said Thursday.

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NEW YORK — Madonna doesn't think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband.

But she believes a wife should dispose of her late husband's prosthetic leg to spare the feelings of the wife's current mate.

This was some of Madonna's relationship advice on NBC's "The Marriage Ref," where she joined actor-comedians Larry David and Ricky Gervais as a guest panelist on Thursday's edition.

The show invites its panel of "experts" to help analyze real-life disputes between married couples, mostly for laughs. Host Tom Papa, aka The Marriage Ref, makes the final call.

In one case, Mindy Goldman was offering sexual favors to Alan, her husband of 28 years, if he would clean up their messy basement.

A good idea? "I think it's weird that she wants him to be clean so that they can be dirty," cracked Madonna.

Gervais wondered, "Could they combine the sex with the housework?"

Then Susan and David Harper, married for three years, were seen in their house squabbling over possessions left over from their past relationships. Susan wanted her husband to get rid of the sofa where David and his ex-wife might have had hanky-panky, while David complained about Susan hanging on to the ashes and prosthetic leg of Don, her late husband.

Madonna's swift solution: "He gets rid of the couch, she gets rid of the leg."

"This is easily the most uncomfortable hour I've ever spent in my life," sighed Larry David in the midst of the debate.

"Why?" Madonna retorted. "Because you're sitting next to a woman who's standing up to you?"

"The Marriage Ref," which premiered last week, has Jerry Seinfeld as a creator and producer.

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On Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Izzie Stevens has been missing from Seattle Grace Hospital, and now the actress who plays her, Katherine Heigl, hasn't been seen at work.

Although Heigl, 31, was scheduled to return to the set March 1 after three months of maternity leave, she was not there, a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE.

Four more contestants were eliminated on American Idol: Katelyn Epperly, Todrick Hall, Alex Lambert and Lilly Scott. So this is the Top 12, the performers who get to go on tour and -- no matter how soon they're eliminated -- get a shot at a career of some sort. (Has anyone in the Top 24 who didn't make the Top 12 ever made a name for themselves?)

TOP 12

(in order of announcing on the show)

1. Didi Benami 2. Siobhan Magnus 3. Paige Miles 4. Casey James 5. Tim Urban 6. Lee Dewyze 7. Crystal Bowersox 8. Michael Lynche 9. Lacey Brown 10. Aaron Kelly 11. Andrew Garcia 12. Katie Stevens

I had a pretty good night prediction-wise: I predicted the bottom four of the women perfectly,but thought Katie Stevens would go home instead of Lilly Scott. I only predicted three of the four men in the bottom four (I thought Aaron would be in it, rather than Lee) and again only nailed one of the men going home, since I thought Andrew would go home instead of Alex.

The night began with another godawful lip-sync, this time of a Michael Buble song. Then we were told "breaking news" -- the theme of the Top 12 performance night will be the music of the Rolling Stones. (I immediately started wondering what song would be good for Crystal.) Even better, they're going to make the playlists of songs that the contestants choose from available on iTunes. This gives the fans a lot more to think about. iTunes lists 50 songs that the Top 12 can choose from. Assuming these are the only songs they get to select from, we have a much better insight into the options they're given and how smart they are in their choice.

Then the Top 12 was slowly announced. Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly faced off, with a resigned Katelyn going home and Paige heaving a huge sigh of relief (as I predicted). Todrick Hall and Lee Dewyze faced off, with Todrick still sporting the fingerless gloves that probably spelled his doom. (Todrick also gave a strong goodbye performance; he just needs a stylist.) Alex Lambert and Andrew Garcia faced off and Alex was devastated by being sent home. He was genuinely heartbroken, frustrated that he didn't have the confidence to show his talent to the fullest. That was followed by a dueling pianos rendition of Billy Joel's "Tell Her About It" (one of my favorite songs of his) by last season's Scott McIntyre and Matt Giraud. After it was over, I wondered which one would be going home. (My pick would have been Scott.) Finally Katie and Lilly faced off and Lilly was sent home, to the astonishment of everyone.

So now we know the Top 12 and the playlist of 50 Rolling Stones songs they get to choose from. Here's your chance to help your favorites on the show. Which song would you recommend they sing (and how, if you think they need to give it a new arrangement).

ROLLING STONE PLAYLIST

Angie As Tears Go By Beast of Burden Black Limousine Brown Sugar Can't You Hear Me Knocking Country Honk Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) Emotional Rescue Fool to Cry Get Off My Cloud Gimme Shelter Happy Hang Fire Heart of Stone Honky Tonk Women Hot Stuff It's All Over Now It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) Jumpin' Jack Flash Lady Jane The Last Time Let It Bleed Live With Me Love In Vain Midnight Rambler Miss You Mother's Little Helper 19th Nervous Breakdown No Expectations Paint It, Black Play With Fire Ruby Tuesday Salt of the Earth (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Shattered She Was Hot She's a Rainbow She's So Cold Shine a Light Start Me Up Street Fighting Man Sympathy for the Devil Time Is On My Side Too Tough Tumbling Dice Under My Thumb Waiting On a Friend Wild Horses You Can't Always Get What You Want

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I'm with everyone else who couldn't figure out Lindsay Lohan's $100 million lawsuit against E-Trade because one of the babies in a TV spot had her name.... You know, whatever she said.

But, once again, Advertising Age came to my rescue. I opened my mailbox on March 9 to find the headline:

"Was Lohan's $100M Suit Against E-Trade Crowdsourced"?

I hadn't read or heard the word "crowdsourced" before, but I did hope to find an explanation for the latest silly celebrity lawsuit.

It turns out that Lindsay and her Twitter followers were apparently upset or bothered or something when they saw the spot during the "Super Bowl." AD AGE did thorough research and reported they think the lawsuit was a "crowdsourced effort by friends and random friends of Ms. Lohan on Twitter."

The reporter did his research:

"A quick look back at her Twitter page shows that Ms. Lohan was watching the Feb. 7 Super Bowl broadcast, and its commercials, closely. She tweeted with some shock during the game: "Did that just happen? On that commercial? Or am I wrong? 5:44 PM Feb 7th via UberTwitter."

(I didn't know there was an UberTwitter either, BTW.)

"...that commercial" is apparently the talking babies trading stocks who know another baby, the "milkaholic Lindsay."

(I can figure out what a milkaholic is. I just can't equate what it has to do with the actress.)

I was not Tweeting during the Super Bowl (and I don't think Lindsay Lohan is on my friends list), so I missed what AD AGE reported: "a lot of people were talking about it on Twitter in the aftermath of the spot's airing - with many egging Ms. Lohan on to file a lawsuit against E-Trade." The story actually quotes some of these instigators and shows Ms. Lohan's responses.

I think my favorite part of the reporter's observations is, "But it's pretty surprising that before filing the suit she didn't delete her Twitter comments." Ah, the Tiger Woods effect strikes again.

All right. Now I know what crowdsourcing is: It's a bunch of people giving celebrities bad advice about subjects they know nothing about it.

If anyone thinks I should sue a "candy" company, or complain about anything to do with "spelling," please comment here. I've never been crowdsourced.

As the entertainment industry flocks to South by Southwest for their annual look at the best and brightest in new music, here are a few recent acts that may have slipped through the cracks. Cutting across different genres, each of the five acts below are personal favorites on heavy rotation on my iPod. Inventive music supervisors have plugged a couple into popular shows like Gossip Girl and 90210, but for the rest of these working musicians, it's still a long road to making it big. Here's to your first steps.

Kristine Elezaj Fresh from her native New York City, Kristine Elezaj is attracting the publicity to launch herself into the pop stratosphere with recent mentions in New York magazine and at Radar Online. Her newest music video, "Souvenirs," debuted at number 7 on LOGO's music video countdown program, bringing her catchy hip-hoppified pop into instant rotation. But of her available tracks, the single, "Let You Know," stands out as the most instantly catchy and danceable, a musical jaunt found somewhere at the intersection of Britney Spears and Rihanna. "Sorry you didn't see, that there was so much more to me," Elezaj snaps as the song cocks back on its heels, and makes for an exit. At once vulnerable and self-aware, Elezaj's singles don't stray too far from the current production trends of pop music, but set against defiant and sassy lyrics Elezaj's style invites listeners to pump up the volume. "Now I'll be the one that's haunting your dreams," Elezaj taunts her listeners. With a single this listenable, one hopes it's a promise and not a threat. Best Single: "Let You Know" You've Heard Her: On LOGO's NewNowNext Music Countdown

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros There's a real sweetness to the alt-countrified production of "Home," a mid-tempo love song by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. The song whistles you along on a journey across simple strums of the guitar and jangling piano keys as vocalists Alex Ebert and Jade Castrinos weave a duet about their journey deep into love with each other. "And in the streets, you're running free, like it's only you and me," Castrinos sings, the beat moving like a rickety jalopy through a golden field of memories. Somewhere between Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Jenny Lewis's collaboration with The Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros cuddles up against your heart and makes you feel as though, with a little love, you can make a home for yourself anywhere. And yes, darlin', it will all work out. Best Single: "Home" You've Heard Them: On Letterman about six month ago

Nikki And Rich If Amy Winehouse really kicked the hard stuff, her music would lose the grit that makes a track like "Back To Black" saw across your wronged heartstrings. But every mood doesn't call for a moody soundtrack, which is why Nikki & Rich's playful ode to Motown doo-wop is so damned good. A small show last fall at L.A.'s The Viper Room was proof that lead singer Nikki Leonti has the pipes to back up the lyrics, which play solidly against music man Rich Skillz's hand-clapping backing. With pips in tow, Leonti and her beehive of kicking, up-tempo jams had the venue rocking and wanting for more. Fortunately, the duo's first single, "Cat & Mouse," a swinging and self-confident little number about putting up or shutting up, is available for download at the iTunes music store. Here's to further rotation. Best Single: "Cat & Mouse" You've Heard Them: On the season premiere of 90210

DJ Ryan Kenney This track is more like an album than a song, but the nature of remixed music makes it hard to evaluate a set except in its entirety. Kenney weaves between tracks by Sneaky Sound System and The Presets, Friendly Fires and Lykke Li, Miami Horror and Damn Arms, in a set that never loses its funked-out house street cred. "Music 4 Music People 5" demonstrates a willingness to experiment, to cut a rug across the dancefloors of the world, and connect all the different tracks with musical lightshow that races and bends like the freeways of Los Angeles. It's an interesting and refreshing spin on what it means to get down: part funk, part house, part pop, "Music For Music People 5" feels good to listen to, like an endless beach party with all your best friends. Best Single: Not applicable. You've Heard Him: On the most recent Dew Tour

Miike Snow Over the years, the Swedish rock scene has proven to have some good tricks in its record sleeves, and the band Miike Snow follows in that tradition. Stockholm does things in its own way, and you can hear it in the way "Animal" jaunts along, in chords that ricochet happily in your ears. "I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still an animal," the song reports on the human condition. But, for me, the standout track of Miike Snow's self-titled first album is "Cult Logic," a rousing anthem that seeks to claim its own destiny. "Will you free me from the logic that I knew / I believe it even if it is not true," strains lead singer Andrew Wyatt's voice, as it feeds your inner rebel. A favorite amongst the young Hollywood set, Miike Snow's freshman effort is diverse in its sound and thoughtful in its lyrical composure. Well played, Sweden, yet again. Best Single: "Cult Logic" You've Heard It: Gossip Girl, MTV's The Buried Life

Kristen Stewart shares a passionate kiss with Dakota Fanning in their new biopic 'The Runaways,' but Dakota's age prevented Kristen from having her way with her.

"She was 15, and I wasn't allowed to grope her," Kristen, 19, told Access Hollywood. "I'm actually not kidding, there are major restrictions that I don't remember [from] when I was younger."

In the movie Kristen stars as Joan Jett and Dakota plays singer Cherie Currie. Kristen said the kiss was "just something that happened in their lives."

"I don't want to give anything way. It's a really passionate, hardcore scene," she joked. "No, it's just a kiss. It's not really a big deal."

'The Runaways' opens April 9.

The historical legacy of the devaluation and demonization of black motherhood was both applauded and rewarded at this year's Oscars. And the point was clearly illustrated with Mo'Nique, capturing the gold statue for best supporting actress in the movie Precious, based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, as a ghetto welfare mom who demeans and demoralizes her child every chance she can.

Compare Mo'Nique's role to Sandra Bullock's, who captured her Oscar as best actress in the movie The Blind Side, as a woman who offers the hand of human kindness to a poor black child in need of parenting.

But the images African- American parenting have historically been viewed through a prism of gendered and racial stereotypes. And the image of Mo'Nique as the "bad black mother" and Sandra Bullock as" good white mother" is nothing new.

The images of the "bad black mother" have not only been used for entertainment purposes but also used for legislating welfare policy reforms.

For example, in Ronald Reagan's era (1981- 1989), black motherhood was constantly under siege. These moms were depicted as Cadillac-driving " welfare queens," who had little to no ambition to work, wanted money for drugs, and wanted to continue, due to their uncontrolled sexuality, to have illegitimate babies in order to remain on welfare.

Reagan told a fallacious story about a African-American mother from Chicago's South Side who was arrested for welfare fraud that subsequently not only shaped public perception of black mothers but it also shaped welfare reform:

"She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names."

The story of Precious takes place in 1983. And while the book shapes the character Precious and that of her mother Mary within both the economic an cultural context of the Reagan era, the movie Precious does not. And this one-dimensional depiction of Mary conveniently reinscribes black mothers' fear that haunts us daily -- that we're never good enough.

The feeling that we as mothers are never good enough was thrown in our faces also in Daniel Moynihan's 1965 report "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action." This report -- also known as the Moynihan Report- states that the cause of the destruction of the Black nuclear family structure were women, giving rise to the myth of "the Black Matriarch." The myth proposes that African-American women are complicit with white patriarchal society in the emasculation of African-American men by becoming heads of households and primary jobholders.

Lee Daniels, the director of Precious, has a knack for portraying monstrous black mothers on the silver screen. Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her role as bad mother in Daniels' Monster's Ball.

In this "post-racial" Obama era, the subject of race and the politics of black representation in films are constrained by neither political correctness nor moral consciousness. But Daniels would argue that the moral conscious of his Precious is evident by the film's crossover appeal, but also by the universality of its message- the suffering and damage of child molestation at the hand of parents.

While Daniels' film shocked and awed moviegoers across the country, many African-American sisters, like Precious, didn't find the film as liberating and cathartic as intended.

For many of these sisters -- as with a lot of African-American women -- we saw not ourselves, but rather a modern-day version of an old racist stereotype.

Some African American woman told me they saw the character Precious as our culture's new "Hottentot Venus." Hottentot Venus was Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman from South Africa, who was forced to reveal her huge buttocks and labia to curious Europeans in a traveling human circus show. The "Hottentot Venus" has become the iconic image for portraying black female bodies as subhuman, and this image is still very much part and parcel of our culture's social discourse.

"Portraying African-American women as stereotypical mammies, matriarchs, welfare recipients, and hot mommas has been essential to the political economy of domination fostering Black women's oppression, " sociologist Patricia Hill Collins writes in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.

Precious is no doubt an important film. But when the artistic portrayal of the characters and people Daniels is trying to bring to life in a new way reinscribes century-old stereotypes, Daniels -- albeit with good intentions -- has caused harm.

And if Daniels won't take my advice on this, then he should just pause for a moment and go and ask his momma.

Gerard Butler covers the April issue of Men's Journal, and inside he discusses his sex life and continues to provocatively insinuate he is involved with 'Bounty Hunter' costar Jennifer Aniston.

You can see Gerard with a dirtied-up, lingerie-clad Jen here.

Here are some highlights from the interview:

On getting laid: "I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I'm way more paranoid now - look at f-cking Tiger Woods! I mean, I'm nowhere near as naughty as I used to be, partly because I did a lot of that when I was drinking."

On his commitment problems: "In the last five years since coming out here, I've had two relationships. I'm not a big relationship guy. One of my vices is, I'm too wrapped up in myself and not always in a good way."

On holiday fun with Jennifer Aniston: "Over Christmas she had a tree-trimming party that I went to. Yeah, I trimmed her bush... Shit. Please don't put that in."

On his anxiety addiction: "I was born into a world of anxiety... I am slightly addicted to anxiety. When I'm feeling anxious, I'll create more anxiety for myself. Like I might call all these people about what's fun to do tonight and end up with four different options, which in itself would put me into a blind panic; but then I'll make another four calls just to make it 10 times more anxiety-ridden."

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