The many retoolings of NBC's "Up All Night" have reportedly taken their toll on Christina Applegate.

According to Deadline, the actress is leaving the sophomore NBC comedy, which is produced by Lorne Michaels. “It’s been a great experience working on 'Up All Night,' but the show has taken a different creative direction and I decided it was best for me to move on to other endeavors,” Applegate said in a statement. “Working with Lorne Michaels has been a dream come true and I am grateful he brought me into his TV family. I will miss the cast, producers and crew, and wish them the best always.”

Deadline reports that NBC is looking to proceed with the series and could be looking to "Friends" alumna Lisa Kudrow to replace Applegate.

"Up All Night," which also stars Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph, has gone through many growing pains since its premiere in September 2011. In its second season, "Up All Night" ditched Rudolph's character Ava's talk-show to create "smaller, lower-key home stories." In October 2012, with ratings sagging, NBC announced that it it was rebooting "Up All Night" from a single-camera to a multicamera series and upping its episode order to six.

Applegate appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" a month later and said the show is going through "a metamorphosis ... a big one." Then, she joked, "None of us are actually gonna be on the show."

The comedy switched showrunners in December, as Linda Wallem replaced Tucker Crawley (who had replaced Jon Pollack) and NBC revealed that the show was scheduled to resume production in February in front of a live studio audience after a three-month hiatus.

In January 2013, "Up All Night" creator and executive producer Emily Spivey left.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Up All Night" is scheduled to return to NBC in April or May.

NBC told HuffPost TV they had no comment on Applegate's departure at this time.

"Side Effects," Steven Soderbergh's final theatrical offering before retirement, is out in theaters this weekend, which is good news for people who like good movies. The film -- a twisty thriller about a depressed young woman (Rooney Mara) who commits a crime after being prescribed some mood-altering drugs by her psychiatrist (Jude Law) -- is easily the week's standout release and one of the first great films of 2013.

With "Side Effects" unspooling at theaters now, HuffPost Entertainment is happy to debut a behind-the-scenes look at the film, which details how society's growing reliance on prescription drugs helped build a foundation for the film.

"I really loved the idea that [screenwriter Scott Burns] took a social issue -- a very zeitgeist-y issue -- and used it as a Trojan Horse to hide a thriller inside it," Soderbergh said during a special screening of the film last month.

Watch the special new look at "Side Effects" above. The film is out in theaters now.

For more on "Side Effects," check out this HuffPost Entertainment interview with Burns.

Say what you will about The Pirate Bay: if nothing else, its founders are resilient, defiant, and clever. Two out of its three co-founders have yet to be brought to justice, having been convicted of aiding copyright infringement—none of them have paid a single cent of the multi-million dollar fine ordered by a Swedish court in 2009, and all seem quite resolute on maintaining that position. (Still, each of the three claim to no longer have any involvement in the site.)

There’s not much new information about the founders in Simon Klose’s new film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, which debuted Friday at the Berlinale Film Festival in the German capital and is available freely online under a Creative Commons license. The non-narrated, largely Swedish-language film profiles the three co-founders during their prosecution by the Swedish government and doesn’t address—other than through filmed court testimony—the fourth co-defendant, businessman Carl Lundström. (Lundström did serve four months in Sweden under house arrest, but has since returned to living in Switzerland. He also declined to be profiled for the film.)

In February 2012, the Swedish Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case against the co-founders, leaving the three with few, if any, legal options left at their disposal. After being deported late last year on a Cambodian visa violation, Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg remains in Swedish custody. Meanwhile, Fredrik “tiamo” Neij is still living in Laos with his wife and son.

In the closing minutes of the film (shot in November 26, 2010, on the day the first appeals decision was to be announced), Neij looks straight in the camera while taking a leisurely family lunch aboard a boat in Laos with co-founder Peter Sunde at his side. Neij flatly says: “I can serve a prison sentence. But why do it if I don’t have to?”

Later that day, just moments after the two of them find out that they’ve lost their appeal, Neij adds: “The statute of limitations is five years. They can’t issue an international warrant of arrest. I can sit here and jerk off for five years. And I will.”

The film also reminds us that Neij is wanted by Interpol, although his name does not turn up in Interpol’s online database. Meanwhile, Sunde remains a digital nomad, traveling seemingly freely about Europe and the rest of the world. He’s even answering a Reddit AMA on Saturday.

In other words, these guys seem very comfortable with ignoring Swedish justice.

Late last year, Håkan Roswall, the chief prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial, told Ars that he has “no doubt whatsoever that every one of those four will serve their sentence.”

New York Times reporter Michael Cieply pulls the lid off the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Awards telecast in a new article ("On Oscar night everyone is dying -- sometimes literally -- to win something," reads the first sentence), which explains how awards-season campaigning even extends to remembering the deceased.

According to Cieply, a group of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science members get together to determine which stars make the cut on Oscar night. “Of all the committees, it’s the hardest one to do,” Tom Sherak, who was president of the AMPAS until last year, told the Times. As with everything else in the cloak-and-dagger world of Oscar voting, the group is never outed or discussed in public. “The committee’s names are never mentioned, ever,” said Sherak.

The In Memoriam segment, an obituary in montage form that honors members of the Hollywood filmmaking community lost over the last year, officially became a part of the broadcast in 1994. Since, many departed stars have been unceremoniously snubbed from the roll call -- from Farah Fawcett and Brad Renfro to Corey Haim and Harry Morgan. Those omissions are usually chalked up to time (the AMPAS said Renfro just didn't make the final cut) or big-screen influence (Fawcett and Morgan weren't necessarily best known for their film work). Per Ciepy, however, there could be another reason: a lack of champions on the In Memoriam committee.

“I cannot image why it left my dad out of its tribute segment,” Harry Morgan's son, Charley, told The Times. “It would never have occurred to me to check with or otherwise lobby the Academy to be sure that he was mentioned.”

Lobbying, of course, is a major part of awards season -- and not just the In Memoriam segment. Just this week, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) spoke out against "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's Best Picture nominee, because of apparent inaccuracies in the film's storyline. ("Lincoln" shows two Connecticut representatives voting against the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery; in real life, the men were for the new law.) With Oscar voting open now, that's the type of charge that could make "Lincoln" seem less viable as a Best Picture choice. Not that Courtney probably minds. As Salon notes, "Argo" director Ben Affleck -- who has watched as his film has lept above "Lincoln" to gain status as the Best Picture frontrunner in the last month -- worked to get Courtney elected in 2006.

As always with the Academy Awards, follow the friendships and ulterior motives -- even when it comes to the deceased.

As the first anniversary of Whitney Houston’s death rolls around on Monday, her mother, Cissy Houston, has been in the spotlight. However, the messages she’s been sending when it comes to honoring her daughter’s memory have been a bit … confusing.

On Thursday, the 79-year-old blasted her late daughter’s mentor and close friend, Clive Davis, for inviting her to his annual pre-Grammy party, which takes place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Saturday. It was while Whitney was readying herself for that party last year that she drowned in her hotel bathtub. Drugs were in her system when she died.

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“I got an invitation to the party – which is the most obscene thing,” Cissy told “Access Hollywood.” “I don’t know why they would want me to come to the party in which she died, you know? Unheard of.”

What she didn’t mention was that her son Gary Houston and his wife/Whitney’s manager Pat had accepted invites to the gala and will be in attendance this weekend, according to Davis’ rep.

Cissy celebrating the unveiling of Whitney wax figures at Madame Tussauds on February 7 (Getty Images)Also unusual? Where Cissy was when she lashed out at Davis, who had been so close to the Houston family that spoke at Whitney’s funeral. The Houston matriarch was at an event held at tourist hot spot Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Manhattan’s Times Square, where she smiled, clapped, and posed happily alongside of eerie lifelike replicas of her famous daughter that were being unveiled to mark Whitney’s death.

And while Cissy found Davis’ party invite “obscene,” many people are questioning her own decision to write a book, Remembering Whitney, about her late daughter, which touched on Houston’s drug use, failed marriage to Bobby Brown, and bad feelings toward Robyn Crawford, the woman with whom Whitney may or may not have had a lesbian affair.

President François Hollande's 47-year old partner was slammed for eschewing her Left-wing principles in favour of unabashed champagne Socialism despite the threat of "thousands of job losses in the coming weeks" in companies ranging from Renault to Air France.

VSD, the weekly magazine, trained its ire on the 47-year-old divorcee's decision to attend the haute couture shows of Paris fashion week.

It described photos of the first lady beaming alongside France's richest man Bernard Arnault at the Dior catwalk show as a "political fault".

"While thousands of French are fighting to avoid redundancy … (she) attended the fashion shows," it wrote.
"Valérie Trierweiler, who often claims to be 'Socialist to her soul' … ultimately prefers supporting the one industry that has no particular need of her help – the luxury fashion world.
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"It sends out a very mixed message to the millions of voters who elected her partner to office hoping for a change in morals and mentality.

"Instead of choosing to support welders or other workers, she has chosen to offer her presence, her support to Dior, to Yves Saint Laurent and the entire luxury industry."

The virulent broadside comes after former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was regularly branded a frivolous figure painfully unaware of the plight of the average French person while her husband Nicolas Sarkozy was president.

The multi-millionaire former supermodel was particularly mocked for declaring "we're simple ordinary folk" in a desperate bid to convince the French her husband was a "man of the people" during his failed re-election bid.

Now VSD said her successor had fallen into the same trap.
"Mixing with the elite has always had the power to anaesthetise the conscience and dilute one's convictions, and Valerie Trierweiler clearly hasn't been able to hold out against this for long."
Miss Trierweiler met Mr Hollande, 57, at a political rally 15 years ago and have been a couple for five years.
In what appeared to be a damage limitation counter-strike, a picture of Miss Trierweiler walking arm in arm with Mr Hollande was splashed on the front cover of Thursday's Paris Match, the magazine she still works for.
France's first couple was shown strolling in the public Luxembourg gardens, and sitting at a café terrace, just like any other ordinary Parisian couple.

HSBC Holdings Plc’s $9.4 billion sale of its stake in Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. to Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont was initiated by the insurer’s chairman, the official who was approached to buy the stake said.
The disclosure is the first confirmation of the Chinese insurer’s role in brokering the transaction and highlights Ping An Chairman Peter Ma’s determination to find his own partner as HSBC looked to exit a decade-long investment.

The logo of Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. is displayed during a news conference in Hong Kong, China. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg
Ma approached Tse Ping, vice chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group Co., about buying the stake, the Thai company executive said. Both are members of an advisory body to China’s legislature. Dhanin’s CP Group completed the deal, the largest sale of a Chinese company to a foreign buyer, on Feb. 6.

“Mr. Ma wanted a long-term investor so that Ping An’s share price doesn’t fluctuate too much,” Tse said in an interview in Hong Kong yesterday. “Ping An is a good company -- we like its culture and business model. That’s why we are willing to pay a good price for it.”

Ma’s role illustrates the influence exerted by Chinese executives over their investors and the importance of personal connections in closing a transaction that allowed London-based HSBC to reap a $2.6 billion profit. The deal survived a last- minute withdrawal of funding by China Development Bank Corp. and scrutiny by regulators in Beijing.
HSBC’s Search

HSBC spent months searching for potential buyers until Ma approached CP Group, whose main business is agriculture, Tse said, declining to elaborate on the discussions with Ma. Among those approached was Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte, Tse said.
Tan Yong Meng, a spokesman for Temasek, declined to comment, as did officials at Ping An and HSBC.
The deal has already yielded a $1.3 billion paper profit for Dhanin, who is Thailand’s second richest man with an estimated net worth of $6.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. About 55 percent of his fortune is from overseas private companies.

Questions about funding fueled concerns about the deal’s survival at times. Ping An shares fell the most in more than five months on Jan. 8, when Chinese magazine Caixin reported CDB had pulled financing after learning of the involvement of Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese financier, in the deal.
In an earlier report, Caixin said Xiao channeled funds from three municipal commercial banks that he reportedly controls to help CP Group purchase the Ping An shares. Xiao denied any involvement in the transaction in a Dec. 23 statement via his lawyer, Caixin reported.

A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.

By Devorah Lauter, Paris3:32PM GMT 03 Feb 2013153 Comments
On January 31, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital.
The law required women to ask police for special permission to "dress as men" in Paris, or risk being taken into custody.
In 1892 and 1909 the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers, "if the woman is holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse."

The law was kept in place until now, despite repeated attempts to repeal it, in part because officials said the unenforced rule was not a priority, and part of French "legal archaeology."

In July however, in a public request directed at Ms Vallaud-Belkacem, Alain Houpert, a senator and member of the conservative UMP party, said the "symbolic importance" of the law "could injure our modern sensibilities," and he asked the minister to repeal it.

Ms Vallaud-Belkacem agreed, and in a published statement on Jan. 31st wrote: "This ordinance is incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men, which are listed in the Constitution, and in France's European commitments.
"From that incompatibility follows the implicit abrogation of the ordinance."
The restriction focused on Paris because French Revolutionary rebels in the capital said they wore trousers, as opposed to the knee-breeches, or the "culottes," of the bourgeoisie, in what was coined the "sans-culottes" movement. Women rebels in the movement demanded the right to wear trousers as well, but were forbidden to do so.

Horatio Nelson famously instructed his officers that "you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil".

By Henry Samuel, Paris7:55PM GMT 07 Feb 201317 Comments
So he may be turning in his grave to learn that the bloodstained chemise he died in after a French musket ball pierced his shoulder at the battle of Trafalgar is to return to enemy territory for the first time since his demise.

Nelson's undress uniform, which he changed into as his fleet sailed into battle almost 208 years ago, is to be lent to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris as part of its exhibition on Napoleon and Europe from March 27 until July 14.

This will be the first time the uniform Nelson was wearing when he was fatally wounded on the deck of HMS Victory has left Britain since it was brought back from the famous battle along with Nelson's body in 1805.

The musket ball hole in the left shoulder of the coat can be clearly seen, along with blood stains on the tails and sleeve.
It will return to London for October 2013, where it will be the centrepiece of the museum's new Nelson, Navy, Nation gallery which looks at how the Royal Navy shaped individual lives and the course of British history over the 18th century.
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While the uniform is out of the country Nelson's full dress uniform will be displayed in its place for the first time in over a decade.
Considered the most decisive British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy.
Although it spectacularly confirmed Britain's naval superiority, the Napoleon Wars continued for another 10 years.

Interdealer brokers, the middlemen who line up buyers and sellers of securities for banks, are emerging as key enablers in the Libor scandal after three firms paid a total of $2.6 billion for rigging global interest rates.
Employees at firms including ICAP Plc, the world’s biggest interdealer broker, and RP Martin Group Ltd., a smaller British competitor, passed on requests from derivatives traders asking rate-setters at others banks to make favorable submissions, e- mails released as part of the global probe of interest rate- rigging show. In some cases, the middlemen took bribes as payment for the services in the form of so-called wash trades, regulators said, without identifying the firms that did.

The London interbank offered rate is the basis for more than $300 trillion of securities. The banks that set the rate stand accused of rigging it for years to boost profits. Five years after alarm bells first sounded, regulators are handing out fines and criminal sanctions to those responsible for rate manipulation. This story is featured in the March issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. Bloomberg Television's Mark Barton reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

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The brokers assumed greater influence as credit markets froze at the start of the financial crisis in 2007. Bankers charged with making submissions to the London interbank offered rate increasingly relied on information from the brokers to determine what figures to contribute. That left the benchmark vulnerable to manipulation by traders trying to profit from bets on derivatives. The outcome of those bets often depended on where the Libor rate fell on International Money Market dates, or IMMs, the quarterly dates when futures contracts settle.

“I really need a low 3m jpy libor into the imm...” one trader e-mailed a broker on March 3, 2010, according to a transcript of a conversation released by the U.S. Department of Justice when Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc paid a $612 million fine for interest-rate rigging on Feb. 6. “Any favours you can get with [Submitter-1] would be much appreciated...”

‘Steak’ Offered

That discussion was between Tom Hayes, the former UBS AG and Citigroup Inc. trader arrested in December over his alleged role in the scandal, and Brent Davies, an employee at ICAP in London, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The submitter was Paul White, an employee at Edinburgh-based RBS, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

Later that day, Davies asked White if there was “any chance at all” he could lower his rate, adding “if u cud see ur way to a small drop there might be a steak in it for ya,” the transcript shows.
In the exchange, White said his rate should be unchanged. The next day he lowered his three-month yen Libor submission by 1 basis point, according to the regulator. A basis point is the equivalent of 0.01 percentage point.
Wash Trades
White declined to comment as did lawyers for Hayes and Davies. Davies, who isn’t under investigation by any regulator, joined ICAP in September 2009 and was suspended on full pay from January 2012, one of the people said. ICAP is being investigated by Britain’s Financial Services Authority as well as Canada’s Competition Bureau.
The firm has put three more employees on paid leave, Chief Executive Officer Michael Spencer told reporters on a conference call yesterday after the firm said trading volume increased in January. He said the London-based firm has led its own internal investigation and declined to comment on any other probes.

Germany's education minister has come under mounting pressure to resign after her university stripped her of her doctorate after ruling that she had plagiarised chunks of the paper.

The ruling against Annette Schavan comes as a blow to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who is aiming to win a third term in office in federal elections this September.

A panel of academics from Düsseldorf University found that Ms Schavan had "systematically and deliberately" passed off the work of others as her own without sufficient sourcing in her 1980 thesis, entitled "Person and Conscience." The decision prompted immediate opposition calls for the head of Ms Schavan, who in her capacity as education minister is responsible for academic standards.

Andrea Nahles, general secretary of the opposition Social Democrats, said Ms Schavan must "face the consequences of her actions," while Green party leader Jurgen Trittin claimed that she no longer had any credibility as education minister and that her "position was no longer tenable."

Mrs Merkel has so far stood by her beleaguered minister. Steffen Seibert said the chancellor still had "full confidence" in Ms Schavan, and added that she was "in good contact" with the education minister who is on holiday in South Africa.
Mr Seibert added, however, that when Ms Schavan returns "the two will have an opportunity to talk in peace".

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The education minister has been one of Mrs Merkel's most popular cabinet members, but faced with growing calls for her to sack the minister, and aware of the need to nip any scandal in the bud well ahead of September's election, the chancellor may well have to jettison Ms Schavan.
She will also be eager to avoid a repeat of the damaging political fallout from an earlier plagiarism scandal in 2011 that forced Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the then defence minister, to quit.
With her political career hanging by a thread Ms Schavan vowed to fight on.

A few days ago my colleague, Mia Aquino, put out the following call for urgent iPhone assistance on Twitter:

Mia's not alone: Complete home button malfunction is one of the more common maladies befalling iPhones, if Apple's support forums are any indication.

There are all sorts of suggestions for fixes in the link above: Recalibrate the home button; blow in the charging port like it's an old NES game; dab some WD-40 on the button itself. Or, the old reliable: Visit the Apple Store and cry helplessly until the Geniuses give you a new phone to make you leave.

Any of these might do the trick for you. Failing those, though, there is a sure-fire way to gain access to your home button without tinkering with or possibly damaging your hardware that I've had friends employ and enjoy in the past.

Fact is, you can get your home button on the touchscreen, available for you at any point that the screen is powered on. Go into Settings, and then General, and then Accessibility, and then Assistive Touch. Turn Assistive Touch on, and you'll see a persistent white dot in the top left corner of your screen.

This is your new home button, and more: Tapping it will open a menu that can take you home, launch Siri, lock your screen and turn the volume up and down, among other features.

You can drag that button anywhere on the screen you desire, pinning it down wherever you find most convenient.

It's a fantastic feature for those who find themselves with a malfunctioning home button, and also seems far safer to use while driving. Those who have difficulty with the iPhone's home or volume buttons -- men and women with arthritis, for example -- might also find it much easier to navigate their phones with an on-screen button.

Got any other tips to fix or circumvent a broken home button? I'd love to read them below. And if you have any other personal tech questions, drop me an email at captaingadget@huffingtonpost.com and I might just feature it on the site.

Kourtney Kardashian, who welcomed her second child last July, reportedly dropped a whopping 44 pounds after giving birth to daughter Penelope — and now Celebuzz has the photos of the end result.

Seen in a parade of colorful bikinis, the Kourtney & Kim Take Miami star flaunts her flat stomach and toned limbs in a series of freshly-released photos.

”It took me twice as long as last time but I feel healthy and really much better about it,” wrote about the body transformation in her Celebuzz blog early this January.

“It’s all about priorities and living life!”

According to Kardashian, 33, her success is attributed to a combination of exercise, healthy eating habits and active mommy duty — such as pushing around a stroller — in between playtime with Penelope and three-year-old son Mason.

“It wasn’t even an option to think about going crazy and overdoing it with exercise [this time around],” the mom-of-two said in an interview with Us Weekly.

To drop the baby weight, the mom-of-two enlisted the help of celeb trainer Tracy Anderson, who in the past has worked with A-listers such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna.

Kardashian also attributes her weight lost to her sister Kim‘s unwavering support.

“If she wasn’t scheduling the workouts, I probably wouldn’t have been as motivated,” she admitted.

What do you think of Kourtney’s post-baby bikini bod? Take a look at the results in the gallery above, then sound off in the comments.

Katie Holmes has been on her own for seven months now, after calling it quits with her husband of almost six years, Tom Cruise, last June.

But despite being single in New York City, the 34-year-old is reportedly cautious about getting involved with another man. According to RadarOnline.com, Holmes is taking things slow as she recovers "from the emotional scars" left behind by her tumultuous marriage to Cruise, whose "controlling ways" allegedly led to their highly publicized divorce.

“Katie’s in a dilemma, because she wants to date but is concerned where it could lead to from there,” a family insider tells Radar, adding, "She’s worried that if she commits herself fully to another man, she will have to give up the freedom she’s enjoying so much at the moment. As a single woman, she has no one controlling her nowadays, telling her what to do or who to see and she absolutely loves it!"

However, Holmes does miss having a companion and "doesn’t want to be alone for the rest of her life," according to the source.

But let's not forget about Holmes' 6-year-old daughter Suri, who has been keeping her busy in the Big Apple. Just this weekend the pair was spotted at a performance of "Cinderella" on Broadway and even got to go backstage to meet the cast, the New York Daily News reports.

Quick, someone get the doctor! Britney Spears looked on bemusedly at son Jayden James as they made their way to the veterinarian, with Spears clutching a tiny white dog to her chest. The 31-year-old pop star must have left the house in quite a hurry, judging from her I-don't-care outfit of dress socks, boxer shorts and a gray tank top.

Spears made news last week when it was reported that the former "X Factor" judge was not a candidate for a headlining gig at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, contrary to previous reports.

Watching Justin Bieber grow up right before our eyes has been an interesting experience. Just a few years ago, he was that charming, preternaturally mature young man filming music videos in bowling allies. Times have changed.

"Lolly," a new Maejor Ali song featuring Bieber and Juicy J, uses a worn-out metaphor for penis as the focal point of a brag track about how much the ladies love ... sucking on their respective ... "lollies."

Bieber actually raps on the song, boasting about watching Netflix with your girlfriend and "poppin' Pellegrino" (OK, the Pellgerino line is actually pretty choice). Juicy J's verse won't surprise anyone who has ever heard the "Bandz a Make Her Dance" rapper's work.

In fact, this isn't the first time Juicy J's used this lazy metaphor. "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)," a 2008 Three 6 Mafia single features Juicy J painting a similar scene. And that song was released just two days before Lil Wayne's candy stick single, "Lollipop" (fun fact: The Three 6 Mafia song was also originally called "Lollipop," but Juicy J, DJ Paul and Lord Infamous decided to play nice). In case that's not enough for you, check out D4L's "Laffy Taffy," which uses the titular sweet as a stand-in for bottom. Perhaps Southern rappers could do with a new meme.

Oh, and because it's 2013, the song includes a quick MDMA reference, too ("bandz a make her dance, molly makes her lose her underwear"). Pop music continues to toe the line with date rape.

Marvel scored yet another field goal Sunday night (February 3) with a Super Bowl spot that finds our favorite iron-clad hero rescuing 13 innocent airplane passengers as they're sucked out of a huge hole and plummeting ever so swiftly to their doom.

Tony Stark grabs a hold of the first person, getting the others to join him by the hands. As the plane above them explodes in a plume of fire, Tony begins to realize that he can only carry the weight of so many people. So what's an Iron Man to do in this situation?

'Iron Man 3'
"Iron Man 3" sees Tony Stark coming up against his most formidable adversary yet: the Mandarin. Played by Sir Ben Kingsley, the Mandarin is the leader of a deadly terrorist group known as the Ten Rings. With an intellect on par with Stark and an uncompromising need for vengeance, this technology-crazed criminal puts Tony to the test both mentally and physically.

As Tony sets out to find those responsible for emotionally scarring his loved ones, he's eventually forced to survive by his own devices; not the ones that he's been making in his laboratory but instead the ones that he was born with.

If rumors are true that "Iron Man 3" will be largely inspired by Warren Ellis' "Extremis," Tony will be forced to inject himself with a techno-organic virus, that will forever change his life, in order to defeat an enemy of similar accord.

Of course, this is all based purely on speculation. All we know for sure is that the Mandarin will be the main antagonist of the film and that Aldrich Killian and Maya Hansen (two major characters from the "Extremis" storyline) will be making an appearance as well.

Directed by Shane Black and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, "Iron Man 3" hits theaters May 3, 2013.

Super Bowl commercials are an American institution. You know another American institution? Making snap, sweeping judgments on work others spent months and millions creating. We're combining both right here, with quick-hit takes on the best (and the worst, can't forget the worst) ads of Super Bowl XLVII. Winners, losers and full video ... you'll get it all right here. Here is a sampling of the commercials, followed by our winners and losers:

Budweiser, "Brotherhood"
Plot: Guy raises horse from ponyhood, horse goes on to be a Clydesdale, horse spots former owner years later ... sorry, it's a little dusty in here ...
Verdict: OH COME ON. Are you kidding me? Super Bowl commercials aren't supposed to make you cry! They're supposed to make you laugh or cringe or go reload your plate. This? This ad makes you want to call your parents, hug your kids, and maybe just buy a horse. Flat-out winner out of the gate. Going to be a lot of people dabbing their eyes with cocktail napkins when this one airs.

The NFL, "Leon Sandcastle"
Plot: Deion Sanders decides he wants back in the League, and dresses up as "Leon Sandcastle."
Verdict: Putting aside the fact that if Deion Sanders still had game there'd be no need for a "Leon" (reality! boooo!) this was a fun goof, and we foresee a future character showing up in NFL ads for awhile.

Jeep, "Whole Again"
Plot: We've still got people fighting overseas, you know.
Verdict: It's always a little sleazy when a company yokes itself to patriotism to push product, but the message here overwhelms any buy-our-vehicles shill.
Dodge Ram, "Farmer"
Plot: Talking about how awesome farmers are. That's it.
Verdict: Probably the most effective ad of the night, even if most of America doesn't even know a real farmer.

You really don't realize how raunchy today's pop songs are until you compare The Supremes to The Pussycat Dolls.

The awesome music collective CDZA puts it all in perspective with a "History Of Wooing Men," the follow-up opus to their earlier "History Of Wooing Women."

Now we're wondering: if you're singing about someone licking your "crack," can you still technically call it a love song?

What's every publicist's nightmare? A celebrity who can't keep their mouth shut or their clothes on.

Hollywood's biggest names are coached about how to handle themselves in interviews and on the red carpet, but they're only human and sometimes they slip up.

Whether it's a TMI tweet, interview overshare or unfortunate skin-baring moment, check out these celebrities who've crossed the line of prim and proper.

A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver: The new "Lone Ranger" trailer has arrived.

Disney debuted the latest "Lone Ranger" trailer during Super Bowl XLVII. For those keeping score at home, it's the third "Lone Ranger" trailer the studio has released since last year.

Despite a hefty price tag (upwards of $250 million), Disney is expecting "The Lone Ranger" to be one of it's biggest 2013 releases. The film stars Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title ranger. Gore Verbinski, who worked with Depp on the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, is the director.

"It's a dysfunctional buddy movie," Verbinski told USA Today last year. "It's two guys who start literally and figuratively handcuffed together who end up on the same mission with completely different world views. They sort of rub off on one another. But they have plenty of disagreements."

Watch the "Lone Ranger" trailer above; the film is due out in theaters on July 3.

Johnny Depp has found his next role.

Depp has nabbed the part of infamous gangster Whitey Bulger in the upcoming thriller "Black Mass." Adapted from Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's non-fiction book of the same name, "Black Mass" will be directed by Barry Levinson ("Rain Man").

“I could not be more thrilled to have the biggest star in the world and Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson to finally bring this incredible story to the big screen," producer Brian Oliver said in a release. "'Black Mass' expertly details the twists and turns of this highly complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its corrupt political machine, as well as exposing the worstscandal in FBI history. It's also an examination of loyalty to family, Irish heritage, and South Boston."

Bulger, 83, became famous for his mobster past and his work as an FBI informant. Bulger was arrested in 2011 and is facing charges for his involvement with killings and racketeering in the '70s and '80s.

Currently without a release date, "Black Mass" is to begin shooting in May. The film is to be produced and financed by Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media, while Universal will be responsible for distribution.Johnny Depp has found his next role.

Depp has nabbed the part of infamous gangster Whitey Bulger in the upcoming thriller "Black Mass." Adapted from Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's non-fiction book of the same name, "Black Mass" will be directed by Barry Levinson ("Rain Man").

“I could not be more thrilled to have the biggest star in the world and Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson to finally bring this incredible story to the big screen," producer Brian Oliver said in a release. "'Black Mass' expertly details the twists and turns of this highly complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its corrupt political machine, as well as exposing the worstscandal in FBI history. It's also an examination of loyalty to family, Irish heritage, and South Boston."

Bulger, 83, became famous for his mobster past and his work as an FBI informant. Bulger was arrested in 2011 and is facing charges for his involvement with killings and racketeering in the '70s and '80s.

Currently without a release date, "Black Mass" is to begin shooting in May. The film is to be produced and financed by Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media, while Universal will be responsible for distribution.

For some, Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime show was to be the Big Game's finest moment. But for all who tuned in to see the singer perform, it's clear she brought her A game.

Beyonce worked through a medley of her hits, including "Love on Top," "Crazy in Love," "End of Time," and "Baby Boy" before she was joined by Destiny's Child bandmates Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland. The trio started with "Bootylicious" and worked through "Independent Woman" before collaborating on "Single Ladies," which is a Beyonce song.

Rowland and Williams then left the stage, leaving Beyonce to perform "Halo" solo.

The show featured plenty of fire, ice and smoke, with Beyonce appearing on a rising platform. She was clad in an all-black ensemble with heels and a leather-like get-up. Early in the set, she threw her jacket into the audience. At some point, she used a screen that recalled her 2011 Billboard Music Awards performance.

Before the game started, Jennifer Hudson and a chorus of children from Sandy Hook Elementary School sang "America the Beautiful." Alicia Keys then performed the national anthem while seated at a piano.

Last year, Madonna headlined the show. She was joined by Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and LMFAO. The show was perhaps most notable for M.I.A.'s decision to give the middle finger to the camera, and the 114 million people who were watching at home. Given its massive viewership (3 million more people watched the halftime show than the game itself), headlining the event often translates into a sizable increase in sales of the performer's music.

A number of music's biggest names have performed at past Super Bowls, including Ella Fitzgerald, Andy Williams, The Rolling Stones, Prince, The Who, Gloria Estefan and, of course, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. Early games featured only college marching bands, and for quite a few years, Up With People performed. More information on the history of the halftime show is available in our earlier coverage.