1. Perez Hilton appeared on The Joy Behar Show last night to tell America he has no regrets about posting an upskirt photo of 17-year-old Miley Cyrus. [via TV Squad]
2. Can’t decide between CDs and LPs? Now you don’t have to. A new collaboration between designer Yuri Suzuki and DJ Jeff Mills is a disc that’s digital on one side and vinyl on the other. [via Designboom]
3. Congratulations to America Ferrera! She has announced her engagement to longtime beau Ryan Piers Williams. [via MSNBC]
4. Get ready for Depeche Mode: The Musical. [via The Daily Swarm]
5. A new study has found that only 37 percent of the Internet is porn. [via io9]
Bonus link: When Star Wars meets fashion design
1. It was a bad weekend for older, beloved celebrities. Designing Women actress Dixie Carter died at 70, and Eddie Carroll, the voice of Jiminy Cricket, died at 76. [via USA Today; LAT]
2. So this isn’t shocking: Jay Leno has the oldest audience in all of late-night TV — about 10 years older than Conan’s. [via NYT]
3. That said, some local FOX affiliates would rather air reruns of Seinfeld and The Simpsons than Conan O’Brien‘s new talk show. [via THR]
4. Due to “creative reasons” Jenny Humphrey (aka Taylor Momsen) will be missing from several episodes at the beginning of next season of Gossip Girl. All will be revealed in this season’s finale. [via EW]
4. Ben Silverman is partnering with America Ferrera to produce Pedro and Maria, a Romeo and Juliet-style bilingual telenovela that will involve audience voting, for MTV. [via Variety]
How To Train Your Dragon tells the story of a young Viking named Hiccup who befriends a wounded dragon. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson and Jonah Hill provide voice talent for the 3-D animated film, which opens next March.
Will it do for scary green dragons what Shrek did for scary green ogres? We’re sure that’s what DreamWorks is hoping, but from the trailer after the jump, it’s hard to tell. The thing that made Shrek a box office smash was the fact that it was a children’s story laced with adult humor. This one seems more action-based, which could be a misstep. We’re also thrown off by the fact that Ferrera is voicing the blonde love interest. It’s like Betty Suarez has turned into Amanda Tanen overnight.
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