1. Lady Gaga’s ex-boyfriend, songwriter and music producer Ron Fusari, is suing her for $30.5 million, claiming that it was “his songs and productions and connections that got her her first deal.” He also helped name her. [via NYP]
2. An opera based on Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement is set to premiere in 2013 at the Southbank Centre in London. [via BBC]
3. There’s a legal battle a brewin’ behind the scenes of The Runways biopic, which opens in theaters today. [via Reuters]
4. Jennifer Aniston plays a New York Daily News reporter in her new film, The Bounty Hunter. Read what they had to say about its total lack of authenticity. [via NYDN]
5. How not to handle a rape case: Roman Polanski’s lawyers are alleging even more judicial misconduct in his 1977 trial than we previously knew about. [via Jezebel]

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1. Alex Chilton of the Box Tops and Big Star died yesterday at a hospital in New Orleans. He was 59. [via The Commercial Appeal]
2. In the wake of reported infidelity by her husband Jesse James, Sandra Bullock has left the family home and canceled a trip to London for the UK premiere of The Blind Side. [via People]
3. This year’s Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner featured a hilarious comedic set from Joe Biden. He was then asked to leave. (video) [via Gawker]
4. Your next TV could be a Google TV. We want one now. [via Wired]
5. After watching the video for “Telephone,” Quentin Tarantino is reportedly eyeing Lady Gaga to play an assassin in his next film. [via Daily Mail]

1. So this is fun: After they were introduced by mutual friend Alicia Keys, Jack White and Jay-Z have recorded a song together! [via TwentyFourBit]
2. Not at the SXSW Festival? IFC.com is live streaming a ton of panels, interviews, and live performances. [via Pop Candy]
3. Have you read Courtney Love’s crazy Facebook apology to Billy Corgan? An excerpt: “We have again created beauty from the agony between us, all the buried and unburied anguish, all that is true, that is gold, that is meant to be is within this endless and somehow eternal cycle of Billy & Courtney.” [via Billboard]
4. We’d watch that: Conan O’Brien’s upcoming 30-city tour, “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” could be the focus of a documentary film. [via Deadline]
5. For reasons that are unclear, Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast of that Amy Heckerling/Alicia Silverstone vampire romantic comedy. Do you think vampire queens get to chainsmoke? [via THR]

1. Sony and Michael Jackson’s estate have set a music-industry record with a $250 million deal that covers 10 albums. The material will involve a mix of previously unreleased songs and new packages of old ones. [via WSJ]
2. Paula Abdul is finalizing a deal to host/judge an updated version of Star Search for ABC. This is interesting, because back in 2003 CBS tried to revive the same show with Arsenio Hall as its host. [via EW]
3. Did you realize that both women and big worriers are more likely to get songs stuck in their heads? [via NYT]
4. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne made a brief appearance on Sunday night’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. (video) [via Pitchfork]
5. A new study by Austrian neurologists reveals the special painting technique behind the Mona Lisa’s ever-changing smile. [via Telegraph]

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1. Actor Peter Graves (the hilarious pilot from Airplane!, Jim Phelps of TV’s Mission: Impossible) died of a heart attack on Sunday at 83. [via ArtsBeat]
2. Thanks to Conan O’Brien’s upcoming “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour,” Mike Mitchell, the “I’m With CoCo” artist, is now set for life. [via TMZ]
3. She and Him’s upcoming sophomore release Volume Two is now streaming in its entirety. [via NPR]
4. This is odd: Margaret Atwood is singing in a new Canadian film musical about ice hockey. The movie also stars Olivia Newton-John. [via Guardian]
5. Art fans will have the rare opportunity to follow along online as Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting The Bedroom is restored. [via USA Today]

1. The 22 pieces of custom-made furniture Michael Jackson commissioned for his planned home in London during the This Is It tour (including a leopard-print chair trimmed with ostrich feathers) are going on the auction block. [via Salon]
2. Joaquin Phoenix will presumably be shaving off his crazy person beard to play Edgar Allen Poe in a film adaptation of The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower. [via The Playlist]
3. The National Book Critics Circle awards were last night, and Hilary Mantel won the fiction award for her Tudor-era novel Wolf Hall which previously scored the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. [via WSJ]
4. Can a comedy that’s being shot by half a dozen different filmmakers turn out funny? With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Elizabeth Banks, Johnny Knoxville, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse also involved, then perhaps. [via Wired]
5. Jay-Z’s involvement with the controversial Atlantic Yards project has earned him some new enemies in brownstone Brooklyn. [via The Awl]

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1. It’s official: Betty White will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 8. Former cast members Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, and Rachel Dratch will also appear in the Mother’s Day episode. [via PopEater]
2. The surviving members of Pink Floyd have won their court case against record label EMI; they’re now banned from selling Pink Floyd’s music online. [via Spinner]
3. Actor Corey Feldman remembers Corey Haim: “This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend.” [via NYP]
4. Get your first look inside of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel. [via Pop Candy]
5. James Franco is set to tackle film adaptations of Charles Bukowski’s Ham On Rye and a biography of poet Hart Crane, The Broken Tower. Ham On Rye will be a collaboration with his hot little brother, Dave Franco. [via The Playlist]

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1. ’80s teen idol and Two Coreys star Corey Haim has died at 38 from a reported drug overdose. [via Gawker]
2. In other sad news, Bruce Graham, the legendary Chicago architect who designed both the John Hancock Center and the Sears Tower, is dead at 84. [NYT]
3. Broadway’s long-delayed Spider-Man musical has lost its Mary Jane — Evan Rachel Wood has dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. [via ArtsBeat]
4. FOX is saying that the new season of 24 could be its last; they’ll decide over the next few days. [via Vulture]
5. Attention Twihards: Summit Entertainment has released a 10-second preview of the upcoming Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer which will play in theaters before Robert Pattinson’s Remember Me. [via Cinematical]

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1. The Flaming Lips have announced details of their upcoming US tour and the physical release of their Dark Side Of The Moon cover album. [via NME]
2. In case you missed last night’s birthing, there are photos of Jim and Pam’s baby over at the Halpert Baby Blog. [via Pop Candy]
3. Robert F. Kennedy’s son freaked out earlier this week when he discovered that the clothing that his father was wearing when he was assassinated back in 1968 was being displayed at an exhibit in Las Vegas. [via Discovery News]
4. Oliver Stone will direct and produce Savages, based on an upcoming Don Winslow novel about “two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet.” [via Deadline]
5. Chuck Close finds this year’s Armory Show “very dull and ordinary.” [via Vulture]

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1. Neil Patrick Harris is starring in the new Smurfs movie, which will be a mix of live action and animation. [via Deadline]
2. Would you watch a Sarah Palin-produced “Alaskan docudrama”? Mark Burnett is banking on it. [via EW]
3. This is what it’s like to work for 25-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. [via WSJ]
4. Is this short from 1903 the original film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland? (video) [via Techland]
5. It’s the final year for Barbara Walters’ pre-Oscar interview special because she’s over it; on hand will be nominees Sandra Bullock and Mo’Nique. [via NYT]

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