Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we ramped up for awards season by covering the People’s Choice Awards at length, from Julianne Hough’s butt (which was sporting its own safety net) and the hot new couple of R Pattz and Betty White to the ongoing shenanigans of Miley Cyrus and the surprise reappearance Grace Johnson — aka the girl from Beaches who wasn’t Blossom. We decided that we want to relive our lives as Emma Stone, particularly Emma Stone in this perfect cream coat. We also worried about the carpet sample on Alec Baldwin’s head, fretted about denim harem pants on dudes, and admired Angelina Jolie’s almost Middletonian mane. Hey, credit where it’s due.

1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol dominated the holiday box office for the second week running, pulling in an estimated $31.3 million. It was followed by Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which made an estimated $22.1 million, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which made $18.3 million. [via Moviefone]

2. Rupert Murdoch, the 80-year old chairman and CEO of News Corp, decided to join Twitter on New Year’s Eve; so far his @rupertmurdoch account, which has been verified, has amassed more than 50,000 followers. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

3. MTV has announced that a new season of Punk’d will premiere on March 19, with a rotating series of celebrity guest hosts that includes Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Kellan Lutz, Bam Margera, and Dax Shepard. [via Deadline]

4. Queen Elizabeth has appointed famed British painter David Hockney — who recently turned down a request to paint her portrait, and previously refused knighthood — to the Order of Merit, a “select group of individuals who have achieved distinction in the arts, learning, science and public service.” [via Guardian]

5. Fans of Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning headscratcher The Tree of Life might be interested in these revealing storyboards which feature sequences that were not included in the final film. [via The Playlist]

Bonus Buzz: Filipino Prisoners Inspire a Musical

We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz recently about Jesse Plemons (ahem, Landry Clarke from Friday Night Lights) and his real-life band, Cowboy and Indian. Some of our favorite Landry scenes in FNL were related to his Christian speed-metal band Crucifictorious, but Cowboy and Indian may be, if anything, its polar opposite. Watching Landry croon bluegrass melodies on guitar and sip whiskey under a warm light in his recently released vido got us thinking about all the characters with bands who actually have bands in real life — and which ones are better. Click through for our roundup of bands from TV and film whose members are — for better or worse — actually musicians, and tell us if you agree with our verdicts in the comments!

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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we explored the musical multiple personalities of Miley Cyrus and found them disturbing. Less disturbing and more delightful, however, was this dress made of tennis balls — worn, naturally, to a pre-Wimbledon party (too on the nose?). If we were feeling particularly punny, we’d say that it takes balls to walk around in much of what was worn to the MuchMusic Awards, but instead we’ll just note that a tee shirt of Kelly “Saved By the Bell” Kapowski was involved. Feeling particularly tennis-obsessed? We direct you to this look at Venus Williams’s on-court onesie — bless her for being both talented and occasionally crazily-dressed, our favorite combination. And finally, we wish we could offer you a palate cleanser in the form of Heidi Klum, but this jumpsuit looks terrible on her. At least she’ll always have Seal.

1. According to the terms of a real estate agreement that’s currently in the works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will take over the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Marcel Breuer-designed building in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum downtown, for a minimum of eight years. [via NYT]

2. In case you missed South Park’s hilarious spoof on the Royal Wedding last night, here it is: “Royal Pudding.”

3. Gwyneth Paltrow announced yesterday on GOOP that she’s growing salvia in her herb garden, and everyone is freaking out, even though she probably means salvia officinalis, a common sage used for cooking, and not salvia divinorum, Miley Cyrus’ hallucinogenic of choice. [via NYDN]

4. Some more updates from the network upfronts: NBC has renewed Chuck for another season; CBS is rumored to be holding on to most of its shows, as Two and a Half Men faces an uncertain future; The CW is likely to be bringing back both One Tree Hill and Nikita; and ABC is almost sure to renew Body of Proof, the network’s highest-rated new drama of the season. [via Deadline]

5. According to the Daily Mirror, so take this with a grain of salt, Quentin Tarantino is hoping to cast Lady Gaga in his next film, which made perfect sense to us until we remembered that it’s meant to be a Western… [via NME]

Bonus link: Meet the Woman Behind Bettie Page

Now that Osama bin Laden has been vanquished, the internet can move on to its next public enemy: Miley Cyrus. Yesterday, word spread that Hannah Montana covered Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at a concert in Ecuador. Cue unanimous outrage.

Of course, as any long-suffering Nirvana fan will tell you, Cyrus’ is hardly the first ridiculous “Teen Spirit.” In fact, the song has been used and abused by just about every artist looking to build his non-conformist caché. While we’ve heard a few inspired covers — of Montreal does a spirited live version, and Patti Smith intersperses Cobain’s lyrics with her own poetry — the vast majority are terrible. (We’re going to abstain from taking a position on the Tori Amos’.) We’ve collected ten “Smells Like Teen Spirit” covers that are worse than Miley’s — including Paul Anka, Limp Bizkit, and even Michael Bublé — after the jump.

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Today at Flavorpilll, we witnessed what happens when the steampunk and Juggalo subcultures join forces. We were impressed by this elaborate Wu-Tang nail art. We explored the secret life of libraries. We read about the rise of post modern tourism, which means trips to locations like Roswell and Chernobyl. We wished that we could afford any of the pieces in this gallery of Sonic Youth-related art that will be auctioned off later this month. We wondered how in the world so many NYC teens seem to have no clue who The Beatles are. We were happy to hear that Larry David will be playing a nun in the upcoming Three Stooges movie. We were scared by the part of us that secretly wants to own the Kate Middleton Bridal Doll. And finally we grimaced as Miley Cyrus decided to cover “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Warning: Depending on how much you love Nirvana, you might not be able to stomach it.

A band that sells out is never cool. Well, that probably depends on how you define “cool” — swimming in a pool filled with gold coins or leaning back against a chain link fence, cursing at everything that moves. When it comes to the music industry, we tend to be more impressed with the latter, despite how nice doing the backstroke in a pool of money sounds.

From refusing to be a cog in the record company machine wheel to straight-up verbal take-downs of the industries pop-music cash cows, we’ve compiled a brief history of bands who flipped the commercial world and its minions the bird, 1990-present. These guys make Dave Grohl’s refusal to license the Foo Fighters’ music for Glee look like child’s play. (Still, we won’t lie: refusing the glorified Kidz Bop treatment the show’s peddling is undoubtedly a noble decision.) Read More »

In the wake of the recent prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the ensuing drama, we realized that prank calls are not just for 12-year-old boys and Bart Simpson worshipers (wait, are those the same thing?). They can have real — or just amusing — bearing on our culture, and they just might be worth examining as a reflection of our cultural proclivities. (Because what are Charlie Sheen’s unending outbursts if not one continuous prank call on American society?)  If you’ve ever asked someone if their refrigerator was running, click through to see our list of five culturally relevant prank calls, and let us know which of your favorites we’ve missed!

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Welcome to Conversation Pieces, where Flavorpill curates five articles from the past week that you should read. Some are long, others are short. Some are from major publications, others aren’t. The only thing all these articles have in common is that they’re interesting. This week, we cover the shortage of women writers in 2010, the art of editing, how you can earn lots of money by fostering the infidelity of others, Billy Ray Cyrus’s regrets about making his daughter famous, and more. After the jump, find something exciting to discuss this weekend in the home, at the bar, or on the street.

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