Today at Flavorpill, we discovered that if you’re in a jam, Pepto-Bismol can double as blush. We loved this contestant’s reaction to getting through the first round on The Price Is Right — particularly the part where she bowls over poor Neil Patrick Harris. We couldn’t wait to get our hands on one of these DIY Polaroid camera kits. We decided that the fact that Kristen Bell decided to dress up like Katniss Everdeen on her 30th birthday makes us love her even more than we did before. We found out that K names are going to be very popular this year. We listened to Murray Gold, composer and arranger of the music for Doctor Who since the 2005 reboot, play “I Am the Doctor” on the piano. We tried to imagine how we’d react if we found a life-size replica of E.T. washed up on the shore. We watched a really awkward old interview with Beck. We learned that there’s not really a difference between ketchup and catsup — and that the recipe for the sauce didn’t include tomatoes until the 1800s. We enjoyed Stereogum’s roundup of 10 classic albums released 10 years into a band’s career. We couldn’t not take this Downton Abbey personality quiz. And finally, we completely disagreed with The Awl’s ranking of The OC’s characters — mostly because they left Anna off their list completely and were entirely too fond of Kaitlin Cooper.

Today at Flavorpill, we fell in madly love with the SNL Christmas card thanks to its delightful Stefon-meets-Rockwell-painting premise. We got a better idea of what 7 billion people looks like. We watched a very hairy Jeff Tweedy do his best impression of a weather dude. We wondered if BuzzFeed had a hard time narrowing down its list of the 20 most important cats of 2011. We were afraid that our Kindles might secretly be spying on us. We hoped that Stephen Daldry’s plans to turn The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay into an HBO miniseries actually pan out. We couldn’t decide which Golden Globes-related tweet we found funnier: the heartbreaking original by Jason Segel or Neil Patrick Harris’ hilarious followup. We read The New York Times’ 1949 review of George Orwell’s 1984 in which the book is referred to as “a work of pure horror, and its horror is crushingly immediate.” We made note of The Hairpin’s helpful advice for festival holiday boundary setting. We were excited to see that Kanye has returned to Twitter. We checked out the latest from Banksy, a pixelated new sculpture called Cardinal Sin. And finally, we decided to end our day with this excellent “at the end of the day” supercut from VH1. We have but one complaint: needs more Mob Wives.

Child actors get a bad rap. In fact, even Flavorpill isn’t immune to making fun. But we have to admit that a good number of them have managed to avoid the stereotypical fate (drugs, nervous breakdowns, reality TV) and carve out pretty inspiring lives for themselves. For this list, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite former child actors who have done awesome things as adults; they aren’t all Hollywood A-listers (although some definitely are), and some aren’t even in the industry at all anymore, but they’re all making a great contribution to pop culture or the world at large. Check out our list — and tell us who we missed — after the jump.

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If High School Musical were to graduate and enroll in community college, we’d imagine the results would look a lot like last Thursday’s season premiere of Community. Bright pastels and overenthusiastic choreography ensued as the good ol’ Greendale study group sang promises of a “more fun,” “less weird,” “mainstream dream” of a third season. If Community‘s musical intro accomplished anything, it reminded us just how enjoyable our favorite comedic actors can be in brief, unnecessary musical numbers. Check out Joel McHale’s croons, a couple cartoons, and other bursts of unexpected song after the jump.

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Editor’s note: Every Monday morning our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed bring you up to speed with a post filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that you might have missed over the weekend. Enjoy!

Chris Brown might have been the biggest winner at last night’s BET Awards, but what everyone will be talking about today is Cee-Lo Green’s sartorial tribute to Lifetime Achievement Award winner Patti Labelle. That wig/bedazzled sweater combo really suits him…

The passage of marriage equality in the New York State Senate, just in time for NYC’s annual pride celebration, was one of the weekend’s biggest stories. We were even happier when we read that Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka, who have been engaged for some time, are planning to make it official now that they can get married in New York.

We were horrified to hear that Michael Bay destroyed 532 cars while filming Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which opens later this week. What makes it a little less egregious: the fact that they were all donated to the movie after suffering flood damage.

Notorious hacker group LulzSec announced an end to their cyber attacks with the following statement: “Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind – we hope – inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere.”

And finally we pitted an established meme against one that’s hopefully gaining momentum. Which do you think has more potential to go viral?

1. According to TMZ, Charlie Sheen’s people are in “deep negotiations” with a major network (we’re guessing it’s probably Fox) for a new sitcom that’s being written specifically for him and could air as early as next January. There aren’t many other details, but we’ll go ahead and guess that Chuck Lorre is not involved.

2. Vulture reports that Darren Aronofsky is trying to secure Christian Bale as the star of his film adaptation of Noah’s Ark, a move which should also help him secure financial backing for the project.

3. Among the notable winners at The 15th Annual Webby Awards, which was held last night at at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, were Watson (the computer that won on Jeopardy!) for Webby Person of the Year; LCD Soundsystem which was named Webby Artist of the Year; and Dan Savage, who was honored for his work on the “It Gets Better Project.” [via The Wrap]

4. “It’s strange how that character has been co-opted into the culture in a way that he absolutely wasn’t in 1991. Patrick Bateman seems to embody something about masculinity that was blooming at a certain point in the late ’80s to early ’90s. This kind of damnification of the male. This obsession with male narcissism and beauty. Men being looked at in a way that women had been looked at for decades. American Psycho was probably the first novel about a metrosexual. And of course that’s now everywhere.” – Bret Easton Ellis talks about American Psycho 20 years later

5. If you were as impressed by Neil Patrick Harris’ rap recap at the end of Sunday night’s Tony Awards as we were, then you might find this behind-the-scenes video of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail scrambling to get the closing number written in time interesting.

Bonus link: Wayne Coyne’s 13 Favorite Albums

1. We were happy to see that Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s hilarious musical The Book of Mormon killed it at the Tonys last night, taking home nine awards, but our favorite part of the night had to be host Neil Patrick Harris’ opening number. Watch it here.

2. JJ Abrams’ mysterious monster movie Super 8 dominated the box office in its opening weekend, making $37 million — which, while not exactly chump change, has to be a lot less than what they were hoping for. X-Men: First Class came in second, earning $25 million, while The Hangover Part II rounded out the top three with $18.5 million (bringing its cumulative earnings to a whopping $216.5 million). [via Vulture]

3. Famed E Street Band saxophonist Clarence “The Big Man” Clemons — who most recently performed on two songs on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way album — suffered a stroke on Sunday. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on how severe it was. [via Rolling Stone]

4. This could be interesting: The Coen Brothers told a crowd at the opening of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s new facility, the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, that they’re working on a project that will have quite a bit of live music in it, comparing it to Noah Baumbach’s 2007 film Margot At The Wedding. [via indieWIRE]

5. If you didn’t watch Lil Wayne’s highly anticipated MTV Unplugged performance then you missed many magical moments, most notably seeing him cover Tupac’s “Hail Mary” and the premiere of Tha Carter IV track “Nightmares of the Bottom.” Check out the full episode here.

Bonus interactive infographic: A History of Modern Music

Today at Flavorpill, we found out what Anderson Cooper looked like as a little kid thanks to this footage of him wearing a purple wig on a game show. We fell in love with the latest mural from Blu. We were excited to learn that the Library of Congress had launched National Jukebox, which allows you to listen to 10,000 rare historic sound recordings. We chuckled over this post-grad hipster’s guide to inhabitable US cities from our friends at The Rumpus. We were impressed by Rembert Browne, who compiled everything you need to know about 2011′s summer music festivals into a handy Venn diagram. We watched what we’re thinking might be the first Super Mario Brothers-inspired ice skating routine. We were happy to hear that Neil Patrick Harris will be hosting the Tony Awards again this year. We wondered how many more guest stars the producers of The Office are planning to add to the season finale — and more importantly, if Warren Buffet can even act. And finally, we decided based on the newly-released trailer for Real Steel — the forthcoming Hugh Jackman movie about boxing robots — that whoever is deciding what movies get made in Hollywood must have a thing for ’80s Tom Cruise. Lucky us!

The Paul Reiser Show premieres tonight on NBC — but we surely don’t have to tell any of you, what with all those “watch party” invites we’ve been getting on Facebook. Reiser’s back, what what? Party like it’s 1993. At any rate, the premise of the show is such: Reiser is playing a fictionalized version of himself, a rudderless former sitcommer tooling around Hollywood getting himself into trouble. Sound familiar? The New York Times notes: “Mr. Reiser’s new series mostly proves what everybody already knows: Curb Your Enthusiasm really is inimitable.”

While the reviews for Mr. Reiser’s attempt at a meta-sitcom aren’t exactly glowing, one can’t blame him for the effort: in our celebrity-obsessed culture, several stars of stage and screen have taken the opportunity to send up their own image by playing themselves (or a comically exaggerated version thereof) on television and in film. We’ll rank a dozen notable examples, from worst to best, after the jump.

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1. After hearing about a potential suicide jumper on an Atlanta radio station, T.I. drove over to the building and talked the man down with this video phone message: “Nothing is that bad. Believe me, I know.” [via E!]
2. Neil Patrick Harris will direct Emma Roberts in a romantic comedy called Aaron and Sarah. [via THR]
3. Exciting news for children of the ’80s: There’s definitely a Top Gun sequel in the works, and Tom Cruise has agreed to reprise the role of Maverick. Seriously, we’ll forgive him for the past decade of crazy if he does this right. [via Vulture]
4. Spike TV is planning to air a new mining reality TV series from the producers of Deadliest Catch. And they promise that Coal was in the works long before the Chilean miner rescue. [via LF]
5. Prince is holding a press conference at the Apollo Theater today. Our fingers are crossed that he’s announcing a new tour! [via Gatecrasher]

Bonus link: 15 Beards That Steal Movies