Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got seven new trailers this week, ranging from the joy of Elmo and Dolly to the horrors of Katherine Heigl; check ‘em out after the jump.

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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!

We wish that every week could kick off with a royal wedding — there’s nothing like a monarchical hat parade to wake you up on a Monday, especially if there are also ample pictures of the planet’s new sweetheart Kate Middleton and random wedding guests in truly massive (and deliciously campy) lids. We also got a little Hollywood royalty in the mix, with Sandra Bullock pulling out a questionable pants ensemble to cozy up to pal Ryan Reynolds; some music royalty, as Gaga managed to make a houndstooth outfit paired with opaque houndstooth glasses look… sort of reasonable; sports royalty, in the form of Tom Brady finally shearing his pony tail; publishing royalty, with a hearty fugging of the unauthorized (and we can see why) Lifetime movie about JK Rowling; and summer reality TV royalty, in the form of Julie Chen and her heinous quasi-tennis dress. Oh, and Mila Kunis looked hot, the sun rose in the east and set in the west, etc.

It’s been all over the news that 30-year-old Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the Baltimore resident who played a character of the same name on The Wire, has been arrested in a large-scale drug raid similar to the kind carried out on the show. Pearson, whose legal troubles predated the show, apparently slipped back into her old habits when the show went off the air. This seems to be the latest in a perhaps not-so-strange tendency for the lives of actors to be in some way affected by their art, whether for good or for ill. Sure, we know lots of actors fall in love with each other on set, but what about actors that are inspired to more interesting ends? Click through for our list of actors whose lives have mirrored those of their own characters.

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Today’s leading rom-com chick is almost always the same three things: neurotic, addicted to her career, and Katherine Heigl. But have you ever noticed that her so-called friends — yes, those girls who exist primarily to remind her how single (sad face!) she is — can be equally reductive and pathetic? After all, if that girl’s got one thing, it’s a gaggle of friends, rivals, and frenemies to guide her by example, pep talks, or the sheer power of bitchiness to her dream man. Check out eight of the most common species of single-function film females after the jump so that you, too, can start putting the women in your life in boxes and forgetting about that darned unique personality business.

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1. The Flaming Lips are set to start recording new material later this month, and according to Wayne Coyne, they plan to release a new song every month this year. [via NME]

2. John Goodman is joining Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in the cast of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. [via THR]

3. “We’re sort of emailing each other, we don’t know where that’s gonna go. But I am such a big fan of Cee Lo, he is so gorgeous and talented and amazing.” – Gwyneth Paltrow says that she might be performing her cover of “Fuck You” with Cee Lo on Saturday Night Live this weekend — even though the musical guest is The Black Keys. Update: Gwyneth Paltrow will host SNL January 15 with musical guest Cee Lo, which makes a lot more sense.

4. Jason Schwartzman and his wife, fashion designer Brady Cunningham, are the proud parents of a baby girl: Marlowe Rivers Schwartzman. [via People]

5. The lead producer of Fela! is in discussions with producers in Lagos, Nigeria (home of the title character, Fela Anikulapo Kuti), to take the Broadway musical there in the late winter or early spring. The show closed in New York on Sunday after more than 14 months of performances. [via ArtsBeat]

Bonus link: Andrea Zuckerman is turning 50!

Earlier this week The New York Times ran a story about how the lack of a major star often kills a Broadway show. Referencing the imminent death of Promises, Promises in January (after the exits of Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth), and the departure of Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (did you remember she won an Academy Award?) from A Little Night Music, the article brings to the forefront some sad truths about the current state of Broadway. Generally, a show loses millions of dollars when a big ol’ famous person isn’t at the helm.

A lot of rumors get tossed around about replacement casts and stunt casting to lift sagging shows’ box office receipts, so we thought we’d throw in our two cents and bring you five moves we DARE Broadway to try. Because they’d be so damn sweet…

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1. Conan will likely “flirt with the restrictions” on not trash-talking NBC or Jay Leno when he does his first post-kerfuffle interview on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes. [via Vulture]
2.  A whopping 810,500 visitors saw the Tim Burton retrospective at MoMA, the third highest attendance for the museum following its 1980 Picasso show (naturally) and a Matisse exhibition from 1992. [via ArtsBeat]
3. Gunning for a share of the AARP market, the WE network is launching “Sunset Daze,” a reality show based in a “bawdy” Arizona senior citizens community. Seriously, read this link. [via New York Times]
4. Sandra Bullock wages a war of PR niceties with a People mag exclusive on her adopted newborn son from New Orleans and impended divorce from cheatin’ husband Jesse James. [via People]
5. Newly minted tech blogger John Mayer weighs on with his opinion on Twitter: “Every night I think about canceling my Twitter account because I think it’s over to be honest with you.” [via E! Online]

Bonus link: A poetic ode to the Kentucky Derby, courtesy of Morning News contributor Andrea Cohen.

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. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, who is currently recovering from salivary gland cancer, says that’s he ready to get back to work, and that the group’s next album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part One, will drop this fall. [via MTV]
2. An insider says that George Clooney was in on the Oscars gag: “It was something George and Alec [Baldwin] agreed upon… It was a ‘follow-my-lead’ sort of thing.” [via NYDN]
3. How much was Sandra Bullock‘s Oscar win worth? Apparently lot less than Jeff Bridges’ was. [via Vulture]
4. An amended edition of James Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake is set to be published next week with 9,000 “minor corrections and alterations.” [via Irish Times]
5. Massive debtor/celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm that should preserve her archive. [via Reuters]

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Use Yahoo! Search to find an interesting link about Adam Yauch, and drop it below in the comments. Our favorite entry will receive Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology – Criterion Collection and more importantly, be entered to win a VIP trip for two to Coachella. Topics will be changing throughout the week, so get your search on and keep playing to increase your chances of winning!

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]

Coachella giveaway: We use Yahoo! Search to help find the top culture stories of the day. Now we’re giving you the chance to play editor, and you just might win a trip to Coachella.

Use Yahoo! Search to find an interesting link about Neil Patrick Harris, and drop it below in the comments. Our favorite entry will receive How I Met Your Mother: Season One and more importantly, be entered to win a VIP trip for two to Coachella. Topics will be changing throughout the week, so get your search on and keep playing to increase your chances of winning!