1. Lady Gaga, who was a guest judge on last night’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance, was moved to tears by one pair’s performance. You can watch a highlights reel — including the moment when she felt inspired to throw her shoe at some contestants — here.
2. Alex Trebek is on crutches! The Jeopardy host tore his Achilles tendon while chasing down the woman who had broken into his hotel room in San Francisco, where he was hosting the National Geographic World Championship. He’s scheduled for surgery on Friday. [via ArtsBeat]
3. According to TMZ, Joe Pesci is suing the producers of Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father — which hasn’t started shooting yet, but will star John Travolta as John “The Teflon Don” Gotti — because he gained 30 pounds to play the part of Angelo Ruggiero only to be offered a much smaller role at a much smaller fee. [via Slashfilm]
4. Last night Harrison Ford stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote Cowboys & Aliens, and was reunited with Chewbacca in his dressing room. Surprisingly, it got ugly fast. Watch the footage here.
5. Is anyone surprised to hear that The Smurfs is currently at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes? Poor Neil Patrick Harris really smurfed this one up. [via Vulture]
Bonus Buzz: The Wu-Tang Clan Is Looking For An Intern
Today at Flavorpill, we peeped Jason Shelowitz’s etiquette posters for Toronto’s public transit system and compared them with the posters he created for New York City’s MTA. We hyperventilated when we saw this LOST character map. We listened to “Werner Herzog” read Where’s Waldo? to children and found it creepily existential. We wished that we had been ballsy enough to ask Conan O’Brien to prom. We wanted to high-five everyone at AMC Theatres when we heard about their newest program, AMC Independent. We were overly excited by the news that past contestants from So You Think You Can Dance will be returning to partner with new contestants when the show comes back in May. We chuckled over these humorous marathon spectator signs. Mostly because we didn’t realize people who watch marathons are so funny. And finally, we enjoyed this round up of the best Eyjafjallajokull-related memes. Happy weekend!
At the very beginning of Superstars of Dance, when the announcer introduced host Michael “Lord of the Dance” Flatley as “the most popular dancer on the planet,” we knew immediately that something was amiss. (Baryshnikov, if you’re reading this, you know what we’re talking about.)
Touted as “the Olympics of Dance,” the show, which premiered last night on NBC, features competing teams from the U.S., Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Russia, China, India and Argentina. “We’re bringing class to NBC,” said co-creator Nigel Lythgoe, who also happens to be the mastermind behind So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol.
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