1. MC HAMMER STYLE?
“Gangnam Style,” the dance hit by endearingly strange and enthusiastic South Korean
pop sensation PSY, is the biggest song in the world right now, and it closed the AMAs
on Sunday night when PSY performed it with another oddball pop legend….Mc
Hammer. The performance was teased to feature a “secret international sensation,”
and a hint was given when PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, took to the stage
in a sparkling black top and… “Hammer pants.” Then, halfway through the energetic
strobe-lit performance, the words “Stop, Hammertime!” were heard, and MC Hammer
appeared next to PSY onstage for a mashup of “Gangnam Style” and Hammer’s single
“Too Legit to Quit.”
2. NIGHT-NIGHT TO
TWILIGHT
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2" sucked up $141.3 million domestically
over opening weekend and $199.6 million more overseas for a worldwide debut of
$340.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The finale ranks eighth on the list
of all-time domestic debuts, and leaves "Twilight" with three of the top-10 openings,
joining 2009's "New Moon" (No. 7 with $142.8 million) and last year's "Breaking Dawn -
- Part 1" (No. 9 with $138.1 million). Though "Twilight" still is a female-driven franchise,
with girls and women making up 79 percent of the opening-weekend audience, the
finale drew the series' biggest male crowds.
6. Bieber and Selena
Teen heartthrob proposed to the Latina beauty twice in the month's leading up to their
split. After Bieber proposed for the first time, Gomez said no but that the two should
wait a few months. However when Bieber popped the question again months
later, Gomez rejected him for a second time. In an interview with the Open House
Party radio show on Saturday, Bieber was at a loss for words.
"I don't know what to say," he said, neither confirming nor denying the news.
"I don't know what's going on in my life. To even assess that it doesn't make sense
'cause I have not made any comment."
7. On Friday morning Kim Kardashian sent out a supportive
Israel tweet, declaring to her almost 17 million followers
that she was “Praying for everyone in Israel.” What she
probably wasn’t anticipating was the violent
backlash, including death wishes.
“Die in hell,” wrote one, another called the E! sensation a
“bitch” who “should die there,” while others went even
further. Less brutal detractors said they had “lost all
respect for her,” were giving her “the middle finger,” and
called her a “disgrace to her people” and outright
“disgusting.”
However, both tweets soon disappeared from her account
and she has returned to discussing other important things
– like her two-hour Tracy Anderson workout this morning.
Yet the derision lives on.
“Hahaha @KimKardashian deleted her tweets, must have had SERIOUS backlash from her idiotic uninformed tweets,” wrote
one, while another called her a “dumb idiot” who “shouldn’t talk about what she doesn’t understand.”
Kardashian addressed the controversy on her blog later on Friday, with a post entitled “A Message to You Guys.”
“I want to own up to and explain that earlier today I sent out two tweets about saying prayers for the people in Palestine and
Israel and after hearing from my followers, I decided to take down the tweets because I realized that some people were
offended and hurt by what I said, and for that I apologize,” she wrote. “I should have pointed out my intentions behind these
tweets when I posted them. The fact is that regardless of religion and political beliefs, there are countless innocent people
involved who didn’t choose this, and I pray for all of them and also for a resolution. I also pray for all the other people around
the world who are caught in similar crossfires.”
