Posted: 02/14/07

Culture pops!
JT goes around, Heather Graham kisses and tells, and John Mayer makes bad choices

Jon Taylor l managing editor
jtaylor@smcvt.edu

Music

• I couldn’t find Justin Timberlake’s performance at the Grammy’s online anywhere, so I’ve provided the next best thing – another live JT performance!
  What Goes Around (Comes Around) live
• John Mayer is the new Eric Clapton. He owned the Grammy’s a few nights ago. Oh yeah, and he played with some other people who were pretty good too.
  John Mayer, Corinne Bailey Rae and John Legend at the Grammy’s
• Don’t lie to yourself. You love Prince. You think about him before you go to sleep. You think about him when it rains. If you missed his Super Bowl performance, then shame on you. Here it is:
  Part One – The Medley
  Part Two – Purple Rain
• Amy Winehouse is apparently quite famous in Great Britain. This video of her and Charlotte Church covering Michael Jackson's Beat It is proof enough that Winehouse should probably go into rehab, which is ironically the name of her new single. Cheers!

 Movies

• 300 is the coolest looking movie coming out this year. It’s based on a Frank Miller ( Sin City ) graphic novel. The trailer is almost as beautiful as Scarlett Johansson.
• Speaking of my new girlfriend Scarlett, she stars in the new Justin Timberlake video for What Goes Around (Comes Around). The director, Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook), just released his own cut of the video. Take my word for it – it proves that Justin can act.
• Now here’s an idea for a movie.
• As this column publishes, you could be seeing the new Hugh Grant – Drew Barrymore rom-com Music and Lyrics. Well? Stop reading! Go!
• My pick for worst movie of 2007. My reasons are clear.

Gossip

• John Mayer and Jessica Simpson? Fugs N’ Jugs? Say it ain’t so!
• The Hollywood power relationships just keep on coming. JT and Jessica Biel?
• Didn’t Ricky Martin fall off the face of the earth? Well, it looks like he never left. Now we’re all doomed.
• Reese to play Anna Nicole in a biopic? Hollywood doesn’t have any sense of decency.
• Finally, it would appear that a dating service for D-Listers has started. Full House and Laguna Beach, together at last!

Guilty Pleasure of the Week

Prince's performance at the Super Bowl. I still haven't gotten over its awesomeness.

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