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Yesterday TMZ reported that R&B star Chris Brown has returned a $12,500 deposit to the organizers of Atlanta Black Gay Pride, who last week claimed that Brown failed to show at their lesbian dance party after learning that a handful of gay men were at the venue. TMZ’s claim prompted Brown to fire back on Instagram: “Yall gotta stop with …

Miss Wisconsin did not make the first cut despite an introduction that blew up for all the third graders on Twitter.

Ellen DeGeneres took part in Jimmy Fallon’s lip-sync battle on Friday night, choosing Diana Ross’ Theme From Mahogany as her first number and following that up with Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money.  The clip already has 7.7 million views.

The Guardian recaps: Not the evisceration of US foreign policy you might expect. Instead Michael Moore takes a break from chasing powerful white men down the street for what his team are calling “Mike’s Happy Movie”: a travelogue of sorts, in which the rambunctious director proclaims himself America’s new armed forces, “invades” other countries and steals their best ideas. From …

Canadian electronic popsters Young Galaxy are out with a gorgeous new single from their forthcoming album Falseworks, due on October 30th. Vocalist Catherine McCandless might remind you of Annie Lennox and this latest track evokes some of that glorious Chicane melancholy. I cannot stop playing this. Already on my best of 2015 playlist. Their 2013 track Pretty Boy made my …

Last night James Corden aired a hilarious clip which recounts his guest appearance in the Los Angeles production of Phantom Of The Opera. Corden is a 2012 Tony winner for One Man, Two Guvnors – but that doesn’t seem to hold much weight with the Phantom cast.

Madonna launched her Rebel Heart world tour in Montreal last night by singing en français for the locals. Yahoo reviews the concert: Pole dancers dressed like nuns, Mike Tyson and nonstop theatrics. Welcome to the church of Madonna. She even performed “Material Girl” for the first time since 1990’s “Blond Ambition” tour. DJ and producer Diplo warmed up the crowd …

Stephen Colbert eased into David Letterman’s chair last night with a curiously paced launch episode that is winning cautious praise. The Washington Post recaps his interview with Jeb Bush: Colbert asks a pretty simple question: Why does Bush want to be president? “Cause I think we’re on the verge of the greatest time to be alive, but our government isn’t …

The 80s rock band Survivor is threatening to sue Mike Huckabee and/or Kim Davis for using their smash single Eye Of The Tiger today as Davis exited her Kentucky jailhouse. Billboard reports: It might be Kim Davis’ favorite hype-up song, but Survivor says it did not grant the embattled Kentucky county clerk the rights to use “Eye of the Tiger” …

How about a mash-up in which characters from more than a dozen movies all meet on the same dance floor? The Nerdist raves: The entire short film is a genius example of both editing and compositing, and is also a bit of criticism on how in so many Hollywood films with a nightclub scene in it, every one of them …

A remote camera is slowing panning the playa at Burning Man, where dust storms occasionally will obscure your view. I imagine things will be more visually interesting after dark, but for now you can watch thousands of people navigate their bikes among the installations and art cars.  The Man burns tomorrow night and things wrap up for most on Monday.

From their coming album POPssical, due out on October 2nd on iTunes.

The Irish Examiner recaps: In what must be one of the weirdest trailers we’ve seen in a very long time, Joseph Fiennes goes chasing after the newly resurrected Jesus Christ. What?! So is this some kind of detective story where he’s actually trying to solve that mystery – which is certainly how its presented? Far more likely it’s a faith-based-flick …

The Wall Street Journal recaps: Think of this version of “Macbeth” as Shakespeare for the “Game of Thrones” generation. Sure, the Bard was into gore, betrayal and ruthless political moves long before George R.R. Martin was born, but the aesthetic of this new adaptation of “The Scottish Play” appears targeted at audiences used to extra dirt and blood to go …

You’ll like this. The Mirror raves: Seann Miley Moore brought the house down on the X Factor. The 24-year-old Australian’s audition began as potentially one of the hottest of hot messes when he walked out onto the stage, but somehow he managed to turn it all around and impress everyone. Take a hairy fur jacket, a PVC skirt, leather platform …

Vanity Fair recaps the sadness: Last week, we shared with you that filming Downton Abbey’s sixth and final season brought nearly all of the grown men and women that populate its cast and crew to tears, which is very hard to do to buttoned-up English aristocrats. At the Edinburgh TV Festival, Jim Carter, who plays consummately reliable butler Carson, gave …

Ladies and gentleman, First Lady Kim Kardashian. Politico reports: Kanye West says he’s running for president. In a rambling, emotional and at times bizarre award acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, the rapper, producer and fashion designer said that in 2020 he will run for president. It was not immediately clear if he was serious. …

We’ll probably get another few days of “outrage” about Miley Cyrus after she closed out last night’s MTV Video Music Awards with the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race and a few “crotch cannons” fired from between her legs. Yahoo recaps: In swooped hostess with the mostess Miley Cyrus, a troupe of 30 RuPaul’s Drag Race queens, and a confetti-gun-wielding Wayne …

Clip recap: Robert Mitchum plays Wade Hunnicutt, a small town southern patriarch in Vincente Minnelli’s splashy, trashy and wonderful “Home From The Hill” (1960). Along with Mitchum, who won his only acting awards for this film, are Eleanor Parker as his frigid wife who holds back her favors to punish him for his philandering, George Hamilton as his naive son …