James Franco appeared on The Colbert Report tonight in an important meeting between two people who use personality as satire. After inquiring about Franco's various professions, which include actor and serving as the Grand Marshall of the 2013 Daytona 500, Colbert straight-up asked Franco if he was a fraud. Franco's perma-grin didn't break for a moment while he mused, "Good question. I am a fraud. This is an act. An act!"

Big week for Israel: First came news about Palestinian only buses and now an exciting announcement about a Hebrew edition of Playboy. The English-language edition of the magazine has been available in the holy land for years, but this version will include Israeli models and articles by Israeli writers. Owner, publisher, and probably all-around excellent person Daniel Pomerantz has big plans for the venture.

Florida Man, meet Drunk, Half-Naked Arkansas Woman: sometime Tuesday, 28-year-old Jamie Craft, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, allegedly went for drunken joyride in Jonesboro, Arkansas and crashed into a mobile home. Details are still sketchy now, but at some point between the crash and the arrival of the police, Craft reportedly took off her pants and attempted to flee the scene in what was apparently the only functional vehicle nearby: her son's battery powered Power Wheels truck.

Starting April 25, the TSA will allow passengers to carry small pocket knives onto commercial flights in the U.S.

A young, gay couple was kicked out of a California mall last Saturday for holding hands and kissing. Jose Guzman, 24, and his boyfriend Daniel Chesmore, 21, were in the Westfield Galleria in Roseville, California for just two minutes before they were asked to leave by a security guard, according to Chesmore.

On Tuesday, Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was tottering around a "fishing heritage center" in the middle of nowhere (technically: the coast of nowhere), all pregnant, probably singing Britney Spears' 2000 single "Lucky" over and over in her head and wondering if she wouldn't have been happier with Tristan after all.

The Harlem Shake has been declared over time and time again.

Yesterday, when Williamsburg revealed its designs for the old Domino sugar factory site, people marveled at the gleaming new towers planned for the waterfront, or, more specifically, the giant gaping holes planned inside them. If solid buildings were the past, empty space-buildings are the future. Everything seemed very cool and neat and, at the end of the day, who doesn't love sugar so what were we talking about?

After a collision with a drunk driver in 1996 left Linda Smith with brain damage and a mild case of dementia, her daughter Lisa quit a full-time modeling job to become her mother's live-in caregiver.

Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has died at the age of 58 after a long battle with an undisclosed type of cancer, Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced today.

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has died of cancer at age 58, Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced this afternoon. Chavez had been fighting the disease since 2011, flying twice to Cuba for surgeries, and hadn't been seen in public for months before his death. Nevertheless, the former paratrooper, who turned to democratic politics after being imprisoned over a failed military coup, was re-elected president last year thanks to huge support from the country's poor and working class.

An utterly baffling layout decision at the Mankato (Minn.) Free Press has resulted in what, by most accounts, may be the most unfortunate article headline in print journalism history.

If you've ever wanted to see Drake and a be-sweatsuited posse joylessly throw $50,000 onto a strip club floor, go here.

The trailer for Noah Baumbach's new movie, starring and co-written with Greta Gerwig, is black and white and indie all over. It ostensibly tackles the pitfalls of relationships and derailed ambitions. But so much adorable hipster nonsense is packed densely into two minutes of the Frances Ha trailer that it calls for a game of indie movie bingo. Some items spotted straight off the bat:

Amy Poehler responded to Taylor Swift's criticism of her Golden Globes joke and agreed that she'll burn in hell forever.

Tipping! It's not a city in China, but it might as well be considering how foreign it is to many Americans.

The past few months have been full of navel-gazing essays about the relative merits of writers writing navel-gazing essays. Blogger Kate Fridkis weighs in with one more this week—a fairly run-of-the-mill heave in defense of personal writing. One argument in particular deserves to be highlighted:

It's only 25 days until the 24,000 of you who applied to Princeton University will receive a letter on Princeton letterhead regretfully informing you that your application does not meet the University's standards, a thanks-for-playing certificate. But you know who else was rejected by the No. 2 school in the country? No. 1 in America's hearts Tina Fey. She told Kelly and Michael:

Deadline reports that Daily Show host Jon Stewart is taking the summer off to make a movie about an Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned after appearing in a Daily Show sketch. For eight of his 12 weeks off, Stewart will be replaced by regular John Oliver.

After a vicious random attack at the Rikers Island visitors' center left him with a long, gory gash on his face, 20-year-old Chard Seegars thought his suffering had reached its apex.