James Franco, the World's Second Best Entertainment Blogger, officially has the support of NYU, one of his 407 former colleges. The famous blogger/actor's former professor, Jose Angel Santana, filed a lawsuit against Franco last year, claiming he was defamed after giving Franco a "D" in his film studies class. As we noted at the time, the barely passing grade seemed generous considering Franco only attended 2 of the fourteen classes.

Despite his meltdown earlier this week, Angus T. Jones won't quit Two and a Half Men.

"This is my personal experience," writes the video's uploader. "I almost died from this surgery and am having them removed this thursday."

This sparse dirge from Brooklyn's BLKKATHY is almost a pop song, just as its singer is almost on key. Fader posted this and another BLKKATHY song earlier, to which BLKKATHY responded on their Facebook: "The FADER is also streaming our new song Shake. Technically they have leaked it, but whatevs!" That is as chill a reaction to "Shake" leaking as I would expect from listening to the song. Branding is on point.

Have you seen Silver Linings Playbook? It's pretty good, right? Now close your eyes and re-watch the whole movie in your mind, only this time imagine it with Vince Vaughn and Zooey Deschanel in the lead roles.

An Alberta man who scored instant Internet notoriety after he uploaded a video of himself belting all of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the back of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser after a DUI arrest has had his day in court.

Yesterday, Solange Knowles (the singer in the family who isn't Beyoncé) released her excellent EP, True. Coming in at under 30 minutes and sporting just seven songs, it is as restrained as its star's vocals, which are crisp and limber but generally free of melisma. Solange will never not be compared to her sister first of all because duh, and secondly because her tone often sounds like a higher, airier version of Bey's. At this point, though, Solange is yin to Beyoncé's yang. While Beyoncé is so mainstream that her surface perfection will never crack, Solange is the hard-flopping, "fuck"-saying, Dirty Projectors-covering former teen mom who'll steal a coat after modeling it on a runway and then tell a magazine about it.

Jodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days. But she is a Timeswoman! And since someone, somewhere, might object to Rudoren's musings if they are reproduced without the intercession of a bureaucrat tasked with draining them of all immediacy and character, she is now being assigned a Twitter Editor.

Tyler Brule [imagine several accent marks on last name], the editor of Monocle magazine, that bedrock of ""lifestyle sensuality and gaywad uptightness," is well known for being "cool," in the sense of "not cool." I mean really he is very accomplished and all but in some ways the worst. The point is: he does not tweet.

Tonight's Powerball jackpot — rolled over 16 times since October 6 — has reached $550 million, and officials think there's a 75 percent chance that the winning numbers will be drawn tonight.

Last week, we asked you to embark with us on a leisurely paddleboat ride down the river Nostalgia to help choose the best gifts who people who not only lived through, but, remember the 90s. You delivered like DOMINO'S (in under 30 minutes or it's free—until that guarantee was dropped in the '90s because harried deliverymen kept getting into car accidents).

Is your main quibble with Downton Abbey that you have never been to Downton Abbey? You're in luck: NBC is developing a spinoff of the show set right here in the U.S. of America. And Julian Fellowes, the Fellowes behind Downton, is writing and producing it.

Bobbi Kristina Brown just totaled her Camaro, but it doesn't seem that drugs or booze were a factor so that's amazing.

While teasing an upcoming segment about the Douche and Duchess—sorry, Duke and Duchess—of Cambridge, a CBS newscaster showed us a glimpse of his foul-mouthed and likely more honest subconscious. Sure, he meant to say "Duke," but his casual chuckle betrays him. "Heh heh," he says to himself and everyone watching CBS 2 at 1 o'clock on a Wednesday.

Well, there was: It seems the zebra has since been apprehended.

If thinking about the dangerous student debt bubble stresses you out, well, just don't read this.

Kim Ridley is unapologetic.

A judge in Australia ruled this week that Betty Harris's revised will was valid, and she had every right to disinherit her relatives and leave her multi-million-dollar estate to the nice people who live next door.

Failure virtuoso Jeff Zucker—the man who singlehandedly dismantled NBC as an entertainment powerhouse, replaced Friends with likes of Good Morning Miami and Inside Schwartz, lost NBC Universal a billion dollars in ad revenue in just one year, brought a man named Donald Trump to your television screens, and bungled an attempted transition at NBC's Tonight Show franchise with a galactic ineptness that even at the remove of two years continues to strain credulity—is going to save CNN now!

This post was originally published in March and is being reprinted now, with some slight adjustments, because it is still true, you fools.