Exception to the ruler
Stick to the script: Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator abandons improv to follow in the footsteps of filmic fanatics. (Illustration by Steve Murray)
With Heroes, Willie Nelson is still a rebel rebel
“We had a couple of pots over there at the Bulldog and then at The Grey Area and then hit two or three good spots after that,” Nelson says, adding, “you probably wouldn’t remember it,” when asked what a night on the town is like in Amsterdam with him and Snoop Dogg. However, Nelson takes his advocacy seriously and is not only the president of the 26-year-old Farm Aid, which has raised US$39-million to help the American family farmer, but is outspoken on everything from the war in Afghanistan to ending the marijuana laws that have imprisoned about 20 million Americans since 1965.
“Most people who know anything at all know that marijuana is a good medicine for stress and a nice recreational drug for responsible adults and it should not be criminalized,” he says. “If we legalize it and bring our folks home from around the world fighting wars over oil, we’d all be a lot better off.” (Illustration by Kagan McLeod/National Post)
First comes the baby, then comes Snooki & Jwoww
On Snooki and Jwoww, slated to debut June 21 on MTV in Canada and the U.S., viewers will get to see Snooki (Nicole Polizzi) and Jwoww (Jenni Farley) deal with Polizzi’s first trimester.
Polizzi said she’ll find out the baby’s gender in a few weeks, when season 6 of Jersey Shore starts filming.
Previous seasons have captured the group of Italian-American friends partying hard in Seaside Heights, N.J., and the group is trying to figure out how Polizzi will now fit into that lifestyle.
“We’re just figuring out how Nicole is going to be there, being pregnant and all, but she’ll definitely be by my side regardless,” said Farley, on the line from New York.
LMFAO to headline, co-host MMVAs
The chart-topping Los Angeles electro-pop duo will co-host and perform at this year’s MuchMusic Video Awards.
The hit-making pair — consisting of Redfoo, whose real name is Stefan Gordy, and SkyBlu, a.k.a. Skyler Gordy — have sent two singles to No. 1 in Canada, Party Rock Anthem and Sexy and I Know It.
Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are, dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, the wildly talented, often cantankerous children’s book author and illustrator of Where The Wild Things Are, has died. He was 83 years old.
“I refuse to lie to children,” Sendak told The Guardian in an interview last year. “I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.” (Photos: AP)
Things you did not really expect to see on Saturday: Singer Justin Bieber and Floyd Mayweather Jr. pose after he defeated Miguel Cotto by unanimous decision at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Because, well, yeah. Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images
Hats that pay tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli’s surreal style
Karyn Gingras, the milliner behind Lilliput Hats, explains the ideas behind a few of the styles (modelled by studio staffer Tina) in her new capsule collection homage to Surrealism, Elsa Schiaparelli and sometimes, just plain silliness.
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dead at 47
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, known within the group as MCA, has died. Yauch was 47 and had been battling cancer since 2009.
