Justin Bieber Ignites Selena Gomez Reunion Rumors With Deleted Pic

 Bieber posts then deletes photo of himself snuggling with Gomez, leaving fans to wonder if they are together again.

Justin Bieber's deleted Instagram photo with Selena Gomez

Are they or aren't they? Well, Justin Bieber kept fans guessing over the weekend when he posted, and promptly deleted, a photo of him snuggling with ex Selena Gomez. The photo featured Bieber in a baseball cap looking at the camera. Gomez is nuzzling up against his face. According to E!, he posted it to Instagram on Saturday night before it was removed. Gomez was reportedly spotted visiting the singer during a Believe tour stop in Norway Thursday night. "They were holding hands, hugging, and they kissed on the lips," a source told People about the visit. "They looked really in love, like no fights ever happened before. It definitely looked like they were back together." They initially broke up last November and briefly reconciled before breaking up again over the holidays. An Us Weekly source claims that despite their on-again, off-again relationship, "they have a crazy connection. They just can't seem to break their connection. It can be intense." In the days before she visited Bieber abroad, Gomez hit up the MTV Movie Awards, where she performed her brand-new single, "Come & Get It." And while Gomez has been pretty open about her single status in various interviews, including one with David Letterman in which she poked fun at her ex, fans will certainly be interested in knowing what the photo could mean about their status.

If they are looking for some clues, they won't find any on her summer album release. Producer Jason Evigan, one half of the production team the Suspex, opened up to MTV News about hitting the studio with Gomez during various stages of her relationship with Bieber. "She didn't really want to talk about the Justin stuff too much in her music," he recalled. "She didn't want to bash him. She never wanted to write songs about him." He later added, "She wants to be empowering for these girls not to dwell on guys when guys break your heart. She's a super uplifting, positive, amazing person who's, spiritually, she's really strong. And she's a really cool girl. I think she's gonna have a great year."

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'Oblivion' Box Office Impresses, Scoring Tom Cruise One Of His Biggest Openings

'Oblivion' Box Office Impresses, Scoring Tom Cruise One Of His Biggest Openings 

Tom Cruise's "Oblivion"

It was a good weekend for Tom Cruise as the actor's latest flick, "Oblivion" won the weekend box office. The futuristic film, which also stars Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, and Melissa Leo, among others, brought in $38.15 million at 3,783 theaters this weekend. Led by director Joseph Kosinski, "Oblivion" had an estimated budget of $120 million. The film is one of Cruise's biggest openings in his illustrious film career -- the opening weekend gross for "Oblivion" was only beat out by that of 2005's "War of the Worlds" and the films in the "Mission Impossible" franchise. "Oblivion" has received mixed reviews from critics and a CinemaScore of B- from moviegoers.
Coming in second for the weekend was Jackie Robinson biopic, "42." The Warner Bros. film continued its successful box office run, bringing in $18 million at 3,250 theaters this weekend. "42," which stars Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, has reached a total domestic gross of $54.05 million since its April 12 release.
Animated flick "The Croods" continued to bring in major money at the box office. The family film has made $154.89 million since its release, grossing $9.5 million at 3,435 theaters this weekend. Featuring the voices of Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds, "The Croods" had an estimated budget of $135 million.
"Scary Movie 5" and "G.I. Joe Retaliation" rounded out the top five for the weekend box office, taking the number four and five spots, respectively. Horror spoof "Scary Movie 5" came in fourth with $6.29 million at 3,402 theaters. The latest film in the "Scary Movie" franchise has earned $22.9 million to date. Action film "G.I. Joe Retaliation" brought in $5.77 million at 3,175 theaters. The film, which stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Bruce Willis, has reached a total domestic gross of $111.21 million.

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Amanda Bynes Twitter: Former Actress Lashes Out At Media, Threatens To Sue Us Weekly

Amanda Bynes Twitter: Former Actress Lashes Out At Media, Threatens To Sue Us Weekly 

Amanda Bynes

Amanda Bynes is lashing out at tabloids she says are writing defamatory and untrue stories about her. The 27-year-old former Nickelodeon star took to her Twitter account over the weekend to say that she was suing Us Weekly and specifically pointed to magazine's "ugly Asian editor and the ugly women I met when I did a shoot with you."
The full Twitter message is below:

Yet again, I'm suing @UsWeekly for writing another false story. NOTHING is wrong with me! All Trash mags - contact me personally since you r talking to people I DON'T KNOW then claiming they know me. Please say names of those supposed sources, they sound like you made them up like the crazy person you're trying to portray me as in your ugly magazine. I'm talking to the ugly Asian editor and all the ugly women I met when I did a shoot with you. I am suing you every week you put up awful photos with a false "I'm crazy" story. You have never contacted me once to find out who I am or what I'm up to. Fuck You.

On Sunday, she followed up her message with further anger directed at the publication, writing:

This is DISGUSTING! I don't know why @UsWeekly thinks they are legally allowed to say I have a mental illness and need to be "Commited" - Shocked and horrified! It helps to have met them, it's run by the ugliest women and men I've ever met. I'm suing them for writing OFFENSIVE headlines about me weekly! Read my twitter! What about it makes me seem mentally ill? I've lost respect for everyone who works for @UsWeekly.

Bynes also explained her legal cause for suing, though it is unclear whether the former child star has actually made official action against any publication to date:

The reason I'm suing everyone I'm suing: defamation (of character) n. the act of making untrue statements about another which damages his/her reputation. If the defamatory statement is printed or broadcast over the media it is libel and, if only oral, it is slander.

This isn't the first time Bynes has threatened the media and specific persons in response to unflattering photographs and reports of odd behavior published about her. She previously posted a photograph of celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton and called him "scum of the earth" on her Twitter page. On Sunday, she also tweeted at the New York Daily News, writing, "I know your paper is run by a bunch of old folks but maybe stop writing the same retarded thing about me."

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‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater

 One Mad Power Grab, Many Dramatic Roles

Alan Cumming plays the title role

The Scottish play, or “Macbeth” as it is known to laymen and superstition-free theater folk, sounds more Scottish than usual in the Broadway production that opened on Sunday night at the Barrymore Theater. The murderous general of the title is portrayed by the Scotland-born Alan Cumming, whose rich, rolling accent brings a whiff of the green highlands with it.
The real novelty of this production lies elsewhere: Mr. Cumming does not just play Macbeth but also all of the other significant roles in what is essentially a one-man, one-act hurtle through this Shakespearean tragedy of ambition, murder and soul-corroding guilt, here set in the chilly chamber of a mental institution.
The harsh lighting snaps on to reveal a man looking dazed and disoriented as two minders remove his disheveled clothing and help him into hospital garb. His clothes are sealed into brown paper bags with the ominous word “evidence” stamped upon them. His demeanor is meek and subservient, but bloody slash marks on his pale flesh suggest that this fellow has perpetrated (or been the victim of) some bloody deeds that have left his mind shattered and prey to tormenting fantasies.
“When shall we three meet again?” he asks in a tone of frightened urgency as his stoic caretakers depart. This, the first line of the play’s text, spoken by one of the witches, unleashes the dark fury of Shakespeare’s tragedy, as one by one the characters take possession of this disturbed fellow, who flits manically around the green-tiled room as he snaps from one persona to the next, suggesting a swarm of bats let loose in a confined space.
Mr. Cumming, a Tony winner for “Cabaret” who currently appears as a canny political operative on the terrific television drama “The Good Wife,” is a versatile performer who here gets to indulge in the kind of high-hurdle challenge (or ego trip) that can prove irresistible to actors. He is also a born entertainer, who recently appeared with Liza Minnelli in a concert engagement at Town Hall. (Like many a celebrity in this era of all-platform saturation, Mr. Cumming also has his own line of fragrances.)
Watching him perform this personalized rendition of “Macbeth,” I was at times more intrigued by the battle going on between the serious actor and the shameless entertainer than I was by the tense struggles taking place in the divided mind of Macbeth, a noble warrior who knows that killing his king is an evil act, or by the scenes of seething conflict between Macbeth and his more ruthless wife, given a voluptuous sexual manipulativeness by Mr. Cumming.
Some choices made by Mr. Cumming and his directors, John Tiffany (“Black Watch,” “Once”) and Andrew Goldberg, tend to chase away the shadows in this corrosively dark drama. (However, the one passage of authentic comic relief, the sodden porter’s scene, is eliminated.) King Duncan is portrayed as a dizzy fop, speaking in fluty tones that make him seem like a featherweight leader whose dispatching might well be good for the country — an interpretation at odds with his depiction in the text as the generous, responsible antithesis of the ruler that Macbeth will become. Duncan’s son Malcolm, whose status as the king’s heir places him firmly in Macbeth’s cross hairs, is represented by an eerie-looking doll in a dingy dress, and Mr. Cumming uses a childish squeak to speak his few lines. With his innocent victims thus represented, Macbeth’s brutal acts are somewhat denuded of their malevolence. (The use of a child’s tiny sweater, symbolizing one of Macduff’s doomed sons, strikes a more haunting note.)
Macbeth himself evinces a mordant sense of humor now and then. After Macduff’s description of the disturbances in nature that took place during the night of Duncan’s murder — the “lamentings heard i’ the air” and “strange screams of death” — Mr. Cumming’s Macbeth says with a shrug, “ ’Twas a rough night,” eliciting peals of laughter from the audience. Hearing from one of the murderers he has hired that Banquo lies dead in a ditch, with 20 gashes in his head, Mr. Cumming uses the same offhand tone to reply, “Thanks for that.” More laughter.
In others ways, however, the production, from the National Theater of Scotland, lays on the macabre trappings thickly. The cello-heavy music by Max Richter adds ominous underscoring. Three video monitors hanging above the stage flash black-and-white videos (drawn from security cameras swiveling about like snakes) to magnify Mr. Cumming’s face as his features transform themselves, signifying a transition between two characters. Banquo’s ghost causes a jolt of terror by stalking onstage wearing a full-face leather mask, his corporeality all the more striking since we seem to be in the realm of one man’s “horrible imaginings.” And when an unsettled Macbeth seeks out the witches to query them at length about the future, he slowly pulls the entrails out of a dead crow — a long string of intestine grotesquely symbolizing Banquo’s line of descendants, for whom kingship has been prophesied.
But while the stylishly eerie trappings (the grungy sterility of the set, by Merle Hensel, is enough to give you the willies) and Mr. Cumming’s energetic flitting among characters keep us constantly entertained, the staging accrues little in the way of dramatic intensity or emotional power. Perhaps partly because he is playing all the roles (save for two small roles played by Jenny Sterlin and Brendan Titley), Mr. Cumming’s Macbeth never acquires the weighty, antiheroic stature that he should.
Mr. Cumming’s delivery of the major soliloquies is forthright and lucid but oddly weightless: the character’s descent into depravity has been sketched in brisk, light strokes that dissipate quickly, as if drawn in invisible ink. At times Macbeth — who speaks a full third of the lines in the original text — seems to be a supporting player in his own tragedy, and his death arrives with a bit of a whimper.
 In terms of stamina and ingenuity, Mr. Cumming’s achievement is certainly remarkable. But I came away from my second viewing of this production — I first saw it when it was presented by the Lincoln Center Festival last summer — with the confirmed impression that while Mr. Cumming had persuasively differentiated all the key roles, he had not fully inhabited any one of them.

 Macbeth By William Shakespeare; directed by John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg; sets and costumes by Merle Hensel; lighting by Natasha Chivers; sound by Fergus O’Hare; video by Ian William Galloway; music by Max Richter; production stage manager, Kristen Harris; production manager, Juniper Street Productions; general manager, Bespoke Theatricals; associate producer, Hunter Chancellor. Presented by Ken Davenport, in association with Hunter Arnold and Carl Daikeler, Cody Lassen, Joan Raffe and Jhett Tolentino, Julia Broder, Luigi and Rose Caiola, Michael DeSantis, Neil Gooding Productions, John C. Hall, Marguerite Hoffman, Ken Mahoney, Elliott Masie, Dean Roth, Bellanca Smigel Rutter and Kat White. At the Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, Manhattan; (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. Through June 30. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. WITH: Alan Cumming, Jenny Sterlin and Brendan Titley.

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GLAAD Media Awards 2013

Bill Clinton, 'New Normal' Honored In Los Angeles 

BILL-CLINTON-GLAAD-AWARDS

LOS ANGELES — NBC's sitcom "The New Normal," FX's thriller "American Horror Story: Asylum" and NBC's daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" took home top TV honors at the 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards held Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The GLAAD awards pay tribute to "inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives."
The event, hosted by actress-producer-director Drew Barrymore, boasted such Hollywood heavyweights as presenters Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Betty White and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Other winners included "Perks of Being a Wallflower," which was named outstanding film: wide release, and former President Bill Clinton was given the first advocate for change award.
On the arrivals line, longtime Clinton friend, Oscar-winner Mary Steenburgen, defended the former president's controversial honor. Under Clinton's administration came the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriage, as well as the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

"Actually, ("don't ask, don't tell") was a sorrow for him," Steenburgen said. "So, I think he's spent a large part of his life making up for that. But I tell you this: He's never not had his heart in the right place, in terms of the gay community."
Many who walked the press gauntlet shared personal stories. Actor Justin Bartha said a brother's coming out moved him both personally and professionally.
"It was an inspiring moment – I'm sure for him and definitely me and my whole family," Bartha noted. "So, it was at the forefront of my mind when looking at (the role of half of a gay couple in "The New Normal")."
"Kyle XY" actor Matt Dallas discussed his decision to come out publicly earlier this year. MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts talked about the recent marriage to his male partner of 12 years. Entertainment blogger Perez Hilton detailed the challenges of being the single gay parent of a newly adopted child.

And transgendered Chaz Bono expressed hopes for the gay lesbian bisexual transgender community's future.
"I mean, I think the goal always has to be equality in all aspects under the law," he said. "You're never going to eradicate discrimination. We see that with other minorities. Racism is still, unfortunately, alive and well. But equal protection under the law makes a huge difference. So, I think, for me, that is the goal, that is the thing to strive for."
Additional 2013 GLAAD Media Awards were presented in New York on March 16. The final awards will be presented in San Francisco on May 11.

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Sandra Bullock's 'The Heat'

 Sandra Bullock's 'The Heat' to honor Boston cops with screening

Bullock, McCrathy, The Heat

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy's buddy cop comedy "The Heat" will be screened in advance for Boston police officers and FBI agents. The city was stunned Monday after twin bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured scores more. Bullock, who plays an uptight "Miss Congeniality"-esque FBI agent sent to work on a case in Boston in the film, thought the screening was a small token of appreciation.
 "It's been an amazing tightknit community before this happened, and it just bonded a community even more," Bullock told CNN at tge CinemaCon gathering in Las Vegas. "I don't think a screening would ever be enough, feel like it's enough to do for them."
The Oscar winner, who partook in quite a bit of banter as she "hosted" the convention with her costar, also said that she was touched by the city's resilience during the tragedy.
"I think having been there, having had our entire crew around us all the time, who are all from Boston, you're just hoping," Bullock told the Associated Press. "And when you see the aftermath, I try to look on the other side, which is, 'Look how amazing the people were. Look at those people that ran toward everyone without thinking twice about themselves.' "
A spokeswoman for 20th Century Fox said the screening was "not pegged to a charity or recent events. Just a special screening in the town where it was shot."
"It's a remarkable place, an amazing city that's obviously going through a really tough situation," said McCarthy, who plays a testy Boston cop. "I have a sweet spot for it now."
Director Paul Feig, who previously directed McCarthy in "Bridesmaids," also had kind words for the city and equated his latest film to "a love letter to Boston."
 "It's not a movie where it's supposed to be New York but it's shot in Boston," he said. "This takes place in Boston. We have Boston natives in the movie, like Jane Curtin and [comic-actor] Bill Burr and [New Kids on the Block's] Joey McIntyre — all these famous Bostonians are in it. And if this movie can help Boston laugh, then that would be great."
The actresses' unlikely partnership film was well-received at the convention Tuesday, indicating it could be McCarthy's second box-office hit of the year, Movies Now reported.
"The Heat" hits theaters June 28.

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Nicole Eggert HOSPITALIZED

Nicole Eggert HOSPITALIZED After Botched High-Dive 

Nicole Eggert pcn-splash

 ANOTHER celebrity injury on the set of "Splash" -- TMZ has learned Nicole Eggert was hospitalized yesterday after bungling a high-dive and brutally back-flopping into the pool during a taping of the ABC show.

Sources tell us ... the "Baywatch" babe was trying to execute a dive that included multiple backflips ... but something went wrong, and she went crashing into the water back first ... hard.

We're told the impact looked so painful, on-site EMTs rushed in to pull the 41-year-old out of the pool ... and she went to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Sources tell us ... Eggert didn't break any bones, but docs wanted to make sure she didn't suffer internal injuries from the impact  -- they're monitoring her kidneys in particular.  Eggert was released from the hospital after a few hours.

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