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John Mayer Feels ‘Weird Growing Up’ On Born And Raised Tour

In his first tour since 2010, the Paradise Valley singer admits he gets ‘uneasy’ supporting two albums on the road. By Emilee Lindner

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Haji, RIP: 1946-2013

This weekend managed to bring more sadness for fans of classic movie nudity everywhere, since shortly after the passing of screen legend Karen Black , news broke that cult film star Haji had also headed to the great hereafter. Born Barbarella Catton i n Quebec, Canada in 1946, Haji spent her teen years as an exotic dancer before being “discovered” at a topless bar by director/cleavage connoisseur Russ Meye r. The rest is history, with Haji appearing in five of Meyer’s films including the Roger Ebert collaboration Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), and as Tura Satana ’s lesbian lover in the bad girl epic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ( 1965) More after the jump!

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Slizzard: Khloe Kardashian-Odum and Pimp Mama Kris Jenner Get Too White Girl Wasted To Film Keeping Up With The Kardashians

You know how the Kardashians get down. Guess Mama Kris said she had to do something to take her mind off her criminally inclined son. Khloe Kardashian-Odum And Kris Jenner Get Drunk According to TMZ Everyone has a tequila story, and Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner had theirs Thursday night … with an evening that started at a Mexican restaurant and ended with them getting KICKED OUT of Kim’s house … TMZ has learned. According to our sources, Khloe and Kris went out for a girls’ night and hit up Casa Vega in the Valley for some dinner and a few margaritas (FORESHADOWING!!!!). The ladies had a good time and Kim K even posted a pic of the pair wearing sombreros and captioned it “She’s wild man” (see above). We’re told the pair took a car service and went straight from the restaurant to the popular West Hollywood bar The Abbey to shoot a scene for “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” The only problem … they smartly decided they were too drunk to shoot … so they left without even getting out of the SUV. According to Abbey patrons, the ordeal pissed off management because they had roped off a prime section for the shoot. But it doesn’t end there … Khloe and Kris then had the brilliant idea to go from the bar to Kim’s house … because who doesn’t love partying with drunk women more than a PREGNANT CHICK?!?!? It predictably didn’t go well, and Kim told the girls to take a hike. And thus ends the story of the greatest episode of “KUWTK” that never was. Kim kicked out her own mama. Man that’s cold. Wenn and Instagram

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Slizzard: Khloe Kardashian-Odum and Pimp Mama Kris Jenner Get Too White Girl Wasted To Film Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Farrah Abraham Tried to Find Fake Boyfriend, Star on VH1’s Couples Therapy

Farrah Abraham is desperate for money, fame and fake boyfriends. Before trying to recruit James Deen to pretend to date her and leak a Farrah Abraham porn movie as a sex tape, she cooked up another failed scheme. The Teen Mom star tried to get a guy to fake-date her so she could go on VH1’s Couples Therapy too, according to a new report … but that fell through. Seems to be a pattern with this girl. Farrah was in negotiations with an acquaintance named Carson Underwood, an aspiring actor, to pretend they were dating and boost both of their careers. “Farrah and Carson met at an American Music Awards after party last year and stayed in touch,” an insider told Radar . “She sent him a confidentiality agreement.” “It had all these clauses about how he would be ‘work for hire.’ He was never interested in Farrah, and certainly not interested in faking a relationship with her.” Again … sounds a lot like James Deen . Text messages obtained by Radar purport to show her presenting the Couples Therapy idea to him and telling him to contact her publicist if he wants in. The scheming Teen Mom star even lists the criteria she’s looking for in her fake boyfriend as “tan, tall, business man, who isn’t about fame and laid back.” Obviously, any fake BF “must be cool with kids and fam.” “The entire thing was orchestrated by Farrah and her team,” the source said. “Her only offer was from VH1 but she didn’t have a boyfriend, so she tried to find someone.” “It was all to keep her relevant. Farrah is willing to do anything to make money and stay famous, as you can tell by the fact that she ended up resorting to porn!” Carson Underwood couldn’t help but note the absurdity of the situation, posting on his Facebook page the day the Farrah Abraham sex tape story broke: “Remember kids this is what happens when you have a failed career as a wannabe reality-actress! You end up doing porn in the Valley after some guy (me) turns down going onto a reality show with you.” Farrah Abraham buuuuuuuuuuurn!!!!

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Roger Ebert, RIP: 1942-2013

Roger Ebert , Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times , died today at the age of 70. Ebert spent more than 45 prolific years punditing for the newspaper, in time growing more famous than many of the films he reviewed. He popularized thumbs-up or thumbs-down judgments on his televised show with the late Gene Siskel , then continued on with Richard Roeper . He also shared a common interest in amazingly pneumatic knockers with boobie connoisseur Russ Meyer , and penned Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) for the legendary director. Roger Ebert, mighty wielder of the pen, has left the building. He will be missed.

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Tyga Claims Compton Was Home His ‘Whole Life’

‘I never grew up in the Valley,’ Tyga tells Power 106, saying what he says on MTV’s ‘Bustas’ game show was scripted. By Rob Markman Tyga Photo: Steve Granitz/ WireImage

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Celebrity Cribs: Check Out Drake’s New $7 Million Hollyweird Bachelor Pad [Photos]

Drizzy has some new digs, take a look! Drake now has his own tennis court, 5-stall horse facilities with a riding area, sand volleyball court and mechanical bull with its own viewing area. Yes, a mechanical bull. And when Drizzy wants to channel his inner Hugh Hefner? Oh, he can just hang out at his huge pool that boasts waterfalls, an 80 foot slide and a grotto that easily rivals that of the ultimate Playboy. Even we’d move to the Valley for this place. In addition to all these amenities, Drake also scored himself one amazing deal — this crazy compound was listed for $27 mill just three years ago. A nearly $20 mill discount? Now that’s some good negotiating… Drizzy sure has come a hell of a long way, peep his new bachelor pad once you hit the flip…

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Kristen Stewart Wants ‘Freaky’ Co-Stars For ‘Cali’

KStew wants to ‘get together really weird, freaky actor people’ for the Nick Cassavetes-directed film, her first producer credit. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Kristen Stewart Photo: MTV News Kristen Stewart might be the light in the darkness of “Snow White and the Huntsman,” but in her next film, “Cali,” Stewart is fully embracing the unsavory. The Nick Cassavetes-directed flick is expected to shoot this summer and, from the looks of it, it exists in a world that couldn’t be farther from the fairytale world of “Snow White.” “Hopefully after all of this we can go and we can do it in the summer, like lock ourselves away for a few weeks in the Valley [in L.A.] in a little production office and get together really weird, freaky actor people,” she told MTV News. “It’s filled with like the coolest characters.” The film centers on Mya (Stewart) and Chris, a couple from San Fernando Valley who sell a fake snuff film and disappear with the money. But Mya, who’s thought to be dead, must head back to Cali years later to save the younger sister she left behind. When she and Chris return, they’re faced with an array of characters, including “angry former business partners, homicidal porn stars, stoner vet techs [and] an unstoppable killing machine in a cowboy hat.” Michael Diliberti (“30 Minutes or Less”) wrote the script. “I’m from the Valley. It’s been a while since we captured that world and it’s super extreme, everything about it. I think it’s like, it’s extremely violent, it’s extremely funny, extremely emotional,” she explained about the film, which will be Stewart’s first producer credit. “But all very kind of, not hard to watch, but real.” Until she gets real in “Cali,” KStew will close the “Twilight” chapter of her career when “Breaking Dawn – Part 2” opens this November. She’s expected to hit up the Cannes Film Festival to premiere “On the Road,” in which she’ll showing another real side of herself when she appears nude . “I wasn’t scared, honestly,” Stewart told MTV News of the sex scenes, including a m

Starmageddon: Clooney’s Obama Fundraiser Gets a Name

Los Angeles traffic is famous for getting rotten when big happenings hit town, but George Clooney ‘s fundraising bash for President Obama promises to make the Friday commute even more dreadful. And so, in the grand tradition of traffic-paralyzing presidential visits of the past (or: Obama-jams!) and 2011’s infamous “Carmageddon” (remember that?), POTUS’s social visit tomorrow to Clooney’s canyon pad — for a $40,000-a-plate shindig expected to raise $15 million for the Obama re-election campaign — has a name: Starmageddon . “Obama at George Clooney’s house: Neighbors brace for starmageddon” screamed a headline yesterday in the Los Angeles Daily News/Silicon Valley Mercury News ), kicking off a catchword frenzy. The visit to Clooney’s Studio City home marks the president’s first non-studio trip to the Valley, notes the paper. As for the traffic madness that may or may not ensue, Los Angelenos with places to be should avoid the following places on Friday evening: LAX, where Obama lands around 6pm; Studio City/Laurel Canyon north of Ventura Blvd., where Clooney’s party will have street closures in effect from 5pm to 8pm; and Beverly Hills later that night, where the President is reportedly staying. And if you’re lucky enough to live close to Clooney, be prepared to show I.D. to access your own home from 8pm to 10pm that night. “Starmageddon” is a fitting name for the star-studded Hollywood-meets-Washington affair — Clooney and Obama, joining forces for the future of America. If there was an asteroid hurtling toward earth, is there any question that these two could save us all? I mean, obviously. Then again: I can’t be the only one imagining Clooney dancing animal crackers up and down Obama’s belly as the plaintive wailing of Steven Tyler fills the air. (Do you think it’s possible that anyone else in the world will be doing this very same thing at the very same moment tomorrow night?)

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Here’s Maybe The Single Best Anecdote (of Many Greats) from the 25,000-Word Oral History of Siskel & Ebert

“Gene did think he had Roger on smarts. Whenever Roger claimed to have the superior intellect, Gene would say , ‘Aren’t you the guy who wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ?'” Oh, that Siskel. This and many more great At the Movies nuggets can be found over in Slate’s exclusive excerpt from The Chicagoan’s Roger Ebert -Gene Siskel piece Enemies, A Love Story . Give it a go and settle in for a good, long read on the best frenemyship in film criticism history. [ Slate ]

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Here’s Maybe The Single Best Anecdote (of Many Greats) from the 25,000-Word Oral History of Siskel & Ebert