David Lee Roth posted a video this weekend explaining the mysteriously postponed dates on Van Halen's tour.]]> Fresh from a collaboration with Phish's Trey Anastasio, members of the National have announced a project with another towering figure of jam rock, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir.]]> In his bathroom, Bernie Mac lit a firecracker, spread ketchup on himself and pretended that he had been shot — much to the horror of his wife. In a friend's bathroom, he placed fake dung on the ground, leading Super Bowl partygoers to believe someone had missed their porcelain mark.]]> NBC’s new take on serial killer Hannibal Lecter is shaping up to be quite an interesting (and series TV-friendly) departure from films like Silence of the Lambs.]]> Howard Stern is going to have some more company on the “America’s Got Talent” judging table. The shock jock’s hiring announced last week is just part of a total makeover for the NBC summer hit, including a yet-to-be picked fourth judge, according to creator and executive producer Simon Cowell.]]> Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79. The subject of the 1988 box-office hit "Stand and Deliver," Escalante died at his son's home in Roseville, in northern California, said actor Edward James Olmos, who portrayed the teacher in the film. Escalante had bladder cancer.]]> Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs died yesterday at the age of 88 at a hospital in Nashville, the New York Times confirms. Scruggs' distinctive picking style on the banjo influenced generations of players and helped define the sound of bluegrass music in the 20th century. His cause of death has not been revealed.]]> Ozzy Osbourne and his family are returning to primetime TV, thanks to Canadian animation house Cuppa Coffee Studios and its upcoming animated series The F'n Osbournes. ]]> The question of whether AMC will indeed split the final season of Breaking Bad is close to an official verdict.]]> Paramount Pictures is demanding that the estate of author Mario Puzo not license any more literary sequels to The Godfather. The studio has filed a lawsuit against Anthony Ruzzo, the son and executor of his late father's estate, and is seeking an injunction precluding any further alleged copyright and trademark infringement.]]> The list of flaws plaguing the new ABC sitcom, "Romantically Challenged," begins with its premise and builds from there. Alyssa Milano plays Rebecca Thomas, the show's lead character. She's a recently divorced mom who is just now "putting herself out there" and struggling to make sense of the dating game. Stop right there. We're talking about Alyssa Milano. The stunningly beautiful Alyssa Milano. And she's supposed to be "romantically challenged"? Sorry, we're not buying it. Not for a minute.]]> Kanye West premiered his much-discussed short film/art installation Cruel Summer at the Cannes Film Festival last night. Starring Kid Cudi as a car thief who falls in love with a blind Arabian princess, the clip is the project he was reportedly working on in the Middle East in February. The film's cast also includes Razane Jammal, Pusha T, Big Sean, Palestinian actor Ali Suliman, Aziz Ansari and West himself.]]> Who is Don Draper? That's the eternal question on Mad Men, but could the answer be as simple as "Zou Bisou Bisou"? As Don's sultry new French-Canadian bride, Megan, Jessica Paré has been knocking everybody's socks off all season. In the premiere episode alone, she throws Don a surprise birthday party with a French-pop serenade, right before the most erotic rug-cleaning in TV history. "She's a character of light in a landscape of really dark people," Paré says. "Everybody in the ad world is so sarcastic and sardonic. That makes her the weird one." But she has one thing in common with the other ladies in Don's life: "A little bit of a naughty sexual habit."]]> Sound City’s visual legacy is in good hands. Dave Grohl will direct and produce Sound City, a documentary about the historic San Fernando Valley recording studio, and he knows a thing or two about it: Nirvana made its watershed album Nevermind there.]]> Sure, Jay-Z brought out Beyonce at Coachella in 2010, and Kanye West gave festival goers his ballerina-assisted best with Bon Iver last year. But how many hip-hop headliners could resurrect Tupac Shakur from the dead? Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, the G-funk maestros who provided Weekend 1 of Coachella with a thrilling outro on Sunday night (Apr. 15), took their joint performance to a new level when they were joined by Tupac -- their fellow West Coast rapper who was killed in 1996 -- in hologram form, sharing the stage with the digitally recreated rapper and letting his likeness rattle off "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" and "Gangsta Party" in the middle of their set.]]> Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and her project centering on the hunt for Osama bin Laden that is shooting in India are facing a flurry of local protests from Hindu radicals.]]> The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history. The bad news, however, reflects a level of idiocy that we weren't really expecting.]]>