The X Factor Top 12 Results: Who Was Sent Home? (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

It was a tough night for Paula Abdul, as two of her groups received the lowest number of votes and therefore had to sing for their lives during the final showdown. We start off the night with the Top 12 performing together, obviously lip syncing (ahem, LeRoy Bell) which prompted Fox to release this statement: ?All survival songs are performed live, with just a backing track. For the group ensemble performance, the vocals are pre-recorded to allow acts to concentrate on preparing for their own live competitive performances  ? this is also no different to what other competition shows do for ensemble performances.? But before those results, the acts talk about what it would be like to star in their own Pepsi commercial. Blah, blah, blah. It set up a perfect segue for ‘Tonight Is the Night’ by Outasight, the song that you hear now during its commercials. Read more about this guy here. Okay, moving on. The mentors and their acts are introduced on stage. In no particular order, as Steve reiterated, the following acts learned their fate: Marcus Canty, Drew, LeRoy Bell, Astro, Lakoda Rayne (seriously?), Rachel Crow, Chris Rene, Josh Krajcik, Melanie Amaro and Stacy Francis. That [...]

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Jessica Alba & Baby Haven: LAX Jet-Setters

Setting off for a jet-setting excursion with her little angel, Jessica Alba was spotted arriving at LAX Airport in Los Angeles with baby Haven Garner on Saturday afternoon (November 5).

Looking chic in an all-black ensemble, the "Fantastic Four" actress scooped up her little girl's baby carrier from her SUV before the two ladies entered the metro terminal for the outbound weekend flight.

And Miss Alba certainly looked like a pro as she readied to board the departing aircraft - as she recently talked about the difference in parenting a second little one compared to the first time around.

The 30-year-old dished, "With Honor, I was constantly asking myself 'Is she moving? Is her heart beating?'" She added, "I'd worry about everything, and with this baby I don't have the same anxieties."

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'Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas': The Reviews Are In!

Critics call flick a 'vulgar romp' that's 'frequently funny.'
By Eric Ditzian


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Maybe it was when the baby huffs cocaine and starts crawling on the ceiling like she's in some "Exorcist"-meets-"Trainspotting" mashup. Or when Santa Claus gets shot in the face. Or every single second Neil Patrick Harris is onscreen. Who knows?

Eventually, though, and despite our lowered expectations headed into the theater with recollections of the clunker that was the franchise's 2008 sequel in our minds, we happily admitted that "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas" doesn't just have its share of funny moments, but in fact is a funny movie.

Not that everyone agrees. There are a lot of critics who weren't taken with these shenanigans, who found it tired and predictable. But such reviews are in the minority. The majority of critics maintain the stoney laughs are many, the 3-D effects are ridiculous (in a good way), and that the third "Harold & Kumar" deserves a place on every college kid's DVD shelf, right next to a copy of the original flick.

The Story
"This is indeed a Christmas movie, and when a mysterious package arrives addressed to Harold, Kumar knows he must deliver it in person. As for the package ... well, I'm spoiling nothing by telling you it contains a ginormous doobie, but what it really contains is a message of holiday love that will bring together the best-loved East Asian-meets-South Asian comedy duo of the 21st century. Also, it will burn down Harold's father-in-law's beloved Christmas tree and send Harold and Kumar out into the streets on Christmas Eve to negotiate with faux-ghetto tree salesmen (one of them the rapper RZA), introduce a baby to marijuana, cocaine and untold other illicit substances, interrupt a party of naked lesbian nuns and encounter a genuine, if distressingly gory, Christmas miracle." — Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

The 3-D
"Rude things — bodily fluids, body parts — along with glass shards and smoke rings (of a particularly potent sort of smoke) fly from the screen in such profusion that you may want to carry an umbrella into the theater with you to deflect them all. The makers of the comedy fully understand that 3-D is a gimmick much overused these days. And understanding that, they overuse it themselves in such a way as to cannily comment on the clichéd nature of the gimmick while expertly exploiting it to hilarious effect." — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times

The Comparison
"After serving up a sly fable of minority empowerment in 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle' (2004) and gleefully lampooning George W. Bush's America in 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' (2008), scribes Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg seem determined to avoid any hint of subversion here, content to serve up a crudely irreverent holiday laffer along the lines of 'Bad Santa,' if nowhere near as scathing. For a movie that sees fit to have jolly old St. Nick take a bullet to the face mid-sleigh ride, this vulgar romp is a generally harmless, heartwarming affair, a cinematic Christmas cookie almost sweet and flaky enough to cover the fact that it's laced with hash, cocaine and assorted bodily fluids, blood included." — Justin Chang, Variety

The Laughs
"[It] wobbles off the rails more often than it ought to. The first two 'Harold & Kumar' movies made no effort to stamp out racial stereotypes; instead, they reveled in them. But this third installment, as visually clever as it is, relies too much on dumb, crude jock humor: There seem to be more buxom, semi-naked girls clattering around in high heels than I recall from either of the earlier pictures. And a sequence in which Harris reveals that he's not really gay but just fakes it so he can get girls seems genuinely perverse, and not in the good way: Maybe watching Harris ogle the comely cuties in his chorus line is supposed to be funny, but it just comes off as crass and forced." — Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline

The Final Word
"All in all, it's a frequently funny return to form that embraces several universal truths: that Harold and Kumar are better off together than not (for our sake if not their own), that stoner comedies need not be lazy with their juvenile wares, and that the combination of waffles and robots is indeed an awesome one." — William Goss, Film.com

Check out everything we've got on "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Watch: Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman & Friends Perform ?Science Fiction / Double Feature? From ?Rocky Horror?

Rockstar Amanda Palmer was joined by her husband/author Neil Gaiman and fellow musicians Moby and Stephin Merritt for a performance of the song Science Fiction / Double Feature on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Hallowe’en night and in case you missed it (like I did) you can watch the performance in full [...]

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Taylor Swift, Rihanna Dress To Impress At Billboard Awards

Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, Selena Gomez also make fashion splash on red carpet, as showgirl style rules at the Las Vegas event on Sunday night.
By Jocelyn Vena


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On Sunday night, some of the biggest names in the music industry hit up the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas and decided that sparkles and sequins make for the perfect additions to any red carpet get-up. Well, it is Sin City after all.

Taylor Swift always seems to bring some of that Nashville sparkle to any red carpet. She arrived at the show in a pale-hued, sequined Elie Saab gown. Nicki Minaj showed off her signature sense of style in her baby-blue, body-hugging spandex Mark Fast catsuit.

Selena Gomez turned up the style dial in a sexy, cut-out black Dolce & Gabbana gown that she paired with red strappy sandals with sparkly bow detailing. Like Gomez, Ke$ha opted for some cut-out detailing in her sparkly, slate-gray dress with tulle skirt. Rihanna looked white hot in her men's tailored Max Azria suit, which she kept sexy and feminine by not buttoning her shirt all the way.

Fergie went S&M chic in her little black bandage-type dress by Hervé Léger. Nicole Kidman also wore black. She paired a casual braid hairstyle with a long black gown and Keith Urban. British pop cutie Kyle Minogue looked funky in her little black lacey dress. Inside the show, Britney Spears sat in the audience wearing a skimpy black dress of her own, her hair in loose curls, with little-to-no accessories.

While some stars kept the color scheme low-key, Keri Hilson decided to stand out in her billowy little yellow dress paired with a turquoise-colored belt. Kelly Rowland showed off some of her best assets in a body-hugging, bright pink bandage dress.

The fellas also looked tight on the carpet. Joe Jonas wore all black with white sneakers, Ne-Yo paired his periwinkle suit with a Yankees cap and Justin Bieber wore black tuxedo pants with a gold-lamé tuxedo jacket.

Which stars' styles caught your eye at the Billboard Music Awards? Tell us in the comments.

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Jimmy Kimmel Makes Children Cry Over Halloween Candy (VIDEO)

ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel challenged parents to play trick or treat on their children Halloween. He asked them to tell their children the next day that they ate all of their Halloween candy the little darlings got, video record it, and post it on You-Tube. Well, the results are in and the video is hysterical. That is if you like watching children cry and through temper tantrums. Just take a look for yourself… Did Jimmy Kimmel cross the line in asking parents to trick their children into thinking they ate all of the Halloween candy? Image Credit: Wenn.com. My favorite part of the video is when one young lad tells his mother that she?ll get a belly ache eating all of his candy. Most of the video consists of children screaming, crying, wailing and throwing fits. One shirtless lad even throws a fist, pounding the wall in outrage. A young girl tells her daddy that he is ugly for eating all her candy. Another girl throws a fist full of empty candy wrappers at her father. So was this stunt all in good fun or did Kimmel go too far? Could some question this as child cruelty? Exploiting [...]

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First Look: Duran Duran Teases Their New Music Video For ?Girl Panic?

80s music ICONS Duran Duran are readying the release of the music video for their new single Girl Panic and to get us amped for the vid’s release, we get to check out an exclusive sneak peek right here, right now. Duran Duran have unleashed a series of teaser clips from the video and you [...]

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