Here’s a way better vid of the crazy dude who rushed the stage at Britney’s Connecticut show on Saturday. You can see around 2:19 how scared Britney is. She starts screaming and shaking, and then she quickly gets it together and resumes the show.

I’d be terrified too if I were her. To us it’s just like “Ohhh, crazy Britney fan,” but Brit doesn’t know if he’s just an over-excited fan or if he’s trying to kill her. It’s really impressive how well she pulled it back together and carried on with the show. Go Brit-Brit!!!

Oh, and this asshole was arrested.

This is what Beyonce went shopping in while in Paris on tour.

Note that she was wearing different shoes when she left than when she came in.

Hello my friends. Posting is going to be slow from me this afternoon. Do you want to know why? My fabulous friend Laremy brought an old-school Nintendo into the Film.com offices today. I am playing Duck Hunt and old-school Mario Brothers for the first time in, oh, 15 or 16 years? And can I just tell you guys that I am still pretty damn good? I made it through about seven levels on my first try before my little Mario died. I don’t remember a damn thing I learned in elementary school, but I still remember where the secret tunnels are on Mario. How disturbing is that?

Less disturbing is the fact that Eminem has finally sobered up and is talking publicly about his battle with addiction and his recovery, to promote his new album, Relapse. “It’s no secret I had a drug problem,” he says in a new interview. “If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don’t even know what I was taking.”

Em talks about his ongoing feud with his mother, who was also a drug addict. “It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family,” he says. “Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

And as for recording this latest album while sober? “I wanted to make an overall statement — I’m back. It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn’t recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober … I don’t know the last time I shot a video sober, without drinking or taking anything. It’s been years. I almost feel like a little kid again with rap. I wanna play around with different flows. If I don’t feel like it’s what I’m fully capable of, if there’s one weak line, I wanna change it. Rap was my drug. It used to get me high and then it stopped getting me high. Then I had to resort to other things to make me feel that. Now rap’s getting me high again.”

Awww, this actually brings a little smile to my face. It’s so nice to see celebs addressing these problems, staying sober, and succeeding. And judging by the singles that have leaked, Relapse is looking to be quite the hit. Congrats on this, Marshall.

OK. Back to my little Mario and the ducks.

By Chris Martin’s own admission, his band Coldplay really isn’t very imaginative.  A few years ago, he admitted to Rolling Stone, “We’re definitely good, but I don’t think you can say we’re that original.  I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists.”

That quote may end up costing them quite a bit of money in lawsuits.  While I’m at it, let’s review just how many times Coldplay has been accused of stealing other people’s work.

Guitarist Satriani accused the band of stealing chords from his 2004 work “If I Could Fly.”

Creaky Boards alleged that Coldplay heavily borrowed from their aptly titled song, “Songs I Didn’t Write.”

Now Yusuf Islam, better known as Cat Stevens, wants in on the legal action.  He claims that Chris Martin and company have taken material from his “Foreigner Suite” and applied it to their hit, “Viva la Vida.”

Every time I hear about one of these Coldplay plagiarism lawsuits, I think to myself, “Where have I heard this before?”  I’d like to suggest that Chris Martin and his band mates pay a little more attention the next time the same question pops into their heads.

Scarlett Johansson has aspirations to transition this acting gig of hers into directing.  Sigh…don’t they all say that?  Well she recently had a chance to direct a segment of New York, I Love You and it ended up being “unwatchable.”

According to an insider, “It was really bad, so it was cut.”

In a face-saving move, the movie’s producer Emmanuel Benbihy had a kinder spin:

“Scarlett presented me with an extremely compelling, albeit unconventional, narrative that appeared as though it would not necessarily conform to the overall approach of the entire collective . . . However, I was very much moved by her vision and I did not want to pass on the opportunity to help her develop it. All that matters to me is the genuine movie language of the author.”

He continued: “Scarlett and I nonetheless agreed that a final determination of its appropriateness in the context of the other contributions and the overall story would be best made in the editorial process. And after months of editing . . . I had to admit that there were editorial decisions to be made in the interest of serving the overall narrative and composition that resulted in previously filmed scenes and footage not getting used.”

Translation?  It sucked.

I feel like it’s really important to say “Still Alive!” right away whenever I am writing anything about Amy Winehouse.  I get the same cringing feeling I used to get back in 2007.  Whenever I would read the newest piece on Britney Spears I’d scan for the R.I.P.  And honestly, my initial response when I read that Winehouse was rushed to the hospital was, “autopsy.”

But during a time that she appears to be doing well (this picture is from a couple weeks ago), she fainted at her St. Lucia villa after running around with some kids.  The official cause is being reported as “dehydration.”

I’m totally clean-cut so I’m not down on all the druggie lingo.  Is “running with kids,” something like “chasing the dragon?”