Season finale time: the ten shockers of 2011 and some pretty crazy spoilers. [The Frisky]

[PHOTOS] Charlie Sheen picked up a few new goddesses last night. [Celebuzz]

Rebecca Black‘s first interview … LULZ. [The Blemish]

Why are Chris Brown‘s fans so defensive of him when it’s CLEAR that he’s got some serious anger issues? [Lainey Gossip]

The back story on what set Chris Brown off on GMA yesterday. [The Superficial]

Do you watch All My Children? Bad news, friend: the show might be getting the ax. [Cele|Bitchy]

ABC won’t be pressing charges against Chris Brown because they fear he’ll come back and kill them all in their sleep. [TMZ]

Kirstie Alley gets huge props for her recent performance on DWTS. [Right Celebrity TV]

Russell Brand dishes on what it’s like to do heroin, Katy Perry. [Huffington Post]

Chris Brown‘s ‘Beautiful People’ video premieres, and I want to fucking gag even more. [Buzzworthy]

Why is Ben Affleck buying condoms? [Socialite Life]

There’s a new George Michael video out! [Popbytes]

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who you’ve probably already heard by now, passed away at the age of 79 early this morning from congestive heart failure. Liz was surrounded by her family at her time of death.

Elizabeth Taylor was not only a beautiful woman, but had the heart for humanitarian work and often saw the best in others, even when others didn’t think they had it in them.

The passing of Elizabeth is a large one – Hollywood loses yet another one of its original superstars.

Check out the gallery of Liz Taylor through the years – I’m often staggered at what a physically beautiful woman she truly was, even in her older age.

“I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American south.” – Hugh Laurie

So, for me, there’s just ANOTHER reason to be completely, sappily enamored with Hugh Laurie, who is House on namesake show, House: he just formally launched himself a music career in the best fucking city of all time, New Orleans. Hugh, who’s apparently been infected by a love of the Crescent City, much as I have (no, really – I’m working on buying a vacay home down there, like, as we speak), appeared exclusively at a nightclub last night to debut his vocal and music-playing skills. Here, here’s a sampler:

OK, not only is it some of the best newer music I’ve heard in a long (even though the lyrics are questionable at best), but it’s totally my style. I come from the school of loving musicians like Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, and Etta James, and I can totally appreciate Hugh’s new digs.

About New Orleans, Laurie says:

‘In my imagination New Orleans just straight hummed with music, romance, joy, despair. Its rhythms got into my gawky English frame and, at times, made me so happy and sad, I just didn’t know what to do with myself. I love this music as authentically as I know how.’

Hugh’s debut CD, ‘Let Them Talk,’ will be available for purchase on May 9th. You can bet your asses that I’ll more than likely be all over that.

Elizabeth Taylor, who has been in the hospital since early February for congestive heart failure, passed away this morning.  Though recently her condition had improved enough that doctors thought she may be able to go home soon, she took a turn for the worse, and her publicist reported that she “peacefully died” at the hospital, surrounded by her children.

Here’s the statement from Elizabeth’s son:

“My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love,” he said. “Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world. Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, all make us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished. We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts.”

Elizabeth’s family requested that instead of flowers, any contributions should be made to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.

This is so sad.  The world definitely lost one of its classiest ladies today.

I’m getting to the point in this life where instead of automatically thinking Full House or ‘You killed Heath Ledger you bitch,’ I think ‘NYC hobos’ whenever I see Mary Kate and Ashley. And not even, like, well-dressed hobos. The ones that you see on bum fights, which is totally not cool. I am not an advocate of bum fights, and I think filming it and jamming it on YouTube is a really fucking awful thing to do, but I’d love to see these two little mini-hobos duking it out in a back alley of New York City. One would be all like, ‘You stole my boyfriend, bitch,’ and the other would say, ‘I didn’t steal him, he just THOUGHT I WAS YOU, and I WAS DRUNK,’ and then they’d fight about who has a lesser tolerance for alcohol and a higher tolerance for cocaine and pills, and the shit about the boyfriend would start all over again.

Anyway, MK and Ashley were interviewed by Vogue, of course, on their twin habits and what life’s been like since they stopped churning out all of those budget Miley Cyrus movies like Here We Have Two Similar-Looking Girls and They’re Going to Go On Vacation and Do Zany Things But Have Good Clean Fun While They Do So or whatever they’re called, and whatever else involves being twins and fashion designers for something other than Walmart clothing lines.

Mary-Kate on being so close: “Some of our memories are shared. We don’t know what actually happened to whom. One of us was stung by a bee, but we can’t remember who, because we both felt it.” (Um, maybe you just BOTH got stung? Bee stings aren’t, you know, all that uncommon these days.)

Ashley on not having formal training to design fashions: “Fair question, but Dualstar started when we were six. And we had a collection with Walmart at twelve, which was the upper tier of the tween market. It was before celebrity designers. And we were really designing it. It would be jeans, a bit bohemian, or with a little blazer. It was really fashion-forward.”

On being in the public eye: “The press here in New York respect you more. It was the worst in Los Angeles when we got our license. They would follow us. They knew where we lived. And you don’t know who these people are. People just out of jail.”

On being young and stalked: “We are paranoid,” Mary-Kate states, glancing out the window. But isn’t that not paranoia, because what you’re imagining is what’s happening? “Well,” she responds, “we have no way to tell the difference.”

Ashley on the clothes-sharing that you just KNOW is happening: “There’s hers, there’s mine. And a huge ‘maybe’ pile.”

OK, so what we appear to have here is a couple of well-adjusted (?) child stars that emerged successfully from child- and teen-stardom and transitioned nicely into adulthood. And you know what? Given child star history and statistics, that’s probably the creepiest thing about these two.

You’d think with all those kids and all that money that loneliness could be avoided, and that companionship could be bought just like everything else, but it appears that Kate Gosselin is officially on the prowl and looking for a man.

Kate, who turns thirty-six sometime this week, was spotted out in New York City over the last few days celebrating her birthday, and sources close to the mom of forty-nine say that her main aim during her birthday binging involves finding a man. The source claims that her NYC jaunts are more manhunts than anything else. The source says:

“It was supposed to be Kate’s 36th birthday celebration, but it was all about meeting men … She was all dolled up in a black cocktail dress, brought a camera crew and was chatting up a lot of guys. It wasn’t clear if they were actors or not.”

You know, all bias aside, and speaking honestly, Kate’s an attractive woman. She’s also, apparently, driven as the day is long, and that could be construed as attractive to a certain type of man, too. However? If girlfriend could stop being such a public bitch and start using her kids for their original intent – loving them and taking care of them and making it be a little more real – then maybe her attract-ability factor might rise just a bit higher than it has in recent years. ‘Cause hot or not, there are some things that you just don’t touch with a ten-foot pole, and Kate’s monster-fucking-attitude is one of them.