Since I am a huge Scott Pilgrim fan, I will be reporting every bit of casting news that comes along and a bit of it slipped by me last night when I reported that Kieran Culkin would play Wallace Wells.  the Hollywood Reporter delivered the news that Aubrey Plaza would be playing Julie Powers the off-again/on-again spiteful girlfriend of Scott’s bandmate Stephen Stills. 

For those unfamiliar with Plaza’s previous work, she’s a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and she will be seen in the upcoming Derrick Comedy flick, “Mystery Team”.  For those that are going to catch “Mystery Team”, drop us a line to let us know how she is in it (also, you can tell us what you thought of the movie in general

Kat Steward, Kat Stewart is. She is featured in the latest patent Forde “Forde Minutes” column on ESPN. Yes, it is because of this tattoo, which includes rallying cry Athletics Kansas (Rock Chalk, Jayhawk “) in front of a flowery, KU-colored prairie in which both a basketball and KU mascot Jayhawk to be found, then in the back of everything that the similarity of characteristics of the arena KU basketball iconic, Allen Fieldhouse, and a ribbon encircling Allen Fieldhouse as a halo (later), commemorating KU’s 2008 national championship.

Kansas basketball program is a story with a large legion of die-hard fans (and I do not just say that because SportsGrid / Mediaite editor Colby Hall is one of them). But even among those devoted fans, I must say Stewart has a leg (or at least, surprisingly complex back tattoo) on most of them.

Source: http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-basketball/kat-steward-kansas-basketball-tattoo-photo/#

Kat Steward

Barrett-Jackson Celebrates four Decades of Charitable Work at 40th Annual Scottsdale AuctionSCOTTSDALE, AZ–(Marketwire – 01/18/11) – 18 national and local foundations to benefit from the sale of 19 charity vehicles and a GM engine NASCAR Championship Team Owner Rick Hendrick to sell two vehicles for charity 40 th Annual Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction focuses on giving back to the community The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company will help 18 local and national charities raise money …Read more on Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Millions in restitution unpaidThe McLaughlin School District probably won’t get its money. The district’s former business manager, Jamie Beisch, shaved more than $ 280,000 from the budget in a two-year span to feed his gambling addition. He’s supposed to pay back the small district in north-central South Dakota when he gets out of jail. “we don’t expect to see much of that,” said Superintendent Kevin Coles, who took over in …Read more on The Argus Leader

Barrett-Jackson Celebrates Four Decades of Charitable Work at 40th Annual Scottsdale Auction

Maria Shriver’s father, Sargent Shriver, has died at the age of 95. According to CNN, a family source confirmed Sgt. Shriver died after a several year battle with Alzheimer’s.

The brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, Shriver was the first director of the Peace Corps and at one point the head of the Special Olympics (founded by his wife, Eunice Kennedy, who died in 2009).

Shriver was a Maryland native, Yale Law graduate and submarine office in World War II, he married Eunice in 1953. The Shriver had 5 children, Robert Sargent Shriver III, Maria Shriver, Timothy Shriver, Mark Shriver and Anthony Shriver and 19 grandchildren.

Our condolences to the Shriver Family.

Maria Shriver’s Father, Sargent Shriver, Dies

Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe history of music over the past half century would have been very different without Don Kirshner, the so-called “Man with the Golden Ear,” who died yesterday from heart failure in Boca Raton, Fla. below, you’ll find the rock impresario’s five greatest contributions to pop culture.

1. Bobby DarinWhile still in his early ’20s, Kirshner started writing songs with, and managing, Darin. the future music biz impresario first met the future singing superstar at a Manhattan candy store. “He was disheveled,” Kirshner would recall to a journalist in 2001. “He was down-and-out, cleaning latrines. and his name was Walden Robert Cassotto. and he eventually became, after I discovered him, Bobby Darin. I couldn’t believe all his talent. I said to him, ‘Let’s team up, and we’ll be the biggest thing in entertainment.’ I couldn’t even get arrested at the time.” By 1959, Darin really was one of the biggest things in entertainment thanks to his hit, “Mack the Knife.”

2. “Will you still Love me Tomorrow”In the ’50s and ’60s, Kirshner represented many of the great Brill Building songwriters through his Aldon Music publishing company. Kirshner’s stable of talent included the young Neil Sedaka, whose tune “Stupid Cupid” became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958 and the team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King who penned the Shirelles‘ smash “Will you Love me Tomorrow.”

3. the MonkeesAs musical supervisor of the Monkees TV show, Kirshner played a crucial role in establishing the success of the “Prefab Four.” the band’s hits included Goffin and King’s “Pleasant Valley Sunday”—which was inspired by a trip the couple took to Kirshner’s house in the suburbs—and “I’m A Believer,” by another Brill Building songsmith, Neil Diamond.

4. the ArchiesIn January 1967, Kirshner met with the Monkees at the Beverly Hill Hotel and suggested they record “Sugar, Sugar.” the band disagreed. “I said, ‘Screw the Monkees, I want a band that won’t talk back,” Kirshner recalled in 2004. the impresario got his wish by creating cartoon pop act the Archies, who scored a number one hit in 1969. the name of the song? “Sugar, Sugar.”

5. Don Kirshner’s Rock ConcertThis Kirshner-fronted TV show debuted in 1973 and ran for almost a decade. Over the years, an incredible lineup of artists performed on Rock Concert, from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath to to Joe Walsh (see below) to Blue Oyster Cult, who featured Kirshner on their track, “the Marshall Plan”. Kirshner’s stiff presenting style was lampooned on Saturday Night Live by Paul Shaffer, who had previously acted in the sitcom A Year At the top, which was created by Kirshner and Norman Lear. “the guy on Rock Concert was nothing like the real Don Kirshner,” Shaffer told the Washington Post in 2004. “He’s actually a really funny guy.”

Don Kirshner: The late music biz legend’s five greatest pop culture contributions