In honor of World Humanitarian Day, Beyoncé is joining the United Nations for a global campaign called "I Was Here." And though she met up with some of the world’s most powerful leaders at the UN General Assembly, Beyoncé stayed true to her style self, wearing oversized matte gold bauble earrings. [E! Online]

You've got to love the Kaiser. Although, right now, Adele probably doesn't. But what does she care? Designer Barbara Tfank has designed multiple gorgeous outfits for her in the past, and no doubt, the near future.

Azealia Banks is no stranger to controversy, although she may not have anticipated that her Dazed & Confused magazine cover would be banned in seven countries. [Fashion Telegraph]

Kina Grannis,''In Your Arms''

TV REVIEW: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Premiere

How trippy is it to watch themselves back on TV?  “It's almost just as exciting as being on stage,” say the Stereo Hogzz. “We watch it like it's a football game. Like, ‘Woah, touchdown!’”

Rachel Crow may not have won X Factor, but she is now poised to make several dreams come true all at once.

To spice up (or lengthen) the two-hour telecast, finalist broke up into groups of three to perform medleys of various pop idols. Dixon, Testone and Phillips performed Nicks classics including "Landslide" and "Edge of Seventeen." Brackensick, Ledet and Han sang a Michael Jackson medley, during which Ledet attempted the moonwalk, while the girls took on Madonna's "Like a Prayer," "Borderline" and "Express Yourself."

It is executive produced by Greg Sills for Chloe Productions and Lee Rolontz, Rick Krim for VH1.

A Chjána (The Plain)

Director: Grainger David

The Proposal

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Six songs performed on the May 7 live-performance season finale of NBC's music reality competition The Voice debut in the top 50 of the Hot Digital Songs chart. The splash is less, however, than that made by last year's finalists after the first season of the series wrapped.

But the strongest performer -- and probably the best we've seen on season 11 thus far -- was 17-year-old phenom David Leathers Jr.

The Aggression Scale

Directors: Zach Anner, Marshall Rimmer

“I’ve always wanted to be onstage," she said. She added that when she was little, she used to sing Celine Dion’s "My Heart Will Go On" and cry.

Supervising Music Editor: Jennifer Dunnington

Directed by: Bret Haaland

To get your own Gaga Workshop behind-the-scenes tour, watch this video just released by Barneys that explains (kinda) the entire Christmas experiencial shopping extravanganza. 

Madonna, who eats controversy as a breakfast cereal, has outraged so many people over the years for everything from her fashions to her songs and her concerts, that we’ve lost count.

So did they knock off Vocal Adrenaline off its “dynasty” pedestal?

Unearthed home movies and haunting dubbed voices collide to create a personal portrait of family dysfunction.

What’s Astro’s process when it comes to writing his own raps? “I’ll do it whenever, wherever I can,” says the 15-year-old whose real name is Brian Bradley. “If I have to write on the wall, I'll write on the wall, or if I have a phone, I'll type something, an ipad… it's whatever I'm thinking. When words flow through my mind, I write them down.” His original raps seem to be working. On Wednesday, he received tweets from Snooki, who called his skills “sick,” and Jaden Smith, who suggested linking up.

Tina: Normally relegated to the sidelines with no real storylines, this wasn't the case for the first episode of the night. It was a dream Tina had that featured the glee club members taking on the roles of other people in the group -- and prompted Tina to help Rachel out in her quest to redeem her horrible NYADA audition. It's then she realizes that being a supporting player is well, more than just filling in the holes: Pay your dues and one day you just may be a star like Rachel.

VIDEO: From 'American Idol' to 'X Factor' -- 5 of the Best Whitney Houston Reality TV Competition Covers 

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So many burning questions, Idol-Worshippers: in your opinion, which finalist won the night? Who should go home? Do you, like Nicks, have a thing for Phllips? Did she come on too strong?

Scott Feinberg's Interviews: Hill (11/20/11)

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Puck: After dressing up in drag in an effort for New Directions to get a leg up over Nationals’ main competition Vocal Adrenaline, a flunking Puck gets thrown into the dumpster by a group of sports jocks before he pulls out a rubber knife (from a West Side Story production, he says) that nearly gets him into a whole heap of trouble. But Coach Bieste helps him out, giving him a chance to retake a test he needed to ace in order to graduate high school.

Sometimes survival is worse than death.

East coast media schmoozes with West Coast industry execs.

Best known for being the voice of Darth Vader, Gayle asked Jones to read the opening verse and chorus to Baby Baby Baby by Justin Bieber. 

Recent Mandalay Vision projects include The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer. The company has The Whistleblower, Salvation Boulevard and Bernie forthcoming.

That was the number of contestants who arrived for the Fox contest's Hollywood rounds, nervous yet hopeful to make it through to the semi-finals. (Only 24 of them do.) In this stage of the competition, anxiety is high and the pressure is on.

Many films have been made about American politics, but few have presented as thorough or gripping a look at it as this one, which -- like the best of the lot, The Candidate (1972) -- focuses on the struggle between idealism and pragmatism that inevitably occurs for candidates and their operatives over the course of a campaign. Adapted from the play Farragut North by the Oscar-nominated writing team of George Clooney and Grant Heslov (Good Night and Good Luck), and skillfully directed by Clooney, it focuses on the journey of a young but experienced political operative (Ryan Gosling) who believes he has finally found a candidate (Clooney) who embodies his highest ideals, and devotes himself entirely to the cause of helping him win the Democratic primary in order to compete in the general election. During a fling with a campaign intern (Evan Rachel Wood in a career-best performance), however, he learns that the candidate who seemed so unimpeachable (think Barack Obama) has, in fact, been keeping a dark secret (think Bill Clinton), which leads him to question -- if only for a brief but irrevocable moment -- his allegiance to the campaign. Consequently, he becomes caught between two dueling and deliciously Machiavellian campaign managers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti); must decide whether to stand by the candidate who betrayed his principles or to betray his own; and is, by the film's end, effectively transformed into an automaton (which, ironically, may be the only sort of person who actually can pass our political smell test in this day and age). The film would have been a bigger critical and commercial success had it premiered not in Venice, where its scandal pales in comparison to real ones, but rather stateside, where lingering puritanism causes us to still take such matters seriously.

From 28-year-old filmmaker Drake Doremus comes one of the most engrossing and affecting films about young love in years: a semi-autobiographical drama about an American boy (Anton Yelchin) and a British girl (Felicity Jones) who meet in college; fall in love; are torn apart by forces beyond their control; fight to get back together again; and, along the way, begin to question if the struggle is worth the pain it causes both of them. Doremus and his best friend/writing partner Ben York Jones presented the actors not with a traditional script to be followed line-by-line, but rather with a bunch of scenarios that they wanted the actors to follow wherever they led them. They turned on their lightweight digital cameras just one week after Yelchin and Jones first met (remarkable considering how much chemistry exists between the two), and rarely turned them off over the course of the next month, during which the actors remained in-character and constructed a relationship of their own. (The chair at the center of the film was constructed by a professional chair-maker, but the vast majority of the letters, photos, and other mementos are the work of the actors themselves.) The film premiered last January at Sundance, where the film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize, Jones was voted a Special Jury Prize for her performance, and Paramount won a bidding war for its domestic distribution rights. It hasn't made a fortune at the box-office since its release, which seems particularly unjust when one considers how many people swooned and cried over, say, The Notebook (2004), which this film exceeds in every respect. Indeed, like all of the best films about young love -- from Wuthering Heights (1939) to Love Story (1970) to Blue Valentine (2010) -- it offers an unvarnished look at its good, bad, and ugly sides, and leaves you rooting for the two people at its center to find a way to work things out.