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'Before Watchmen' Comic Books: Cash Grab Or Something More?

'Talk Nerdy' team debates the merits of more 'Watchmen' stories and breaks down this week's box-office competitors 'Chronicle' and 'Woman in Black.'By Josh Wigler

"Before Watchmen" comic Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

After "Watchmen," comic book fans were left under the impression that there would be no more stories featuring Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl and the rest of their morally ambiguous crime-fighting pals. But that was before "Before Watchmen."

The announcement of new "Watchmen" comic books rocked the fan community to its core, and we're dealing with the fallout in this week's round of "Talk Nerdy" madness. Watch the episode below, and keep reading for further nerdiness!

Who Watches "Before Watchmen"?
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' most popular characters are returning to the paneled page, but Moore and Gibbons are nowhere to be found. Instead, DC Comics has hired a crew consisting of Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, J. Michael Straczynski and others to spearhead "Before Watchmen," a series of seven different comic book titles (each containing no fewer than four issues) debuting later this year. It's a controversial decision to return to what many consider to be sacred material, sure, but in the eyes of the Nerds, it's also a no-brainer: How do you turn down buckets filled with million-dollar bills, after all? Get their take on the news, plus some insight from MTV Geek's very own Valerie Gallaher.

Spidey Misses "The Avengers"
Elsewhere in the superhero space, rumors involving a possible Spider-Man cameo in "The Avengers" were officially shot down this week during a Twitter Q&A with director Joss Whedon. "There is no Spider-Man cameo," he declared. "But the Avengers do turn off the dark." Even with a fork in the rumors, the Nerdy crew couldn't help but wonder about the possibilities of Spidey yukking it up with Earth's Mightiest Heroes. See if they were for or against a visit from your friendly neighborhood web-head in your weekly dose of Nerdy.

Potter Wears "Black," Heroes Get Chronicled
It continues to be an eventful year at the box office, with not one but two extremely geek-friendly movies hitting theaters this weekend. We're talking, of course, about the Daniel Radcliffe-starring "Woman in Black" and the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" from young director Josh Trank. But there's another movie in the mix that one of our hosts wholeheartedly endorses, a decision so controversial, so outrageous, that his very Nerdy membership is now very much in jeopardy. Intrigued? Watch the episode to see more!

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Alessandra Ambrosio Alexis Bledel

Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 10:00 am

Anne Hathaway Celebrates Engagement With Family And Friends In NYC

We were so excited for Anne Hathaway when she got engaged to her lovely fiance, Adam Shulman. This past weekend they celebrated their engagement in NYC and it was strictly a personal soiree, with only friends and family of the loved-up couple. Read on for all the details.. Anne is preparing to play Catwoman/Selina Kyle [...]

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Cinthia Moura Claudette Ortiz

Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 8:00 am

Ke$ha Celebrates National Coming Out Day

'We R Who We R' T-shirts support the Human Rights Campaign. By Jocelyn Vena

Ke$ha design of t-shirts National Coming Out Day Photo: Ke$ha

Kesha has joined forces with the Human Rights Campaign to help celebrate National Coming Out Day on Tuesday (October 11). The pop singer created a special message T-shirt, featuring a purple zebra, that proclaims "We R Who We R," the title of her hit anthem about individuality. The shirts sell for $35, with all proceeds supporting the HRC's work to achieve equality for the LGBT community. According to the HRC website, only 1,000 shirts will be produced. Others are also using the day to bring awareness to LGBT issues. Several notable celebrities will be honored by the Equality Forum, which is hosting an event and profiling notable LGBT members in pop culture. As LGBT History Month rolls on throughout October, Ricky Martin, Wanda Sykes, "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy and Pedro Zamora, a former "The Real World" castmember turned AIDS activist, all will be profiled by the organization. "We're the only minority worldwide that's not taught history at home, in school or religious institutions," said Malcolm Lazin, Equality Forum's founder and executive director. "Like every group that's been marginalized, it really helps to make the case why we should take real pride in ourselves and our community." Since launching the program five years ago, over 200 icons have been profiled, including Jane Lynch, Lady Gaga and Neil Patrick Harris. Lazin called LGBT month "empowering and life affirming." The message comes amid increased awareness about young people being bullied, including MTV's A Thin Line campaign. The MTV film "DISconnected," which premiered Monday night, focuses on issues in a world where technology controls personal lives. "I see the viciousness of people every day," said "Jersey Shore" star Vinny Guadagnino on the "DISconnected" after show. "I kind of want to be a soldier in the field, so to speak, and try to combat the negativity with a positive message. I want to help open people's eyes up, like this movie does, to the negativity." Check out the Facebook page for "DISconnected."Related Videos

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Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 6:00 am

Celebrity Hairstyle: Shakira

Shakira

Showing off a new look, Shakira debuted her freshly chopped locks after getting styled up on Tuesday (December 6). The "Hips Don't Lie" singer posted a picture of her shortened coif via Twitter, as she wrote, "Hace 4 horas estoy estrenando corte de pelo!! 4 hours ago I got my hair cut!" [gallery=803]

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Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 4:00 am

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Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 2:00 am

'The Voice' Season 2 Continues With Angie Johnson, Jamar Rogers

Judges Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green kick off second episode with a Prince medley.By John Mitchell

Cee Lo Green on "The Voice" Photo: NBC

The blind auditions continued on Monday night's (February 6) two-hour episode of "The Voice," with each judge picking up two more contestants to fill out the 12-person teams they'll take to the battle phase later in the season.

The episode opened with a flashy medley of Prince hits "1999," "Little Red Corvette" and "Kiss" performed by judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, before the crew got right to business with the auditions.

Team Christina
Aguilera picked up two acts, including the evening's first performers: platonic duo the Line. The pair's rendition of Tom Petty's "American Girl" got all four judges' attention, but despite much protest from Shelton, they picked Aguilera. Shelton later told the camera he thought they were "fooled by flash and boobs."

She also scored an interesting choice in chanteuse Lindsay Pavao, who got Shelton and Cee Lo to swivel their chairs too. In one of the more unique performances of the night, Pavao transformed a Trey Songz tune into a ballad that Green compared to Fiona Apple. It was that uniqueness that won Christina over, and Pavao chose to join the "Beautiful" singer's team.

Team Adam
After being denied by two different singers, the Maroon 5 frontman picked up his first team member of the night in 50-year-old Kim Yarbrough — who revealed during an interview segment that one of her many past odd jobs was working security for the Dave Matthews Band. Her soulful rendition of Rufus and Chaka Khan's "Tell Me Something Good" had all the judges dancing in their seats, but Adam won her over after asking for her name. When she said "Kim," he corrected, "No, your name is Chaka Khan, baby." Which is probably what any aspiring diva wants to hear after an audition.

Levine also added the night's final contestant, 23-year-old Angel Taylor, to his team. The Los Angeles native grew up in an abusive household and turned to music to get through the tough times. Her performance of Adele's "Someone Like You" packed an emotional punch.

Team Cee Lo
The night's two most compelling stories came from Jamar Rogers and Angie Johnson, both of whom opted for team Cee Lo. Rogers is a 29-year-old former drug addict from New York who was also featured on "American Idol" during season eight alongside his best friend and eventual finalist Danny Gokey. During his addiction, he contracted HIV. Now that he is clean and sober, Rogers volunteers for food-delivery services for the disabled in the Bronx. He also idolizes Cee Lo, so it's good that the "Forget You" Grammy winner turned his chair around for Rogers' performance of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army."

Cee Lo also picked up Staff Sergeant Angie Johnson, who was discovered and pushed to audition for "The Voice" after her fellow soldiers uploaded a video to YouTube of Johnson singing Adele on a military base while deployed in the Middle East. The video eventually tallied over a million views, which gave Johnson the confidence to hit the stage with a gutsy rendition of Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker." "I love a girl with guts and confidence," Cee Lo told the singer.

Team Blake
Blake's first choice of the night fit firmly in his country wheelhouse: North Dakota native Gwen Sebastian, a musician who agreed with her drummer husband to hold off on having kids so she could take a go at being a performer. After her performance of "Stay," Shelton remarked, "You are a great country vocalist ... and I'm a country guy. I'm your man."

A more surprising choice for the country superstar came late in the show, when he promised he'd do everything he could for Jermaine Paul, a backup singer who has toured the world with Alicia Keys. Keys even sent Paul a video message wishing him good luck. He made a surprising song choice in Avril Lavigne's "Complicated," which also earned props from Cee Lo, who told Paul he could "hear the swag" in his voice. And even though it looked like Paul was favoring Cee Lo, he opted to move out of his R&B comfort zone and into Shelton's country/rock genre.

Four singers got the ax during the show when no judges swiveled around to offer a spot on their team. The judges went back and forth over country crooner Neil Middleton and pop singer Dez Durmon and ultimately regretted their decisions to pass on the singers. Durmon in particular had the judges all worked up, and when they turned around to see a handsome Yale football player standing in front of them, they practically slapped themselves across the head. "And it's a good-looking guy," Shelton sighed.

Such is the point of "The Voice," though. Durmon would have been a sure thing if the judges had gotten a look at him beforehand, but it's all about the pipes — at least for now — on NBC's reality hit, which kicked off its season to some pretty great post-Super Bowl ratings.

Who was your favorite singer on the latest "Voice" episode? Let us know in the comments!

Anne Marie Kortright April Scott

Date Published: Feb 07, 2012 - 12:00 am

'Before Watchmen' Comic Books: Cash Grab Or Something More?

'Talk Nerdy' team debates the merits of more 'Watchmen' stories and breaks down this week's box-office competitors 'Chronicle' and 'Woman in Black.'By Josh Wigler

"Before Watchmen" comic Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

After "Watchmen," comic book fans were left under the impression that there would be no more stories featuring Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl and the rest of their morally ambiguous crime-fighting pals. But that was before "Before Watchmen."

The announcement of new "Watchmen" comic books rocked the fan community to its core, and we're dealing with the fallout in this week's round of "Talk Nerdy" madness. Watch the episode below, and keep reading for further nerdiness!

Who Watches "Before Watchmen"?
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' most popular characters are returning to the paneled page, but Moore and Gibbons are nowhere to be found. Instead, DC Comics has hired a crew consisting of Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, J. Michael Straczynski and others to spearhead "Before Watchmen," a series of seven different comic book titles (each containing no fewer than four issues) debuting later this year. It's a controversial decision to return to what many consider to be sacred material, sure, but in the eyes of the Nerds, it's also a no-brainer: How do you turn down buckets filled with million-dollar bills, after all? Get their take on the news, plus some insight from MTV Geek's very own Valerie Gallaher.

Spidey Misses "The Avengers"
Elsewhere in the superhero space, rumors involving a possible Spider-Man cameo in "The Avengers" were officially shot down this week during a Twitter Q&A with director Joss Whedon. "There is no Spider-Man cameo," he declared. "But the Avengers do turn off the dark." Even with a fork in the rumors, the Nerdy crew couldn't help but wonder about the possibilities of Spidey yukking it up with Earth's Mightiest Heroes. See if they were for or against a visit from your friendly neighborhood web-head in your weekly dose of Nerdy.

Potter Wears "Black," Heroes Get Chronicled
It continues to be an eventful year at the box office, with not one but two extremely geek-friendly movies hitting theaters this weekend. We're talking, of course, about the Daniel Radcliffe-starring "Woman in Black" and the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" from young director Josh Trank. But there's another movie in the mix that one of our hosts wholeheartedly endorses, a decision so controversial, so outrageous, that his very Nerdy membership is now very much in jeopardy. Intrigued? Watch the episode to see more!

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Aubrey ODay Audrina Patridge

Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 10:00 pm

Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Win Grammy Album Of The Year

Raising Sand, from Led Zeppelin vet and bluegrass superstar, wins five Grammys on Sunday night. By James Montgomery with MTV News staff

Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images

"I'm bewildered," Robert Plant said onstage as he accepted the Grammy Album of the Year award with Alison Krauss on Sunday night. "In the old days we would have called this selling out, but it's a good way to spend a Sunday." He was probably one of the few who were surprised, because Raising Sand, which won five trophies at Sunday night's show, is in many ways the perfect Grammy album. It features two respected veterans, a critically lauded producer, some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of time-tested standards.

You're probably familiar with Robert Plant from his Led Zeppelin days, and you might be aware of producer T-Bone Burnett's work on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack (it won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002). And if you don't know who Alison Krauss is, she possesses a haunting set of pipes and is one of the meanest fiddle players in the world. Oh, and she's won 21 Grammys, more than any other female artist and the seventh-most in history. Really, she's the key to Sand's success, and not just because of her voice (or her fiddle playing). She and Plant first met in 2004, at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to legendary bluesman Leadbelly, and the former Zeppelin man was amazed by her knowledge of American Roots music so much so that they began kicking around the idea of recording an album together. Three years later, Sand was released. And while Plant possesses the more famous voice, the album's finest moments radiate from Krauss. Whether she's getting bluesy on Little Milton's "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson" or entwining with Plant's husky voice on songs like "Please Read the Letter" and Roly Salley's winsome "Killing the Blues," she more than carries her end of the bargain. And perhaps that's also due to producer Burnett, who handpicked the 13 songs the duo cover on Sand. His arrangements are sparse giving the two voices ample room to breathe yet dense, warm and crackling at the same time. It's a testament to his work that he's often given just as much billing as Plant and Krauss on the project ... and it's certainly justified. To date, Sand has sold more than 1 million copies, heaped tons of acclaim and actually earned a Grammy last year "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" took home the award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. One expert was surprised not by the album's success, but by the fact that it's actually quite a good album. "At first, the album seemed like a vanity project. ... Two names, clearly a one-off record, didn't have to be any good, you know?" New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica said. "Led Zeppelin fans would buy it because of Robert Plant, Alison Krauss would get a check. But it actually turned out to be a really thoughtful, really good record. So when you combine all that with the fact that the Grammys love to lionize one of their own, I could really see it taking home some awards."

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Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 8:00 pm

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Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 6:00 pm

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Rihanna, Usher Added To Grammy Nominations Concert

Lady Gaga, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco and the Band Perry also scheduled to perform at November 30 event. By Jocelyn Vena

Rihanna performs in concert (file) Photo: WireImage

Rihanna and Usher have been added to the performance lineup for "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! Countdown to Music's Biggest Night," set to go down November 30. They join already announced acts Lady Gaga, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco, Sugarland and Jason Aldean. Country crossover act the Band Perry will perform a full concert of their own after the Grammy nominations concert wraps up at L.A. Live's Nokia Theatre. LL Cool J will again host the show, which will air at 10 p.m. on CBS, Billboard.com reports. This marks the fourth year the Recording Academy had held one of these concerts. As some of music's biggest names take the stage during the special, the nominations for major Grammy categories will be announced. The awards ceremony will go down February 12 at the Staples Center, and will air live at 8 p.m. Over the course of her career, Rihanna has taken home four Grammy Awards including Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella," two trophies for "Run This Town" (including Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration) and Best Dance Recording for "Only Girl (In the World)." Rihanna is currently riding high on the forthcoming release of her new album, Talk That Talk, and two buzzworthy singles, "We Found Love" and "You Da One." In the thirteen years he's been nominated for Grammys, Usher has amassed seven, including wins for Best R&B Vocal Performance Male for "U Remind Me," Best R&B Vocal Performance Male for "U Don't Have To Call," Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Yeah," Best Contemporary R&B Album for Confessions, Best R&B Vocal Performance By a Duo/Group for "My Boo," Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "There Goes My Baby" as well as Best Contemporary R&B Album for Raymond v. Raymond. Recently, he has been taking over airwaves with his David Guetta track, "Without You."Related Artists

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Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 2:00 pm

Box-Office Round Up: Chronicle Topples DanRad, But Both Score Touchdowns!

The Giants weren't the only winners this weekend! It was also a great few days for some thrills and chills at the box-office.
The bigger winner at the movies over the Super Bowl weekend was Chronicle, the flick about a bunch of superpower endowed teens from 20th Century Fox. The flick scored a stellar $22 [...]

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Blake Lively Blu Cantrell

Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 12:00 pm

Katy Perry & Connor Cruise Attended DIRECTV Celebrity Beach Bowl After Party

Katy Perry is still sporting her colorful look, from her blue hair to her purple jacket and colorful dress at the DIRECTV’s sixth annual Celebrity Beach Bowl After Party. �She looks like she’s coping well, too, post-split, even if she’s … Continue reading →

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Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 10:00 am