Jackie Collins, the beloved best-selling novelist, has died. The Collins family told People in a statement.;

“It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today.

She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades. She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words.”

Diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, Collins, 77, chose to keep her illness almost entirely to herself, confided primarily in her three daughters, Tracy, 54, Tiffany, 48, and Rory, 46.

Collins, sat down with People on September 14 at her Beverly Hills home in what would be her last interview, and had no regrets about the decision to keep her cancer journey private while she embraced a very full life until her very last days;

“Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did. I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve travelled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it,” said Collins, whose treatments over the years included a lumpectomy, radiation and various drug courses and combinations.

Now I want to save other people’s lives.”

Collins was a prolific writer for 4+ decades – selling more than half a BILLION copies of her novels have around the globe. Her latest book, The Santangelos hit shelves in June. As for her daughters, she said her voice breaking,

“I’m so proud of them… I want them to feel secure and I want them to feel whatever happens, I’ll always be there.”

Memorial services in both the United States and the United Kingdom will be held privately. The Collins family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Organization (in the U.S.) and Penny Brohn Cancer Care (in the U.K.).

Sad, of course, but what a life! (via People)

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Patti LaBelle is not fooling around … NO ONE gets on her stage and strips down. LaBelle was in Vancouver Friday night and invited a couple of fans up on stage with her to sing and dance. However, one fan took things too far for Patti and started unbuttoning his shirt. No ma’am! Patti chewed the fan out and once he turned his backside to her, she lost it –throwing him out of the show! The 72-year-old diva even mentions Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus in the tirade… watch!

(via TMZ)

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Hillary Clinton has said she won’t run negative ads against Democrat Bernie Sanders. Guess that the GOP is fair game? Her latest ad hones in on last Wednesday night’s CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate, focusing on a laundry list of issues close to Democrats‘ hearts that nonetheless failed to be broached at any point during the not-so-animate arguments: paid family leave, affordable child care and college education, equal pay for women, and protecting voting rights… The ad does emphasizes how eager each candidate is to defund Planned Parenthood, repeal ObamaCare, and vilify, yes, Hillary. Even if you’re a Republican (do they read The Wow Report?) Anyway, even if you are, it’s funny. Watch.

(via LGBTQ Nation, T/Y Berns)

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Frito-Lay announced last week that it was teaming up with the It Gets Better Project to launch a limited-edition version of its Cool Ranch-flavored Doritos. The chips came in Pride colors: green, blue, purple, red, and orange and are branded Doritos Rainbows and sold for a minimum donation of $10 with all of the proceeds going to It Gets Better. They sold out almost immediately.

But not everyone on the internet was happy with helping LGBT youth with the Pride-inspired snacks. Some jackasses took to Twitter to voice their disapproval, calling the chips “sick,” “disappointing,” “ISIS,” a threat to Christianity, while urging people not to make the contribution or buy any Frito-Lay product, anywhere. (As if these wide-load bigots would stop eating snack treats like Doritos for a cause. Right.) Anyway here’s what these jerks have been saying;

(via

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I really don’t want to bang on and on about the Emmys. Trust me, by the end of the day, you are going to be SICK OF IT. You won’t be able to read a blog or watch TV without being absolutely inundated with recaps and whatnot. But I did want to post Andy’s absolutely adorable opening song-and-dance number, because it was the highlight of my night. My week. MY LIFE. I fell in love with him all over again.

Via Rolling Stone:

Making his Emmy hosting debut, Samberg started things off with the musical number, in which he discovers how much good television he’s missed out on. (“So many shows, and so little time, I’m just a normal man, how can I possibly keep up?”) The star of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine then locks himself in a “viewing bunker” to catch up on every single show on TV, emerging months later with a Last Man on Earth beard and horrible smell in order to tell Jon Hamm and Kerry Washington all about his exploits. However, an encounter with Nathan Fillion opens his eyes to Castle, which sends Samberg back into the bunker for another 151 hours.

The song then transformed into a Les Miserables-inspired musical with Will Forte in the Javert role and Billy Eichner as Samberg’s son before the host impressively begins listing countless shows on television, fromBetter Call Saul and Homeland to Pawn Stars and Cajun Pawn Stars. The tune also spotlighted the staggering number of shows with “wives” in the title: Army Wives, Basketball Wives, The Good Wife, Sister Wives, Mob Wives, the entire Real Housewives oeuvre, just to name a few.

Watch the opening number, below. And the opening monologue after that

And check out Trey’s roundup of the evening’s biggest moments here.

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Michelle Visage celebrates her sweet 16th birthday in the UK on Celebrity Big Brother: Bit on the Side. Watch the cherry on the top with lashing of sauce below.

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Embarrassed in Oklahoma writes in to Delta Work on Dear Delta because he has recently gained some weight, and his friends often bring it up. He wants to know how to politely tell them to stop. Do you have a question for Delta Work? Tweet her @THEEDeltaWork with the hashtag #DearDelta!

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This is the story that just keeps on giving… first, I posted a story about Doritos’ limited edition Rainbow chips that were launched to support It Gets Better, which promptly sold out. Then, I posted about the social media firestorm that erupted (which, honestly these days, doesn’t take much) with many jerks and jackasses (oh, sorry… and “Christians”) calling Doritos every name in the book.

People took to Doritos’ Facebook page to vent their anger with Frito-Lay. Our fave internet troll-buster of late, Mike Melgaard, who you may remember as the guy who trolled anti-gay conservatives last month by posing as a customer service account for Target on Facebook, was up to his old tricks, turning his trolling talents on disgruntled anti-gay Doritos fans. Below are screenshots of his encounters under the fake Facebook account, “Doritos ForHelp,” which he used to hilariously mock Facebook users pissed-off with the brand’s pro-LGBT stance. He needs to have his own fake accounts all over and do this more! People use “LOL” for every little tiny chuckle lately, but I was literally “laughing out loud.” Read on…

Mr. Melgaard ended his trolling by posting the pic below with caption;

“A final ending to an afternoon of fun. Hope you all enjoyed!”

As funny as this all is, let’s keep in mind what the beneficiary of Doritos Rainbows, It Gets Better, actually does. It was started by Dan Savage in the wake of an epidemic of LGBT teen suicides. How is this doing anything other than what these “Christians” profess to do, which is help people? He’s a Catholic, but even Pope Francis, who lands in the U.S. today, when asked about gays getting into heaven said;

“Who am I to judge?”

Exactly.

(via The Gaily Grind)

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Yesterday James posted the story of the woman who jumped out of her moving car (with her child inside!) when she saw a spider. Good thing she wasn’t in the subway when this happened, or we would never have gotten this video, posted to YouTube by Matt Little, of a rat trying to carry a slice of pizza in its mouth while climbing down a stairway. He eventually dropped the pizza and ran away. Who can blame him? Damn, paparazzi! Watch.

Below you can see what happens when a fat rat tries to take the 6 train home…

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Sunday night’s Emmys included big wins for Transparent. Jill Soloway won for comedy directing, Jeffrey Tambor won for lead comedy actor and Bradley Whitford won for guest spot for his role on the show at the Creative Arts Emmys. I might be willing to bet that Oscar winner Anjelica Huston will be nominated next year for a guest spot Emmy herself. Soloway told Variety at a pre-Emmy party that Huston will be playing a “new friend” to Tambor’s character Maura in three episodes of Amazon’s ambitious series. Soloway said about Huston and Tambor’s characters’ on-screen vibe;

“They have a lot of chemistry… palpable chemistry! It was palpable. I was directing them together and watching through the monitor.”

Anjelica’s last TV role was playing Eileen Rand on NBC‘s musical series Smash and she also had a small voice role as a Hollywood executive in the first season of Netflix’s animated series Bojack Horseman. Houston joins Hari Nef, the actress and IMG’s recently signed transgender model, and photographer Petra Collins on this new season. Cannot wait. (Photo, Smash; via Out)

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Social media has been going nuts for this image of Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams. She famously played Mortica’s daughter, Wednesday, in The Addams Family nearly 25 years ago. At just 11, Ricci became an overnight sensation thanks to her scene-stealing performance as the gloomy Wednesday Addams, which was based on the 60s TV series and the original Charles Addams cartoon strips. She looks amazing, huh? But sorry to say, it’s fake. It has been flopped and Photoshopped from the publicity still of Anjelica Huston, below. But this kind of thing might get Hollywood thinking –we’ve not seem much of Ricci lately – so, get busy Paul Rudnick. He wrote the script to the sequel to 1993’s, Addams Family Values, which was the funnier of the two. Speaking of real or fake… remember Ricci’s classic line from the film when quizzed about her lemonade…? Watch.

The Second Coming: Anjelica Huston as Morticia

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Actress-turned-director Rose McGowan is now actress-turned-director-turned-POPSTAR Rose McGowan– who knew? Her new (slightly NSFW) video – directed by the brilliant Jonas Åkerlund and styled by the equally brilliant fashion maverick B. Åkerlund – features a variety of looks that range from alien Nostferatu to Squeaky Blond realness to a GORGEOUS bejeweled red skull that I would so totally rock the shit out of. Oh, and the music is pretty incredible too!

From Nowness:

Having called out the film industry for sexism and left her acting career behind, The Doom Generation star returned to Hollywood earlier this year with guns blazing – this time from the other side of the camera. After shooting her arresting directorial debut, the Sundance Award-nominated short Dawn, the actor-turned-director has teamed up with Spun director Jonas Åkerlund, enlisting his signature gothic vision for her unanticipated pop promo

“Not only did I not fit in, I didn’t want to fit in”

Styled by Swedish fashion icon B. Åkerlund, each of McGowan’s theatrical guises represents a different facet of the star’s morphing persona: from alien outsider (“Not only did I not fit in, I didn’t want to fit in,” she says of her formative years) to Hollywood starlet and beyond. Each persona carries a message, with the goth confronting people’s perception of beauty: “I actually think she’s the most beautiful,” McGowan says. Here the actor-turned director talks rocking the boat and kicking up an art fuss.

This release marks your musical debut, why now?
Rose McGowan: In the last few years I’ve actually released some songs under different names, just me pranking the public. I woke up one day and realised I hated acting and that I’d always hated it. Imagine, its predominantly men whose scripts get done so it was mostly a male voice coming out of my mouth for fifteen years.

Your film work touches on ideas of female empowerment and sexual liberation – do you feel a responsibility to create a feminist dialogue?
RM: Yes I feel like it’s my duty and other people who have a voice, it’s their duty as well. We’re told from when were very young: ‘don’t upset anybody, don’t rock the boat.’ Why not? I believe in civil disruption. I also think it’s important for bodies to be represented in a non-sexual manner, especially women’s bodies.”

You’ve been vocal before about the importance of nudity, why do you think it’s important to reclaim the representation of women’s bodies this way?
RM: The body shaming that goes on in America is absurd. Recently at a museum there was this woman behind me looking at a nude sketch of a man and she said she’d never let her child around that, and I turned to her and said, “Oh really? Would you like your child to first see a penis when it’s erect and coming at her?” I don’t want to do this kind of thing but I feel like I have to, to stimulate change. You realise when you’re well known that you have won the public election: you are in office of a sort, and what you say does matter.”

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If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area on October 23, then THIS IS THE TICKET! Our good friend Carly Usdin and Cesar Hawas are producing Le Bal which will be hosted by the ONLY Candis Cayne and performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race queens Raja, Willam, Courtney Act, Delta Work, and Mariah Balenciaga! Tickets are on sale now at $20 – $40 and it will take place at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

Le Bal will not be your typical drag show. Taking advantage of our theater’s cinematic backdrop, ​​Le Bal will recast the space with the unique opulence of the modern day drag performance, complete with international DJ Kim Anh ​​filling the air with garage and minimal wave sounds. An homage to the last 60 years of variety entertainment, Le Bal  brings the art form of drag back to the legitimate stage and seeks to introduce new audiences to counterculture entertainment. The whole production will celebrate the evolution of variety performance, from cabaret to theatre to contemporary drag.

The divas we’ve invited to the ball represent a diverse roster of top notch drag entertainers carefully curated to represent some of the best that the industry has to offer.   World-renowned showgirl and actress Candis Cayne, who performs in the show as well as serves as the evening’s host and emcee, will be joined by Raja Gemini  (winner of season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race)  Courtney Act, Willam Belli,  Mariah Balenciaga  and Delta Work.

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Personally, I’d rather set my teeth on fire than watch Lil Wayne cavort with two women wearing nothing but his grill and a pair of black socks, but that’s what might be coming our way. Yes, TMZ is reporting that an unnamed holder has such a sex tape has and has contacted several “big name” adult film companies to see what kind of interest there is out there for it. Lil Wayne, himself, has not commented publicly on the sex tape rumors, but an unnamed rep was very clear: “We’ll sue the hell out of them.” Real porn companies like Vivid Entertainment play by the rules of the industry, of course: they require all subjects in sex tapes to sign legal releases. So without Wayne’s sign-off, the big porn companies would never take the risk. However, it sounds a bit like this is one of those “Why, howEVER did this perfectly-produced porn leak to the media?” situations where everybody is in on it, but Lil Wayne gets to deny culpability while still profiting from it (viz-a-viz Kimmy K). So, we shall see. (via TMZ)

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Beloved RuPaul’s Drag Race queen (and WOWPresents MCN Partner) Shangela Laquifa‘s music video for her song “Werqin’ Girl” isn’t brand new but I felt it was appropriate to share since a little Tuesday morning motivation never hurts! I guarantee this song will become your next workout anthem. I promise, it does WONDERS in the gym.

The video is THOROUGHLY epic. Not only do you get to see Shangela show off her sickening moves, but there are also cameos from fellow Drag Race star Yara Sofia, Dance Mom‘s Abby Lee Miller, and the legendary actress Jenifer Lewis.

So like, I’m pretty sure you should just send this video as your CV next time you apply for a job.

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September 23, 1949– Bruce Springsteen composed the Academy Award winning song Streets Of Philadelphia written for the film Philadelphia (1993) with Tom Hanks starring, one of the first mainstream films dealing with HIV/AIDS. The song was a hit in the USA & around the globe. It won Grammy Awards for Song Of The Year, Best Rock Song, Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, & Best Song Written For A Motion Picture.

“The bonus I got out of writing Streets Of Philadelphia was that all of a sudden I could go out & meet some gay man somewhere & he wouldn’t be afraid to talk to me & say: ‘Hey, that song really meant something to me.’ My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay & lesbian civil rights.”

Would you be surprised to discover that I am a fan of The Boss?  I love straight ahead Rock & Roll, & I identify as working-class. Springsteen’s output does not occupy the largest section of my music collection, but he is there. I think highly of the sound & the message from The E Street Band. I admire the lonely spare sound of Nebraska (1982). I was Born In The USA (1984). I have had some Human Touch (1992) in the Tunnel Of Love (1987) in Lucky Town (1992).

Springsteen’s songs & his message are particularly relevant at this time of turmoil in our country, when the divisions among us resonate more deeply than the values we share. Politicians are exploiting our fears for their own ends. Those who suffer are met with mockery from the sort of people whose recklessness capsized the economy. Springsteen, a multi-millionaire, still speaks for us.

His songs are often celebrating the nobility in the struggles of average American life. he has more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of our pretty planet’s bestselling artists of all time. His award shelf is home to 20 Grammy Awards, 2 Golden Globes & that Oscar. Springsteen has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall Of Fame & the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Springsteen has been a Gay Rights activist for decades. He spoken out as a strong supporter of Marriage Equality.

“I’ve long believed in & have always spoken out for the rights of same sex couples. The Marriage Equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is, a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.'”

He lent his considerable support to an ad campaign for gay marriage called “The Four 2012“.

“I urge those who support equal treatment for our gay & lesbian brothers & sisters to let their voices be heard now.”

This is my favorite Springsteen song. I find it very moving. I also think that at 66 years old, Springsteen is smokin’ hot. Sorry to bring it down to that level, but his sex appeal speaks to me as much as his songs.

His newest album, High Hopes (2014) is particularly good, but if you think you want to give him a listen, I would go with a 2 volume Greatest Hits so you have a taste of moments from his 40+ years career.

We said we’d walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as we’re walking a hand should slip free
I’ll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me

We swore we’d travel darlin’ side by side
We’d help each other stay in stride
But each lover’s steps fall so differently
But I’ll wait for you
And if I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So let’s make our steps clear that the other may see
And I’ll wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now there’s a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There ‘neath the oak’s bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I’ll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin’ I’ll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me

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The world has gone mad. How long have we believed that? Our parents must have thought it, too. But our culture has really “jumped the shark.” Do you know where the phrase came from? It was written by Jon Hein to describe the moment in the evolution of a TV show when some over-the-top gimmick is used in a desperate attempt to keep viewers’ interest. The phrase is taken from the fifth-season episode of the sitcom Happy Days when Fonzie LITERALLY jumps over a shark on water-skis.

Now it seems everyone in England has “dropped their bacon sandwich.” This is a Brit expression to express ultimate shock, popularized in the 90s by Loaded magazine. British Prime Minister David Cameron surely dropped his and has been undergoing a national embarrassment for the last two days. Is seems as a youthful member of a “debauched” Oxford University group known as the Piers Gaveston Society, Cameron put his dick in the mouth of a dead pig. So now we get #snoutrage, #hameron and #piggate.

The amazing thing is the similarity to an episode of the dystopian TV drama Black Mirror, which tells the story of a PM forced to fuck a pig on live TV to avert the killing of a kidnapped princess. The show’s creator, Charlie Brooker, has gone on record in the wake of Pig-gate to say that he WASN’T aware of the rumor when he wrote it. (You can see it on Netflix. I just watched that episode this summer and it is intense.)

Humorist Andy Borowitz said recently, referring to Donald Trump, the bar can’t go lower;

“According to a new study, the bar is now essentially flush with the ground.”

Yes, Trump is a “SERIOUS” candidate for President. And can you think WAY back to the outrage over Walter Palmer‘s trophy hunting murder of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe this summer? We do have a scandal dujour, but the internet lost it’s collective MIND over this killing. (Myself included) Of course, Donald Trump defended Palmer.

So, nothing really surprises us anymore, does it. When TV shows come true and billionaire blow-hard TV personalities are the talk of the news every single day, then what is “news” anymore? Can the refugees from Syria hold our attention? When we accept mass shootings on a daily basis and ISIS beheads people as routine, we have OFFICIALLY jumped that damn shark.

To take it even further, look at sharks themselves, as entertainment metaphor. We get the Sharknado movie series, taking the implausible to the extreme. And this summer a surfer was attacked on live TV, 40 years after Jaws made us all afraid to go in the water…

We also get wonderful moments that are STILL hard to believe, like the SCOTUS ruling making same-sex marriage legal throughout the land but then… Kim Davis. We get another Davis, Viola, winning the Best Actress Emmy in a TV Drama FOR THE FIRST time in 2015…? But then there’s (white) soap actress Nancy Lee Grahn grabbing the spotlight immediately, Tweeting about white injustice, TRULY not understanding the significance of the milestone.

Yes, we are ALL just one Tweet away from fame or ruin, it seems. Nothing is too far or too much for the insatiable 24/7 news cycle. We are all guilty of piling on too, when it’s a cause dear to us or some “bridge too far” statement or behavior. Demonize and vilify first, get the facts later. (Facts? LOL. They really ARE irrelevant in 2015, ask the GOP.)

So, what do we all do? How do we combat this shrill culture we’ve all helped to create? I’m afraid the answer has been there all along, something the postmodern, shark-jumped life has required for quite a while now. Edit. You must edit your life as ruthlessly a Housewives episode. Look away from that which you revile and focus on the good and the positive in the world and in our lives. If we keep “making stupid people famous” then who do we have to blame? Everybody trashes the Kardashians, but if people TRULY had enough of them, they would go away like Scott Walker just did.

We now need and want to be entertained endlessly and it’s about to get worse –or better depending on how you look at it. Oculus Rift is coming… I just read a fascinating story in Vanity Fair, which isn’t exactly news, but we’ve not collectively focused on it yet. Virtual Reality is not a dream or just for gamers. It’s already here. Mark Zuckerberg bought 22 year-old Palmer Luckey‘s garage-invention (for $2 billion) and is making it available to the masses. There are other VR sets coming to market and we WILL be able to go into space with Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson and play celebrity or take all our friends to London and steal the crown jewels, just for kicks. This will be bigger than 3D and smartphones, you can bank on it. You think internet porn ruined sex? This is set to give us all brand new disorders, for sure.

So, get ready kids. You can all VIRTUALLY jump the shark in Jaws in 2016.

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Zayde Sands, a left-handed four-year-old Pre-K student in Okemah, Oklahoma, was forced by his teacher to write with his right hand after she told him writing with his left hand was ‘evil.’

Zayde’s mother Alisha, who is also left-handed, says that Zayde always used his left hand for everything. His mother said, “From picking things up to throwing things, to batting, to writing, to just coloring you’d do at home with him, he’s always, always used his left hand.” So last week while helping Zayde with his homework, she was surprised to see him writing with his right hand and decided to ask him if his teachers had said anything about his hands. Zayde lifted his left hand and said that it was bad. Alisha sent the teacher a note and was shocked when the teacher sent back an article calling being left-handed “unlucky,” “evil,” and “sinister.” It even said “for example, the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.” Alisha took the article to the school’s superintendent with little response. “There was no suspension of any kind. There was basically nothing done to this teacher. She told them she thought I needed literature on it. I don’t feel like the school did what they were supposed to for him,” Alisha said.

(via KFOR)

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You know how nobody ever sings “Happy Birthday” in movies or on TV? How they usually have some incredibly odd fake birthday song that just sounds WRONG? That’s because the copyright to use it has always been so prohibitively expensive, that FOR DECADES writers had to create fake happy birthday songs instead. FINALLY, after 80 years, though, the copyright on the “Happy Birthday” song has finally been reversed, freeing up its commercial use.

The Daily What is reporting that the legal battle itself took years, but a federal judge ruled Sept. 22 that the song’s music and most probably the lyrics, existed before Patty Smith Hill and Mildred J. Hill claimed ownership.

The Los Angeles Times has more information:

In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, the judge ruled that Warner/Chappell never had the right to charge for the use of the “Happy Birthday To You” song. Warner had been enforcing a copyright since 1988, when it bought Birch Tree Group, the successor to Clayton F. Summy Co., which claimed the original disputed copyright.

Judge George H. King ruled that a copyright filed by the Summy Co. in 1935 granted only the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the actual song.

‘Happy Birthday’ is finally free after 80 years,” said Randall Newman, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the suit, which included a group of filmmakers who are producing a documentary about the song. “Finally, the charade is over. It’s unbelievable.”

 Listen to some incredibly awkward “Happy Birthday” alternatives that have been used in the past, below.

Happy Birthday Alternatives in Film and Television from Free Music Archive on Vimeo.

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Scream Queens had its 2-hour premiere last night, and it was totally the greatest. Emma Roberts was divine, the costumes were fierce, Niecy Nash was hilarical, and the whole Mean Girls-meets-Halloween-meets-Legally Blonde-meets-Scream vibe had me completely hooked the entire time. However, when it was all said and done, Nick Jonas stole the show for me, making me feel pretty much like every other 12-year-old girl who ever went through the Jo Bros phase. (No shade, this is coming from a 27-year-old Belieber.)

Nick told ET Online that he’s “been so honored to play some really strong gay characters,” as this is the second he’s played this year. His first is in the Direct TV show Kingdom, which is also not to be missed. But back to Scream Queens. Nick plays Boone, a closeted frat boy who’s very protective of his fraternity big brother, Chad.

They also cross swords, bro…

…while having super perfect hair.

The masterpiece, though, was when Nick brought the gun show out and made everyone jealous of anyone who could have been close enough to ACTUALLY SMELL HIM.

Then there was this moving, beautiful scene where he hopped into his bro’s bed because he was scared, causing hearts everywhere to melt.

Nick also proved he’s the hottest corpse…

EXCEPT NOT A CORPSE AFTER ALL BECAUSE HE WOKE UP AND IS SOMEHOW TIED IN WITH THE KILLER!

YAY!

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