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Early buzz: 'Creep,' Cobain, 'fake weed' and more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — Happy Monday, everyone -- I hope you had a perfect weekend and remembered to slather on the SPF 30. On Saturday I started my weeklong TV project , in which you determine my viewing schedule for six days. I've seen some cool stuff, though by the time I went to bed last night, I was feeling kind of ... well, dumb. I'll post my recap later today, along with a roundup of Lost comments and other good stuff. First, though, some headlines: - A fire at Universal Studios has damaged the clock tower from Back to the Future , among other movie set pieces. - James Franco insists that the weed joke on last night's MTV Movie Awards was written by MTV and ...

MTV has second thoughts about weed joke
TV Squad — Filed under: Celebrities, Awards, Reality-Free There's one thing to do a stupid joke that you shouldn't have done, and then it's another to not even have the balls to follow through on the joke. Case in point: last night's MTV Movie Awards. Seth Rogan and James Franco presented the award for Best Summer Movie of the Year So Far, and while doing it, they did a little plug for their new movie Pineapple Express. They pulled out a bag of fake (?) weed and smoked (?) it onstage, explaining more than once that it was fake and that kids shouldn't smoke it. But take a look at the video. As the joke starts, ...

MTV Promotes Smoking Pot!
Seriously McMillan's "She So Ghetto" — Oooh, Headlines…. “MTV Promotes Smoking Pot!” They would probably respond to little old me with something like… “We at MTV do not condone or promote the use of illegal drugs.” So when you see a headline like this… James Franco: MTV Gave Us Fake Weed For Award Show That ...