The larger-than-life British artist made headlines (yet again) this week with a record-breaking auction.

The Best Links:

1. Someone paid $17 mill for a shark. Hahahahaha.
2. Bull Market for Hirst in Sotheby’s 2-Day Sale
3. Damien slights his dealer, makes bank.

OMFG. EW reports that the actor will star in an upcoming run of Gossip Girl episodes as Aaron Rose, Serena’s new, boho love interest.

The Best Links:

1. Imdb, natch.
2. The Casting Scoop.
3. The take from some true GG obsessives.
4. Teen Idol Sites LURVE this person.

Beau Willimon’s new play is making waves as both an off-Broadway debut and an upcoming film.

The Best Links:

1. Stage cast announcement
2. George Clooney Tackles ‘Farragut North’
3. More about Beau.

The “Netflix for magazines” from Time Inc. is in beta at long last…

The Best Links:

1. Maghound
2. Previous BF Maghound coverage
3. It really took four years to come up with this?
4. The site’s odds for survival

Plop-plop the Emu was arrested this week in Panama City, Fla for chasing cars and general pecking.

The Best Links:

1. “At that point, the thing went kind of crazy”

The Superbad redhead is in two movies at once (The crazy-fun House Bunny and the crazy-weird The Rocker ) and is being touted as the next pretty/funny lady to watch.

The Best Links:

1. Emma makes the hometown paper.
2. Emma’s imdb
3. “Emma Stone might be the new Lindsay Lohan”
4. The cheesy Youtube tributes have started popping up. Girl is on her WAY.

Small loopholes in the early copyrights for Mickey Mouse may release the cartoon character to the public domain this year.

The Best Links:

1. “Early Disney Legal Department Revealed To Be A Mickey Mouse Operation”
2. The whole sordid tale (tail?) unfolds.
3. Turns out Gregory S. Brown, a longtime Disney researcher, discovered the loophole. Sabotage!

One of Iran’s most popular actresses, Farahani was just banned from leaving her native country after starring in “Body of Lies” with Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Best Links:

1. Golshifteh’s bio
2. She was stopped at the airport on her way to Hollywood. Bummer.
3. Body of Lies trailer

OMG, there will officially be a sequel to the 2000 teen flick, a guilty pleasure packed with toe shoes and insane dance montages.

The Best Links:

1. Dance Magazine has the exclusive first look
2. Center Stage 2
3. It will be on the Oxygen channel and then DVD, so you can see it without anyone ever knowing about it.
4. The final dance scene from Center Stage, aka cinematic greatness.

Broadway musicals are dropping like flies due to tough economic times.

The Best Links:

1. “Wall St. Woes Worry Theater Industry”
2. Broadway Feels the Money Slump
3. Some shows that will still open: Equus (shirtless Harry Potter), Billy Elliot (dancing boys), and Shrek: The Musical.

Everyone’s favorite online mixtape genius site, Muxtape, is down today, after having been touched by the music police, aka the RIAA.

The Best Links:

1. A more in-depth look at the shut down: “No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned.”
2. Muxtape, No Longer (For now).
3. More bloggy takes on the site shuttering.

The Bob Saget Roast that aired on Comedy Central Sunday night was funny, but would have been ratings gold had all of the naughty Olsen sisters jokes (and there were MANY) made it to the broadcast.

The Best Links:

1. Saget took offense, but Gilbert Gottfried was all, “If you are an Olsen girl, you deserve it.”
2. A Michelle Tanner clip (for good measure).
3. Why some jokes never made it past the editing room.
4. The Top 10 Roast Jokes about MK and A.