Media Hut Roundup (June 11 - June 15)
Entertainment
- Tommy Chong diagnosed with prostate cancer, treating it with hemp [Daily Mail]
- Slash to get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame [On The Red Carpet]
- Lindsay Lohan may have lied about car accident, probation may be violated [TMZ]
- Carrie Underwood supports gay marriage [US Magazine]
- Andy Samberg's next move, a BBC comedy series [Favorwire]
- Henry Hill, the real life mobster who inspired "Goodfellas", died at 69 [Hollywood Reporter]
- Miss USA contestants claim pageant is rigged [TMZ]
- Drake's rep says star wasn't involved in the Chris Brown altercation at a New York bar [TMZ]
News
- Megachurch pastor denies punching and choking his teenage daughter [Huffington Post]
- Colorado wildfires have claimed 100 homes, human remains found [Huffington Post]
- A South African man has been beheaded for being gay [Towleroad]
- 3 armoured-car workers were killed in a shooting at the University of Alberta [CBC]
Other
- "Once" is big winner at 2012 Tony Awards [Fox News]
- A phobia may cause insomnia for some [MSNBC]
- A Star Wars fan has raised $12K to save Luke Skywalker’s home in Tunisia [The Mary Sue]
- There will be a movie about Tonka trucks [I Watch Stuff]
- The creepy case of the 24-year-old woman who posed as a 17-year-old boy and tricked a 15-year-old girl into sex [Hyper Vocal]
- "Prometheus" spawns multiple theories about film's meaning [Movie Fone]
- A Broadway star is on a major crusade against shoe spam on Facebook [Gawker]
- Lance Armstrong banned from triathlons over new doping allegations, may lose Tour De France titles [Daily Mail]
Science
- Bath salts can’t turn you into a zombie, but they can seriously mess with your head [Hyper Vocal]
Sports
- Rafael Nadal won his record 7th French Open [Boston Globe]
- The Los Angeles Kings won their first Stanley Cup in 9 years [NBC Sports]
- Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to release veteran Vladimir Guerrero [The Star]
Technology
- Apple showed off the new Macbook [CNET]
- Better late than never — Apple is finally discontinuing Ping [All Things D]
- Are QR codes on graves the next big thing? [Buzzfeed]
Videos:
- Selena Gomez and Nick Kroll star in "50 Shades of Grey" parody, "50 Shades of Blue" [Funny Or Die]
- What the FCC didn't want you to see: the Fear Factor donkey semen-drinking challenge [Uproxx]
- The internet is still a beautiful place as Tay Zonday from "Chocolate Rain" fame sings "Call Me Maybe" [YouTube]
- Jimmy Kimmel has a kid take a lie detector test [Buzzfeed]
- The cat burglar, caught on camera over and over and over [YouTube]
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