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Saturday, June 16, 2012

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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