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Kate Middleton receives flowers from Prince William, onlookers on Valentine's Day

2/14/2012
Athira Nair
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton aka Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at the premiere of 'War Horse' on January 8 2012in London

Though Kate Middleton may have spent Valentine's Day without her husband, Prince William, she got plenty of flowers to make up for it.

Whitney Houston and 'The Bodyguard'

2/14/2012
Robert Kirchgassner

The tragic death of music legend Whitney Houston, ironically, coincides with the 20th anniversary of her movie debut The Bodyguard (1992).

In that film, she played Rachel Marron, a singer/actress who, after being nominated for an Academy Award for her acting, begins receiving death threats. This leads to former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer (played by Kevin Costner) being assigned to protect her as Oscar night approaches. The two begin to fall in love with each other as Frank’s efforts to protect Rachel increase.

‘Dexter’ actor Jonny Lee Miller cast as Sherlock Holmes in CBS pilot ‘Elementary’

2/14/2012
Daniel S Levine

Jonny Lee Miller, who had a recurring role on Showtime’s Dexter has been cast as Sherlock Holmes in a new pilot for CBS called Elementary.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS describes the show as a modern-day take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless Sherlock Holmes stories set in New York. It will be one of eight pilots CBS has ordered that will compete for a slot in the fall.

Taylor Swift talks penning ‘Safe & Sound’ and shooting music video

2/14/2012
April Chieffo
Taylor Swift at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles.

Nicki Minaj defends her Grammy Awards performance of 'Roman Holiday,' Recording Academy president against 'restricting artists' creative freedom' (Video)

2/14/2012
Gina DiFalco
Nicki Minaj at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles.

Nicki Minaj’s Grammy Awards performance this past Sunday had a lot of people talking. Minaj performed as her alter-ego, Roman Zolanski, whom her next album Roman Reloaded is based on.

Celebrities take to Twitter to criticize Grammys for honoring Chris Brown

2/14/2012
Daniel S Levine

On Sunday night, R&B star Chris Brown not only won a Grammy for his album, F.A.M.E., but also performed twice. Prior to the show, the Recording Academy was forced to defend the decision to invite him back, three years after pleading guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammys party. However, celebrities still took to Twitter to criticize the decision.

Oprah Winfrey apologizes for a Tweet encouraging Nielson viewers to tune into OWN

2/13/2012
Marissa Pessolano
Winfrey asks people with a Nielson box to watch her network

Oprah Winfrey has apologized for a message she wrote on Twitter, which encouraged people with a Nielsen rating box to watch her cable channel.

This week in fashion: Grammy’s biggest winners and losers

2/13/2012
Melissa Goldstein

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With Lady Gaga’s fish net mask, Katy Perry’s blue hair and Nicki Minaj bearing a striking resemblance to Little Red Riding Hood, you had to wonder – were designers ever consulted or had they raided a Halloween Adventure store instead?

'The BET Honors' are on tonight

2/13/2012
Joann Vaglica
Stevie Wonder, Dr. Maya Angelou among those honored

Tonight, BET is proud to present The BET Honors which, for the fifth year in a row, is being hosted by actress Gabrielle Union. With awards season in full throttle, it’s kind of like “another day, another honor!”

In a pre-taped ceremony [the original taping took place on Jan. 14], Willow Smith, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Common, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard and Cicely Tyson, among others, helped celebrate some of the most inspiring people today.

There are six people, or honorees, whose legacy will live on forever. They include:

The many honors of the 54th annual Grammy awards

2/13/2012
Joann Vaglica
Whitney Houston, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown and Adele among the most talked about of the night

Looking back at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, there are a lot of hot topics to be discussed ranging from who said what, who wore what and how homage was paid while remembering Whitney Houston to the performances and Grammy award winners.

No doubt music’s biggest night was disrupted by the untimely death of Houston but her spirit was very much alive within the Staples Center and with that being said, all that the music industry had to offer last night should be praised and applauded as well.

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