"Star Trek" star George Takei used his 4 million Facebook followers to draw attention to an attack on a gay couple in New York City this week.

Nick Porto and his partner Kevin Atkins reported on Facebook that they had been jumped this week outside a Knicks playoff game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Assailants allegedly uttered gay slurs while attacking the couple, leaving one man with a bruised hand and another with a broken nose. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, according to DNA Info.

The actor, is in town to perform in a new musical called about the Japanese American internment called "Allegiance," used Facebook to draw attention to the event. 

"This violence happened just blocks from where I'm in rehearsal in Midtown NYC for 'Allegiance.' Shame on the perpetrators, and on the bystanders who did nothing but take photos," Takei wrote on his page, while sharing a picture of the recovering couple.

The image and Atkins and Porto's story was eventually shared by more than 5,000 people.

Takei later followed up his post by sharing video of the eight men that police are seeking for questioning in the alleged attack.

"Thanks in part to social media, the police in NYC have released a video of men whom they are looking to speak with in connection with the attack on a gay couple near Madison Square Garden, down the street from where I'm in rehearsal for 'Allegiance,'" Takei wrote. "I'm sharing this video hoping someone can help with identification. Let's help solve this together, friends."

That post was shared by more than 2,000 Facebook users.

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Who cares what the critics think.

Despite harsh reviews, "The Great Gatsby" is already killing it at theaters.

Midnight showings scored $3.3 million at the box office last night.

While that's not as impressive as huge superhero films—"Iron Man 3" took in a massive $173.5 million opening weekend—the film did take in more than Thursday showings of "Oz the Great and Powerful" ($2 million).

That film went on to earn $79 million in its March opening weekend for Disney.

Right now, critics are tearing "Gatsby" apart.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, out of 124 total reviews, 67 of them are rotten.

Here are examples of some of the harshest reviews:

Film.com:

"And so we wait, wait for the parties to end, wait for sparks to fly, for tragedy to strike, for repercussions to ensue, for our persistently passive protagonist to simply shut up already."

Wall Street Journal:

"This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe."

According to Fandango, that doesn't seem to matter.

It's not a big-city phenomenon; however, we've been told by the ticket seller there were at least 27 sold-out screenings last night across the country including five in New York City and nine in College Station, Texas.

A Fandango survey of moviegoers purchasing tickets shows they're seeing the film for essentially all the reasons critics find fault with it:

• 94% said the film’s grand scale imagery, costumes and set design inspired them to buy a ticket.
• 83% said the film’s eclectic soundtrack (with selections from Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Andre 3000) appealed to them.
• 61% consider themselves fans of the movie’s director, Baz Luhrmann (58% of those fans had seen Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!)
• 38% are making plans to see “Gatsby” as a Mother’s Day Weekend outing. 

"The Great Gatsby" isn't going to break any records, and it most likely won't beat "Iron Man 3" in its second weekend, however, don't count it out.

BoxOffice.com is tracking the film to earn $41.5 million opening weekend.

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Earlier today, Mark Decambre of the New York Post broke a bombshell story:

Reporters at Bloomberg News used private information from Bloomberg terminals to spy on employees at Goldman Sachs.

And now it's clear that Bloomberg reporters used private terminal information to report on at least one other firm, too.

Wall Street firms pay Bloomberg millions of dollars a year to buy Bloomberg terminal accounts for their employees.

Until recently, Bloomberg News reporters with access to these private Bloomberg systems could see when specific Bloomberg clients were logging on and off and various search functions they use.

The Post's story revealed that reporters at Bloomberg News used this private information to spy on the activity of individual Goldman partners and use the information they discovered in developing Bloomberg news stories.

According to a source at JPMorgan, Bloomberg reporters also secretly used private client information on the terminal while reporting on JPMorgan's disastrous "London Whale" trade last year.

Bloomberg broke the news that a team of JPMorgan traders in London had made a massive bet on credit derivatives — a bet so big that it was causing distortions in the market. Bloomberg was also the first organization to name the trader responsible for this bet: Bruno Iksil.

Later, in a timeline of the Whale scandal, Bloomberg bragged about its leadership on this story:

April 5: Bloomberg News is first to report Iksil had roiled markets with CIO positions so large that they were distorting prices. The Wall Street Journal follows with a report that hedge funds are taking positions to bet against JPMorgan. The bank says the CIO hedges structural risks to bring assets and liabilities “into better alignment...

When news of the Whale trade became public, it encouraged other market participants to bet against JPMorgan, which likely contributed to the firm ultimately losing billions of dollars on the trade.

A source within JPMorgan says that the firm believes that, at the very least, Bloomberg News reporters used private login information on the Bloomberg terminal to determine that Bruno Iksil had left JPMorgan.

Bloomberg reporters, the source says, accessed private information on the terminal to determine that Iksil had not logged into his Bloomberg account for an unusually long period of time. Then the reporters confronted JPMorgan with this information and asked whether Iksil had left.

Iksil wasn't the only one, either.

According to the JPMorgan source, Bloomberg reporters would call JPMorgan CIO traders on their home phone numbers or personal cellphones and say, "Hey, I noticed you haven't used your Bloomberg Terminal in a while. Are you still with the bank?"

Bankers at JPMorgan expressed frustration with this to multiple Bloomberg reporters, a source said.

A Bloomberg spokesperson says he is unaware of any record of any such complaints.

The JPMorgan source also said that this has happened in broader instances at the bank and not just with the "London Whale" traders. But the "London Whale" event is when it became apparent to JPMorgan that Bloomberg reporters were using their private client information to spy on them.

"They were pretty blatant about saying they noticed if you haven't logged into your Bloomberg or you haven't been trading in a while," a JPMorgan source said.

The general sense is that the behavior of these Bloomberg News reporters was outrageous.

As one JPMorgan source said, when you buy a Bloomberg Terminal, "You don't think someone's tracking your every move."

If you're not already familiar with the Bloomberg Terminal, it's basically a computer that's targeted toward financial professionals so they can message other users, obtain real-time market data, news, and stock quotes among many other functions.

They're pretty much ubiquitous on Wall Street, and a subscription for one costs about $20,000 per year.

Considering the amount of data tracked by Bloomberg Terminals, abuse by Bloomberg News could have been even more widespread and insidious.

Bloomberg has acknowledged that reporters could see "broad information on which functions users access, such as equities or commodities."

A source at Goldman tells us that the firm was dumbfounded and outraged to discover what Bloomberg reporters were doing. The source says that, until recently, Bloomberg News reporters were able to see not just when individual Bloomberg subscribers logged in (and via what device), but what they did while they were logged in.

Specifically, the source says, Bloomberg News reporters were able to see: 

• When individual subscribers logged in and logged out (and from where).
• What type of information these individual subscribers looked at and how often they looked at it.

Our source also said that Bloomberg reporters could see which subscribers read specific news stories, but Bloomberg says this is not the case. 

"Limited customer relationship data has long been available to our journalists, and has never included clients’ security-level data, position data, trading data or messages."

Bloomberg acknowledged that reporters could see if clients logged in or off, and when, but not from their exact location.  Reporters also could not see news stories or individual equities clients were looking at.  They also could not view their communications.  Reporters could only see general functions clients used in the past week.  

It does not take much imagination to see how easily this private information could be used to gain a major edge in financial news reporting and to blindside Bloomberg clients who had no idea their private terminal activity was being recorded and monitored and made visible to the newsroom.

Here's one hypothetical example that a source gave us. 

By focusing on the terminal activity of a particularly high-profile trader, Bloomberg News reporters might be able to determine what types of information the trader might be researching or monitoring. And the reporters might then be able to use this information to ask questions of other traders and, thus, figure out what the particular trader was doing.

The source used legendary trader Steve Cohen of S.A.C. Capital as an example. (Note: We ran this by Bloomberg, and they said this particular example would also be impossible, because reporters would not have been able to see Cohen's searches for individual equities. We do not yet know exactly what search information was visible to reporters, though some Bloomberg terminal search functions are quite specific.)

Steve Cohen, the source speculated, presumably has an account with Bloomberg. If so, with a few keystrokes, a Bloomberg reporter would have been able to determine when Steve Cohen was logged on to his Bloomberg account and what information he was looking at. If Steve Cohen seemed particularly interested in the price of, say, Apple stock, then the reporter might reasonably conclude that Steve Cohen was monitoring or thinking about making a trade in Apple stock. And the reporter might then be able to use that information to ask around and figure out exactly what Steve Cohen was up to.

A few weeks ago, when Goldman discovered what Bloomberg reporters were doing, the firm complained to Bloomberg. Bloomberg subsequently made it impossible for its reporters to see some of the private information they had been using.

"In light of [Goldman's] concern as well as a general heightened sensitivity to data access, we decided to disable journalist access to this customer relationship information for all clients," Bloomberg said in an emailed statement.

UPDATE: A few hours after we published this story, Bloomberg forwarded the following email from the President of Bloomberg, LP, Dan Doctoroff. In the email, which was sent to Bloomberg employees, Doctoroff says the firm made a mistake:

----- Original Message -----
From: D DOCTOROFF (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)
At: May 10 2013 16:15:39

Since our founding more than 30 years ago, the proper safeguarding of customer data has been a central tenet of Bloomberg’s culture.

A Bloomberg client recently raised a concern that Bloomberg News reporters had access to limited customer relationship management data through their use of the Bloomberg terminal. Although we have long made limited customer relationship data available to our journalists, we realize this was a mistake.

Having recognized this mistake, we took immediate action. Last month we changed our policy so that all reporters only have access to the same customer relationship data available to our clients. Additionally, we decided to further centralize our data security efforts by appointing Steve Ross, one of our most senior executives, to the new position of Client Data Compliance Officer. Steve is responsible for reviewing and, if necessary, enhancing protocols which among other things will continue to ensure that our news operations never have access to confidential customer data.

To be clear, the limited customer relationship data previously available to our reporters never included access to our trading, portfolio, monitor, blotter or other related systems or our clients' messages. Moreover, reporters could not see news stories that clients read, or the securities they viewed. Bloomberg has very strict data security policies in place, in addition to significant and rigorous training, processes and protocols. Upon hiring, all Bloomberg employees enter into confidentiality provisions, including Bloomberg News.

Client trust is our highest priority and the cornerstone of our business, and we are deeply committed to ensuring the complete integrity and confidentiality of our clients' data in all situations and at all times.

Dan

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While Lindsay Lohan is a week into her court ordered 90-day rehab stay, her 19-year-old sister Ali Lohan has just signed a contract with the Wilhelmina modeling agency in New York.

Aliana — as she is now called at the urging of the agency — has been signed to Los Angeles agency NEXT since 2011, but she tells The Daily Beast that having an additional team in New York will help the teen "prove" herself in the business.

“[I hope] that my dedication to work outshines any name that is attached to me,” she says. “I’m proud to be a Lohan and I will always will be.”

And at 5 feet 9 inches with 32-24.5-35 body measurements, Lohan may actually have a shot at making it in the modeling world.

Wilhelmina’s head women’s agent, Roman Young, tells The Beast that Lohan is “the perfect sample size for a model ... she’s all the things you’d want from a true face.”

Lohan adds, in a somewhat dig against her infamously late sister, “I think working really hard and being on time will pay off in the end.”

The 19-year-old is the latest in a string of high profile celebuspawn to enter the modeling world — following in the recent footsteps of Kendall Jenner and Ireland Baldwin.

But for Lohan, modeling is something she's done since strutting down the catwalk for Child Magazine at age 12:

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Season 6 of Bravo's hit show "The Real Housewives of NYC" is set to start production on Monday — but it seems there may be a bit of a delay.

Current cast members LuAnn de Lesseps, Carole Radziwill, Aviva Drescher, Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan and Heather Thomson have banned together and rejected individual contract offers to appear on the upcoming season and demanded large pay raises for everyone.

Sources tell Page Six the women want a "reasonable" pay increase to cover their costs during filming, including for hair and makeup, which the women currently pay for out of pocket.

Bravo, meanwhile, has reportedly notified the cast that it will cancel the series unless they sign their contracts by today.

The network is reportedly "furious" with the women, as they all already make a fairly hefty (but not equal) amount.

According to the Post, cast members earn an average of about $65,000 per season, but show veterans such as Ramona Singer — who has been a part of the franchise since day one — earns much more.

Singer reportedly makes $500,000 per season but wanted $1 million from Bravo to appear on the sixth.

As for the future of the series, the Post source adds, “It’s either a wrap, or it’s a tactic to get them to sign their contracts."

Unfortunately for the women of "Housewives," Season 5 of the New York series was one of the lowest rated seasons in the show's run. 

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"The Great Gatsby" is now in theaters, and while the reviews are mixed, there's one thing the movie definitely got wrong.

In the movie, set in 1922, Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby drives a 1929 Duesenberg Model J.

As Jerry Garrett at the New York Times points out, it's unlikely that Gatsby would be driving a Duesenberg of any kind: The company had just gone into business in 1922, and the Model J — the car that made it a popular brand — did not enter production until 1928.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Gatsby drives a yellow Rolls-Royce, and since the most popular model from the British automaker in 1922 was the 40/50 HP, aka the Silver Ghost, it's a good bet that's what the image-obsessed Gatsby would have purchased.

Rolls-Royce also produced the "baby" Rolls-Royce 20 HP in 1922, a less grandiose car unlikely to appeal to the Long Island bootlegger.

This 1922 Silver Ghost was sold by RM Auctions in 2012, for £112,000 (182,574 in 2013 USD). Imagine it in yellow, and that's what Gatsby should be driving:

In contrast, here's a Duesenberg Model J:

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A Missouri movie theater hired a number of people to dress in tactical gear and storm an "Iron Man 3" screening with fake weapons opening weekend. 

ABC News 17 reports Goodrich Capital 8 Theaters in Jefferson City, Missouri wanted to get moviegoers excited for the film by dressing people up to resemble S.H.I.E.L.D. members, part of the Marvel world's secret intelligence agency.

(You can see the photo of the people here.)

Instead, several people dialed 911, prompting local police to respond.  

The stunt comes less than a year after the "Dark Knight Rises" shootings at a theater in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight screening.  

Captain Doug Shoemaker told ABC 17 News they received calls about a man dressed in body armor with a rifle walking into the theater.  

"Everything was in place, it's the opening night of a superhero movie, it's somebody walking in all-dark clothes, everything pointed to bad things about to happen," said Shoemaker. "There's really no good that can come of this." 

A retired Army war veteran told the affiliate the event triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Another person at the showing commented on the theater's Facebook page that he "and 99.5% of the other people there realized they were S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives carrying fake guns." 

Theater manager Bob Wilkins defended the stunt to ABC 17 News saying it was planned for months in advance and that many were entertained.  

Wilkins did say the theater took the Aurora, Colorado shooting into consideration. 

The theater has since posted the following apology to its Facebook page: 

"We apologize and are sympathetic to those who felt they were in harm’s way with our character promotion for Iron Man 3. This was not a publicity stunt. We have worked with the Cosplacon group on many movies to dress up and help entertain our customers. We have had many complaints about the members dressed specifically as S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives carrying fake guns. We didn’t clearly tell our customers and some people didn’t realize it was for entertainment purposes only. We apologize that police were called to come out to our theater. We have a wonderful working relationship with the Jefferson City Police Department. Going forward we will take the necessary steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Security and safety for our customers is our number one priority."

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In a really creative spot for Delta Faucet, Glenn Kotche, the drummer of the alt-rock group Wilco, performs a Motown classic entirely on automatic touch faucets.

Kotche stands surrounded by a contraption of faucets and other kitchen pieces. He kicks off a cool beat using a toothbrush, running water, and some copper pots.

Deftly maneuvering his way around the faucets, Kotche uses running water to string together a familiar melody — the chorus of the Four Tops' 1966 hit "Reach Out (I'll Be There)."

Kotche helped to arrange this version of the song. Watch and see how faucets just got hip:

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Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are currently on an emergency space walk to fix an Ammonia leak. (You can watch it live here.)

It's considered "very serious" but manageable.

This movie about the ISS, on the other hand, looks catastrophic.

"Gravity," starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, depicts two astronauts being stranded 372 miles above Earth after the ISS breaks apart.

The film is set to be released October 4.

 Check it out:

If you're wondering, here's Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffredini describing what the spacewalk is for and what the astronauts are doing today:

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The New York Public Library has publishedan unretouched, un-Photoshopped photo from 1939 that features a guy who looks remarkably like Jay-Z.

The library said the image, “Harlem Loiterers” by street photographer Sid Grossman, "created quite a stir" since being posted on NYPL Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture's Facebook page the other day.

“I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud," Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf, who found the photo, said. "I still hope somebody will tell us who that young man really was.”

Carter grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

According to a biography written by Jason Birchmeier, the moniker Jay-Z is an homage to his musical mentor, Jaz-O, as well as to the J/Z subway lines in Brooklyn.

Here's Jay-Z aka Hova:

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They say age is just a number, and that couldn't be truer for these gorgeous celebrity moms.

Heidi Klum is turning 40 this year, Halle Berry is going to be a mom all over again at 47, and Christie Brinkley is almost 60! Check out more of Hollywood's hottest moms ahead.

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Heidi Klum is turning 40 and she's the mother of four.

Heidi Klum is turning 40 on June 1, but she has nothing to worry about: Age is really just a number with this unbelievably beautiful mother of four.

She'll probably look like this forever, at this point.

Halle Berry is turning 47 in August.

Halle Berry will celebrate her 47th birthday in August — and a new baby not long after that!

The sexy star recently announced she's expecting a child with husband-to-be Olivier Martinez.

Nahla will be a big sister before the year's over and then we can officially call her the hottest 47-year-old new mom on the planet.

Heather Locklear doesn't seem to age.

Heather Locklear clearly passed her genes to her gorgeous daughter, Ava Sambora.

The actress will be 51 in September but you'd probably guess she and her 15-year-old daughter are far closer in age.

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The Bloomberg scandal just keeps getting worse. Steve Liesman of CNBC reports that Bloomberg reporters used private log-in data to spy on the activities of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. 

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While most stars opt to bring their significant others to red carpet events, these celebs share the spotlight with the women that have been there from the very beginning.

Take a look at which celebrities who bring their mothers to the Oscars, Emmys, and movie premieres.

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1. Selena Gomez and Mandy Teefy

Everyone was surprised when Selena Gomez turned up with her mom Mandy Teefey at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Not that we have a thing against moms, we just expected then-boyfriend Justin Bieber to be the singer's date to all red carpet events.

2. Ryan Gosling and Donna Gosling

While plenty of us would LOVE to attend the Oscars with Ryan Gosling, the actor selected two special ladies to accompany him in 2007: his mom, Donna, and sister, Mandi. Donna would eventually become her son's go-to date for all major red carpet events.

3. Justin Timberlake and Lynn Harless

Here's another star who opted to bring his mom instead of his girlfriend to the Academy Awards. Justin Timberlake seemed to have a great time with his mom Lynn Harless at the 2010 Oscars. But don't worry, he met up with Jessica Biel at the after party.

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As we approach the critical summer box office sales period, there's no doubt the media industry has experienced a fundamental shift. 

We’ve evolved from business models fueled by analog content and scarce distribution to a digital world of empowered consumers who are increasingly in control of where, when and how they consume content.

This has been a gradual but unrelenting shift for every segment of the industry, from studios and televisions networks, online news outlets, marketing and advertising firms, to cable companies.  The result is that the “digital era,” which was boldly launched with the introduction of the Internet, is now behind us and a new “connected consumer era” has arrived.

Now, media and entertainment organizations must go beyond ‘being digital’ in order to keep pace with this fast evolving environment. They need to develop strategies that build new value on top of their digital production and multi-channel distribution plans. To do so, firms will need to understand their audience and their behaviors in a much more nuanced way, applying “social intelligence” to communicate directly with consumers via social media. This requires taping into the bi-directional flow of communication and data that was not possible just a few years ago.

The important shift is that consumers aren’t just consuming content on their smart phones, tablets and PCs—they are publishing information as well. Social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs are creating a tornado of consumer feedback that has the power to change every aspect of the industry; what brands prosper, how movies are produced and marketed, how TV shows are offered, and where and when ads appear.

This new well of limitless data can supply insights into how a new single will place on the music charts, how a book will rate on best-seller lists or whether an upcoming movie will soar or flop and who in the audience are the likely consumers and key influencers.

With this new ‘data’ conversation comes the ability to understand what consumers want and what they recommend—what inspires their choices and what motivates them to act, or to recommend that others do so.  As users comment, make purchases and share information, data is generated with every click, screen touch or comment.

However, social media coupled with the ability for consumers to navigate, search and access content anywhere, at any time and on any device, is enough to leave media organizations dizzy with data. Now comes the challenge of deriving value from all this data, not just in terms of reading and aggregating what is being said, but in analyzing the data to understand and better connect with consumers.

Advanced analytics software is the key to helping companies reach the right consumers with the right products and services and using the right messages. Then, linking this ‘engagement’ data with ‘transaction’ data, media companies can develop a clear picture of what is really happening. 

Recent projects completed by IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab highlight the possibilities of using machine learning and natural language processing capabilities to comprehend consumer sentiment from the unstructured human language data flowing from Twitter and other sources.

Social sentiment analysis makes it possible to distinguish between positive and negative opinion, and even distinguish irony, or snark from sincerity – on any given topic – sports, movies or retailing.  Analyses on the Oscar race, Thanksgiving Box Office, the World Series, the Super Bowl, movie trailers, to EuroVision in France, have proven the possibilities.

This capability goes beyond just identifying pop culture trends, or buzz, it puts CMOs in the driver’s seat with the insight to change the course and outcomes for their business.  Today’s chief marketing officers accept that traditional segmentation is no longer sufficient as traditional advertising is now intertwined with new digital forms.

This nuanced view will provide a foundation for new revenue models; models that are built upon a multi-channel approach which involve listening across platforms, understanding the unique preferences, desires and usage patterns of consumers and communicating back in a relevant, compelling manner. Additionally, this new approach will require an evolution from a focus on audiences to a focus on consumers and the many touch-points they have with your enterprise.

For firms in the Media industry, the path to future success lies in the data – the ability to combine static and real-time data, to blend transaction and human language data, in an effort to find the patterns and linkages that can transform the entire business.

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Wall Street has been stunned by reports that Bloomberg had been using the private information of its clients to break news stories.

It began with a story from The New York Post's Mark DeCambre  who reported that Goldman Sachs learned a Bloomberg reporter had misused private data regarding Goldman's usage of the Bloomberg terminal service.

So far, it has been unclear who, if any, knew about this practice at Bloomberg.

However, BuzzFeed's Peter Lauria is now reporting that Bloomberg's senior management knew as early as 2011:

Executives at the financial information company Bloomberg have known about journalists using the company’s terminals to spy on clients at least since September 2011 — more than a year before the practice turned into a scandal that threatens the company’s relationships with its clients.

That month, Erik Schatzker, an anchor at Bloomberg TV and host of “Market Makers,” was reprimanded for making on-air comments about using terminal data to track the activities of at least one story subject, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

One source said the matter was a very big deal internally but was handled quietly.

The Bloomberg terminal is the primary source of news for almost every major banker, trader, and financial services employee on Wall Street.

Despite the developing concerns, it's unclear if Bloomberg's terminal business will get impacted materially.

Read more at BuzzFeed.com.

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With 41 million likes on Facebook, "Fast & Furious 6" star Vin Diesel is one of the most popular celebrities on the social networking site.

But how did the action star create such a successful online persona? He got in the game early.

“What Facebook didn’t realize is something very big was about to happen, and that was — for the first time in history, and it’s kind of a fluke they didn’t see this coming — when I jumped on that page in April 2009, I started talking to people. In the realest ways,” Diesel tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview.

“So, when I had started my page, the only person that had a million fans was Barack Obama. Because it was first-quarter 2009, and he’d just got elected as President, because of social media,” Diesel explains. “So, when I started talking to the fans, I became the No. 1 page in the world. Over Coca-Cola, over huge companies. And it was only because I said: ‘Hi, guys, I love you.’"

The 45-year-old actor continues, “Imagine if you could’ve been a Facebook friend to Marlon Brando, or whoever your role models are. Imagine, if you were able to Facebook Elvis, and talk to him, and hear from him without the Hollywood of it all. That was the 'Fast & Furious' experience.”

"I think Hollywood, and the choices Hollywood has made, would’ve been radically different if Clark Gable had 40 million people on his Facebook page," Diesel added.

At one point, Diesel was the number one fan page in the world — and even Facebook corporate didn't understand why.

Diesel says the Facebook team asked him “to come up to their office to explain what the f--- I was doing, and why I had so many fans.”

“Facebook really owes me billions of dollars,” he jokes. “But whatever.”

Check out his Facebook page here >

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Tyler Perry's "Peeples" will be his lowest box-office opening ever.

The film, starring Kerry Washington and Craig Robinson ("The Office") took in a mere $1.1 million Friday night and another $1.8 million Saturday evening, according to Deadline.

Granted, the film isn't a typical Perry release. 

"Peeples" isn't written or directed by him. Rather, Perry serves as a producer and the film has been advertised as a "Tyler Perry presents" flick. Tina Chism, who previously wrote the screenplay for "Drumline," directed and wrote the film.

Deadline reports "Peeples" had a small budget estimated at $15 million. 

Fandango told Business Insider the film was accounting for 2% of online ticket sales Friday as of early afternoon. Compare this to 67% for "The Great Gatsby."

Currently, it appears the film will take in a total of $4 million for the entire weekend. 

Previously, Perry's lowest box-office opening was "Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls" from 2007. That film earned $11.2 million debut weekend.

Meanwhile "Gatsby" is exceeding box-office expectations. The film took in $19.4 million Friday, and will most likely finish the weekend with more than a $50 million haul. Originally, predictions saw the Baz Luhrmann directed film earning closer to $40 million. 

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“… It was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion.”

These familiar words from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” are coming to life on the big screen this Friday. While the highly anticipated movie was filmed on the coast of Australia, Fitzgerald’s inspiration for Jay Gatsby’s home has long been debated.

Where would the mysterious Gatsby host his lavish Jazz Age parties today? We’ve rounded up a few top contenders currently on the market.

Rhode Island royalty

237 Ruggles Ave, Newport, RI
For sale: $17.9 million

With 425 feet of oceanfront property above Cliff Walk, this Rhode Island mansion has it all. From a ballroom that seats 120 guests to a stunning swimming pool, the 1875-built estate is in impeccable condition.

Los Angeles landmark

455 Lorraine Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
For sale: $11.25 million

A classic example of American Beaux Arts architecture, the famed Dorothy Chandler estate remains a historical landmark. Of note, the ornate music room has accommodated several fundraisers attended by U.S. presidents, with the home being referred to as the “Western White House.”  Designed by architects of the Hearst Castle, the property has undergone five major renovations to restore the 1913 construction.

Admit-one Atlanta

490 W Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 
For sale: $19.9 million

According to the listing agent, this home is “ideal for lavish entertaining” with 7 full kitchens, 9 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, 2 gyms, a grand ballroom, recording studio, salon, cigar room, movie theater, fountains, spas and a breathtaking courtyard pool. While built several years after Fitzgerald was dreaming of Gatsby’s home, the palatial mansion is undoubtedly worthy of the fictional character.

Wood-carved Woodside

125 Northgate St, Woodside, CA 
For sale: $10.95 million

Built in the 1930s, this estate was modeled after Hampton Court, a 16th-century royal family residence in Middlesex, England. Noted architect Albert Farr used brick and stucco-cut stone, Gothic arches, ornate plaster detailing and carved-wood paneling to create the feel of a royal castle.

Tennessee tradition

2467 Hidden River Ln, Franklin, TN 
For sale: $17.5 million

A gated entrance, poolside cabana and rich tapestries embody the traditional Southern luxury you’d expect on a 48-acre Tennessee estate. Other noteworthy features include an elevator, spa and separate guest quarters.

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Kristen Wiig returned to host "Saturday Night Live" last night after leaving the show nearly a year ago.

For her big return, she opened the show performing her own parody of the Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited."

It was full of llamas, Jonah Hill, and Wiig's popular SNL character Gilly.

Check it out below:

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Movie and television studios really get how to use Vine, Twitter's video-sharing app.

The first teaser for ABC's upcoming "Avengers" spinoff series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." premiered online in a six-second Vine video.

The network confirmed it picked up the Joss Whedon ("The Avengers") directed series yesterday to begin airing this fall.

Get a first look at Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #CoulsonLivesvine.co/v/b0wnu2UgdeM

— Agents of SHIELD (@AgentsofSHIELD) May 12, 2013

If that hurts to watch, the clip is also available in video format:

The first preview of the show will premiere ahead of the season finale of "Once Upon A Time" at 8 p.m. on ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

The series will see Clark Gregg reprise his role as Agent Phil Coulsen overseeing Marvel's secret law enforcement agency.

Anyone who has seen the film knows that's weird since [spoiler] Coulsen died in "The Avengers."

Earlier, the show's Twitter account premiered the logo for the series:

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