"Fifty Shades of Grey" will not be released in Malaysia, reports Variety. The highly anticipated and controversial S&M-themed movie was not granted a certificated by the LPF, which is the Malaysian Censorship Board.

Chairman Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid said in a statement:

"[The film is] more pornography than a movie ... The board made a decision in view of the film containing scenes that are not of natural sexual content. The content is more sadistic, featuring scenes of a woman being tied to a bed and whipped."

"Fifty Shades of Grey," which stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as the mysterious Christian Grey and his sexual protegé Anastasia Steele, is based on the best-selling and wildly popular E.L. James novel. 

The Cut reported that the movie features 20 minutes of sex out of its 100-minute running time.

However, it notably contains much less explicit sex than in the book. Gawker's Kelly Conaboy points out that director Sam Taylor-Johnson and E.L. James have been fighting over how much sex to feature in the film.

But even 20 minutes of sex is enough to encourage sexually conservative countries to ban the film.

Time also reports that domestic violence activists are boycotting the film.

"Fifty Shades of Grey' hits theaters on February 13, 2015. 

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The 57th annual Grammy awards are this Sunday.

This year's nominees, presenters, and performers will all go home with a gift bag full of goodies worth an estimated $25,000.

Distinctive Assets has hosted the Grammy Gift Lounge and packaged the accompanying gift bag for 16 years now.

From lip balm and tooth paste to a $14,000 trip through the Rocky Mountains, see the strange and cool swag the celebrities will bring home even if they don't get an award.

A $3.99 bottle of Purell hand sanitizer

A $16.95 memoir, "...And I Breathed" from former CEO of Global Music at Live Nation, Jason Garner.

Garner reveals what his life was like as a concert promoter while juggling his personal life.

Get the book here.

An illustrated children's book called "Archibald's Next Big Thing" valued at $24.95.

The book is by Emmy-winning actor Tony Hale ("Veep").

On Wednesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams made a formal apology for repeating a story of his getting shot down in a helicopter in Iraq. 

It didn't really happen.

"I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago," Williams said, adding, "I want to apologize. I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft ... I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

Regardless of how this ultimately affects Williams' career, the saga brings up some uncomfortable questions about the nature of memory. Is it even possible to misremember being shot out of the sky? To believe that it happened when it didn't?  

The research says: maybe, thanks to the fact that we're terrible at remembering. 

Writing for the New Yorker, Maria Konnikova reports on a group of Emory University students who were in school at the time of the Challenger shuttle explosion — and completely misremembered their experiences. 

Konnikova tells the story of one of the students involved, given the name R. T.: 

R. T. first heard about the Challenger explosion as she and her roommate sat watching television in their Emory University dorm room. A news flash came across the screen, shocking them both. R. T., visibly upset, raced upstairs to tell another friend the news. Then she called her parents. Two and a half years after the event, she remembered it as if it were yesterday: the TV, the terrible news, the call home. She could say with absolute certainty that that's precisely how it happened. Except, it turns out, none of what she remembered was accurate.

The day after the explosion, she showed up to her psychology class lead by Ulric Neisser, a cognitive psychologist and memory researcher. R. T. and other students filled out a detailed questionnaire: "Where were the students when they heard the news? Whom were they with? What were they doing?"

Two and a half years later, Neisser and his colleagues checked in with the students. 

As Konnikova reports, the differences in recall were staggering: 

In the fall of 1988, two and a half years later, the questionnaire was given a second time to the same students. It was then that R. T. recalled, with absolute confidence, her dorm-room experience. But when Neisser and Harsch compared the two sets of answers, they found barely any similarities. According to R. T.'s first recounting, she'd been in her religion class when she heard some students begin to talk about an explosion. She didn't know any details of what had happened, "except that it had exploded and the schoolteacher's students had all been watching, which I thought was sad." After class, she went to her room, where she watched the news on TV, by herself, and learned more about the tragedy.

Neisser published his findings in a 1992 paper titled "Phantom flashbulbs: False recollections of hearing the news about Challenger." 

"The most noteworthy outcome of this study is that over 40% of the informants were clearly inconsistent across the two occasions," Ulric writes. "These results bring the accuracy of flashbulb memories into question." 

The students' memories of the Challenger explosion "were vivid, clear — and wrong," Konnikova says. "There was no relationship at all between confidence and accuracy." 

So, at least in theory, there may be a scientific explanation for Williams' journalistic snafu: One can be totally convinced of how a traumatic episode unfolded in one's life, but be completely wrong about what actually happened.

The mis-remembering shows the brain isn't a computer— it's an organ, and a bewildering one at that.

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Forget about red velvet seats and old-timey popcorn machines. In terms of picture and sound quality, there are few home theaters in the world that rival the one installed in director Michael Bay’s new Los Angeles retreat.

The state-of-the-art screening room was conceived by theater architect and acoustical engineer Jeff Cooper, a mandarin of modern theater design whose client list includes Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Zemeckis. For the tech-savvy as well as the Luddites among our readership, Architectural Digest asked Cooper to explain what makes Bay’s screening room so extraordinary.

The 40-seat digital theater is designed “with steeply inclined, curved rows of stadium seating to maximize sight lines and assure optimum hearing lines,” Cooper says. The Stewart MicroPerf screen, which measures 12 feet by 24 feet, has thousands of minuscule perforations to allow for what he calls “acoustic transparency” from the five front speakers and two subwoofers mounted directly behind the screen.

A 4K Barco digital video projector, mounted in the projection room, delivers image brightness and clarity that are nothing short of breathtaking.

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Ahead of the Feb.15 "Saturday Night Live" special celebrating the NBC show's 40th anniversary, executive producer Lorne Michaels revealed a few secrets in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

One of the most interesting tidbits is about actor/comedians who auditioned for the sketch comedy show and didn't get cast — but still went on to become big stars.

Take a look at the question and answer between THR and Michaels below.

THR: Even the best guts in the business can miss. Whom did you overlook that you kicked yourself over later?

LM: Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell auditioned. There were lots of people who you'd see how brilliant they were, but you knew on some level that it wasn't going to work. Lisa Kudrow gave a brilliant audition, but it was at the time when it was Jan Hooks and Nora [Dunn]. I wasn't at the Jim Carrey audition, but somebody who was there said, "I don't think Lorne would like it," and they were probably wrong, but it doesn't matter. Or maybe they were right — who knows? No one gets it all right.

Needless to say, all four went on to have successful careers.

Stephen Colbert is about to take the reigns at the "Late Show" after a succesful run as host of the "Colbert Report," Steve Carell starred on hit NBC sitcom "The Office" before getting nominated for an Oscar in this year's "Foxcatcher," Lisa Kudrow starred on the super succesful "Friends" for a decade and now is the star of the HBO show "The Comeback," and Jim Carrey is Jim Carrey.

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Here's the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trailer recreated using Legos and it is cleverly titled 'Fifty Shades of Bricks'. This was made by Antonio Toscano. Check out his YouTube channel here.

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NBC just sent Business Insider an email that Deborah Turness, the president of the network's news division, sent to all NBC News staff on Friday afternoon regarding the growing scandal surrounding Brian Williams.

On Wednesday Williams, NBC News' top anchor, confessed he "bungled" a story he had told on air about being in a helicopter that was shot down by an RPG in 2003. His admission came after multiple soldiers questioned the tale, which he has told on multiple occasions, and revealed he was actually not in the aircraft.

Turness' email said NBC News is "working on what the best next steps are" to address the situation.

Since the story broke on Wednesday, Williams' reporting on Hurricane Katrina has also been called into question. According to multiple reports, NBC News has launched an internal investigation into the matter.

NBC has not responded to requests for comment from Business Insider about the reported investigation or whether Williams will face disciplinary action. 

Read Turness' full email below:

All,

This has been a difficult few days for all of us at NBC News.  

Yesterday, Brian and I spoke to the Nightly News team. And this morning at the Editorial Exchange, we both addressed the wider group. Brian apologized once again, and specifically expressed how sorry he is for the impact this has had on all of you and on this proud organization.

As you would expect, we have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sense of all that has transpired.  We’re working on what the best next steps are – and when we have something to communicate we will of course share it with you. 

Since joining NBC News, I’ve seen great strength and resilience. We are a close-knit family, and your response this week has made that even clearer.  

As a relentless news agenda marches on, thank you again for continuing to do what we do best – bring the most important stories of the day to our audience.

 

Deborah

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Netflix is making a show based on the popular "Legend of Zelda" video game, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The show is in early development, according to the report. Netflix and Nintendo have not made a formal announcement about the project yet.

Netflix has been developing a lot of original shows and documentaries in recent years in an effort to compete with services like HBO GO and traditional cable networks.

The company released "Marco Polo" a few months ago. It was one of the most expensive shows ever produced.

It's had other hits like "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black."

There have been several "Zelda" video games and at least one animated show over the years, but Netflix will be the first to bring a live action twist to the franchise.

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Robin Lawley made history this week by being the first "plus-size" model to be featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

Lawley, who is a size 12, ignited a debate over what constitutes "plus size" when the average American woman is a size 14.

Twitter was a buzz in defense of Lawley's size, and now even the model is speaking out against the "plus-size" label.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Lawley wrote that "it's ludicrous to call me plus size":

Chatting with the @todayshow today about @si_swimsuit kudos to @mj_day I'm with everyone there that's it's ludicrous to call me plus size and I've stated that publicly pretty much every step of the way, of my career, si_swimsuit are at the forefront of embracing women of a variety of sizes! They've been doing that from the beginning and they have not once called me plus size, it's about time we forgo labels and embraced size diversity in the fashion world and mainstream media!!! ‪#‎loveyournaturalsize‬ 

While Lawley frequently works as a "plus-size" model, Sports Illustrated has never referred to her as such. The magazine assures that Lawley's inclusion in the issue is as a model rather than as a plus-size model.

"She sort of embodies the classic SI girl — she’s interesting, she’s beautiful, she has an incredible body, and I felt that she would make a great addition to the issue," MJ Day, assistant managing editor of Sports Illustrated, told Time. "It was simple as that."

When Lawley met with Day last year for a casting, the model says, "I was told to stay healthy and exactly as I am."

On a personal note, Day added: "To be totally honest, I am a size 12. I’m not saying I see myself in [Lawley] because my body doesn’t look as good as hers, but I knew that when I found the right person who could represent that, she would be in the issue."

For her part, Lawley said to Time: "I don’t know if I consider myself as a plus-size model or not. I just consider myself a model because I’m trying to help women in general accept their bodies."

"I can see the ramifications on young women if their body is similar or larger than mine and they see a 'plus size' label,' Lawley told Daily Mail Australia. "I just see no reason in any labels really, I just want women [to be] happy with their bodies."

Regardless, Lawley, who is represented by Wilhelmina Models, is happy to be included in this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

She told Time: "I never thought that this would happen to me, so this is a milestone. When I started my career 10 years ago, I had to painfully go to castings and people would look at you and say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'… I want to be there for the regular girls who are my size."

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Warner Bros.’ $175 million “Jupiter Ascending” is in theaters this weekend.

Bad reviews aside, there's one thing we can't deny. The costumes in the film, especially the gowns worn by Mila Kunis' character, are pretty gorgeous.  

According to InStyle, more than 1.3 million Swarovski crystals were used to create 34 costumes in the film.

Production notes say it took nearly two years to create costume concepts for the sci-fi movie before principal photography even started on “Jupiter Ascending.” 

The work shows. 

The most elaborate dress in the film, a red and white gown worn by Kunis is comprised of hundreds of handmade flowers and is covered in Swarovski dew-drop crystals that are sewn onto the fabric. 

Here it is from the back:

In addition to the many crystals, the dress above was also partially 3D printed. 

Here’s a quick list of some of the other uses for the Swarovski crystals in the film. 

- a “few hundred” Swarovski stars were strewn across a field 

- a necklace and earrings seen in the film

- Much of the wardrobe worn by actors who play the Abrasax including Douglas Booth and Tuppence Middleton, below.

- And a water-themed dress worn by Middleton.

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"Shark Tank" investor Lori Greiner often comes to the defense of entrepreneurs on the show after fellow Shark Kevin O'Leary lays into them with an aggressive insult.

But Greiner became so angry with Mark Aramli, founder of BedJet, that she pulled out of a deal due to Aramli's behavior.

Aramli tells Business Insider that he prepared his pitch hoping to get Greiner's attention due to her ability to get a product to become a sensation on QVC and in retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond.

It's a perfect example of how, whether you're on the set of "Shark Tank" or pitching a venture capitalist, you need to listen and occasionally deviate from your rehearsed points.

Here's how it all went down:

Aramli enters the Tank seeking $250,000 in return for 10% of his company.

Greiner is interested in the product, a bed heating/cooling device, and wants to know more about the attention Aramli received from mattress manufacturers.

He says that his time spent as an engineer working on a space suit for NASA helped him create the product. Aramli tells us he briefly worked as an engineer for UTC Power as his first job after getting his engineering degree, and the company was contracted to work with NASA. He since spent most of his career in sales.

Aramli tells the Sharks he has a purchase order from an Australian bed manufacturer for $1.1 million in product, and that others are interested. Greiner agrees with Aramli that pairing the BedJet with premium mattresses is the right step forward. O'Leary objects, and Aramli reacts to him. "Ignore him... Mark, if you don't listen, I'm out," Greiner says loudly, over the noise.

Investor Barbara Corcoran then asks a question, which Aramli promptly answers. Greiner pulls out of a deal.

She writes on Twitter, referring to the moment:

O'Leary is appalled that the product retails for $499 when it could be cheaper, and Corcoran doesn't like how it's not compatible with upholstered beds, which are popular in the target premium bedding market; they're out.

Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec both think the product is interesting and works well, but Aramli's failure to connect with the investors hurts his chances again. Cuban needs to repeatedly ask Aramli how the BedJet works on a technical level before Aramli stops repeating his pitch and explains that it uses convection heating. Both investors say this broke their trust in Aramli, and that they wouldn't feel comfortable investing.

Aramli stays in the Tank to ask Greiner why she pulled out of the deal. "If you valued me, you would have answered back," she says.

Aramli apologizes and starts to pitch his company again, despite the fact that all the investors are out. O'Leary and Cuban tell him he needs to leave, and the camera dramatically pulls toward O'Leary's searing gaze:

O'Leary told Business Insider in a separate interview that when he becomes angry with an entrepreneur, it's because "there's nothing worse than arrogance with ignorance — it's horrific. I actually don't care if you're arrogant, as long as you know what you're doing and you know what you're talking about."

Aramli says he didn't ignore Greiner deliberately and that he felt badly. "What you don't see behind the editing is that taking the Sharks' questions is like being the president at a press conference," he says. "Questions are firing off from every direction, all the same time and even the Sharks themselves are talking over each other — it's a very noisy, fast paced Q&A."

He adds that, "By definition the Sharks are investors with large egos and I think hers was hurt by not getting my attention quickly during all the noise. I've learned a long time ago when you let your ego get in the way of business, you tend to make bad decisions."

BedJet will be available on Mattress Firm's website in March, and Aramli says the product will also be in Bed Bath & Beyond, Jordan's Furniture, and Brookstone.

He says that despite having one of the most controversial pitches of season six, he is "on track to be the Shark Tank loser that is laughing all the way to the bank."

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On Friday, HBO released the first promo video for the second season of “Silicon Valley.” It’s a short one minute clip, but it looks funnier than ever.

“Silicon Valley” is an HBO show that portrays the life of a first-time startup founder who turned down massive buy-out offers to build a sustainable business.

Billionaire venture capitalist Mac Andreessen once called it the tech industry's first “accurate satire.” Star TJ Miller was recently invited to host the Crunchies, a tech industry awards show, where he took potshots at audience members, including a long exchange with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's girlfriend, Gabi Holzwarth.

The first episode of “Silicon Valley” season 2 will air on April 12. 

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This summer Marvel promises to smash together past, present, and alternate universes to form a new world order featuring the most popular versions of characters, eliminating less popular ones, and generally making everything more exciting and fun.

DC fans may be weary after so many reboots, as a Marvel reader I'm excited to shake things up.

This week's "Avengers #41" by writer Jonathan Hickman builds toward the cataclysm, introducing characters from Marvel's Ultimate alternate universe into the primary storyline.

These include the progressive and highly marketable Black Hispanic Spider-Man alter ego Myles Morales, shown in a page-1 splash, and a younger and more megalomaniacal version of super genius Reed Richards, who is the star of the comic.

For a sense of why mainstreaming these characters could be exciting, compare two versions of Richards from the comic.

Case 1:

The original Reed Richards, introduced in 1962, is the guy with the thick beard, his head bowed and eyes closed. He looks tired, right? So he should. This is a man whose fictional character biography stretches to 14,000 words. This is a hero who, despite all the cosmic and terrestrial threats he has defeated and personal trauma he has suffered, has not been allowed to change all that much over the past 50 years and is consequently becoming less interesting: a super-genius whose inventions never make a lasting difference; an old man fading into static benevolence.

Case 2:

Ultimate Reed Richards, introduced in 2004, is young and he's got a crazy scar, and in this panel it's not clear if he's a hero or villain. As his conversation with Nick Fury reveals, this Richards recently went full-sociopath, creating "a self-aware future city that wiped out half of Europe." This is super genius taken to an extreme, and it's fascinating to watch in the way that science fiction should be.

Here he is again:

That's the fun thing about the Ultimate Universe, which reimagined characters and freed them to develop in much more dramatic ways, and now Marvel is going to put some of these characters on center stage.

"The Ultimate Universe, the Marvel Universe, they're going to slap together," Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso said in January. "Imagine two pizzas: They're going to combine toppings, some toppings are going to drop off. And that is the Marvel Universe moving forward. It's more than the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, it's all the universes you can imagine. That is the Marvel Universe going forward."

For now we can only speculate on what Marvel is planning. One, both, or neither of those Reed Richards could come out of this summer alive, but it's clear that both will play a big role.

Here's the cover of issue three of the coming "Secret Wars" event:

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Robyn Lawley made history this week by being the first-ever plus-size model to appear in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue — and not just in an advertisement.

Lawley, 25, will appear in the magazine's "Rookies" section, but she's far from new to the modeling world.

Here's everything you need to know about Lawley, the model who ignited a nation-wide debate this week over what constitutes being defined as "plus-size."

1. Lawley was pregnant during her SI swimsuit shoot.

Currently nine months pregnant, Lawley did the Jackson Hole shoot during her first trimester. "Now they know why I was sleeping so much of the time!" she told Time this week.

2. She is 6'2 and a size 12, but says "I don’t know if I consider myself as a plus-size model or not."

"It's ludicrous to call me plus size and I've stated that publicly pretty much every step of the way," Lawley, who is represented by Wilhelmina Models, said Friday in a Facebook post.

The model explained to Time: "I just consider myself a model because I’m trying to help women in general accept their bodies."

"I can see the ramifications on young women if their body is similar or larger than mine and they see a 'plus size' label," she told Daily Mail Australia. "I just see no reason in any labels really, I just want women [to be] happy with their bodies."

3. She's perhaps best known for her cover of Vogue Italia’s June 2011 issue. 

4. Or for being the first-ever "plus-size" model to appear in a Ralph Lauren ad in 2012.

5. But a turning point in her career came when Vogue Australia decided to include Lawley as the first plus size model ever to appear in an editorial in June 2013.

"This is the first time Vogue Australia has shot a larger model and, of course, now that we have done it, I ask myself why we didn’t do it sooner. But that’s because Robyn is especially gorgeous," said Vogue Australia’s Editor-in-Chief, Kirstie Clements.

6. She wrote a cookbook called "Robyn Lawley Eats."

7. And has a food blog of the same name.

8. She has a high-priced swimwear line for various body types.

9. And is a DJ who goes by the name "Robelle."

10. Lawley has written two articles on body image for The Daily Beast.

Her first article, in September 2012 addressed the media's response to Lady Gaga's weight gain. The second article, in October 2013, was titled "Why The 'Thigh Gap' Trend Makes Me Mad."

She's written about other issues, too. In 2014, Lawley wrote an article for The Daily Mail, explaining why she is upset that the Australian government still relies on mining and fossil-fuels when there are lucrative sustainable resources.

11. And often posts inspiring quotes to her Instagram account for her over 113,00o followers.

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Thousands of techies gathered in San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night for the eighth annual Crunchies Awards, known as the Oscars of Silicon Valley.

Actor TJ Miller served as host, shepherding the venture capitalists, CEOs, and tech reporters through the evening. But many people weren't impressed by his performance and found his attempt at humor insulting.

Miller's show "Silicon Valley" on HBO satirizes everything the audience represents. The series revolves around six young men who launch a company and live together in a startup incubator-house run by a Peter Thiel-inspired entrepreneur, played by Miller.

The ceremony started out strong, with Miller teasing techies about the way they dress and their absurd amounts of wealth, and reading off alternative slogans for the startups nominated for awards. But the night quickly unraveled when Miller made one of many jokes at Uber's expense.

"And the Crunchie for not constantly stepping in s--- goes to Travis Kalanick," Miller said. "So does the Crunchie for constantly stepping in s---."

A woman in the audience, sitting next to divisive billionaire Kalanick and holding a sleeping dog in her lap, heckled Miller with a simple "boooo." Miller responded immediately — his tone quickly escalating.

"Hey, Asians aren't supposed to be this entitled in the United States," Miller said, shortly before calling her a b----.

Here's Kalanick and the woman before the show. Unbeknownst to Miller, she is Gabi Holzwarth, Kalanick's girlfriend.

Don't bring a dog to the #Crunchies, even if you are @travisk's GF + other lessons learned http://t.co/xR63H2fE4Ipic.twitter.com/yO60Im7JUa

— Marlize van Romburgh (@SFBiz_Marlize) February 6, 2015

For 10 painful minutes, he and Holzwarth batted back and forth. He asked why she was here and lambasted her company, delivery startup Shyp. "It's like FedEx but it's spelled wrong," Miller said.

Then the actor annihilated her for daring to bring a small dog to the Crunchies.

"Miss, do you have your dog here? Is that real?" he asked in disbelief, prompting her to hold it up for the audience to see. "Two questions. How did you get that dog in here? Second question: Did you Shyp it?"

Eventually Miller left the stage and the presentation continued. But during every sequential appearance on stage, Miller made a show of apologizing to Holzwarth and Kalanick, whose net worth he says he Google-searched backstage.

The audience didn't seem to enjoy Miller's crude jokes. Katie Jacobs Stanton, who attended The Crunchies on behalf of Twitter, says she'll never go again. "I was so uncomfortable I wanted to leave," Stanton wrote on Medium. She wasn't just appalled by Miller. She says other Crunchie presenters talked about enjoying women's "hoohas."

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington also commented about Miller's trainwreck performance when he took the stage. He refused to read from the award ceremony's script stating, "It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Every time someone comes on stage, it’s like ‘oo, ow.'... One more ‘bitch’ and something’s going to happen.”

At the end of the night, Shyp's official Twitter account sent this message to Miller.

Hey @nottjmiller, we accept your apology :) #Crunchies#thecrunchiespic.twitter.com/qCyMtFDIE4

— Shyp (@shyp) February 6, 2015

You can watch the full ceremony here. To see the initial ruffle between Miller and Holzwarth, skip ahead to one hour and 37 minutes.

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It's not just celebrities who have power in Hollywood: Directors, producers, writers, and agents also command authority in Tinseltown.

We came up with the most powerful person in Hollywood at every age by looking at each person's command, reputation, past and future influence, and wealth.

From Kim and Kanye's 1-year-old baby North West to 100-year-old actor and comedian Irwin Corey, these are the most powerful people in Hollywood from 1 to 100.

AGE 1: North West

Daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian

What makes her powerful: While all of Twitter had an opinion about the bold name that Kimye chose for their first child, North is developing a personality to match. Nori, as she's known, who appears with her family on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," is halfway potty-trained and loves selfies as much as her mom.

Another powerful 1-year-old: Everest Lucas is the son of "Star Wars" creator and former Lucasfilm CEO George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, chairman of the Dreamworks' board of directors.

AGE 2: Olive Barrymore Kopelman

Daughter of Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman

What makes her powerful: The famous Hollywood Barrymore dynasty welcomed a new member, Olive, in September 2012. And if Drew's Instagram is any indication, Olive is incredibly gifted. Her mom posted a photo of her daughter at the beach reading. And not just any book — "Bossypants" by Tina Fey.

AGE 3: Blue Ivy

Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

What makes her powerful: Nothing is too good for this power couple's little girl. Blue Ivy's second birthday was celebrated at the exotic Jungle Island in Miami; for her third, Blue got an ice sculpture with her name carved into it. Gwyneth Paltrow, who is good friends with the Knowles-Carter clan, said of Blue Ivy: "She is a powerhouse. I love her so much."

Another powerful 3-year-old: Haven Warren, daughter of Cash Warren and Jessica Alba, must be getting some great merch from her mom, who cofounded the sustainable baby and toddler product company Honest Company.

On Wednesday it was revealed on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" that Derek Jeter's 24-year-old model girlfriend, Hannah Davis, was crowned the cover girl of the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

While we've taken issue with past cover girls, Hannah Davis seems like a solid choice.

Born and raised in Saint Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, Davis says the best part of growing up there was "the friendly people, great weather and waking up to the sound of the waves on the beach."

At 14, Davis stated in her modeling bio that in 10 years she saw herself "Working with mentally handicapped people and hopefully playing on the professional tennis circuit." Davis was a champion on the Caribbean national tennis team.

Fast forward exactly 10 years and Davis is at the top her modeling game.

She has appeared in campaigns for Ralph Lauren and was the face of the Ralph Lauren fragrance, Ralph Rocks. Additionally, she has modeled for Victoria's Secret, American Eagle Outfitters, Tommy Hilfiger, and Levi's, among other top brands.

Previously best known as baseball star Derek Jeter's on again, off again girlfriend, Davis' new cover is sure to win her some spotlight of her own.

And it's about time. Here's why:

1. Davis appeared in last year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, but really didn't think she would get the cover this year. "I told my mom there was no way I'd get the cover," a surprised Davis told Sports Illustrated after Wednesday's big reveal. "I told her, 'They do beaches for covers and I'm on a farm. There's no way. It's not possible.'"

2. She's athletic:

3. And isn't afraid to get aggressive:

4. Or try new adventures, like ziplining:

5. She can channel the girl-next-door:

6. But has a sultry side:

7. She can put on her serious face to walk the runway:

8. Or get silly to take a selfie:

9. She's already comfortable in swimwear:

10. And has had practice gracing the covers of other magazines:

11. She has supermodel-worthy hair:

12. And a flawless face:

13. She always makes time for her fans:

14. She's good buds with her fellow models, especially Chrissy Teigen:

Teigen, last year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model, gives Davis her stamp of approval:   

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The subject of the popular podcast "Serial" will be allowed to appeal his murder conviction, a Maryland court has ruled, a development that gives the man his best chance at a new trial or a change to his life sentence.

Adnan Syed, 34, was convicted in 2000 of strangling his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, the year prior, when both were high school students in suburban Baltimore. "Serial" examined the case in detail and raised questions about Syed's guilt and whether he received a fair trial.

Syed argues that the attorney who represented him ignored his requests to negotiate a plea deal. He also claims she failed to interview a witness who could have provided him with an alibi.

Prosecutors have argued that Syed was never offered a plea deal and that there was no evidence beyond his own post-conviction testimony that attorney Cristina Gutierrez failed him. Gutierrez was disbarred in 2001 and died in 2004.

On Friday, Maryland's second-highest court, the Court of Special Appeals, granted Syed's application for leave of appeal. That means both sides will file briefs, and the court will hear oral arguments in June.

Syed's attorney, Justin Brown, said it's historically difficult to persuade the court to hear such cases.

"If they had said no, that would have been it," Brown said Saturday. "There would have been this incredible finality to it. But now the door's open."

Prosecutors argued that Syed became inconsolably jealous after Lee began dating someone else. There were no eyewitnesses to her slaying, but a former classmate testified that he helped Syed dispose of Lee's body, which was found in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park a month after she was killed.

Syed is serving his life sentence at a prison in western Maryland.

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Associated Press writer Juliet Linderman, in Baltimore, contributed to this report.

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Whether is was the giant robotic tiger she rode in on, shark backup dancers, or three costume changes, Katy Perry killed it during her Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

But it was hard work leading up to the performance that 114.4 million people saw on TV.

Perry explained to Elle magazine: "In my show, I am boss daddy. I am boss mommy. They call me Boss. Everything goes through my eyes; I call all the shots, 100 percent of it."

But, says the singer, "With the NFL, I have to be accountable to several levels of red tape."

After past Super Bowl halftime show snafus like the 2004 Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, sounds like the NFL is now pretty controlling over musicians and their entire production.

Perry explains in the new issue of Elle magazine:

There are many committees I have to go through for my costumes, the budgets of my show, every interview—everything, I have to report to somebody. So I am no longer the boss; I have to relinquish that control.

We love this opportunity, but once you decide you're gonna do the Super Bowl, you're gonna have no f------ life for six months. It is the biggest thing. Anyone that's ever done it has been scared sh--less. You stay off the Internet for the five days afterward."

But it seems like Perry was pleased with her performance, judging by the tattoo she got after the show to commemorate the experience.

Perry adds that her success, especially performing at the Super Bowl, is beyond her wildest dreams — and harder than she expected.

"It is a hundred times harder a dream than the dream that I dreamt when I was nine," says Perry. "You think you signed up for one thing, but you automatically sign up for a hundred others. And that is why you see people shaving their f------ heads."

Read Katy Perry's full interview with Elle magazine here.

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