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In the middle of an intense moment during a Broadway play, Hugh Jackman got out of his character when a cell phone from the audience rang. He said out loud, "You want to get that?", much to the audience's delight.

When the ringing persisted, Jackman pleads: "Come on, just turn it off." He then paces the stage and waits a minute for the ringing to stop and the play resumes.

The play is a preview performance of "A Steady Rain" by Keith Huff starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig.

[TMZ.com]

Last Friday, September 11, 20-year old ballerina Elena Shapiro was rear-ended while she was driving her car in Raleigh, North Carolina. It resulted to her death while the driver of the other car survived.

Cosmetic surgeon Raymond Cook was drunk and was driving at 85mph when he slammed his car into Shapiro's. He has been charged with driving while impaired and felony death by motor vehicle. He also surrendered his medical license and apologized to Shapiro's family while posting a $250,000 bail to be released from custody.

Shapiro entered the UNC School of the Arts' School of Dance as an eighth-grader and graduated with a high-school diploma in 2007. She was just beginning her second season with the 37-member Carolina Ballet.

During a wildlife event in Seaton Marshes Local Nature Reserve in East Devon, UK, an English schoolboy found a surprisingly rare grasshopper.

Daniel Tate saw something pink that he thought was a flower. But when it jumped he knew it was a grasshopper. However, it's not any rare species of grasshopper but only a common one that just happened to be born pink.

What makes this particular grasshopper so rare is the intensity of the pink, according to a nature reserves officer in Britain.

In an off-the-record interview with President Obama when asked about the VMA incident when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift's speech, it seems that he called Kanye West a "jackass".

The question was asked by a CNBC reporter but it was Terry Moran, an ABC White House reporter, who tweeted about the president's reaction. Don't bother looking for the tweet because it has already been deleted but here's a screenshot of it from Google's cache.

Frankly, I don't think it should be deleted. If the president actually said that then what's wrong? He's entitled to his own opinion anyway and it's not really that off-base.

In the recently held MTV’s Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga sported six outrageous looking outfits. Here they are in the sequence that she wore them.



She arrived in this Jean-Paul Gaultier frock.

After Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift during her Best Female Video speech, he didn't finish the awards show and went home instead. He finished watching the show at home and issued his apology through his blog.

As for his reason for interrupting Swift?

"Everybody wanna boooo me but I'm a fan of real pop cuture!!! ... I gave my awards to OutKast when they deserved it over me ... that's what it is."

This is in reference to the BET 2007 Awards when Kanye West attempted to give his trophy to OutKast's Big Boi and rap act UGK for their "International Player's Anthem."

Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video in MTV's Video Music Awards for her single "You Belong With Me". As she went onstage and gave her speech, Kanye West interrupted her saying that Beyonce's Single Ladies should've won the award.

Here's what transpired:

"I always dreamed about what it would be like to win one of these one day," Taylor said with surprise. "I never thought it would happen."

As Taylor continued, Kanye interrupted, saying he thought Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video was wrongly overlooked. "Hey Taylor, I'm really happy for you, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time."

Ouch. That earned Kanye a lot of boots and gave Taylor Swift a standing ovation.