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Celebrities! They're just like us! Sometimes they are spotted at the airport looking emaciated and with terrible haircuts and mustaches! Yes, that's Matthew McConaughey right there, who is looking gaunt and sickly for his role in the upcoming The Dallas Buyer's Club, in which he'll be playing an AIDS patient. Ladies and gentlemen, get your 2014 Oscar ballots ready because McConaughey is gunning for a trophy!

Artifact, a fascinating new documentary directed by actor and 30 Seconds to Mars front man Jared Leto (under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins) made its US premiere at the Doc NYC Fest last night in Chelsea. Focusing on 30 Seconds to Mars’ desire to leave its label, corporate behemoth EMI, the film reveals how the band discovered the seven-year contract termination choice loophole in its contract and the record label’s plans to sue them—for thirty million dollars.

After Gwen Stefani wore one of the first shirts Lyz Olko designed, the demand for Olko’s homemade apparel soared. Her response: Olko and her partner Josh Conner created the New York-based clothing line Obesity & Speed in 2003.

We doubt that when Jared Leto sat down to pen his 30 Seconds to Mars anthem "Kings and Queens," he anticipated it would one day score the trailer to a Martin Scorsese kids movie (or get 6 million views on YouTube, for that matter). But stranger things have happened. So when we pressed play on the trailer for Hugo, that Martin Scorsese kids movie we were talking about, and "Kings and Queens" started playing as Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield run through a turn-of-the-century Parisian train station, we thought, right on.

Jared Leto made a video tribute to Kurt Cobain and released it yesterday in honor of the 17th anniversary of the grunge icon's death. It's Jared Leto dressed up as Kurt Cobain, eerily sounding and looking like Kurt Cobain, singing "Pennyroyal Tea." We've said it before, Leto is a weird dude.

● Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon in 1980, has been denied parole for the sixth time. Jared Leto, who played the crazed fan in a film, was hoping for a sequel. [NYDN] ● One of the funny ones, Jenny Slate, will not be on Saturday Night Live this coming season, nor will Will Forte, though four replacements will be coming on, including the first African American since 2003. [WaPo] ● The man who nonviolently stole Kirsten Dunst's purse from a hotel room was sentenced to four years in jail. For some perspective, that's like 16.2 Lindsay Lohans. [HuffPo]

So, Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds to Mars (also known as "Jared Leto's Band") has covered Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," and if you can listen to the whole thing without wincing in pain, you're a stronger person than us. Hell, kudos if you can just listen to the whole thing. It's like the sonic equivalent of that scene in Goonies where the kid's hand is held over the blender pureed with a broken time machine and a rancid dash of 90s nostalgia.

● If this clip of children reenacting Scarface doesn't convince you to have kids, nothing will. Think of all the funny things you can make them say! [Vulture] ● Lindsay Lohan has more coke on her shoes, literally, than you can afford in two months. [Styleite] ● Jared Leto's 30 Seconds to Mars and Paramore's Hayley Williams both covered Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance." One sounds like Meatloaf and the other is heavenly, but you decide which is which. [TMZ]

● My So-Called Life stars Claire Danes and Jared Leto -- more fondly remembered as Angela Chase and Jordan Catalano -- reunited at the Elle fashion awards in London. She should've asked, "Why are you like this? Like how you are." [Vulture] ● His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a verified Twitter account and follows no one, which probably means something about serenity or denying temptation. [Twitter] ● Rihanna celebrated her 22nd birthday with a lapdance from a midget and it's on video. [PopEater]

How a BlackBook writer spent a day with Jared Leto