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]

The latest round of Couture catwalk presentations have kicked off in Paris. It’s a good time for this subsection of the fashion industry, which was hit especially hard by the recession. In fact, couture is staging a comeback. Chanel, for one, is reporting “between 20 and 30 percent” profit increases for SS10 couture and “is forecasting an overall increase for 2010,” says Women’s Wear Daily. With new clientele surfacing in China, the Middle East, and Europe, couture houses are recognizing “a new interest in haute couture” taking shape in various well-financed pockets across the globe, and they know how to target their new customers.Take Dior, which just staged its first resort show in Shanghai, and Valentino, which showed in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur last year. Back in Paris, there’s plenty to look forward to, as major fashion houses bounce back from a few especially arduous years.

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]

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● Jeff Buckley fans will not only be horrified to learn that there is a biopic in the works, but that Jared Leto, James Franco, and Robert Pattinson are all in the running to play the late singer. [Exclaim] ● Peaches Geldof, 20-year-old divorcee and party girl, says she’s a better role model than Disney mascot Miley Cyrus. [TheSun] ● Megan Fox is all for the legalization of marijuana and doesn’t appreciate that people think she’s a “crazy hippie” for smoking a doobie once in awhile. [KansasCity]