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Instead of ending the year with a slew of Best Of lists, BlackBook asked our contributors to share the most important moments in art, music, film, television, and fashion that took place in 2012. Here, Hillary Hughes writes about dropping a load of money on the greatest living rock 'n' rollers, The Rolling Stones.

True love, man.

That one-year hiatus that Florence Welch is taking a break from touring? Performing Gimme Shelter onstage with the Rolling Stones on Thursday night in London doesn't count.

This weirdest manifestation of celebrity is the sale over private correspondence, in particular love letters, between auction houses. The latest: Marsha Hunt, an ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger and the mother of his first child, is selling 10 love letters penned by her Rolling Stone through Sotheby's. 

There is no question that Mick Jagger has romanced a lot of women in his day. (Well, "romanced" might not be the right word.) But a new biography Mick: The Wild Life And Mad Genius Of Jagger by Christopher Anderson plumbs the depths of this rock star's insatiable libido, revealing the details of how he stole former French First Lady Carla Bruni away from Eric Clapton and also got shot down by none other than Angelina Jolie. 

It isn’t enough for the Black Keys, the Ohio indie rock duo turned record sales behemoth, to sell out night clubs. Now they’re coming for your movie theaters.

● Apparently Chevy Chase thinks that Community is "just a fucking mediocre sitcom." "I want people to laugh and this isn’t funny," he tells the show's creator, Dan Harmon, in frustrated voicemail, leaked to Celebuzz. "I’m 67-years-old and I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ve been making a lot of people laugh — a lot better than this." What say you? [Celebuzz]

To help celebrate their 50^th anniversary this year, the Rolling Stones are planning an upcoming documentary.  Brett Morgen, who directedThe Kid Stays in the Picture, has been tapped for the project, which is set to be finished by September and will feature never-before-seen footage.

● George Clooney and his equally dashing father were both handcuffed and arrested this afternoon outside of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, where they were protesting the brutal and genocidal conditions in south Sudan. [MSNBC]

● 67-year-old Mick Jagger is not done yet. The Stones legend has been secretly recording with a new, motley super-group of sorts, with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damian Marley, Joss Stone and Indian musician and producer A.R. Rahman. That's a lot of talented musicians! But it's rather unclear, though, what exactly they plan doing together. [NYP] ● Botox Mom was a fake! She didn't actually inject her 8-year-old daughter with botox, she just pretended to for "a large fee" from the tabloid that broke the story. It's nice that she can have her botox-less child back, but we still have some questions about her choices as a mother. [TMZ]