● Connie Britton (Tami Taylor) says that a Friday Night Lights movie is "happening for realsies." They've got a producer and someone to write the script. "It's really just a matter of ... getting everyone's busy schedules aligned and making it happen," Britton told Us Weekly.[Us] ● Willow Smith got a verse from Nicki Minaj for her latest single, "Fireball." New colors will need to be invented before they can make the music video. [NahRight] ● In a sad, slurred, and often unintelligible tape played for jurors yesterday, Michael Jackson makes clear the pain he felt for his lost childhood, and the children he befriended. "I love them. I love them because I didn't have a childhood," he mumbles. "I feel their pain. I feel their hurt." [NYDN]

A group of legendary musicians salute an all-time great

Sean Lennon is steadily expanding his musical horizons. He's one half of indie/folk duo The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger (GOASTT)—the other half is his smoking hot model/singer/girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl—and he recently wrote the film score for anther supernatural-sounding project, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, a vampire comedy starring Jake Hoffman, Devon Aoki, Jeremy Sisto, and Ralph Macchio, out in New York theaters today. We chatted with the decidedly down to earth musical mastermind on his day off about the origins of his band's name, his solo projects, and the truth about working with his famous mom.

Two game-changers discuss putting the band back together.

I took a week off to regroup and begin the New Year. I was around town, visiting clubs and trying to get a grip on what will be, and on Thursday I attended an art opening at a former assistant’s gallery. I’ve had a hundred or so assistants over the years, and the one thing this diverse group has in common is that they hate being called assistants.