● President Obama tried to pitch Harvey Weinstein a movie idea. "The President sent me a book the other day and said, 'Why don’t you make this into a movie?'" Weinstein told the London Times. "I sent him an email back saying he was the most overqualified book scout I’ve ever had," [Wrap]

● Taylor Kitsch wants to share his time-tested shoe lace tying strategy -- "Instead of going around once, you do it twice" -- with an iPhone app. "A $4.88 app. All the languages. Make it worldwide," he tells GQ, joking that it might be his "sweet claim to fame." [GQ]

● Us Weekly reports that Amanda Seyfried and Josh Hartnett have been secretly "hanging out" since January. How dare they! [Us]

● Justin Bieber has donated Johnson -- that small boa constrictor he famously "wore" to the VMAs last year -- to the Rad Zoo in Owatonna, MN, surely a much happier home than Justin's closet. [TMZ]

● This Darren Aronofsky-directed ad for Kohl’s starring Jennifer Lopez is unexpected, to say the least. [MediaBistro]

● Alexis Krauss proves an etheral and adequate Beyoncé in this Sleigh Bells cover of "Irreplaceable." [Billboard]