THG Week in Review: April 22-28, 2012

Welcome to THG's Week in Review! Below, our staffers look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made the last seven days some of the craziest ALL MONTH.

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Now, a rundown of the week that was at The Hollywood Gossip:

• Giuliana and Bill Rancic are expecting their first child, via a surrogate.
• Karla Vanessa Perez, a Mexican woman, is apparently expecting nine.
• Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are adopting their second baby.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar is pregnant with her second as well.
• Megan Fox is currently pregnant with her first child, too!
• Nadya Suleman, meanwhile, cannot take care of hers.
• Do you think Octomom's kids should be taken away?

Ellen Reads 50 Shades of Grey

• Should Ian Somerhalder star in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie?
• Either way, Ellen DeGeneres read it aloud on her show (above).
• Adam Lambert called out the gay community as "catty."
• The pregnant man Thomas Beatie and his wife split.
• Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are (maybe) a thing.
• The John Edwards trial is an insane thing.

Justin Bieber Talks Penis

• Justin Bieber apparently has a name for his unit. It's Jerry.
• Katy Perry may have a new boyfriend in Robert Ackroyd.
• Rihanna may have a new girlfriend in Melissa Forde.
• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are going strong.
• Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran are hot and heavy.
• Jenelle Evans and Kieffer Delp may be back on.

Snooki and JWoww vs. The World Trailer

• MTV released the first Snooki & JWoww spinoff trailer. It's quite absurd.
• Lane Garrison was charged with domestic violence after fighting his ex.
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey premiere earned record ratings.
• Sheree Whitfield got the ax from The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
• Rosie O'Donnell really does not like Lindsay Lohan.
• Are Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie at war?

The Bachelorette Promo

• The Bachelorette spoilers (and promos, above) are already surfacing!
• Beyonce was named the World's Most Beautiful Woman by People.
• A pair of new Breaking Dawn photos were released by Summit.
• Carlina Duran, Miss Dominican Republic, was stripped of her title.
• Wiz Khalifa was arrested for marijuana possession ... big surprise.
• Jimmy Fallon had President Obama slow jam the news (below).

Obama on Jimmy Fallon

What was the highlight of the week for you? Did we leave anything out?

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GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats (The Arizona Republic)

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Google Drive Arrives In ChromeOS Developer Channel

Ever since Google released its cloud storage service Google Drive earlier this week, there has been some speculation as to what its integration with ChromeOS, Google's cloud-centric operating system, would look like. Today, Google released the first developer version of ChromeOS 20 with support for Google Drive. As expected, Google Drive is now deeply integrated into the ChromeOS file manager, though this is clearly just a first effort and still needs quite a bit of work.

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The Stars of Bravo's New Show Are Bringing Glamour to the Big Apple

Bravo's 2012 line-up just got all the more fashionable, as the network prepares to unveil a new docu-series tentatively called Decades. The show will follow renowned boutique owners Christos Garkinos and Cameron Silver as they take viewers inside the exclusive and glamorous world of vintage couture filled with Givenchy, Balenciaga and Chanel.

While their boutique, also named "Decades," is situated in Hollywood, Christos and Cameron will be headed back to New York on April 26-28 for a Prada/Schiaparelli-inspired trunk show in honor of the upcoming Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to celebrate the launch of the Decades for Rent the Runway collection. The boutique owners took time out of their busy schedules to speak to In Touch about the upcoming show and series.

?Our store mantra has always been to encourage people to 'dress up!'" Cameron said. "At our upcoming New York event with Rent the Runway, we will have the perfect clothing and accessories to get people into the social-scene spirit ? whether you?re shopping for the Met gala or looking for a prom dress, we?ve got it all. We love New York! We can?t wait to bring the best of Decades to the Big Apple."

As for what will make the Decades show different than other fashion-inspired series, Cameron tells viewers to get their pencils ready. "It?s not only totally entertaining, but also truly informative. So for any fashion fan, it will be like Fashion 101 ? but unlike school, you?ll be giggling your way through it!?

For more information about Decades' New York trunk show featuring Rent the Runway, click here.

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Don Holleder posthumously awarded Distinguished Service Cross (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

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Klouchebag, Finally Something More Douchey Than Klout

Today my Twitter friends are going nuts about Klouchebag, the service that takes social media parody (and Klout puns) to the next level, with algorithms and stuff. As with Klout, you enter your Twitter handle and are given a score between 1 and 100. But instead of measuring social media influence, Klouchebag tells you "how much of an asshat you are on Twitter." Apparently, you're judged on four factors: anger, "retweet abuse", reposting from social apps, and misuse of the English language.

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Americans for Prosperity Goes Up Big (TIME)

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'Dark Shadows' Sneak Peek Reveals Johnny Depp's De-Fanging Plan

New featurette is dedicated to late star of original soap, Jonathan Frid.
By John Mitchell

Johnny Depp in "Dark Shadows"
Photo: Warner Bros

With just two weeks left until the big release of "Dark Shadows," Warner Bros. is stoking the coals of excitement with a new featurette that brings not only behind-the-scenes interviews and footage, but offers up an important new plot detail from the film.

"The legend of the vampire has been told for centuries, capturing the dark shadows of our imagination and inspiring filmmakers and actors to breathe new life into the undead," a voice-over reminds us at the top of the clip. "But there's never been a vampire like Barnabas Collins."

Depp said the idea to do the film came naturally to him and Burton, who have worked together on eight films. "I'd always been sort of attracted to horror films and things like that, even as a very young kid," Depp explains. "I said, 'Tim, we should do a vampire movie together.' "

And when Johnny Depp and Tim Burton decide to do something, it has a way of getting done.

A large part of the featurette focuses on the history of vampires in movies and reminds us that one of cinema's great vampires, Christopher Lee, is featured in "Shadows."

"One of my favorite moments I've ever been able to experience in a film was I got to hypnotize Dracula; I got to hypnotize Christopher Lee," Depp says. "He was, you know, the great Dracula."

To get into character as Barnabas Collins, Depp didn't stray far from the source material. "For Barnabas, everywhere I searched character-wise, I kept coming back to Jonathan Frid," the actor explains. "He really did something beautiful with that character on the 'Dark Shadows' series back in the '60s and early '70s."

Frid, who cameos in the film and is shown arriving at a party at Collinwood in the featurette, died earlier this month in his native Canada. The clip closes with an "In Memoriam" dedication to the classically trained actor, who maintained a close relationship with the show's fans by appearing at "Shadows" conventions and readings as recently as 2011, before his health began to decline.

The clip features some great new scenes from the film, including a fun bit where Depp's Barnabas seeks advice from Chloe Moretz's Carolyn Stoddard on "the art of courting a woman of this time," but importantly introduces a major plot twist that we wondered (all the way back in October!) whether Burton would include in his film: Barnabas' attempt to de-fang himself with the help of Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) and become mortal again to pursue a romantic relationship with Bella Heathcote's Victoria Winters.

"If a man can become a monster, then a monster can become a man," Barnabas says in a voice-over while Dr. Hoffman surveys large blood-filled beakers and Depp sits with IV lines running from him. It's a story line carried over directly from both the original soap and its short-lived '90s remake. (Indeed, this particular story line was the focus of NBC's revival starring Ben Cross and Joanna Going.)

"By tapping into vampires, witches, ghosts, the reason they're powerful is because we all kind of experience those feelings on some level," Burton says of the film. "It's something that remains in our popular culture because it's strangely part of our everyday lives."

Just two weeks to go, "Dark Shadows" fans! Are you excited for the flick? Let us know in the comments!

Check out everything we've got on "Dark Shadows."

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Nintendo posts first annual loss of $460 million, predicts turnaround next year

Nintendo has announced its first annual operating loss following an initially lukewarm response to its new 3DS handheld and an aging Wii console -- set to be replaced later this year. Nintendo made an operating loss of 37.3 billion yen ($459.54 million) from 2011 to 2012, but intends to spin it around to a 35 billion yen operating profit in the forthcoming year. Net sales have dropped by 36.2 percent compared to last year, despite price cuts on its existing hardware like the 3DS and Wii. The Japanese games manufacturer has also seen increased competition from new rivals like Apple and Android manufacturers as mobile gaming continues to go from strength to strength. Nintendo also laid some of the blame at the weakened yen in international markets, but expects the incoming Wii U, cheaper 3DS production and incoming titles like New Super Mario Bros. 2, Brain Training and Animal Crossing will help turn its fortunes around. Nintendo intends the 3DS will start to sell "below cost" by the middle of the next financial year, following strong sales after substantial price cut last year. The company sold 36 million 3DS game titles, compared to 80.2 million on the original DS. The original DS still managed to sell 5.1 million units in the last year. The Wii managed to sell 9.84 million units in the last year, with 102.37 million titles sold.

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Zynga Q1 Revenues Climb 32% To $321 Million, No Seasonal Decline in Bookings

Zynga's revenues rose 32 percent to $321 million in the first quarter. Analysts expected earnings of 5 cents a share on revenue of $316.8 million for the first quarter ended March 31. Bookings came it at a record $329 million, up 15 percent over the year before, and up 7 percent compared to the previous quarter. The company also raised its annual guidance to $1.425 billion to $1.5 billion, up from $1.35 to $1.45 billion. Shares are up 1.8 percent in after-hours trading to $9.58.

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ComScore pegs Kindle Fire at more than 50 percent of the US Android tablet market

We've seen some pretty clear indications that the Kindle Fire was rapidly gaining market share among Android tablets, and ComScore is now out with a new report that indicates it recently crossed a big milestone. According to the research firm, the Fire's market share in the US fully doubled from December to February, with it standing at 54.4 percent as of the end of the month. Counted together, the Galaxy Tab family sits in second at 15.4 percent, while the Motorola Xoom and Asus Transformer come in at 7 and 6.3 percent, respectively. Of course, the Kindle Fire isn't quite your ordinary Android tablet, so this is likely better news for Amazon than Google. In addition to that, ComScore also looked at the browsing habits of tablet users, and unsurprisingly found that larger screens tended to lead to more content consumption, with 10-inch tablets boasting a 39 percent higher consumption rate than 7-inch devices. You can find all the numbers at the source link below.

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