GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK Madden NFL 12

The hit video game now prevents concussed players from re-entering game play.

Madden NFL

A programmer on the very first Madden has filed a suit asking for royalties from every version since.

CELEBRITY

Tweet No More

A mere two months was all it took for notorious multitasker James Franco to get bored with Twitter. After

criticism of his live-tweeting the Oscars and an uploaded picture of himself surrounded by naked women,

Franco deleted his account in early April and cryptically declared, "Social media is over. Still up there.

Going down."

LCD Soundsystem at their last show on April 2 at New York City's Madison Square Garden

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MOVIES

The Smith Twist

M. Night Shyamalan, the much disparaged director of The Happening and The Last Airbender, doesn't

seem to be taking chances with his next project. Not only will the untitled sci-fi flick from Columbia

Pictures star the enormously popular father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith (last seen together in The

Pursuit of Happyness), but papa Smith is set to co-produce alongside wife Jada Pinkett Smith. No word

yet on daughter Willow's cameo.

ART

23 Feet Tall. 20 Tons. Cuddly as Hell A giant bronze sculpture of a teddy bear slumped under a bedside lamp will take up residence at New

York City's Park Avenue Plaza before auction house Christie's puts it up for sale in May. When Untitled

(Lamp/Bear) hits the block, the 23-ft.-high creation by Swiss artist Urs Fischer is expected to go for about

$10 million. That is going to make some freakishly huge rich kid very happy.

STUNTS

PETA: Still Reasonable

News that PETA wants to rename San Francisco's Tenderloin district the "Tempeh" district--even though

the name has nothing to do with meat--reminded us of the animal-rights group's other wacky campaigns.

Here are our top five:

• In 1996 a PETA supporter dropped a dead raccoon on Vogue editor Anna Wintour's plate as she dined

at New York City's Four Seasons hotel

• Protesters outside the 2009 West-minster Dog Show wore hooded robes and claimed that the American

Kennel Club prizes "pure bloodlines" just like the Ku Klux Klan

• In Pamplona, Spain, to protest the running of the bulls, PETA hosts an annual "Running of the Nudes"

• In 2008 the group mailed a letter to Ben & Jerry's, asking the company to save cows by making its ice

cream with human breast milk

• A 2009 campaign sought to rebrand fish as "sea kittens" in an attempt to guilt-trip fish lovers. Instead it

just made them want to pet fish

VERBATIM

'If some stupid fans don't ... appreciate such a gift, they can go to hell.'

MOHAMED AL FAYED, chairman of England's Fulham soccer club, to critics of a Michael Jackson statue

that he ordered to be installed outside Craven Cottage stadium despite the lack of a connection between

Jackson and soccer. Al Fayed, owner of the West London club since 1997, seemed genuinely baffled by

opposition to the figure. "Why is it bizarre?" he asked.

THEATER

A Frightening Duo

In the works for over a decade, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the much anticipated musical

collaboration of Stephen King and John Mellencamp, is at last headed for the stage. Set to open in

Atlanta in April 2012, the Southern-gothic ghost story is based in part on a real-life pair of fraternal deaths

from the 1950s. The Midwestern singer-songwriter has assured skeptics, "It won't be 'Jack & Diane'

meets Cujo." VERBATIM

'This is evil!'

A WASHINGTON MUSEUM PATRON, as she tried to pull Paul Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women off a

wall; she later said the painting "has nudity and is bad for the children."

BUSINESS

The Power of Popcorn

If adopted, new rules proposed by the Food and Drug Administration on April 1 would require chain

eateries nationwide to list calorie counts on menus. Included in the original proposal, cinema chains were

removed after lobbying by the National Association of Theatre Owners, whose members make a buttery

killing on high-calorie movie popcorn.

Estimated profit margin on theater popcorn 90%

Estimated calories in a large popcorn 965

TELEVISION

Punk'd, Senior-Style

A new NBC hidden-camera show hosted by Betty White will feature prank-playing senior citizens. Off

Their Rockers is based on a hit Belgian program, and if it's anything like the original, you can expect to

see foulmouthed nuns, 80-year-old hoodlums and an elderly woman depantsing an equally elderly man.

5 THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK

1. Being Mad Men--free till 2012.

Netflix has acquired the show's first four seasons, which will debut on the service in July.

2. Pittsburgh.

Batman sequel The Dark Knight Rises will film there, not Chicago.

3. An end to ridiculous celebrity footwear.

Cheech and Chong will release a Nike sneaker on 4/20.

4. The long-gestating Three Stooges film.

Will & Grace's flamboyant Sean Hayes has been cast as Larry.

5. The crazy ambitions of Richard Branson.