'RHONJ' Recap: Season 3, Episode 10

'RHONJ' Recap: Season 3, Episode 10

We return to the Gorgas' party just after Melissa and Joe escorted Monica Chacon out. The mood is festive, and Teresa is gratified. Alas, Kim G. is still swilling champagne in the background. Ironically, Melissa thinks Teresa and Kim G. don't get along because they're too similar, like "secret sisters." How do you say pot and kettle in Italian, again?

Either way, Teresa and Melissa are dancing and having fun together while Kim G. is in the background stirring the pot. The best part is that she says that Melissa wanted Monica "O-U-T." If you're going to pick a word to spell in some sort of weird attempt to be sneaky, maybe one with more than three letters is a better pick?

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Amy Winehouse Producer Mark Ronson Remembers Back To Black

'Before that came out, there was nothing else on the radio that sounded like it,' producer told MTV Radio last year.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Sasha Hamrogue


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Last year, when Mark Ronson was in New York doing press for his upcoming Record Collection album, he couldn't avoid questions about Amy Winehouse and her long-in-the-works follow-up to 2006's Back to Black album.

But to his credit, Ronson happily answered each and every one and, in the process, had a moment to reflect on not only the success of Black, but on the rather seismic shift it created in pop music. Of course, in the wake of Winehouse's death on Saturday, Ronson's words took on newfound meaning. Because no matter how Winehouse is remembered, her music will always be her lasting legacy.

"I am really proud of the sound of Amy's record, and, it's hard to remember, but before that came out, there was nothing else really on the radio that sounded like it," Ronson told MTV Radio in August 2010. "And then it kind of influenced things and became quite regular to hear something that would sound like that. I don't think there's anything that was as good as it, or as raw as Amy's vocals and her songs."

Ronson also spoke about how the duo planned on following up Back to Black, pointing to a then recent session he had just completed with Winehouse — a cover of Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" that appeared on Quincy Jones' Q: Soul Bossa Nostra album — as a possible hint at things to come. And despite the fact that he had spent most of his time trying to distance himself from the crackling retro leanings of Black, he knew that, when he worked with Winehouse, the best way to proceed was to keep things simple.

"If Amy's record had sold 300,000 copies and mine had sold 100,000 as opposed to significantly more than that, we'd probably both be quite happy coasting along doing the same sound. ... [A]nd that's a sound that I'm genuinely fond of; but the fact that it did get so big sort of forced me to change it up," he said. "But who knows, because Amy and I recorded a song quite recently for this Quincy Jones tribute record; we did a cover of Lesley Gore, and there was no point in dragging my Roland synths into an Amy Winehouse session. There's a kind of production arrangement that supports her voice. ... And after coming off my record, where the main edict was 'No covers, no horns,' to go back and cover a Lesley Gore song with the Dap-Kings and Amy felt like regressing a bit, but it wasn't, because it just sounds good and that's what she's supposed to sound like."

Ronson also talked about the expectations Winehouse was facing with the follow-up to Black, expectations he thought were impossible to manage. And, in doing so, he struck a tone that seems eerily prescient in retrospect.

"First of all, we're in a situation where the record industry basically loses about 10 percent in sales every year, so she's five years between records, and if you're talking numbers-wise, then no, [she] probably [won't sell as many records]," he said. "But I still think she's fully capable of writing another batch of brilliant songs and making a great record, and hopefully Salaam [Remi] and I will be involved in it because I think we all made a great record together last time. But you can never really count on anything being a given, so we'll see."

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Amy Winehouse Funeral Set for Tomorrow

Filed under: Amy Winehouse, RIP Amy Winehouse, R.I.P.

Amy Winehouse's funeral will take place in England tomorrow ... a family spokesperson has announced.

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The spokesperson tells TMZ, "The funeral will take place on Tuesday and will be a family and close friends affair."


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Volunteer Flower Girls Show Up For Marriage Equality Duty In New York

Last month, the New York state legislature legalized same-sex marriage and yesterday the first same-sex couples were happily married all across the Empire State. Steve Landis and Julie Irwin brought their cute twin daughters Emily and Sophie to Brooklyn’s Municipal Building and Borough Hall so that they could act as volunteer flower girls for any [...]

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Arnold Files New Divorce Docs -- Kinder to Maria

Filed under: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Celebrity Justice, Break-ups, Celebrity Divorce

Arnold Schwarzenegger has just refiled his response to Maria Shriver's divorce petition, and this time he's not trying to deny her spousal support or attorney's fees.

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As we first reported, sources connected with Arnold told us ... although he signed his legal response, he never read it and therefore didn't know his lawyer moved to block Maria's bid to get spousal support and her attorney's fees paid by him.

But according to the new docs, Arnold is not asking the judge to block either of Maria's requests.

The misstep caused some problems last week -- especially since Maria was dealing with the serious injury of their son, Christopher, at the time she got slapped with Arnold's papers.

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Breaking Dawn' Stars Say Final Two Films Will Be 'More Grand

'It's a lot darker and there's a lot more adult things that are handled and dealt with,' Ashley Greene tells us at Comic-Con.
By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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Photo: MTV News

The final two "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" movies are filmed and wrapped, but the hype for the flicks is only going to get bigger now that the first two full scenes have been shown at San Diego Comic-Con.

It seems fair to say that the film series will continue to get bigger as "Breaking Dawn: Part 1" and "Part 2" hit theaters over the next year and a half. Appropriately, these last two movies were the biggest shoot of the entire series as well. They were filmed back-to-back over the course of seven months and incorporated a much larger cast than the previous movies.

"With each installment, everything kind of got bigger and more grand," Ashley Greene told MTV News during our "Breaking Dawn" live stream. "The stakes definitely got higher with each installment as well."

The content of the movies matured as its stars did. "Breaking Dawn" deals with everything from marriage and pregnancy to Bella making the decision to become a vampire, and the franchise's stars were ready to delve into the more adult material.

"I'd been waiting to shoot 'Breaking Dawn'," Kellan Lutz said of his anticipation for last year's shoot. "It gets juicy."

Greene agreed, saying, "I think with 'Breaking Dawn,' it's a lot darker and there's a lot more adult things that are handled and dealt with. I think it was a lot different than all the other ones."

"Part 2" includes a brand-new cast of vampires that will be joining the Cullens in their rebellion against the Volturi, and Lutz said he felt that having so many new faces improved the filmmaking experience.

"We have a way larger cast, so it was really great to work with so many more talented actors and just bring new friends into the franchise," he said. "It's great to have more people to hang out with. It's definitely a bigger movie, a way larger production."

It certainly helped bolster the excitement for the huge action set pieces that they have to look forward to in the second movie. "We shot some really epic scenes that took multiple days," Lutz teased. "I'm really excited to see it."

Check out everything we've got on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" and "Part 2."

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Waka Flocka Flame: Popped For Pot Possession


Rapper Waka Flocka Flame was arrested on Saturday for marijuana possession by New York City police, but has since been released, according to reports.

Waka was reportedly apprehended by NYPD in a parking lot outside the Coliseum Mall in the NYC borough. He later vented about this incident on Twitter:

“I’m finna jump on my flight 2 Kc ....... sorry 2 da whole m town 4 not coming I had spend a nite n jail with no charge #onlybecauseirap,” he tweeted.

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Flocka later reassured his fans that he would keep things moving.

“Can’t no 1 stop with GOD got planned 4me [know that],” he said.

Flocka's release means that both he and Gucci Mane remain free to promote their buzz-worthy collaboration album Ferrari Boyz, due out August 9.

Gucci Mane was released from jail on July 8 after serving four months for a probation violation. Keep things moving, you guys. Just keep things moving ...

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Esquire Magazine Tweets A Sexual Assault Joke

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Really, Esquire? Someone posting to the magazine's Twitter feed tweeted a link to an article earlier today which read, "How to get a better blowjob than DSK - we think." DSK, of course, is Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, who is accused of forcing a hotel maid to perform oral sex on him. Wouldn't any blowjob that doesn't involve forcing yourself on someone be a "better blowjob"? Does that mean this is an article about how not to sexually assault someone? Your readers need that?

This tweet has since been deleted from Esquire's Twitter feed, but was screengrabbed by Jezebel blogger Irin Carmon. Esquire followed up with a tweet which reads, "Sometimes our sense of humor doesn't come out the way we intend. Sorry if an earlier tweet offended anyone." I'm hoping the initial tweet came from a social media intern who didn't know any better and is getting their wrist slapped right about now. [Yfrog.com/IrinCarmon]

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Vanessa Minnillo & Nick Lachey Honeymoon In St. Barts

Last weekend we learned that Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey got themselves hitched on a private island in a ceremony filmed for a TV special. A few days later, we got to see a couple of photos from La-Nessa‘s big day. Today we get to see a few photos of the happily married couple on [...]

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