Here are today’s top entertainment headlines:

• The popular online video website YouTube may begin paying users for uploading their own videos. The company is working on a revenue sharing program that will reward users’ creativity. Initial reports discuss a sliding scale where videos akin to a monkey drinking its own urine would be worth $100 while a video similar to that of a drunk chick falling outside of a club will be worth 10 cents.

• The reality TV show Armed and Famous has been canceled after only four episodes. Contrary to the show’s poor performance, CBS is still planning on moving forward with a similar show entitled Busey With a Gun, which will follow Hollywood loony Gary Busey as he babbles incoherently, chases innocent people through the streets in his underwear and shoots at random strangers.

• The rock group Kiss has announced they have partnered with Platinum Studios to create a new company called Kiss Comics Group.  With this new venture, the band will produce comic books based on the band, and introduce a whole new audience to the band’s unique brand of crappy music.

• Dreamworks and Aardman Animation, the studios that brought the world movies such as Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, have parted ways.  Reasons for the separation were not immediately made clear, but sources close to the companies confirm that Aardman will retain custody of the dog the studios adopted while together.

• Oprah Winfrey has announced her selection for her next Book of the Month pick.  The book, Sidney Poitier’s The Measure of a Man, tells anecdotes from Poitier’s life and is described by the author as a “spiritual biography.”  According to the book and to Poitier, the true measure of a man is “how many hot chicks you bang.”  Poitier is up to 357.

That’s all for today’s news, stay tuned to this channel for all the news that matters least but you still care about.

(Compiled by J. Allen)

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