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This week, according to numerous media and technology executives, Facebook will unveil a media platform that will allow people to easily share their favorite music, television shows and movies, effectively making the basic profile page a primary entertainment hub.

According to the new Forbes magazine tally, the list of the highest-paid men in entertainment is led by actor/director/screenwriter/producer/author Tyler Perry, whose films have grossed more than $500 million worldwide.

The Student Press Law Center voiced concern Monday that the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling denying the First Amendment claims of a high school blogger is a setback for the rights of student journalists everywhere. The New York appeals court ruled 3-0 that school administrators did not violate "clearly established" First Amendment precedent, either when they disciplined Avery Doninger for her off-campus blog or when they punished her and her classmates for wearing "Team Avery" T-shirts at a school "The ruling is worrisome in several respects. What Avery Doninger was doing was not terribly different from what an editorial commentator might do - trying to arouse the public to call and email the school to express an opinion about a disputed policy decision. It's troubling that the Second Circuit is willing to entertain the possibility that inciting citizens to contact their public officials is unprotected by the First Amendment if the issue is so controversial that people feel strongly about it, which is the takeaway from this decision," LoMonte said. "The circuit has indicated, in essence, that it's safe for students to engage in discussion about issues that nobody cares about, but if the issues raise strong emotions, then the students' involvement might be considered 'disruptive.'"  "It's clear that the federal courts have abdicated their responsibility to protect the basic human rights of vulnerable young people, and so young people are going to have to organize and mobilize like never before to petition their legislators and members of Congress for better statutory protection," LoMonte said. "This ruling is a wake-up call to every student in America that their rights are in peril and that they cannot depend on the federal courts to police even the clearest disciplinary overreactions."

With the rubble of the old Giants Stadium kicking up dust next door, concertgoers filled New Meadowlands Stadium yesterday to watch Bon Jovi christen the $1.6 billion complex with a sold-out concert that heralded a new era in New Jersey sports and entertainment.

SHE MAY BE the darling of the British tabloids, but on the other side of the Atlantic, Kate Middleton, otherwise known as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is seen as rather average - at least as a clothes-horse.

Due to the circumstances, the 78 Grammys given out last night seemed less important than they usually do. It didn't help, either, that there was little suspense. Everyone was expecting a major sweep for Adele, and that's what ended up happening. She won six Grammy, including album, record and song (i.e., songwriting) of the year. (Foo Fighters also had a strong showing, though, with five awards, but none in the major, open-to-all-genres categories).

NEW YORK - The late-night guessing game is over, with a startling twist: Conan O'Brien has chosen TBS as his future talk-show home.

Although news executives know their industry is in trouble, most are unwilling to turn to the government or interest groups for help. Three quarters of editors and news directors polled say they have "serious reservations" about government funding of journalism, and 78 percent say the same thing about interest groups, primarily for fear that independence can be compromised, according to a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Psych has a very active social media following with more than 2 million fans on Facebook

"Contagion" makes the case that scientists and public health professionals who put themselves on the line to fight infectious diseases are heroes

Alec Baldwin, a star of the NBC comedy "30 Rock," had taped an opening skit for the show days in advance, and in it he had referenced the phone hacking scandal that has embroiled the News Corporation in Britain. When Fox decided to edit out the reference over the weekend, Mr. Baldwin asked that his appearance be cut altogether because he felt the edit might affect the flow of the entire segment. A Fox spokeswoman said the reference was removed because the company was taking the hacking allegations seriously and did not want to appear to be making jokes about them.

This afternoon, jurors at Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial witnessed a shocking photo of Michael Jackson's dead body during the testimony of the county coroner. He spoke of his autopsy findings and the overall decision to declare the singer's death a homicide.

Consider it a warning sign when your life choices put you in the company of Britney Spears, Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman . Less than three months after tying the knot in a lavish $10 million televised wedding, Kim Kardashian has already filed for divorce from Kris Humphries. But their whiplash romance won't set any records. -- other than for the most elaborate publicity stunt, that is. Rodman filed for an annulment nine days after wedding Electra in a Las Vegas ceremony, although those two crazy kids managed to make it work for another six months before officially splitting. Spears was married to childhood friend Jason Alexander for 55 hours before filing for an annulment.

Kardashian Divorce May Finally Remove Kardashian Wedding From Airwaves It was supposed to be a storybook wedding between a famous butt and a man she has never been able to climb to the top of, and now it has ended in heartbreak: Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are divorcing. This presents a problem for E!, reports the New York Times, since the channel has aired its megabudgeted Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event almost every single day since it premiered a few weeks ago; the article claims that executives have been huddled in meetings all day, weighing whether to pull the special from the air. (Their union died so that we may live!) Meanwhile, though Kardashian has claimed in a statement that the divorce was arrived at "after careful consideration," TMZ reports that poor Humphries was blindsided, screaming "NOOO" and "Caesar is ALREADY home," before freeing some other basketball players to chase after her. [ArtsBeat/NYT]