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Clarence Clemons, Sax Player For Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Suffers Stroke

E Street Band member, 69, suffered stroke in his home in Florida.
By Jocelyn Vena


Clarence Clemons
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Clarence Clemons, legendary member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has suffered a stroke according to The Associated Press.

A source close to the saxophonist confirmed to the AP that the 69-year-old suffered the stroke in his Florida home on Sunday night; no further details about his health were currently available at press time. However, Showbiz 411 reported that the musician's condition is very serious.

Send Clarence your well wishes on Facebook!

Most recently, Clemons was featured on Lady Gaga's massive Born This Way album, appearing on two tracks and performing with her live on "American Idol" last month.

Clemons, also known as "The Big Man," began performing with the E Street Band in 1972, giving an assist on Springsteen's debut album Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.. In addition to appearing on 20 albums with Springsteen, including the breakthrough Born to Run, he's worked with a number of other artists including Gaga, Jackson Browne and Ringo Starr. He's also appeared in films like "New York, New York"and "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," as well as TV shows like "The Wire" and "The Simpsons."

Recently, however, he has had problems with his health, and following the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's tour in 2009, he had to have both knees replaced and a spinal fusion surgery, according to Rolling Stone. But he vowed, "As long as my mouth, hands and brain still work I'll be out there doing it."

When MTV News caught up with Gaga's longtime collaborator, Fernando Garibay, the producer recalled how excited Gaga was to hit the studio with one of her icons for the songs "Hair" and her latest single, "Edge of Glory."

"She grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and she goes, 'Can we get Clarence?' And I go, 'Of course we can get Clarence. You're Lady Gaga!' " he said. "You can see the years of influence and you can see her lighting up when he's playing [with her in the studio]."

Send your well-wishes to Clarence Clemons in the comments below.

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Cameron Diaz Covers Maxim Magazine

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She?s never been one for a traditional way of thinking, and Cameron Diaz feels like marriage is a dying institution. The ?Something About Mary? babe told Maxim magazine that she?s more a fan of doing things her own way. ?I think we have to make our own rules. I don?t think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don?t suit our world any longer.? ?I think a lot of people are married to people they?re not romantic with anymore. I just didn?t ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.? [gallery=754]

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Ke$ha Touched By Fan's Tattoo

Singer tells MTV News about gay fan inspired by her song 'Animal.'
By Gil Kaufman


Ke$ha
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Ke$ha knows all about the perks of being a headliner. On her Get $leazy Tour, the singer gets to call all the shots, blast her fans in the face with tons of glitter and handpick which dudes she wants to party and share the stage with.

But it's not all backstage shenanigans and groupie love. When MTV News sat down with the "Blow" singer in New York earlier this week before her gig at Roseland Ballroom, Ke$ha said that amid the nightly onstage parties there have also been some poignant moments on her first headlining outing.

"Best moment? There are so many. Every night's amazing. I have kids outside right now chanting my name and it's awesome," she said of the first leg of the tour. "There was one night a fan came onstage, I invited him onstage, and he had a tattoo of the dollar sign. I was like, 'Oh, that's awesome! Badass. You're part of the cult, man.' "

And then, she said, he began to cry and explained that he was able to come out of the closet to his friends and family thanks to her song "Animal."

"And I'm standing onstage about to sing a song about growing back a pair of testicles ["Grow a Pear"] and I had tears rolling down my face and chills all over my body," she said. "Because that's really the reason I do music, to inspire people to be themselves."

Ke$ha has been a vocal supporter of the "It Gets Better" video project, which aims to help gay, bisexual and transgender youth find hope in the face of teasing and bullying.

The "Get $leazy" juggernaut continues on Saturday night with a show at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

Are you planning to see Ke$ha on her Get $leazy Tour? Tell us in the comments.

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Dwntwn: BeatCrave Fav

Meet Dwntwn, a Los Angeles band full of raw intensity in a high-quality package.  Jamie?s effervescent, soft vocals against a mesh of driving percussion and Robert?s rap out-take in the bridge fuse together to become a fun, danceable song with an otherworldly feel in “Transition,” their first single.  This is electronica that features strong, airy [...]

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'Game of Thrones' Star Sean Bean Stabbed in Bar Brawl

'Game of Thrones' Star Sean Bean Stabbed in Bar Brawl

Sean Bean frequently plays strong men on screen, and it appears he's a tough guy in real life as well. How tough? The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones star was stabbed outside a bar in London on Sunday night -- and promptly went back inside the pub to order another drink.

According to U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail, the 52-year-old actor was smoking a cigarette outside the Hill Bar and Brasserie with April Summers, a 22-year-old model for the Italian edition of Playboy, when a man walked by and made a lewd comment about Summers. Much as his Game of Thrones alter-ego Ned Stark might have done, Bean defended the lady's honor by confronting the passerby. The altercation stopped there. But later in the night, when Bean went outside for another cigarette, the unnamed man returned and attacked the actor, reportedly punching him in the face and stabbing him in the arm with what is believed to be broken glass.

"Sean is a regular here and we've never had any problems before," a member of the bar's wait staff who was present at the time of the incident told the Daily Mail. "He was with a very attractive woman, and an incident occurred outside the bar."

Here's where the story gets really interesting. After the attack, police were called -- but instead of going to the hospital, Bean walked back into the bar and ordered another round. "(Sean) came in with a cut on his arm and a bruise on his eyebrow," says the bar's witness. "We saw to his injuries with the first aid kit. He seemed OK and wanted to have another drink."

It is not known whether Summers (real name Nadia Foster) and Bean -- who divorced his fourth wife in 2010 -- are dating. Of the incident Summer would only tell The Daily Mail that it was "a private matter." Bean, meanwhile, has had no comment about the altercation. Guess that's why they call it the "strong, silent type."

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Michael Jackson Doctor's Trial Delayed

Judge pushes start of Conrad Murray's trial back to May.
By Gil Kaufman


Conrad Murray
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LOS ANGELES — Though Conrad Murray's lawyers had been pressing for a speedy trial, a judge in the involuntary manslaughter case against Michael Jackson's doctor ruled on Wednesday to delay opening statements in the proceedings until May.

The Associated Press reported that Murray's attorneys consented to the postponement after they discussed the matter with prosecutors and both agreed they could be ready for trial by May 9.

According to a transcript from the closed-door session, though opening statements will not begin for several months, Murray told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor that he did not want to forfeit his right to a quick trial, but agreed to the delay if screening of prospective jurors begins as scheduled on March 24.

"It is only acceptable to me if this is not strung along over a long period of time," Murray told the justice. "I don't want to lose my constitutional right to speedy trial." Murray — who has pleaded not guilty to the charges — reportedly has been in favor of having the proceedings begin as soon as possible because he is facing financial troubles, but he said he understands that the delay is necessary to allow both sides to prepare for the trial.

Pastor consented because he said he didn't want to lose a jury pool, and believed a month-long delay might let potential jurors shuffle their schedules for the case, which could take up to two months to decide. The judge has reportedly clashed with Murray's defense team in recent weeks, pressing them for answers about why they had not turned over more witness notes and other potential evidence to prosecutors in the run-up to the trial.

Cardiologist Murray was hired to be Jackson's personal physician while the King of Pop prepared for his planned 50-date comeback series of shows at London's O2 arena in the summer of 2009. The doctor told police that he provided the then-50-year-old Jackson with sedatives and the surgical anesthetic propofol in order to combat the singer's chronic insomnia. He said he did so on the morning of June 25, 2009, when Jackson died of what a coroner deemed acute propofol poisoning.

Murray's lawyers reportedly plan to argue that Jackson was already in weak health before he died, that it's unfair to blame propofol for his passing and that, if the anesthetic was to blame, the pop superstar may have given himself the fatal dose by drinking the drug in a panic.

A status hearing in the case has been set for this Wednesday.

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Did you catch the Tony Awards last night? If you missed it, no worries, we’ve got the full winners list, a photo gallery and videos of highlights from last night’s spectacular event! Ratings were down a bit from last year, 6.9 million viewers compared to last year’s 7 million, but with ABC airing the Championship game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat at the same time, it’s understandable. Neil Patrick Harris rocked the house as host, as usual. I didn’t expect anything less. He was fantastic! Just check out the opening number in the first video below. The Book of Mormon, which won for Best Musical and came away with an additional eight awards, won the most Tonys for the evening. Creators of the musical, Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, are still reeling from their wins, with Parker telling reporters last night, “I don?t think it?s really hit me yet, but like Matt [Stone] was saying, this whole experience has been such a reward.” War Horse took home five awards, including Best Play. Ellen Barkin was the first Tony winner of the night, as she was named Best Actress for her role in The [...]

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