We're not sure what Johnny Depp has to say about Esperanza Spalding, but we do know he's definitely a Justin Bieber fan.

The actor revealed his fondness for the teen idol when Bieber crashed Depp's movie junket this weekend, reports Deadline.com.

In a video on the site, Depp and his "Rango" co-stars are seen promoting their film at a press event at the Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday when Bieber suddenly appears at the back of the room and begins flashing the peace sign.

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It seems that with every one of these award shows, at least one deceased star is noticeably absent during the "In Memoriam" tribute.

Farrah Fawcett was famously missing from the Academy Awards tribute last year, and this year's SAG awards left out Corey Haim (a subsequent statement explained that Haim had been included in a longer version of the tribute segment, but that a shorter version was used due to time constraints). At Sunday's Grammys, hip hop artist Guru (born Keith Elam) wasn’t included in the memorial round-up.

Guru's absence didn't go unnoticed, particularly by fellow artists. Q-Tip tweeted, "No mention of keith GURU elam?????? Come on," with Kanye West writing “RIP to Guru!!” during the Grammys broadcast. Questlove of the Roots recalled the omission of the late Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore, asking, "Wait a minute, did they just dave mathews band Guru? In that tribute? Shame on you #grammys2011. Did I miss his passing?"

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We should have seen this one coming. Following CNN's report about James Franco being everywhere, the Oscar nominee/host is now adding "singer" to his already lengthy résumé.

Vulture reports that Franco and his performance artist partner Kalup Linzy are working on a CD, and one of their recordings — the funky "I Love You," which appears to be a duet between the men — was played during designer Cynthia Rowley's Fashion Week runway show on Friday. (Listen to the song here.)

“I was surprised by the song they picked. I sent in three songs and the song that they chose was, like, the last one that I had sent,” Linzy tells Vulture. “But I liked the way it was put into the mix.”

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Although Barbra Streisand recently made something of a jab at Fox's hit series "Glee," Lea Michele for one isn't singing the blues.

The misunderstanding began on Friday, when at the Grammy's MusiCares tribute event in her honor, Streisand was asked if she would ever do a cameo on "Glee." According to the Hollywood Reporter, she replied, "Not if I can help it."

Since then, however, Streisand has changed her tune and is apologizing for her remark.

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Fabio Viviani was eliminated on last week’s episode of “Top Chef,” but the fan favorite isn’t done with reality TV just yet.

In an interview with xfinityTV.com, Viviani weighed in on the "Jersey Shore" cast heading to his native Italy for the 4th season of the show, and he made some dire predictions.

“They won’t make it out alive,” Viviani joked. “Maybe a couple of them are coming back, but most of them – they gonna chop them up and put them in a stew.”

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Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is moonlighting as Queen of the fashion police for CNN.

As the Grammy Awards geared up to honor the soul singer with a special performance, Franklin was keeping an eye on the red carpet fashion and eagerly anticipating the tribute from the comfort of her home.

"A friend of mine... made me a banana pudding and I was sitting right in front of my flat screen watching everything and loving it," Franklin said of the tribute, which had Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine and gospel singer Yolanda Adams take on a medley of Franklin's hits.

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The critical affection for this year's recipient of the best new artist Grammy has been steadily growing for a few years now, but you wouldn't have known judging by the amount of people searching for info about Esperanza Spalding last night.

The reaction of "who?" was nearly instantaneous across the Web on Sunday as Spalding snagged the Grammy away from Justin Bieber and Drake, two artists that you couldn't be unaware of if you tried. Florence + the Machine and Mumford and Sons were also up for the award.

Yet while you may not know her name, odds are you've seen her perform before. 

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Girl, you know it's true! The scandalous story of lip-synching '80s pop duo Milli Vanilli is being turned into a movie.

Deadline.com reports that the film will tell the story of model/dancer pals Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, who were spotted by German record producer Frank Farian at a club and hired to be the "faces" of a music group he had assembled.

The duo had a string of hits, including "Blame It on the Rain" and "Baby Don't Forget My Number," and despite rumors that they weren't the actual singers of the songs, they went on to win a Grammy.

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With so much sass this season, I was really expecting more from part one of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion.

Folks were decidedly low-key on Sunday night’s show, which was filled with more subtle jabs than I've become used to from our Georgia peaches.

Cynthia threw a little shade when Andy asked her about the negative comments made regarding her fashion runway walk – the harshest of which came from Phaedra, who said Cynthia looked like a “pretzel dipped in cottage cheese.”

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Is hotshot actor Channing Tatum missing a chromosome? That's the rumor circulating on a movie message board.

"I read on IMDb one time that I’m missing a chromosome or something. Which, I don’t know, could be true," he tells Vulture. "That’s all I read before I was like, 'Oh my God, I gotta stop' and pulled the ripcord. It’s all dangerous reading those message boards. I went on there to try to remember the name of a costume designer that I worked with and I scrolled down for a second and was just like no, no, no, no, no, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad."

Tatum also reveals that he's healed quite nicely since suffering severe burns in a very private place while shooting his new movie "The Eagle."

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