American Horror Story: Coven has cast its spell on Emma Roberts.

The Scream 4 actress is nearing a deal to join the FX drama’s witch-themed third chapter, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Roberts — who most recently starred in Fox’s ill-fated pilot Delirium — will play a self-involved party girl by the name of Madison.

Fun fact: Roberts’ casting places her on screen alongside real-life boyfriend, Horror Story vet Evan Peters.

As previously reported, AHS fixtures Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy and Taissa Farmiga will be back for Season 3. Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Patti LuPone and Gabourey Sidibe, meanwhile, are among the addictive hit’s fresh faces.

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... Those close to Pattinson tell me that there are some sh-tty influences in her life and that she has poor judgment when it comes to her family and friends. She’s had some family pressures. And she was a child star. Though she may not have f-cked up as spectacularly as some of her child star peers, it doesn’t change the fact that she’s been working steadily for years. Some say she’s “exhausted”, “tapped out”, and is just ready to kick it and have some fun for a while. Live the kind “college” life that she missed while she was on set so much. Lindsay Lohan said the same thing. Her college years have eaten up almost an entire decade. Stewart is much less destructive but Team Pattinson claims that he’s been frustrated with her lack of motivation. Her talent is what he has always loved most, what he’s always been attracted to, and he sees her as the best of her generation, and supposedly considers it a turnoff that she doesn’t seem to be using it. That’s his side.

Her side maintains that she always gets the worst of it between them, even though he isn’t the sensitive, gentle boy he’s been sold to be. He too has friends who can’t be trusted, who prefer to spend more time on the old Hollywood Ebola Paris Hilton circuit. So they’re saying he parties too much, and his people claim that she parties too much. There’s also the question of commitment. When Pattinson was filming Cosmopolis in Toronto, there were always stories that he was stepping out on Stewart. Not with Caitlin Cronenberg but with local randoms. Since so much noise surrounds Stewart and Pattinson, those who kept hearing this business weren’t entirely convinced. And besides, no one wanted to f-ck around with a Canadian powerhouse’s production. The encounters were always the same though -- he allegedly would insist that he and Stewart had an open relationship, so it was rather rich when he was portrayed as a victim when Stewart was found to be cheating with Rupert Sanders. The things that made Stewart unhappy, that may have led to her infidelity, were never addressed. And now that they've had some distance from the scandal, they've come up again and couldn't be ignored...

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IS XENU GONNA BLESS US WITH A NEW SCANDAL THIS YEAR?

AUSTRALIA'S richest person Gina Rinehart is more powerful than Beyonce, according to Forbes's most powerful women list.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes's list of the world's most powerful women for the third consecutive year, followed by Brazil's Dilma Rousseff. They were followed by Melinda Gates - who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with her billionaire philanthropist husband - US First Lady Michelle Obama and former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Ms Rinehart meanwhile has climbed from 35th spot last year to 16th as she became the fifth richest woman in the world with a net worth, according to Forbes, of $17 billion.

It came a day after BRW named her Australia's richest woman with an estimated net worth of $22 billion.

Her Forbes ranking puts her ahead of Beyonce (17th), Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer (32nd), Angelina Jolie (37th), Queen Elizabeth II (40th), Vogue editor Anna Wintour (41st), Lady Gaga (45th), Ellen DeGeneres (51st) and Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington (56th).

She also outranked Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who saw her position slip one spot in 2013 to 28th and Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly who came in at 62nd.

The annual list includes influential women in global politics, business, media, entertainment, technology and non-profits - ranking them by "money, media presence and impact," according to the business magazine.

"The rise of personal brands and entrepreneurial endeavors among this year's Power Women are exciting trends as we mark our 10th year of publishing the list," said Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman.

"From Singapore to Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom to the United States - and beyond - the 100 influential women on our list are making an indelible and lasting impact on the world we live in," she said in a statement.

Forbes has named Mrs Merkel the most powerful woman eight out of the 10 years the list has existed.

High-ranking businesswomen on the list include Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman (No. 15) - subject of the Forbes cover story - as well as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (No. 6) .

The 24 CEOs on the list lead firms with a combined $US893 billion ($911 billion) in 2012 revenues, while the eight heads of state run countries with a combined GDP of $US9.9 trillion, the magazine said.

The list can be viewed at www.forbes.com/power-women

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Keep in mind this is just the first day's results

The preliminary result of AKB 32nd Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo

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I'm a bit surprised by the results but I know they are pushing the next generation hardcore. Then again its only the first day

Elementary has gotten some flak for being the "lesser" modern-day Sherlock Holmes. But now that its first season is over, we're realizing this show understands the Arthur Conan Doyle canon — it's just not afraid to ask questions. Here's why Elementary is the Sherlock Holmes we never knew we always needed.

Warning: Spoilers for season one ahead!

"Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs."

- Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Three Students

A little Holmes is a dangerous thing.

When Arthur Conan Doyle first published his Baker Street detective in The Strand, demand became so overwhelming he charged ten times more each contract to avoid writing them. When that didn't work, he literally threw the man off a cliff. Even that didn't take - people donned mourning armbands and chased his carriage down the street (there's no fandom like Holmes fandom). Conan Doyle brought him back a decade later: you can't kill a myth.

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Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Let's celebrate you with some love for the superior modern adaptation of Holmes & Watson. ;)

I don’t often run into Paris Hilton,but when I do there’s always something interesting going on. Around 1 am Monday, Paris and her entourage rolled into the lobby of the famed Hotel du Cap in Cap d’Antibes where a big spontaneous party had been raging for at least an hour and a half.

Among the randomly gathered guests were Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Naomi Watts, Kristen Dunst and Garrett Hedlund, “Inside Llewyn Davis” director Joel Coen and star Oscar Isaac, supermodel Karolina Kurklova wtih husband Archie Drury, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton and so on. The bar was so jammed that the hotel’s front gate guards feared over crowing, we heard, and wouldn’t let in Casey Affleck.

Oscar was celebrating his arrival as a movie star and the birthday of his long time manager Jason Spire.

There were plenty more revelers, all drinking cocktails that averaged fifty bucks a pop. But it had had been a long day in Cannes, the first in a while with no rain or severe wind, just clear sunny skies and blue seas. Over in the beachfront of Cannes along the Croisette, the sidewalks and streets were packed solid in every direction.

And then there’s Paris, who’s been here essentially for the movie “The Bling Ring,” which was shot partially in her Beverly Hills home. The Sofia Coppola movie which Paris loves, recounts how teenagers burgled her for over $2 million in real jewelry. “It’s never been returned,” Paris told me.

But the big news: this nightfly who is really a successful businesswoman is recording her second album of music right now. It will be issued by CashMoney Records and will feature many hip hop acts such as Lil Wayne. Paris told me Afrojack is producing it, and she hopes to have it out this summer.

The album release will be preceded by Paris doing a residency playing records (digital tracks) this summer in Ibiza, Spain–which also happens to be the hometown of her eleven years younger male model boyfriend named River.

“This is a lot different than my first album,” Paris told me. “It’s really going to be house music.”

And her other businesses? “I’m getting ready to launch my 17th perfume,” she said. “And I’m also starting the Paris Hilton Foundation for children’s causes,” she said.

And how has she been? “I’m great,” she replied. “I just want to have the best life possible.” And why not?

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The critics have spoken, and they’re big fans of The Big Bang Theory and American Horror Story: Asylum.

Nominations for the third annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards were announced early Wednesday and CBS’ comedy phenom and FX’s creepy anthology scored a leading six nods apiece.

In addition to securing one of the six best comedy series slots, Big Bang saw five of its actors recognized, including Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch and guest star Bob Newhart. AHS: A, meanwhile, scored nominations for best movie/miniseries, lead actress Jessica Lange and supporting players James Cromwell, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe.

FX’s rookie cold war saga The Americans made a strong showing with four nominations, including best drama series, best lead actor (Matthew Rhys), best lead actress (Keri Russell) and best supporting actor (Noah Emmerich).

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Amazon Debuts ‘Kindle Worlds,’ Where Your Gossip Girl Fan Fiction Can Earn You Cash

Sometimes a writer creates a universe so compelling that others feel the need to join and help flesh out that world with their own tribute fiction. And sometimes you make something crappy like Gossip Girl and loads of people want to write using those characters and that world anyway. Now Amazon is introducing a way to let writers profit from their fan fiction, via “Kindle Worlds.”

Worlds joins Kindle Singles and Kindle Serials as a way for authors to earn money from digital publishing, and the best part is that in this case you don’t even have to be all that creative – the idea is to let fans create stories around original properties from other authors, offering them up for purchase on the Kindle book store. Amazon then pays out royalties to both the original rights holder, as well as to the fan fiction author, with the author making around 35 percent of all net revenue for works over 10,000 words.

There’s also a new revenue model aimed at shorter works, which would be between 5,000 and 10,000 words and will typically sell for under a dollar. Under this scheme, the author’s cut will be a digital royalty of 20 percent.
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