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rollingstone.com — Zach Galifianakis is attached to star as Ignatius J. Reilly in an upcoming film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces, Vulture reports. James Bobin, co-creator of Flight of the Conchords and director of The Muppets, and producer Scott Rudin are reportedly in talks with Paramount Pictures over bringing John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the big screen.

rollingstone.com — "I'm totally numb," Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys said bluntly, in his only interview following the death on May 4th of his bandmate Adam Yauch. Sitting in the New York office of the Beasties' publicist, only 10 days after Yauch's passing, Horovitz fondly recalled their lifetime together in punk, hip-hop and hijinks.

rollingstone.com — Gregg Allman revealed in an interview on CNN last night that he is now engaged to a 24-year-old woman named Shannon. Allman confirmed the engagement in an interview with Piers Morgan, who questioned the Allman Brothers Band musician about the relationship on camera.

rollingstone.com — A suit has been filed by Facebook shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Morgan Stanley and others. It's based on a very simple concept: when internal analysts learned that Facebook's numbers were going to be worse than expected, the company and its bankers didn't tell everyone, but just "selectively disclosed" information to a small group of "preferred investors."

rollingstone.com — By placing his career at Bain Capital at the center of his presidential campaign, former buyout artist Mitt Romney has put the private equity industry on trial. About time. Romney wants us to believe that critics of private equity are against capitalism. They're not.

rollingstone.com — Brian Hiatt examines the many lives of late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale May 25th. The story looks back on Yauch's extraordinary career and remarkable personal growth as he moved on from his band's loutish, hard-partying Licensed to Ill phase on to spiritual enlightenment in the latter half of his all-too-brief life.

rollingstone.com — A suit has been filed by Facebook shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Morgan Stanley and others. It's based on a very simple concept: when internal analysts learned that Facebook's numbers were going to be worse than expected, the company and its bankers didn't tell everyone, but just "selectively disclosed" information to a small group of "preferred investors."

rollingstone.com — WINNER OF THE WEEK: Adam Lambert. (And American Idol, whose past and present eras make their presence known on the charts this week). Lambert's Trespassing album debuts at Number One on Billboard's album chart by selling 77,000 copies, making the one-time Idol runner-up the first openly gay male artist to top the chart.

rollingstone.com — Today the Google homepage honors Robert Moog, father of the modern synthesizer, by letting users play, record and share a synth melody of their own. The doodle was revealed on what would have been Moog's 76th birthday. "At their best Google doodles are a bit like Dr. Moog's inventions.

rollingstone.com — Back in 1992, Marvel Comics made headlines by revealing that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated with Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay. Twenty years later, the character is back in the news as he is set to wed his longtime partner Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51, in stores on June 20th.

rollingstone.com — It's a question that never gets old: What is Howard Stern thinking? He's spent decades building his own private empire as the King of All Media. So what does it mean now that he's a judge on America's Got Talent? Why is he going on network TV to watch a family-friendly parade of jugglers, cloggers, magicians and break dancers?

rollingstone.com — The last time that Joe Walsh released a solo album, George H.W. Bush was president and Kriss Kross had the Number One album in the country. Since then, the guitarist quit drinking and reformed the Eagles, touring the world many times over and even recording a new LP with them in 2006.

rollingstone.com — Michael Jackson's blockbuster album Bad will be reissued in a deluxe edition on September 18th to mark the record's 25th anniversary. The set, titled Bad 25, will features three CDs, a DVD and two booklets. The DVD will include Jackson's personal video recording of his performance at Wembley Stadium in London on July 16th, 1988.

rollingstone.com — Click to listen to Brandi Carlile's 'That Wasn't Me' Singer, songwriter and guitarist Brandi Carlile will release her fourth studio album, Bear Creek

rollingstone.com — Jonathan Prime ©2012 Disney/Pixar British folk rockers Mumford & Sons have written a new song for Pixar's upcoming film, Brave. Featuring young U.K. singer Birdy on vocals, Mumford & Sons wrote, arranged and produced "Learn Me Right" for the upcoming film. The song will also appear on the film's soundtrack.

rollingstone.com — James Van Der Beek, star of Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23, Dawson's Creekand several internet memes, stopped by Rolling Stone headquarters for a li

rollingstone.com — The biggest question about Black Sabbath's long-awaited reunion was answered first, as soon as Ozzy Osbourne ran onto the O2 Academy Birmingham stage last night with a cheery "Come on, you fuckers!" while looking as gleeful as a kid on Christmas morning.