PGA Set to Host Another Pebble Beach Party for AT&T Pro-Am

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Yep, the PGA Tour is playing again this week. It's the Pebble Beach AT&T National Pro-Am.

That means Pebble Beach. Cool. Great tournament. There is the celebrity/amateur thingy that was once very, very hip when Bing Crosby was the host, but now too many people wonder "who the hell is Bing Crosby?" and Bill Murray, George Lopez and Andy Garcia are the celebrity headliners.

Play will be slow and the weather most-likely lousy, but there may be no greater piece of real estate in golf than Pebble Beach.

Remember, they did play the U.S. Open there last year.

Graeme McDowell won it, but Dustin Johnson came close. That's significant because Johnson did win the two Pebble Beach Pro-Am stops before that. So, despite the fact Johnson in June shot a final-round 82 to fall out of the hunt, he led after three rounds and also has been the winner at the previous two PGA Tour events at Pebble Beach by one shot over David Duval and J.B. Holmes last year and four in front of Mike Weir in 2009.

 

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Reek Da Villian Calls His NYC Sound A Gift, Not A Curse

'Everyone is just coming around with bounce music,' the Busta Rhymes protégé tells Mixtape Daily of current scene.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Ade Mangum


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Street King: Reek da Villian

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Mixtape: The Gift

Real Spit: The Conglomerate's Reek da Villian was in a giving mood over the holidays when he delivered his 16-track collection The Gift. Featuring Busta Rhymes, Lloyd Banks and Waka Flocka Flame, among others, the set showcases Reek's range and certifies him as an upstart to keep an eye on.

"It's happy music, it's serious music, it's music that's conscious," Reek told Mixtape Daily about his latest project. "You just have to give people everything; you touching all audiences and reaching all genres and races."

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» "Keep Goin' Reek": "I like it this way, it makes you stick out," Reek said about his Big Apple sound. "It makes you stand out. When everyone is just coming around with bounce music and when you come with real soulful sounding [production], spitting some real lyrics and taking it back to the original art with the music, it makes you stand out.

"It makes you stand out from the guys that are trying to be a part of the fads. When I come through, everything I do, you're gonna be able to tell I'm passionate about the music."

» "Promise Land": "There's people that are just focused on making the single and getting rich," Reek explained. "Everybody lost the nature of the art, which is just making good music that the people are gonna like. It's not about making one single, that's why the majority of those [acts] are here today and then gone. They might have had that one record, had a nice tour run, but then they're gone."

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Michael Jackson Doctor Ordered Hundreds Of Bottles Of Propofol

Also during the preliminary hearing Monday, judge rules that evidence from Dr. Conrad Murray's phone can be used.
By Gil Kaufman


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One thing became clear during testimony in the preliminary hearing of Dr. Conrad Murray on Monday (January 10) in Los Angeles: The cardiologist ordered a lot of the powerful anesthetic propofol in the months before his client Michael Jackson's death.

Los Angeles County Coroner's officials determined that the pop star died of a lethal dose of the surgical anesthetic in June 2009. Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, has admitted that he administered propofol to the singer in the hours before Jackson's passing.

And while Murray's lawyers have said that their client did not do anything that "should have" caused Jackson's death and may be preparing a defense in which they will claim that it was Jackson himself that administered the fatal dose, during continuing testimony in the second week of Murray's pretrial hearing on involuntary manslaughter charges, it became clear that there was plenty of propofol around.

According to TMZ, pharmacist Tim Lopez of Las Vegas Applied Pharmacy Services — Murray has offices and a home in Las Vegas — testified that Murray ordered more than 250 vials of propofol in the two months before Jackson's death. The drug is intended for use in a clinical setting during surgery where equipment is on hand to monitor blood pressure and oxygen levels.

Investigators executed search warrants on Murray's Las Vegas home and office, as well as Applied Pharmacy, in summer 2009 in search of evidence connected to an investigation into Jackson's death. The coroner's investigation reported that 12 vials of propofol were found in the bedroom and closet of Jackson's rented mansion after his death, and last week, one of the singer's bodyguards testified that in the moments before a 911 call was placed, Murray asked him to help put medical evidence in a bag, including vials that appeared to contain a milky substance that resembled propofol.

Jackson, a chronic insomniac, allegedly used propofol as a sleep aid, and according to Lopez's testimony, from the time Murray came onboard as Jackson's physician in April until the singer's death, the doctor ordered 130 vials of propofol in 100-millileter doses and another 125 in 20-millileter vials, as well as more than 40 vials of the sedative Versed and the anti-anxiety drug Ativan, which, like the propofol, was sent to Murray's girlfriend's home in Santa Monica, California, where he was staying while caring for Jackson. According to The Associated Press, Murray told Lopez the Santa Monica address was for one of the doctor's clinics.

Also on Monday, the judge in the case, Michael Pastor, ruled that recently obtained data from Murray's iPhone can be admitted as evidence in the case. The evidence reportedly includes a handful of voicemails and 12 screenshots.

The AP reported that a retired federal investigator testified on Monday that he retrieved e-mail from Murray's cell phone that included an exchange between the doctor and a London insurance broker who was handling the policy for Jackson's planned series of "This Is It" comeback shows. On the morning of Jackson's death, the broker asked Murray to respond to reports that the 50-year-old singer was in poor health. "As far as the statements of his health published by the press, let me say they're all malicious to the best of my knowledge," Murray replied.

So far, prosecutors have used phone records and testimony from police and Murray's current and former girlfriends to create a timeline that shows that the doctor was on the phone throughout the morning of Jackson's death, including the time after he administered the last of several doses that morning of propofol to the pop star. Previous testimony has focused on Murray's botched attempts to deliver CPR to Jackson, the delay in calling 911 and the belief by paramedics that the "Thriller" singer was already dead when they transported him to a local hospital.

The preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to bring Murray to trial is expected to last around two weeks. Murray has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of involuntary manslaughter, which could land him in prison for up to four years.

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Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Is Her Ray Of Light, Manager Says

'It's somewhat of a departure from what she's done,' Larry Rudolph says, comparing the album to Madonna's 1998 work.
By Jocelyn Vena, with additional reporting by Jim Cantiello


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On Thursday, "Jersey Shore" star DJ Pauly D told us that Britney Spears' next album, Femme Fatale, is full of "club bangers." Her manager, Larry Rudolph, gave us even more specifics about the album when we spoke to him.

"In my opinion, this is her strongest album ever. It's somewhat of a departure from what she's done. It's more mature," he told MTV News about the March 29 release. "It's more of a dance record and this really is — and I was talking a lot about [director] Jonas [Åkerlund] and coming to Jonas because of 'Ray of Light' — and this really is Britney's Ray of Light album."

Åkerlund and Madonna famously reinvented the pop star into an earthly disco queen for her "Ray of Light" video in 1998. The Ray of Light album spawned a number of songs that were dance-floor hits as well as introspective. Madge worked on the album with Patrick Leonard and William Orbit. The album was recorded shortly after her daughter Lourdes was born, and while the lyrics are reflective, the sounds are electronic based.

While he didn't go into specifics, Rudolph did explain that the vibe of this first single and video may be a sign of what's to come on the album. "I feel like Jonas is a really good fit for her. They worked so well together so I gotta believe that they'll work again on this album project," he said. "I'm hoping that that happens and we do see more of that."

For Britney, working with Åkerlund was a passion project that, according to Rudolph, turned out to be an incredibly creative collaboration.

"She's always been a huge fan of his and his name has always come up. And there's always been something that stopped us from doing it, whether it be his availability or her timing, but we were really determined to make it happen this time," he said of hooking up with Åkerlund for the video. "He immediately had 20 different ideas and they got together and they talked about it and it took on a life of its own. We're really excited about it. In my opinion it's one of the top two or three videos of all time. It's a total departure for her. It's more mature. [There are] interesting things going on there that you have to dig deep to see."

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Justin Bieber's 'Baby': Story Behind The 'Glee' Cover

Hit show covered two Bieber songs on Tuesday night's episode.
By Aly Semigran


"Glee" cast on Tuesday's episode
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Just in time to mend the wounded hearts of Justin Bieber fans still reeling from his Grammy loss on Sunday, "Glee" paid tribute to the pop powerhouse the best way they know how: by covering two of his hit songs, "Baby" and "Somebody to Love."

During Tuesday night's new episode, "Comeback," Chord Overstreet's worrisome Sam attempts to woo back his possibly straying lady (Dianna Agron) by serenading her in glee club's practice room with a rendition of Bieber's "Baby."

But before a Bieber-ized Chord (The purple hoodie! The hair!) belted out the simple yet addictive chorus — "I was like, baby, baby, baby, ooh," — on the show, the song, and its subsequent video, helped propel Bieber to staggering fame.

Released as the lead single off of Bieber's gold-certified debut studio album My World 2.0, "Baby" first hit the airwaves in late January 2010. The song begins quietly, with Bieber harmonizing accompanied by a guitar, and unfolds into a three-and-a-half-minute unapologetic pop/R&B smash.

Bieber co-wrote the track with rapper Ludacris (who appears on the song), Christina Milian, and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Terius "The-Dream" Nash (both of whom also worked with the 16-year-old on his single "One Time"), and it has been his biggest single to date.

Though it never reached #1 on the Billboard charts (it debuted at #5 on the Hot 100) in the United States, nor in Bieber's native Canada, "Baby" became certified platinum the world over. The song fared even better as a digital download, going to #1 in the U.S. after it was released on March 23, 2010.

Bieber continued to bring "Baby" to the masses, performing the song on various TV programs like "Saturday Night Live" (he was the musical guest on April 10, 2010), "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The Kids Choice Awards" and the "Today" show, in which throngs of Beliebers showed up on the plaza at Rockefeller Center to sing along.

But it's the music video for "Baby" that's made the biggest impact. The clip features cameos by Bieber's friend and fellow Canadian performer Drake, as well as "Baby" collaborator Lucadris. 'Cris, who first met Bieber in Atlanta in 2009, told MTV News last year that the video reminded him of "a 2010 version of Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel.' "

While Ludacris predicted, "Mark my word, ['Baby' is] going to be one of the biggest songs of the year 2010," there was no indication of things to come for the video.

Last week, ReadWriteWeb.com reported that Bieber's "Baby" clip is the most-watched YouTube video of all time. It currently has a staggering 463,506,023 hits, besting other viral vids like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and "Charlie Bit Me."

Since then, the song has been included on the compilation album Now 34: That's What I Call Music! and is currently featured in Bieber's 3-D documentary/concert film "Never Say Never" and has been used in the movie's trailers. The G-rated movie earned an impressive $30.3 million in its opening weekend.

What did you think of the "Glee" renditions of Bieber's songs? Tell us in the comments.

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