Trending on Saturday - June 18, 2011

Trending on Saturday - June 18, 2011

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Blake Lively Covers Up With Chanel Couture

Blake Lively hit the premiere of The Green Lantern last night in a Chanel Haute Couture gown from spring 2009. The cap-sleeve frock has a demure lacy top with a very sheer skirt. She paired the look with a carefully tousled side braid.

While it's certainly a stunning gown, is it too bridal for a movie premiere? Especially since the movie in question involves battling evil while wearing a shiny green ring?

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Tupac Shakur’s Birthday And Murder Case

As the Hip-hop community remembers Pac, a music mogul’s lawyer said he had nothing to do with the rapper’s death

Tupac Shakur lived the way fans wanted him to, he would have celebrated his 40th birthday today. Yet since his death, his image and legacy has grown by leaps and bounds from conspiracy theories claiming he’s hiding in Cuba to persistent rumors pointing toward different boogeymen and organizations as responsible for his death.

On such a milestone of a day, he is once again the talk of the town when news outlets quickly jumped on an AllHipHop.com story about a lifer prisoner who says he’s responsible for the legend’s death. Dexter Isaac says he’s not only the gunman, a music mogul paid him $2,500 to rob and shoot the late great rapper back in 1994 o a cold November night. Shakur was shot five times. This music mogul is said to be James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond. ABC reports this confession has now prompted the police to look back into a case they considered cold and over. But this is Pac—the 20-something-year-old who “Hit Em Up,” made the entire nation feel a lot of “California Love,” and created one of his best albums ever while doing a long prison bid.

Then today, the lawyer of the mogul told the New York Daily News, "It's a flat out lie." Tupac is back in the news like he never left. Then again, he never really has.

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Rob Zombie's Woolite Ad Moves the Web

The Woolite apocalypse is upon us. A new ad campaign by horror filmmaker Rob Zombie is a spoof on his type of movies. And a load of laundry is getting all kinds of abuse. The ad's message: "Don't torture your clothes with detergents." So instead just scare the heck out of your clothes? No, silly -- use Woolite!

If the Center for Disease Control can use the zombie apocalypse to encourage citizens to prepare for impending doom like a tornado, earthquake or flood, well, it was only a matter of time for other campaigns to jump into the horror game to get their messages across. And there's no arguing that this ad looks like no detergent commercial you have ever seen.

Not that this was an easy sell. The ad agency Reckitt Benckiser was shocked, shocked, by the torture spoof, telling AdWeek, "When we saw the first storyboard we almost flipped from our chairs." Um, what did you think the director of "Halloween II" was going to do, exactly?

The ad, first introduced on Facebook, has gone scarily viral. Not that Zombie himself thinks the ad is very scary. He tells the New York Times that the laundry tormenter is more like Uncle Fester from "The Addams Family," not "some child killer out in the woods." 

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Well, that's a relief.

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Denise Richards

The actress and reality star is only 40 years old, but apparently she's old enough to write a memoir. Indeed, as the ex-wife of Charlie Sheen, she likely has a lot to say. She says she plans to talk about the good times with Sheen, and not just "the rotten stuff."

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