MTV Video Music Awards

It's a shrewd enough move: what's a movie about Lil' Wayne without Weezy's own music? The New Orleans-born rapper is taking Quincy Jones III to court to keep his music out of a documentary Jones made that Weezy finds to be offensive to his image.

Forget moving MTV's Video Music Awards up an hour. It might've been smarter simply to swap to a different night altogether. After a record-setting 2011 telecast, Thursday night's show fell off 50 percent even with the traditional world-premiere preview of November's next (and final) "Twilight" installment.

Kevin Hart let MTV know last night just exactly how he felt about the network's attempted Video Music Awards ban on jokes about Kristen Stewart cheating on boyfriend and "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson: "MTV made a mistake!" In fact, Hart didn't spare many sacred cows in last night's monologue, did he?

Kristen Stewart was noticeably AWOL from Thursday night's MTV Video Music Awards - traditionally, the big world-premiere-preview night for the most recent upcoming "Twilight" installment. In this case, it's Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner pimping this November's climactic "Breaking Dawn Part 2" finale. Could this be a sign Stewart won't be welcome at ensuing press events?

This is getting to be an awfully pricey altercation between Chris Brown and Drake - two stars who never even actually threw a punch (or bottle, in this instance) at one another. The pair are now being sued by the management of the New York City night spot that their crews trashed after the two talked some Rihanna-related trash.

Before now, when has MTV ever necessarily protected celebrities' feelings? In this case, the problem isn't entirely the gag order on jokes at the VMAs next month about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. It's that MTV is pretending this is about anything except Summit Entertainment holding a gun to the network's head and handcuffing host Kevin Hart the way it never would've reined in Chris Rock once upon a time.

Whoever coined the phrase "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission" was clearly never dragged to court. Monster Energy Corp. wasn't so lucky. The energy drink maker allegedly used several Beastie Boys songs despite the late Adam Yauch's will prohibiting it explicitly, and now the surviving members and Yauch's widow are making a legal fight of it.

You can take one of two sides where Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are concerned: either they're kinda cute, or they're just plain gross. So, either go "aww" or puke a little over this promo for the MTV VMAs starring the couple.