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Lady Gaga is out to shock fans with her latest provocative video – by performing in a wheelchair and on crutches.

The Paparazzi promo was leaked online on Friday and starts with the pop star moaning her way through a romantic scene in a fake foreign movie.

When she realizes her onscreen lover is setting her up for paparazzi photos on the balcony of a holiday villa, she attacks him with a champagne bottle and he hurls GaGa over the balcony.

The photographers gather round her to take shots of the apparently deceased pop star. But she rises from the dead and returns to the villa in a wheelchair, performing an odd dance routine while propped up on crutches.

The controversial promo features several scenes of grisly deaths, including hanging and asphyxiation.

It ends with GaGa poisoning the boyfriend who pushed her to her death and calling emergency services to report the crime.

It was a homespun farewell for Jay Leno’s last show at “Tonight.”

Celebrities were largely absent and the self-effacing comedian said he wanted to be remembered for the children born to his staffers during his 17-year tenure as the show’s second-longest running host.

He even posed with all 68 of them, from babies to teenagers.

“That’s what I’d like my legacy to be,” Leno said, his voice thickened by emotion. “When these kids grow up and they go, ‘Hey, mom and dad, where did you guys meet?’, they’re going to say they met on the stage of ‘The Tonight Show.’”

The show also included jabs at favorite targets, including politicians and his own network. He noted proudly that he took over the top-rated late-night show from Johnny Carson and was passing it on with the same No. 1 ranking to Conan O’Brien, who starts as host Monday.

“Which means I get my security deposit back,” quipped Leno.

Leno received a cold reception when he beat out Carson favorite David Letterman for the “Tonight” job in 1992.

Carson, who was host for a record 30 years, taught him that no matter what happens in the world the host has to have a nightly monologue, “because that’s your job,” Leno said.

Jay LenoGiving O’Brien a pre-debut boost, Leno welcomed him as his final guest.

“You were the perfect choice. You’ve been an absolute gentlemen in private and in the press,” Leno told O’Brien, lauding him for his “sharp” material.

“Conan rocks,” a studio audience member shouted. “I agree, Conan rocks,” Leno answered.

A clip was shown from 1993, when the 30-year-ancient O’Brien, a TV newcomer, appeared on “Tonight” hours after being signed to host “Late Night.”

Leno, his hair dark then and gray now, was ushered on stage Friday with a Jimi Hendrix-flavored version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by bandleader Kevin Eubanks.

“Welcome to the exciting season finale of ‘The Tonight Show,’” said Leno, greeted by a standing ovation. “I want to thank all the people who made it possible: Michael Jackson, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton.”

After noting that former Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush were participating in a joint speaking engagement in Canada, Leno remarked wistfully: “I wish I had one more day.”

He didn’t refrain from mocking his network although he’s moving to NBC’s prime-time schedule this fall.

His new show represents a gamble, Leno said: “I’m betting NBC will be around in three months. That’s not a given.”

Leno also fit in a last shot at O.J. Simpson, another monologue favorite. In cleaning out his office, the comedian said, “I found O.J.’s knife. I had it the whole time.”

He did his now-customary one-liners about the sour economy, and then paid tribute to the late Rodney Dangerfield, the routine’s inspiration, with ancient “Tonight” clips.

Other than James Taylor, who performed “Sweet Baby James,” celebrities were absent from the final show, which favored by-the-people comedy instead.

There was a lengthy “Best of Jaywalking” segment, highlights of Leno asking people on the street questions about history and other topics. A sample: A woman correctly said the first man to land on the moon was Armstrong, but when questioned his first name offered “Louie,” not Neil.

Natalie Portman is joining Danny McBride and James Franco in the fantasy comedy “Your Highness.”

Written by Ben Best and McBride, the Universal Pictures project centers on an arrogant, bone idle prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father’s kingdom. Joining him on the quest is McBride’s more heroic brother, played by Franco.

Portman will play McBride’s like interest, a warrior princess.

Director David Gordon Green (”Pineapple Express,” “All the Real Girls”) is shooting the film this summer in Northern Ireland.

Portman is working on “Hesher,” an indie drama that marks her inauguration as a producer. She next stars with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in the drama “Brothers,” a remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish film.

“LeftRightLeftRightLeft,” the free live album that Coldplay is giving away on CD to every fan who attends this summer’s “Viva La Vida” tour, is now available as a free download from the band’s website.

The giveaway starts as the band’s North American tour kicks off with a Friday night (May 15) show at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“Playing live is what we like,” Coldplay said in a statement. “This album is a thank you to our fans — the people who give us a reason to do it and make it happen.”

The nine-track live album was recorded at various cites during the “Viva La Vida” tour.

Coldplay’s tour wraps with two huge outdoor shows September 18 and 19 at Wembley Stadium in London.

Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl and Gemma Arterton of Quantum of Solace are rumored to be playing star-crossed lovers in a new movie version of Wuthering Heights.

The young Brits beat out a host of other high-profile names – including Sienna Miller, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman – to bag the parts in the adaptation.

The last movie version in 1992 saw Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in the main roles. Can these two sexy stars make the famously electric, tortured romance between the fictional lovers Heathcliff and Cathy even hotter? We reckon so.

Westwick, who plays poor small rich boy Chuck Bass in U.S. teen drama we like, reportedly wooed producer Robert Bernstein to play Heathcliff.

“We’ve cast it as written,” said Bernstein, whose production company has been developing the film for years. Gemma has just turned 23; Ed is 21.

“Heathcliff’s a teen, and the tale takes him into his early 20s. Cathy is just as young,” Bernstein said. “It’s radical because usually actors playing these characters are much older. We’re also very proud to have British actors.”

No word on whether the film will include any scenes of Gemma Arterton nude. But one can certainly hold out hope of that event taking place.

In February, actor James Pickens Jr. told Us Weekly that Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are leaving the hit ABC doc drama. Despite later denials by show creator Shonda Rhimes, the show’s finale Thursday strongly implied the two stars had died in the final moments, leaving a suspenseful cliffhanger for over the summer.

In the episode, cancer-stricken Izzie (Heigl) decides to have brain surgery — even though it could rob her of her memory — but insists on signing a “do not resuscitate,” or DNR, order.

The surgery initially seems successful, but when Izzie wakes up, she can’t remember anything.

Izzie’s state outrages her new husband, Dr. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), who desperately tries to help Izzie retain her memory.

“I’m sorry if this is hard for you,” Izzie tells him, “but you are not the one with the small-term memory of a carrot.”

After their heated argument, Izzie’s memory appears to have returned. She and Alex embrace.

“You’re back!” Alex cries.

But then Izzie loses consciousness in Alex’s arms.

Alex demands that the doctors — including Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Chief Webber (James Pickens Jr.) — resuscitate her, despite Izzie’s DNR request.

Dr. George O’Malley’s fate looked grim as well.

On the show, he announces that he is going enlist in the U.S. army as a trauma surgeon, headed for Iraq.

But in a surprising twist later in the show, George is revealed to be the unrecognizably bloodied, critically injured man who had pushed a woman out of the path of a bus, only to have been struck by it himself. His fellow doctors are last seen frantically trying to save his life.

As the show ends, Izzie and George both are crashing when a flash of white light appears. Izzie takes an elevator ride and when the doors open, she is greeted by George in an army uniform.

Did the character’s grim plotlines have anything to do with Heigl and Knight’s desire to leave the show?

“I don’t reckon there are any coincidences,” show creator Shonda Rhimes tells Entertainment Weekly. “I reckon Katherine’s stated publicly that she’s pleased to stay. I reckon that there have been lots of rumors about TR, but TR’s never said anything. Take from it what you will.”

Questioned who lives and who dies, Rhimes says, “I don’t know that you should be saying ‘which one of them lives and which one of them dies.’ I know what happens to the characters.”

Has she informed either Heigl or Knight of their characters’ fates?

“I don’t want to answer that,” Rhimes tells EW. “I don’t want to talk about my private conversations with the actors.”

People can’t seem to get enough of Taylor Swift, so “Dateline NBC” is devoting an entire hour to the country sensation later this month.

The NBC show will feature behind-the-scenes footage from Swift’s tour, including concert footage, scenes from her tour bus, and rehearsals. The show will air May 31. “Dateline” will also air an interview with the 19-year-ancient singer and some of her video diaries.

Swift is not only country’s hottest act but also pop’s top-seller this year. Her “Fearless” CD has sold more than 3 million copies. Her tour is now making its way across the country.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE’S girlfriend plays the part of a stripper who wows punters with her X-rated routines.

Sexy Jessica sheds her clothes and clean-cut image in new flick Powder Blue. The star recently showed off her curves in a shoot for GQ Magazine.

Powder Blue also stars PATRICK SWAYZE, FOREST WHITAKER and RAY LIOTTA and centres around a number of LA residents who meet on Christmas Eve through chance, tragedy and divine intervention.

Warning: Footage contains adult content

Katy Perry is ready to walk down the aisle.

“I’d like to get married if I find that ‘one’ everyone talks about,” she tells the June issue of UK Cosmopolitan. “I’m not in a rush, but last night I was thinking, ‘Is it incorrect for me to want to marry soon and have that feeling?’

“And I wonder when that person is going to present himself to me,” continues the singer, who split from Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy last January — but has continued to cozy up to him.

“To me, marriage isn’t about bank accounts and houses; it’s about finding the one you can hitch your hip to and build on each other’s strengths,” she goes on.

Perry tells Cosmo she’s currently single — and not pleased about it.

“I don’t like being single, no. I live this fantastic life, full of all these magical things, and at the end of the day all I want to do is pick up my phone and share it with someone,” she says. “The other day I’d sold a million records in the U.S. and I didn’t have anyone to tell. It was really a really lonely moment.”

But finding the right guy is “hard because I’m so picky,” she continues.

Being well-known has made it harder to find romance as well.

“If I go out to dinner with a guy, people automatically reckon we’re dating,” Perry says. “And then when you do start dating, it becomes a race to the altar. I’m like, ‘Come on, can’t we just be boyfriend and girlfriend?’”

Her ideal guy?

“Firstly, he has to be stronger than I am mentally. And he can’t be jealous because I’m a very touchy-feely person,” she says. “And he’d need to be able to tell me both yes and no. I’ll probably end up with someone who’s a bit older, and a few steps ahead of me — I want someone I can learn from.”

Perry admits she still has insecurities.

“One is that I have acne scars,” she says. “I’m self-conscious about that, so sometimes I wear too much makeup to cover them up. I got acne at the start of my career -– it was a stressful time.”

The teaming of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale may be this generation’s equivalent of Heat, where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino first faced off. Like the previous Michael Mann film, Mann’s Public Enemies also keeps the two stars mostly apart. Depp plays John Dillinger and Bale plays Melvin Purvis.

“We don’t know each other in the slightest,” said Bale. “I met him at the script read-through. We chatted for 5 or 10 minutes. Other than that, I had two scenes with him, one in which he’s in a jail cell. I have a tendency, and it seemed like he was pleased to do the same, I have at tendency to not really wish to talk unless we’re doing the scene. I delight in it that way.

“Then it just happened that the other scene we were doing we were about 200 feet away from each other, he was a silhouette in a window and I was shooting at him. I was behind a tree and he was shooting at me, and that was the closest we got that evening. I’ll get to know Johnny somewhere down the track because it certainly didn’t happen on the movie.”

In his own role, Bale loved the opportunity to delve into research in the era of the 1930s crime icons: “It’s just a wonderful period in every way. The clothing, the cars, the guns even. It was sort of to me the last dying breath of the guns that seemed to have some sort of character to them. The ones we have nowadays are absolutely fatal and have incredible precision, much more so than the others, but these are the last ones where there’s the kind of wood and I would really like to smell it after wards and kind of delight in carrying it around with me.

“The era is so fascinating as well in the conception of Hoover’s thought of the bureau and the birth pangs of that, and how two apparently very similar characters, I’m talking now about Purvis and Hoover, people who admired each other so much, could, with both of them doing their job incredibly well, come to have such animosity between the two.”

“Public Enemies” opens July 1.