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FROM NEWSROOM BLOG: Justin Bieber is fairly new to the music business, but clearly his mentor Usher has taught him a thing or two about diversifying. The 15-year-old Canadian heartthrob has teamed up with 1-800-Flowers to deliver the "One Less Lonely Girl Bouquet."

According to the order form at the 1-800-Flowers Web site, the Bieber-centric flowers were chosen specifically by the singer himself (they're "Red Intuition" roses) and come with a special Valentine's Day card depicting the singer holding a heart. As an added bonus, the first 1,000 fans who order the bouquet will get a free scarf — a replica of the one in the video for "One Less Lonely Girl."

Continue reading "Justin Bieber Teams Up With Flower Company For Special Bouquet" at Newsroom.MTV.com.

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Few literary tales are as bittersweet as the real-life story of author Stieg Larsson—the Swedish journalist who became a world-wide bestselling author only after his death in 2004. If you've wandered through a Barnes and Noble in the last couple of years, you've no doubt spotted the green and yellow-dappled cover of his mega-successful crime drama "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." Though a movie version of the book was released earlier this year in Europe, according to Variety, Sony has nabbed the English-language screen rights for the film with plans to produce it for an American audience.

The first novel and its sequels "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest” (known collectively as the "Millenium Trilogy") follow journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander as they solve crimes in Sweden. A source Variety spoke with for its story called Lisbeth "one of the most compelling characters in contemporary fiction.” And it's true. She's intelligent, clever and doesn't take B.S. from anybody, which got us wondering who could bring this complex character to life. Thus, another edition of Hollywood Crush's Casting Couch!

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Tags Books, Kate Moennig, Samaire Armstrong, Shannyn Sossamon, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

With Sundance only a month away, here's an MTV exclusive first look at Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning's "The Runaways." As the teaser's narrator says, "In 1975, rock was a man's world until..."

...Until Joan Jett and Lita Ford took the world by storm in the seventies with their bad girl rebel band, "The Runaways." Kristen plays Joan Jett in the indie biopic and Scout Taylor-Compton plays Lita Ford. Dakota Fanning helps round out the band as Cherie Churrie — word on the street is the film is focused on the relationship between Joan and Cherie — and Stella Maeve plays Sandy West.

SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE TEASER AFTER THE JUMP!

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Tags Dakota Fanning, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stella Maeve, The Runaways, Trailers, Twilight, Video

FROM MTV NEWS: Which stars had the biggest year? All this week, we'll be unveiling our top nine men and women of 2009, counting down to the #1 man and woman on Friday.

In early 2008, li'l Taylor Lautner was getting his learner's permit, hoping "Twilight" might get him some attention, and trying on his itchy Jacob wig for the first time. Now he's on the cover of dozens of magazines, adored by fans and one of the hottest actors in Hollywood. Not bad for a 17-year-old — and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

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Tags New Moon, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, Video

Cover your ears, "So You Think You Can Dance" fans! Tonight is the finale, and as we all know, Mary Murphy tends to get a little, er, vocal. Murphy tweeted, "Here come the waterworks!" and co-judge (and cryer) Adam Shankman promised via his page, "tonights sytycd finale is the best in series history." We're guessing part of that will be be due in part to the musical guests, including Adam Lambert, who told fans he was, "Excited to perform on the So You Think You Can Dance Finale tonight!!!!"

While the "SYTYCD" results will likely be the talk of the Twitterverse tomorrow, today everyone couldn't stop buzzing about Alicia Keys' duet with Stephen Colbert (both pictured) on his show "The Colbert Report." MC Talib Kweli posted the hilarious (and pretty darn good, if we might say so ourselves) pairing, "Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind Stephen Colbert Suburbs remix live http://bit.ly/6MISEt. "The View" host Sherri Shepherd marveled, "Alicia Keys... love her. She makes me want to take voice lessons :O)" Of course, Colbert's impressive rap debut (look out, Jay-Z!) wasn't the only thing he had to brag about today, as he told followers, "Big news! I was the answer to Monday night's Final Jeopardy. Or was I the question? So confusing. Alex, I'd like to buy a vowel"

Check out what else had your favorite celebrities tweeting today, from Justin Bieber's strange sleeping arrangements to Eliza Dushku's bittersweet last day on the "Dollhouse" set. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @hollywoodcrush to get all the latest news in movies, TV, music, fashion, and more!

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Tags Adam Shankman, Alicia Keys, Mary Murphy, Sherri Shepherd, So You Think You Can Dance, Stephen Colbert, Talib Kweli, Tweet Dreams, Twitter

Want to look like a Pussycat Doll? Or, at least want to learn the same moves the fierce girl group does on stage and in their music videos? Well, PCD founder, Robin Antin, has hooked up with PCD leading lass, Nicole Scherzinger, for the workout DVD "Robin Antin’s Pussycat Dolls Workout," out now.

Robin sat down with MTV News to explain that once she teaches you the basics four routines to songs, like "Don’t Cha" and "Buttons," Nicole steps in and helps you polish your technique. "You learn all the moves and then I break it down and then you do the actual routine and then Nicole from the PCD makes an appearance," she said. "And she looks amazing and she's inspiring to all girls."

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Tags DVD, Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Dolls, Robin Antin, Video

By Elizabeth Lancaster

From the small island of Barbados to the bright lights of auditioning for Def Jam head honcho Jay-Z, Rihanna has made big moves in the last five years. She has gone on to sell 12 million records, and become one of only two female artists (the other being Beyonce) to have had five Hot 100 number one singles. But the controversies between her and then boyfriend Chris Brown last winter has changed RiRi’s game a little bit. Between the big delay in her latest album, and its steady decline in sales and its lack of any big hit, it is not typical Rihanna style, and neither is her latest spread in GQ magazine.

Rihanna has become a fashion icon in the past few years, in a punk-chic fusion that has everyone taking notes. But there is not much fashion in her cover shot to even notice, since RiRi is wearing a simple pair of leather shorts … and nothing else. Other photos feature more clothes, but fashion was definitely not one of her priorities in this spread, the focus is instead in her highly sexualized expression and poses.

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Tags GQ, Rihanna

Bryan Greenberg is certainly in the prime of his career. With roles on TV and in film, Bryan seems like one to watch in the coming year. Plus, being completely adorable doesn't hurt. Being that we are smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah Hotties week and Bryan definitely deserves to be on your radar, we're named him this week's Hump Day Hottie.

Press play on the video below to see more of Bryan, and then keep reading for more details about him.

Vital Stats: The 31-year-old grew up in the Midwest with his therapist parents. He attended NYU where he studied theater. And he's a fitting Hanukkah hottie as he staged a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" during a stay at a Jewish summer camp.

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Tags Bride Wars, Bryan Greenberg, Hanukkah, How to Make It in America, Hump Day Hottie, October Road, Photo, Prime, Video

If the five seconds of Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart on screen together in "New Moon" weren't enough to tide you over, we at Hollywood Crush are happy to announce we will exclusively be debuting the very first "The Runaways" teaser trailer tomorrow at 9 a.m. EST! We know we're excited to have a first look at Kristen's acting, especially since it already got Joan Jett's approval.

But to show this post isn't a total tease, we also have for you the first look we've had at Kristen and Dakota together in the film (see it in full after the jump!), which hit the Internet yesterday. Although the movie is about the first band Joan Jett and Lita Ford made together, The Hollywood Reporter reports that the film is really about the relationship between Kristen's Joan and Dakota's character, Cherie Currie.

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Tags Dakota Fanning, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, The Runaways

By Elizabeth Lancaster

Every day a multitude of stars wander through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with staff members. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that's why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.

If you were around Los Angeles last night, maybe shopping for an iPod for your mom’s Christmas present, you might have thought you had accidentally wandered into Mystic Falls, Virginia upon catching a glimpse of "Vampire Diaries" twosome Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder casually playing “Real Racing” on an iPod touch in an Apple store at The Grove. The on-screen brothers share a bond that, as you can, is just as strong off-screen. Ian, who has been a teen heartthrob since he starred in "Lost" during its first season, has the same rugged appeal as Paul, both clad in simple white tees and flannel.

Wanna get a better look at the two brothers in action? Click on the photo above! After the jump, find out what Kristin Cavallari has been up to since "The Hills" finale.

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Tags Ian Somerhalder, Kristin Cavallari, Paul Wesley, Photo, Spotted, Vampire Diaries