Ben Flajnik Is the Next 'Bachelor'

Ben Flajnik Is the Next 'Bachelor'

It looks like the rumors were true: Ben Flajnik is ABC's new star of The Bachelor.

The 28-year-old runner-up of last season's Bachelorette will get to do his own picking after having his proposal to Ashley Hebert rejected on national television. Hebert chose fan favorite J.P. Rosenbaum despite having an undeniable chemistry with Flajnik, a wine-maker from Sonoma, Calif.

After Hebert turned him down, he allowed his disappointment to show -- unlike other more stoic runners-up in the past. He said to Hebert: "What I don't need you to do is sugarcoat it. You can't leave something like this on good terms. It's impossible. ... Right now I'm in utter shock and disbelief. Things don't end, unless they end badly."

If anything, Ben's reaction made him even more likable because it was honest and real. And he already seems to have the support of iVillage readers: Last month we asked you whether Ben would be a good choice for the role, and 63% voted yes!

According to ABC, Flajnik has been in love three times, but he's only popped the question the one time to Hebert. His first act as the new Bachelor is to appear on the season finale of Bachelor Pad this Monday, Sept. 12.

May the power of the rose bring Flajnik luck ... and a true romance!

The Bachelor returns to ABC in January 2012.

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The Bombshell That Wasn?t: FOSS Patents? Android Scoop Misses The Mark

nexus5As the legal challenges against Android have mounted, a few voices have risen more quickly than the rest. One of these is patent analyst Florian Mueller's, whose site FOSS Patents has chronicled cases like Apple v. Samsung (over the Galaxy Tab's likeness to the iPad) and Oracle v. Google (which goes after Android itself for patent and copyright infringement). His posts often get wide circulation, and, oftentimes, he concludes that Google is in rough shape. Today, Mueller has written a post called "Shocker for Android OEMs: Google document proposes giving Motorola time-to-market advantage to build Android 'lead devices'". The article has gotten quite a bit of press coverage and is now one of the top stories on Techmeme, as it's allegedly uncovered some of Android's dark secrets. Unfortunately, these revelations are neither new, nor were they particularly shocking in the first place.

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Lock Down Your .XXX Domain Before The Land Rush Begins

xxxThe vaguely controversial .xxx top-level domain is about to open up to all comers, but before the main event, a little prep work is required. ICM Registry, the company administrating the launch, can't just let every joker with a GoDaddy account register domains willy-nilly. Not yet, anyway. So today marks the beginning of the "sunrise" period of the TLD launch, when interested or wary parties can begin pre-registering or restricting their brands and names. If you're interested in the new TLD, whether for protective or prospective purposes, the process starts now.

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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4

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When Firefox 4's tab grouping tool, Panorama, had its keyboard shortcut changed to the finger-breaking combo of Ctrl+Shift+E, we thought Panorama would get dropped before FF4's final release -- but, thankfully, it made the cut!

If you've used Firefox 4 and Panorama, you might have noticed that Mozilla's new browser doesn't always save your tab groupings when you close the browser -- a bit of a pain, if you spend a long time setting up the perfect groups! This is tied into the removal of the 'Save and Quit' dialog box -- and enabling Panorama tab group saving is just a matter of re-enabling the Save and Quit dialog.

Open a new tab and head to about:config. Click through the warning and type 'quit' into the filter box. Double click browser.showQuitWarning to change its value to true (see image after the break). That's it -- now you'll have the option of saving your tabs, and thus tab groups, when you close Firefox.

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Harold & Kumar' Stars Promise 'Enhanced Nudity' In '3D Christmas

'The movie is in 3-D because the 'Jersey Shore' is in 3-D,' Kal Penn jokes to MTV News in our Fall Movie Preview.
By Eric Ditzian


Kal Penn and John Cho in "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas"
Photo: New Line Cinema

Last summer, MTV News got a very special, very twisted look at "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas," the third installment of Kal Penn and John Cho's herbaceous buddy-comedy franchise, when we popped by the Detroit set.

We can't yet show you much of what we saw that day, but as part of our Fall Movie Preview, we're rolling out a tasty nugget of our interview with Penn and Cho. In between cracking jokes about '80s comedies, MTV programming and potential celebrity cameos, the duo let us know what we can expect when the new film, which focuses on the two estranged friends reuniting during the holidays, hits theaters November 4.

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MTV: So why is this movie in 3-D?

Kal Penn: The movie is in 3-D because the "Jersey Shore" is in 3-D.

John Cho: "Avatar" was in 3-D. I'm not in competition with "Avatar." I'm not in competition with James Cameron. He does his thing. We do our thing. He makes cartoons. I understand he had a good year. I'm just saying, the technology isn't his.

Penn: I'm just psyched because "Goonies" was in 3-D and that's why this is in 3-D. You've never seen "Goonies."

Cho: I've never seen "Goonies."

Penn: That is so crazy to me! That's so nuts to me, dude. It's egregious that you haven't watched "Goonies."

MTV: Can we expect 3-D nakedness?

Penn: Listen, you're going to see some 3-Deeez nuts. [Sings to the tune of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Deez Nuuuts"]

Cho: There's enhanced nudity.

Penn: Very mature, the way you're saying that. Enhanced nudity. This is not the NPR interview; this is MTV. They just got done watching Snooki get arrested. You do not have to say anything other than "3-D nuts."

MTV: Have you had time to enjoy Detroit?

Cho: I've been buying cars. I've got a lot of cash, and I'm spending it on automobiles. Lots of '97 Pontiac Firebirds. Lot of Ford Tauruses.

Penn: I like shooting in Detroit. If you have not been to Detroit, you should come. People are super friendly. There are a lot of beautiful buildings, and sadly many of them are abandoned. Hopefully the city bounces back. Look at our first film: I loved shooting in Toronto, but it was still a bummer that we had to leave the United States to shoot a quintessential American road-trip comedy.

Cho: Also, Toronto had so many foreigners.

Penn: We were the foreigners. Toronto is in a different country.

Cho: No, we're Americans.

MTV: Why have Harold and Kumar grown apart?

Cho: They're at different times in their lives. Kumar is looking for a way to stay in his younger existence, and Harold is artificially trying to be more mature and is choosing an excessively old mature friend.

MTV: What can we expect in terms of romance?

Penn: When the last film left off, Kumar and Vanessa were obviously very much together. Over the next six years, Vanessa moved into Kumar's apartment. They continued their relationship. It was moving down the road toward marriage. And then Kumar lost his job. He couldn't stop smoking weed. It wasn't as much the weed as him completely latching on to still being frivolous and still being down for whatever and not taking Vanessa seriously and taking her for granted. So slowly after he lost Harold to Maria, he kind of grew resentful of the notion that if his best friend could go off and choose this woman over him, then maybe everyone was just out to get him. He drifted further apart from Vanessa. That's where we pick up now.

MTV: Besides Neil Patrick Harris, what celebrity cameos are in the works?

Penn: Patton Oswalt, Tom Lennon, Paula Abdul, Snooki and Mayor Koch.

From "Abduction" to "Muppets, "Moneyball" to "Breaking Dawn," the MTV Movies team is delving into the hottest upcoming flicks in our 2011 Fall Movie Preview. Check back daily for exclusive clips, photos and interviews with the films' biggest stars.

Check out everything we've got on "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas."

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Audrina Patridge, Ke$ha, Adam Lambert Share Prom Memories

'Me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m.,' Ke$ha tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena


Audrina Patridge
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It's prom season, and that means high schoolers across this great land will be renting tuxes, buying fancy dresses and negotiating the details of their curfews with parents. So, before you take your pictures and get in your limos, we asked some Hollywood A-listers to recall their fondest prom memories.

"I had a great prom," Ne-Yo told MTV News. "I didn't get to go with who I wanted to go with. I got my second choice, but my second choice turned out to be the one I was supposed to be there with, so it turned out good."

Ke$ha, never one to say no to a party, had the best night of all her friends. "I went to prom with my gay best friend, and let me tell you, I had way more fun than anybody else at a prom with their boyfriends," she recalled. "Everybody else was, like, crying and drama and breaking up, and me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m."

"Hellcats" star Aly Michalka doesn't have a favorite prom memory — because she never went to prom. "I was homeschooled, so I don't even think we had a fake prom," she lamented. "Like, maybe we had a home-school prom and I wasn't invited?"

While everything always seems to be in peril on "The Vampire Diaries," star Nina Dobrev had a less tumultuous night: "Having everyone get together and such a final celebration [is what I remember]."

Romeo went big for his prom. "My senior prom, I remember I pulled up in my red Ferrari. I was feeling like James Bond," he said. "And it was one of the best nights of my life."

"My favorite prom memory was probably going shopping for a dress, and our boyfriends at the time dressed up as 'Dumb & Dumber,' " Audrina Patridge laughed. "And so we were like, 'We can't dress up dorky ... we have to look good.' "

Roots drummer ?uestlove made a big decision on the night of his prom: "June 2, 1989, was my very last haircut; prom haircut, totally butchered my hair. He butchered my hair, and I vowed never again to ever get in a barber chair, so I grew that Afro on my prom night."

Adam Lambert said his prom date was a 10, so he definitely had a fun night. "I had a great prom. I had an awesome time," he said. "I went with one of my best friends in high school. Her name was Lauren, and she was really hot. She wore a really hot red dress, so I felt like I had arm candy."

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Elizabeth Olsen Talks 'Martha Marcy,' Oscar Buzz

Actress opens up about her troubled character, growing up Olsen and sitting next to Kevin Bacon, in our Fall Movie Preview.
By Eric Ditzian


Elizabeth Olsen in "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Photo: Fox Searchlight

Eight months after her breakout debut at the Sundance Film Festival — when her two films turned heads, dropped jaws and had the town asking, "Where'd this girl come from?" — Elizabeth Olsen is no more used to the spotlight than before her entrance into the movie world.

But then, the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen has spent a lifetime surrounded by the attention (and the aggression) of Hollywood. So if Elizabeth hadn't already become accustomed to hobnobbing with the celebrity set, hadn't inured herself to any limelight-induced nerves by last January, the upcoming release of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and the accompanying Oscar buzz for her performance can hardly be expected to change any of that.

She hasn't upgraded her modest home, hasn't signed onto a mega-budget franchise flick, hasn't quite gotten used to the fact that the media doesn't want to tear her down. And she hasn't gotten tired of talking about "Martha Marcy," which Fox Searchlight is releasing on October 21. Olsen stars as Martha, a young woman who escapes a cult, reunites with her family and finds even that though she's left behind her old life, that life has not left her.

As part of our Fall Movie Preview, Olsen called up MTV News recently to chat about the film. By turns earnest, giggly, awestruck and grateful about the place she finds herself at the age of 22, Olsen spoke passionately about what it was like to work with writer/director Sean Durkin, the media lessons she learned from her sisters, and what it was like to be in the same room as Leonardo DiCaprio.

MTV: The last time we talked was at Sundance, when you made a big splash with "Martha Marcy" and "Silent House." Has life changed at all since everyone dubbed you a Sundance breakout star?

Elizabeth Olsen: Personally, it's all the same. I still live in a 300-square-foot apartment. I made some more friends along the way and I've been traveling a lot. But professionally, since Sundance, I've made two more movies and now I get to keep reading cool scripts that before Sundance I wouldn't have been even considered for. So that's cool. It's not about the size of the movie, it's just character and story. Even independent films have their fair share of more simplistic stories, and then there are studio films that are more psychologically exciting. For me, it's just figuring out if I like the character and seeing if I could be considered.

MTV: Along those lines, your character in "Martha Marcy" is not your typical young female Hollywood role. Was that the initial appeal for you?

Olsen: There were two things I immediately responded to in the script. The first was I really like being an audience, and when I finished, it was really thrilling from an audience perspective — the narrative and the way it was told. And from a character point of view, it was someone I could play with and be challenged by. It wasn't like I was thinking, "No one does characters like this and I want to do that!"

MTV: How do you get to "play" with such a troubled character?

Olsen: For me, the analogy is if a kid gets access to the full playground, rather than just the monkey bars. I had not just the story of this cult, but how to recover from it. Within that, there's anger, humiliation, embarrassment, inspiration, finding of a place and then being isolated from that place. There are so many things that fit into one person, which is so thrilling, as opposed to taking one part of the story. You get to fully create this circle, this cycle.

MTV: There are a lot of layers there. And the story itself reveals itself in layers.

Olsen: What's cool is the way Sean edited the past with the present. A lot of times at the beginning of a scene, you don't know where you are. You have to actively be on your toes. We filmed all of the cult stuff first, just because of location, and then we filmed everything after. That was lucky to have gone though the cult stuff first. Sean and I never talked about how he wanted everything to be perceived, whether things are flashbacks or if it's all imagined. Everything was real to me. It's exciting for the audience to have to figure out their own route to the story and how everything happened and where she came from and how she got there. Enough is in the context for them to make their own choices. I like seeing every romantic comedy in theater, but I also love having to be an active audience member. I don't like things being fed to me. There were some scenes that were cut that actually gave the audience more backstory information. People have been asking, "Where do you think your character was before, blah, blah, blah?" The funny thing is I know, because we actually filmed those scenes, but they didn't make it into the movie.

MTV: There's Oscar talk about your performance on this one. Is that any easier to process or handle after the attention at Sundance?

Olsen: That's really cool, but I can't take it seriously. That's where I am right now. I was a little girl speaking to my mirror and accepting awards when I was 8 as a joke. I was doing a movie with Frank Sinatra in my dream world. I can't even think about any of this being a reality. The Hollywood Foreign Press thing that I got to go to a couple weeks ago was really crazy. That was my first event getting to be around all these people who I look up to and admire. That was a smaller version of all these awards shows. It's all unreal in my mind.

MTV: Who'd you get to hang out with?

Olsen: I don't really approach people at all! I don't know why — I just don't! I got to sit next to Kevin Bacon. Growing up, one of our family-favorite movies was "Tremors."

MTV: I thought you were going to say "Footloose" or something.

Olsen: It was "Tremors"! I got so excited that I got to talk to him. He was totally nice. Also, having Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg in the room was pretty cool too.

MTV: Does that sort of stuff make you nervous? The press and the events and the attention?

Olsen: That sort of stuff does make me nervous. I'm very intimidated by that. Growing up, the press and the media to me were unfriendly people. So it's interesting to be in a place where it's not so unfriendly.

MTV: Why do you think you're getting all this great press, but there was such a harsh spotlight on your sisters?

Olsen: The only thing I can think of is everyone thinks they grew up with my sisters. People feel they're innately part of their business and personal lives, which they're not. It's because there's a more intimate relationship and they can make opinions about everything. I didn't have that situation.

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