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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Dec 17, 2012 5:00 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Dec 17, 2012 5:00 AM UTC RIHANNA EDITION GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK Professional Seventh album release, Unapologetic, became her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Personal Caught flak for flaunting her relationship with Chris Brown on Instagram SWEETS Not-Hot Chocolate M&M’s might boast chocolate that won’t melt in your hand, but Cadbury has created chocolate that won’t melt, period. O.K., not entirely: the treat (made with smaller sugar crystals) stays solid at temperatures up to 104F, which is great news for all of us who love to snack in saunas. SOLD! 55 Number of Michael Jackson belongings bought by Lady Gaga at a Beverly Hills, Calif., auction, which raked in some $5 million. (A portion of the money will go to charity.) The 465 available items included a Bad tour jacket, which sold for $240,000 BEST DRESSED Katharine Hepburn, who became a style icon for her tomboy look–button-down shirts, wide-leg trousers–loved fashion so much that she saved most costumes from her plays, movies and TV shows. Some 40 of them are on view at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts through Jan. 12, including this gown from The Philadelphia Story. TRENDING @Pontifex The Latin handle–which means bridge builder–belongs to none other than Pope Benedict XVI, who has joined Twitter at age 85\. Don’t expect any Kanye-style caps-lock rants, though. Vatican officials promise the feed will tout “pearls of wisdom” approved by the Pope himself. QUICK TALK Alan Cumming Between his turns as a ruthless politicker on The Good Wife, a mutant villain in X2 and, now, one half of a gay couple fighting to adopt a disabled boy in the 1970s in Any Day Now (out Dec. 14), we’re pretty sure Alan Cumming has one of the most diverse rsums in Hollywood. Here, the 47-year-old actor lets loose with TIME. –LILY ROTHMAN Any Day Now has been winning tons of awards at film festivals. Why do you think it’s resonating so well? Because it goes beyond a gay or LGBT issue. People are just so horrified by the injustice. That type of prejudice still exists, and we’re part of a society that allows it. There’s a complicity the audience feels that obviously arrests them. How did you prep for the ’70s-set role? Researching on the Internet! There were obvious things I realized. Everyone was skinnier in the ’70s because they all smoked and there wasn’t as much processed food available. It’s also an interesting time, moving away from the hippie thing and into a more progressive political era. But mostly it was trying to deal with a terrible wig and the lack of natural fibers that were in the clothes I had to wear. Speaking of period pieces, aren’t you playing Salvador Dal soon? It’s such a great script, and I just hope it all comes together. People obviously quite like the idea of me playing Salvador Dal. Why? We share a bonkers gene. Do you paint? Not really. I’m a mean hand at papier-mch. I actually made a papier-mch hat with coat hangers and some Chinese newspapers. Like, a fedora? No, imagine if Frank Gehry had made a turban. I wore it to a Lady Gaga thing at Barneys. I thought that would be an appropriate venue. Your Twitter bio says you’re a Scottish elf trapped in a middle-aged man’s body. Which part of the elf do you identify with? Flitting around. Stirring it up. A healthy connection to your inner child. And also having a big nose. UP IN THE AIR Over the past decade, as part of the installation Scattered Crowd, the choreographer William Forsythe–who makes what he calls “choreographic objects”–has filled grand spaces in London (above), Paris, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto and other cities with thousands of suspended white balloons, designed to show ripples caused by the slightest human movement. The floating landscape will be on view in Frankfurt next year. STYLE-ISH From the Mind of Yoko Ono For their 1969 wedding, Yoko Ono gave John Lennon an assortment of drawings that celebrated, as she put it, his “very sexy bod.” More than 40 years later, Ono, 79, is collaborating with retailer Opening Ceremony to turn those drawings into a clothing line that’s every bit as avant-garde as she is. Here, we rank five choice items from O.K. to O-No. O.K.? Eyelet shirt, $200 Printed knee pads, $55 Mesh cutout shirt, $145 Rear-cutout pants, $250 “Bell board” for torso, $400 O-NO! Actual bottles WTF The (Rear) End Is Nigh For reasons we can’t even begin to fathom, a company called Bootie Babe–whose CEO once founded a funk band called SuperBooty–is launching a line of rump-inspired nail polish, with tongue-in-cheek shades like Fruity Patootie and Red Riding Rump. How derriere they be so crass? 3 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK 1\. Who to ask for that million-dollar loan. Two winners, one in Missouri and one in Arizona, will split the record Powerball jackpot of more than $587 million. 2\. The goodwill of strangers. The Indiana man who got Internet-famous for inking a Romney-Ryan logo on his face was offered free laser tattoo-removal services. He said yes. 3\. Kim Kardashian’s engagement with world affairs. 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