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TOUR EDITION

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK

Justin Timberlake

The R&B singer is reportedly hitting the road this summer with Jay-Z

Lady Gaga

The pop star had to cancel her tour because of a hip injury and must refund an estimated $25 million in tickets

ODDITIES

Smells Like Nordic Spirit

What’s the smell of “instant Iceland”? According to ambient band Sigur Rós, it’s a “smoky, slightly briny … flotsam campfire on a distant black beach”–which is, of course, the scent of its new long-lasting candle, available online for $23.50. Your move, Björk.

QUICK TALK

Nicholas Hoult

At 23, Hoult has already played a career’s worth of characters: an awkward youth in About a Boy, a brainiac superhero in X-Men: First Class, a lovable zombie in Warm Bodies, and now a heroic farmhand in Jack the Giant Slayer (opening March 1), a film adaptation of the childhood fairy tale. Here, the British actor lets loose with TIME.

–NICK CARBONE

I know slaying giants isn’t easy, but you got tossed around a lot in this movie. How was that?

It hurts! Got some good bruises on me.

Did you do your own stunts?

Most of them, yeah.

What about the slow-motion hair flips?

Those were the most painful shots in the movie for me to watch. No one wants their close-up, 50-foot face on the screen!

So your hair isn’t normally that flippable?

No. But you have to do some things for the role, I guess.

Speaking of which, your gig in Warm Bodies was mostly grunting and staring. Did you enjoy playing a zombie?

Yeah, that’s part of what I loved about that job. It was a new challenge.

Which famous zombies did you study for inspiration?

The thing is, that story really hadn’t been done before–showing something from the zombie’s point of view and also having to make the character relatable and getting an audience to root for him. So mainly it was me winging it.

You were also in A Single Man. Did you glean any fashion tips from Tom Ford?

No real fashion tips. But he did give me a few suits. They are the best gifts you could possibly hope for.

Do you wear them all the time?

Or just on special occasions? I sleep in them. Those things make you feel like James Bond.

MAKING A SPLASH

100,000

Estimated number of dolphins in a super-mega-pod spotted off the coast of San Diego, at least according to a local boat captain who filmed the event. (Normal pods don’t top 200 dolphins.)

AMERICANA THE BEAUTIFUL

Since the early 1980s, Richard Prince has rephotographed and painted around images of cowboys found on billboards and in magazine advertisements–think the Marlboro Man–to illustrate how the American West, which idealized the cowboy as a figure of masculinity, has been used to market products to consumers. A selection of his works, including Untitled (Cowboy), left, are on display at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif., until April 6.

VERBATIM

‘I couldn’t get a sports car, they won’t let me bungee jump, so instead I cut my bangs.’

MICHELLE OBAMA, joking about her self-described “midlife crisis” on Rachael Ray

DIFFERENT STROKES

“The more frightening the world becomes … the more art becomes abstract,” said Wassily Kandinsky, whose World War I–era Farbstudie Quadrate (above) is one of more than 350 works featured in “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925,” which runs through April 15 at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.

MATCH GAME

Drinking with the Stars

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who next month are debuting a rosé named after their French estate, Château Miraval, are just the latest in a surprisingly long list of celebs who’ve launched wines. Below, try to trace the famous face to his or her less famous label.

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TRENDING

@Cmdr_Hadfield

Chris Hadfield, commander of the International Space Station, is usually a delight on Twitter. But his live-from-space duet with Barenaked Ladies on “I.S.S. (Is Someone Singing)” was particularly out of this world.

MUNCHIES

Chip Chip Hooray?

Score one for midnight snackers. After winning big with its Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco, which debuted last March, Taco Bell will launch a Cool Ranch version later this year. Not to be outdone, McDonald’s will reportedly unveil a McPringle. (We wish.)

3 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK

1. Maggie Smith craving more limelight.

The Downton Abbey star revealed that she’s never watched an episode. As her snippy character, the Dowager Countess, might say, “What is a TV show?”

2. Getting your ’90s nostalgia fix.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas will appear on ABC’s Last Man Standing opposite his Home Improvement dad Tim Allen.

3. Where to dream a dream as time goes by.

Les Misérables is returning to Broadway, largely because of the success of its big-screen adaptation.

FOR MARY POLS’ REVIEW OF SNITCH AND TIME’S COMPLETE FILM COVERAGE, VISIT time.com/movies