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## Video: Pop Chart: Barbie’s New Tattoos and Tim Burton’s Creepy Balloon

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_Published 2011-10-27. Also on the chart: Ed Wood’s pornographic pulp fiction, James Franco reading in bed and a not-very-original Mazzy Star comeback._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Hi, I'm Claire Sutez with Time Magazine and this is What's On Pop Charts This Week. [ MUSIC ] You probably know that Ed Wood was the famous B movie director. Do you know that he also wrote pornographic Pulp Fiction? Well, he did. Over 70 of his raunchy books are now on display at New York's Boob Parade Gallery. Wait a minute. New York has a gallery called Boo Hooray? [ MUSIC ] On a equally creepy although hopefully less pornographic note, Tim Burton will have a balloon in this years Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. His character is named B and according to its back story, it was stitched out of birthday balloons in a children's hospital.

So much for holiday cheer. So are you in the mood for some boneless meat molded into the shape of ribs? Well then look no further because McDonald's McRib sandwich is back. You can eat all the fake meat you want now through November 14th. Here are, four things that you do not have to worry about this week. You don't have to worry about Barbie's edginess, because the famous Mattel doll recently cut her hair short, dyed it pink, and got some tattoos. Somehow this is controversial. You don't have to worry about sharing Internet videos with your friends that they've already seen, because the website isitold.

com will tell you if the name has already [ INAUDIBLE ] Past. [ MUSIC ] You don't have to worry about Matthew Star's comeback, because the dream pop band just released it's first single in 15 years, and somehow sounds exactly the same as it used to in the 90s, and they haven't even aged at all. [ MUSIC ] And finally, you don't have to worry about James Franco trying to look smart, because the actor recently videotaped himself reading the Paris Review. And send it to the literary magazine. I have no idea why. I once brought a girl home because I liked her shoes. That was the only thing I noticed about her.

That's it. That's ll we've got for you on pop charts this week. Check back next week when we'll have more for you. [ SOUND ]

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