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Top Videos of the Week: Wins of the Year, Charlie Brown School of Dance, Newtown Tributes

• Dec 19, 2012 10:04 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

This week, Paul McCartney stood in for Kurt Cobain to front a semi-reunited Nirvana at the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert (and later on Saturday Night Live), and there were touching tributes to the Newtown shooting victims from SNL and The Voice. The cast of Downton Abbey acted out scenes from Breaking Bad, we met the most easily scared man in the world and/or Norway, and Anne Hathaway and Samuel L. Jackson had a "sad-off" about their upcoming movies: Les Miserables and Django Unchained, respectively.

Check out those videos and more below.

VIDEO: Holiday SNL Brings Moving Children's Choir Opening, Samuel L. Jackson F-Bomb?

• Dec 16, 2012 12:40 PM ET
• by Kate Stanhope

For once, Saturday Night Live's cold opening was no laughing matter. A day after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre — which killed 20 children and six adults — the show opened with the New York City Children's Chorus performing a moving version of "Silent Night"... read more

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood "Didn't Want to Deal With" Slavery in Movies

• Dec 10, 2012 12:37 PM ET
• by Liz Raftery

Director Quentin Tarantino says the inspiration for his new movie, Django Unchained, came from a growing frustration with Western films "ignoring" the issue of slavery.

"Hollywood didn't want to deal with it because it was too ugly and too messy," Tarantino recently told The Daily Beast. "But how can you ignore such a huge part of American history when telling a story in that time period? It made no sense."

ABC Officially Orders Joss Whedon’s Marvel Live-Action S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot

• Aug 28, 2012 10:03 PM ET
• by Kate Stanhope

ABC has ordered a pilot S.H.I.E.L.D., a live-action TV series from Joss Whedon based on the Marvel peacekeeping organization, Deadline reports.

S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for... read more

Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Stone, Taylor Swift and Others Stand Up to Cancer

• Aug 22, 2012 02:22 PM ET
• by Sadie Gennis

Hollywood is ready to Stand Up to Cancer for the organization's third prime-time television fundraising special.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Joel Callen of Tenth Planet Productions will produce the broadcast as they try to rally support in the fight against cancer.

The star-studded event will include appearances by Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Jessica Biel, Samuel L. Jackson, Seth Rogen, Emma Stone, Simon Baker, Chelsea Handler, Joe Manganiello and others. read more