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Lushes give all sorts of booze-brained reasons for soaking in the sauce. Spiraling singer Amy Winehouse's justifications for nonstop inebriation are typical of the genre: "I'm quite an insecure person. I'm very insecure about the way I look. I mean, I'm a musician not a model. The more insecure I felt, the more I'd drink." Does Amy have a point or is she just making excuses?

MTV's parade of awards shows pulled into Munich, Germany, last night for its European leg. The event saw Avril Lavigne scoop up awards for Most Addictive Track and Solo Artist of 2007. Amy Winehouse performed "Back in Black" as though at her own funeral, and Pete Doherty joined Babyshambles for an invigorating, live and coherent version of "Delivery." Oh, and the little known band My Chemical Romance were also on stage. What was the biggest surprise of the night?

MTV tool Bam Margera's uncle Vincent "Don Vito" Margera has been convicted by a jury of two counts of sexual assault on a child for groping two 12-year-olds and a 14-year-old. As the guilty verdict was read, Margera flopped to the floor and wailed: "Just kill me now. I can't spend my (expletive) life in prison. I didn't do anything." The convicted child molester faces two to six years on each count. But maybe there's a punishment that better fits his crimes.

From a cartoon hive to outer space or the sidewalks of New York, this weekend's cinematic offerings will have movie-going foes fighting over American Gangster, Bee Movie and Martian Child. Click below for trailers, and choose your poison.

While in Australia as a tag-along on middle-aged boyfriend Marilyn Manson's tour, teen actress Evan Rachel Wood insisted that the Antichrist Superstar's stage show never gets old. However: "If it was like My Chemical Romance or something, I'd be shooting myself in the face every night." Is Evan Rachel entitled to her opinion, or has she just shot herself in the foot?

New York gossip sheets are the most perceptive and shameless on the planet, and the Post claims to have caught mini-mogul twin Ashley Olsen lapping up Tour de France ace Lance Armstrong in a public display of queerly queasy-making affection. Aside from Lance being 36 and the former fiance of Cheryl "Old" Crow, what is wrong with the notion of a Lance and Ashley romance?

Short notice is better than no notice at all, and Escape the Fate have been given enough time to tune their guitars and pick out their costumes before taking the stage to open for Marilyn Manson's Halloween show at Pearl. Which Halloween pairing would you like to see next year?

Pop culture provocateur Gerard Way has been married to Mindless Self Indulgence mainstay Lyn-Z long enough that wedded bliss has had time to give way to groom's remorse. And yet Gerard tells Rolling Stone online: “Married life is fuckin’ amazing. Especially being in a relationship that I only thought could be a fictional thing. It’s like knowing that there’s always somebody out there, and that’s something I’ve never known.” What is their secret?

Although their scraggly hair, pasty skin and tubercular physiques would seem to indicate a more sickly origin, English garage goth chord bashers the Horrors have felt compelled to refute rumors that they are a prefabricated "boy band." Bassist Tomethy Furse points out: “If they did [prefabricate the band] they did a rubbish job. That’s absolute rubbish.” Are the Horrors just too rough around the edges to be a boy band?

Having confidence in your work is essential for any artist, but has guitarist Synyster Gates gone too far in his assessment of Avenged Sevenfold's new album? "We really made a pretty eclectic and, as far as we're concerned, not to sound too cocky, but a flawless album." Is that cocky or confident?