I usually don’t post on Fridays after Weekend Movie Guide goes up, and I usually leave the Jon Stewart stuff to the TV bloggers, but I couldn’t not post this.

Irish Willis Peele snapped a lot of photographs of Virginia “speed punk” band Front Line back in the 1980s, including this one, from a Dead Kennedys show in Richmond, Va. Peele says the guy in the center is William and Mary student Jon Leibowitz — who later moved to New York and now has a pretty successful comedy career under the name Jon Stewart. In case you’re wondering, it adds up — Stewart was at William and Mary until 1984. [Gawker]

I heard the Misfits were scheduled to play the same show, but backed out when the college ran out of soup.

Sidenote: Patton Oswalt also went to William and Mary. That should definitely be the first two bullet points in the brochure.

UPDATE: So I guess it’s not him. Oh drat.

Back in 1999, Heather Donahue starred as “chick with a hat” in The Blair Witch Project, the indie-horror found-footage runaway success with the timeless message that you should never let a chick navigate. Since I’m sure you were all dying to know, since 2007, she’s apparently been growing pot (medicinal, of course), an experience she documents in an upcoming book, “Grow Girl.” I applaud them the restraint it must’ve taken not to call it “You Grow, Girl.” (Though for the record, there are already two books with that title).

Donahue got involved in medical marijuana after getting frustrated with her acting career.
“I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all,” she said.
Even the blue ski cap from the “Blair Witch Project” poster?
“That’s the only thing I kept. I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay,” said Donahue, who recently attended her Upper Darby High School 20-year reunion.
Her new career started after Donahue met a man who had lived in “Nuggettown,” a Northern California community where growing weed was common [redundant. -Ed.] Donahue “was always an avid gardener,” so she took right to it.
“I became a solitary country girl,” said Donahue, who lived in Los Angeles for years after graduating from the University of the Arts in 2005. She gave up cultivating pot once she decided to write about her experiences, which included her doubts about continuing after her friend got busted by the feds on the day of her first pruning.

University of the Arts? Is that like going to med school at the Institute of Science? It’s always a bad sign when your school sounds like it was named by Dr. Nick. (No, you google it).

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Nikki Blonsky, sassy sugar dumplin of pure cheerfulness and star of Adam Shankman’s unwatchable* hit film Hairspray, went on to guest roles on various shows, eventually toplining an ultimately-failed weight-loss camp comedy for ABC Family, Huge. But now she has a new gig: selling shoes.

Here’s the story, from a Perez Hilton post where literally every sentence that’s not a direct quote ends in an exclamation point. Seriously. Every. Single. Sentence. So much energy, that guy! He must be a delight, and not at all punchable.

Apparently, the actress has taken a hiatus from the entertainment business…to work behind the register at a high-end shoe boutique in Great Neck, NY called Steven Dann!
According to sources:
“Steven says she’s one of the best employees he’s ever had! Nikki had known Steven for a long time. When she started her career she got shoes, bags and accessories from the store for red carpets but recently approached him about working at the store. So it was done. Customers come in and see her and ask, ‘Oh my God! What are you doing here? Are you shopping?’, and she laughs and says, ‘No, I’m working!’ It’s a little uncomfortable for [Nikki] obviously, but the customer will ask her to sign her autograph on the receipt and she does. She’s really sweet to the little kids that come in the store. She even sings and dances for the customers, busting out the tunes from Hairspray! She’s supposedly working on a project that will catapult her career, something bigger than Hairspray.” [PerezHilton]

Now I know, “selling shoes in Great Neck, New York” sounds like one of the stories Verbal Kint would’ve told in Usual Suspects, but let’s not start writing sad articles about how cruel Hollywood can be just yet. Lots of us would kill for a cushy, decent-paying gig like selling high-end shoes. Don’t act like it’s some huge decline. Besides, Al Bundy once scored four touchdowns in a single game, you know.

*I can barely stand to look at the stills, I can only imagine what the full movie is like.

The Today Show reunited the original cast of 1971′s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory recently, and I took the liberty of compiling their side-by-side photos. Augustus Gloop’s hat FTW. |Full-sized Picture, Video at Buzzfeed|

MORNING LINKS

Facebook Fail-Log: May Edition [Uproxx]

Here’s an awesome gif of Rachel McAdam’s butt. I had to put it on a separate page. |ButtGif|

Photos and video from Space Shuttle Endeavor’s final mission [Uproxx]

Fox, NBC Release Schedules For 2011-12 [WarmingGlow]

The 2011 World Beard Championships [WithLeather]

The Heat Vs. Bulls Preview: 10 Points To Watch [TSS]

This Week in Posters [Filmdrunk]

10 Uselessly Specific Members of G.I. Joe [ToplessRobot]

Samoan Rugby Star Clocks Opposing Player with Three-Punch Knockout (video) [Brobible]

A Quick Tour Of Flippin, Arkansas [Buzzfeed]

A Gallery of Cartoons Invading Reality [Unreality]

Botox mom loses custody of her kids. |TheSuperficial|

“Kegasus” prepares for Preakness. |NYCStool|

Jon Stewart vs. O’Reilly on the subject of Common. |TheDailyWhat|

This sour patch kids car is gangster. |BostonStool|

Two morons name child “like” in honor of Facebook. |HolyTaco|

Tim Burton bows out of Maleficent. |Screenjunkies|

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Here’s Kelly McGillis with her Top Gun co-star Tom Cruise when they were 28 and 23 years old, respectively, in 1986 (left), and again at 52 and 47 last night at an event in L.A. (right).  She still looks pretty good, but… damn. Kelly McGillis is 52?  Yeesh.  She’s a lesbian now, by the way, which is pretty sexy.  Okay maybe not.  But probably good news for, like, dogs that need adopting or whatever.

[TMZ]

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