LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Jennifer Lawrence after authorities say he repeatedly insisted that the man put him in touch with the Oscar-winning actress so he could protect her, according to court documents.

Zhao Han Cong, 23, of Vancouver, British Columbia, was ordered Friday to remain held until he could undergo a psychiatric examination to determine if the case against him can proceed.

FBI agents in Louisville charged Cong on Monday with interstate stalking and repeated harassing phone communications. Lawrence is a native of Louisville.

Cong's attorney, public defender Donald J. Meier, requested the psychiatric exam. Meier didn't cite any specific behavior in making the request, though prosecutors did not object. Cong has not yet entered a plea.

FBI Special Agent Richard Boswell III wrote in an affidavit that Cong started contacting "B.L.," who is identified in a related state court record as the actress' brother Blaine Lawrence, on April 4. Lawrence received numerous phone calls and text messages from "Ted" on his work cell phone at 2 a.m., Boswell wrote. Boswell said "Ted" was later identified as Cong.

The phone calls and text messages came from numbers with area codes in California and Colorado but were later traced to Cong.

Cong initially asked Lawrence to put him in contact with the actress so he could "protect" her and made references to the Boston Marathon bombings, Boswell said. Cong then blamed Blaine Lawrence for putting his sister in danger because she was in Boston before the attack, Boswell said.

Cong made comments about "bad things" happening to Lawrence and his family and eventually gave up his real name and phone number in Canada, Boswell wrote.

Two weeks later, Cong sent three email messages to Blaine Lawrence, making references to the Bible and their relation to Jennifer Lawrence. Cong told his life story and said he was Jennifer Lawrence's "husband for life," Boswell wrote.

Cong told Blaine Lawrence he "wouldn't kill anyone for sure," but would scare people with real things happening in their lives and would get angry "and all hell's going to break loose," Boswell wrote.

Cong flew from Vancouver to Louisville on April 18 and kept contacting Blaine Lawrence, Boswell wrote.

"Either I find out, or you come and see me, okay?" Boswell quoted Cong as saying. "You got me really upset. When I'm, when I'm upset, let's see what happens, alright?"

Cong took a cab to the Indian Hills Police Department in suburban Louisville on April 19 and asked about the home address of Lawrence's mother. Police interviewed Cong for three hours. During the interview, Cong described himself as the second coming of Jesus and said Lawrence's mother had what he needed to complete his journey, Boswell wrote.

Officers took Cong into custody and involuntarily hospitalized him for a psychiatric evaluation. He was taken to Central State Hospital, where he called Blaine Lawrence, Boswell wrote.

Upon his release, police arrested Cong. Federal authorities took custody of Cong on May 7 and filed a criminal complaint against him Monday.

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Vin Diesel fans have enjoyed a pretty diesel 2013. Among Diesel's accolades: His random cover of Rihanna's "Stay" went viral, he stars in the certain blockbuster "Fast and Furious 6," and even found time to resurrect Riddick for the aptly named sci-fi film "Riddick." To say nothing of plans for "Fast and Furious 7," which is set for release next summer.

To celebrate "Fast Six" (out on May 24), HuffPost Entertainment has compiled the best Diesel quotes from the "Furious" press tour for Justin Lin's new film. Ride or die and enjoy the wisdom of Big Vin below.

On his hobbies: "Maybe because I'm a Dungeons & Dragons head, my approach to everything is a little more thought-out." (via EW.com)

On his 40 million Facebook fans: "Facebook really owes me billions of dollars. But whatever. [Laughs]" (via EW.com)

On social media's influence: "If there was social media in the '50s, there probably would've been a sequel to 'On the Waterfront.' There would've been a sequel to 'Rebel Without a Cause.' We would've finally gotten the 'Gone With the Wind' answer. So many of these films would've continued if the audience was able to speak directly to the braintrust, to the core, to say: 'We have to have another one.' I think Hollywood, and the choices Hollywood has made, would've been radically different if Clark Gable had 40 million people on his Facebook page." (via EW.com)

On awards possibilities for "Fast Six": "When this film comes out, quite frankly, there's gonna be some real Oscar watch." (via EW.com)

On his physique: "Being a physical presence will rule you out of a lot of roles. I couldn't have done 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' with that physical presence." (Men's Fitness via Vulture)

Remembering the first "Fast and Furious" film: "When we first did this we were thinking we had the opportunity to do 'Rebel Without A Cause.'" (via Moviefone)

The best contact in his phone: "Bill Clinton." (via Moviefone)

The future of the "Fast & Furious" franchise: "I think the debate is whether it's 7, 8, 9 or 7, 8, 9, 10. I know, it doesn't even make sense." (via Moviefone)

His review of "Fast & Furious 6": "It's the best movie in the world and it's a love story and it's baller status." (via Moviefone)

I am fair skinned, blue eyed and -- well, have had a little help in the blonde department -- which is about as far from the Kim Kardashian look as you can get. Although, this suits me just fine, there are times when I am trying to keep up, but not with the Kardashian clan -- rather, with Kim's makeup looks. I have to say, her intense maquillage is the most baffling part of a TV show that doesn't require a Mensa IQ to get through. How does Kim wear so much eye makeup and not seem to be in pain? Not a grimace, nothing watering, no redness... It appears, she does have talent after all!

It is no secret that I have the world's most sensitive left eye. I cannot wear contacts and have been sporting glasses, which have morphed into my trendiest and best accessory, for over 11 years. When it comes to makeup, I wear very little around the eyes and I'm extra selective about products that cater to sensitivity. More often than not, I skip eye makeup altogether. For special occasions (i.e. weddings and parties), I use a tiny bit of primer under my brows and a very light pink shadow over it. I've been trained to stick with Clinique for my sensitivity, but when daring to use eyeliner, Makeup Forever is the only brand I trust. It stays put without a smudge through rain, sleet and tears and I know it won't migrate into my eyes. Then I make sure my brows are groomed perfectly. Mostly satisfied with this routine, I still wonder if it is possible to enhance my lashes and line my eyes, to give myself that sculpted, almost alien-like high cheekbone appearance that instills envy -- yes, come on, admit it -- Kardashienvy.

They may be becoming a tad passé, and we may currently see more of Kim's under-fire pregnancy fashion, but millions of Americans still seethe while secretly admiring the Kardashians. According to the program's ratings, many are still keeping up!

I decided to seek out the advice of sought-after makeup artists and ask them "Is it possible to get Kim's look if you have sensitive eyes?" Realize, when reading the responses that follow, eyes have varying degrees of sensitivity. If you are as highly sensitive as I am, you might want to skip eye makeup altogether and focus on the rest of your visage. A clean looking face with the right blush countering and brow shaping will naturally draw attention to your eyes anyway.

According to Meira Joselit, a New Jersey based makeup artist and Arbonne consultant, "Fake lashes and glue, so obviously a part of the Kardashian routine, hurt sensitive eyes!" So skip it, she advises. "You can get the smoky look, but a tight line (which is inner-rimmed and basically touching the eye) in addition to fake lashes with glue will really irritate your eyes." She recommends Arbonne's water resistant and super gentle mascara, and she herself has extremely sensitive and easily irritated eyes. If you want to get a good line and a "big draw" on the upper eye lids, Joselit likes Smashbox's black gel liner because it stays put. She also recommends Trish McEvoy's intense gel black liner pencil as another non-smudge pick. I plan to try this product myself because I prefer to use a pencil when it comes to my own coordination (or lack thereof!).

Celebrity makeup artist Alison Raffaele, who was Bobbi Brown's head assistant for three years and who employs techniques that have graced famous faces (i.e. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Sigourney Weaver and Gisele Bundchen), points out that it is important to understand which types of eye makeup cause sensitivity:

"Among those that are irritating are powdered eye shadows, particularly ones that contain shimmer or sparkles (the particles can easily get into your eyes when applying) as well as anything purple (purple pigments are well-known allergens)."

She adds that anything with fragrance, the latex in eyelash glue, fast drying eyeliners (liquids, gels) and mascaras with fibers are seldom compatible with sensitive eyes.

"Now, this is not to say that every person with sensitive eyes will necessarily be sensitive to all of these things; this is simply a list of the most likely culprits," explains Raffaele.

So, what's a sensitive girl to do?

Raffaele delineates the following steps for getting Kim Kardashian's look:

"1. Use cream shadows & liners. These fly around less than the powdered kind, making them less likely to get into your eyes. To set them in place and keep them from smearing (particularly darker shades), set cream eye shadows with a colorless setting powder like my own brand's Transparent Finish (Alison Raffaele Cosmetics). The best way to do this is to dip a velour puff into the powder, work the powder onto the puff (don't use too much), and then press the puff onto closed eyelids. To get a major highlight under your brow bone, use a luminizer product like my Incandescence Luminizer. The optical diffusers in it reflect light without the use of potentially irritating shimmer particles.

2. A big part of Kim's look is an obscene amount of lashes, but many sensitive girls are not able to tolerate lash glue. To make the most of your natural lashes, curl them with a good eyelash curler (I like the ones by Tarte, Kevin Aucoin & Shu Uemura), then apply your mascara. To make your lashes thicker, you can dust them with a bit of powder (like Transparent Finish) in between coats. Just make sure you are not using a loose powder whose first ingredient is mica.

3. For eyeliners, the safest best is to use a cake liner with a brush, which is a powder you dampen with water to make a paste. Pencil liners can work for sensitive eyes, too, but they tend to smear and melt down more quickly than cake liners.

4. One thing a lot of people don't realize: Natural bristle brushes must be sprayed with loads of chemicals to make sure there are no bugs in the hairs when they are imported into the U.S. An easy way to avoid these chemicals is to use only synthetic bristle brushes, which do not need to be fumigated."

In addition to the tips above, there are other ways to get the Kim K look without tearing your eyes out.

To read more tips, click here.

I am fair skinned, blue eyed and -- well, have had a little help in the blonde department -- which is about as far from the Kim Kardashian look as you can get. Although, this suits me just fine, there are times when I am trying to keep up, but not with the Kardashian clan -- rather, with Kim's makeup looks. I have to say, her intense maquillage is the most baffling part of a TV show that doesn't require a Mensa IQ to get through. How does Kim wear so much eye makeup and not seem to be in pain? Not a grimace, nothing watering, no redness... It appears, she does have talent after all!

It is no secret that I have the world's most sensitive left eye. I cannot wear contacts and have been sporting glasses, which have morphed into my trendiest and best accessory, for over 11 years. When it comes to makeup, I wear very little around the eyes and I'm extra selective about products that cater to sensitivity. More often than not, I skip eye makeup altogether. For special occasions (i.e. weddings and parties), I use a tiny bit of primer under my brows and a very light pink shadow over it. I've been trained to stick with Clinique for my sensitivity, but when daring to use eyeliner, Makeup Forever is the only brand I trust. It stays put without a smudge through rain, sleet and tears and I know it won't migrate into my eyes. Then I make sure my brows are groomed perfectly. Mostly satisfied with this routine, I still wonder if it is possible to enhance my lashes and line my eyes, to give myself that sculpted, almost alien-like high cheekbone appearance that instills envy -- yes, come on, admit it -- Kardashienvy.

They may be becoming a tad passé, and we may currently see more of Kim's under-fire pregnancy fashion, but millions of Americans still seethe while secretly admiring the Kardashians. According to the program's ratings, many are still keeping up!

I decided to seek out the advice of sought-after makeup artists and ask them "Is it possible to get Kim's look if you have sensitive eyes?" Realize, when reading the responses that follow, eyes have varying degrees of sensitivity. If you are as highly sensitive as I am, you might want to skip eye makeup altogether and focus on the rest of your visage. A clean looking face with the right blush countering and brow shaping will naturally draw attention to your eyes anyway.

According to Meira Joselit, a New Jersey based makeup artist and Arbonne consultant, "Fake lashes and glue, so obviously a part of the Kardashian routine, hurt sensitive eyes!" So skip it, she advises. "You can get the smoky look, but a tight line (which is inner-rimmed and basically touching the eye) in addition to fake lashes with glue will really irritate your eyes." She recommends Arbonne's water resistant and super gentle mascara, and she herself has extremely sensitive and easily irritated eyes. If you want to get a good line and a "big draw" on the upper eye lids, Joselit likes Smashbox's black gel liner because it stays put. She also recommends Trish McEvoy's intense gel black liner pencil as another non-smudge pick. I plan to try this product myself because I prefer to use a pencil when it comes to my own coordination (or lack thereof!).

Celebrity makeup artist Alison Raffaele, who was Bobbi Brown's head assistant for three years and who employs techniques that have graced famous faces (i.e. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Sigourney Weaver and Gisele Bundchen), points out that it is important to understand which types of eye makeup cause sensitivity:

"Among those that are irritating are powdered eye shadows, particularly ones that contain shimmer or sparkles (the particles can easily get into your eyes when applying) as well as anything purple (purple pigments are well-known allergens)."

She adds that anything with fragrance, the latex in eyelash glue, fast drying eyeliners (liquids, gels) and mascaras with fibers are seldom compatible with sensitive eyes.

"Now, this is not to say that every person with sensitive eyes will necessarily be sensitive to all of these things; this is simply a list of the most likely culprits," explains Raffaele.

So, what's a sensitive girl to do?

Raffaele delineates the following steps for getting Kim Kardashian's look:

"1. Use cream shadows & liners. These fly around less than the powdered kind, making them less likely to get into your eyes. To set them in place and keep them from smearing (particularly darker shades), set cream eye shadows with a colorless setting powder like my own brand's Transparent Finish (Alison Raffaele Cosmetics). The best way to do this is to dip a velour puff into the powder, work the powder onto the puff (don't use too much), and then press the puff onto closed eyelids. To get a major highlight under your brow bone, use a luminizer product like my Incandescence Luminizer. The optical diffusers in it reflect light without the use of potentially irritating shimmer particles.

2. A big part of Kim's look is an obscene amount of lashes, but many sensitive girls are not able to tolerate lash glue. To make the most of your natural lashes, curl them with a good eyelash curler (I like the ones by Tarte, Kevin Aucoin & Shu Uemura), then apply your mascara. To make your lashes thicker, you can dust them with a bit of powder (like Transparent Finish) in between coats. Just make sure you are not using a loose powder whose first ingredient is mica.

3. For eyeliners, the safest best is to use a cake liner with a brush, which is a powder you dampen with water to make a paste. Pencil liners can work for sensitive eyes, too, but they tend to smear and melt down more quickly than cake liners.

4. One thing a lot of people don't realize: Natural bristle brushes must be sprayed with loads of chemicals to make sure there are no bugs in the hairs when they are imported into the U.S. An easy way to avoid these chemicals is to use only synthetic bristle brushes, which do not need to be fumigated."

In addition to the tips above, there are other ways to get the Kim K look without tearing your eyes out.

To read more tips, click here.

Mick McCann at the Guardian called the iconic 1973 cover art for Aladdin Sane "The Mona Lisa of album covers."

Coinciding with the iconic image's 40th birthday this year, FOAM Gallery in Amsterdam is showing a selection of photographs that revel in the beauty of when David Bowie met British fashion photographer Brian Duffy. Simply titled, "Bowie by Duffy: Photographs '72 - '80," the exhibit provides behind-the-scenes looks at a collaboration with the king of glam.

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane, 1973 © Brian Duffy

Duffy began his foray into photography at British Vogue before going on to define the Swinging Sixties through his images of celebrities, cultural luminaries and fashion icons, including John Lennon, Jean Shrimpton and William S. Burroughs.

This exhibition follows Duffy and Bowie's relationship in the pivotal years when Bowie was creating and discarding personas with ease; we see Ziggy Stardust, Thin White Duke, and of course, Aladdin Sane, which Duffy later explained was inspired by the blue and red flash on a nearby National Panasonic rice cooker.

"Bowie by Duffy" features the game-changing album art itself along with photos, contact sheets, Polaroids and Duffy's personal items. Expect to see plenty of pompadours, high cheek bones and flawless face paint.

The exhibition runs from June 21 until October 6 at Foam Gallery in Amsterdam.

If you're stuck in the states, get a glimpse of the glittering images in the slideshow below and let us know your thoughts.

Bill Hader and Fred Armisen are officially gone. As for Jason Sudeikis, who really knows at this point? I would assume that, right now, he doesn't know for sure either. But I have a hard time believing that, if he were leaving, he wouldn't have been waving to the crowd along with Hader and Armisen during the goodnights. Or at least have had one goodbye sketch, something that Hader and Armisen each provided last night in completely different ways.

Yes, it was a bittersweet show, a show during which the host, the amicable Ben Affleck, was almost an afterthought (which was kind of played to during a monologue in which he joined the five timers club, yet only Bobby Moynihan wearing a "5" t-shirt congratulated him). Yet, for as bittersweet as the undertones of the show were, it still played like your average installment of "Saturday Night Live." There wasn't an endless parade of Bill Hader and Fred Armisen's greatest hits -- Herb Welch and Nicholas Fehn were nowhere to be seen. Instead, both men left as they arrived, standouts of the ensemble, without overshadowing the cast. A fitting sendoff.

Off we go to your last "SNL" Scorecard for quite some time ...

Sketch of the Night

"Weekend Update" (Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Ben Affleck, Anderson Cooper) Before we get to Stefon, it must be pointed out how well Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler work together. That was far from the best "Really?!?" that these two have been a part of and it's already a highlight from this past season.

As for Stefon, that was pretty perfect. Not only did we get one last hurrah with Stefon behind the "Update" desk, but the proceedings then morphed into a sketch about Stefon's wedding to Anderson Cooper -- a wedding with pretty much every character that Stefon has ever described over the last four seasons. (It was basically the last episode of "Seinfeld," only done well.) A wedding that also included Gordon Shumway (or ALF, if we must) and Ben Affleck returning as Stefon's brother. (Stefon's first appearance on "SNL" was in a 2008 sketch in which Affleck played his brother.) Sure, Stefon was overused over the past four seasons (this was his 17th appearance), but it would have been ludicrous to not have him appear in Hader's last show and this really was the perfect sendoff.

Score: 10

The Good

"Top of the Pops" (Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Taran Killam, Carrie Brownstein, Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, J Mascis, Michael Penn, Aimee Mann) I was worried about how Armisen's departure would be handled. Most of Armisen's best-known recurring characters are "Weekend Update" characters, which would have been sadly overshadowed by the Stefon proceedings. Armisen, singing as Ian Rubbish, certainly didn't provide anything as bombastic as the time Darrell Hammond left while Will Ferrell sang him off with "Goodnight Saigon" -- instead, it was a poignant moment, as "SNL" and "Portlandia" combined right there in front of us. I wouldn't go as far to say that Armisen has looked bored the last couple of seasons of "SNL," but he's certainly been itching to do some more experimental things. Though, there's no doubt how Armisen feels about "SNL," it was right there on his guitar strap: "TY LM I <3 u."

Score: 9.5

"New Xanax" (Cecily Strong, Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon) I am still laughing at the site of Bill Hader dancing aimlessly in front of the choreographed Beyoncé performance. (Honestly, this happen to me at any wedding.) It was interesting -- there were two gay-themed sketches last night and it really showed the contrast of how to do one right (this one) and how to do one wrong (see: The Ugly).

Score: 8.0

"Hermes" (Vanessa Bayer, Cecily Strong, Ben Affleck) Fine! These are starting to make me laugh. At least, for whatever reason, this one was my favorite so far. Bayer and Strong now certainly have the timing down. (And, as opposed to past installments, it didn't seem like it went on for 10 minutes.) I think it was important on a night like last night to showcase what "SNL" will still have to offer after losing such important cast members -- this helped to do that.

Score: 7.0

"Ben Affleck Monologue" (Ben Affleck, Bobby Moynihan, Jennifer Garner) The previously mentioned fact that Affleck was a bit of an afterthought as host is played up here, pretty well actually. (You know, they could have at least had Elliott Gould show up to say, "Congratulations.") Anyway, the main gist is that Affleck said something weird about marriage during his Oscar acceptance speech and, let's face it, on the list of "weird things that have been said during Oscar acceptance speeches," this seems pretty low. Regardless, Affleck looked like he was happy to be there.

Score: 6.5

"Iranian Film" (Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Ben Affleck) It was nice to see Armisen's Ahmadinejad one last time, even though he's pretty far down on the list of Armisen characters that I'd like to see. But this certainly wasn't a "Let's do it for Fred" type sketch -- it was more of a "Let's let Affleck be self-deprecating about 'Argo'" sketch, which would have been much more potent a couple of months ago. Alas. Though, this sketch was worth it just for one last "Gigli" reference. (It's just too bad Armisen's Frondi wasn't there to share in that reference.)

Score: 6.2

"Cops" (Bill Hader, Ben Affleck, Kate McKinnon, Nasim Pedrad, Tim Robinson, Fred Armisen, Taran Killam, Jason Sudeikis, Bobby Moynihan) This is one of those strange sketches that, for some reason, gets funnier as it keeps going. (Unfortunately, it's not online because they sang three seconds of the "Cops" theme song, I guess?) For no other reason, it was just nice to see a good portion of the cast together one last time, getting to make funny noises in an attempt to make each other laugh. Why not?

Score: 6.0

The Bad

"Greg's Funeral" (Jason Sudeikis, Ben Affleck, Tim Robinson, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Taran Killam, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah) There was a good sketch in there somewhere, but in the end, it was just a straightforward sketch about a guy who fakes his own death, then defends himself at his funeral. This sketch was just screaming for some sort of a twist on what isn't a very inspired idea -- by the end, I was hoping Kevin Hart would show up and ask "Is it a Z Shirt?"

Score: 5.0

"Cold Open: Politics Nation" (Kenan Thompson, Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader) You know, this past week hasn't been the greatest week of Barack Obama's presidency. For the life of me, I can't understand how the cold open wasn't Pharoah as Obama doing something. And if the goal here was to have a sketch with Kenan, Hader and Sudeikis, why not just do one last "What's Up With That?" Alas, this was quite the dud to start the show.

Score: 5.0

"Depression Scene" (Bill Hader, Ben Affleck, Kate McKinnon) I'm not sure what happened here: I was ready for something pretty terrific because the scene was certainly set -- then, nothing. I certainly laughed when Hader's out of work bozo balks at the idea of being at work at 8 a.m., which is a funny premise, but unfortunately, it took an odd turn -- realizing Hader and McKinnon were criminals instead of just lazy. Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what the point was supposed to be here, other than Hader and McKinnon can still be funny even without the best material.

Score: 4.5

The Ugly

"Camp" (Ben Affleck, Bobby Moynihan, Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah) Here's a sketch that at least pretended that it had something to say, but really didn't say anything. It was just lacking any sort of real bite and seemed more like an excuse for the cast to act "flamboyant" than to really try to say anything important. And, sure, it's not really the job of "SNL" to have to say something important, but if they're going to set up a premise with something that is extremely controversial (even though no one in his or her right mind believes a camp that turns someone straight "works"), it would be nice if it had at least some sort of clever message other than Affleck and Killam almost kissing.

(Is not online due to song rights issues.)

Score: 2.5

Average Score for this Show: 6.38

· Christoph Waltz 7.03
· Justin Timberlake 6.40
· Ben Affleck 6.38
· Martin Short 6.28
· Christina Applegate 6.13
· Seth MacFarlane 5.93
· Louis C.K. 5.92
· Anne Hathaway 5.87
·Melissa McCarthy 5.86
· Bruno Mars 5.81
· Zach Galifianakis 5.78
·Vince Vaughn 5.75
· Adam Levine 5.71
· Joseph Gordon-Levitt 5.51
· Kevin Hart 5.47
·Kristen Wiig 5.45
· Jamie Foxx 5.43
· Jeremy Renner 5.39
· Jennifer Lawrence 5.38
· Daniel Craig 5.35
· Justin Bieber 5.23

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BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber has just hours to reclaim his pet monkey from the animal shelter where it has been since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday, but he will have to pay thousands for the two-month stay even if he doesn't take the animal back.

A spokesman for Munich's customs office said the teenage singer has until midnight to contact them, otherwise capuchin monkey Mally will be transferred to a permanent home at a zoo or animal park elsewhere in Germany.

"If no further documents arrive then the seizure order comes into effect and the animal becomes the property of the German state," customs spokesman Thomas Meister told The Associated Press.

Mally was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich while on tour.

The now 20-week-old animal was quarantined and cared for at Munich's animal shelter, where manager Karl Heinz Joachim said Mally had fared well and gained weight.

The shelter has criticized Bieber for keeping such a young monkey as a pet, saying it shouldn't have been taken away from its mother until it was a year old. Experts say capuchin monkeys also need to be kept in groups as they are very sociable animals.

"The best thing would be not to buy one at all, but if you do, buy five," said Joachim.

He said emails from Bieber's management to the animal shelter indicated the singer doesn't want the monkey anymore, but that the final decision would have to be made by German authorities.

"Our contact is the person that the monkey belongs to," said Meister, the customs office spokesman. "We've had contact with lots of people but none of them was an authorized representative."

Meister said the cost of care, food and vet visits at the Munich shelter amounted to several thousand euros (dollars).

"You can bet we are going to ask for that money back," he said.

Depending on whom you ask, Andy Kaufman either died on this day 29 years ago, or he pulled off one of history's greatest hoaxes. As evidence for the latter, they'll point to his career. Not the obvious one -- his "Taxi" gig or his quick-flaming stint on "Saturday Night Live" (which ended with the audience voting him off the show as part of a stunt he suggested, not thinking it would go that way). Even at the height of his mainstream success, Kaufman would tell any reporter who'd listen that all that flashy stuff was just to support his real work: his high-concept live act.

It's a long and sublimely silly list. Take the times Kaufman read The Great Gatsby aloud until the audience hissed and booed. "Would you rather listen to a tape?" he'd ask (they always said yes). But the tape simply turned out to be a recording of him reading The Great Gatsby. There was his Carnegie Hall special, after which he invited the entire audience -- all 2,800 of them, including Andy Warhol -- to a meticulously planned snack of milk and cookies.

Even a reasonable fan might have seen in the scope of Kaufman's lunacy a promise that he'd someday try the ultimate prank.

Today there is evidence to the contrary. A death certificate, for one. For those who can't make it to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to see the document in person, the Smoking Gun made an image available online in 1999 to counteract a flurry of rumors the website ascribed to "guerilla marketing" for the release of the Milos Forman biopic, "Man On The Moon," which stars Jim Carrey as Kaufman.

"In this case," admonished the writer, "it seems rather cynical, since Kaufman most certainly died on May 16, 1984 in Cedars Sinai Hospital, as this copy of his death certificate shows."

So there lies Kaufman, for all intents and purposes. (As well as under a "slab of granite" described by the Village Voice in a 1999 dispatch from Section One-4 of Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, N.Y.)

Still, a small subset of fans remain convinced that Kaufman faked his death. These few, who refer to themselves as "the disciples," await their hero with the grim determination of Pentecostals counting down the days until rapture. They've kept the faith even after moments of supposed return came and went. Their mythology is murky, and their methods are questionable. Step one foot into their world and the floor collapses into a rabbit hole.

Kaufman, if he were (is?) alive, would surely approve.

ACTS OF GENEROSITY

The disciples meet less regularly these days than they once did. But the point of contact hasn't changed. The clubhouse is online, at AndyKaufmanLives.com, the highest-trafficked Kaufman conspiracy website, which was registered in 2003 to one Stephen D. Maddox of Greenwood, Ind.

The original community was small but diverse. "There was this girl from Croatia, a guy from the Netherlands, a guy from Gibraltar," said Frank Edward Nora, the host of talk radio podcast "The Overnightscape." Nora, who runs the podcast out of his home in New Jersey, says he was "drawn in briefly" to the site out of journalistic curiosity, but long enough to become a disciple.

This "small, core group of a dozen or two dozen people" shared one thing in common, he said. "They'd all made this almost supernatural connection with Andy Kaufman, for whatever reason."

But they tend to fixate on someone else almost as much as they do on Kaufman: Maddox, the site's founder and bestower of the title "disciple," an enigmatic figure who claims to be a descendant of Kaufman's, and who some disciples believe could be closer than that.

Jack Bristow, a 27-year-old writer in Albuquerque, N.M., had his first brush with Maddox during the site's early days in 2003. Back then, Bristow was a skeptic. He recalls posting critiques of the death hoax conspiracy on the site's forum, which was moderated by a woman with the punny, fake-sounding name of Claire Channel.

"Some of the posters seemed to get a bit angry," Bristow wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. But "Claire would never get mad."

In 2004, Kaufman's longtime partner-in-crime Bob Zmuda organized a tribute night at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The event piqued the interest of everyone at AKLives. Kaufman reportedly once teased that, if he died, he would return 20 years later. And Zmuda's show, "Andy Kaufman: Dead Or Alive," was to be held on May 16 -- 20 years to the day since Kaufman had last been seen.

Bristow wanted to go but didn't have the cash. Then came an email from Channel, asking if he was attending. When Bristow wrote explaining why he couldn't, he says she returned with an offer: "I have a few spare tickets lying around." Overjoyed, Bristow went out to L.A. He later learned that the two $175 tickets weren't Channel's only gift; she had also paid for tickets, airfare and hotel rooms for others who posted to the site.

About a year later, Bristow got another email from Channel, a confession "that she was not a girl at all, but that she was, in fact, Stephen Maddox." The ruse, coupled with Maddox's generosity, struck him as meaningful.

"Most of the people ... who claim to be dead celebrities are usually scam artists," Bristow wrote. "But Maddox has never asked anybody for money, as far as I know. Instead, he spends money generously on Andy Kaufman fans. And Andy was famously generous with his fans."

That the dead celebrity in question was a no-show in L.A. didn't shake Bristow's newly evolving faith. Kaufman wasn't dead after all, Bristow reasoned. He was living in Indiana, running a website.

HOW TO FAKE YOUR DEATH

In 1981, not long before his death, the real Andy Kaufman met Alan Abel, a professional hoaxer who'd managed the impossible the year before.

"I had my own obituary in The New York Times," Abel, now 82, told The Huffington Post by phone from his home in Connecticut. "I got eight inches of space, which is two more than the guy who invented the six-pack got. Only he actually died that day."

The meeting between Kaufman and Abel was the culmination of one of those series of events so guided by chance that those involved call it fate. Kaufman was in New York and happened to run into the host of a public-access show about martial arts. On a whim he accepted an invitation to make a cameo. The host told Kaufman to come on a Saturday rather than Thursday, when the show would be overrun by serious martial artists who would surely take offense at Kaufman's hijinks. Naturally, Kaufman took the warning as reason to come on Thursday.

In the building was Bob Pagani, a hoaxer and Kaufman acolyte who happened to have just mailed a letter -- a shot in the dark, as he described it -- asking the comic to appear on that week's show (Pagani said Kaufman insisted he never saw the letter).

After introducing himself, Pagani convinced Kaufman to do double duty and appear on both shows; Kaufman did, with the caveat that Kaufman's parents join the bit, too. The sequence -- in which a pair of actors play a moralizing couple railing at Kaufman for bringing on the decline of America -- has become required watching for diehard fans "More people have seen that silly show in the last few years than ever saw it when it aired on public access in Manhattan," Pagani claims.

Afterward, Pagani said he told Kaufman about Abel and the latest hoax in a career that stretched back to the '50s: convincing the normally infallible Grey Lady that he was dead.

"[Kaufman] was incredibly open for a celebrity," Pagani said. "He gave me his number. I called Alan and said, 'What are you doing tomorrow?' He said, 'Nothing.' I said, 'We're meeting Andy Kaufman.'"

The three met in the lobby of the Hilton on 53rd Street. By Pagani's account, Kaufman was "extremely interested" in Abel's death hoax. "He was asking Alan all about how he did it."

Abel said he told Kaufman everything in the lobby that day and over the course of the friendship that followed: how he put his "team" to work, setting up a fake funeral home in a trailer in Orem, Utah, and reserving All Souls Church in Manhattan for the funeral. Then there was the critical dispatch -- an actress friend with a gift for weeping on cue, who arrived at the Times office an hour before deadline, and that too, on a Sunday, when the second stringers were in charge.

"She could shed tears at the sight of a bumblebee falling down dead from the sky onto the sidewalk," Abel said of the actress, who pretended to be his widow.

The disciples treat the meeting between Abel and Kaufman as an origin story. And they learned much of it directly from Pagani and Abel.

Curt Eric Clendenin, a longtime AKLives poster and former child actor (he played an orphan in "The Blues Brothers"), says he tracked down the two hoax artists by hunting like "freaking Sherlock Holmes."

"I got an email out of the blue from [Clendenin] telling me that he's been following the stuff I've done over the years, that he's a big fan," Pagani recalled, in the bemused tone of someone who doesn't hear that often. "I was like ... okay!"

Pagani told him everything he remembered about Kaufman, and the two struck up a friendship online.

But Pagani still can't bring himself to accept Clendenin's premise. Believing the conspiracy theory, Pagani said, betrays not just his own better judgment but the judgment of most of Kaufman's nearest and dearest.

"I know people at the wake in Long Island literally leaned over the casket and said, 'Andy, if you're faking, please stop,'" he said. "I wish he had been faking, but I just don't think it's possible."

Merle Kessler, a hoaxer who appeared on a variety show with Kaufman in 1976, thinks there's no chance Kaufman's death was a scheme, "unless he, Elvis and Jim Morrison are all giggling up their sleeves somewhere. What would be the point of it?"

A LIVING LEGACY

The point, the disciples claim, is that Kaufman wanted less fame, not more. To really understand why and how Kaufman did what they insist he did, they'll tell you that you first have to understand Maddox.

In 2008, Maddox asked Nora, the podcaster, to host an "Andy Kaufman Press Conference" in a hotel in New Jersey, 10 miles from Rutgers University. The expectation was that Kaufman would finally appear.

A limited number of press were invited (Nora recalls them as being the ones who covered "weird" news). Before the proceedings, someone knocked on Nora’s room door. A man walked in wearing a monster mask. He introduced himself as Maddox.

"He didn't want anyone to see his face," Nora said.

The masked man escorted Nora into the conference room. The conference itself, which can be viewed online, went as bizarrely as one might imagine, with a puppet show mixed in with the playing of unintelligible audio tapes. For most of the attendees, the scene was simply live comedy. (Fittingly, the reporter there for Weird New Jersey, Chris Gethard, now has his own Comedy Central show, "Big Lake.")

But for the disciples and their ilk, the stakes were high.

"People were accusing me of being in on things," Nora said. "This was all being watched on the Internet by a small group of dedicated people."

Once again, Kaufman didn't make the promised arrival. After the event, the AKLives members seemed to lose hope. Discussion on the forum began to fall in line with mainstream Kaufman analyses, focused on his legacy in creating a "trickster archetype," as Nora puts it, with little debate about whether the man was actually alive or dead.

Then Maddox re-emerged. In an email, he told the disciples that he wanted to explain everything. Maddox gathered the group over the phone and unwound a far-fetched story now repeated as gospel. According to several disciples who said they were on the call, Maddox said that he is Andy Kaufman's son, that his mother and Kaufman were teenagers when he was born, and that his maternal grandparents raised him as his parents.

In Maddox's telling, in the '80s, when Kaufman's career was less fulfilling and his interest in Transcendental Meditation was sky high, he wended his way back to the woman with whom he'd had a child. What Maddox said happened next is straight out of a fairy tale, or a thriller: Kaufman was fed up with his life and so he swapped identities with the man to whom Maddox's biological mother was married. That man, who was ill at the time, made use of Kaufman's bank account to pay for his health care, Maddox told the disciples. Meanwhile, Kaufman got a second life with a woman he loved.

In this story, the cancer-ridden body in the casket, which people whispered their pleas to at the wake, was not Kaufman's, but belonged instead to the husband of Maddox's mother. Both families -- the Kaufmans and the Maddoxes -- were supposedly in on the ruse.

Maddox told the disciples on the call that he'd only recently learned all the details from his family. After the press conference, he said someone gave him Kaufman's current address, in New Mexico.

No one at the other end of the line asked for proof of any kind. The story, Clendenin told HuffPost, simply made sense. When asked how he could judge its veracity, he responded that "Steve Maddox told me that Kaufman is still alive. In fact, he told me where he is."

If there’s an objective party in any of this, it's Nora, who mined his experience as a disciple for his talk show without ever developing the emotional interest in Kaufman's state of being that the others claim. And yet, while Nora agrees that all of it -- the website, the lurid backstory, the monster mask -- seems to point to Maddox as some Kaufman fan gone haywire, he said he remains perplexed.

Maddox didn't seem to be "doing this for a lark," in Nora's estimation. He did it for too long and with too much devotion. Neither did he seem unhinged. "He mostly just seemed sad," Nora said.

After the phone call, Maddox more or less vanished. He occasionally tweeted or emailed provocative updates: that he'd moved to the apartment complex where Kaufman was living in Albuquerque. That Kaufman had admitted everything. That he goes by the name Lynne (which happens to be the first name of Kaufman’s longtime girlfriend, Lynne Margulis) and works in a convenience store, and has a second family. That Kaufman, or Lynne, wants nothing to do with Maddox.

But even those sporadic missives have stopped of late, and Maddox seems to have made himself unavailable. "He isn't answering his emails," Clendenin said. "What I thought was his phone number is not accepting calls."

Emails sent to several possible addresses obtained by The Huffington Post went unanswered.

For now, Nora entertains two possibilities, neither of which involve Maddox pulling the wool over anyone's eyes: either Maddox sincerely believes in a fantasy, or the fantasy is a reality.

Or, the disciples were duped, in which case, at least one of Maddox's points remains. Kaufman may have an heir.

Looks like Ryan Gosling might have some competition when it comes to being Detroit's biggest heartthrob.

Actor Matt Smith ("Doctor Who"), who stars in "How to Catch a Monster," was photographed showing off some newly-ripped muscles in the city. The film is Gosling's directorial debut and is being shot around town.

The 30-year-old British actor credits a new workout plan for his sculpted chest and abs.

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He's also shaved his head to play the male lead in "How To Catch A Monster," which is Smith's first time starring in a U.S. film. Also cast are "Mad Men’s" Christina Hendricks, Gosling's girlfriend Eva Mendes and the young Saoirse Ronan.

Smith is photographed singing (we wish we knew what!) into a microphone from the back of a lowrider automobile. We're wondering what Gosling's directions were -- and which song will make its way into the film.

His own shirtless photos might bring his some new fans, but that doesn't mean Smith is immune to admiring his coworker's abs. In a recent issue of Total Film magazine, where Smith was asked whether his admiration of Gosling extended into man crush territory, he answered, "I would have no idea, but obviously I have admired his abdominals in 'Crazy Stupid Love.' Yes, he's a very handsome man, that's for sure."

Imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery!

Photographer Bananadoc (check him out on Twitter) visited the set and met Smith on May 13 in Detroit. He told The Huffington Post that he and his daughter drove past the actors, who were filming this scene in an abandoned lot by the Chrysler Freeway. Bananadoc said he watched Smith screaming into a microphone from the car. "Looks like he is some kind of leader in a dystopian landscape!" he said.

"When the scene was over, we approached the crew and they very kindly had Matt come over to us," he added. "My daughter is still floating. Matt Smith is a super nice guy."

Check out our slideshow featuring more photos of Ryan Gosling and the film in Detroit, as well as more gratuitous Gosling pics. Seen any of the cast around town? We want your photos. Tweet us at @HuffPostDetroit or email the HuffPost Detroit editors.

NEW YORK — As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it.

I'm talking, of course, about the BBC-produced, British version of "The Office," starring a previously unknown scamp named Ricky Gervais, who also served as its co-creator, -writer and -director.

For viewers who stumbled on that scruffy, off-kilter little comedy way back in 2001, "The Office" was a sensation and its doughy leading man someone clearly worth watching.

Soon it gave rise to the NBC version, which premiered in March 2005 and concludes Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT with a 75-minute finale that will gather the cast along with guest stars, past regulars and maybe even Steve Carell (the network isn't saying for sure), who left as series lead two seasons ago.

Transplanting "The Office" to American soil was an exacting business.

The forlorn workplace of Wernham Hogg Paper Co. in its gray London suburb was transformed to the not-quite-so-dreary regional branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, Pa.

Steve Carell was tapped as the crisp, chirpy doofus-in-charge. His character, Michael Scott, a man of grating foolishness, emerged as a sleeker version of British forbear David Brent, who, as played by Gervais, was a rapacious joke-spinning narcissist with a cajoling grin and wild delusions of charm.

Ever eager for approval, Michael Scott saw his supervisory role as that of "a chilled-out entertainer."

But for Brent, entertaining his minions was a sacred charge indivisible from any practical accomplishments.

"When people say `Would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss?'," Brent once explained, "my answer is the same: To me, they're not mutually exclusive."

With his cringe-inducing loutishness, Brent was often painful for the viewer to take. So was the rest of the show, where an air of desperation gnawed at the employees, trapped as they were by their dead-end jobs and obligatory contact with their overwhelming boss.

The British "The Office" rocked viewers with just 12 half-hours soon followed by a pair of hour-long sequels (all available on Netflix and highly recommended for fans and newcomers alike).

By contrast, the Yank "Office" has always been more soft-hearted and digestible.

Consider the mating of Pam, who began the series' run as the sweet, wallflowerish receptionist, with Jim, the sensitive sales rep who secretly adored her.

These characters were direct counterparts of Dawn and Tim from the original (played by Lucy Davis and Martin Freeman), who were cruelly kept at arm's length until the series' final moments. But the relationship between Pam and Jim (played by Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski), progressed steadily into flirtation and dating, then marriage and parenthood, with the occasional tiff and re-declaration of love. A major through-line for this show has been their romance.

At the same time, the show stayed faithful to the fundamental precept of the original series: Here was a documentary film crew shooting wage slaves at their workplace.

This was the device that set "The Office" apart from other comedies. The original series looked like nothing that had come before, and dared to satirize a media-beset world most people were only beginning to acknowledge. This was 2001, which predated the full onslaught of reality shows. There were no iPhones. Self-generated video was in its infancy and there was still no place to put it: There was no YouTube yet.

However exotic, the premise of "The Office" resonated with the viewers' own latent narcissism – their appetite for playing to any camera pointed at them. The breakthrough message of "The Office": We are all David Brents by way of Michael Scott.

Of course, the premise had great comic payoff. Introducing this "meta" component gives any comedy a self-referential streak, a postmodern knowingness that can be mined for laughs. Characters can step outside the action to react for the camera (and the audience beyond) with a grin or wink or roll of the eyes. Characters directly addressing the camera provide a forum for bonus wisecracks. No wonder within a few years, the "mockumentary" format was adopted by "Parks and Recreation" and "Modern Family."

Except these days, unlike in 2001 when "The Office" was born, being caught on TV is a normal state for all of us. Everyone is liable to be on TV most any time or place, if only from surveillance cameras planted everywhere. We are routinely exposed and exposing ourselves.

At the end of last week's episode, the gang from "The Office" was happy (if nervous) about seeing the results of their years of exposure by the documentary crew: Arrayed in front of TVs at a local bar, they were about to watch "The Office: An American Workplace" as it finally hit the air.

But simply being on camera isn't always enough.

It hasn't been nearly enough for Andy Bernard. Ignoring the advice of his Dunder Mifflin colleagues, Andy recently resigned his job as a Scranton regional manager to chase his fantasy of show-biz stardom.

As played by Ed Helms, Andy is a chap of unrivaled stupidity and cluelessness even in this crowd of oddballs. But he spoke eloquently for a fame-obsessed culture as he prepared to leave the office in pursuit of his dreams.

"Every minute that I spend here," he told his co-workers, "is time NOT spent making audition videos for reality, dating, cooking or singing shows. I am pursuing fame of any kind. I owe it to myself and my future fans."

Trouble is, in this media-glutted world, Andy's "future fans," whoever they might be, are probably consumed with finding fame of their own.

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EDITOR'S NOTE – Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at . http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier