George Clooney to Host Haiti Telethon

George Clooney will host a telethon to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake next Friday, January 22 on all of MTV’s channels.

The actor revealed the news on Wednesday night at a private reception for his most recent film Up in the Air.

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Michael Cera gets a Jersey Shore makeover from Pauly D.

Brillz!

The Maine Talk New Record, John O’Callaghan’s "Arrest," and Filming My Super Sweet 16

It’s two hours before Arizona-based rockers The Maine will be on stage at New York’s Nokia Theatre Tuesday night, and guitarist Garrett Nickelsen and drummer Pat Kirch are standing in front of Junior’s Times Square talking about the band’s forthcoming record.

“We have like 30 songs,” Kirch says, adding that the band is “going to take our time with this one.”

The Maine say they expect to start recording sometime in early 2010, and have no doubt that the sound will be their own.

“It’ll be metal!” Nickelsen jokes, before transitioning into a more serious topic: the now-infamous “arrest” of singer John O’Callaghan.

“He wasn’t actually arrested,” says Kirch, clearing up the YouTube controversy.

“John was signing [autographs] in the street with a bunch of kids around him, and the cop got an ego trip and threw him against the tree and put him in handcuffs. They let him go like five minutes later,” Kirch explains.

“People with cameras made it look more fierce than it actually was,” Nickelsen adds.

“As [John] says, he was ‘cuffed, not booked’.”

But the band maintains they’re not too worried about what people tell them to do. Just look back to their appearance on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 last year.

“MTV was trying to get a juicy story out of us,” Kirch says. “They were like trying to get us to say stuff that wasn’t true, but we weren’t doing that. I was bummed when I watched the show cause they like made it sound like [the 16-year old] was this bitch.”

“The girl was super nice,” Nickelsen adds. “Instead of getting a present, she gave $25,000 to a charity. MTV didn’t show that.”

By Courtney Atias

[Photo by Danielle Zfat]

Brian Williams Honors J.R. Martinez, Van Toffler at Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America Gala

In honor of Veterans’ Day, Poison Ivy was privileged to attend Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America’s Third Annual Heroes Gala at Gotham Hall in New York Wednesday night.

It was quite a departure from what we usually cover, but we have to admit, it was arguably our most important event to date.

Brian Williams served as the night’s host, sharing experiences he had during his visit in Iraq, and addressing the tragedy in Fort Hood: “It’s a terrible, terrible wound we’ve suffered,” he told the crowd of hundreds of war veterans.

Iraq Veteran J.R. Martinez (middle photo) and President of MTV Networks Van Toffler (bottom photo) were also honored for their contributions by NFL Analyst Chris Mortensen and Afghanistan Veteran Westley Moore, who reinforced IAVA’s mission throughout the night: to provide mental, communal and governmental support for veterans, while serving as the “nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan group for Iraq and Afghanistan vets.”

Students from New York’s PS 22 district then hit the stage for an acoustic performance, which included Rihanna & Jay-Z‘s “Run This Town!” So awesome.

Check out IAVA’s new PSA, which debuted last night, here, and do your part to take action today.

Ben Stiller to Receive Generation Award

MTV will bestow their highest honor, the Generation Award, to Ben Stiller at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards May 31 at 9P E.T.

The A-List comedian has tore up the big screen over the past decade with flicks like Zoolander, Meet the Parents and most recently, the MTV Award-nominated Tropic Thunder.

Past generation awards have been handed to fellow comics Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and Mike Myers.

Congrats, B!

Eminem Tapped for MTV Movie Awards

Eminem is the first announced performer at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, airing live Sunday May 31 at 9 p.m. ET.

Andy Samberg will host the event, and MTV promises that “additional performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.”

Who do you want to see???

MTV to Broadcast More Music Videos

Starting Monday, MTV will begin broadcasting more music videos.

Justin Timberlake will be happy!

From 3 a.m.-9 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays, MTV will air “AMTV,” a six-hour program that will feature music videos, interviews and performances.

Says MTV’s general manager Stephen Friedman:

“It gives us a much wider palette to experiment… If we take ‘Unplugged,’ which our audience still knows and loves, and do a four-minute version after our highest-rated program in prime time, and then we say, ‘You can get it all immediately on MTV.com or see the full thing for the next four days in the morning,’ we’re going to have a lot more people watching.”

Seems like a step in the right direction!

Ashlee and Pete ‘Fornicate’ at MTV Awards

Ashlee Simpson joined husband Pete Wentz onstage during the MTV Australia Awards Friday night for a very long and very public makeout sesh.

“Sorry, we haven’t seen each other in awhile,” Wentz apologized, before the couple exited the stage holding hands. “We’re going to go and find some quiet time and fornicate somewhere.”

I guess this clears up all those rumors of turmoil?

An Unlikely Friendship

The Hills Audrina Patridge and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz hang out before co-hosting the MTV Australia Awards Thursday in Sydney.

We can’t at all imagine what these two would have to talk about!