The new Baz Luhrmann-directed film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby"made a big bang over the weekend at the box office with a $50 million take domestically, but it wasn't the first time the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic had been made for the big screen, Back in 1974, the book was adapted with stars Robert Redford (as Gatsby), Mia Farrow (as Daisy) and Sam Waterston (as Nick Carraway).

While critics have had mixed opinions about the current musically-modernized version, they were far less kind to 1974's take (written by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Jack Clayton) -- the late critic Roger Ebert called it a "superficially beautiful hunk of a movie with nothing much in common with the spirit" of the novel.

But what if Clayton's adaptation had been Luhrmannized? What if you could take jazzed-up modern tunes and a score by Jay-Z and slap them on a hyper-cut trailer of the old film -- would the movie have seemed more exciting?

Film fan Richard Sandling (aka "That Awesome Movie Guy") wanted to find out, and cut a trailer from the 1974 film in the style of today's movie (see below).

Whatever you think of the new "old" film's trailer, the box office battle is still being waged: "Gatsby's" 1974 earnings of $26.5 million would be $121.7 million adjusted for inflation today.

Here's the "remixed" 1974 "Gatsby" trailer:

And here's the current "Gatsby" trailer it riffs from:

And for you completists, here's the original 1974 trailer, de-Luhrmannized:

Yo, Broadway! Look out: It's almost time for "Rocky" the musical to get into the ring!

A musical interpretation of the Oscar-nominated film from 1976 has been in the works for some time, and in just under a year it's set to premiere in New York City (it opened in Hamburg, Germany, last fall). And for those who've wondered just what it would be like to hear the Italian Stallion (alas, not played by Sylvester Stallone) emote alongside mousy Adrian, a first-look trailer offers a peep into the big pumping heart of the underdog boxer.

"The story of Rocky was very much like my life at the time -- starting out with nothing, having to fight for roles and recognition," says producer Stallone in the short preview. "So I put those feelings into the body of a boxer and I had no idea there were so many millions of people that felt the same way."

Hopefully, at least a fraction of those millions turn out for the show. "Rocky" opens in February, 2014. Check out the clip!

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Politics and Hollywood mingle on a cordial basis most days of the year. But on the night of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, the gloves come off. On Saturday night, both President Barack Obama and comedian Conan O'Brien took to the dais at the "nerd prom" -- and each took a very different approach to making the room laugh ... and blush.

Here are some of the most memorable moments:

Winning!
President Obama kicked things off in high style by heading up to the microphone to the strains of DJ Khaled's rap song"All I Do Is Win." "How do you like my new entrance music?" he asked the crowd, putting on a little 'tude. "Rush Limbaugh warned you about this. Second term, baby."

'Obama,' the movie
President Obama played up his Hollywood connections with the help of Steven Spielberg. The President told the crowd that the "Lincoln" director's next project would be another presidential biopic: "Obama." "Why wait?" said the director (who was also in the audience) in a taped video piece about his follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Lincoln." And since "Lincoln's" star Daniel Day-Lewis went over so well, he was going to cast Lewis in the key role. Cut to President Obama pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis pretending to be President Obama. "The hardest part? Trying to understand his motivations," said Obama-as-Lewis-as-Obama. Another interesting "casting" choice: "30 Rock's" Tracy Morgan as Vice President Joe Biden. We'd watch that.

That's entertainment
The president showed he clearly has his finger on the pulse of all kinds of entertainment, referring to Jimmy Fallon's upcoming "Tonight Show" ascension and the recent kerfuffle over Beyonce and Jay-Z's trip to Cuba ("I've got 99 problems and now Jay-Z's one"). He also noted that no one from The History Channel was in attendance: "I guess they were embarrassed by the whole 'Obama is a devil' thing," he said, referring to the appearance of Satan in History's "The Bible" miniseries, and how the actor who played him seemed to resemble the president. 

Zing!
Conan O'Brien used his 15 minutes to zap his way through as many topics as possible, with as many one- or two-line zingers as he could manage:

• "Since (Obama's) being elected, the number of Popes has doubled, and the number of 'Tonight Show' hosts has tripled!"
• After noting that members of the cast of "Duck Dynasty" were in the audience: "That means the guys from 'Storage Wars' said 'no.'"
• And he wrapped up by proposing another made-for-TV movie -- this time a miniseries -- starring many um, familiar faces playing the president's team and colleagues. Suggestions? Vice President Joe Biden played by Bob Barker, Rep. Paul Ryan played by Mr. Bean (a character created by Rowan Atkinson) and Sen. Harry Reid "played by the old man from the 'American Gothic' painting.'" We still think Morgan's the better choice for Biden, though.

Kudos for Beantown
Casting the inevitable Obama administration movie aside, the one area the two speakers did overlap on and grow serious about was the way in which the citizens of Boston have shown their strength in adversity following the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. Boston native O'Brien noted he had relatives in nearby Watertown, and he thanked the president for his support of the city. "It's been said recently that you don't mess with Boston," said O'Brien. "As someone who grew up there, I'd like to echo that sentiment. It's really pretty simple: If you're going to pick on a city, don't choose one where nine out of every 10 people are related to a cop."

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Country music legend George Jones has died in Nashville, Tenn., his representative confirmed in a statement on Friday. He was 81.

Jones had been in the midst of a year-long goodbye tour, deciding to withdraw from the road over health issues including an upper respiratory infection. He was hospitalized on April 18 with fever and irregular blood pressure; he died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. A cause of death has not yet been reported.

Jones was a Country Music Hall of Famer, Grand Ole Opry member and Kennedy Center Honoree, and the singer of such hits as "The Grand Tour," "She Thinks I Still Care" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

Born in Saratoga, Tex., on Sept. 12, 1931, Jones grew up in nearby Beaumont and played on the streets for tips while still a teenager, then joined the U.S. Marine Corps. When he left service he began recording for the Starday label in Houston, and his first top 10 song "Why Baby Why" hit the charts in 1955. He hit No. 1 with "White Lightning" four years later. He continued to record and hit the charts throughout the next few decades, shifting from a classic honky-tonk style into a more mainstream sound called "countrypolitan."

Slideshow: George Jones: 1931-2013

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Jones' public persona was shaped by his addiction to alcohol and cocaine; he became known for missing many concerts, notes the Houston Chronicle. In 1983 police chased after an intoxicated Jones through Nashville, and the event was captured on TV (documentary video clip here).

He was married four times; his third wife was country singer Tammy Wynette, with whom he recorded several songs. They hit No. 1 three times, with "We're Gonna Hold On," "Golden Ring," and "Near You." Their daughter Georgette Jones is a performer, and appeared onstage with her father.

He is survived by Nancy Jones, his wife of 30 years, and four children.

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Conan O'Brien won't be performing at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner until Saturday night, but he's already in the nation's capital, goofing around -- as shown in this photo he tweeted Friday.

"Practicing my opening 'Goofy Sunglasses' bit," he noted in the pic's caption.

This will be Conan's second time on the Dinner dais, having performed there originally in 1995, when President Clinton was in office. He told Politico that having the leader of the free world at his elbow was actually helpful: "Clinton was really laughing and he gets really red in the face when he laughs, and at one point he was hitting the table and I thought, 'This is great!' ... I definitely wouldn’t want to do my show every night with the president of the United States sitting next to me, chewing Nicorette. But it certainly amps things up."

The White House Correspondents' Dinner will be shown on several networks on Saturday night and O'Brien is expected to appear at 10 p.m. ET. Check back on TODAY.com for a roundup of the funniest moments!

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It's been four years since Michael Jackson died, but the legal wrangling following his death continues. A jury has now been empaneled in the lawsuit brought by Jackson's mother and children against AEG Live, the promoter of his final "This is It" tour, and one potential key figure at that trial will likely be Dr. Conrad Murray.

Murray, who served as Jackson's doctor, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death in 2011, and on Friday he phoned TODAY from his jail cell to talk with Savannah Guthrie, with his lawyer Valerie Wass in the studio. 

All along, Murray has denied being responsible for Jackson's death, and maintains that assertion today: "(I take) not any responsibility as it relates to his death," said Murray. "I am sorry that I lost Michael as a friend and as a patient. ... I have lost a very dear friend and a dear person to me, and it's going to remain with me for the rest of my life, but I'm not going to accept responsibility for anything I did not do."

At this new trial, lawyers for the Jackson family are likely to argue that AEG Live is liable because they hired Murray. In theory, the company would have had a financial interest in ensuring the singer was healthy and able to perform as contractually obligated, which may have created a conflict in their oversight of Dr. Murray. 

As Guthrie pointed out, there appeared to be clear negligence in that the drug that killed Jackson -- the singer died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication that brought on cardiac arrest -- was found in the room after Murray left Jackson unattended. "I met Michael Jackson with his own stash of medication," insisted Murray. "I tried to get rid of the propofol from Michael Jackson. He might not have liked the approach that I took, but nonetheless the circumstances were to actually get him away from that agent."

Wass spoke up to say that when Murray left Jackson alone in the room on the night he died, the singer was on a saline drip. "Jackson was not on a propofol drip," she said and added that however Jackson gained access to the propofol that killed him, it was never determined whether it came from "his own sources" or from Murray.

Murray says being in prison "has been one of my most horrendous experiences. ... I have only survived because of the loving hope and the support that I get from various individuals and I would especially like to say that my girlfriend Nicole Alvarez has been just tremendous."

Murray may be released in a few months due to prison overcrowding, and is appealing his conviction. Opening statements in the trial are set for Monday.

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You could say that Diane Keaton has made a career out of appearing, well, endearingly goofy. She's a smart, successful, Oscar-winning actress to be sure -- but on talk shows and in movie roles alike, she often comes across as being at least metaphorically pixilated.

On "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tuesday, that may have been literal: She held a big glass of red wine on ice while discussing her new film, "The Big Wedding," and things got goofier from there.

Her character in the film is interested in Tantric sex, and Keaton was hesitant about talking about that on the show, but DeGeneres encouraged her: "Let's try it. Let's see how far you're going."

"I don't want to get taken off the air," said Keaton.

DeGeneres laughed. "You're going to be in jail for profanity, public drunkenness...."

Keaton began: "The character I played was somebody else, so I'm not going to be blamed for this," she said, noting that her "Wedding" character had an interest in Tantric sex. "The definition is something like when you have Tantric sex you go for a long time and you have that thing called the orgasm for nine hours.... That's ridiculous!"

It may have been a bit of a strain on the 67-year-old actress: "I'm glad this movie is over," she laughed. "It's too weird." Then she had to fan herself "to calm down" and noted "the wine is not helping. I think I gotta go. 

But Ellen DeGeneres wasn't letting her get away with that so easily, asking her about her relationships and the fact that she's never been married. "Oh, I'd like to get married," said Keaton. "What happened was nobody ever asked me."

It's not likely to change, either, she added, giggling: "I don't think so -- not after this show!"

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Reese Witherspoon and husband James Toth after their Atlanta arrest.

When Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and her husband were pulled over by police early Friday morning in Atlanta, it turned out that even America's sweetheart couldn't resist pulling the celebrity card: "Do you know my name?" she asked the officer. "You're about to find out who I am."

For years tabloids have been doing their utmost to prove that celebrities are just like us -- but that all goes out the window when an A-lister (or aspiring A-lister) goes to pains to remind the little people that they're kind of a big deal.

When leaked, it's a PR disaster of the worst kind, especially when the celeb card is waved under the noses of regular folk (usually police officers) just trying to do their jobs.

But Witherspoon is hardly alone. 

Margaret Cho vs. Korean spa
Korean spas are traditionally communal and, in gender-segregated areas, a place where people can soak and shvitz in the buff. But when the heavily-tattooed Cho sat down for a rest, the manager came over and asked her to cover up. As Cho explained in a Gawker essay in late March, "in Korean culture tattoos are very taboo and my body was upsetting everyone there." But cultural sensitivity or no, the comedian was angered. Cho continued, "This is something I have never done -- I actually said, in Korean, 'Do you know who I am?' I am Margaret Cho!" 

LeBron James' mother vs. Miami Beach police
In 2011, Gloria James was picked up by police in Miami after reportedly assaulting valet worker Sorel Rockefeller. "I'm very, very humiliated because she told me again, 'Do you know who I am?' when she slapped me," said Sorel of the Miami Heat star's mom.

Lindsay Lohan's mother vs. Hollywood nightclub and Carvel ice cream
The mom who takes the cake (or not, as the case might be), however, has to be Dina Lohan. In 2009 she was turned away from Hollywood nightclub Villa when she tried to get both of her daughters in with her. Lindsay was 22, but Ali was only 15 at the time. "Do you know who I am?" Dina protested, it was reported at the time, and Lindsay jumped in with "You're making a huge mistake. Huge!" A year later, she was busted when trying to pick up a free cake from Carvel with a promotional item giving Lindsay free ice cream for 75 years. She was turned down (because the entire Lohan family had been abusing the privilege), and as Radar reported, she said, "It just shows how (Lohans) get treated so much worse than regular people." And yes, the cops were called.

Tom Hanks vs. West Fargo diner
Let's face it, if a celebrity asked one of us for a special favor, who would say no? In 2012, a jet company Tom Hanks was using called up the TNT Diner in North Dakota and asked owner Tammy Hagensen if she'd open her doors early for an unnamed special guest, reported the Associated Press. Curious, Hagensen opened at 4 a.m. and in walked Hanks, his wife Rita Wilson and their two sons. Hanks was cool: Later he tweeted that the diner "makes killer breakfast." We all know Tom Hanks is the most fun celebrity out there -- but that's another reason why we occasionally get a Witherspoon-esque blunder -- few people can resist doing a celebrity a solid. (And by the way, that Jane-Fonda-turned-away-from-a-steakhouse story? Fake, fake, fake.)

Still, there may yet be hope for celebrities. Though the absence of smug hubris rarely gets reported on, there's at least one incident worth noting from 2009:

Bob Dylan vs. New Jersey police
According to The Awl, police were summoned to a home in Long Branch, N.J., after a report of an "eccentric-looking old man" wandering in the front yard. Officer Kristie Buble showed up and questioned him -- and he said he was Bob Dylan. But she didn't believe him, and took him back to his hotel where he and his manager verified his ID with a passport. (Later reports indicated Dylan might have been looking for a house two blocks away where Bruce Springsteen wrote "Born to Run.") You gotta respect an actual living legend who not only didn't pull out the celebrity card, but doesn't appear to even carry one.

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Neil Diamond is pleased that his 43-year-old song "Sweet Caroline" has been used as a way for the country to rally around Bostonians in the wake of the Marathon bombings. 

Sports teams including the New York Yankees, Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Dodgers have picked up on the longstanding Boston tradition of playing the song at Red Sox games, and have been playing it themselves in a show of support. And Diamond, the song's original singer and songwriter, has been taking notice on his Twitter feed. 

"There is a lot of comfort that music can offer," he told the Associated Press. "In this particular situation, I’d much rather it not have happened than for ‘Sweet Caroline’ to become part of it. But it’s obviously offering comfort to people and I feel good about that."

The song was written in 1969 with 11-year-old Caroline Kennedy in mind. "I wrote it in a hotel in Memphis, Tenn.," Diamond said. "And I think there's a little bit of God in that song. I always have felt that. There's no accounting for what can happen to a song. But this one had something special to it.”

Diamond isn't alone; other musicians have found a different way to help assist Bostonians. Specifically, Boston group Dropkick Murphys have raised nearly $100,000 in a matter of hours for the marathon bombing victims, according to their Twitter feed.

The funds have come from the sale of a T-shirt on the band's website which reads "For Boston" on the front against the city's skyline, and on the back features the city's seal and a note: "Thank you, to all who purchased this shirt. All proceeds go to the victims and families of the Boston Marathon bombings. Love, Dropkick Murphys."

The T-shirt is still on sale, and costs $25-$27 depending on size.

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"Downton Abbey" fans may already be missing Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on the popular PBS series until the end of last season. And they may have been further traumatized when recently the actor was revealed to have dropped some pounds and let his hair go from wavy blond to dark and cropped. 

Which means that the trailer for the upcoming movie "Summer in February" should come as a great relief. No, Stevens is not reprising his role as Matthew Crawley, but based on the trailer he looks exactly like that character -- blond, fit and in period wear -- and is in the midst of a tormented love triangle in pre-WWI England. 

Based on the book by Jonathan Smith, "Summer in February" takes place initially at a Cornwall artists' colony, and focuses on the real-life love lives of artist Alfred Munnings (played in the film by Dominic Cooper), his friend Gilbert Evans and the woman they both were enamored with, Florence Carter-Young (played by Emily Browning).

So brace yourselves, "Downton" fans: "Summer in February" has a UK release date of June 14; a US premiere date has not been announced yet.

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It'll be several months yet before audiences get a second glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence in action as Katniss Everdeen in "Catching Fire," but a few more stills from the film have been released -- and as readers of the books know, her deep-in-thought look is completely on-point.

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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen in "Catching Fire."

In the new photos, Lawrence has returned home to District 12 and is giving a hug to her sister Primrose (played by Willow Shields), but there's a distant look in her eyes.

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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in "Catching Fire."

More stylized photos are also available on the film's Facebook page, including pictures of Hunger Games victors Katniss and Peeta done up all in white on their "Victory Tour."

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Poster for the Victory Tour in "Catching Fire."

Previous photos came out last November showing her in action mode, wearing a full-body suit and carrying her signature bow and arrows.

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Want to find Bill Clinton on Twitter? Well, as of Monday night you just have to type in @PrezBillyJeff, which is a dignified handle any former leader of the free world would be happy to own. And who can you blame -- er, credit -- for it? Stephen Colbert.

It was all part of Monday night's "Colbert Report," which was devoted entirely to Colbert's interview of former President Clinton, which had been pre-taped at Clinton's annual Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting this past weekend. They tackled several serious subjects, including time management and American foreign assistance, but after a while Colbert discovered that while the former president may use Facebook, he does not use Twitter.

"I think I'm so, sort of insecure," he said. "What if you tweet and nobody tweets back?"

Colbert decided it was time to rectify this situation. Holding an iPhone, Colbert announced that he'd "taken the liberty" of opening a Twitter account for President Clinton, but the first obvious handles -- @PresidentClinton, @WilliamJeffersonClinton -- were taken. But @PrezBillyJeff "was available."

Chuckling, Clinton let Colbert send out his first tweet: "Just spent amazing time with Colbert. Is he sane? He is cool!" Colbert added the hashtag of #CGIU, and out it went into the world.

"Sir, welcome to the future," said Colbert, and shook his hand.

Alas, Clinton has not tweeted again as of this writing. It's not a "verified" account yet, and the description reads: "I am President William Jefferson BIlly Jeff Rodham Clinton. Stephen Colbert is my BFF." But he already has 39,666 followers -- and he's following one person.

Who would that be? @StephenAtHome, of course.

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