Oh, Gaga! Oh no! Our gal Gagz announced via Twitter and Facebook this afternoon that she's postponing the rest of her current tour due to chronic and debilitating synovitis, or inflammation of the joints. She says she's been hiding the pain from her staff, but she just can't cope anymore and will be postponing her next …

In what basically amounts to proof positive that a book is worth reading, The Hunger Games trilogy has cracked the top three on the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of 2011—which means they're among the books that parents and educators have most often complained about being…

The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history. The bad news, however, reflects a level of idiocy that we weren't really expecting.

Casting news: Elizabeth Banks — hilarious as Avery Jessup on 30 Rock — is in talks to play Effie Trinket, a pink-haired chaperone. Young actress Amandla Stenberg has been cast as Rue; Dayo Okeniyi will play Thresh. Do they match up with the images you had in your mind while reading?

Katniss Everdeen is not here to make friends — she's here to win. In fact, her livelihood depends on it.

Publishers Weekly says that grown women are, increasingly, reading YA fiction. Yeah, we know. (Hides 'Twilight' under mattress.)