DAVID BOWIE: Rare footage, recently discovered of "The Jean Genie" from a 1973 performance on Top of the Pops.

DINOSAUR JR. stopped by KEXP for a live performance.

DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. stopped by WNYC Soundcheck for a session.

FITZ & THE TANTRUMS play The Current in an end-of-year encore link.

GENERATIONALS play Morning Becomes Eclectic in an end-of-year encore link.

THE XX posted a demo for a new track, "Open Eyes."

TODD RUNDGREN': His first band Nazz hit with "Open My Eyes"; his classic "Hello, It's Me" completes Twofer Tuesday. BONUS: "We Gotta Get You A Woman" is just audio... but what audio!

MEET JOHN CONGLETON, who worked on some of the year's finest albums: St. Vincent's Strange Mercy, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Hysterical, Hospital Ships' Lonely Twin, Mountain Goats' All Eternals Deck, Wye Oak's Civilian, and many more.

CHRISTMAS HITS: Do the artsists make money? 

IN MEMORIAM: The Year in Deaths and Breakups, courtesy of Spinner, NPR and Stereogum.

THE 50+ MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS of 2012, according to Stereogum.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol tops the chart with 46.2 million, proving Tom Cruise can be a bankable megastar so long as he keeps the crazy onscreen. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows places with 31.8 million, but the IMF team will likely pass it in total grosses by week's end. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked shows with 20 million, but is falling well short of the prior two outings. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo takes the fourth slot with 19.4 million; who thought Christmas was the right release date for a David Fincher serial killer movie.  This could pick up steam next weekend. The Adventures of Tintin rounds out the Top 5 with 16.1 million; the movie will likely do just fine worldwide, but Paramount only gets the domestic take, with the rest going to Sony.  Below the fold, We Bought a Zoo opened with 15.6 million, while War Horse was close behind with 15 million, despite opening two days later.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO: I confess I am generally a sucker for Cameron Crowe movies (although not his biggest hit, Jerry Maguire).  And most of them have over the-top sentimental moments -- Lloyd Dobler with the boombox in Say Anything, Stillwater singing "Tiny Dancer" in Almost Famous, and so on.  So when Crowe turned his lens to the story of a widower, his kids and zoo animals, I fully expected some mawkish moments, which this movie has in abundance.  The plot is as predictable as if it was not based on a real-life story, but executed well enough by Crowe and his cast (although Scarlett Johansson's character is barely sketched).  Charming enough, if lightweight.

MARIA SHRIVER is telling friends she's now unsure if she wants to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Mel Gibson is now legally single, as ex-wife Robyn walks off with 425 million.

JENNIFER ANISTON was advised by her Hollywood agent, the late Sue Mengers, to ask for the sperm of ex-husband Brad Pitt once the couple split.

ROBERT DE NIRO and his wife, Grace Hightower De Niro, have welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy.

CHARLIE SHEEN, DENISE RICHARDS and their daughters swim with dolphins.

GEORGE MICHAEL says his near-death from pneumonia has given him a new perspective on his showbiz career.

SOUTH KOREAN delegates crossed the border to North Korea to pay respects to its late leader Kim Jong-il.

AL QAEDA: Senior members are feared to be moving to north Africa to open up a new front after being weakened in Pakistan.

EGYPT's two leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes for party lists in the second round of polling for a parliament that will help draft a new constitution after decades of autocratic rule, the election committee said Saturday.

AFGHANISTAN will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent, the government's peace council said. Opening a Taliban office in a third country itself is seen as a way to create distance from Pakistan which has longstanding ties to the insurgent group.

PETE the MONKEY washes dishes.

EMPEROR PENGUINS had a white Christmas in the Antarctic.

WOMAN HITS MOOSE on way to visit sister who hit moose.

PEBBLES the DALMATION has a litter of 15 pups, a few shy of Pongo and Perdita.