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Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Rachel (Lea Michele) sing their way out of high school in tonight’s “Glee” season finale. (Mike Yarish - Fox)

Tonight, the third season finale of “Glee” will air, shutting the door on the New Directions as we’ve known them since season one and ushering in a new era of “Glee.” That new era, apparently, will see the choral dramedy morph into a show within a show, one partially set in New York so we can still find out what Kurt, Rachel and Finn are up to and one still focused on the events at Lima, Ohio’s McKinley High, where, presumably, we will still be able to follow the nonsensical story arcs that involve Sue Sylvester.

At this significant moment in “Glee”-dom, as many of our Gleeks don graduation gowns, it seems appropriate to assess how we feel about the series that, three years ago, commanded us to not stop believin’. But do we still believe?

Will Smith (Misha Japaridze - Associated Press) Will Smith is currently making media stops to promote “Men In Black 3” and has successfully grabbed attention for slapping a reporter, rapping the “Fresh Prince” theme song and talking about taxes.

(Admittedly, that last one is not the flashiest story.)

Now Smith is making headlines for an interview he did with the BBC, where he joked about why he should play President Barack Obama in a film.

“It’s about the ears,” he told the BBC. “Barack and I both have the ears. So I’m the most natural choice.”

Smith added, “I told [Obama], joking, it’s definitely something I would consider — you just have to write the ending. So he’s working on the ending right now.”

Cool observation, Will Smith! But as the Huffington Post points out, you made that exact joke to MTV in 2008.

D’Angelo, in GQ and seemingly feeling (and looking) fine. (GQ) “D’Angelo. Chris Tucker. Dave Chappelle. Lauryn Hill. They all hang out on the same island. The island of What Do We Do with All This Talent? It frustrates me.”

That’s a comment from Chris Rock in a fascinating new GQ profile of neo-soul singer D’Angelo, who is in the midst of mounting a comeback after more than a decade away from the spotlight.

Based on the article — D’Angelo’s first high-profile interview in 12 years — Rock’s frustrations, at least in regard to D’Angelo, should be subsiding.

In the words of writer Amy Wallace, his performance earlier this year in Paris, part of his comeback-launching European tour, generated “the most soulful, palpable connection I’ve ever felt between an artist and an audience.”

While tracing his path from son of a Pentecostal preacher man to mega-music star/sex symbol to broken addict to rebounding artist, Wallace reveals some fascinating tidbits about her subject. Some key ones involve D’Angelo’s Marvin Gaye dreams, his rejection of Madonna’s advances and his conversation with longtime friend and collaborator Questlove following Amy Winehouse’s death.

Chrissy Teigen. (Evan Agostini - AP) Model Chrissy Teigen sent out the following tweet during Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards:

“Why sing when you can dance?”

The rather innocuous message referenced a performance by the always divisive entertainer Chris Brown, which some people, including singer Pink, believe was lip-synced.

This 28-character tweet has elicited an angry and at times frightening reaction from Twitter users, many of whom self-identify as members of Team Breezy, the name of Brown’s legion of fans.

Teigen, who is engaged to singer John Legend, has not backed down from the tweet or from defending herself. Indeed, the model has handled the threats with aplomb, even making jokes out of the nasty statements.

Israeli model Bar Refaeli. (YVES HERMAN - REUTERS) Bar Refaeli, supermodel, occasional actress and former girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio, has topped Maxim magazine’s annual “Hot 100” list.

For the first year, readers determined what the magazine calls “the definitive list of the world's most beautiful women” by voting. Maxim readers gave spots to Jennifer Lawrence (14), Rihanna (32) and “Downton Abbey’s” Michelle Dockery (70), as well as to “Glee’s” Lea Michele (14) and Naya Rivera (27.)

After “a massive write-in vote campaign,” Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert became the first man to secure a spot on the list, landing at No. 69.