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Bass: Forget *N Sync reunion

NEW YORK

Don’t get your heart set on anything more than the 90-second *N Sync reunion seen on the MTV Video Music Awards. The performance marked the first time the group performed together in 11 years, and also the last time they’ll do it, at least for a while.

“It would be lovely to do it, but we’ve got nothing planned,” Lance Bass told The Associated Press on Monday between breaks of his Sirius XM show, “Dirty Pop With Lance Bass.”

One reason is that Justin Timberlake begins his solo tour this fall, and Bass says the closest he’ll get to the stage is a seat in the audience.

“Who knows what will happen when he’s off tour. It’s simply not part of the conversation right now. We just focused on that one performance,” Bass said. “If we did anything like that, I think we would come up with something real special where we could actually call it ‘The Reunion.’”

Gomez won’t divulge what Swift uttered at awards show

LOS ANGELES

Did Taylor Swift really utter an expletive to Selena Gomez when One Direction and former love interest Harry Styles took the stage for the MTV Video Music Awards?

Don’t ask Selena Gomez.

Swift’s seemingly foul-mouthed reaction shot lit up social networks and became an instant GIF. But Gomez reprimanded a reporter who asked what Swift said at the premiere of Gomez’s new film, “Getaway,” on Monday.

“Don’t try that with me,” Gomez told him.

Cinematographer for ‘Star Wars’ dies

LONDON

Gilbert Taylor was a master of black and white and a master of different universes.

Taylor, the influential “Star Wars” cinematographer who worked on a number of stellar films, died Friday at age 99, according to the British Society of Cinematographers.

Dee Taylor, his wife, told the BBC News that her husband died at their home on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England.

Associated Press