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Just like Jordin Sparks’ now-you-see-them, now-you-don’t bangs, Pauly D’s Great Gatsby look was short-lived. The Jersey Shore star, 32, shocked the world when he posted this dapper, refined look on Twitter Monday under #TheGreatDJGatsby. OK! GALLERY: SEE PHOTOS OF PAULY D, SNOOKI, THE SITUATION, JWOWW, MELISSSA GORGA AND MORE IN THE VALERIE GALLERY By Thursday’s Remix Rocks The Rooftop With SK Energy event, though, he’s back to his signature blowout. “What happened is I watched the movie The Great Gatsby, and I loved it,” he tells me during the event held at Hudson Terrace Rooftop in NYC. ”I loved the hairstyle. In my head, I was like ‘that’d be crazy if I just did that to shock the world.’ So I’m like ‘let me do it, and see what they would say.’” OK! GALLERY: THE JERSEY SHORE CAST SAYS GOODBYE: LOOKING BACK AT FIVE SEASONS OF GYM, TANNING AND LAUNDRY The reaction was unprecedented. “I did it, and everybody went crazy," he says. "That one picture created a lot of noise. Everybody was like ‘oh my God.’ People liked it, but some people missed it. They’re like ‘I miss the blowout’ or I like it. It was like 50/50 up in the air.” OK! GALLERY: WE WOULD FREAK OUT IF BRITNEY SPEARS DATED ANY OF THESE EIGHT PEOPLE He adds, “I only did it as a prank, because I’m the prank world champion. [laughs]” Hm, didn’t he like it? “No, I liked it, it was cool, but it’s not me," he  admits. "I like the blowout. It works. I don’t want to get rid of it just yet. I want to keep it for now.” Of course, Pauly is willing to change his look for one thing: “A lot of money!”    With that, he heads up to join partygoers 50 Cent, Real Housewives of New Jersey's Melissa Gorga, Mob Wives star Renee Graziano and more. Fun times! Catch Pauly D spinning at The Pool After Dark at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City this Saturday. It’s my favorite place in the world! Do you prefer Pauly’s blowout or Great Gatsby look? Tweet us @okmagazine.     Photo credit:  Johnny Nunez

The American Federation of Musicians are not letting up on Marvel and Disney for scoring their films overseas while getting tax breaks at home. This time the union was in Cleveland close to where filming for Captain America: The Winter Soldier was occurring. About 35 AFM members took to the city’s downtown streets on Thursday to protest the score for the star spangled sequel being outsourced to the UK while Marvel/Disney receive a nearly $10 million tax credit for filming in Ohio. Chanting “bring the music home,” union members handed out flyers slamming the profitable studio for heading “straight to Europe and hired foreign musicians under the table and on the cheap, robbing U.S. musicians of their jobs.” “People we spoke to on the street in Cleveland were shocked by what the studio was doing, taking their tax dollars that are intended to keep jobs in the US and doing the exact opposite,” Linda Rapka of LA-based Local 47 told me. Rapka was in Cleveland with three other members from LA and two others from NYC Local 802. The AFM was joined in Cleveland also by members of the SEIU, the AFI-CIO and food services union UNITE HERE. The AFM, which has about 90,000 members in the US and Canada, are planning future protests against Marvel/Disney. This latest action this week comes just over month after the AFM ... Read More »