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Watch: ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’ early ticket sales break record

By Bill Zwecker

In today’s Zwecker Gossip Minute: Jennifer Lopez’s new “True Love” memoir reveals she was abused by exes — though not physically. Tales of Demi Moore constantly harrassing ex-husband Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis about their new baby Wyatt is a bunch of hooey. Ditto for rumors Kanye West and Kim Kardashian divorcing. Speaking of the Kardashians — the whole clan (minus Kris Jenner and Bruce Jenner’s sons) turned out for the former Olympic hero’s 65th birthday.

Finally, first-day advance ticket sales for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1” broke the record for 2014, bypassing earlier record-holder “Divergent.”

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