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Lindsay Lohan To Star In Something Other Than TMZ Shorts
Sad lifejoke Lindsay Lohan was once, you may remember, a working actress. She starred in films such as The Parent Trap and the one about the schizophrenic peg-legged stripper. Those days might be back. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Citizen Kang: You know what would just put this movie over the top? Casting LiLo as the graduate student. She's... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Jay Leno's Best Sick Jokes
Jay Leno's rep says it looks like dehydration sent the Tonight Show host to the hospital last week. But Leno prefers to process his trauma by mocking Conan O'Brien and Ben Silverman. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ScottieB: Leno's not funny. I don't know how else to say it.It has confused me for years that the man has... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Eliot Spitzer Spotted on Real Housewives of NYC
Eliot Spitzer was not quite ready for media cameras back in the fall, but Bravo still managed to get him on camera while shooting the Real Housewives of New York City that aired tonight. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by contradicto: Well, his presence is inevitable. The show is full of whores. [Instant Rimshot] 1 Responses | Other threads
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Life for Mickey Rourke Post-Oscar Includes Tea-Sipping with Sly
Mickey Rourke's post-Oscar life has swiftly come into focus. More »
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By Ann CarusoComment by Spirit Fingers: I have no problem with a Stallone/Rourke team up. First of all they're both like plastic surgery cautionary tales. (There... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Jean-Claude Van Damme's Comeback Secret: 'I Opened the Fruit'
We weren't kidding when we presaged a renaissance for Jean-Claude Van Damme, whose Cannes hit JCVD — an indie satire featuring the action star as a forlorn, tormented version of his once ass-kicking self — is drawing high praise ahead of its limited US release this weekend. Eighty percent of critics at Rotten Tomatoes are behind it, but frankly, as they're part of the reason Van Damme was ever a punchline in the first place: To hell with them. A new pair of interviews with the Phoenix of Belgium sums up all you need to know about a comeback that makes Mickey Rourke's look puny in comparison. More »
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By STVComment by taraniso: Isn't this just a reality-show on 16MM? 5 Responses | Other threads
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Amy Poehler's Girl-Power Web Comeback Finally Gets Premiere Date
If you had "feminist Web series" for the win in your What's Next For Amy Poehler? brackets, congratulations. After ditching Saturday Night Live for maternity leave and months of lingering attachments to a rumored Office spinoff, Poehler will officially be back onscreen in less than two weeks with her online effort Smart Girls at the Party. More » -
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DJ AM Completes Recovery Cycle With First Concert, Interview
DJ AM joined Jay-Z last night for the rapper's performance at the Palladium, handily shattering the world-record recovery time for returning to the stage after nearly burning to death in a plane crash. The concert came one night after the AM's (a/k/a Adam Goldstein) conquering-hero welcome at the Avalon, and mere hours after People nabbed his first interview since the Sept. 19 accident that claimed four lives and also critically burned his friend and flight partner Travis Barker: More »
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By STVComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: Any truth to the rumor that he's changing his name to DJ O(ver)E(asy)? more » | Other threads
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'Great, Iconic' Mickey Rourke Performance Piledrives His Way Back to Glory
While slappies like Viggo Mortensen hedge their Oscar '08 futures with something close to a film per month, we much prefer the bombast of all-or-nothing awards-season power hitters like Daniel Day-Lewis and Mickey Rourke. Yes, we wrote Mickey Rourke — he of the inflated face, reckless scooter piloting, and now of the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film The Wrestler, a stirring Venice Film Festival success that Variety pumped as featuring "a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances": More »
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By STVComment by Cacafuego: Rourke should have gotten an Oscar nom for his work in SIN CITY. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Haley Joel Osment Learns 'F' Word in Preparation for Upcoming Broadway Debut
The A-list movie-star incursion on Broadway this fall just got a little B-listier with the addition of Haley Joel Osment to the cast of American Buffalo, David Mamet's 1976 play set for revival in November. And we can't wait: For sheer envelope-pushing, neither Daniel Radcliffe's full-frontal horseplay nor Katie Holmes's Dawson-ization of Arthur Miller is likely to compare to their fellow ex-child star's profane verbal tussles with castmates Cedric the Entertainer and John Leguizamo — a duo whose characters entangle Osment's young, broke schemer Bob in a bluer-than-blue cascade of "cunts," "fucks" and other Sixth Sense-era unutterables. And all it'll cost Osment, 20, is the low, low price of a semester behind at NYU: More »
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By STVComment by Victor Ward: It's weird that I thought the Jerry Maguire kid would have grown up to be the ugly one. I guess you... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Lindsay Works! For Real This Time!
Exciting news indeed, as America's Little Career-Squandering sweetheart Lindsay Lohan has—we repeat has—secured an honest paycheck, and one that doesn't require her to climb onto a hotel diving board before a swarm of paparazzi, shouting, "Mom! Mom over here! Watch me suck some serious face with my best-friend-with-benefits, Samantha Ronson! Mooooom! You're not waaatching!!!" Fake-pregnancy comedy Labor Pains has managed to avoid the on-again, off-again fate of another Capitol Pictures-financed production, David O. Russell's Nailed, reports Variety: More »
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By SethComment by TheQuestion: How desperate is Schwartz if he's looking to LiLoHo to save his flick? Isn't that kind of like throwing a... more » | Other threads
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Britney Spears Does The Unthinkable: Looks Gorgeous, Laughs, And Dates A Normal Human Being
There’s nothing better than returning from a long weekend to discover not one but two incredibly positive stories about Britney Spears. Not only has the singer finally managed to make a public appearance looking downright hot, but she’s also begun dating a very eligible, scandal-free bachelor — William Morris agent Jason Trawick. As you may recall, Trawick was the mystery man splashing around Mel Gibson’s Costa Rica retreat with Britney last week, and reportedly has been looking after Britney ever since the beginning of her American Tragedy downfall. As a source tells OK!, “Britney totally trusts him and she has very deep feelings for him. It’s now got to the point where Britney wants to be with him full time.” And after seeing these pictures of the pair, who went public at an Ed Hardy party over the weekend, we can’t help but notice a very sober-looking Britney appearing genuinely happy for the first time in...ever: More » -
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Is Britney Spears Plotting A Comeback In The Perilous Land Of The All-You-Can-Eat $4.99 Buffet?
According to reports in everyone’s favorite trusted supermarket tabloid, Britney Spears is allegedly deep in planning mode for Comeback #487. Sources tell the National Enquirer that Spears is shelling out up to $10 million on what sounds like a very tasteful, classy-by-way-of-Louisiana string of song-and-dance shows at The Palms, one of K. Fed’s favorite places tosink into debtplay the big baller. Where Spears is coming up with all this cash, considering most of her dough is currently going towards her father’s daily rate for babysitting, is still a mystery. But based on the description of her latest plan to “jump-start her career,” we’re not so sure these shows will do much aside from force us to remember Britney Spears Comebacks number 1 through 486: More »
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Comment by Molly Friedman: @SlipperyIsMyLawn: Really? This was the one post you found particularly "mean-spirited" on our site? May I call your attention to... more » | Other threads
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Disaster Addict John Cusack to Drive Limo Into the Apocalypse
After the implosive one-two punch comprising his recent tandem War. Inc. and Grace is Gone (not to mention, of course, his spellbinding online short film featuring Diablo Cody as "Girl Who Thought He'd Be Cooler"), fortune may yet favor the slumping John Cusack. Or at least that's the only option our optimistic hearts will allow upon reading about the actor's reported next project, a massive-budget, honest-to-goodness end-of-the-world film by apocalypse maven Roland Emmerich: More »
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By STVComment by PaisleyPajamas: @Victor Ward: You are right! Yikes... I guess the aliens will feed me to the computer virus first... more » | Other threads
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Alec Baldwin Fights Off '60 Minutes' Offensive With Thoughtful Age Gags
For all the career renaissance we've seen from Alec Baldwin over the last three or four years, not even his Golden Globe for 30 Rock overshadows his legendary turn as "Sociopathic Father" in last year's wildly popular Web-exclusive release Thoughtless Little Pig. Even Morley Safer couldn't stop talking about it last night on 60 Minutes; in the accompanying video, watch the "appalling" Baldwin float like a butterfly and sting like a bee under Safer's withering sallies, punch back with word of his forthcoming book on "divorce and parental alienation" and finally score the knockout with his disarming rejoinder about a potential political career: "There's other things I want to do. I mean, in a matter of weeks I'm going to be 50... By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!" Oh, Alec, you bastard. We just can't stay mad at you. [60 Minutes] More »
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By STVComment by LosersHaveCreditCardDebt: 60 minutes offensive? You are kidding, right. That was a liberal lovefest. more » | Other threads
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Britney Spears' Answer To Beating The Traffic Blues Includes Applying Makeup And Playing Bumper Cars
Looks like last week's news that the Britney Spears Comeback Tour were showing signs of slowing down were more prophetic than we thought. On Saturday night, Spears was on her way to break bread with her semi-estranged mother Lynne when she rear-ended a Nissan that stopped in traffic in front of her on the 101. The cause of the accident? Britney was applying her makeup while driving:"The guy she hit...says before the accident, he was admiring the white Mercedes and the woman putting on makeup while driving it. It wasn't until after she hit him at an estimated 10-15 MPH that he realized the woman was Britney."
More details on the gurney-less accident after the jump. More »
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Comment by Decebal: I still think someone's clock is slowly ticking away and it's not Britney's. What a shame some poor slob will... more » | Other threads
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Britney Spears Shops Around Reality Show, Throws Wrench In Comeback Tour
Just as the Britney Spears Comeback Tour was picking up fuel with that promising role on HIMYM and a temporary absence from the tabloids, it appears that Spears may be regressing. The National Enquirer is reporting that Britney and her recently reunited manager Larry Rudolph are shopping around a reality show that would look, talk and walk far different from Chaotic: no K. Fed, two babies to feed, and no one to drug her and prompt intelligent conversation:"She believes a reality show is a no-brainer. She can be herself and not have to study lines...Several production companies are interested in a Britney reality show and are willing to pay her millions."
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Kathie Lee Gifford Returns To TV Just In Time To Be Serenaded By Harvey Fierstein
Can you believe it's been eight years since Mrs. Frank Gifford "left" her post as co-host of Regis & Kathie Lee? (Yes kids, before there was Kelly, there was Kathie Lee.) It seems like just yesterday that the former pageant queen was smothering us with her cackling chatter and inane stories. But that was yesterday; this is Today. More »
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By Paula DixonComment by Fauxjob: Two shows before we see her suckle Rosie O'Donnell's milk-less teet after an acapella rendition of The Banana Boat Song. more » | Other threads
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Britney Spears May Return To 'HIMYM', Finally Jumpstarting That Comeback We've Been Expecting For Half A Decade
Should Britney have skipped that whole "comeback" disaster at the MTV Video Music Awards and just headed straight to television? TV Guide is reporting today that Spears is "in talks" to reprise her role as a dermatologist's secretary in love with Josh Radnor's character on How I Met Your Mother, due to critical approval and a dramatic increase in the show's ratings that night. Yahoo reports that the allegedly sinking show drew in 10.6 million viewers tuning in to Britney's episode, compared to the average 7.8 million average for the season. Paired with reports that Brit has reunited with her former manager Larry Rudolph, it looks as though her Comeback Tour has finally been given some fuel, albeit slightly later than scheduled... More »
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Reclusive John Hughes Returns! As the Man Responsible For 'Drillbit Taylor!' Kind of!
Arguably the Judd Apatow of the '80s and currently the movies' equivalent of J.D. Salinger, prolific writer-producer-director John Hughes dropped out of filmmaking in 1991 after helming eight movies and developing stories and characters for nearly two dozen more to come. But now, in a symbolic Easter-weekend resurrection perhaps possible only in Hollywood, the writer Hughes and producer Apatow share above-the-line credit for the latest doomed Owen Wilson vehicle, Drillbit Taylor: More »
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By STVComment by bess marvin, girl detective: breakfast club, sixteen candles, ferris bueller's day off, pretty in pink, home alone to beethoven the fifth/drillbit taylor/maid in manhattan?... more » | Other threads
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Hollywood Scab Alex Perez Returns To Save The Oscars
It's been so long since last we heard from Hollywood superscab Alex Perez that we assumed his absence was due to a suffocating workload saving various productions from indefinite delays by quietly whipping deadline-rushed scripts into shootable form. Selflessly continuing to put the good of the industry ahead of his own professional well-being, Perez has finally returned, pitching his non-union services to desperate Academy producers. More »
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By MarkComment by l.ementary: I *heart* Alex Perez. The thing about his Oscar clips, though, is that his satire of the terrible banter is... more » | Other threads
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The Governator May Already Be Thinking About Hopping On His Harley And Riding Back To Hollywood
Can it possibly be that Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger is already tired of the emotional demands of enveloping the panicked citizenry of Malibu in his strong arms each time a wildfire cuts a new swath through some eight-figure weekend homes, and might be planning a return to the Hollywood superstardom he's briefly forsaken to dabble in public service? THR's Ray Richmond blogs that some picket-line chatter amongst the writers of Schwarzenegger's signature blowing-shit-up fare indicates that he may have his eye on a possible comeback: More » -
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Isaiah Washington More Popular Than Hillary And Barack Combined, Thank You Very Much
Isaiah Washington, now a member of Bionic Woman's big happy family, is never too busy to shatter the deafening, one-day silence that followed his ouster from Grey's Anatomy at the hands of a shadowy cabal of moustache-twirling gay foes. Speaking to Extra, the actor delivered a curiously roundabout answer to a question about whether or not potential Bionic viewers might be turned off by his year of very bad press: More » -
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Brokeback Brian
Yesterday, a reader threw a good scare into us by pointing out that YouTube superstar Brian Atene, whose too-infrequent video dispatches are the only real Art being produced in the industry today, had yanked all of his previous clips but one, leading us to believe that the gifted, possibly insane monologist might be headed towards a tragically early retirement. More » -
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Britney Spears Always Leaves Us Wanting More, Except When She Doesn't
For people who gambled hundreds of dollars hoping that a series of area House of Blues concerts for mystery act The M+Ms would actually feature Britney Spears's triumphant return to live performance—some good news, and some bad. First the good: As San Diegans in attendance can attest, it was indeed the troubled pop star who had taken to the stage a mere two hours late (despite the best efforts of a speeding tour bus driver), where, accompanied by a quartet of background-dancing skankettes, she gyrated to familiar hits with a shapely figure that bore only a fleshy hint of her recently acquired rehab fifteen. Now the bad news: More »
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