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20 CCs Of Cuteness Stat. Because today has...

Seth — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:50:35 EDT

20 CCs Of Cuteness Stat. Because today has been an incredibly depressing Friday, we thought we'd offer a much needed injection of induced happiness, in the form of these photos of a baby deer and baby panda. We hope they help. (But please don't rush out and adopt a deerpie. They get really big really fast and crap all over the house.) [vainglorious, Daily Mail]

Inside A Pee Wee-Starring 'Happiness 2' and a Peter Gallagher- Retaining 'Center Stage 2'

Kyle Buchanan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:50:00 EDT

Undaunted by the poor reception accorded Hamlet 2, Hollywood is pressing on with two even more unlikely sequels: one likely to provoke an excited "Oh my gahhh!" the other, simply an "Oh my." We'll start with the latter: strange as it may seem, Variety reports that Todd Solondz is moving ahead with an "untitled part-sequel, part-companion piece" to his incredibly unsettling 1998 comedy Happiness. If the idea of a Happiness 2 makes you feel just this far from being completely hysterical 24 hours a day, why not meet its unlikely cast of Pee-Wee Herman, Demi Moore, and Emma Thompson! No, this is not a delayed April Fool's Joke, and there is thus far no word on who will be masturbating on, near, or about whom, but the project will begin shooting this October in San Juan, Puerto Rico (naturally).

More wholesome sequel news, after the jump:

As excitedly noted by PopWrap, the seminal dance troupe sleeper Center Stage is also getting a sequel, Center Stage: Turn It Up. No Paul Reubens or Demi Moore here, but there are two casting notices that should make many a former teen girl's heart jete: Peter Gallagher is returning as company director Jonathan, and OMG OMG OMG Ethan Stiefel is returning as the positively dreamy Cooper Nielsen OMG. The sequel is set to premiere on Oxygen before making its debut on DVD; no word yet on whether network buddies Tori & Dean will cameo.

Solondz off to Werc Werk Works [Variety]
"Center Stage 2?" Yes, You Heard Me Right! [PopWrap]

DeAnna Pappas: 'Your The One'

Seth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:10:00 EDT

They say that every soul has their One out there somewhere—and after a false start that left her hunched over and coughing up blood on her Gazebo of Broken Dreams, DeAnna Pappas finally found hers last night on The Bachelorette's season finale. And who, we ask, is more deserving of legitimate and lasting happiness, having submitted herself to not one but two six-week-long cattle-call searches for true love? No one! Learn who DeAnna chose—the very same fellow who scribbled that spell-unchecked grocery list of proposal talking points above—after the jump!

It was a two-hour nail-biter (followed by an After the Final Rose, "Yes, I totally married the guy in the pink shoelaces—isn't that hilarious?! That's how much I really love this person for all of eternity! I saw past those really gay shoelaces!" tell-all) that delivered ABC the highest ratings of the night. In it, Pappas had her two final suitors join her on a trip back to Georgia to meet her parents—on the one hand fun-loving snowboarder Jesse, on the other hand, kindly single dad Jason, and on the third hand, Pappas herself, trying to keep track of who she was at any given moment. Ultimately, she chose the guy lugging the winter sporting equipment, not the the baby carrier, as her One; to the visible dismay of Pappas's father, the two TV lovebirds managed to pull away from their mutual tractor-beam gaze long enough to inform a cooing studio audience of their plans to marry in May of next year.

The Bachelorette [ABC]
Your the one [Evil Queen Magda]