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Tobes, I'm Thinkin' We'd Make A Great Buddy/Cop Movie Duo

Douglas Reinhardt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:15:00 EDT

Musician/actor Jim Belushi spent a majority of the Lakers' playoff game yesterday pitching Tobey Maguire various projects that Belushi has been developing. Belushi first pitched Maguire on a reboot of the K-9 franchise, which was followed quickly by a project where Maguire would be a cop from a foreign country and Belushi is a cop from LA and they have to team up to solve a major international crime. Belushi noticed that Maguire's attention was fading, so Belushi pulled out what he thought was his trump card, a project about a wacky married guy and his equally as wacky uncle trying to figure women out. Maguire paused for a moment and replied, "I'm sorry, you were saying something?"

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The Unkillable Jim Belushi

Mark — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:28:17 EDT

· First Cavemen, now Jim Belushi. What new ways will ABC find to humiliate George Lopez?
· A bizarre twist in a thoroughly unpleasant story.
· Paris Hilton: The NDA.
· Here's an early-ish review of Transformers; we're not entirely sure, but we suspect that when a reviewer says he wants to "hunt down Michael Bay and stab him in the face-eye," it's not necessarily a rave.
· NBC rock star Ben Silverman: The Simpsons character.

Catwoman-Belushi Feud Ends

Seth — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:21:40 EST

Perhaps the greatest celebrity neighbor feud of our generation, between an overweight, wisecracking ABC sitcom dad (Jim Belushi, we think), and one of the aging actresses who played Catwoman on the 1960s Batman TV series (Julie Newmar, but again, don't quote us) has finally come to a happy, made-in-Hollywood ending:

Actor JIM BELUSHI has ended his two-year feud with his next door neighbour JULIE NEWMAR by inviting the former BATMAN star to join him on his US TV sitcom.

The pair fell out when Newmar objected to building work Belushi had started on his Hollywood estate. [...]

The couple has since settled the $4 million lawsuit and Newmar will now appear on an upcoming episode of Belushi's hit show ACCORDING TO JIM.

That the two would settle their differences before the coaxed, uproarious laughter of a captive studio audience was as sensible solution as any (and one that we predicted in October). Perhaps this random act of cross-promotional kindness will set the tone for a year of Hollywood bygones. Lindsay, are you listening? You take this SOS pad and you get to work on that bathroom wall. No, "Scarlett is a cu" isn't good enough, keep scrubbing!

WARRING BELUSHI AND NEWMAR TEAM UP ON TV [Contact Music]
Previously: Realtors Render Agents Obsolete: Bruce and Halle Edition [Defamer]