The 41-year-old former "Diff'rent Strokes" actor was booked into the Utah County Jail Sunday on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said..
After suffering a brutal fake death at the hands of Twitter and a rumored car crash in France, Johnny Depp is alive and well, says his publicist. Depp now joins Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Goldblum, and Miley Cyrus as a person so important, Twitter cares whether or not he is dead. It's a compliment, really. [E!]
Gary Coleman was arrested in Utah for misdemeanor domestic assault. Last year, Coleman's wife was arrested for assaulting him. No further details have emerged, but his mugshot [fig.2] is creepy/sad. [TMZ] [Radar]
At first I didn't believe Radar's exclusives about Tiger's sex rehab in Mississippi, but as the evidence piles up in Radar's favor, I'm wondering: Is Tiger's "Gentle Path" their National Enquirer John Edwards infidelity moment? Radar's new report is that Tiger's wife Elin "spent the past several days with Tiger, participating in his treatment program." She has been there five days; her sister is taking care of the kids. [Radar]
In recent years Broadway's stages have been littered with dim performances from bright screen stars, including Julia Roberts and Katie Holmes. Film actresses as famous as Ms. Johansson tend to create their own discomfort zones onstage, defined by the mixed expectations of fans and skeptics. I was definitely aware of that zone when I saw Keira Knightley in The Misanthrope in London recently.
By comparison, Ms. Johansson melts into her character so thoroughly that her nimbus of celebrity disappears. [NYT]
For those worried that Justin Combs' charity benefit of a My Super Sweet Sixteen (yes, it will air on MTV) would be lame, Diddy's kid got a $360K Maybach "complete with driver" for his birthday. Page Six includes a picture of him wearing a crown, which sounds about right. [P6]
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(Reuters) Reuters - Who would have thought that the plays of Arthur Miller would provide a safe haven for young Hollywood actresses making their first forays onto a Broadway stage? Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:09 am
Reuters - Who would have thought that the plays of Arthur Miller would provide a safe haven for young Hollywood actresses making their first forays onto a Broadway stage? Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:09 am
(Reuters) Reuters - Music videos and commercials director Jake Scott takes on the tale of the prostitute and the man who wants to save her in "Welcome to the Rileys." Oh, there's a twist on that theme to be sure, but such a story is never going to work on a realistic level. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 25 Jan 2010 | 12:55 am
AP - James Mitchell, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera "All My Children," has died, his longtime partner said Sunday night. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jan 2010 | 12:45 am
James Mitchell, who for nearly three decades played patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera "All My Children," has died. He was 89. Mitchell's longtime partner Albert Wolsky said Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 25 Jan 2010 | 12:30 am
AP - "The Hurt Locker" scored the top film award from the Producers Guild of America, building new momentum for the Iraq war drama in the expanded Oscar race for best picture. The film about a risk-taking bomb disposal technician beat out such celebrated nominees as "Avatar," "Inglourious Basterds" and "Up in the Air."
UPSIDE DOWN CROSS Symbolizes mockery and rejection of Jesus. Necklaces are worn by many satanist's. It can be seen on Rock singers and their album covers.
By turning the human incarnation of Satan upside down, Drudge has created an amulet of protection. Should Osama attack, the Drudge Report will be the garlic to his vampire and drive him away from America. Like a silver bullet, we may use the Drudge Report to kill him.
2. At the climax of the first Harry Potter book, Professor Quirrell removes his turban, revealing a tiny Lord Voldemort on the back of his head. Matt Drudge is concerned that the same thing may be happening to bin Laden. It's a bit like Magic Eye: If you stare at upside-down Osama long enough, Voldemort will pop right out at you.
3. If he didn't put bin Laden upside down, we might accidentally think he liked terrorism. Liberal media make this mistake all the time.
4. Human error
5. Whimsy
Trebay wrote:
Forget the hilarious-in-a-sad-way fact that the New York Times figured out a Styles angle to the Haiti story. ("What if we focus on the survivors? The torn shirts, the dusty sandals, MRE in one hand, Trac phone in the other. The rise of 'Disaster Chic?'") The premise of the article—that a loosening of the 'Sartorial cliches of the trade' leads inevitably to a bunch of chest-bumping, musclebound G.I. Journalists—is false. CNN Newsroom anchor Don Lemon upends those cliches nightly and looks damn good doing it. Come, let us delve into the delightful looks of Don Lemon, CNN's resident dandy.
Classic Don Lemon here. The open shirt, no tie/suit jacket combo probably best embodies Lemon's style, which generally conforms to CNN's middle-of-the-roadness in all but a few key details. The tension between the network's institutional stodginess and Don's personal flare gives many of his ensembles the feel of a teen who rebels against his image-obsessed parents by paradoxically caring more about how he looks than they do.
Case-in-point: Lemon's glasses. When reading a document or viewer tweets, Don whips out a pair of hip chunky black frames and morphs into a bookish blipster. But as soon as he's done reading, the glasses come off and Lemon turns back into a mild manner CNN news anchor. It's like the opposite of the Superman/Kent Clark thing. And check out the skinny tie! $20 says Lemon is a Mad Men fan.
Sorry, No Pancakes:James Marsden has joined Russell Brand's voice in the cast of the live action/CG-hybrid I Hop. Directed by Tim Hill, the man behind Alvin and the Chimpmunks, I Hop follows a slacker (Marsden) who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny (Brand's voice) and must take him in as he recovers. Then it turns into the 2010 version of the Odd Couple, with poker-playing old guys replaced by a lazy twentysomething and an imaginary rabbit. [THR]
Ah Hell:Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Duhamel will star as humans caught in between a battle pitting heaven against hell in Sympathy for the Devil, a new insane sounding movie from M Global Octane. It will be directed by Boaz Yakin, who helmed Remember the Titans, and feature "a cosmic confrontation between Heaven and Hell, where angels are warriors as dangerous as demons." Samuel L. Jackson, of course, is the most dangerous. [Latino Review]
XXX: Three years after their last album, The New Pornographers will put out their fifth studio release on May 4. The album includes nine A.C. Newman songs and three Dan Bejar songs played by all of the band's eight members, which leaves them only one person short of being able to form a team for the indie rock softball league. [Matador]
Death Train: Director Olatunde Osunsanmi has signed on to sit in the folding chair for the action-thriller The Commuter. The film will focus on man's deadly commute home from work in New York City. The reason why it's deadly? He keeps nodding off hitting his head against the window. [Variety]
Sister Act:Joanna Garcia, who recently starred in Privileged, will star in ABC's upcoming comedy from Friends vet Shana Goldberg-Meehan. The show is about a pair of sisters, one of whom is in a happy relationship with a man who won't marry her and another who unexpectedly gets pregnant and marries her boyfriend. Seems like they should just swap. [THR]
In an op-ed imploring Democrats to "get down to business," Ford writes that Scott Brown's recent victory in Massachusetts makes it clear that Democrats need to "shift attention away from health care and toward a bold effort to create jobs, improve the economy and rein in the size of government." Then he explains how that should be done.
Step one: cut taxes for businesses. Step two: pass an even more watered-down health care bill. Step three: figure out a way to let smart immigrants become citizens. Step four: rein in that deficit!
A Democratic Party refocused on revitalizing our economy, protecting the United States from terrorism and re-establishing itself as the party for the middle class is what Americans are demanding. If we do this, victory at the polling booths will take care of itself.
From the looks of his plan, it seems like Ford might just want to forgo the Democratic primary and take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the general election.
Reuters - For his feature directing debut, Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn't wander far off the reservation. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 24 Jan 2010 | 10:50 pm
Reuters - Continuing a doc career that pessimists might say seems devoted to solvable problems that will never be solved, Davis Guggenheim moves from climate change to the crisis of American education. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 24 Jan 2010 | 10:49 pm
Here's what Bauer said in front of a crowd of people in Greenville:
In government, we are too often giving a handout instead of a hand up. [...] My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals You know why? Because they breed.
You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.
The State—a newspaper that is either really good, or just has a good beat, since South Carolina politicians have neither self-control nor discursive filters—reports that Bauer refuses to apologize. Though his words were rough, he says, the message was true. Which is weird, because even if you forgive him for comparing poor people to flea-bag alley cats that "don't know any better" than to blindly rub their genitals together until flea-bag babies spring from their loins—if you actually follow his argument to its logical conclusion? It's that we should starve poor people until their reproductive organs cease to function, which is not only totally messed up, but isn't even efficient.
"This is out of love and compassion," Bauer said. "If I have to take a hit, then fine. ... I will take short-term pain for long-term gain."
Bauer's "stray animals" rant came on the same day that South Carolina reported a jobless rate of 12.6 percent. Some South Carolinians find this coincidence distressing. On a completely unrelated note, how cute do Bauer and Luv Guv look on that bicycle built for two? [State]
In yet another example of the Interweb gone terribly wrong, Johnny Depp was faux-killed in France after a car crash late Saturday,...
AP - "The Fifth Servant" (William Morrow, 387 pages, $25.99), by Kenneth Wishnia: Days before Easter in Prague in 1592, a Christian girl is murdered and her body, drained of blood, is dumped in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. The death rekindles Christian beliefs that Jews sacrifice humans for blood to use in making matzo for the holiday.
AP - "The Fifth Servant" (William Morrow, 387 pages, $25.99), by Kenneth Wishnia: Days before Easter in Prague in 1592, a Christian girl is murdered and her body, drained of blood, is dumped in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. The death rekindles Christian beliefs that Jews sacrifice humans for blood to use in making matzo for the holiday.
AP - "Ordinary Thunderstorms" (Harper, 416 pages, $26.99), by William Boyd: Life can change in a blink of the eye — completely and forever. It's a bitter lesson that Adam Kindred learns on a rainy evening in London in William Boyd's "Ordinary Thunderstorms."
AP - "The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers" (Random House, 416 pages, $26), by Thomas Mullen: Few things are sure in Thomas Mullen's latest novel, including death.
AP - "The Bricklayer" (William Morrow, 390 pages, $24.99) by Noah Boyd: Steve Vail is a self-styled loner who's smart enough to pick up clues that others miss, sexy enough to attract women and macho enough to excite men.
In a pretty big upset, The Hurt Locker took home the top award at last night's Producer's Guild of America awards, beating out Avatar and a bunch of other geeky movies. The Hurt Locker's victory makes Avatar a little bit less of shoo-in to win the Oscar for best picture. Consider this: In the past 20 years, the winner of the top PGA Award has gone on to win the Oscar for best picture 12 times. HMFIC, it's time to start sweating.
The PGA also handed out awards the awesome 30 Rock, the super awesome Mad Men and the mega super awesome Up. Check out the full list of winners below.
Best Film: The Hurt Locker
Best TV comedy series: 30 Rock
Best TV drama series: Mad Men
Best Non-fiction TV: 60 Minutes
Best Live-entertainment/competition TV: The Colbert Report
Now, this is getting interesting.
One week after Avatar took top honors at the Golden Globes, and one night after Inglourious Basterds took top honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards,...
If you plan on engaging in some late night dog walking in Park Slope's Washington Park any time soon, be on the look out for eggs. Apparently an angry resident of a nearby condo is chucking eggs at noisy dogs and their owners. This canineaphobe must be really pissed—free range organic eggs aren't cheap. [NYP]
On Friday a woman was enjoying an educational afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when things went terribly wrong. As she was gazing into a painting by Pablo Picasso called "The Actor" (at left) she fell into. And just like that there was a six-inch tear in the lower corner of the six-foot-by-four-feet work. Unless this woman was once pantsed on national TV, this was surely most embarrassing moment of her life.
But she can rest easy tonight. The museum came out today and said the damage to the painting would be repaired and "the composition and the curatorial
and conservation staffs fully expect that the repair—which will take place in the coming weeks—will be unobtrusive."
Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, representative of New Hampshire's fighting first district, presented a unique plan for passing a health care reform bill: let the women in Congress do it. According to Shea-Porter, women understand how to care for their relatives so they know how the health care system should change. She knows this from the extensive discussions conducted in the House restroom.
"We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes," Shea-Porter said. "I'm not trying to diss the men but I'm telling you it's the truth that every single woman there has been responsible for taking care of a [relative] and so we think we can find a common ground there."
Sure, it may sound silly, but this is actually a fantastic idea. Now that we know exactly how to get an effective bipartisan bill passed, the men can go home and the women can bring all of their great ideas out of the bathroom and to the House floor. Democrats have just been saved!
Canadian billionaire space tourist and founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte (R), US astronaut Timothy Kopra (C), and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata eat traditional bread and salt during a ceremony... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 8:03 pm
File photo of space tourist, Canadian billionaire and clown Guy Laliberte smiling in the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 space capsule after landing in north-central Kazakhstan. The elite band of super-rich tourists... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 8:03 pm
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) and Sir Richard Branson (R) arrive for the unveiling of Virgin's Galactic SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial manned spacecraft which will bring tourist... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 8:03 pm
President Obama is supposed to report for jury duty in a suburb of Chicago tomorrow but the White House has told the court he won't be able to make it. That's the same thing President Bush, President Clinton and President Regan did. And yet again, "Change" goes out the window. [WaPo]
File photo shows Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (C) appearing on TV during his "Alo Presidente" broadcast program. Every television or radio station whose programming is at least 30 percent Venezuelan-made... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 7:40 pm
File photo shows opponents of the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez participating in a demo in Caracas against the closure of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) broadcasting. Six TV stations including... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 7:40 pm
File photo from inside the studio of the official TV channel VTV showing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a four-day marathon of himself on television talking, singing, offering criticism and haranguing... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 7:40 pm
Are the rumors finally true? Have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really parted ways?!
Don't fret, a source extremely close to the situation tells E! News the latest in the neverending...
But Anderson lent more than his handsome face to the cause. Over 33 years, he estimates he spent as much as $150,000 on Scientology. Here is how he accomplished such a dumb thing, as reported by the St. Petersburg Times:
Communications Course, $30: In 1976, Anderson visited the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood and signed up for a communications course, which was his gateway drug to Scientology.
"Auditing" and course work, $100,000: Scientology of course revolves around sessions of "auditing" wherein students' emotions are measured with a fake device known as an "E-meter". Anderson put $100,000 on account at the Celebrity Centre, of which he spent about a third.
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization Account, $36,947: Scientology's spiritual headquarters is located in Clearwater, FL, and all adherents must receive training there if they hope to advance to "OT VI and OT VII" levels. Anderson says he never spent any of this money, because he never got his juju in the right shape to reach those levels, or whatever.
Cruise Ship Freewinds, $11,400: Turns out that the only place to receive the highest level of Scientology training is on a conveniently expensive cruise ship. And Anderson put up the money—which he never used—in the expectation that he would reach the "OT VIII" level of Scientological glory.
18-volume set of Ron L. Hubbard's teachings, $3,000: It was the constant re-releasing of these books (due to 'stenographer errors') which appeared to push Anderson over the edge: ("These books were published 20 years before LRH died. How is it we're just discovering that stenographers made mistakes?") On the upside, they probably look great on the bookshelf next to your 31-volume Time-Life "Classics of the Old West" Series.
(Anderson actually made a bit of money off the Church as well—they paid him $35,000 for narrating Orientation.)
Look, here's the thing, Larry: You want your money back. We're willing to give you your money back—to a degree. But we also don't have to give you the money back, and you seem to have forgotten that. So we're just trying to work through some of these issues so we can help you get what you want and get what we want and everybody's fucking happy—excuse my language—everybody's happy, everybody's fine and you can go your separate way and do your thing. But the bottom line is, we don't have to give your money back.
Lionsgate paid $3.2 million for the distribution rights to the must-be-terrifying film Buried at Sundance today. It was the first big acquisition at what has been a particularly slow Sundance, where many of the most highly-anticipated films remain up for grabs. But not the Ryan Reynolds-starring Buried, which takes place exclusively inside of a coffin buried in an unknown part of Iraq. Reynolds plays a civilian truck driver trapped in the coffin with a cell phone that he must use to raise $5 million for his captors. His task is complicated by the phone's dying battery, the lack of oxygen in the coffin and the snake tickling his toes.
Lionsgate is known for putting out scary movies, like a little series you may have heard of called Saw. But for our money, being buried alive with a snake is exponentially more terrifying than an insane clown.
This is not shaping up to be a great year for Gary Coleman.
Just weeks after the 41-year-old former child star was hospitalized following a seizure, Coleman was arrested on domestic...
Front Page: Permut, Sladek and Taaffe set film about activist -- David Permut, Daniel Sladek and Chris Taaffe are teaming to produce a film based on the life of late civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
Despite all the evidence that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will run for governor, he still hasn't officially announced it. Governor Paterson is tired of waiting. In the wake of a Daily News story today that says Cuomo will announce his candidacy in March, Paterson's campaign went after the Attorney General by name, a departure from its typical beating around the bush about "drumbeats" and "drum majors."
"Voters have had enough of Albany politicians winking at them while doing nothing to solve their problems. Since it's clear Mr. Cuomo is running for Governor, it's time for him to stop ducking the hard questions of how he would close a $7.4 billion deficit, balance the budget and pass ethical and fiscal reforms," Paterson campaign manager Richard Fife said in a statement.
This is the kind of thing that Cuomo is trying to avoid by not yet announcing his candidacy. As long as he remains Attorney General he can continue catching bad guys without becoming a target for Paterson or Rick Lazio's barbs. That is, unless Paterson has wised up, as it seems, and decided to stop waiting for Cuomo and bring out the attack dogs on his own.
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The Assassination of Angelina Jolie By the Coward Jennifer Aniston
Angelina Jolie: Womb Raider
Unwanted
Gone in Sixty Months
Troy-less and Depressida
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A tipster sends in additional details about the circumstances surrounding the great Picasso Tearing of 2010, which they claim to have heard from a Met security guard:
There was a group of students touring the 20th century area and a special needs kid was sitting on the floor or leaning on the wall, went to get up, tripped and tore a six inch long hole in Picasso's 'actors'.
Remember Scorpion, the German hair metal band that insisting on rocking you like a hurricane? Well, they're hanging up their axes after the release of their next album, Sting in the Tail, in order to end their "extraordinary career on a high note." In memory of these seminal cock rockers, check out this video for their song "No One Like You," which features a guy with forks stuck in his eyes! [AP]
Front Page: Bays, Thomas to parent new shows under 20th TV megadeal -- Kids, did I ever tell you about the time when "How I Met Your Mother" creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas signed a rich overall pact with 20th Century Fox TV?
It's over.
E! News has learned exclusively that Star Trek star Chris Pine and actress/Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn have called it quits. The couple had been dating since...
AP - While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock's chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster "Avatar" may have felt a touch blue.
The Jersey Shore cast is a riot...literally.
And no, we're not talking about their latest reported salary demands. (But more on that in a minute!)
After making their way...
AP - Lanvin's pitch-perfect menswear collection of romantic-yet-rugged suits and billowing trenches wrapped up Paris' fall-winter 2010-2011 displays on a high note Sunday.
Front Page: Fest filled with interesting twists to the usual routine -- In the first major feature pickup of the Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate will acquire domestic distribution rights to Ryan Reynolds thriller "Buried," about a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive.
Members of the German band The Scorpions perform in 2009. The Scorpions is breaking up after more than 40 years together courting controversy and selling more than 100 million recordings, its founder said... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Jan 2010 | 1:48 pm
Fashion Wire Daily - Hollywood's biggest stars came out in force to the Shrine Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 23, to celebrate themselves, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, but there were few surprises when it came to the winners of those prestigious SAG statues.
While reports are swirling that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are headed for a split, multiple sources close to the family tell PEOPLE that the rumors are false.
The New York Times profiles Laura Linney this weekend, and even though they take the tiresome "actresses over 40" angle, Linney's charm and total lack of movie star attitude shine through with moments like "Ms. Linney laughed at the suggestion that she was well adjusted. “No one is,” she countered." She really is amazing, and we can't wait to see her upcoming Showtime series The C-Word, about an OB/GYN who realizes late in life that she's a lesbian. (Just kidding, it's about cancer. But we really can't wait to see it.)
Jon Gosselin and new girlfriend Morgan Christie have been parading around the Sundance Film Festival, raiding the gift lounges and not exactly being shy about their blossoming new...
In one of those classic Sunday Styles pieces that seems to have been written solely to provoke outrage and/or ridicule, today we learn that this spring, coinciding with bonus season, the very rich are finally going to resume their conspicuous consumption and status-purchasing. Whew! There's even a name for the suffering and anguish these folks have silently endured for the past year or two: "frugal fatigue." The article lists off extremely anecdotal examples of this "phenomenon," such as one man who bought one $5000 pair of earrings one day recently, and another man who saw a woman on an elevator wearing a $10k coat. Green shoots!
Apparently, the frugal fatigue "movement" is practically Buddhist, what with all the turning inward:
“It is about inner self-gratification rather than letting people know how rich you are.”
Is that what buying a Bentley instead of Rolls Royce is about, now! And here we always thought it was a compensation thing. And also this:
“I think it will be interesting to see what big houses go up for sale or who buys the first big necklace,” Ms. Lebenthal said. “Even when there is still so much populist anger.”
Ooohh, we absolutely positively cannot wait to see who buys the first big necklace. First Big Necklace-Watch begins today!
The Hurt Locker's chances at Oscar just got a little hurt. Of course, what more can you expect from a team of Inglourious Basterds?
Quentin Tarantino's band of...
White House senior adviser David Axelrod is shaking off suggestions that Obama's re-hiring of David Plouffe to run the midterm campaigns is a sign that the president is reinventing himself, telling Politico "There's no need to." Axelrod also says the same forces that got Obama elected, a desire for change, got Scott Brown elected in Massachusetts. [Politico]
I loved The Runaways. It really does rock. The movie is the true-life story of the short-lived but legendary all-girl rock band, with Kristen Stewart starring as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as...
Top three: Avatar: $36 million; Legion: $18 million; The Book of Eli: $17 million. Despite extensive promotion, the Harrison Ford/Brendan Fraser drama Extraordinary Measures underperformed with a dismal $7 million. [Box Office Mojo]
Page Six reports that the cast of Jersey Shore, who were paid only a few hundred dollars per episode for season one of their hit show, are now using collective bargaining to try to get $10,000 per episode each for a proposed but not confirmed season two, citing the cast of The Hills, who each get $100,000 per episode. This is the best part:
"Snooki said she was hiring a bodyguard to keep fans at bay. The 22-year-old "Princess of Poughkeepsie" explained, "When we try to go to TGI Friday's or Applebee's, we can't eat because people go crazy."
The manager of The Funny Bone comedy club in Huntington, West Virginia posted comedian Andy Dick's $60,000 bail so he could perform as scheduled last night. The comedian was arrested at 4 am Saturday for allegedly non-consensually kissing a male bar patron and grabbing a bouncer's crotch. Dick is scheduled to appear in court on February 2, but maybe he won't and the manager of the Funny Bone comedy club will come after him in Hollywood and it will be a reality show called "Chasing Andy Dick." [RadarOnline]
Rebecca Solomon, a University of Michigan student who was returning to college after the winter break was going through security at the Philadelphia airport when she was stopped by a TSA worker who pulled a plastic bag full of white powder out of her laptop bag and questioned her about it while she stood there in tears. Finally, the worker admitted he had planted the bag there as a prank. The TSA is only confirming that the worker was disciplined and no longer works there. This story, while scary and crazy, is just further evidence that those full body scans will result in naked celebrity photos.
TSA Worker Plants White Powder On Flier In 'Prank' [CBS TV]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are rumored to be breaking up every day, of course, but no rumor thus far has gained as much traction as today's, first reported by the UK's News of the World and picked up by the NY Daily News, the LA Times, and practically everyone else. The report says the two have signed papers dividing their assets and agreeing to joint custody of their six children, who will reportedly live with Angelina. Could be lies, could be a practical pre-nup-style arrangement just in case, or could be something we'll be hearing about constantly for the next five years.
In a new unconfirmed audio message played on Al Jazeera today, Osama bin Laden praised Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for continuing the terror work begun on September 11. It's the hidden Al-Qaeda leader's first message in seven months. [CNN]
The Screen Actors Guild awards, you know, the ones that are kind of creepy to watch because everyone is forced to say "My name is _______ and I'm an actor" and they don't seem to know they're on TV and you realize what huge drama geeks actors really are, aired last night. Sandra Bullock won for The Blind Side, but her otherwise charming speech was ruined when she credited the widely loathed Crash for her reinvented career, and then told her "hot" husband "I want you so much." Yuck! The full winners list, after the jump.
Winners:
Movies:
Cast: "Inglourious Basterds."
Actor in a leading role: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart."
Actress in a leading role: Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side."
Supporting actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglorious Basterds"
Supporting actress: Mo'Nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Stunt ensemble: "Star Trek."
Life Achievement: Betty White.
Television:
Drama series cast: "Mad Men."
Actor in a drama series: Michael C. Hall, "Dexter."
Actress in a drama series: Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife."
Comedy series cast: "Glee."
Actor in a comedy series: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock."
Actress in a comedy series: Tina Fey, "30 Rock."
Actor in a movie or miniseries: Kevin Bacon, "Taking Chance."
Actress in a movie or miniseries: Drew Barrymore, "Grey Gardens."
While NBC catches grief for the Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien controversy, its Alec Baldwin-Tina Fey comedic combo brought the network some honor at the SAG awards.
Now, this is getting interesting.
One week after Avatar took top honors at the Golden Globes, and one night after Inglourious Basterds took top honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards,...
Are the rumors finally true? Have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really parted ways?!
Don't fret, a source extremely close to the situation tells E! News the latest in the neverending...
This is not shaping up to be a great year for Gary Coleman.
Just weeks after the 41-year-old former child star was hospitalized following a seizure, Coleman was arrested on domestic...
It's over.
E! News has learned exclusively that Star Trek star Chris Pine and actress/Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn have called it quits. The couple had been dating since...
The Jersey Shore cast is a riot...literally.
And no, we're not talking about their latest reported salary demands. (But more on that in a minute!)
After making their way...
Jon Gosselin and new girlfriend Morgan Christie have been parading around the Sundance Film Festival, raiding the gift lounges and not exactly being shy about their blossoming new...
The Hurt Locker's chances at Oscar just got a little hurt. Of course, what more can you expect from a team of Inglourious Basterds?
Quentin Tarantino's band of...
I loved The Runaways. It really does rock. The movie is the true-life story of the short-lived but legendary all-girl rock band, with Kristen Stewart starring as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as...
