BREAKING: Oprah To Continue Being On TV! • Nikki Finke is reporting today that Oprah will continue to be on TV but on a different station than she has been on TV for a long time. WHOA, STOP THE PRESSES VICKI VALE! In other stunning developments, Oprah will continue to be billionaire with millions of fans.

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Danny Boyle Moving Forward With Slummountain Onearmenaire

Danny Boyle is getting to work on his follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire, titled 127 Hours. From Variety:

Fox Searchlight and Danny Boyle have firmed plans to make their next collaboration "127 Hours," a film that tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston.

After his right forearm got pinned for nearly five days under a boulder during a climb in Utah in May, 2003, Ralston used a dull knife to amputate the limb. He then scaled a 65-foot sheer wall and hiked out before running into a family that gave him water and food. He was finally rescued by helicopter.

How did he do it?

A: He cheated
B: He's lucky
C: He's a genius
D: By using a dull knife to amputate the limb

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Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in Behind The Scenes
Tags: 127 Hours | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire

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CNN Says That Nicolas Cage Says That He Is Broke • This news story is weird. Nicolas Cage is so broke that he has to sell four different 10 million dollar mansions? But I guess he still gets to keep a few of his other 10 million dollar mansions? What fucking definition of "broke" is CNN using?

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An Open Letter To January Jones

Dear January Jones,

PLEASE BE CAREFUL. There was a report in Variety this morning that you have been cast in an upcoming movie called Hungry Rabbit Jumps. Congratulations! If I had things my way, you would be cast in everything. You are good at acting and you are great at having a pretty face. They should print your face on pillowcases in hospitals so that sick people could hold the pillows and feel better. Is that weird? Let's move on, January Jones.

You need to be careful because while we are happy that you are getting more work, your Hungry Rabbit Jumps co-star is Nicolas Cage, who makes almost exclusively horrible movies. And it's directed by Roger Donaldson, who made Cocktail and Dante's Peak. I'm not saying that this is going to be a bad movie. Who knows! I don't know. I'm just saying PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

You've also signed up to star in another movie, called Unknown White Male.

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Posted by Gabe at 10:20 AM in An Open Letter, Behind The Scenes
Tags: Betty Draper | Hungry Rabbit Jumps | January Jones | Mad Men | Nicolas Cage | Unknown White Male

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Our Bodies, Our Late Night • This is an interesting look behind-the-scenes at the sexist world of Late Night television written by a woman who used to work for Letterman. I would make a "take back the Late Night" joke, but that would probably be inappropriate. So nevermind.

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Professor Faces Over Here • Gordon Ramsay got plastic surgery. Fine. But he did it on the advice of Simon Cowell? I thought only teenage girls took what that guy said seriously. (Sometimes TOO seriously.)

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It's Not ALWAYS Sunny In Philadelphia • The original Sweet Dee talks about developing the show and then getting fired. Which is interesting, and the good news is she seems to be doing pretty well now. But it's funny when she pretends like this is advice. You know, for when you are the original Sweet Dee.

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Tom Cruise Can't Catch A Break. Good.

Aww, poor Tom Cruise! He is really getting hammered in the press this week. Well, he is getting hammered in the on-line interviews with far lesser known people who worked with him a million years ago...press. But still! The "man" can't catch a break. First there was a very compelling interview with Bronson Pinchot in the Onion, which you should read in its entirety because it's great, in which he describes a young Tom Cruise's on-set hate crimes:

Bronson Pinchot: We didn't know [Risky Business] was going to be a big hit. We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn--we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don't agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, "You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?" I mean, his lingo was larded with the most... There was no basis for it. It was like, "It's a nice day, I'm glad there are no gay people standing here." Very, very strange.

Haha. You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there? Tom Cruise sounds like he was supergood at homophobia. Just constantly cutting straight to the heart of the issue. Everyone was always nervous that he was going to bring their own sexuality-slash-love-of-ice-cream into question. Also: what an asshole! He was so young back then. Just a tiny, baby asshole, getting ready to spread his asshole wings.

And now there is an interview in BlackBook with Mary Harron, the director of American Psycho, in which she describes how Tom Cruise was the model for Patrick Bateman:

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Posted by Gabe at 9:45 AM in Behind The Scenes, Where Were They Then?
Tags: American Psycho | Bronson Pinchot | Mary Harron | Risky Business | Tom Cruise

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