Ben Affleck’s “The Town,” opening in theaters nationwide today, is the Boston-bred actor’s second time in the director’s chair, and he's assembled an intriguing cast to help him pull off the job.

The crime thriller is set in a Boston neighborhood notorious for its bank robbers, with Affleck taking the lead role as one of the best of the baddies, Doug MacRay. “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm, perhaps trying to loosen the tie on his retro image, plays an FBI agent who would love to put an end to Doug's success, and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona’s” Rebecca Hall stars as the woman who makes Doug think twice about being resolved to a life of crime.

Jeremy Renner fills out the role of Doug’s hard-core but loyal best friend Jem, and Blake Lively also appears in a role that's removed from her “Gossip Girl” alter-ego as his rough-around-the-edges sister.

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After a brief hiatus (everyone needs to rehab their celebrity addiction once in a while) your celebrity weekly cheat sheet returns to find the covers of your favorite weekly mags have (barely) moved on from MTV's "Teen Mom," choosing to replace the young women on that reality show with the stars of "Jersey Shore," Kim Kardashian and Kate Gosselin.

Remember when movie stars and musicians used to be on these things? Those days, my friends, are far, far behind us. Instead, this week you can read about everything you've ever wanted to know about people living out their "reality" for your amusement.

He may seem to have it all, but there's one thing teen idol Justin Bieber has yet to acquire: a girlfriend. And that's just the way he likes it.

"Girlfriends are trouble at this age," the 16-year-old singing sensation told MTV News. "Girls are fun to hang out with but, like, having that one steady girl... we're constantly traveling and one girl's not gonna really [work]. You can't really have one girl. I don't really have any crushes at the moment."

That might come as a surprise to Kim Kardashian, who has had a playful, ongoing Twitter flirtation with Bieber since meeting him at the White House Correspondents Dinner in May. And didn't Bieber recently gush that he wanted to make a romantic comedy with Disney star Selena Gomez? Hmm…

In the meantime, Bieber said he's just enjoying the single life and being a kid. "The best thing is [that we're] just teenagers having fun doing what we love," said the chart-topper, who is also embarking on an acting career. "We're just staying ourselves and remaining humble."

Not many in the industry could assemble the power cast brought together by Tyler Perry for his new film, “For Colored Girls."

The recently released trailer shows glimpses of star players Janet Jackson, Thandi Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, who all join forces for an intense cinematic retelling of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf."

Like its literary inspiration, the film will follow the lives of several black women who are only known by a color: “Lady in Yellow,” “Lady in Purple,” “Lady in Blue,” and so forth. Each woman deals with a different conflict such as love, abandonment, rape and abortion until the end, when all the women unite for a laying on of the hands.

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We're going to start this recap with a little bad news: A repeat of “Jersey Shore” aired last night. But the good news is that it’s not too late to reminisce about the madness that was Sunday night’s (pre-Video Music Awards) episode.

Unfortunately, Vinny and Angelina didn’t have the awkward morning after I was hoping for. No quietly sneaking out of bed, trying desperately not to wake the other person. No "where am I," or "what happened last night?"

The universe did throw us a bone with a brief phone conversation between Angelina and Vinny’s mother, but even that scenario had the potential to be way more amusing than it was.

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Yes, "The Real Housewives of D.C." is a reality show, but how often does the cast actually deal with real problems? Well, last night, a few of them actually did.

Michaele and Tareq were looking for a new home in Washington, so of course they called Stacie, who’s a realtor, to help them look.  But Stacie was looking for a clue as to where the money will come from for the Salahi homestead. She had some real concerns about the scandal surrounding their vineyard and whether they had the money for the dream home they want.

Meanwhile, Lynda was moving into her new home outside the city. Most people would have a housewarming, but she chose to burn sage around the house to bless it or something. She also sprinkled some holy water and said a Jewish blessing, so I suppose she was just covering her bases.

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"The World" is coming to an end. After a 54-year-run on television, "As the World Turns" will air its final episode today.

Following its debut on CBS in April, 1956, the daytime drama, set in the fictitious town of Oakdale, Ill., went on to become a huge hit, spawning a 1965 spinoff, "Our Private World," and becoming a significant part of pop culture, reports the Huffington Post.

Besides inspiring the "As the Stomach Turns" sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the 1970s, it got a shout out in last season's "Mad Men" episode in which Walter Cronkite interrupts the soap to announce President Kennedy's assassination.

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Talk about perfect casting: Outrageous British comic Sacha Baron Cohen will play outrageous Brit rocker Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the Queen frontman set to film next year, reports Deadline.com.

Mercury, known for his soaring vocals and flamboyant stage presence, helped make Queen one of the biggest bands of the '70s and '80s with hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody," "We Are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You." He died from AIDS-related complications at age 45 in 1991.

Reports that Cohen, 38, would play the singer first surfaced in 2007, though the actor's rep shot down the rumors at the time. GK Films, which is heading up the project, now confirms that the "Borat" and "Bruno" star is on board.  Screenwriter Peter Morgan, who previously wrote scripts for "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland," is ready to take on music royalty for the film.

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In an eerie case of life imitating art, a two-part "Grey's Anatomy" aired last night that closely mirrored a shooting at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital earlier that day.

At Hopkins, a distraught Paul Warren Pardus shot a doctor and killed both his mother and himself after the doctor briefed him on his mother's medical condition. On "Grey's," a man gunned down medical staff and himself after his wife died at Seattle Grace Hospital.

ABC aired the two repeat episodes – part of May's season finale – in anticipation of the new season of "Grey's Anatomy," which kicks off next week. Though the network gave stations the option to show different episodes, an ABC spokesperson told the NYTimes, "Individual stations will determine what is best for their markets."

For those who chose to air the disturbing drama, the network provided a graphic to be run prior to broadcast: "Due to today’s news events and the depiction of graphic violence in the following program, viewer discretion is advised.”

At the end of August, thousands showed up at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for Glenn Beck’s "Restoring Honor" rally, but with both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert planning their own rallies, who knows how many people will descend upon the District.

Stewart assured his audience last night, after announcing his proposed “Rally to Restore Sanity,” that “the forms have been filled out,” “the checks have been written,” and the whole event will last only “about two to three hours one Saturday in our nation’s capital."

Stewart said he's not aiming for anything wild and/or crazy, but rather provide an event "for some nice people to get together for fun, maybe some special guests and some great conversation...It will be like a chat room, but real!”

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