While you were working...
August 22nd, 2011
06:35 PM ET

While you were working...

Today's news you might've missed:

  • We've always pegged Ryan Gosling as more of a lover than a fighter, but this video just may prove us wrong. The actor is being pegged as the valiant Samaritan in the striped tank top who stopped an NYC street fight in the video below.  [New York Daily News]

  • Surprise, surprise: Runaway bride/Playboy model Crystal Harris is trying to get her own reality show. You don't say! [TMZ]
  • While Kim Kardashian was busy blowing a reported $10 million on her "fairytale" wedding, former flame Ray J was celebrating his 30th birthday in Vegas. [Bossip]
  • If you didn't like "Tree of Life," Sean Penn says to lay the blame on director Terrence Malick. Penn's quoted as telling Le Figaro, "A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact...What’s more, Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly." [The New Yorker]
  • This snippet of Amy Winehouse's duet with Tony Bennett, "Body and Soul," is only 45 seconds long, but you don't need much more to marvel at what a great voice the late singer had. [Idolator]

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Four 'Glee Project' finalists land 'Glee' cameos
August 22nd, 2011
06:33 PM ET

Four 'Glee Project' finalists land 'Glee' cameos

Not one, not two, but all four of the finalists from "The Glee Project" have been offered the chance to appear on Fox's series "Glee," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Damian McGinty and Samuel Larsen both took the top prize of landing a seven-episode arc on the show, but fellow finalists Lindsay Pearce and Alex Newell say their two episodes a piece isn't anything to sneeze at.

"For the first time in my life I couldn’t say anything; I was speechless," Newell told THR of learning about the opportunity to guest star. "It’s a moment in my life that I’ll probably never forget because it was the only moment in my life that I was quiet for."

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Filed under: Glee • television
Joel McHale: The Kardashians don't like me
August 22nd, 2011
06:06 PM ET

Joel McHale: The Kardashians don't like me

He slams reality stars regularly on “The Soup,” but host Joel McHale tells JustJared.com that most of his victims have a sense of humor. Except the Kardashians.

“I know the Kardashians don’t like me,” says the actor of the famous family.

“No one has said ‘how dare you,’” McHale explains of his usual reaction from celebs. “Reality stars without exception have come up to me and have said ‘Thank you for making fun of me.’” McHale notes that even constant target Jake Pavelka dealt with his digs by appearing on the show.

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Pixar announces two upcoming films
August 22nd, 2011
05:56 PM ET

Pixar announces two upcoming films

Pixar fans have two new reasons to get excited. The famed animation studio announced an upcoming movie about dinosaurs and another about the inner workings of the human brain over the weekend, according to a release from Disney's D23 Expo.

At D23 on Friday, Pixar also revealed details about a new animated “Toy Story” short. “Small Fry,” featuring the character Buzz Lightyear, will premiere before “The Muppets” movies. And then on Saturday, the famed studio unveiled the loglines for the two forthcoming feature films.

The first project is about what might have happened had dinosaurs not been wiped out, and is due out November 2013. Pixar released a description of the film:

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Lil Wayne gets 'gnarly gash' skateboarding
August 22nd, 2011
04:55 PM ET

Lil Wayne gets 'gnarly gash' skateboarding

Lil Wayne is recovering from what sounds like a nasty spill taken at a St. Louis-area skate park.

The rapper was in town to perform at a concert on Sunday, and afterward headed out with his skateboard. After taking a fall, though, he landed at the DePaul Health Center emergency room, reports Rolling Stone.

"The Lou was good but I busted my...head at the sk8park!" Wayne tweeted Monday. "9stitches! Gnarly gash over my left eye! Luv the people."

The 28-year-old is gearing up for a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday, and is set to release his album, "Tha Carter IV," immediately after the show on the Web.


Filed under: Lil Wayne • Music
August 22nd, 2011
04:53 PM ET

Weekend reviews in 140 or less

"Fright Night," "One Day," "Conan the Barbarian" and "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World" were the new movies at the theater this weekend, but it was actually the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" which won the box office.

The movie pushed past the well-received "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to earn an estimated $20.5 million this weekend, leaving the four newbies with more paltry openings.

Although "Spy Kids" did the best out of the foursome with $12 million, we're going to start with "Fright Night," since apparently none of you went to go see Jessica Alba's kid movie with Aromascope.

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Filed under: movies
Instead of a $10 million wedding, Kim K. could've bought...
August 22nd, 2011
04:49 PM ET

Instead of a $10 million wedding, Kim K. could've bought...

Kim Kardashian’s fairytale wedding to NBA player Kris Humphries reportedly cost about $10 million.

The hefty figure - which happens to be the same amount of money the “Conan the Barbarian” remake made at the box office its opening weekend - most likely didn’t set the reality TV stars back too much.

(According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Kardashian clan made $65 million in 2010 alone.)

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Filed under: Kardashians
Lindsay Lohan sues Pitbull over hit song
August 22nd, 2011
04:46 PM ET

Lindsay Lohan sues Pitbull over hit song

Lindsay Lohan is suing Pitbull for using her name in his song “Give Me Everything," lawyer Stephanie Ovadia, who also represented Lohan in her lawsuit against E*TRADE, has confirmed to CNN.

A line from the single goes, “Hustlers move aside, so I'm tiptoein', to keep flowin' / I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan," and the actress is also lodging her complaint against the song's writers Ne-Yo and Afrojack.

The suit claims that "By virtue of [the song's] wide appeal, condemnation, excoriation, disparaging or defamatory statements by the defendants about [Lohan] are destined to do irreparable harm."

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'Carnage' goes from stage to screen in new trailer
August 22nd, 2011
04:40 PM ET

'Carnage' goes from stage to screen in new trailer

The trailer for Roman Polanski's highly anticipated film "Carnage" is out, and upon first look, the film shows promise.

Based upon the Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage" by Yasmina Reza, the film revolves around two couples who get together after their sons get into an altercation at the playground.

Hilarity and chaos ensue, and there's a roller coaster ride of emotions throughout the more-than-an-hour time frame, during which alliances were forged in all-out war.

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Liam Gallagher sues brother, demands apology
August 22nd, 2011
04:26 PM ET

Liam Gallagher sues brother, demands apology

Liam and Noel Gallagher are at it again. The famously feuding brothers and former Oasis bandmates are bickering over a 2009 show cancellation and the band’s subsequent break up, and it sounds like it's going all the way to the courts.

In 2009, Oasis pulled out of the V Festival. Last month, Noel spoke out about the cancellation, saying that his brother was too hungover to perform.

Liam maintains that he had laryngitis, and is appealing to the U.K. court system to force his brother to give an apology, according to U.K. paper The Guardian.

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