While you were working...
November 3rd, 2011
06:38 PM ET

While you were working...

Today's news you might've missed:

  • How's this for six degrees of separation: Stanley Tucci, 50, is reportedly engaged to Felicity Blunt, the sister of his "Devil Wears Prada" co-star Emily Blunt. [People]
  • Ryan Seacrest, a media and entertainment jack of all trades, is making his film production debut alongside Reese Witherspoon. The duo are co-producing a romantic comedy. [THR]
  • We really hope Rihanna gets some rest - the singer has reportedly canceled her second show this week in Sweden because of exhaustion. [New York Daily News]
  • While we're talking about music, Amy Winehouse's collaboration with Nas, "Like Smoke," debuted today. The track will be on her posthumous release, "Lioness: Hidden Treasures." [MTV]
  • While Snooki is stacking cash in anticipation of "Jersey Shore's" end, Vinny Guadagnino is trying being an ivy league lecturer on for size. The reality star visited Columbia University to lecture to a sociology class about deviance, to which one listener asked, "What gives you, a cast member from 'The Jersey Shore,' the right to interrupt this class and lecture us on setting a good example?" Smart student. [TMZ]

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Fans hold vigil for Kim K's marriage at Dash store
November 3rd, 2011
06:16 PM ET

Fans hold vigil for Kim K's marriage at Dash store

Kim Kardashian's split from Kris Humphries is taking a toll on the former newlyweds, as well as their fans.

An ad posted to Craigslist on October 31 – the day Kardashian filed for divorce – called for distraught fans of the unhappy couple to meet in front of the Dash store in New York City at 4:15 that afternoon.

The attendees (who, amazingly, weren’t too busy occupying Wall Street to arrive at the vigil) showed up with candles, flowers, magazine covers and signs to mourn the end of the 72-day marriage.

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Sports fans hate on Nickelback... again
November 3rd, 2011
05:23 PM ET

Sports fans hate on Nickelback... again

It seems Nickelback’s nasally rock ballads just don’t sit well with sports fans.

Supporters of the Detroit Lions are the latest to protest a possible performance by the Canadian band. (The Winnipeg Free Press published an open letter to the National Hockey League in August when word spread that Nickelback would play at its Face-Off festival.)

The band is reportedly slated to perform during halftime at Ford Field, when the Lions take on the Green Bay Packers Thanksgiving Day. But a whole lot of Lions fans/Nickelback haters have signed an online petition begging the National Football League to reconsider.
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Jessica Biel: I wish I'd landed 'Notebook' role
November 3rd, 2011
05:16 PM ET

Jessica Biel: I wish I'd landed 'Notebook' role

As with love, life as an actor means always having that one that got away. And for Jessica Biel, it sounds like it was the lead role of Allie from "The Notebook," which ended up going to Rachel McAdams.

Ryan Gosling, memorably, played her paramour from the wrong side of town, Noah.

Biel, 29, tells Elle magazine in its December issue, "'The Notebook'...That's one I wanted so badly. I was in the middle of shooting 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' and I auditioned with Ryan Gosling in my trailer - covered in blood."

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Jennifer Lawrence: 'Hunger Games' isn't 'Twilight'
November 3rd, 2011
04:46 PM ET

Jennifer Lawrence: 'Hunger Games' isn't 'Twilight'

While that may seem like a Captain Obvious statement, hear Jennifer Lawrence out.

The 21-year-old actress, who stars as heroine Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," was responding to a question from Vanity Fair that asked whether she's thought about the implications of starring in a movie that has the potential to become as successful as "Twilight."

To which Lawrence said that she's been trying "not to think too much about it."

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Filed under: movies
Cam picks up a woman on 'Modern Family'
November 3rd, 2011
04:35 PM ET

Cam picks up a woman on 'Modern Family'

Yes, you read that headline correctly.

It seems that Cam (VIP of the week) is convinced that if he were straight, he and Julia Roberts would be dating. After a waitress on the hunt for tips got flirtatious with him (the "drink-a-doodle-doo" was a dead giveaway to his sexuality, said Mitchell), he wanted to prove to Mitchell that he could pick up a woman.

At first, things seemed to be going well with a woman he met at a bar (played by the wonderful Leslie Mann, best known for "Knocked Up").

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November 3rd, 2011
03:55 PM ET

Same sex marriage advocacy and Kim K's divorce

As the latest star to hop out of a marriage fast enough to cause whiplash (or at least to make some lose their bets), Kim K. is also now the poster child for gay marriage.

A number of famous names tweeted after Kardashian filed for divorce Monday that the value of marriage is being lessened not by same-sex unions, but by heterosexuals.

George Takei tweeted (and please catch the sarcasm), "Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 72 days. Another example of how same-sex marriage is destroying the sanctity of the very institution." Kathy Griffin followed suit, saying, "Ugh! gay couples like Kim K & Kris H ruining the sanctity of marriage is the problem w the radical homosexual agend- oh wait..."

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Filed under: Celebrities • Kardashians
Marilyn Manson's karaoke fave is Justin Timberlake?
November 3rd, 2011
03:38 PM ET

Marilyn Manson's karaoke fave is Justin Timberlake?

Apparently goth rocker Marilyn Manson is a big Justin Timberlake fan. The New York Post’s Page Six reports that Marilyn belted classic JT tune “Cry Me a River” at karaoke in Las Vegas.

Not only does an onlooker tell the paper that Manson chose a Timberlake ballad, the source also claims he sang it six times!

“He was insisting on Timberlake music, so somebody had to download it on their iPod,” another source at bar Born and Raised told Page Six.

Around 4 a.m. on Saturday night, Manson and his crew reportedly left a Halloween party at The Bank nightclub and hit up Born and Raised, where Marilyn is said to have got on the mic. Page Six says that after warming up with The Doors’ “Texas Radio,” Manson started in with the repeated renditions of Timberlake.

Manson wasn't available to comment on the reports, but staff at the bar told Page Six that Manson was in attendance.

Fallon spoofs Bieber: '(It's not my) Baby'
November 3rd, 2011
03:05 PM ET

Fallon spoofs Bieber: '(It's not my) Baby'

Justin Bieber has tweeted that he's trying to "focus on the positive" instead of the rumors and gossip, which may or may not be in reference to that paternity lawsuit he's been hit with.

(If you're just joining us, a 20-year-old has reportedly claimed she had sexual relations with Bieber last October in a bathroom backstage at one of his L.A. concerts, a tryst that she alleges resulted in a 3-month-old baby boy. Bieber has called the allegations not only false, but malicious.)

Enter Jimmy Fallon, who was more than happy to take up the 17-year-old singer's cause on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

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Filed under: Celebrities • Justin Bieber • Late Night comedy • television
Franco conducting seance to contact Tennessee Williams
November 3rd, 2011
02:30 PM ET

Franco conducting seance to contact Tennessee Williams

Halloween’s over, but James Franco still has a spooky trick planned. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Franco has announced that he's going to conduct a seance to contact deceased playwright Tennessee Williams.

Considering Franco’s usual hijinks, a seance isn’t too surprising. The actor says his beyond-the-grave encounter will happen on November 13 during Performa, the biannual NYC performance art festival.

The “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” star, along with video artist Laurel Nakadate, will use a Ouija board to connect with Williams in part one of “Three Artists in Search of Tennessee,” a three-part commissioned piece. It's art!

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