14 Days Later [The Clip Show]

eats-farts.jpg· The Strike - Week 2: Bring Your Kids to the Strike Day; the Empire strikes back; what the AMPTP isn't telling you (anymore); Picketing with the Stars; and what of the assistants?; Strike Dancing Fever!; a diaper-wearing star is born; hatin' on tiny-penis havers; munching on flatulence; Not The Daily Show; Gays gay-up the strike gaily; "Wha'chu talkin' 'bout, Counter?"; the 93-year-old striker is almost as cute as the baby; a world without patter.

· Kissing Kirk Douglas.

· Sharon Stone clearly has had some work done.

· It's beginning to feel a lot like fake Christmas.

· All roads in the sad death of Donda West lead to this dude.

· The Week in Sexiest Men Who Are Still Breathing: Matt Damon wins! No--the Conchords win. Wait. No. Dwight Schrute wins.

· Why do bad things happen to good Ellens?

· In Runway, sometimes you're thin, and sometimes you're out.

· Correction: Paris thinks elephants should be able to get drunk if they want to.

· Rolling out Dick Clark for another Rockin' Eve.

· Little-known Spider-Man facts: Hails from Mississauga, Ontario, wears no foundation garments.

· Come on a Hooker Safari with us.

· If only O.J. Simpson would shut up about beer-making and let you enjoy your copy of Sky.

· Lindsay does her hour-and-a-half, and it's all good.




As it turns out, the script for Da Vinci ... [Brian Grazer]

hanks-howard-grazer.jpgAs it turns out, the script for Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons that screenwriter Akiva Goldsman rushed in to beat the pre-strike deadline wasn't as shoot-ready as Sony had hoped, forcing the studio to indefinitely postpone production of Ron Howard's next crowd-narcotizing blockbuster:

"'While the filmmakers and the studio feel the screenplay is very strong, we do not believe it is the fully realized production draft required of this ambitious project,' a Sony spokesperson said. 'At this time, there is no new start date for Angels & Demons, but we are setting a release date of May 15, 2009, and are hopeful to deliver the movie worldwide to theaters on that date. We do not expect any other film on our 2008 slate to be affected.'" But take heart: as we've recently learned, the production setbacks that don't kill Imagine's Brian Grazer only make him stronger, so we have every confidence he'll make sure this latest passion project eventually gets made--even if that means he has to circumvent the too-cautious studio by buying his own copy of the book at the Grove's Barnes and Noble, taking it over to Tom Hanks' house, then forcing the star to act out the story at gunpoint while the dogged superproducer captures every precious word on a camcorder. [Variety]






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Your Weekend Of Superheroes [To Do]

confessions-superman.jpgFriday

· Music round-up: Neko Case at the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Tiger Army at the Wiltern; The B52's at the Roxy.

· Matt Ogens' documentary on the Walk of Fame characters we all so know and love, Confessions of a Superhero, is finally opening at the Laemmle Music Hall. See it and learn all about what brought Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Hulk to Hollywood Blvd. (Cameos by Shake-Me-Down Elmo and Headbutting Chewbacca!)

Saturday

· At UCLA, the Opportunity Green Conference is "unprecedented gathering of the prime movers and shakers in the world of green business," many of whom will eventually be assassinated by oil companies for their energy-saving breakthroughs.

· More music: The Warlocks at the Troubadour; Fear at Safari Sam's; The Parson Red Heads at the Echo.

· Silkscreening-party concern Hit+Run is throwing a two-year anniversary bash at Crash Mansion. Wear one of their shirts to the event and admission is free.

Sunday

· Still more music: Kelly Clarkson at the Gibson Amphitheatre; Rademacher at Spaceland; Part Time Punks at the Echo.

· The La Luz de Jesus Gallery hosts a book release and signing party for CREEM: America's Only Rock N' Roll Magazine.






John Travolta Gives Kirk Douglas The Thrill Of His Long And Accomplished Lifetime [Frenching Spartacus]

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Though John Travolta's long, deep, and utterly unselfconscious kiss with longtime idol Kirk Douglas initially drew a thundering round of applause from the Santa Barbara Film Festival crowd assembled to see Travolta receive a lifetime achievement award named for the screen legend, the ovation was quickly replaced by gasps of horror once the guest of honor, obviously lost in the moment, failed to break their clinch until the oxygen-deprived nonagenarian collapsed to the stage.

As the elderly thespian was placed upon a stretcher and carried out of the auditorium, a stunned Travolta sheepishly explained, "I thought he was banging his fist on the podium like that because he was really into it. Sure, his mouth got a little dry two minutes in, but that didn't necessarily mean something was wrong. He's old, you know? These things happen."



[Photo: Getty Images]




Dear MySpace Diary: Why Can't Lance Just Get Over Me Already? Love, Reichen [Short-term Companions]

bee83648dd186feca64e41815ebddc0d.jpgWe know better than to get between an ugly gay divorce, particularly that of singer (that's what he does, right?) Lance Bass and his fame-hungry reality TV star ex, Reichen Lehmkhul, but when they take their bickering out of the privacy of the Crunch cardio room, where most Gays have the decency to work out their personal issues, and decide to splash them across the pages of major publications and MySpace blogs, like it or not, their problems become our problems. According to Reality Blurred, the latest round began with a interview in the current GQ in which Lance blamed the break-up on Reichen's infidelities, saying, "I thought [at the time], 'Why does everyone hate him?" At the end, I was like, 'Ok, everyone was right.'" Star Magazine then reported that Bass was sent a letter in which he threatened to sue. Lehmkhul clarified the issue on his MySpace page yesterday:



No one is suing anyone, and all is well.
[M]y representation, in an act of concern, simply sent an appropriate letter to those responsible, asking that attempts to paint me in a negative light with blatant and unnecessary lies and deceit, please stop. It ends there. Nothing else is happening. [...]

My final wish, surrounding this matter, from an overall outside perspective, is that I am no longer associated with this ex-relationship or the people involved in prolonging its existence, and that I'm no longer associated with that time of my life, in general.



The post goes on like this for eight rambling paragraphs, with a distant tone that stands in sharp contrast to the days when its author felt close enough to the former boy bander to co-opt his lover's first name for an exciting media-buzzword launch campaign. Now, we imagine, to be "lanced" means something slightly different for the chiseled star of Dante's Cove--it still refers to a forcible media outing, only of one's innate prickiness, rather than sexual orientation.








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