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Not for nothing, but you never hear stories about Tom Colicchio scorching his scrotum while cooking. [AHN]

In their review of 3:10 To Yuma, AfterElton.com detects “yet another coded gay villain” amid its cast of outlaws, adding Charlie Prince to the pantheon of memorable but politically incorrect screen baddies like The Silence of the Lambs’s Buffalo Bill, 300’s Xerxes, and Collateral’s Vincent the Hitman. As portrayed by Ben Foster, an actor [...]

· The trades mourn the recent silencing of their favorite of the Three Tenors. [Variety, THR] [THR]
· Scott Rudin beats out Warner Bros, Universal, Sony, and New Line for the movie rights to the historical novel I, Claudius, with Leo DiCaprio and his The Departed screenwriter William Monahan expected to jump ship from their failed [...]

OMG! OMG! Britney Spears is going to open the VMAs! And MTV has reportedly hired Criss Angel to create the mind-freaking illusion that she’s on stage dancing and lip-syncing to new single “Gimme More,” instead of sitting in her dressing room, drinking vodka tonics and trying to feed her babies Twinkies dipped in Gerber strained [...]

According to a review in THR, Gone Baby Gone is “going to be remembered as one of the best crime movies of this decade.” Yup, the Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck. [THR/Reuters]