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· Naomi Watts is on board to star in Universal’s remake of The Birds, which, thankfully, the studio isn’t rushing into production, allowing time for a possible rewrite of the script still in development that could further address the avian-backstory problems they’ve previously identified in the Hitchcock original. [Variety]
· While Hollywood eagerly awaits the [...]

Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen had a bouncing baby…um…baby. (Reports are still sketchy.) We’ve shelved the Borat jokes, so guess it’s time to break out the Bruno ones! Here’s hoping the little one doesn’t grow up to be a Scheißendummführer, and if it’s a boy, winds up with a large schwanzenstück like his father. [...]

Most of us are still struggling to make sense of IggyGate, in which a team of rescue-shelter special forces abducted a snoozing Brussels Griffon mix once owned by Ellen DeGeneres. (A helpful reader sent in the accompanying photo illustration.) Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, blogged about the [...]

In a development that will probably surprise no one save the Hugh Jackman producing partner who counseled the star, “You know what we be an inspired career move, Hugh? Let’s get you into a TV project with casinos. But not Vegas–someone’s done that already, I think? Oh, also? There should be SINGING! And a [...]