Golden Celebrity

· Maybe we’ve just spent too much time watching American Idol cattle-call-tryouts-of-the-damned shows, but we definitely prefer this version of “Glamorous” to the original. Also, we wanted more of the girl doing the toe-tapping thing. And the guy with the spinning hubcap.
· Ben Greenman’s blog-musical Death Comes to Britney Spears makes a transition to YouTube.
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With the fourth installment of The Terminator franchise (discounting, of course, that new Fox series Tween Terminator: The Jailbait Killing-Machine Chronicles) in pre-production, director Joseph “McG” McGinty Nichol, still euphoric from landing Christian Bale in the pivotal role of Adult Eddie Furlong, now has some serious, Governator-sized shoes to fill for the sequel’s time-traveling robomercenary. [...]

Having long ago elected Barack Obama the President of Hollywood, how will the industry react to Hillary Clinton’s win in California’s Democratic primary? Disappointed kingmaker David Geffen, despite having prematurely predicted victory for Obama, is not yet abandoning ship, even if DreamWorks partner Steven Spielberg is stubbornly sticking out a passionless political marriage with Clinton. [...]

· Music round-up: Velvet Revolver at the Wiltern; The Donnas at Crash Mansion; Los Amigos Invisibles at House of Blues.
· At Dutton’s Brentwood Books, author Rima Greer puts her life in danger by signing her new book, The Real, Low Down, Dirty Truth About Hollywood Agenting, in which she violates the Ten Percent Code by [...]

Only because it’s slim pickins’ on the Hollywood newsfront today do we bring you this semi-precious gem of a casting update. Sam Rockwell, whose Choke was one of the few successful sales at Sundance Snoozefest 08, will star in Moon, a sci-fi flick about a guy stranded on the moon for three years. Though Rockwell [...]