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Cher’s in the news again, rumored to be considered for the juicily sexy role of Catwoman opposite Christian Bale in the next Batman.

Known for his visual style, one of his most famous visuals was himself. Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his cameos, but sometimes he’s hard to find. Grab your DVD player, and we’ll help you find him.

There’s been a lot of outrage flying around the cinematic world recently. Protest in the street and write strongly worded letters all you want, but if you really want to be offended, check out this flick.

Fat, follicle-free, and funny, Tom Cruise may yet get back in favor with his formerly rabid fans in his role as Les Grossman, the overweight, foul-mouthed, bald studio head in Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder.

The Dark Knight has passed $400 million domestic in 18 days, a feat that took 2nd place Shrek 43 days to accomplish.

An early whispering campaign has already begun in Hollywood for a posthumous Oscar to be awarded to Heath Ledger for his brilliant performance of the villainous Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas said “Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me,” he may have just seen The Edge of Love, allegedly based on his own life.

The scene of the crime is Lowell, Mass. Bereaved fans are awaiting a ransom call from the kidnappers of The Incredible Hulk.

The Vatican has banned Angels & Demons from filming in any church in the City of Rome on the charge that it is an “offense against God” and “wounds common religious feelings.” We wonder how God let them know He was offended.

Not since Dennis Hopper was cast as Serbian nationalist, Victor Drazen, in Season 1, has 24 cast such an A-List star.

We are not kidding about this, unfortunately — the AMAA is claiming that there is too much smoking in The Incredible Hulk, and that it should be downgraded to an R rating. Personally, we want to know what they’re on…

It’s unlikely Spike Lee will attend the opening.

As a tribute to Hollywood’s mega hits, I have come up with a new game to entice fanboys and fangirls into theaters: Casting remakes not yet made.

Tom Cruise’s next flop has been taken off the schedule. It was first postponed from this summer to next autumn. Now it’s not expected to open until 2009. Or perhaps not at all.

Some people are scared of one thing (Freud was afraid of ferns), and some people are scared of everything.. Take Woody Allen. He suffers from many phobias, including Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth.

Want to film at locations in New York where nobody else gets permission to film? Want to have an Oscar-winning actress be your personal assistant? Want to wear a ton of Tiffany every day? Well, maybe you can’t, but Carrie Bradshaw can.

Compared to the grotesque, disgusting and sometimes even creative celebrity deaths in yesterday’s world of entertainment, death by drug overdose in today’s show business world (real or accidental) seems an almost gentle way to check out.

Laura Linney talks about her upcoming role in the HBO miniseries about John Adams.

Obama’s second favorite movie is, you guessed it, Godfather II.

Damages can best be described as The Devil Wears Prada meets Basic Instinct, and not in a good way.

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Sure, there have been many great Best Picture winners. But what about all the great losers in Oscar history?

Christopher Walken picks up his Harvard Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award in style.

Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct the Alaskan murder mystery, set in a fictional Jewish settlement.

Hilary Swank follows in the footsteps of Katharine Hepburn and Diane Keaton.

Friday and Saturday talks could lead to an end to the WGA strike as soon as next week.

Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but he and partner Paula Wagner are making all the right moves with their United Artist Studios.

The Writers Guild announced its interim agreement with producers of the Grammy Awards show.

FSR hopes Singleton gets his Woody.

David Lynch told Reelz Channel that he doesn’t know anything about Hollywood today. We tried to reach him, but he doesn’t have a blog where we can leave a comment…