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Patrick Swayze Is Now Dead. And It’s Sad.

11:06AM Andrew Belonsky | We’ve all known this was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to announce. Patrick Swayze, American actor and icon, has died and, at the tender age of 57, succumbed to pancreatic cancer. More »

Execs Appalled As Cloris Leachman Reaches Sanjaya-Like Threat to ‘Dancing with the Stars’

6:45AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a bad time to be backstage at ABC: not even twenty-four hours after word broke about behind-the-scenes in-fighting at The View, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting similar agita over at Dancing with the Stars, where the tyrannical Cloris Leachman has proven impossible to send home. It appears the producers and fellow dancers are firmly on Team Florence Henderson, as they’re tired of the 82-year-old Leachman evading the ax simply by hamming it up for the cameras. “She has a Quentin Tarantino role to get to,” they cry! “Does she need anything else?” More »

Lionsgate Puts Baby In A Courtroom

6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Be warned, unauthorised apparel makers who’d like to place Dirty Dancing’s famous “Nobody puts baby in a corner!” line on a cute t-shirt, for Lionsgate will sue you back to 1987 for trademark infringement. However, the studio has yet to file a suit over the use of the film’s other signature line, “Just put your pickle on everybody’s plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me,” which has appeared in countless works of pornography since the movie’s release. [THR ESQ] More »