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After Madoff, Kyra And Kevin Are Burned But Not Broke

2:01AM Richard Lawson | Hey, kiddo. Stop your crying. We know you were worried that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick lost everything to Bernie Madoff, because it sounded really bad. But now Kyra’s spoken publicly about it, and they’re gonna be just fine. More »
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Gossip Roundup: Jon And Kate Gosselin Plus Legal Eagles

12:30AM Foster Kamer | Jon and Kate are packing legal heat, now; so is Evan Dando, and Kobe Bryant’s maid, too, which finally gives TMZ the opportunity to teach readers about legislative law. Also, Marilyn Manson and Nazi Pubes. Your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
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Will Kanye And Rihanna Be The Next Jay-Z And Beyonce?

9:45PM the cajun boy | Rihanna may be getting over Chris Brown by boning Kanye West, Jesus Luz puts Madonna in the “friend zone,” Mike Tyson’s 4 year-old daughter is on life support after accidentally hanging herself with an electric cord, and Brooke Shields expresses regret for not slutting around when she was young. More »
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Jon Gosselin Fails To Escape Family On Motorcycle

4:15AM Foster Kamer | Jon Goesselin can’t escape his family, Kevin Bacon’s mugger escapes capture, Paul Allen can definitely escape Cannes, Josh Duhamal tries to escape death at Indy 500: presenting your man-happy Sunday afternoon gossip roundup. More »

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Join Hollywood’s Exclusive Ponzi-Victim Club

3:00AM STV | If and/or when Hollywood makes the definitive movie about victims of Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, we’re sad to report that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick can be recruited to play themselves. More »

Zac Efron To Perform Barnstorming Dance Of Anger In ‘Footloose’ Remake

2:00AM STV | With its star’s $US42 million worth of opening-weekend muscle and the all-important Kevin Bacon blessing behind it, Zac Efron and his Footloose remake are leaping to the front of the development queue at Paramount. The updating of the studio’s 1984 high-school dance melodrama, which has been idle at the studio for years without that singular, Bacon-esque talent to guide it to market, now has a rewrite on the way, new songs in the works and one heartthrob to rule them all — for a price, notes Variety. More »

Hot Chicks In Togas? Why, It Must Be An ‘Animal House’ Party

9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As we noted at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Animal House is turning 30 this year. Thankfully, this is one of the few pop culture movies that I can say I was too young too truly remember. Vague images of John Belushi and togas linger in my waterlogged, alcohol-soaked brain, but I’d never experienced the phenomenon that is the John Landis-directed flick first-hand. More »

Jason Segel Enters Exclusive Full-Frontal Male Nudity Club In ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’

8:45AM Molly Friedman | Judd Apatow has fulfilled his promise to “shake Americans from their squeamishness about male anatomy in movies” by featuring Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel completely nude in the movie’s pivotal break-up scene. And as the LAT pointed out yesterday, Segel’s manhood provides the film’s “most captivating screen presence” (sorry, Kristen Bell). But Apatow and his cool comedy clique aren’t the first ones to boldly focus their cinematic lens on male actors’ full frontal displays. We took a look back on Segel’s predecessors to showcase other (pun intended) ballsy big-screen cameos by the likes of Bruce Willis and Ewan McGregor after the jump. Just a warning, this is NSFW. More »

Trade Roundup: Here Comes ‘Footloose,’ Again

5:05AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood Out of Ideas, Molesting Bacon Edition: Paramount is remaking Footloose as (in the words of Var) “a full-blown musical” starring High School Musical’s Zac Efron, who we’re sure will one day go on to become the Kevin Bacon of the Disney Channel generation. [Variety] · Fox Atomic acquires the comedy Don’t Lean on Me, the story of a high school gym teacher who is reluctantly promoted to principal. We’d uncharitably compare it to Summer School, but someone’s already defiling resurrecting that classic of our early teenage years. [THR] · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix rolls out today on more than 9,000 screens, marking the widest opening in Warner Bros. history. Huzzah! But sadly, as a sequel, it stands no chance of breaking Transformers‘ impressive first-week box office record. [Variety] · In a rebranding effort that will forever change the way you perceive the channel where you watch Most Shocking, Body of Evidence, and L.A. Forensics, Court TV is rechristening itself truTV. [Variety] · NBC’s Singing Bee, which endeavours to recreate for viewers the experience of what it would be like to spend eternity in Hell’s most popular karaoke bar, starts strong, improving upon on its America’s Got Talent lead-in. We are all doomed. For real this time. Oh, and we almost forgot: Fox’s nearly identical Don’t Forget the Lyrics debuts tonight. [Variety] More »

Trade Roundup: Judd Apatow Steadily Consolidating Means Of Comedy Production

6:06AM Defamer Hollywood | · Local comedy monopolist Judd Apatow continues to integrate the industry’s mirth-making entities into his rapidly expanding humor-producing conglomerate, collaborating with Jack Black, Knocked Up’s Harold Ramis, Superbad’s Michael Cera, and an Office writing team on Year One for Columbia. [Variety] · Jim Carrey will star in the dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris (by Bad Santa’s Glenn Ficarra and John Requa), an idea pitched as Catch Me if You Can meets Brokeback Mountain. There is no direct Judd Apatow involvement that we can discern, a fact that could doom the promising project to eventual turnaround. [Variety] · The dust is finally starting to settle at a post-Albrechtgate HBO, with “longtime Albrecht right-hand man” Michael Lombardo reportedly being promoted to a new job overseeing all west coast operations. [THR] · Imagine superproducer Brian Grazer’s unparalleled Bacon-attaching skills lead to ubiquitous actor Kevin joining the cast of Frost/Nixon, the big-screen adaptation of the Peter Morgan play. [THR] · The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals throws out the FCC’s “capricious” rulings against Fox over Cher saying “fuck” and Nicole Richie “shit” during broadcasts of the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards, a landmark decision that reaffirms an awards show presenter’s right to “accidentally” swear on live TV. [Variety]Brian More »