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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Scott Speedman is having a comeback, someone’s letting Lindsay Lohan do live television, and Chris Colfer made a little movie.

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Felicity finally chose Ben (well done, girl) like ten years ago (uh, spoiler alert, sorry), so that’s a little insane, but it also means that Scott Speedman, who played the proud-maned young swain in question, hasn’t really done much in a decade. Sure there was Underworld, but that hardly counts. Really he’s been mostly MIA since Felicity flickered off the air, and that’s too bad! I mean, look at him! He’s like a gourmet chicken finger, that one. A crisp, Canadian golden brown! So it’s very good news that he seems to be on his way back. Yes, Scott Speedman is speedmaning back onto the scene, first in a supporting role in The Vow, currently enswooning movie audiences at romance houses the nation over, and next in a new ABC pilot from The Shield‘s Shawn Ryan about a submarine crew that decides to declare itself a sovereign nuclear nation. Andre Braugher stars. So… that doesn’t sound great, we’d much rather watch a new show called Scott Speedman Tries on Sweaters and Then Cooks Dinner, but still, good for him for working. Pretty much everyone from Felicity is taken care of now! Well, uh, except Amy Jo Johnson. Nobody’s heard from her in years. Rita Repulsa must have finally gotten her or something. Too bad. [TV Line]

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Uh oh, batten down the hatches, New York. Cocaine tornado Lindsay Lohan is blowing into town to come host Saturday Night Live on March 3rd. She is promoting… absolutely nothing, but oh well! It’s Lindsay Lohan! Hopefully there will be some really fun jokes from 2007 about how she’s crazy and then they’ll do “What’s Up With That” and “Secret Word” and that’ll be that. They really don’t need to do anything beyond that, as everyone will tune in anyway out of sheer curiosity. Will she fall down? Will she take anyone down with her when she falls down? How many times will she fall down? Will it be down a flight of stairs? Up a flight of stairs? There are just so many things to wonder about Lindsay Lohan falling down on Saturday Night Live on March 3rd. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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The underused Mary McCormack (Private Parts, Deep Impact) (that’s two movie titles, not one title with a comma in it, she’s not that kind of actress) has been cast as the lead in a new ABC pilot. She’ll play a busy businesswoman who, a la Baby Boom, loses her job and ends up having to focus on being a mother. Only in this case it’s not one little baby in Vermont, it’s a couple of awful, stink-filled teenagers. And probably Sam Shepard is not in this. But those are the only two differences between this and Baby Boom. God, isn’t Baby Boom a good movie? Mary McCormack, go do a Baby Boom remake. Wait, no, that’s a terrible idea. Do this show, but just keep in mind that Baby Boom A) is a great movie and B) probably did it better than this show ever will. And, hey, there was already a Baby Boom show anyway, with Kate Jackson. Shockingly, it didn’t last long. You know what? Baby Boom is on Netflix Instant so, uh, we’re just gonna go… brb… [Deadline]

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He left us, and we mourned. But, He said he would return to that hill someday and we would all be saved. And returned He has! O rejoice, hallelujah! Finally, at long last, we can all go home. We are, of course, talking about the fact that Chad Michael Murray is going back to do some work on One Tree Hill. We were right all along! Suck it, Jews! Or whoever didn’t believe in the second coming! Of Chad Michael Murray. On One Tree Hill. It’s a big deal. We’re pretty sure Harold Camping just got sucked up into space. Big Chad Michael Murray fan, Harold Camping. But aren’t we all? Everyone except Barack Hussein Obama, anyway. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Here’s a trailer for the very low-budge looking Struck by Lightning, a movie written by and starring Glee‘s resident ghost Chris Colfer. It looks like a pretty standard-grade high school loner movie, except he managed to get a bunch of bold names — Allison Janey, Dylan McDermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks — to be in it. So it sort of has a high profile, even though it looks like it was filmed using Lifetime original movie film stock. Eh, good for Kurt. He deserves it. Now we eagerly await the first trailer for Lea Michele‘s writing debut, Lea Michele is Lea Michele in “Lea Michele!” a New Movie Musical All About Lea Michele. That’s gonna be quite something.

And here’s a trailer for the upcoming History Channel miniseries Hatfields McCoys, about the famous centuries-long Appalachian family feud. Richard Karn will host. Haha, no just kidding. The miniseries stars Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton-Pullman, and Jena Malone, and, judging by this rock ‘em sock ‘em trailer anyway, seems to be a little less history focused and a little more pistol-shootin’ and butt-kickin’ focused. Which, sure, fine. But maybe they should just change the name to The Channel, y’know? Nothing historical really happens on it anymore, nothing really specific at all happens. It’s just stuff. The Things Channel. The Occasions Channel. Happeningz. That sounds good, right? Change it up, History Channel. Accuracy is key. Well, anyway, let’s all take a moment to sigh/weep/laugh at: “Golden Globe nominee Bill Paxton.” Oh man. That’s worse than putting nothing above his name.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A new trailer for a strange new movie, Jamie Lannister meets Tom Cruise, and Jennifer Aniston is in trouble in London.

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The moment surely at least one or two of you have been waiting for has finally arrived: Here is a first teaser for the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the movie based on the novel by literary and historical meddler Seth Grahame-Smith. The movie stars up-and-comer and famed Meryl Streep son-in-law Benjamin Walker (Broadway’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) as the 16th president who, in this imagining at least, spends a lot of time slayin’ vamps with a big axe. He also seems to be supernaturally strong? Unless that tree at the end there is balsa? Were there a lot of balsa forests in America around the Civil War? Who knows! I suppose we’ll find out in this here movie, which… looks kind of completely ridiculous. But, eh, that’s the point. Though, should anyone really be touting “from the director of Wanted” as a good thing? That movie was about a magic loom that told the future. That movie probably shouldn’t exist. This probably shouldn’t either, but who knows, it might be fun.

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Oh ho ho. House Cruise and House Lannister will soon be working with one another. Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (he plays incestuous golden twin Jamie Lannister on the show) has been cast in Tom Cruise’s upcoming sci-fi future flick Oblivion. Something, who could possibly know what, about Coster-Waldau just caught Cruise’s attention, so here he is, in this movie. Cruise has done him a favor and a Lannister always pays his debts, so… Well, anyway! Coster-Waldau will play “Sykes, a battle-hardened, physically imposing, intelligent and extremely athletic military technology and weapons expert.” Ha, “extremely athletic.” Glad there’s time for sports in the ruined futureworld. Hopefully Tommy and Jamie can find some time to play futureball or whatever it is. We’ll be there to watch! [Deadline]

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So, right, the BAFTAs, aka the British Oscars, aka Britain’s Best Teeth, were last night and there were really no surprises. Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer won in the supporting categories, no doy, and The Artist won for Best Picture, derrrr. Jean Dujardin won for Best Actor, because of course. Really the only slight surprise, and it’s really not much of one if you consider it’s the BAFTAs, is that Meryl Streep won for Best Actress instead of Viola Davis. But really it’s been a tight race this whole time and Meryl Streep is playing a big, booming British person so of course she won. Doesn’t really mean anything for the Oscars except that that’s really the only category, only big one anyway, that’s up for grabs. Oh, and that no Brits won acting awards. Sucks to be you, Brits! And those are your BAFTAs, basically, [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Uh oh. Poor sad scorned wife Jennifer Aniston has been cast in a dramatic weepy called Miss You Already about a sad woman in London. Sigh. Well, actually, it’s about two sad women, best friends whose relationship becomes rocky after one of them gets a pregnant and the other gets a disease. Oh no! Which fate will be befalling the ol’ spinster Aniston? She’s had babies in movies before, and she’s died in at least one movie, so she could potentially do both. But our guess? Her costar is going to be British and British people do better sickbed blushing so we think they’ll give Aniston the baby. Which is nice, probably why she does movies, so she can pretend and live a wonderful fantasy life. Sigh. Poor sad Jennifer Aniston, the world’s saddest self-proclaimed happy millionaire. [Deadline]

Speaking of lonely and miserable Jennifer Aniston, the lion goddess that ruined her, Angelina Jolie, will soon be the subject of a movie. Well, in theory, and then only kinda loosely. Jolie’s ex Billy Bob Thornton is said to be making a movie called And Then We Drove, about a man who picks up a “wild woman,” a character supposedly based on Ms. Jolie. Aha! And so is there also a dashing movie star and his mousy millionairess bride from whom the “wild woman” wrestles the strapping movie hunk? And does the mousy millionairess submerge herself in a bathtub of white wine only to occasionally emerge to make fantasy movies about being pregnant and in love and all those real-life impossible things? Impossible for the mousy millionairess, anyway. That plotline is integral to any movie loosely based on Angelina Jolie, so take note, Billy Bob. (Actually, someone in Hollywood: Please make a fictionalized movie about that whole triangle. Admit it, everyone: You would totally watch that movie.) [Vulture]

Here’s a brief preview clip of Louis C.K.’s return guest starring stint on Parks and Recreation and it is wonderfully awkward and both a fun mix of C.K.’s style and the show’s style and we are excited to watch it. That’s really all.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Jenny McCarthy has a new show, J.Lo has ruined reality TV for everyone, and Cougar Town is in trouble (again).

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Remember Jenny McCarthy? She was the Playboy model who went on to co-host Singled Out and write a couple books and act in a couple things and seemed sort of charming and funny but then she went insane and started telling people not to vaccinate their children? Yeah, well, she’s back! She was going to have a daytime talk show a little while ago through Oprah’s company, but that never happened, possibly because of all the vaccine stuff. But now she’s landed a gig at VH1 to host The Jenny McCarthy Show, which will “feature McCarthy skewering everyone and everything in pop culture, news, fashion, TV, movies and the web, and will also include guest panelists and celebrity interviews.” Hm. That sounds a littttle familiar, doesn’t it? Why don’t they just call it Jenny At Nightly? First VH1 rips off Watch What Happens Live with that bizarre Mob Wives recap show, and now they’re going for Chelsea Lately? Guys, aim higher. Really. Aim a lot, lot higher. [Deadline]

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Back in November Brett Ratner said that whole stupid thing about how “rehearsal is for fags” and everyone was like “Ohh brother” and he got fired from his gig producing this year’s Oscars even though he apologized a lot. After the firing, the whole matter seemed done, over. Well, it’s been a few months, so now of course it simply must be brought up again. Ratner and GLAAD have announced that Bretty-boy will be directing a new video campaign featuring “a diverse group of Hollywood celebrities, athletes, musicians and politicians ‘coming out of the closet’ as supporters of equality.” So, OK, that message is good and all, of course! Celebrities tell people what to think whether we like it or not, so this could actually do some good. But… If only there wasn’t that slight whiff of self-congratulation about the whole thing. Eh, we suppose that’s inevitable when someone like Brett Ratner is involved. Ah well. Have fun, Brett. [Vulture, GLAAD]

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It seems that because of J.Lo’s exorbitant $15 million/year American Idol judging salary, now everyone wants to get paid the big bucks to yell things at strangers who think they have talent. Xtina Aguilera’s making a ludicrous 10 million bones to press her magic chair button on The Voice, and Howard Stern is going to make $15 million and force production to move to New York for his new gig on America’s Got Talent. This is getting out of control! Cheap-to-produce reality television is becoming not so cheap-to-produce! Used to be they’d pay reality hosts and judges with a sandwich and one half-hearted album plug per season, but now it’s like the goddamned gold rush over there. Everything’s crazy now. That’s basically the tenor of this article. Everything is just nucking futs these days. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Uh ohhh. Cougar Town came back to the airwaves last night after a long hiatus and it did not do well in the ratings. A long break between seasons and a schedule shift left it down 47% from last year, with a meager 4.8 million folks tuning in. Despite a ton of “guerilla marketing” and various things, the wine-soaked boozebags of Cougar Town just couldn’t get people onboard. That’s too bad. It’s actually, despite a lot suggesting otherwise, a fairly charming show. Not always (or ever, maybe) laugh-out-loud funny, and a little too comfortable in its call-backs and various other repeated quirks (much like Bill Lawrence’s old show, Scrubs), but it’s solidly entertaining and the cast is great. But now there’s this, and we’re just not sure they have any second chances left. This may be it, we’re afraid. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Justin Kirk is officially returning to Weeds for an eighth season. Which, good for him and all, but eight seasons? That seems like a lot of Weeds. We oddly haven’t missed an episode, but it’s really time to just let this thing burn out. (Get it? Weed?) Everyone on the show is very talented and everything, but they seem awfully tired. Plus Nancy has become an abject monster who really should just be sealed shut in a cave for the rest of time to think about what she’s done. It’s just all gotten to be a bit much, is what we’re saying. But, oh well. Good for Justin Kirk. Hopefully this doesn’t interfere with that Angels in America sequel, Angels 2 the Mysterious Island. That’s gonna be great. [Deadline]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Chris Pine‘s salaries revealed, the Parents Television Council is mad at MTV again, and some less than stellar news for NBC.

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Uh oh! Star Trek star (trekker) Chris Pine is being sued by his old agency, a small one he was with for years. The company claims that Pine dumped them unceremoniously via email in November but that they’re still owed tons of money in commission. The interesting thing here is that the lawsuit discloses Pine’s salary for a few movies, which is always fun to read about. OK, sure, these are only “alleged” salaries, but c’mon, they’re probably at least sort of right. The dirt: Pine was paid a small-ish seeming $1.5 million with a $500,000 backend bonus for the Star Trek sequel and will be paid a theoretical $3 million for a third one. He made $3 million for the unstoppable train movie called Unstoppable Train . And, most surprising of all, he got paid a whopping $5 million to star in the upcoming action romantic comedy This Means War. Which, we’re reviewing this thing on Friday, and… Woof. That anyone involved with that thing earned more than a hard slap across the face is kind of shocking. But really, what Pine’s old agency is probably most after is the planned reboot of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan franchise which would pay handsomely: “the deal would pay him $4 million for the first film, $8 million for the second and $12 million for a third, plus backend.” That’s a lotta bones and now this little boutique, which found Chris Pine wandering in a cornfield one day and made him a star, might get none of it. This shall not stand! This, well… this means war. [The Hollywood Reporter (they have Pine's kiss-off email if you're interested)]

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Finally something we can agree with the Parents Television Council on. The shrill group of sex-afeared ninnies has made MTV’s new show I Just Want My Pants Back the target of a new outrage campaign, crying that “Once again MTV is taking HBO-style content and marketing it to a Nickelodeon-age audience.” Which, OK, normally we’d roll our eyes and say “oh, brother” to this, because it’s the PTC and they’d prefer everything on television to just be people standing across a room from one another saying “We are holding hands” to each other, but they kindaaaa have a point with regards to this terrible show. Mainly in that it’s insanely vulgar in a way that’s offensive, if not in an “Ewww, sex!” way necessarily, but definitely in a “Oh please shut up,” obnoxious shock-value way. So while we don’t necessarily agree with the PTC’s exact reasoning, we fully support their efforts in pointing out how annoying this particular television program is. Like with MTV’s Skins. Remember that mess? We kinda agreed with the PTC there too. Oh god. Have we become them? [Deadline]

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This is surprising: Gina Carano, the less-than-convincing star of Haywire, has booked another acting gig! It’s in another action movie, this one to be directed by the decidedly less-than-Soderberghian John Stockwell (Into the Blue, Blue Crush, perhaps something else involving blue), about a woman whose husband goes missing on vacation so she sets out to get him back. So it’s Taken where the Maggie Grace character is a husband not a daughter. No word yet on whether Maggie Grace will play the role anyway. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Hm. Musical Smash‘s sophomore outing last night dipped 30% from its big premiere week and finished third overall in its timeslot. Yikes. Although! In the important under-50 set it finished first, so maybe there’s hope for this thing yet? It would be something of a big deal if this show were to fail, in no small part because the dang thing is called Smash. If only they’d called it Managed Expectations or We’re Fine With Whatever, a cancellation wouldn’t seem quite so shameful or embarrassing. Don’t these people know anything about these expect the worst and never admit to hoping for the best times? Trying is lame, guys. Never boast, never aim big, just shrug your shoulders and if people like your stuff just act awkward about it and only occasionally humblebrag by referring to “my friend Joseph Gordon Levitt.” That’s how it’s done these days, guys. Don’t you know anything? [Vulture]

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Oh good news, everybody. Zachary Levi from The Chuck, NBC’s hit show about Chuck, has landed a role on a new pilot. It’s called Let It Go and it’s about “a married couple, the husband played by Levi, his best friend and her sister as they try to navigate, negotiate and sometimes manipulate society’s unspoken rules.” Ohhh gosh! Wow. Champagne. Are you popping champagne? Because not only has the star of America’s favorite Chuck-based show The Chuck landed a new gig, but it’s on a show about a couple and (one hopes) their zany friends/family and “society’s unspoken rules.” Phew. Haven’t had one of those since, like, Happy Endings or something. Man! TV! Just the best. [Deadline]

You thought that news was good? Here’s better news: Transformers 4 is a go for 2014. Perhaps the best news humans have ever received. [MTV]

And here, FINALLY, is the full video of Taylor Swift’s “Safe and Sound,” the new jam that was written for the most important movie to ever come out, this year or any other (until Transformers: The Phantom Menace, that is), The Hunger Games. She’s wandering in the woods, just like Katniss! And there are ominous fires in the distance just like, well just like The Road, but there are probably ominous distant fires in Hunger Games too. The point is, this video means Hunger Games is allllmost upon us. (And then, for the good of everyone, we can finally shut up about it.)

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A Bradley Cooper joint falls apart, Robert Redford is stranded, and Bravo heads back to Miami.

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Sure he’s got the Hangover movies to make him a very rich man, and he’s been declared the sexiest man alive by science, but boy if Bradley Cooper is otherwise having problems. The A Team tanked, he didn’t get in on any of the superhero movies that have been rattling through the multiplexes for the past few years, his reboot of The Crow fell through, and now the big Paradise Lost angel battle movie he was supposed to star in (as Lucifer) has been officially scrapped. Yup, no more Coop waving a flaming seraph sword or whatever he was going to do in that movie. That is too bad for him. To his credit he does have The Words, a drama that sold well at Sundance, and movies by Derek Cianfrance and David O. Russell in the can, but those are indie-ish, not really the stuff of big, big stardom. Ah well. Goodbye, Paradise! Goodbye Diego Boneta and Camilla Belle walking around in fig leaves as Adam and Eve. Adieu, Benjamin Walker as hunky rock ‘em sock ‘em angel Michael. Adios to all of it! You almost had heaven. But now it’s, well, lost. [Deadline]

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Here’s some more sad news. Robert Redford has been lost at sea. Or, rather, he will be. He’s been confirmed as the sole star of Margin Call writer/director J.C. Chandor’s next film, All Is Lost, about, well, an old man and the sea. They’ll be shooting the flick down in those crazy Mexican water tanks that were built for Titanic, so that ought to be fun for the 76-year-old Mr. Redford, floating around in a water tank for ten hours a day while some punk kid tells him what to do. Eh, well, at least it’s in Baja! Nice and warm! Have fun, guys. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Oh dear god. Lea Michele, the Long Island diva turned Glee star, is in talks to play the lead in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, which Michele also starred in. So that makes sense. Sure it will just serve to make her even more… well, Lea Michele-esque, but she was good in the part (in what is a sort of annoying musical buoyed mostly by beautiful music by Duncan Sheik) so it all follows. Here’s the thing that doesn’t make sense: the movie is being directed by McG. Yes, that McG. Like Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle McG, like This Means War McG (review of that coming next week…). Man oh man! This could be, like, a very bad movie then! Just very, very bad. Unless, of course, they cast Hunter Parrish as the male lead, who did it in a replacement gig on Broadway. Because if they cast him then everything’s beautiful and fine and we’ll complain no more. But if not! Oh if not. We’re not gonna be happy, McG. You to, Lea. Maybe especially you too. [E!]

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Ah, this is nice news. Wendi McLendon-Covey, Reno 911! star and Bridesmaids ensemble member, has been cast in the upcoming HBO Goldie Hawn pilot The Viagra Diaries, which will be directed by Bridesmaids director Paul Feig. McLendon-Covey will play Hawn’s daughter, some kind of “female therapist.” So this could be funny, actually! Not that Goldie Hawn herself can’t be funny, it’s just that she hasn’t done it in so long. So having Deputy Clementine around ought to help. Nice work, everyone! [Deadline]

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Ugh. Bravo has decided to do a second season of Real Housewives of Miami, the low-rated iteration of their otherwise popular reality franchise. (Well, otherwise popular except for the terrible turd that was Real Housewives of D.C.) It’s been a while since we last saw the Miami ladies, though that probably won’t matter. Bravo is said to be overhauling the series, which likely means new cast members. Man, mustn’t it be so weird to be on a failed Housewives franchise? Like it’s weird to be on any Housewives franchise, popular or not, but at least if it’s popular you get a little money and “success” out of the deal. You’re on a failed one, though? You’re just stuck with the sad stink of having tried do to something terrible and failing even at that. No guest spots on Watch What Happened Live, no appearances in the “Summer By Bravo” ads. Nothing. Just a dumb old dump of footage of you scrambling to become famous for being awful and then not becoming famous for it. Though probably staying awful. Woof. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Ellen Barkin has been cast in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming gay couple/surrogate pilot The New Normal, playing the surrogate’s wild ‘n’ crazy mom. Sooo… that makes sense, right? Barkin’s been on a bit of a comeback resurgence of late, winning a Tony for The Normal Heart, doing a lottt of acting in Another Happy Day, creating a funny, profane Twitter account, and now this. Playing a zany mom on a Ryan Murphy sitcom. That actually sounds just about right. Sort of oddly, cosmically right. OK. Huh. Ellen Barkin, ladies and gentlemen. [Deadline]

Naomi Watts, meanwhile, has been cast as Diana in the new movie Caught in Flight, about the last two years of the Princess of Wales’ life. So… that’ll be great. Look, Naomi Watts is a terrific, appealing actress, and Di’s story is interesting, but man, it just ends awfully badly, doesn’t it? Just not sure that movie is going to be any fun to watch. (Not that movies have to be fun to watch, but there’s a reason I still haven’t seen The Pianist. When is it ever the occasion to watch that, y’know?) [Deadline]

OMG, guys. Look at all these Game of Thrones photos. Just look at them. But don’t look at #11! That one’s just for us. [BuzzFeed]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: John Stamos might have a series again, George Lucas corrects the fanboys, and the gay return of Ethan Embry.

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Have mercy! (Ugh. No more Full House jokes.) Jake in Progress star John Stamos has landed a leading role on a new Fox sitcom pilot called Little Brother. In it, the Wedding Wars actor will play a guy who finds out he has a brother he never knew and that he’s an ex-con. Comedian T.J. Miller will play the ex-con while Stamos, known to American audiences as the star of How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale, will play the regular brother. So another possible TV project for John Stamos! Man, this guy is indelible. Though, remember when he was supposed to be, like, joining the cast of Glee? And then they eventually remembered that, oh right, it’s virtually impossible to add adults to that cast because nobody cares about the adults? Oh, well. This new show here is making up for the Glee debacle (debacle may be a big word maybe, but just go with it) and Stamos might soon be on the air again, which is how things should be. Didn’t you love him on Thieves?? [Deadline]

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Haha, oh, god. Hold onto your lightsabers! Actually, ew, no, don’t do that, um, hold onto your… star… wars. Whatever! Here’s the news: George Lucas is now saying that in the first Star Wars, when Han and Greedo the Alien are at the Mos Eisley Cantina and they’ve got their blasters out (those are guns, guys, laser guns, just cool it) that he didn’t later edit it so Han doesn’t shoot first. That makes no sense to you, right? OK, the thing is in the original theatrical release, Han Solo shot the Alien first but for the 1997 rerelease George Lucas reedited so Greedo shoots first so Han is only acting in self-defense and doesn’t appear to be a coldblooded murder. That inspired fan outcry and everything but that was 14 years ago. Just read this for details. Well, now the films are being rerereleased in 3D, so Lucas has brought it up again and says, nope, it was always Greedo who shot first, the 1997 edit was just an effort to go back in and make that clear. And we should believe him, probably. Because if there’s one thing George Lucas has never done it’s go back and ruin his old movies. Never ever. Just not a thing he would do. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Look! Ethan Embry is back! Remember Ethan Embry (formerly Randall)? He was in Dutch and Empire Records and Can’t Hardly Wait and That Thing You Do!? He was a big deal in the ’90s, basically. Well now he’s just been cast in the pilot The Frontier, about settlers in the 1840s. And, like he did in Sweet Home Alabama, he’ll be playing a secretly gay person married to a woman! Who’s also secretly gay. So wait, NBC (the show’s network) just took the secret gay marrieds plotline from The Playboy Club and put it in the Old West? That’s… Eh, well, that’s fine. It was an interesting plotline in the 1960s, it’ll be interesting in the 1840s. Maybe more so! Plus, it now has more Ethan Embry! [Deadline]

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Well, this is nice. Melissa McCarthy’s husband, who played the air marshall in Bridesmaids, will now be starring on a CBS sitcom pilot produced by his wife. Nick Falcone wasn’t going to star on the show, but now he is. Hm! Pays to have an Oscar nomination in the family, apparently! The ol’ lady just makes one phone call and boom, you’re the lead on a new TV pilot on a network that makes nothin’ but hits. (Well, yes, of course they make non hits, but they also have a lot of hits!) Nicely played, everyone. Best of luck, Mr. Falcone. Please, god, quit Mike Molly, Ms. McCarthy. [Deadline]

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Hunger Games? Sort of Hunger Games? Here is a “sneak peek” of Taylor Swift’s new song that she wrote for The Hunger Games. It’s like three seconds of her walking in the woods in a white dress and singing. So it’s actually mostly a video about MTV veejay Sway wearing a T-shirt that says “Taylor Gang” on it. So if you want to watch a video of that, interrupted briefly by some sort of deerling warbling in a wood, then this here is the video for you.

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And here is a trailer for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a comedy about the apocalypse starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. Which is a totally sensical pairing of actors. Absolutely makes sense. The only pairing that would make just a little more sense would be Tina Fey and Douglas Booth. Or possibly Ed Helms and Estella from Great Expectations. These are just all very sensical pairings that you will probably be seeing at the movies sometime soon. Well, you’ll definitely be seeing Carell and Knightley. And a whole bunch of other people. This movie actually looks pretty good! I mean, Connie Britton’s in the damn thing! Very promising. Will see.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A new Bourne movie without the Bourne, Carrie Bradshaw rides again, and so do Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

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Here is a trailer for the new Bourne movie The Bourne Legacy, about Jason Bourne living quietly in Kansas and taking walks and reading the paper and dating a nice gal who works at the local lunch counter. Well, maybe that’s what he’s doing! We don’t know! The point is, this Bourne movie is not about Jason Bourne at all, but rather a new renegade superspy played by Jeremy Renner. Joan Allen and David Strathairn are back as their same parts from the previous movies, but the main guy and the story are different. So that could stink potentially, but we don’t think it will. Tony Gilroy, who wrote the previous three Bourne movies, has written and directed this one, so that is promising. Plus it’s a great cast. There are the aforementioned people, plus Rachel Weisz, Albert Finney, Edward Norton, Corey Stoll, and, in one scene at least, Juliette Simone herself, Donna Murphy! That’s a pretty exciting group and this is a pretty exciting trailer, so we’re just gonna go ahead and be excited about this. If you don’t like it you’ll just have to beat us up with a rolled-up magazine.

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So that was good news, here is slightly less good news. You know how The Carrie Diaries, a Sex and the City prequel, is going to be a new show on The CW? Yeah, it is. So they’re now teasing sorta details about the show and this is one of them, from CW’s head of programming: “Basically how we frame the show is: ‘Carrie at 16 found her first love and it’s not a boy — it’s Man-hattan.’ The other unique aspect is obviously the time period.” So wait, CW’s head of programming is Samantha Jones? Because only Samantha Jones says “Man-hattan.” So that should be… interesting. It will be weird to watch Carrie flirt with Manhattan and go on dates with Manhattan and make out with Manhattan (“Hey lady, don’t kiss the subway! That’s freakin’ horrible!”), but that’s what the show is going to be, so we’ll just have to deal with it. Carrie’s “first time” with Manhattan will be awkward (“Aw, geez, lady, what’re you doin’ to that fire hydrant? This is a frickin’ disastuh!”) but as Samantha would say, “When in Rome, do a Roman.” No idea what that has to do with this situation, but there it is. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Natalie Portman has just booked her first two gigs since two small men entered her life. For her first post-Oscar, post-baby roles she’ll be appearing alongside Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale in Terrence Malick’s next two films. All three will be in both, so it’ll be like a little repertory company practically. An impossibly attractive repertory company. This seems like a good choice for Portman, who should probably try to capitalize on her art cred rather than her fame stuff, the fame stuff leading mostly to another No Strings Attached or whatever. Fame and fortune are all well and good, but they don’t typically earn you more little men. Well, depending on how nice you are to your fans, anyway. [Deadline]

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Finally. We’ve flown to Rome once a week and lit candles at the Vatican, we’ve unearthed a hundred genie lamps and squandered all our wishes, we’ve made sacrifices to the great sun god in the sky, and now, finally, it’s all paid off. We will get another pairing of Wedding Crashers duo Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in a movie. Ah, at long last. Better yet, it will be directed by auteur Shawn Levy, the visionary director behind such wonderments as Cheaper by the Dozen and the Pepper Dennis pilot. The movie will be called Interns, and will be about two grownups who decide to become interns at a Google-esque company so they can start over and strike it rich. So hold onto your butts everyone, because comedy is coming to town. [Vulture]

Draco “Tom Felton” Malfoy has been cast in a new movie version of the Émile Zola story Therese Raquin, about an adulterous woman who murders her husband and is later haunted by his ghost. Poor Draco will be the murdered party, though he at least will have the pleasure of being murdered by Elizabeth Olsen. If you’re gonna go out, there are certainly worse ways. Plus it’d be kind of fun to be a vengeful ghost. No word yet on who will play Olsen’s lover, though we’re betting it’ll be Seamus Finnigan. [Deadline]

HBO has decided to give the fictitious network in the upcoming show The Newsroom the name ACN, which stands for Atlantis Cable News, which is part of Atlantis World Media, the huge conglomerate owned by the character played by Jane Fonda. Nice thinking, Fonda. “Let’s name my company after something that sunk.” Anyway, here’s the logo! [TV Newser]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Paz de la Huerta loses a job, a certain pilot seems suspicious, and two Australians get sexily stranded.  

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Word came today that Paz de la Huerta, witch-enchanted dream-bat and New York-based actress, will not be appearing on season three of Boardwalk Empire, the show that made her a household (but only a certain type of household) name. In the past season, her character gave birth to an illegitimate baby and ran out on the kid, and that’s the last we saw of her. So, it seems Paz is done. Too bad! She’s a wackadoo for sure, but she’s our wackadoo. Oh well. You’ll still be able to see her if you wait near the doors of nightclubs and various hotels, slumping out from the front door and oozing into the nearest storm drain. [TV Line]

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Here is a very interesting breakdown of every pilot ordered by the five major networks this pilot season. Many things sound bad (shows about bloggers, a show about people that work at Groupon, a show about “three nerdy female friends on their ‘funcomfortable’ quest to have ‘super fun’ every Friday night”), others sound ambitious (a show set in 1895 New York, another in 1840s pioneer times), and one sounds very familiar. Take this show idea, written by us three months ago: “Abby Marconi, about a dedicated surgeon who also acts as a mob doctor for her brother and his fellow gangsters. The high-profile world of specialized surgery mixes with the underground workings of organized crime in this emotional thriller series.” OK? Now read this: “A young female thoracic surgeon who becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia is forced to moonlight as a ‘mob doctor’ while also working full-time at Chicago‘s most prominent hospital.” Verrryyyyy interesting, eh? Very interesting indeed. Though, of course, ours was kind of a joke show idea, and this is actually just real. So. If you stole (they did not steal), joke’s on you, jerks. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Well, so, OK. The boss not looking? No one peering over your shoulder on the train? Then let’s make this quick: Remember how Lifetime: Television For Sex Accidents is doing a new version of The Blue Lagoon, that bizarre and upsetting movie about two tawny teenagers stranded on an island together and eventually coming to sex-love each other? Well, they’ve cast their two teenagers, both from the Australian soap Home and Away. There’s Indiana Evans, who looks like this, and then Brenton Thwaites, who looks like this. So, let’s just all take a moment to feel uncomfortable and old and fat and not Australian and just feel really bad, feeling worst about the fact that we’re kind of excited to see this movie and so should probably be sent to jail. Let’s just take a moment to let that all wash over us and then let’s move on with our days. OK? [Deadline]

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We already know that almost two times the population of France watched the Super Bowl last night, but how many people watched our favorite show The Voice? The population of Canada, basically. Every single Canadian, all watching Adam Levine chuckle and point like a doof. Yes, some 37 million people tuned in to last night’s post-Bowl premiere, which is “the highest rating for a non-sports telecast on any network in six years.” Yipessss! For The Voice! In six years, other than a sporting match, no one has watched anything more than The Voice. Not the Osama news, not the royal wedding, not even the midseason finale of The Secret Circle. None of those things! Not even the SAG Awards! That is pretty nuts, guys. TV is a weird, weird place. The Voice. Who knew? [Entertainment Weekly]

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Corey Stoll, late of Law Order: Los Angeles and so charming as Hemingway in Midnight in Paris, has just been cast alongside Kevin Spacey in the Netflix original series (yup) House of Cards, a remake of the popular British miniseries about political scandal. Stoll will play a boozing congressman who gets caught up in a mess after having an affair with his secretary. Spacey will play the secretary. “I was just walking my dog, I swear!” No, no, that’s not true. But it’d be fun if it was. [Deadline]

Actors Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Jonathan Groff (Broadway’s Spring Awakening) have been cast in regular roles in season two of Boss, the well-received new Starz show for which star Kelsey Grammer, playing the mayor of Chicago, recently won a Golden Globe. Lathan will play the mayor’s new chief of staff, while Groff will play some sort of advice-giving aide. Meanwhile Camille Grammer has been cast in the role of sitting by the pool and having a drink because 50 million is a lotta bones so who gives a damn if it’s the middle of the day. [Deadline]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Selma Blair is in big Sheen-related trouble, Viola Davis lands another big role, and Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson are going to make beautiful music together.

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Troubling and potentially tragic news comes today that the actresses Selma Blair and Shawnee Smith have been cast in Charlie Sheen’s upcoming FX comedy Anger Management. It’s unclear how this misfortune befell Ms. Blair and Ms. Smith, who will play Sheen’s love interest and ex-wife respectively, but know that various local authorities are currently meeting to see what can be done to get these women to safety before they begin to show signs of Sheenphasia, a condition that causes sufferers (like the recovering Jon Cryer) to willfully endure months if not years of Sheen exposure for nothing more than potentially millions of dollars. Our thoughts go out to their families as we pray for their swift rescue. [Deadline]

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Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson have signed on to star in the “feel-good romance” Can a Song Save Your Life?, to be directed by Once‘s John Carney. Like that film, Can a Song focuses on a struggling musician (Johansson) finding love through music, this time with a faded music producer (Ruffalo). He sees her singing at a bar and decides to help her out and the next thing you know she’s singing Tom Waits. So actually it’s a tragedy. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Another day, another role for Viola Davis. The likely Oscar winner has been cast in the supernatural thriller (lotta those these days) Beautiful Creatures, based on the first book in a popular series about two teens (who lurrrve each other) who investigate their mysterious families. Davis will play a seer who, uh, oversees the boy teen in the Richard LaGravanese-directed movie. Hm, so let’s hope it’s an actual meaty role rather than just the Adult character in the next Twilight. Though, hell, if it’s earning her a big fat paycheck, who cares if it’s just the Adult character. You ever hear Billy Burke complaining? No you do not. You most certainly do not. [Deadline]

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NBC has essentially canceled their low performing freshman series The Firm, a sexy show about a sexy gym where everyone is nice and firm. Bet you want to watch it now! Well, no, sorry, that’s not actually what it’s about. It’s really just a series based on the John Grisham novel and movie of the same name, that’s all. The network moved the show to Saturdays for the rest of its first season run, which is nearly always the kiss of death. Ah well, it’s probably good that the talented cast, among them Juliette Lewis, Molly Parker, and Josh Lucas, got out early. Taking the show’s place on Thursday nights will be the long-delayed procedural Awake, which stars Lucius Malfoy as a cop leading a double life. Well, yeah. Upstanding public citizen by day, terrible Death Eater by night. We’re onto you, Malfoy. And that son of yours too. [Entertainment Weekly]

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ABC has ordered a multicam sitcom pilot called The Smart One from producer Ellen DeGeneres which, and this is so weird, talk about a crazy coincidence, stars DeGeneres’ wife Portia De Rossi. Wild, huh?? Can you imagine what that first meeting must have been like? “Wait, what are you doing here?” “I’m here for The Smart One.” “What??? You too? I’m in that!” “Get outta here.” “Hand to god. I knew we both had meetings this morning but this is just ridiculous.” “What a nutty town.” “Really is. Well, how about that. Let’s get to work.” Hollywood is such a strange, magical place! [The Hollywood Insider]

Jane Levy, the sardonic redhead from Suburgatory, has replaced Lily Collins as the lead in the upcoming The Evil Dead remake. She’ll basically play the “corresponding” role to Bruce Campbell’s role in the original one. Now, now, before you get all upset about “who needs an Evil Dead remake, the original is perfect, why do they have to needlessly remake everything, Tinseltown stinks, everyone’s a jerk, I’m moving to a farm to live like a Shaker,” just know that both original director Sam Raimi and Campbell are producing this. So they’re onboard. And if they’re onboard then you should be onboard, because they made the movie. Yeah, yeah, George Lucas also made Star Wars and ain’t nobody should have ever once been onboard for those prequels, but just try to deal with this sanely and rationally. You know the Shakers don’t, like, do it, right? They don’t. Like, ever. That’s why there aren’t any Shakers left. So, y’know, just consider that, OK? Just consider that. [Deadline]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Something new from Panem, Katherine Heigl doesn’t recognize your face, and Octavia Spencer heads into the snow.

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Um, you guyyyyssssss. It’s Hungah time! Time for some Hungah gumz! Hunger Games! We’re T-minus 50 days until the movie comes out and now here comes an early look at the minute-long trailer that will play on television during the Super Bowl this weekend. (On the same channel as the Super Bowl, not on some different channel.) We see some new stuff here that we didn’t get in the first trailer, namely a good bit of Stanley Tucci and even a few quick flashes of the actual Hunger Games. Soooo that’s pretty exciting! We’re still not convinced this movie is going to be any good, but we’re still very much looking forward to it. Like, definitely too much. It’s beginning to consume us. Help. It’s eating our brain. It’s Hunger Games! Hungahtime! Can’t touch this, hungahtime! Or something. Excuse us.

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From good, exciting news to… Katherine Heigl news. The actress has signed on to star in the indie thriller Face Blind (grrrreat title) which is about “a psychologist struck with a rare affliction that makes it impossible to distinguish people by their faces. When a man who terrorized her most vulnerable patient stalks her, the psychologist can’t recognize him, and her husband thinks she’s the one who is going crazy.” So it’s just Kitty Heigl screaming “I don’t know who anybody is!!!” for a few minutes until the killer walks up to her and kills her because she doesn’t know she’s supposed to run? Sounds like a blockbuster smash! “One ticket for Blind Face, please! It’s about a face that can’t see other faces, it’s supposed to be great. Yeah, with Izzard from Grimm’s Anatomies? Great show. Great everything. Great.” [Deadline]

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Octavia Spencer, who’s probably going to win an Oscar in a couple of weeks for her supporting role in The Help, has just joined the cast of Snow Piercer, that one about a frozen world where people are trying to navigate by rail that already has Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, and John Hurt in it. Specifically it’s about “a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.” Yikes. That could be either really cool and interesting (Tilda Swinton is in it, after all) or very terrible (Chris Evans is in it, after all). Either way, well done Octavia Spencer! [The Hollywood Reporter]

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American History X director Tony Kaye has a new movie coming out called Detachment, about a sad high school teacher. And now he’s apparently putting together a thriller called Attachment which Sharon Stone has just been cast in. This one’s about a married woman who ends up sleeping with a college student who then winds up stalking her family. So, the two movies don’t sound related at all, but they must be somehow, given the titles. Who knows. Anyway, good for Sharon Stone! Tony Kaye is a good director. [Deadline]

Innnteresting. Paul Bettany pulled out of Masters of Sex (“pulled out” joke is absolutely required) and now Michael Sheen has stepped in with Lizzy Caplan as his costar. They’ll play real-life sex researchers whose work helped kick off the sexual revolution. So it’s a period thing and a based on a true story thing and, apparently, a Michael Sheen/Lizzy Caplan thing, which is definitely a strange pairing, but it just might work! We’re just happy that both of these people are getting starring roles in TV shows because they are both very good at acting. Hopefully they don’t pull out. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Apparently Samantha Morton, Carey Mulligan, and Amy Adams are all in talks to join the cast of Spike Jonze’s next movie, which stars Joaquin Phoenix and has a script by Charlie Kaufman. Those are all interesting ladies, maybe listed there in order of most interesting to least interesting, so this could be… interesting! We just hope there’s no bearded rapping from Joaquin in this one. Better to leave the bearded rapping to the professionals, like Amy Adams. [Deadline]

Here’s a trailer for the paranormal thriller Red Lights, which premiered at Sundance to middling reviews. It’s kind of a cool premise, a serious look at debunking stuff like psychics and whatnot, but the trailer kind of devolves into hokey horror cliche stuff. Still, it’s an interesting cast so it’s probably not all bad. Robert De Niro plays a blind psychic who levitates off the ground! God, this guy. Always playing the same old classic Robert De Niro type. He’s just playing himself! We’re always seeing him here in New York, floating sightlessly around Tribeca, doing his old De Niro thing. Borrring.

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