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Late Night Highlights: Ricky Gervais Explains His Ideal Golden Globes Nazi Joke

Sunday’s Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais told Conan O’B rien that he has not run any of his show ideas by producers after they dismissed the elaborate Nazi gag he had planned for the ceremony’s opening. (Honestly, it sounds kind of funny.) In other late night events, Kelsey Grammer talked about his real-life wife swap, Ron Howard told Jon Stewart how to avoid cynicism and Jimmy Fallon sang about his neighbors having sex.

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Late Night Highlights: Ricky Gervais Explains His Ideal Golden Globes Nazi Joke

Tree of Life Will Include Many Shots of Wind, Says Cinematographer

Unlike most of the Internet, Movieline HQ was a tad underwhelmed with the first trailer for Terrence Malick’s long-awaited Tree of Life , if only because it didn’t really show much beyond the beautiful visuals. Though to hear cinematographer Emanuel “Chivo” Lubezki tell the LA Times , that might be by design. “So the actors are performing the dialogue, but Terry isn’t interested in dialogue,” said Lubezki. “So they’re talking, and we’re shooting a reflection or we’re shooting the wind or we’re shooting the frame of the window, and then we finally pan to them when they finish the dialogue.” And how did the actors react to this? “I think they thought we were insane. Sean [Penn] is a director, and I’m sure he wondered ‘Is this method something I want to learn or is it something I never want to repeat?’ For Brad [Pitt] I think it took him a couple of days or a week to get into the spirit.” Get into the spirit, folks! [ LAT /24 Frames ]

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6 Winners and Losers from the Golden Globes Payola Lawsuit

Guys, you aren’t going to believe this. A former publicist for the Golden Globes has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association alleging payola in connection with the awards ceremony . Gasp! (Insert Casablanca reference here.) Michael Russell, who represented the Golden Globes for years as its lead publicist, alleges that he was fired from his position last year because he asked the HFPA to stop with their alleged shady shenanigans. Allegedly. Ahead, Movieline weighs in on the winners and losers of this new litigation.

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6 Winners and Losers from the Golden Globes Payola Lawsuit

First Picture of Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man Suit: Peter Ponderer

The first still of Andrew Garfield in his slick Spider-Man suit is an intense and/or melancholic one; so far he’s staying just on this side of Spider-Man 3 -level sads . What’s he thinking about? His 28-inch waist? How annoying it is to fit a ragamuffin haircut through the neck hole? At any rate, the suit fits. I’m on board. Click ahead for the full image.

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First Picture of Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man Suit: Peter Ponderer

Bride of Chucky Forced Oprah to Eat 30 Pounds of Mac and Cheese

Last week, Oprah Winfrey was criticized for spending 18 minutes preaching about the power of hopes and dreams . To prove that she is not just a motivational speaker sent from God (as she herself insinuated within that lengthy sermon), Oprah sat down with Piers Morgan for his first CNN show determined to prove that she is indeed human. Exhibit A: Back in 1998, Oprah succumbed to Bride of Chucky -related depression and binge-ate 30 pounds worth of macaroni and cheese.

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REVIEW: Helen Hunt, Ensemble Deal With Every Day Struggles

Garrett, the crass, crabby showrunner played by Eddie Izzard in Every Day , has a refrain meant to inspire the stable of television writers who script his Gray’s Anatomy -ish show: Shock me. Shock me Jaded and suffering from character arc exhaustion, Garrett is meant to be a joke and he is: Incest, bestiality, and public sex (ideally with a hooker who has AIDS ) are his idea of fresh and new; the craven, ratings-mongering type he embodies wouldn’t pass his own smell test.

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Damon Lindelof Helps Write Sideways Universe Version of Sex and the City 2

Say what you will about Damon Lindelof, but the man has a knack for parodying bloated Hollywood excess. You’ll recall that last June Lindelof wrote a BP-themed sequel treatment for Esquire titled Armageddoner! , and now he’s back with an alternate version of Sex and the City 2 . Don’t worry, fans; this version doesn’t feature a big meeting of all Carrie’s ex-boyfriends in a church at some unknown time in the afterlife. It does feature a fatwa, though.

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And Then Stanley Tucci Hosted a Wine Talk Show with Guests Patricia Clarkson and Penn Badgley

How’s this for random: Beginning in April, noted actor Stanley Tucci will regularly moderate a talk show about wine for national public television. The Burlesque actor has already filmed a few episodes of Vine Talk , in which he drinks and chats about wine with celebrity friends including John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Coolidge, Cheyenne Jackson and Easy A co-stars Patricia Clarkson and Penn Badgley. Click through for the show’s highlight montage, which includes liberal shots of Stanley, Patricia and Penn laughing while swirling merlot.

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Michel Gondry on Green Hornet, the Secret to Directing Jim Carrey and Why He Makes ‘Trash Movies’

Michel Gondry, best known for directing cerebral, handmade films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep , might at first seem peculiar as the director associated with the big-budget superhero movie The Green Hornet . Yet Gondry has been attached to The Green Hornet on and off since 1997, creating a long road for Gondry to complete what was supposed to be his first Hollywood film; stars including George Clooney, Jason Scott Lee, Greg Kinnear, Mark Wahlberg, Jet Li, Jake Gyllenhaal and Nicholas Cage were all at some point associated with The Green Hornet . Finally, it comes down to this weekend and Seth Rogen.

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Allison Janney on Mr. Sunshine, Matthew Perry’s Helpful Insults, and Missing Aaron Sorkin

Allison Janney returns to primetime Feb. 9 on the ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine , playing Matthew Perry’s unpredictable boss. The four-time Emmy champ will exercise the comic chops she brought to Juno and Hairspray , dotting her punchlines with classic C.J. Cregg smarts. We caught up with Janney at the TCA press tour in Pasadena and discussed Mr. Perry’s candid commentary, her love-hate relationship with auditions, and her response to West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue in The Social Network .

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