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Did Tony Blair Swipe Dialogue from His Character in The Queen?

Screenwriter Peter Morgan spent three films chronicling incidents in the life of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and the attention may have gone to Blair’s head. In his new memoir A Journey , Blair apparently swaps a real-life anecdote for one that Michael-Sheen-as-Blair had in Morgan’s The Queen .

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Did Tony Blair Swipe Dialogue from His Character in The Queen?

Celebrate Bella Swan’s Birthday by Pushing Eclipse to $300 Million

Happy birthday, Bella Swan! Summit Entertainment will re-release The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to over 1,100 theaters tomorrow to “celebrate Bella’s birthday.” Though which one ? Her actual birthday is September 13, but her vampire birthday is September 10. Oh wait, she’s fictional and this is just some ploy to push the film over $300 million in domestic grosses? Never mind. [ Deadline ]

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What’s On: JWOWW Unhinged on Jersey Shore

If you’re not in the mood to watch Maggie Q fire glocks at baddies on the Nikita premiere, there’s plenty of reality TV magic to go around as JWOWW unleashes the gorilla fury within her on Jersey Shore and Michael Kors unravels a potentially fabulous challenge on Project Runway .

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Jay Leno Available For Roadside Assistance (If You Work For Conan O’Brien)

If the following tabloid story is true, it stands to be the best Jay Leno automotive distress story of the day (yes, even better than the report that Leno’s 1907 White Steam Car broke down in front of an Encino Chili’s during Labor Day weekend and the Tonight Show host lovingly willed his car back to health with the support of generous anti-Coco passersby). Do you have your grain of salt at the ready? Let’s begin.

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Late Night Highlights: Stephen Colbert Celebrates the Troops, Chelsea Handler Disses Jay Leno

On last night’s very special Colbert Report , Vice President Joe Biden and Stephen Colbert served hot dogs, beer and green grass to the returning troops. Elsewhere, Chelsea Handler ripped on her old friend Jay Leno, Julianna Margulies shared her commencement secrets and James Lipton earned $4 from Craig Ferguson the hard way.

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Late Night Highlights: Stephen Colbert Celebrates the Troops, Chelsea Handler Disses Jay Leno

Adam Brody on The Romantics, the Agony of Jennifer’s Body and the Ecstasy of Scream 4

Adam Brody showed up for our interview toting an old-model Nikon camera and some heady memories of his time on the set of The Romantics , a sprawling ensemble dramedy about marriage, unmarriage, post-college malaise and the families we make of our friends. Starring as Jake, the engaged would-be novelist who may or may not catch the cold-feet bug going around his pal Tom’s (Josh Duhamel) wedding (time alone in an attic with Malin Åkerman would do that to anyone, let’s be honest), Brody brings his customary wry deadpan to the subject of fading ambition. He elaborated on this and other topics — including the “surreal” qualities of Scream 4 and the failure of last year’s Jennifer’s Body — this week in New York.

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TV Bites: How I Met Jennifer Morrison?

Also in this morning’s TV Bites: You will never get away from Jersey Shore … Hal Holbrook becomes The Event … a Lost alum lands on NCIS … and more ahead.

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Tony Blair Accused of Ripping Off The Queen

The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan has accused former British prime minister Tony Blair of plagiarizing his script. In his memoirs, Blair’s account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 is apparently very similar to the dialogue that Morgan wrote. Morgan surmises that either he guessed exactly right in the script (unlikely), that Blair decided he liked Morgan’s lines enough to use them, or that the former prime minister simply confused the film with the actual events. Blair claims to have never seen the film. Alternate guess: Blair’s ghost writer uncovered a vast conspiracy between the lines of what was actually said and used Morgan’s dialogue to cover himself. [ Telegraph via NY Times Arts Beat ]

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Bad Guys Have Cooler Motorcycles Than Captain America in Just-Released Set Photos

New photos from the upcoming Captain America have been released from the film’s set in…Britain? What!? So much for patriotism. In any case, it looks like the captain (played here by a stuntman, not the very carefully cast Chris Evans) has his work cut out for him – while he chokes on exhaust fumes from an bulky military cycle, Red Skull’s henchman zip along on sleek bikes that look like they came from the future. Check them out after the jump.

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Paley Center Announces Super-Necessary New Award Show to Rival Emmys

Just as they’d promised us last December , the Paley Center has officially announced they’re staging a television award show for May 2012. Phew. I was just thinking that the TV Guide Awards, Cable ACE Awards, and American Film Institute’s television ceremonies were all great ideas and enjoyed incredible ratings. Man. So what do we know about the fete?

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Paley Center Announces Super-Necessary New Award Show to Rival Emmys