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Former Late Night Announcer Joel Godard Not on Team Coco

Despite the looks of that picture, you aren’t high right now. Probably. British comedian and self-described “entrepreneur” Matt Sky — who interviews various celebrities using a green puppet — spoke with Conan O’B rien’s former Late Night announcer Joel Godard to find out why he never appeared on The Tonight Show . Because who else would Joel Godard speak to about this?

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Marisa Tomei: ‘A Lot of People are Scared of Actors!’

In the new comedy Cyrus , Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly may have the showiest roles, but Marisa Tomei has the trickiest. While Hill (as her son) and Reilly (as her suitor) spar for her affections, Tomei has to make her Molly attractive but attainable, naive but not stupid, and loving but fundamentally misguided. Those are a whole lot of contradictions to play for any actor, but as Tomei explains it, it was all part of the process of working with directors Jay and Mark Duplass. The pair encourage the actors to make not just the characters but the dialogue and blocking their own, and Academy Award winner Tomei had plenty of ideas on how to do exactly that. The actress talked to Movieline this week about some of the challenges inherent in that process, how she reconceived the character counter to what the Duplasses had originally intended, and how Hollywood has a problem with allowing women be funny.

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Betty White on The View: Remembering Rue and The Golden Girls

Since Rue McClanahan’s passing on June 3, there’s one thing that’s been missing: the comforting coo of Rose Nylund herself, Betty White. Though White released a statement about her Golden Girls co-star immediately after her death, it wasn’t until today on The View that we were able to see her reflect on the duo’s halcyon days of lanais and pastel-colored pants. Video of White discussing the shock of McClanahan’s death (and her status as the last living Golden Girl) is after the jump.

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Betty White on The View: Remembering Rue and The Golden Girls

Un-‘Edgy’ Fraggle Rock Writer-Director Bashes Weinsteins

There is a parallel universe where confetti and balloons and marching bands will arrive out of nowhere to celebrate the millionth filmmaker to rip on Harvey Weinstein. Here, however, all I can really do is offer a solo womp-womp fanfare and a couple sympathy pats to Cory Edwards, the writer/director who is ticked off that the Weinstein Company would go behind his back to solicit a rewrite of Fraggle Rock. How do we know? He blogged about it.

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Coldplay Acquiesces, Allows Glee to Use Its Songs

In what has to be one of the most predictable “just kidding!” moments of 2010, Chris Martin and his Coldplay bandmates have gone back on their initial rejection of Glee . The band was one of two major holdouts — the other being, hilariously, Bryan Adams — that refused to have their catalog performed by New Directions when the series began last year. But according to creator Ryan Murphy, they called him recently and apologized: “We’re sorry, you can have our catalog,” said the band through gritted teeth. Have you always wanted to hear Lea Michele and Cory Monteith sing ” Fix You “? Yeah, me too. What, you thought that was sarcasm? Lights will guide you home… [ Yahoo! ]

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Coldplay Acquiesces, Allows Glee to Use Its Songs

TV Bites: ABC Replaces Nearly Every Edgar Floats Cast Member, Tom Cavanagh Included

This Week On Cable: The Slasher Origins of Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger

Cable’s rich pageant offers many things this week, but nothing quite as riveting as the spectacle of Matthew McConaughey laying the foundations of his career in the badlands of Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel hell…

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This Week On Cable: The Slasher Origins of Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger

Finally. A Jersey Shore Rap Single.

Though the cast of Jersey Shore appears in a new Enrique Iglesias video, that apparently isn’t enough to satisfy Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s musical muscle: He just released his own dance single called “The Situation” with Missy Elliott’s old co-hollerer Fatman Scoop. Spoiler: The Auto-Tune hits you like a vagabond gym teacher in a Seaside Heights bar . I’d be on board if it were called “Money Can’t Buy You Abs.” A little class , namean ? [ TMZ ]

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Which VJ Should MTV Re-Hire as a ‘Twitter Jockey’?

MTV’ s hurtling into the post- TRL future by opening up a new position: “Twitter Jockey.” The lucky hire will cover events like the Video Music Awards in 140-character blurbs while being just as unbearably live as the event itself. Though the network’s holding a giant contest in order to recruit, I say this is a grand opportunity to re-hire some of the network’s best vets. Join us as we rank the finest candidates from old MTV.

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Tilda Swinton’s Flash Mob

We can all agree that the recent Ghostbusters and Glee flash mobs were a little bit adorable, but is the fad played out? Not if Tilda Swinton has anything to say about it. She’s planning a flash dance on June 26 to The Avalon Boy’s “At the Ball” in order to promote her new 8 1/2 Foundation, explaining , “It’s a song from Laurel and Hardy’s funniest film Way Out West . In the film, Stan and Ollie do a wee dance, which is rubbish compared to Cyd Charisse or Gene Kelly, or any trained dancer, and yet it’s one of the most charming, amusing, gentle, child-like musical numbers in the whole of cinema history.” Book your trip to Edinburgh now! [ Indiewire ]

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