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Don’t Panic! Rich Sommer Tweets, Explains Uncertainty Over Mad Men Season 5

Oh, Twitter. Crib of gossip, wellspring of panic. That’s what we get for reading Rich Sommer’s disclosure a little while ago that not only is he not returning to work on Mad Men any time soon, he doesn’t know if Mad Men itself is returning to work any time soon — if ever. But just to be clear, that’s not what he meant . Allow him to explain?

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Don’t Panic! Rich Sommer Tweets, Explains Uncertainty Over Mad Men Season 5

Four Score and Seven Milkshakes Ago: Daniel Day-Lewis Will Play Lincoln for Steven Spielberg

Alec Baldwin Endorses Wegmans Plus 5 More Strange Celebrity Advertisements

This new series of commercials for the grocery store chain Wegmans begins like any other low-budget, locally produced ad you might see on daytime television…until Alec Baldwin pops up, hanging out with the employees and singing the praises of the chain’s deals with unbridled enthusiasm. And they are brilliant. But Baldwin is not the first celebrity to show up in a baffling advertisement. Today, Movieline takes a look at the Wegmans spots, then fondly remembers five other advertisements where the celebrity appearances make almost zero sense.

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Alec Baldwin Endorses Wegmans Plus 5 More Strange Celebrity Advertisements

Weekend Forecast: Harry Potter Ain’t Leaving Here Without His $130+ Million

Happy Friday! Time to get out of the house and face the next to last day you’ll ever have your face violently rubbed in the opening of a Harry Potter movie. It’s not as bad a scenario as it sounds, to be honest — unless you’re Russell Crowe and/or Paul Haggis, in which case, well, maybe think about sleeping in. Let’s get to the forecast…

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Weekend Forecast: Harry Potter Ain’t Leaving Here Without His $130+ Million

In Memory of American Idol’s Semifinal Rounds: 10 Incredible Performances

Nigel Lythgoe is one of my favorite forces in reality television, but he announced a big mistake today: American Idol ‘s glorious semifinal rounds are no longer . Instead, this season’s live performances will begin with Top 12 week, and we’ll also be forced to watch as contestants compete in “music video” competitions. Horrifying, indeed. Without the semifinals, Idol loses so much great drama, intimacy, and some of the best performances in the season. Without further ado, let’s show Nigel Lythgoe how much he messed up and revisit Idol ‘s most incredible (and sometimes cringe-worthy) semifinal moments.

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In Memory of American Idol’s Semifinal Rounds: 10 Incredible Performances

South Park Casualty Count: The Attack of the Food Network Stars

Last night, Trey Parker and Matt Stone skillfully skewered the Food Network in a new South Park episode so outrageous that at one point Randy Marsh masturbated to an episode of Guy Fieri’s Big Bite . It happened. Ahead, a more detailed recap of Randy’s adventure into the seedy underbelly of food porn, and the body count from last night’s installment, “Crème Fraiche.”

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South Park Casualty Count: The Attack of the Food Network Stars

Michael Shannon Talks Boardwalk Empire with Movieline

HBO’ s sprawling Boardwalk Empire is a character actor aficionados dream come true; after all, the lead is Steve Buscemi. So it isn’t all that surprising to see someone like Michael Shannon killing scenes on a weekly basis. The very definition of “that guy” — having appeared in everything from Revolutionary Road to World Trade Center to Bad Boys II — Shannon stars as Agent Nelson Van Alden, a G-Man looking to keep both alcohol sales and his sexual desires bottled up during the era of Prohibition. The Oscar-nominated star rang up Movieline to discuss his role, the way Boardwalk Empire treats its ladies, and just what he made of that now infamous self-flagellation scene .

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Michael Shannon Talks Boardwalk Empire with Movieline

Tyra Banks or Stanley Kubrick: Who Has the Better Directing Debut?

Having now watched Tyra Banks’s directing debut from the set of America’s Next Top Model , I’m fairly convinced that she has a better grasp of photography, editing, sound and narrative than many well-known filmmakers did in their own first efforts. Not everyone can be Orson Welles, right? But can she be, say, Stanley Kubrick? Maybe!

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Bad Movies We Love: Chastity

The original Movieline magazine ran a bunch of great features, but the most lamented one has to be Bad Movies We Love. The world never runs out of horrible, adorable films, and that’s because they’re the most gratifying to talk about. I haven’t discussed my favorite movie, Rear Window , as much as I have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze , and that’s because James Stewart and Grace Kelly never rapped with Vanilla Ice about crime-fighting humanoids (though you never know about Thelma Ritter). The point of it all: Thanks to the infinite, Biblical, pathetic joy that bad cinema produces, we’re exhuming Bad Movies We Love in weekly installments. Throw your vanities in a bonfire and join us!

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Bad Movies We Love: Chastity

Exclusive: ABC’s Body of Proof Pairs Dana Delany With Last Airbender’s Fire Lord Ozai

Trauma actor Cliff Curtis is joining the cast of ABC’ s Dana Delany-led midseason drama Body of Proof in a recurring capacity, sources confirm to me exclusively. Curtis — who also appeared in The Last Airbender as the evil Fire Lord Ozai — will play Derek Ames, a top forensic consultant for the FBI and a potential love interest for Delany’s divorced medical examiner.

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Exclusive: ABC’s Body of Proof Pairs Dana Delany With Last Airbender’s Fire Lord Ozai