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Movieline is Hiring!

You might have heard our MMC mothership just picked up a high-profile new passenger ( welcome, Lynne Segall! ), but there’s still room in Movieline’s cabin for a few more talented hot shots to help guide our journey through the cultural cosmos. You know the drill: Inquire within.

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Movieline is Hiring!

CHiPs Remake!

Remember that summer night back in 1983 when you begged a higher power to revive the homoerotic NBC cop series CHiPs , even if it meant you had to burn your acid-washed jeans? Well, prep the lighter fluid because That ’70s Show star Topher Grace is spearheading a remake at Warner Bros Television. Grace and Numbers creators Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, who will write and exec produce the project, have not yet approached networks about the reboot. [ Deadline ]

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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Reality Check: ‘Maggie: The Musical’

At long last we’ve reached D-List ‘s final episode. Phew, ladies. Kathy Griffin did her best to appear guileless and truthful during her sixth season, but Movieline debunked the crap out of her. One last time, let’s pick the most real and fake moments from last night’s finale.

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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Reality Check: ‘Maggie: The Musical’

What’s On: Top Chef Makes Cold Cuts

The contestants on Top Chef attempt a culinary style rarely explored on the show. Judge Gail Simmons will be the least forgiving, as it’s a category that comes to closest to infringing upon her Top Chef: Just Desserts gig. I expect full-throttle stuffiness!

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What’s On: Top Chef Makes Cold Cuts

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst’s Long-Delayed All Good Things Headed to Magnolia?

After an extended period of limbo that involved director Andrew Jarecki buying back U.S. distribution rights from The Weinstein Company, the Ryan Gosling/Kirsten Dunst true-crime drama All Good Things appears to have found a new home at Magnolia Pictures. Moreover, according to info buried on one theater’s website, the film could make its first appearance as early as next week.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst’s Long-Delayed All Good Things Headed to Magnolia?

Which of These 5 Ladies Will Be the Next Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

If you’d bet on the Andy Richter-hosted edition of Pyramid replacing As the World Turns on CBS this fall, you lose! The network has reportedly selected a new talk show that will focus on “topical events through the eyes of moms” to succeed the long-running soap. Those moms? Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, and Leah Remini. But which of these 5 ladies will be the lightning rod Elisabeth Hasselbeck on this new View ? Movieline investigates.

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Which of These 5 Ladies Will Be the Next Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

Here’s Your First Look at Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard as the Mandelas

The long-planned Winnie Mandela biopic — imaginatively entitled Winnie — is currently shooting, and they’ve apparently gotten to the part of the story where its controversial subject married Nelson Mandela in 1958. The pair would change history (and eventually split in acrimony not long after the latter’s 28-year prison ordeal ended), but let’s remember the happy times with the help of Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard, whose characters are joined in holy matrimony after the jump.

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Here’s Your First Look at Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard as the Mandelas

Late Night Highlights: Watch Zac Efron Bungee Jump; Remember Steve Carell’s Mail-Carrier Days

If you were drinking every time that Zac Efron called Jay Leno “dude” or “man” during last night’s Tonight Show segment, then you are probably nursing a heck of a hangover this morning. Among the other late night segments you may have missed while drinking yourself under the table: Susan Sarandon and Chelsea Handler tested out their ping pong innuendo, Nicolas Cage remembered his devastating prom night and Steve Carell recalled his days as a deficient mail carrier.

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Late Night Highlights: Watch Zac Efron Bungee Jump; Remember Steve Carell’s Mail-Carrier Days

Watch the TV Role That Robert Duvall Thinks is Better Than Any Film He’s Made

While making the promotional rounds this morning for his film Get Low , Robert Duvall mentioned in two separate interviews that his best work didn’t come from any of the five films that earned him Oscar nominations or even the one film that earned him an actual Academy Award ( Tender Mercies ). Instead, Duvall singled out an ’80s television project.

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Watch the TV Role That Robert Duvall Thinks is Better Than Any Film He’s Made

REVIEW: Farewell, the Week’s Other Spy Film, Explores Human Toll of Espionage

Farewell, a cold war drama by the French director Christian Carion, isn’t just a movie set in 1981; in many ways it feels like a movie made in 1981. Unflashy and unpretentious, laid out before us in a modest, slightly grayed-out Eastern Bloc color palette, the picture moves tentatively at first: It slumps into action, rather than springing into it. But scene by scene Carion, working from a true story, builds a spy story that focuses more on the human costs of betraying one’s country than on the political fallout. To put it another way, if one man’s leaking of a few maps and documents can precipitate the downfall of a country, just think what it could do to his family.

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REVIEW: Farewell, the Week’s Other Spy Film, Explores Human Toll of Espionage