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Pop Quiz: Guess The Hurt Locker-esque Shakespeare Updating!

Fun time, everyone! A first photo is making the rounds from a currently in-production updating of a William Shakespeare play. If you’ve been following Movieline’s Hollywood Ink trade round-ups (and really, who hasn’t ), it might come to you, and even then, you might be hard-pressed to say, “Oh, sure — that looks just like…”

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Pop Quiz: Guess The Hurt Locker-esque Shakespeare Updating!

Cast and Crew of Mad Men Singing ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Just As Awesome As You’d Hope

Here’s the funniest thing you’ll see all day: the cast and crew of Mad Men doing a spoof of the Ann-Margret classic, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Apparently — or at least according to the info section on its YouTube page — the video was done for creator Matthew Weiner, likely at the end of season three. Things to take note of, beyond that shot of John Slattery in a ginger wig: the joy on the normally joyless face of January Jones; Jon Hamm cutting a rug; Rich Sommers (Harry Crane) possibly naked; and Elisabeth Moss fiddling with her Blackberry. Also: Robert Morse, looking as sprightly as ever. Watch after the jump and prepare to spend the rest the day with “Birdie” stuck in your head.

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Cast and Crew of Mad Men Singing ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Just As Awesome As You’d Hope

Plug Pulled on Josh Brolin Pic

Josh Brolin might become a certifiable mainstream star this summer after the release of Jonah Hex , but Universal isn’t waiting around to find out. The studio has canceled the shoot for Asger Leth’s Cartel , a drug drama that was to star Brolin and begin production in Mexico City next month. Too bad: this revenge story of a man whose wife is brutally murdered, forcing him to infiltrate Mexican drug cartels, had “gangbusters business in the women 15-35 demographic!” written all over it. [ Deadline ]

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Plug Pulled on Josh Brolin Pic

American Idol Recap: Who Drove Us to Beatlemania?

Up is down! Right is wrong! You say goodbye, I say hello. Everything’s different now in Idol Isle, and the Top 9 rankings are almost reversed thanks this week’s performances from the Lennon/McCartney songbook. Everything you thought you knew about Crystal Bowersox’s lock on #1 — or Tim Urban’s lock on #Infinity — has been destroyed. Your onetime love of Ellen DeGeneres is but an ember flickering in Kara DioGuardi’s snowman stare. It’s the kind of chaos that makes us scream “Get back to where you once belonged!” right at the Benami-less TV. After the jump, this week’s topsy-turvy rankings.

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American Idol Recap: Who Drove Us to Beatlemania?

Uma Thurman’s Newest Indignity: Forced to Audition for Role Given to Winona Ryder

As far as I’m concerned, Uma Thurman earned her lifetime pass a long time ago: Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, Kill Bill , done, you’re enshrined in the pantheon, congrats all around. Unfortunately, Hollywood doesn’t feel the same way. On the heels of the weird glee people took when Thurman’s obscure indie Motherhood tanked in the U.K. (because how a film does in one British theater is now very important!) comes a dispiriting report from EW that mentions exactly how Thurman lost a role to Winona Ryder in Ron Howard’s upcoming Cheaters :

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Uma Thurman’s Newest Indignity: Forced to Audition for Role Given to Winona Ryder

United States of Tara Multiple-Personality Smackdown: ‘The Truth Hurts’

Last time we saw Tara , she was cheering up thanks to an Air Supply jam session in her neighbor’s suicide house. She had not told her family that Buck had been hijacking her body to woo a sweet bartender named Pammy (Joey Lauren Adams), hoping her male alter would recede back into her subconscious. But as we learned in last night’s episode, “The Truth Hurts,” Pammy and Buck are not going away anytime soon, and if anyone tries to get between them, Buck, the hardened Vietnam vet who shows his affection by cutting his lady’s toenails and replacing her water jug, will throw down with anyone, including Tara. After the jump, Movieline assesses the damage from last night’s match.

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United States of Tara Multiple-Personality Smackdown: ‘The Truth Hurts’

DVDerby: Your Weekly Guide to What’s New (and Good) on Video

If it’s Tuesday, it’s DVD /Blu-ray release day! Which new releases should you spend your hard earned disposable income on? Find out after the jump in DVD erby, Movieline’s compact guide to the hyper-competitive home-video field.

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DVDerby: Your Weekly Guide to What’s New (and Good) on Video

I Am Love Trailer: Tilda Swinton at Full-Throttle Fierceness

The trailer is out now for Tilda Swinton’s festival stunner I Am Love , which you may remember was the subject of our conversation with her back at Sundance (that is, when we weren’t talking about Conan O’B rien ). It’s ravishing and totally incomprehensible — just like the film!

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I Am Love Trailer: Tilda Swinton at Full-Throttle Fierceness

5 Questions Raised by Glee’s Performance at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Every year, you apply for the White House Easter Egg Roll lottery, hoping that you and your child can spend the holiday rubbing elbows with the First Couple as that-year’s-tween-act bops around on a South Lawn stage. How could that not be the most amazing celebration of Jesus’ resurrection ever? That question was rhetorical up until this weekend’s Egg Roll, when the cast of Glee clambered onstage in matching blood-red outfits and stumbled through one of the most disappointing Egg Roll performances of all time (even counting Fergie’s). After the jump, Movieline works through some of the questions raised in this weekend’s mini-concert.

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5 Questions Raised by Glee’s Performance at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Does This Sunset Daze Trailer Reveal a Jersey Shore for Old Folks?

Over the next year, nearly every reality show will be pitched as, ” Jersey Shore , but with ____.” Still, that’s not to say that there aren’t some enticing permutations of that pitch, and who among us wouldn’t be intrigued by the We channel’s new series Sunset Daze , which producers are describing as ” Jersey Shore in a rest home”?

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Does This Sunset Daze Trailer Reveal a Jersey Shore for Old Folks?