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Late Night Highlights: Stephen Colbert Makes Sense of Sarah Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’ Remark

Last night, Stephen Colbert did his best to make sense — and make light — of Sarah Palin’s unfortunate and incorrect use of the term “blood libel” on The Colbert Report . Elsewhere, Olivia Munn told David Letterman how to avoid the cops, Seth Rogen talked about Cameron Diaz in her underwear, and Conan punished his audience for laughing.

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Don’t Forget to Meet Ron Howard and Movieline Tonight in NYC!

Good morning! Just a friendly reminder for all you New Yorkers in the house to join me tonight at the Apple Store SoHo , where I’ll be chatting with Ron Howard about his new film The Dilemma . The fun starts at 7:30; admission is free, but seats are first-come, first-served, so arrive at least a little early to get yours. And polish up your best queries for the Q&A ! See you there… [ Apple Store ]

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In Sick White Folks News: Jared Loughner’s HS Sweetheart Says He Went Crazy After She Broke Up Him

According to his ex, Jared Loughner “used to be” a typical teenager: The high school sweetheart of the Arizona gunman has said his descent into madness began after she broke up with him. Kelsey Hawkes described how Jared Loughner, whom she dated for a year in 2005 when she was 15, turned from a normal person into a ‘psycho’ when she ended their relationship. The student claimed Loughner ‘fell apart’ when she said she wanted to move on and looked like he had ‘nothing to live for’. Over the following months she watched in dismay as her former love began drinking and taking drugs before cutting himself off from their mutual friends. His warped journey is said to have reached its terrible climax last week when he opened fire at a meeting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, seriously injuring her and killing six others. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Miss Hawkes, 21, said: ‘My breaking up with him was not the cause of him going off the rails but it was definitely the start of it. ‘Something changed in him, he was not the same person when I told him it was over. ‘I remember his face clearly – he just looked like he had nothing to live for. It was my first relationship and it was his first relationship. He was definitely in love with me but I’m not sure if I could say I was in love with him – it was typical teenage stuff. Jared used to care about everything, his grades, school, his friends. That was when Jared was a normal person. It all stopped when we broke up.’ She added: ‘There was never any sign of that when we were going out, I would not have dated a weirdo.’ Miss Hawkes said the couple met in 2004 – when she was 15 and he was 16 – at a college American football game while both were studying at Mountain View High School in Tucson, Arizona. Although he was in the year above, the pair bonded over shared interests such as rock music. She said: ‘We clicked and we hung out, we did our homework together, we went to the movies. Typical teenage romance stuff.’ Miss Hawkes, who lives in Tucson, near the site where Loughner carried out his plot, said she learned her ex-boyfriend was the mass killer when she got a call from her sister. ‘I had to go home from work and I cried for the rest of the day,’ she said. ‘We had such an ordinary high school relationship that to think of him like that just blows my mind.’ Source

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DVD: Greta Garbo’s Final Movie Better Than Its Reputation

When one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood walks away from show business at the height of her career, it’s natural for people to assume that her early retirement has to be the fault of her last movie. And so Two-Faced Woman (out on DVD for the first time from Warner Archive Collection) has always had the stigma of being the film that made Greta Garbo leave her career behind. But it’s funnier than you may have heard.

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Glenn Beck Really Loved Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

Like really loved it. More than Wicked even! “After you couldn’t get a ticket to Spider-Man and you’ve offered a kidney for it, go see Wicked ,” Beck said during his nationally syndicated radio show on Wednesday. “I mean, you’ve got two kidneys. Don’t give both kidneys up — go see Wicked before you give both kidneys. But give a kidney to go see Spider-Man .” Someone stick that on the poster! [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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REVIEW: Helen Hunt, Ensemble Deal With Every Day Struggles

Garrett, the crass, crabby showrunner played by Eddie Izzard in Every Day , has a refrain meant to inspire the stable of television writers who script his Gray’s Anatomy -ish show: Shock me. Shock me Jaded and suffering from character arc exhaustion, Garrett is meant to be a joke and he is: Incest, bestiality, and public sex (ideally with a hooker who has AIDS ) are his idea of fresh and new; the craven, ratings-mongering type he embodies wouldn’t pass his own smell test.

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And Then Stanley Tucci Hosted a Wine Talk Show with Guests Patricia Clarkson and Penn Badgley

How’s this for random: Beginning in April, noted actor Stanley Tucci will regularly moderate a talk show about wine for national public television. The Burlesque actor has already filmed a few episodes of Vine Talk , in which he drinks and chats about wine with celebrity friends including John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Coolidge, Cheyenne Jackson and Easy A co-stars Patricia Clarkson and Penn Badgley. Click through for the show’s highlight montage, which includes liberal shots of Stanley, Patricia and Penn laughing while swirling merlot.

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Edgar Wright Plays My Favorite Scene; Do You Feel Lucky?

When filmmaker Edgar Wright returns to Los Angeles this weekend to curate his second guest programming run at the New Beverly Cinema , he’s bringing more of his favorite films to share. The first time Wright brought his encyclopedic film knowledge to the local institution back in 2007, his fortnight of cult and genre double features packed the house and kicked off a spate of popular guest programming series by the likes of Eli Roth, Joe Dante and Jason Reitman. Now Wright’s back to present over two weeks of double bills including paired screenings of Brazil & Delicatessen (Jan. 16-17), American Graffiti & Animal House (Jan. 20-21), Wild at Heart & True Romance (Jan. 26-27), and more – and it all begins with an already sold-out triple feature of Wright’s own Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz , and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Jan. 14-15).

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Mamie Gummer on Off the Map, and the Meryl Streep Movies She Hasn’t Seen

Mamie Gummer may have notched her film debut in her mother Meryl Streep’s film Heartburn at age 3, but the actress has gone to great lengths to learn acting the formal way. She graduated from Northwestern University’s theater program in 2005 and soon won roles in Evening , Stop-Loss , The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond , and Taking Woodstock . Now, alongside fellow NW grad Zach Gilford, Gummer stars on ABC’ s new drama Off the Map , a Shonda Rhimes medical serial set in exotic South America. Just ahead of tonight’s premiere, we caught up with Gummer to discuss her theatrical past, her feelings for TV, and the Meryl Streep movies she keeps meaning to see.

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Justin Bieber Greets Fans In New ‘Never Say Never’ Clip

Manager Scooter Braun says he gets paid ‘to just make other people happy.’ By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber greets a fan in a “Never Say Never” clip Photo: Paramount In four weeks, Justin Bieber’s 3-D flick, “Never Say Never,” will be in theaters. As fans gear up for the film event of 2011, Ryan Seacrest shared a never-before-released clip from the Bieber film, which opens on February 11 . In the video, Bieber performs an acoustic version of “Baby.” The performance footage is combined with scenes of him greeting his fans, something manager Scooter Braun admits is the highlight of working with the teen superstar. “Me and the guy from ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ have the best jobs in the world,” Braun explains in the new clip. “It’s actually the most gratifying thing about the job. Little things go a very long way. You get paid to just make other people happy.” Braun admits that it really doesn’t take much to make a Bielieber happy, just some primo seats to a Bieber show. “You give them free tickets and they’re usually in the first 10 rows,” Braun further explains. “If it weren’t for those kids out there, we don’t have jobs.” This is only the latest peek at the forthcoming film. A few weeks ago a clip of Bieber drumming as a kid was released. In it, his mom recalls his early days. “He never had any lessons or anything. I just never thought of it being anything other than for fun,” Bieber’s mother, Pattie Mallette, says. The film’s director, Jon Chu, told MTV News that he was nervous showing Bieber cuts of the film because he worried that the singer wouldn’t be happy with the way he told his story. “I mean, I’m always nervous. We’re always trying to make our movies better,” he explained. “We’re never done with it, though. I just keep going until they tell me I’ve run out of time. So [Justin] got to see it this week, which was really exciting, and he loved it, which is always scary when you try to show someone the story of their life, but he’s been very supportive, he and his family and his team. I’m excited to share it with the world and show another side of 3-D. With ‘Step Up 3D,’ we learned a lot of lessons and we discovered a lot of things, and it’s just the beginning.” Related Photos Justin Bieber’s ‘Never Say Never’: Alternate Movie Titles Related Artists Justin Bieber

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