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Don’t Blink: First Promo for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor Premieres

Are you ready, America? Coming in the fall of 2011, former American Idol judge (and V-neck aficionado) Simon Cowell will return to televisions with The X Factor . The British import is already one of the most hyped events on the Fox calendar next year — right up there with the Glee Super Bowl episode and, well, the Super Bowl — and so it goes to reason that the network would want to start plugging it as soon as possible. As such, say hello to the 10 quickest, most nondescript seconds in the history of television promotion.

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Don’t Blink: First Promo for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor Premieres

On DVD: Knight & Day, and Other Movie-Star Match-Ups That Underperformed

Like most Americans, I didn’t actually see the action-comedy-romance Knight & Day (out on DVD this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) in theaters, but I never would have predicted that the teaming of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz would have led to one of the summer’s highest-profile box office bombs. ( Vanilla Sky notwithstanding.) But if pairing two popular movie stars were a guarantee of success, you’d see a lot more one-from-Column-A casting in Hollywood. Here’s a look at some other sure-fire pairings that wound up being anything but:

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Heads Off: New Trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones Debuts

VIDEO: Kurt Russell, Sarah Silverman and Dozens More Sing ‘We Are the World’ for Funny or Die

Considering we’re only about four weeks away from Christmas — insert prerequisite “where did the year go?!” quip here — it’s about that time for celebrities to remember the less fortunate among us. With that in mind, here’s Comedy Death-Ray and Funny or Die presenting “We Are the World 25.75,” an almost anniversary celebration of the Quincy Jones supersong in support of the LA Regional Foodbank. Before you get too excited though, heed the words of Kurt Russell: “I want to stress that these are not good singers. This does not sound good at all.”

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‘I’m What Time and Circumstance Made Me’: Boardwalk Empire Recapped

If the penultimate episode of Boardwalk Empire did anything, it gave the series an epitaph for its first season. As Jimmy told The Commodore — pat on back: I, like many others, had already called that he was Jimmy’s pop-pop — “I’m what time and circumstance made me.” So, too, is every other major character populating this east coast Gomorrah. It’s enough to make Randolph and Mortimer Duke proud.

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Report: James Franco, Anne Hathaway May Host Oscars

Breaking: Nikki Finke writes that she’s “just learned that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has asked James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host the Academy Awards, and it ‘looks like’ both young stars have accepted the offer. There is always the chance that one of them might back out because of prior commitments. But my sources say the host announcement could be made as soon as this week.” Oh, so this is what they meant by wanting to work on the Alien prequel . Great euphemism! [ Deadline ]

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Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man Musical Gets Tangled in Web of Bad Reviews

And you thought only movies could have disastrous screenings! Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark previewed on Broadway last night and the $65 million production went off with so many hitches that the production lasted for almost three-and-a-half hours, contained five stoppages and one almost-revolt. If only Broadway had review embargoes, amirite?

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Naked Gun Actor Leslie Nielsen Dies at 84

Sad news for people who like to laugh: Actor Leslie Nielsen of Naked Gun and Airplane! fame of has died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 84. For my money, there’s no better showcase of Nielsen’s deadpan comic timing and deft slapstick ability than this montage of epilogues from Police Squad! , in which Nielsen fakes a freeze frame at the end of every episode. Check them out along with a reminder of Nielsen’s non-comedy work after the jump.

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Weekend Receipts: Harry Potter Manages To Beat Out Pretty-Haired Ladies Over Holiday Weekend

The weekend box office was once again good to the children of Hogwarts as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 managed to claim the top spot, despite a surprisingly strong push from the follicularly themed Tangled . Sadly, it was not all good news for shiny haired princesses as Cher and Anne Hathaway found themselves experiencing a severe holiday hangover. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Angelina Jolie Hates Thanksgiving and America

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/29711/bitch-angelina-jolie-thanksgiving-is-story-… Angelina Jolie hates Thanksgiving, which she says is a “story of murder” she refuses to celebrate. Yup, she hates America. Jolie hates Jews and Israel (and attended an Islamic hate-fest), she attacked America for (barely) enforcing immigration laws and compared us to Hitler for it, and she interfered with Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation of illegal alien children, insisting they have lawyers to game the system and stay here ad absurdum. And don’t forget that time when she said she’s “absolutely ashamed” of America. Plus, she loves her some terrorist-host-state Syria. Now, there’s this from AOL News/PopEater reporter Rob Shuter: While everyone is preparing to give thanks tomorrow, one of America’s most famous families, the Jolie-Pitts, have decided to sit this Thanksgiving out. “Angelina Jolie hates this holiday and wants no part in rewriting history like so many other Americans,” a friend of the actress tells me. “To celebrate what the white settlers did to the native Indians, the domination of one culture over another, just isn’t her style. She definitely doesn’t want to teach her multi-cultural family how to celebrate a story of murder.” Angelina has been filming her directorial debut, about a Serbian man and Bosnian [Muslim] woman who fall in love during the Bosnian War. Angie, always extremely sensitive to the suffering throughout the world, is filming in English and the native languages. “Angelina gets so grossed out by Thanksgiving that she has made sure her family will not be in America this year on Thursday,” an insider tells me. And although Brad Pitt recently told ‘EXTRA,’ “We’ll whip up a turkey somewhere,” he certainly hasn’t shared that plan with Angelina. A family friend tells me, “If Brad wants turkey, he will have to cook it himself. For Angie, it will be another day when America tries to rewrite history.” She has compared Americans to Nazis for trying to enforce immigration law and have secure borders. And she praised Palestinian children for singing about killing Jews to “get our revenge.” This is pretty consistent with that. And it’s irrelevant that Brad Jolie-Pitt said they’ll “whip up a turkey”? As we all know, he’s the chick in this relationship and really doesn’t have a thing to say about it. Jolie refuses to celebrate Thanksgiving, feels it’s a “story of murder.” Yet, oddly, she and Mr. Pitt have not relinquished their homes on Native American soil back to the Indians and given all of their money to the victims. They’re just not cooking a turkey. Ya know who the real turkeys are? Americans who continue to make this couple of America-hating hypocrites rich by going to their movies and buying into their BS. added by: crystalman