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Olivia Munn to Get Chuck-ed

Call it synergy at work. Olivia Munn — who appears on the NBC mid-season comedy Perfect Couples — is set to guest star on the season premiere of NBC’ s Chuck on Sept. 20. Jezebel’s favorite Daily Show correspondent will reportedly play a CIA agent who intimidates Chuck and his sidekick, Morgan. Look out for many gratuitous shots of hair-tossing in slow motion. [ EW ]

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Marion Cotillard Spent Two Months Disguised as a Man Last Year

“You have this fairy quality, like you’re flitting through trees and stars,” Nicole Kidman tells Marion Cotillard in the new issue of Interview , and we’d have to agree. The Inception actress has a lot of deliciously quirky things to talk to Kidman about in their chat, whether it’s her fantasies (“I would love to go into an animal’s dream–like a lion’s or a cat’s. I’m sure that’s pretty awesome”) or the two months she spent touring Europe as a man in 2009. Wait, what?

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Armond White Now Contrarian Enough to Claim Roger Ebert Destroyed Film Criticism

There are two things you can count on with NY Press film critic Armond White: he loves to go against the tide of popular opinion , and he’s not afraid to pick a fight . This time, though, has he gone too far?

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Armond White Now Contrarian Enough to Claim Roger Ebert Destroyed Film Criticism

Buzz Break: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes Biking, Avoids Cramps

Snooki and the Situation Pull Ahead in Jersey Shore Salary Game

Two Jersey Shore cast members are going rogue after their united strike for a pay raise. Snooki, a.k.a. Schnickers, a.k.a. America’s Schneetheart, a.k.a. a talking McNugget from an ’80s McDonald’s commercial , has struck a deal to be paid “substantially more money than before” for the next Jersey Shore half-season. Her co-star, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, is rumored to receive between $27,500 and $45,000 in his special exclusive deal with MTV. That’s a lot of money to work at a t-shirt shop and point at your abdomen. [ TMZ ]

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New Mel Gibson Tape Unleashed in All its Ugly, Baby-Hitting Allegation Fury

The conversation about whether or not Mel Gibson’s mainstream movie career is done for got even less complicated today: The actor-producer-director’s sixth published rant at Oksana Grigorieva explicitly invokes the act of both woman- and child-hitting, Gibson’s not-so-reassuring response to which you’ll find in the NSFW audio after the jump. Be warned: It’s bad.

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New Mel Gibson Tape Unleashed in All its Ugly, Baby-Hitting Allegation Fury

Your Turn: Summarize Michael Bay’s 3D Hansel and Gretel in 10 Words or Less

A lot of Web commentators will no doubt spin entire hypothetical stories, subplots and other random determinations from Monday night’s press release confirming Hansel and Gretel , a 3D adaptation of the Grimms’ forest-bound fairy tale to be co-produced by Michael Bay. But I think this calls for a more enlightening, interactive approach. In other words: You tell everyone else what to expect — and do it in 10 words or less.

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Your Turn: Summarize Michael Bay’s 3D Hansel and Gretel in 10 Words or Less

True Blood Sex and Violence Meter: When Vampires Can’t Afford Napkins

Usually with our True Blood recaps , we like to tabulate sex and violence using a point system, then crown a winner at the end of the show. This week, we’d better introduce a third feature: the Franklin meter.

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True Blood Sex and Violence Meter: When Vampires Can’t Afford Napkins

Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand Offered My Mother’s Curse

A year after this idea was originally floated out into the ether, it seems that Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have officially been offered roles in My Mother’s Curse . The Dan Fogelman-scripted film will be directed by The Proposal ‘s Anne Fletcher and casts Rogen and Streisand as mother and son on a road trip across the country. Last summer, Rogen called the film “one of the many projects [he] may or may not do in the next fifteen years,” so expect to see it sometime before 2024. [ The Playlist ]

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Dwayne Johnson Should Let The Rock Star in Faster

God bless Dwayne Johnson for the way he’s broken free from his albatross-like WWE persona, but the admittedly talented actor might be making a big mistake with his latest screen credit. To wit: How can anyone but “The Rock” actually star in Faster ?

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