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UPDATE: January Jones Hit & Run Now Involves… Bobby Flay?

It took a whole week, but there’s finally something truly remarkable to write about. Word broke earlier that Mad Men star January Jones hit three parked cars with her Range Rover on Thursday night and fled the accident — only to return later and claim that she was being chased by paparazzi. Well, now get out your best plot thickeners. TMZ reports that following the accident, Jones called Bobby Flay — whom she had just met that night — and the celebrity chef told her to head home. Because, of course Bobby Flay would be the Peggy Olson in this scenario. And according to a “witness at the scene,” Jones had alcohol on her breath, and was seen chewing gum upon returning to the accident site. See what happens when you break up with Don Draper? Developing… [ TMZ ]

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Conan O’Brien on Vinyl

While performing a surprise concert with Jack Black in Nashville last night, Conan O’B rien announced his plan to release a vinyl album of rockabilly hits. The 300 fans who packed into White’s Third Man Records heard a sneak peak of the recording, which will include covers of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” Elvis Presley’s “Blue Moon,” The Stray Cats’ “Rock This Town” and Radiohead’s “Creep.” A fan in the audience posted video from the night here . [ Yahoo! ]

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Megan Fox’s Mea Culpa

Megan Fox would like to explain herself for being the most terrifically quotable woman in Hollywood . “In the past, I’ve been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality,” Fox told questioner Zach Galifianakis (?!) in the new issue of Interview . “So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what’s really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.” See guys? She’s not crazy! Just crazy like a…well, you know. [ ONTD ]

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Guilds May Oppose Miramax Sale

Somewhere along the line, low-life “financier” David Bergstein and Co. managed an exclusive negotiating window with Disney for the chance to buy the Miramax library. Not so fast, say the WGA, DGA and SAG, all of whom remain creditors in involuntary bankruptcy claims against several of Bergstein’s other properties. Tack on another 600 films’ worth of residuals they may or may not ever receive, and you can see the problem here. Disney says it’s unaware of any opposition expressed or implied, but, you know. Let’s just nudge this back to the Weinsteins and be done with it already. [ NYT ]

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Hey, Who Wants To Buy a Barfy Human Centipede Necklace?

Thank God for Etsy: “Here we have a beautiful recreation of the abombination that is The Human Centipede . This beautiful pendant has been lovingly hand crafted from light-weight but hard-wearing plastic and attached to a 10 silver tone curb chain with silver plated findings. Pendant measures 3″. An exact replica of Doctor Heiter’s fiendish blueprints.” OK, actually — damn you, Etsy . [ Etsy via Cinematical ]

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January Jones Hits, Runs, Returns

According to the LAPD, the Mad Men star fled the scene after driving her Range Rover into not one, not two, but three vehicles late Thursday. Jones, who reportedly said she couldn’t “deal with this commotion,” later returned to explain to cops that she was being hounded by paparazzi. And why? Notes TMZ : “[P]hotos of her doing a ‘walk of shame’ were all over the Internet yesterday, showing her arriving home in a taxi in the same dress she wore to an event the night before.” Good grief. Where’s Alison Brie to run interference when you need her? [ TMZ ]

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Weinstein Party Girls Rejoice as Piranha 3D Moved Up a Week

Woot! Slow news day be gone! Word has arrived at Movieline HQ that Piranha 3D will assuage our summer blues a week earlier than originally expected, landing in theaters on Aug. 20. Sure, that may mean one less week of Wild Wild Girls’ quasi-viral, NSFW semi-stardom promoting the film, but it also means we’re that much closer to more exciting-ish Piranha videos like the new one after the jump. Don’t worry — everyone’s dressed.

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Who Wants to Be in Mean Girls 2?

…the direct-to-DVD sequel, that is. Slashfilm has dug up a casting call for the Melanie Mayron-directed project, plus a logline: “The story revolves around a new high school student, Jo, who agrees to befriend an outcast, Abby, at the urging of Abby’s wealthy father in exchange for paying all of Jo’s costs for the college of her dreams. Jo and Abby team up to take on the school’s ‘mean girls,’ the Plastics.” Lindsay Lohan, you’d better check your Celebrity Apprentice availability. [ Slashfilm ]

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Cleveland Show Already Picked Up for Third Season

TV animation works in mysterious ways — Fox’s freshman toon The Cleveland Show was renewed for a second season before the first began airing. Now the Family Guy spinoff’s been picked up for a full third season . Production cycles for animated series are long, so early renewals are the only ways networks can deal with them efficiently. Or so they say. It still doesn’t explain how 30 Rock managed to give us Meat Cat , the most compelling animated character of the past decade, does it? [ Deadine ]

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Newt Gingrich, Carpetbagger For God, Made a Movie About the Pope

Not the current pope, alas, who could actually use some conservative hagiographical spin right about now, but the previous pope — John Paul II, whose efforts to combat totalitarianism through faith are chronicled in the Gingrich-produced documentary Nine Days That Changed the World . The former House Speaker and Georgia Republican has traveled with the film to the late pope’s homeland of Poland, where he spoke Wednesday of the political change that Catholicism can effect under Communist regimes in Cuba and China. And, one can only presume, in America, where the film will make the university rounds this fall just in time to combat the Obama-flavored socialist scourge jockeying for public office. Hold it just a second, Newt — I thought you were a Baptist ?

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