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Celebrity Rehab Goes After Liza

Celebrity Rehab keeps cruising for a loser , and this time they’ve zeroed in on the most lavish lush of all: Liza Minnelli . According to TMZ, Minnelli’s not interested in the series even though she did go to rehab for alcohol addiction in 2004. I take it this stint at Promises would address her dependency on Dereon jeans . [ TMZ ]

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Is Jeff Zucker Finally Out at NBC?

If reading about people failing upwards makes you particularly angry, then maybe skip this post altogether. Word has it that NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker has accepted an exit package of between $30 and $40 million to leave the network he helped ruin sometime after Comcast officially acquires General Electric in 2011. That’s right: You won’t have Jeff Zucker to kick around anymore. Eventually.

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Rick Baker Pushes Envelope on Wolfman’s Makeup FX, Passive-Aggression

Universal’s misconceived, underperforming The Wolfman is out on DVD and Blu-ray, which has given makeup-effects wizard Rick Baker an opportunity to elaborate a little on how the film achieved its Benicio Del Toro-to-werewolf transformations. In short: Frustratingly! But that’s OK!

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SATC 2 Backlash Hits France

It was only a matter of time before Sex and the City 2 hit France in a sort of perfect storm of privilege, and now this: Warner Bros. reportedly recruited a dozen French authors to speak at a Parisian café as part of a promotional event, but the company to which WB outsourced the promo “didn’t mention the authors in media alerts, stuck them in a small, dark, back room, and didn’t provide a microphone or turn down the music during the talk and, worse, said nothing when the café made the writers pay for drinks.” Sacre bleu! When even the French are going to war with you, that is trouble. [ NYP ]

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Potential Super 8 Casting Call is Searching for the Hottest 13-Year-Old Girls in America

Over the last few days, several movie websites “accidentally” received casting call information from Paramount for what sounds like J.J. Abrams’s upcoming Super 8 , the secret project Abrams shot and released a teaser trailer for before any actors were actually hired to be in the movie. What can we glean from this casting information? The movie is about three 13-year-old kids from the midwest, and while actors who submit for the two boy roles can be scrawny, fat, cute, whatever, the young actresses who go in for the lead girl role definitely have to be “natural beauties” and “stunning.”

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Jane Lynch Weds

Congratulations to Glee star Jane Lynch, who married her girlfriend Lara Embry in Massachusetts over the Memorial Day weekend. Upside: a big ol’ TV star just got gay-married! Downside: they had to do it in Massachusetts, because gay marriage is still illegal in California, where the two live. [ Star ]

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Simon Monjack’s Death Linked to ‘Broken-Heart’ Syndrome

Or so suggests a NY Times health blogger, springboarding off last week’s amateur diagnosis by Monjack’s mother (“He’s had heart problems and been in deep distress since Brittany [Murphy] died”) into research about “classic heart attack symptoms after suffering severe emotional stress.” Interesting reading; it’s a hormonal thing. evidently. Nevertheless, when the coroner publicly cites “a huge number of medicines by his bedside,” is it safe to assume that Monjack may have been broken-hearted because he was a little… careless ? Figure that one out, science. [ NYT ]

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Which Jersey Shore Cast Member Has a Cocaine Problem?

From fist pumps to nose bumps: It seems that one of MTV’ s golden guidos has allegedly stumbled into a bit of a cocaine habit while shooting the show’s second season in Miami. And while the other cast members are aware of the, ahem, situation, Jersey Shore producers are not, and the star’s identity is being kept a secret. Click through for some hilarious “insider” commentary — and to cast your ballots.

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After Years of Work, Guillermo del Toro Bolts From The Hobbit

Guillermo del Toro has been attached to direct The Hobbit for two years, and he’s even been quietly auditioning actors for it over the last month (including one recent alum of Movieline’s Verge feature — guess who!), but it’s been impossible for him to proceed as planned with the Lord of the Rings prequel without a firm greenlight from the in-turmoil, unsold MGM. Therefore, he announced today, he’s leaving the project.

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Weekend Receipts: Shrek Beats The City

There must be something in the water over at Dreamworks Animation. As happened with the studio’s How to Train Your Dragon in the spring, Shrek Forever After appears like it has legs and knows how to use them. Who — besides David Poland — woulda thunk it?! The big green orge managed to beat the Four Ogres of the Apocalypse — better known as the gals from Sex and the City 2 — over the weekend, meaning Jeffrey Katzenberg is probably having a green-colored cosmopolitan right about now. Mix one up yourself and get ready for some weekend receipts.

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