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Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Afterglow Plagued by Piracy Suits, International Outrage

Not to be outdone by Jeff Bridges’ $24,000 federal tax lien , Kathryn Bigelow has both domestic and international quarrels affecting her post-Oscar profile these days. And while you could argue that this year’s groundbreaking Best Director isn’t technically on the front lines of the war on Hurt Locker piracy, she faces a bit more personal skirmish in her attempt to make her follow-up, Triple Frontier .

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Buzz Break: Which One is Despicable Me Again?

Dear Gamers: Please See My Movie. Love, Jake Gyllenhaal

And this is what it has come to apparently. While promoting Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , star Jake Gyllenhaal has taken to begging for the approval of the finicky gamer audience to see his new, video game-based, movie. Because the only thing that can sink the box office potential of a movie faster than negative reviews is negative reviews from a niche audience of demographically friendly fans who will see the movie anyway. You tell ’em, Jake!

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Ryan Murphy Demands an Apology From Newsweek, Urges Readers to Boycott

Add Glee creator Ryan Murphy to the laundry list of people offended by Ramin Setoodeh’s Newsweek editorial, in which the author proclaimed that gay actors cannot convincingly portray straight characters. Murphy released a scathing open letter to Newsweek last night, in which he scolded the publication for not issuing an apology to readers, suggested a full-on Newsweek boycott and invited Setoodeh to the set of Glee for a sing-along of Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.” Click through for the full letter.

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Official Super 8 Trailer: Less Shaky, Just as Trainwrecky

Charlie Sheen’s Poker Face

When it comes to playing sitcom hardball , Charlie Sheen is a pro. Just today, “a source close” to the Two and a Half Men star (translation: his manager) told TMZ , “Charlie is really into his sobriety now. He likes the show but it brings back bad memories. If [the contract renegotiation] doesn’t happen it literally wouldn’t faze him.” Meanwhile, Jon Cryer’s poker face has already crumbled. Sources close to Duckie reveal that he will do almost anything for that $20 million he could net from two more seasons. [ TMZ ]

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ABC Issues Statement on Modern Family’s Lack of Gay PDAs

After installing Betty White as the host of Saturday Night Live (where she could finally live out her lifelong dream of saying things that are shocking because they are coming from an old lady), the users of Facebook are drunk with power! Their latest mission: getting gay couple Cameron and Mitchell to kiss on Modern Family . As the Facebook petitioning reaches a fevered pitch (and if you listen closely, it sounds like a bunch of insistent guests clinking their glasses at a gay wedding and looking up expectantly at the dais), producers issued a statement today in hopes of calming down the ravenously romantic masses:

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Buzz Break: A Tempest in Helen Mirren’s Teapot

A Brief History of the Racist Autobots Exiled from Transformers 3

My heart can’t take all this bad news today! First, Jeff Fahey attempted to drag me out of denial , forcing me to finally acknowledge that Lost’s Frank Lapidus was really, truly dead. (But we didn’t see a body, Jeff!) Now, Michael Bay has revealed that the racist, gold-toothed Autobots named Mudflaps and Skids will not be returning to Transformers 3 after their jaw-dropping introduction in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen . Though I have no doubt that Bay will replace them with something equally mind-boggling, I think we need to pay those two their due first.

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Who Else Could Star Opposite Russell Crowe in A Star is Born?

Sad news if you’re a fan of unlikely screen pairings: Russell Crowe confirms that Beyonce has pulled out of his planned remake of A Star is Born . Still, the show must go on — and it has, three times before onscreen. Which other young women could play the role of a singing star on the rise as Crowe’s own star wanes? Movieline took the time to suggest a few.

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