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Patton Oswalt Attacks Nobody For Stealing Material

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What does a guy do after the Broadway show he’s starring in gets canceled because of his performance and then he’s removed from a comedy pilot after the first table reading? Well, if he’s Patton Oswalt , he scours the Internet to find out if disingenuous no-talents are stealing his stand-up material! Oswalt took to MySpace — God love you, Patton, but really: MySpace ? — to out a pathetic joke stealer named Nick Madson, an Iowa comedian who did Oswalt’s routine at a club on Wednesday. Needless to say: Someone get Madson a helmet.

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Spirit of the Festival: Tribeca Audiences Crown Their Favorite

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What do a kufi hat-wearing James Cromwell, Jeffrey Wells and thousands of Heineken bottles have in common? They were all present at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Awards Wrap Party last night. And while the name of the event was a bit misleading — the main Tribeca awards were announced Thursday — there was one piece of hardware handed out: the Heineken sponsored audience award, which went to the rock documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage . Because if there’s one thing everyone knows about New Yorkers, it’s their fierce love of prog rock. After the jump, the top-ten audiences choices — congrats to all the winners.

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Toy Story 3 Cliffhanger Screenings Meet Resistance on Twitter

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The reports of Disney screening the first 65 minutes of Toy Story 3 at college campuses around the country has been circulating since March , so what better time than now for the New York Times to realize they exist. In an article yesterday, the Paper of Record reports on the screenings from the front line — ie; college campuses where students are screaming “No!” when the projector cuts out right before the film’s climax.

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The Ishtar of Books: Why Peter Biskind’s Warren Beatty Bio Stalled

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Haven’t gotten around to reading Star , Peter Biskind’s biography of Warren Beatty? Better question: Hadn’t even realized it exists? Well, you’re not alone. The industry-anticipated book has bombed with regular readers since its release in a way that recalls Ishtar or Town and Country . So what happened? Look no further than the introduction.

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Rambo Draws Last Blood

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Sad news for fans of Botox’d freedom fighters. Sylvester Stallone told Empire magazine that he’s no longer interested in furthering the story of John Rambo: “I think Rambo ‘s pretty well done. I don’t think there’ll be any more. I’m about 99% sure.” So you’re saying there’s a chance! Have no fear, however, Stallone said the lack of Rambo in his life will allow him to concentrate on more important things. Like a sequel to The Expendables . Please contain your excitement. [Empire via Coming Soon ]

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Friday Box Office: Shocking Nightmare

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No, you aren’t dreaming. That is the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street sitting atop the box office chart today with a ridiculous $15 million Friday night gross — a horror genre record $1.6 million of which came from midnight screenings on Thursday. For reference, that’s more than the rest of the top-ten grossed combined . However if you think Elm Street proves audiences will literally see anything with a suffocating marketing campaign, there’s Furry Vengeance . The Brendan Fraser disaster opened with a Monkeybone -like $2 million on Friday to land in fifth. At least some people still have standards. The top-five ahead.

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Hollywood Ink: Fair Game Finds a Buyer to Take it to Cannes

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Is The Real Housewives of NYC More Effective as an Oral History?

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With each week of expert analysis from Movieline’s Julie Miller, The Real Housewives of New York ‘s mosaic of glitz and gaucheness separates into pure shards. Jill’s the problem , Bethenny’s a bit put on , and no one ends up looking like a saint. But perhaps the issue with RHONY ‘s cast is their format: If they were characters in a piece of literature, would we be so cavalier to dismiss them? After piecing together bits from the Bravo blogs, it turns out we have the makings of a Victorian bildungsroman on our hands.

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The Return of Johnny Carson

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While we wait for Bill Carter to finish writing the The Late Shift sequel, producers Basil Iwanyk ( Clash of the Titans ) of Thunder Road and Kevin J. Cleary of Content House are developing a miniseries about the drama between the Tonight Show ‘s first three hosts: Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. The miniseries, called The King of Late Night , will be based on Robert Metz’s 1980 book The Tonight Show and will explore the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the show’s hosts long before Jay Leno butted his chin in. [ Deadline ]

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Time Honors 100 Most Influential People on Planet, Somehow Including Lea Michele

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Now Mercedes will never get those solos! Time has released its list of the 100 most influential people in the entire world , and among the world leaders and philanthropists is Glee star Lea Michele, because why not? (Sadly, her apparent global influence couldn’t get her more than ten seconds of screen time this week.) What other entertainment figures made the list?

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