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Does Glee Need New Characters When It Already Has These Two?

Now that Glee’s wrapped up its freshman season, everyone wants to know what the writers have planned for season two. Executive producer Ryan Murphy has promised that the show will add three more characters to its already overstuffed cast: love interests for both Kurt and Mercedes, as well as a Christian moralist who’ll go toe-to-toe with Rachel. My question is, do they really need to add new actors when some of those roles could go to its two most underserved actors?

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Does Glee Need New Characters When It Already Has These Two?

25 Headlines Worth Wishing For in the Great Hollywood News Drought of 2010

The American electoral climate this week may be wired with all kinds of new, polarizing developments, and the Gulf of Mexico may yet fill with 40 million gallons of BP’ s oil . The job market may be rebounding , but the economy remains sluggish overall. The Chicago Blackhawks last night won their first Stanley Cup in nearly 50 years. In other words, folks, there are things to talk about — but here at Movieline, where the entertainment industry provides the principal for all our pop-cultural news brokerage, a drought of anything remotely interesting has crippled our operation for nearly a week now. The A-Team or The Karate Kid this weekend? Come on, Hollywood! With this in mind, here are some recommended suggestions and/or arcs for stories that would make this beat infinitely more interesting, like, now . Suggest your own below.

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Is Spielberg’s New Lead Eddie Redmayne?

I guess having that locked-in release date of August 10, 2011 is just what Steven Spielberg needed to really commit to making War Horse his next film. The Playlist hears that he’s gone ahead and cast Verge alum Eddie Redmayne in the story of a farmer’s son who longs to be reunited with his favorite horse during the first World War. I’m guessing that Eddie isn’t the horse (though it certainly might make things a little more interesting). [ The Playlist ]

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Ryan Kwanten on How the New Season of True Blood Blows His Mind

True Blood is one of television’s most audacious shows, and it has Ryan Kwanten to thank for helping to set the tone. Sure, the 33-year-old Aussie’s role as Jason Stackhouse requires him to go nude a lot — and in the third season, premiering this Sunday, he’s back to his old tricks right away — but he can’t just be credited for the fact that he helped establish the show’s sexual daring. What the new episodes confirm more than ever is that Kwanten is the funniest person on the show, and he’s able to pull off his dimwitted character without ever once winking at the audience. There are times that True Blood veers close to knowing self-parody, but Kwanten’s smart enough to play those lines like Jason has no idea. On the eve of the season premiere, Kwanten called Movieline to discuss working with series creator Alan Ball, True Blood’s habit of splitting its characters up, and the healthy state of Australian film.

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Will Expendables Lose Its R-Rating?

Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables is supposed to be a tribute to the R-rated action flicks of the eighties, but according to Hollywood Elsewhere , Lionsgate is pressuring Stallone to revise the film for a PG-13. Dubbed-over curse words and fight scenes that cut away from brutal impalings? Now it’s a tribute to the USA network versions of the R-rated action flicks of the eighties. [ Hollywood Elsewhere ]

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Will Expendables Lose Its R-Rating?

REVIEW: No Rest For the Wicked in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

In Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s illuminating but not lacerating documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the comic says, “No man has ever told me I look beautiful. They’ve said, ‘You look great, you look terrific.’ But never beautiful.” Implicit in that bald statement is a sense of longing, the kind of thing you don’t expect from a woman with the everyday vocabulary of a sailor on shore leave.

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The Lost DVD Epilogue Will Answer All Your Walt and Food-Drop Questions

Still scratching your head over Lost despite our attempt to tie up almost 100 of the show’s loose ends ? You’re in luck, as the previously announced DVD epilogue is going to have a lot more to it then just showing what happened on the island after Hurley and Ben were in charge. In fact, it sounds like this extra bit of bonus content is actually a subtle mea culpa for executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and a way to provide some of the answers that the actual show never gave.

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The Lost DVD Epilogue Will Answer All Your Walt and Food-Drop Questions

Heidi and Spencer Legally Separate

Though this is probably part of a carefully staged master plan that will lead to at least two nervous breakdowns inside of Movieline HQ, we are duty-bound to inform you that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have legally separated. Why is this of cultural significance? Because Us Weekly says it is. Now, who wants to guess what Speidi’s next trick will be ? A televised marriage renewal ceremony with Extra correspondents Mario Lopez and Terri Seymour as best man and maid of honor, perhaps? [ TMZ ]

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The Muppets Nabs Christmas 2011 Date

Someone alert Joe Biden ! Disney announced a release date today for the big-screen kinda-reboot The Muppets : December 25, 2011. It’ll be directed by James Bobin from a script by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, and though Segel will be in the cast, Charles Grodin definitely won’t be . Perhaps they could fill his absence with a role for noted Muppet-phile Lady Gaga ? [ Coming Soon ]

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REVIEW: Winter’s Bone a Little Too Pleased With its Own Folky Bleakness

Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone is one of those movies — like last year’s inner-city down-a-thon, Precious — that can’t quite make a distinction between profundity and plain old bleakness. The story of a 17-year-old girl in rural Missouri who’s desperate to find her ex-con father (he’s skipped bail, endangering not just the family’s modest house but its very survival), Winter’s Bone often feels stiffly self-conscious: Even though it’s based on a novel, it has the aura of a gritty documentary, as if Granik distrusted the idea that fiction alone could ever be good enough to get to the truth of human lives.

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