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Guess Which Celebrity Scandal Will Factor in the Law & Order: Los Angeles Season Premiere

That was quick! Just a week after Dick Wolf told the assembled television critics of the TCA that he would not be opposed to using celebrity scandals for Law & Order: Los Angeles plots, the veteran executive producer has made good on his promise: A celebrity scandal will be at the center of the series premiere. But which one?

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Guess Which Celebrity Scandal Will Factor in the Law & Order: Los Angeles Season Premiere

Big Brother Repulsion Index: When The Wizards Take on The Other Guys

What’s the only way that CBS could make an episode of Big Brother even more morally reprehensible than usual? By dressing its contestants in wizard costumes and using the show as an hour-long commercial for a major feature film that has nothing to do with wizards: The Other Guys .

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Big Brother Repulsion Index: When The Wizards Take on The Other Guys

Hollywood Ink: Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are Road Warriors

Also today in Hollywood Ink: Decision time for Tony Scott… Morgan Freeman swims with dolphins… Guy Pearce is shot into space… and more!

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Hollywood Ink: Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are Road Warriors

Whoopi Goldberg Rails on Bachelor Jake

On The View today, Whoopi Goldberg took time off from defending bigots to call out The Bachelor ‘s Jake Pavelka. Goldberg asked the beleaguered reality star if The Bachelor was his first “acting” job, and Pavelka replied that The Bachelor “wasn’t acting.” That set the bedenimed hostess into a quick rage , and she said, “Darling, I’m afraid to tell you, you’re full of garbage. That is an acting job.” Someone please phone Chris Harrison to moderate. [ ONTD ]

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3 Other Performers Who Could Learn From Justin Bieber’s CSI Guest Arc

Just today, a CSI executive producer revealed that it was actually Justin Bieber’s idea to play against type — as a “troubled young man, raised in the foster-care system, whose hard-luck life has left him scarred and angry” — in the Sept. 23 season premiere of the CBS procedural. Here are three other Hollywood performers who could revive their careers, and turn their images around, by taking a cue from the the mop-topped 16-year-old.

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Check Out Michael Atkinson’s New Novel — Available Now!

Big props to Michael Atkinson, an esteemed critic who, when not wearing his DVD – and cable-connoisseur hat for Movieline, also happens to write the occasional mystery novel about Ernest Hemingway. Yes, that Ernest Hemingway. You’ll love it. His latest, Hemingway Cutthroat , is just out on bookshelves, and I am pleased to urge you: Pick it up! It’s a sequel to Mr. Atkinson’s Hemingway Deadlights ; both are available at Amazon and would make splendid additions to your summer reading list. Enjoy!

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Movieline is Hiring!

You might have heard our MMC mothership just picked up a high-profile new passenger ( welcome, Lynne Segall! ), but there’s still room in Movieline’s cabin for a few more talented hot shots to help guide our journey through the cultural cosmos. You know the drill: Inquire within.

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Movieline is Hiring!

Lea Michele Plays ‘My Favorite Scene’ with Movieline!

As a roller coaster careened overhead at the Santa Monica Pier during this week’s Fox press tour party, I met up with Glee ‘s brightest star Lea Michele for a lightening round of Movieline mainstay My Favorite Scene. Who would have guessed that her favorite film moment of all time is probably the same one that her Glee character would have chosen?

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Lea Michele Plays ‘My Favorite Scene’ with Movieline!

Heads Up, SoCal: Ricky Gervais’s Cemetery Junction Getting Token Theatrical Run

The latest Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy Cemetery Junction teased American moviegoers for months before finally shuffling off to the DVD rosters, but here’s good-ish news: Junction will receive a one-week theatrical run — starting this Friday in Glendale! — before arriving on video Aug. 17. Be the first — and possibly the only — person on your block to glean the hilarity on its way to cult oblivion. [ Mann Glendale Exchange ]

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Heads Up, SoCal: Ricky Gervais’s Cemetery Junction Getting Token Theatrical Run

Only 837 Days Until Breaking Dawn: Part 2 Comes Out!

Summit Entertainment just sent over the official release date for the second part of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn : Nov. 16, 2012. Yes, that would be 2012 — which is to say: more than two years from now, almost a full year after the first part of the film opens , the projected date of the apocalypse, etc. Start hoarding canned goods accordingly.

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Only 837 Days Until Breaking Dawn: Part 2 Comes Out!