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Mos Def Gets Enlightened

It’s a big day for premium cable castings. Hours after Cynthia Nixon joined The Big C , Mos Def has hopped aboard Mike White’s HBO project, Enlightened . The comedy series stars Laura Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening and decides to lead an enlightened life which creates chaos at home and work. The Emmy-nominated actor will play Dern’s new boss. [ Deadline ]

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Ryan Murphy Bans Glee Trailer Sex

Ryan Murphy has something explicit to say about the young folks of Glee acting on hormonal urges in their trailers . “I’ve dated people I’ve worked with and, you know, when you work on a set for 18 hours a day I think it’s natural,” the Glee creator told Heat . “But I have a rule: don’t do it in your trailer! They’ve broken that rule on many occasions. I’m like, ‘I know you guys are young and hormonal, but don’t do it in your trailer’.” They’ve broken that rule?! On many occasions?! There goes Madonna corrupting the youth again. [ ONTD ]

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Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi Head to Splitsville

Sad news out of the ABC dating franchise, The Bachelor . Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi have broken up, effectively ending their engagement. Said one of Pavelka’s representatives in a statement: “Jake and Vienna have split and appreciate the respect for their privacy at this time.” Because two people who had their entire courtship and relationship played out on various ABC reality shows certainly deserve privacy when something actually interesting happens between them. For statheads, this brings the total number of failed Bachelor -based relationships to 13. [ E! ]

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REVIEW: Robotic Tom Cruise Weighs Down Knight and Day

Tom Cruise is no longer cool, a truth he just can’t face — if he could, he’d be cooler. In the opening moments of Knight and Day, Cruise strides through an airport in a uniform of coolness that may as well have been assembled from a checklist: Distinctive Persol sunglasses, an obviously cashmere V-neck sweater layered over a surely-not-Hanes T-shirt, a Baracuta jacket — I’m only checking off the brand names the same way he and his costume department must have. The ringtone on his character’s phone is “Louie, Louie.” And he actually does some of his own stunts, just to show he can. Cruise really may be the hardest-working man in show business right now, but on him (in direct contrast to James Brown), all that sweat just isn’t cool. Once coolness leaves you, how do you get it back?

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Heroes Movie Sounds Iffy

In today’s superhero-saturated world, do we really need a return engagement with a whole bunch of putative crusaders who almost never use their powers? That was NBC’ s thinking when the network snuffed the low-rated Heroes , and though creator Tim Kring has been trying to muster up support for a wrap-up movie, he admits to EW that he network has yet to pull the trigger. “Movies sometimes need a little distance from the television show,” he rationalized. Sorry, Tim. We’ve already moved on to Ant-Man . [ EW ]

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Meet Kenny Wormald, Your New Footloose Lead

Back when the Footloose remake had Zac Efron set to star for his High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, it seemed like a no-brainer proposition, but as Efron, Ortega, and then fill-in lead Chace Crawford left the project, Footloose had less and less reason for being. Still, Paramount pressed on, and new director Craig Brewer has now cast a virtual unknown to fill the dance slippers of Efron and Crawford. Let’s meet him!

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‘My Season Would Suck Without You’: Idols Take on Kelly Clarkson

On VOD: A Killer Inside Your Home

The video-on-demand splash of the week and weekend, just when you’d thought everyone forgot all about noir-novel master Jim Thompson: The remake of The Killer Inside Me is in theaters and on demand starting tomorrow. But Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Paul Thomas Anderson and a few others might argue their own VOD cases as well…

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Walk of Fame Inductees: Oprah, NPH, GOOP Innovator

The new crop of Hollywood Walk of Fame inductees includes Oprah Winfrey, Neil Patrick Harris, Tina Fey, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Muppets, Reese Witherspoon, Penelope Cruz, and Danny DeVito. Of those selected, only one has never won either an Academy Award or Emmy. Can you guess? Yep, it’s good old NPH. Reminds me of that famous adage: “Those who can’t win, host.” [ THR ]

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Steve Zahn Plays ‘My Favorite Scene’ With Movieline

Earlier this month, Steve Zahn rang Movieline from his Kentucky farm to discuss Treme , HBO’ s ensemble drama about post-Katrina New Orleans. As his character, Davis McAlary — a charismatic disc jockey, amateur politician, and advanced stoner — grows frustrated with the Big Easy’s gradual recovery from disaster, so too have some Treme viewers grown frustrated with David Simon’s sprawling series. Hopefully, this Sunday’s finale will remind audiences why they enjoyed the series when it first premiered in April, and to celebrate the conclusion of his freshman year at HBO, Steve Zahn joined us for a round of the age-old Movieline classic, My Favorite Scene.

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