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Breakfast at Tiffany’s at 50: We Need to Talk About Mr. Yunioshi

As delightful as it is to watch Audrey Hepburn flitting about New York in Breakfast at Tiffany’s , gazing adoringly at jewels and pretty things and falling in love as party girl Holly Golightly — the original Carrie Bradshaw — a shadow has loomed over that film for decades: Namely, Mickey Rooney’s cartoonish turn as Mr. Yunioshi, the buck-toothed, bespectacled and slightly pervy Japanese man who lives upstairs. The good news, circa 2011, is that after years of not knowing exactly how to address that ugly, embarrassing moment in classic Hollywood cinema — hindsight and all that — Paramount Pictures, releasing the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray this week, offers a concerted effort to make amends.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s at 50: We Need to Talk About Mr. Yunioshi

Sigourney Weaver Picks Hitchcock in a Round of My Favorite Scene

Speaking with Sigourney Weaver for this week’s Abduction , in which the celebrated actress mentors young Taylor Lautner in the ways of the spy game, Movieline proposed a round of My Favorite Scene . Her pick? A scene from a Hitchcock classic starring screen legends Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman that moved Weaver so much she marveled, “It’s like the whole movie turns into a different organism.”

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REVIEW: Taylor Lautner Avoids Poking Himself in the Eye — Barely — in Abduction

It’s been established that Taylor Lautner can shuck a mean shirt, but can he hold together an action movie in its lead role? Over the approving shrieks of the Twilight fans in the audience, I’m going to gently suggest that at the moment, the answer is no. As Nathan, the teenage hero of Abduction , Lautner shows he’s handy with stunts, many of which he clearly and impressively performs himself, and good with a fight scene. But when it comes to exchanges of dialogue, displays of emotion or just standing around, he’s stiff and manifestly uncomfortable — this may be the first film I’ve even seen where when an actor goes to put his hand thoughtfully on his chin, it’s so awkward I became afraid he’d somehow miss and poke himself in the eye.

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REVIEW: Taylor Lautner Avoids Poking Himself in the Eye — Barely — in Abduction

No Book of Mormon Movie For Now, and 7 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Jeremy Renner may be King … Justin Lin ducks out of the flatlining Terminator revamp… Paramount plans to spruce up the joint… The case for Netflix… and more.

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No Book of Mormon Movie For Now, and 7 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crow to Bring ’80s Movie Diner to Broadway

Now, in addition to Goonies , Newsies , Carrie and Rocky , Hollywood is adapting Diner into a Broadway musical . If it works out, Diner could be the next Billy Elliott or Hairspray ! And if not, it could be the next Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark . Scheduled for a fall 2012 premiere, the adaptation of Barry Levinson’s directorial debut will revive the saga of high school buddies played by Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly and Paul Reiser. Oh, and did I mention that Sheryl Crow is involved?

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Exclusive Video: 50 Cent Hopes Bruce Willis Thriller Set Up Boosts His Love Life

Movieline can’t help but root for 50 Cent and his acting career, football cancer movies and all. In an exclusive behind the scenes clip from his upcoming DVD release Set Up — a diamond heist thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Ryan Phillippe — the rapper-thespian opens up and gets personal talking about the impact he hope his latest acting endeavor makes on his career and dating life.

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VIDEO: Hugh Jackman, WWE Stars Spend 6+ Uncomfortable Minutes in the Ring

Do you know what WWE fans love? Like, really feel passionately about? Australian Tony Award winners. Just ask any of the 15,000 adrenaline junkies who showed up to see pro wrestlers like The Miz and R-Truth throw down at last night’s WWE Monday Night Raw and instead got… guest host Hugh Jackman shilling his upcoming robot boxing movie Real Steel ! Summon your steeliest nerves and click through to watch the awkward scripted WWE drama unfold below. Warning: You may be tempted to revoke Jackman’s Emmy.

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Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Want Lincoln Biopic to Become ‘Political Fodder’

While discussing the presidential biopic that he is gearing up to shoot in Richmond this fall, Steven Spielberg described what he does not want Lincoln to be. The 2012 title will “not [be] a battlefield movie. There are battles in it, and being in Virginia, we have access to those historic battlefields.” Additionally, “the movie will be purposely coming out after next year’s election. I didn’t want it to become political fodder.” On the other hand, Lincoln will chronicle “the great work Abraham Lincoln did in the last months of his life.” The drama stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States alongside Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and John Hawkes. [ Orlando Sentinel ]

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Steve Martin Invokes Norbit, Bowfinger in Mildly Funny Oscars Letter to Eddie Murphy

The entertainment world may have been a little shocked earlier this month to learn that Eddie Murphy would be hosting this year’s Academy Awards but three-time Oscar host and Murphy’s Bowfinger co-star Steve Martin has complete faith in the comedian’s statuette-presenting ability. And a few mildly funny words of advice.

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Steve Martin Invokes Norbit, Bowfinger in Mildly Funny Oscars Letter to Eddie Murphy

J. Edgar Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio Ages, Recreates American History For an Oscar Nomination

“We must never forget our history,” Leonardo DiCaprio warns in the brand new trailer for J. Edgar . Conveniently, this narrative demand means that you should probably see the very biographical drama from director Clint Eastwood that this trailer advertises. Take a look at DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover below in the film’s first trailer.

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