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Late Night Highlights: Ellen Jokes About American Idol, Jay Leno Walks Out on a Hospital Bill

Jay Leno returned from a relaxing Labor Day weekend last night well-rested and ready to share one of his most bizarre memories from childhood with Carey Mulligan. Elsewhere, Ellen DeGeneres stopped by the Late Show to joke about American Idol , Stephen Colbert spoke to a prophetic goose and Tim Gunn dared to diss Anna Wintour.

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Late Night Highlights: Ellen Jokes About American Idol, Jay Leno Walks Out on a Hospital Bill

How Sad is Your Sad Don Draper?

Mine is pretty sad! But that’s almost like a kind of default position with everything going on these days — it’s not even like he needs to lose his dearest confidante in California or have an epic showdown with Peggy Olson to have a Tumblr called Sad Don Draper . Click through to have a look at what’s making our man Don despondent today (at least here), and pass along any of your own if you’ve got ’em.

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3 Sketches Amy Poehler Should Revive in her SNL Hosting Gig

Have you enjoyed SNL Day at Movieline? Look, it was an accident. We can’t help that there’s much to discuss about Jenny Slate’s departure , Lorne Michaels’ new hires , the greatest one-season cast members , and now Amy Poehler’s season premiere hosting gig. The Parks and Recreation star’s return to Studio 8H will no doubt be a successful one, but it could be sublime if she revived these three sketches.

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Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion Part 2: By the Numbers

Bravo closed the curtain on the Real Housewives of New Jersey ‘s second season last night, and there were tears, fake apologies, and (best of all) one dramatic weave-pull re-enactment courtesy of Andy Cohen and Danielle Staub. In the tradition of last week’s Real Housewives of New Jersey recap, Movieline is again applying the By the Numbers scorecard to Staub’s last episode on the series ever . Here are our findings:

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Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and Other Wild Memories of 1994 Unveiled in Movieline’s Vault

Just because it’s Tuesday morning doesn’t mean your holiday has to end: Take a few hours out of your post-Labor Day hangover to luxuriate in Movieline’s Vault. Our print predecessors from 1994 have migrated on to the Web at last, and there are some jewels in there, believe me. A sampling follows (with more to come in the hours and days ahead):

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Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and Other Wild Memories of 1994 Unveiled in Movieline’s Vault

New Magazine Nabs Ultimate Coup With Titanic II Director

Movieline alumnus alert! What’s erstwhile Bad Movies We Love guru Michael Adams been up to? Oh, not much — just hosting a reviews show in Australia and launching the new Web magazine WordyMofo . Way to multitask! Of the latter, Issue #0 (gotta start somewhere) features an interview with the auteur behind Titanic II and the greatest article ever written about spending the Fourth of July randomly flipping through cable channels five minutes at a time for 24 hours straight. Cheers to Mr. Adams and his mates, and happy reading to you. [ WordyMofo ]

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Kara DioGuardi Officially Exiting American Idol

Happy Labor Day Friday, everyone! In a news dump that would make most former presidential press secretaries jealous, Fox announced what everyone already assumed back in July: Kara DioGuardi is leaving American Idol effective immediately. Gasp, shock, surprise! Click ahead to read the full press release and then go on with the rest of your holiday weekend.

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What’s On: Fraternal Fire on Flashpoint

The rough-and-tumble attractiveness of Hugh Dillon boils over tonight on Flashpoint . What’s provoking the fire behind those baby blues this week? Roll through to see.

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Tim Gunn Talks to Movieline About Project Runway, Confronting Gretchen, and Crossdressing J. Edgar Hoover

Project Runway ‘s addictive drama hinges on the appearance of Tim Gunn, the competing designers’ mentor who adds doses of advice, wit, and professorial integrity to the workroom. Movieline caught up with Gunn to discuss his new book Gunn’s Golden Rules (and that chapter about J. Edgar Hoover’s Vivian Vance drag ), “crackpipe”-smoking judges, and even his favorite film scene of all time.

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Saturday Night Live May Finally Hire Another Black Person

If you’re keeping score at home — and you probably are — it has been seven years since Saturday Night Live hired a new African American cast member, an unhappy distinction that proved to be quite the hindrance two years ago when Keenan Thompson wasn’t up for the task of impersonating Barack Obama. As such, this may be good news for everyone (except maybe the soon-to-be former Obama impersonator, Fred Armisen): SNL may have found another black guy!

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