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Which of Cougar Town’s Freakish New Titles Do You Prefer?

Creator Bill Lawrence has planned on retitling Cougar Town for months now, and while his original choice of C-Town has our vote, E! reports that the suits at ABC are considering a more drastic name change , including one that’s so dramatic it actually… is insane. Insane . Let’s break down the weird new titles of Cougar Town together, as a traumatized family.

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EXCLUSIVE: Helen Mirren on Three Decades of the ‘Visceral,’ ‘Flawed’ Caligula

This week sees the opening of Love Ranch , the long-delayed, fact-based retelling of the life and times of the first legal brothel in the United States. And this year sees the 30th anniversary of Caligula , a movie whose A-list depravity first arrived on these shores in February 1980. What do they have in common? Dame Helen Mirren, who stars as Love Ranch ‘s willful, no-nonsense madam Grace Bontempo and appeared as Caesonia — the courtesan who bears the mad emperor’s (played by Malcolm McDowell) child — in the notorious, massively expensive film whose power struggles involved everyone from Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione to screenwriter Gore Vidal to top-shelf English talent like McDowell, Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O’T oole. Reached today to discuss Love Ranch , the Oscar-winner indulged Moveline’s flashback.

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5 Ways That the Lohans’ New Reality Show Could Be Better Than Living Lohan

The Lohan family is not about to let their first critically-panned reality series deter them from making another critically-panned reality series. Just today, Dina Lohan announced that the family — including Lindsay — has already begun filming a project which will document the Lohans as they promote their businesses and prove that they are just a “a good, hardworking family.” Movieline recognizes this is destined to be another exploitative mess muddying our airwaves but in the spirit of Dina’s bottomless optimism, we would still like to point out five ways that this project could be less horrible than its predecessor Living Lohan .

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Did Chris Brown’s Weepy BET Michael Jackson Tribute Redeem Him?

Teehee. Of course not. If Alicia Keys’s tribute medley to herself didn’t freeze your face into a wince during last night’s BET Awards, Chris Brown achieved the task with his uber-tearful Michael Jackson homage. Oh, the passion! Did you know that “Man in the Mirror” is about Chris Brown’s plea for you to like him? Just ask Quincy Jones. Did you know “Billie Jean” is just a metaphor for whatever Chris Brown did to Rihanna? No? It’s time to join the times, simpletons. Because these songs may just be tainted forever.

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Hollywood Ink: Kevin Spacey Latest Horrible Boss

TV Bites: Katie Couric Rejects Larry King’s Leftovers

This Weekend on Cable: Julianne Moore Headlines Your Worst Nightmare

This weekend on cable, nightmare scenarios proliferate like mushrooms — and not the fun kind, either — just to take your mind off the wars and natural disasters and the economy and global warming and…

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Andy Richter Finally Over ‘Bad Breakup’ With NBC

It’s taken 6 months and a 30-city comedy tour, but Andy Richter is finally over his Tonight Show heartbreak. “It’s like a bad breakup,” Richter told Variety . “Once you get over it, you don’t want to dwell.” It also helps that the comedian — who says he never would have abandoned Conan O’B rien after such an “unnatural ending,” unlike Max Weinberg — has a more cooperative network behind him. “[TBS] has been nothing but supportive. We can do whatever we want and be ourselves.” [ Variety ]

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Movieline Interview Flashback: Restrepo Directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

“I hope if anything that’s we’ve made the most visceral war documentary that one can see, and the most honest.” Those were Tim Hetherington’s words in January, a week before his and Sebastian Junger’s Restrepo won the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. documentary jury prize. The film opens theatrically today to even more acclaim . For the occasion, Movieline is republishing Seth Abramovitch ‘s in-depth interview with the filmmakers from Park City. Twenty-four hours after catching Restrepo at Sundance — a war documentary that offers an unprecedented glimpse at a full year’s deployment in the most dangerous region of Afghanistan — and I still can’t shake its startling, enthralling, and frequently devastating images. If anything, they’ve only embedded themselves deeper. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to speak at length with the two filmmakers, veteran war correspondents both, responsible for bringing Restrepo to the screen: Sebastian Junger, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm , and award-winning photojournalist, Tim Hetherington. Our conversation follows.

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What’s On: Remember Michael Jackson’s Time

Ready to conclude your evening with a tribute to the late King of Pop? ABC’ s got you covered with a special look back at Michael Jackson’s legacy, including a glimpse into the care of his estate and kids in the present day. It could only be better if Vincent Price narrated and said, “There’s Joe Jackson closing in to seal your doom .” But we can’t get what we want sometimes. And for good reason, really.

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