The shell of the 360 building at Sunset Vine is getting a second skin, .
It's more than meets the eye! Just like a building that was once insulated with asbestos!
Here's your first glimpse at the new for 2008.
(As in agents, not tax forms.)
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In exchange for a to his felony charges on illegal firearms and marijuana possession, gets: a three-year suspended sentence without jail time, five years of formal probation, 800 hours of community service, and 15,000 bonus frequent flyer miles.
While we weren't looking, those cunning Canadians have stolen the crown from right under our noses!
· But how did yesterday's 416 point stock market bed-shitting affect the faceless multimedia corporations behind your favorite entertainment products, you ask? Disney was hit the hardest with a 6% fall, followed by Time Warner at 4%, and 2-4% drops by News Corp., CBS, Viacom, and Sony.
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· 's Grammnet Productions throws away a 15-year relationship with for a one-year fling with 20th Century TV's younger, hotter piece of studio ass. [ ]
Fox's Fifth Graders Humiliating Morons draws a depressingly huge 26.6 million viewers in its American Idol-boosted premiere.
Realizing that the series' initial numbers might be a little inflated by its lead-in, the network hopes to continue to hold that audience's interest by adding an element to in which the show's precocious ten-year-olds kick its contestants in the genitals after each incorrect answer. [ ]
· Oscar winner will join Little Miss Sunshine co-star underneath the Cone of Silence in . Get Smart movie adaptation.
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· Robert Downey Jr. signs on to play "Kirk Lazarus, the greatest actor of his generation and a four-time Oscar winner" in 's Tropic Thunder, but there's no mention if that's the role that was to extend with Stiller past Hardy Boys. We'd hate for Downey to get blacklisted at Cruise's United Artists for stealing a role away from the new mogul.
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Congress passes a bill that raises indecency fines from $32,500 to $325,000 per infraction, causing Les Moonves to rethink his plans for a hilarious " " Two and a Half Men sweeps week stunt.
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orders a script for a 24 movie from the show's creators, but holds out on a greenlight until after season 6 debuts. Fans rejoice, though the projectionists' union is already up in arms over the prospects of the 144 reels of film they'll be required to load for its proposed running time of 24 hours 7 minutes. [ ]
Everything following the first word from this Variety story about the World Cup airing on Univision ("Goooooooal!
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Fox wins the week with So You Think You Can Dance?
, a competition best enjoyed on a cocktail of , and followed by a good, old fashioned Mama whuppin'. [ ]
will return to the next season of The Office with his salary more than doubled to around $175,000 per episode, a shooting schedule that accomodates his various movie commitments, and on-call, personal manscaping services from a dutifully indebted Kevin Reilly. [ ]
makes a deal with gaming juggernaut Electronic Arts to develop three original video game franchises. EA will own the rights to games, and Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment first-look development rights for TV and Film. The first game is already in the works, and will revolve around a hugely successful director's attempts to keep his out-of-control star from terrorizing depressed new mothers and ruining the opening of their summer blockbuster.
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True of False: The Hollywood Reporter really, really likes . Have you ever seen a salad tossed in true-false form? You have now.
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sets up two projects with , ensuring that he will have steady work well into the next decade. One is from Carell's original pitch, the other, according to one of its writers, "[I]s for Steve to play the most Caucasian man in America, who's sent to juvenile prison for a petty crime he committed as a kid. Suddenly this suburban drip is surrounded by 11-year-old bad-asses.
" Ooh, watch the uptight cracker get menaced by 11-year-old bad-asses of color! [ ]
buys the rights to the sports comedy Ballers, assigns his staff to determine a plausible way that pro footballers might explode spectacularly. [ ]
What's left of buys the North American rights to The Queen, a film about the royal family after Princess Diana's death, based on a scene from a particularly moving commemorative dinner plate.
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's agents make sure they book up every free minute of his next three years before his 40 Year-Old Virgin heat dissipates, sign him up for the romantic comedy Dan in Real Life. (Plot unimportant.).
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In perhaps one of the most liberal contractual definitions of "talent" to date, the WB signs a talent holding deal with Nick Lachey . [ ]
Robert Wise, Academy Award winning director of The Sound of Music and West Side Story died of heart failure yesterday at 91. Pray that his soul was not captured inside Britney's baby after it shuffled off its mortal coil.
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Disney's underperforming film business could flush up to $300 million down the fiscal crapper this quarter after a horrible summer. We blame Lindsay Lohan's missed days of shooting on Herbie: Fully Loaded for at least half of the loss. [ ]
's Head Cases premiere bombs even in comparison to lead-in So You Think You Can Dance's weak numbers.
Chris O'Donnell should be taking your drink order shortly.
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