Jennifer Love Hewitt Signs on For Law & Order: SVU

The deal is all but signed!  She might be single and she might not have her own show… but Jennifer Love Hewitt is about to sign on for a role on Law & Order: SVU.  Mariska Hargitay’s character, Olivia Benson is going to get a promotion on the show and Hewitt is going to fill that spot.

Mariska Hargitay Adopts Baby Girl

Mariska has made it clear that she’s going to be cutting back on her hours… and that is obviously happening but she’s keeping her salary in tact.  This being said, she’s got her deal for the 13th season locked in.  On the other hand, Christopher Meloni has not signed on.  He wants a raise and NBC is cheap as hell, so we know this is going totake a bit to clear up.  I don’t think they will let him go though.

What do you think of Jennifer Love Hewitt joining the cast?  Good things?

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Chelsea Handler New Show on NBC

Chelsea Handler has transformed her second book, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, into a TV series!  I am super stoked on this one because she is my favorite funny female.   That ’70s Show star Laura Prepon is actually playing Handler! And then Chelsea plays her older sister.

Chelsea Handler and Her New Man Meat

Chelsea Handler Show on NBC Gets The Green Light!

This fabulous new show is slated to debut this fall and I can hardly wait!  Thank you.  Thank you Chelsea.  You are such a rock star.  Pretty much like my happy medication.

Lindsay Lohan at Community Service

Say what?!  Say yes.  Lindsay Lohan is on a new path in life.  This is her plan: sobriety.  Permanent sobriety.  Hmmmmm.  How can this really happen?  I mean, for real?  Lindsay is only 24 and she is swearing off the booze for life?  I get the drugs part.  That is “normal” but to swear off drinking forever is a really bold statement and I think she will regret that “promise” because.. I don’t think she can live up to it.

Lindsay Lohan is Smoking Hot For Blank Magazine

I understand her wanting to prove a point, but setting such a huge goal isn’t the best idea.  I think one step at a time is a much better approach.  But her friends are standing behind her, saying that she is truly changing her life, for real, for the long haul.

What do you think?  Can Lindsay Lohan stay sober FOREVER?

Famke Janssen’s Directorial Debut at Cannes Film Festival

The always beautiful Famke Janssen appeared at Day 3 of the Cannes Film Festival at the American Pavillion for her directorial debut in the movie ‘Bringing Up Bobby’. The film stars Milla Jovovich (the con artist), Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross in the movie that Janssen also wrote, which according to imdb:

Is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future.

We would have seen Janssen directing movies long before this one, but a little thing like a James Bond film got in the way:

I had written a bunch of scripts, and one screenplay got me into the AFI Film School,” It all happened at the same time, and when I opted for ‘Goldeneye,’ my career just ended up going in that direction,”

How did an actress who was making her first ever directorial debut get the financing? She made a ‘director’s book’:

”which illustrated how I viewed the film, which really helped,” she says. “So not only did I write the script, but I had a clear vision of how I wanted to shoot the film, and that ultimately gave people the confidence to give me the money to make it.”

Bringing Up Bobby debuts sometime this year but a specific date has not been set.

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Hot New Images From X-Men: First Class Released

With just over two weeks until X-Men: First Class hits the theaters, Fox apparently stealth-released a plethora of new still images from the film.  Imdb had them up but then just as quickly pulled them down, presumably because they’re too “spoiler-y.”

Thank goodness for the fanboys (and girls) at ComicBookMovie.com who have managed to cull together over forty of these images from the far flung places on the interwebs and posted them all for us to see and drool over…I mean admire.

If you’re anything like me, and I think you are, then you’ll want to see these anyway since wild horses, let alone a couple of spoilers, couldn’t keep me from seeing this movie. Especially of interest are the fantastic shots of James McAvoy’s Prof. Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender’s Erik Lensherr.  Fassbender looks particularly happy to see January Jones…I mean me…happy to see me…in a couple of them.

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Audrina Patridge’s Boyfriend, Corey Bohan Arrested!!

Audrina Patridge celebrated her 26^th birthday on Saturday (she turned 26 on May 9^th) at the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas (pictures below) and was all smiles despite on-again, off-again boyfriend Corey Bohan being arrested Friday morning at Hermosa Beach for public intoxication.

Audrina Patridge Breaks Up With Corey Bohan, Moves On Quick!

Way to make Audrina’s party a special occasion Corey. TMZ reports that on Friday she tweeted:  ”I absolutely hate what jack Daniels does to people:( jack is a bad bad man!!!”

I feel sorry for her. First her mom embarrasses her after having a few drinks too many and now her boyfriend gets arrested the day before her Las Vegas birthday party celebration. Girl needs to realize it isn’t the Jack Daniels that is the problem.

Corey spent eight hours in jail after being arrested for the misdemeanour and was released after posting $500 bail. I’m not sure if he was or wasn’t at her party Saturday night, but there aren’t any pictures of him with her.

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