My first thought upon viewing the NSFW clip below was, Wow, the Lily Van Der Woodsen-based Gossip Girl spin-off (as reported by EW.com’s Hollywood Insider) sure did get a sneak preview up fast! But it’s actually the new trailer for Bret Easton Ellis’ The Informers, just in time for Sundance. The film marks Brad Renfro’s final role — he died of a drug overdose about a month after shooting ended. (And, again, there’s some nudity in this unrated trailer — also featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, and Mickey Rourke — so watch with caution.)
Actually? Still not convinced this has nothing to do with Gossip Girl.
There are good days (you make the train on time, your hair cooperates, and ooh, look! someone left donut holes in the breakroom!), and then there are the days when you get a phone call saying that the world’s most famous-amazing-ridiculously-iconic living musician will be waiting for you in an office lobby in midtown Manhattan in one hour. Wednesday was the second kind of day for me.
In 2005, Patrick Swayze told EW how he planned to navigate the remainder of his now 30-year career: "There is no such thing as burnt out," he said, "but you have to define the feeling as something, so you call it boredom. It’s your passion leaving. There’s a cure for boredom, and that’s taking a calculated risk. As an actor, or as a person, try something that absolutely shouldn’t work and make it work." 
Hell yeah! 
I know he’s a comic genius and all that, but I’m not looking forward to
I’ve heard that theater folk are superstitious. There’s the tradition of the ghost light (leaving a light on in the theater during the night) and never mentioning the title of "the Scottish play" when in a production of William Shakespeare’s Macb…um, classic tragedy. But how about hiring a psychic to summon the spirit of a dead playwright? Well, the producers of an upcoming Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s comedy Blithe Spirit think that it’s not such a bad idea. They will be hiring a psychic to serve as the show’s official consultant on all things supernatural in hopes that it will "guarantee that each performance is every bit as genuine as possible."
