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Dec 7 2011 06:04 PM ET

Side-by-side by Lovelace: Stacking up two forthcoming biopics about the 'Deep Throat' star

by Lanford Beard

Filed under: Movies, News and tagged: Movie Casting, Movies

Image Credit: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com

Like Alexander the Great, Steve Prefontaine, and Snow White before her, the late Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace suddenly has several producers prepping biopics simultaneously. The reluctant porn icon made her way into pop culture history with 1972′s Deep Throat, which was used as an informant code name during that year’s Watergate scandal and resurfaced with the Dennis Hopper-narrated documentary Inside Deep Throat, released in 2005 three years after Lovelace’s untimely death.

Today, EW confirmed that Juno Temple (left) and Wes Bentley have been added to the cast of Lovelace, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s biopic, which Epstein called “a story with great dramatic and psychological dimensions.” As pre-production for Lovelace and its competition, Matthew Wilder’s Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, really begins to take shape, it looks like it will be a race to the finish line as to which film — both of which are tentatively slated to hit theaters in 2012 — will be first to titillate and traumatize audiences. We size up the two entries below. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 05:44 PM ET

Lindsay Lohan's 'Playboy' cover leaked online

by Kate Ward

Tagged: Horrifying But Hypnotic, Ridiculata, Sexytimes

Image Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR Photos

The big reveal (so to speak) was scheduled for Dec. 15, but Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy cover has leaked online a week early. The actress had scheduled a sit-down with Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime show next week to discuss the cover — and, no doubt, her recent troubles at the L.A. County morgue — but, now, all that awaits us is the spread (again, so to speak. Sorry).

Those of you who still recoil at the thought of seeing the girl from The Parent Trap in the flesh, never fear: The cover, which you can see over on The Insider, is relatively safe for work. (At least, it’s no worse than what Kristin Chenoweth wore to the American Country Awards earlier this week.) Question is: Is the Playboy cover enough to make you want to hop to the store to nab a copy, or was Lohan’s nude New York photoshoot from 2008 enough for you? Is it gross that I’m even asking these questions? Yes. Yes it is.

Follow Kate on Twitter @KateWardEW

Dec 7 2011 04:26 PM ET

'Grown Ups' sequel reportedly in the works. Which Adam Sandler flick most deserves a follow-up?

by Aly Semigran

Filed under: Movies and tagged: Adam Sandler, Comedy, Movies

Image Credit: Tracy Bennett

It’s easy to harp on Adam Sandler (even more so if you endured Jack and Jill) but you have to give the guy credit for one thing: He never turned any one of his wildly successful comedies into a franchise with umpteen sequels, something he could have easily done considering their impressive box office returns. (Thank your lucky stars for that one, PopWatchers, or else we could have had I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 2 or Little Nicky 3 by now.)

But now, for the first time in his career, Sandler could be appearing in a sequel. Variety reported Tuesday that a sequel to 2010′s ensemble comedy smash Grown Ups is in the works with the original film’s scribe Fred Wolf in talks, though Sandler “has no deal in place for Grown Ups 2.” (EW also reached out to Sandler’s production company Happy Madison regarding the reported project with Sony Pictures, who had no comment.)

Still, if a Grown Ups sequel does happen, is it the follow-up you’d want to see most from Sandler? READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 02:04 PM ET

Hilary Swank explains her Chechen fiasco to Mariska Hargitay in 'Gotham'

by Jeff Labrecque

Tagged: Celebrity Scandals

Image Credit: Musa Sadulayev/AP Images

Hilary Swank has already paid a public price for appearing at a Chechen gala — for a fee — that ended up celebrating the birthday of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-back president who’s been suspected of human-rights violations. She subsequently parted ways with her management and publicity teams after her appearance became public, and Swank offered a public mea culpa on The Tonight Show. But she has a big movie coming out Dec. 9, the star-studded romantic-comedy, New Year’s Eve, and the questions aren’t going away anytime soon.

In the most recent issue of Gotham magazine, Swank opted to tell her side of the story to actress and guest-journalist Mariska Hargitay.

MARISKA HARGITAY: I want to ask you about something more serious concerning your travels. Much has been said about your recent trip to Chechnya. Can you share what happened? READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 01:38 PM ET

In your (golden) face, Trump! Colbert announces his own Serious, Classy Republican debate

by Aly Semigran

Filed under: About Last Night, Television, TV and tagged: About Last Night, Comedy, Have You Seen This?, Late Night, News You Can Use, Politics as Entertainment, Television, The Colbert Report, Things That Are Awesome!

Stephen Colbert, he of many celebrity frenemies, has challenged his fellow politically active pal Donald Trump by announcing that he too will moderate a Republican debate. Only his will be in his home state of South Carolina and, unlike Trump’s, it will be very serious and very classy. Hence the name, Stephen Colbert’s South Carolina Serious, Classy Republican Debate.

During Tuesday night’s installment of The Colbert Report, the host not only called out Trump for stepping on his turf, as well as being “A clown, only with more makeup,” “A toddler wearing man pants,” and my personal favorite, “A gin-soaked raisin that fell into a nuclear reactor,” but reinstated that, between his unrelenting power (talks on the phone with The Pope, provides gluten-free crackers for The Black Keys) and his Super Pac, he is the only real man for the job. Colbert then claimed his debate will “happen sometime in January” on Animal Planet. (EW reached out to reps at The Colbert Report to find out if the funnyman would really be holding a GOP debate in South Carolina, but they did did not respond to our request at press time.)

Watch Colbert’s announcement of the “most influential debate since the dawn of television” below. (Don’t worry Herman Cain, you’re still invited!) READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 12:55 PM ET

'Jersey Shore' season 5 trailer: 'This is Hurricane Situation, and it's headed straight for Snooki Island.'

by Darren Franich

Filed under: Jersey Shore, TV and tagged: Jersey Shore

The fourth season of Jersey Shore was supposed to be a rollicking fun-time adventure, with the gang returning to their ancestral Italian homeland. Instead, the Florentine misadventure slowly devolved — over 12 memorably event-free episodes — into a relentlessly miserable experiment in Buñuelian anxiety, with the Shore gang trapped in a glorious villa with no one to keep them company except for the people they hate most in the world. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 12:35 PM ET

Katy Perry's 'Saturday Night Live' promo -- VIDEO

by Aly Semigran

Filed under: Music, Television, TV and tagged: Comedy, Have You Seen This?, Katy Perry, Late Night, Music + Comedy = Good Thing?, Musics, Saturday Night Live, Television, This Could Be Interesting...

It’s not often Katy Perry finds herself competing with Steve Buscemi for bragging rights to something. (Sometimes, sure, but not often.) But the singer will be doing just that this weekend as she gets ready for her first Saturday Night Live-hosting gig, just one week after the Boardwalk Empire star turned out to be one of this season’s unsung heroes.

The promo clip for Perry’s episode of SNL (which she’ll host while her tour-mate Robyn serves as musical guest,) arrived and with it, in addition to wearing a shirt that even cats couldn’t get on board with (just ask this one…or this one,) the pop star shows off her comedic chops. While her imitation of her hubby Russell Brand is pretty great, she might might want to try her hand at drama another time. Or, for now, just leave that to Buscemi. Watch: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 12:15 PM ET

Pearl Harbor survivors remember the attack 70 years later -- VIDEO

by Lanford Beard

Filed under: News

Seventy years ago today, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. The surprise strike pulled America into World War II, marking Dec. 7 as “a date which will live in infamy.” This morning, the Today show returned to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and visited with the dwindling number of surviving veterans who were serving in Hawaii on that fateful morning.

“It’s sad,” admitted Edward Wentzlaff, who was 24 years old at the time of the attack. “You can’t lose all those people and friendships and not let it bother you.” See more of Today‘s Pearl Harbor coverage, plus a live newscast from Dec. 7, 1941, below. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2011 11:50 AM ET

Emma Roberts is 'The Girl With the Tramp Stamp Tattoo' (and Joe Manganiello is hot in a cardigan)

by Mandi Bierly

Tagged: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Viral Video!!!

Whether or not you’re a fan of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, anyone who’s seen the American film’s trailer will appreciate FunnyOrDie’s spoof, The Girl With the Tramp Stamp Tattoo, starring Emma Roberts as a trashy party-girl investigator and True Blood‘s Joe Manganiello as someone clothed. This make anyone else want to see an Emma Roberts comedy? She’s good! READ FULL STORY »