- Birthday shoutouts go to (belatedly) Ryan Gosling, who turned 32 yesterday, Whoopi Goldberg is 57, Chris Noth is 58, Jimmy Kimmel is 45, and Gerard Butler is 43.
- If you haven't already, please take a look at our 2012 Hot In Hollywood post, and list your choices for nominees! You have until November 19th.
- Supreme Court Pushes Date of Prop. 8 Announcement to November 30th.
- Modern Family star Ty Burrell will play Bill Hader's love interest in the upcoming indie comedy The Skeleton Twins. "Burrell will play Hader's former high school teacher and lover. His clandestine romance with Milo (Hader's character) got him fired and led him to hide his sexual orientation, as he's now a married and closeted book store clerk."
- Eric Himan: To the Lady Who Couldn't Watch Two Men Kiss During Cloud Atlas.
- In ratings news, Partners ... well, it "sustained the steepest week-to-week drop of any Monday program, falling 14 percent in the demo to a 1.8 — the freshman sitcom’s lowest rating to date — while holding steady in total audience (with 5.6 million viewers)."
- The CW is remaking the classic British 70's kids sci-fi show The Tomorrow People, with out executive producer Greg Berlanti. I have the box set of the original, so I'm wary about a remake, but I'm keeping an open mind. But nothing can improve on one of the most haunting themes in TV history (although when I was a kid I was always confused by the the Thames opening, because that was the same opening from Benny Hill.
- Matthew Mitcham's autobiography Twists and Turns will be released next month, and will "take a closer look at the anxiety and “crippling self doubt” that he has battled as a teenager and young adult, which at one point forced him to give up diving and head to the local circus so he could earn an income." Wait ... what? Below you can see Matt and a friend at the GQ Men of the Year Awards last night in Sydney, Australia, where he was one of the honorees.
- Also honored was out singer/songwriter Sam Sparro, who showed up in an interesting suit.
- British actor Robert Kazinsky has been the cast in Season Six of True Blood as "Ben, a highly charismatic faerie who takes a liking to Sookie." Rob spent seven years on Eastenders, and you may remember him from this time change reminder
- Continuing the Official snicks Top 100 Lost Hits of The 80's ... And here we are. The Ten Greatest Lost Hits of The 80's! At Number Ten is ... "Midnight Blue" by Louise Tucker and Charlie Skarbek
- What do you get when you cross Beethoven's "Sonata Pathétique," synthpop, a hot beardo, and an English mezzo-soprano opera singer? You get the 10th greatest lost hit of the 80's! In 1982, Opera star Louise Tucker teamed up with record producer Charlie Skarbek to create the album Midnight Blue - A Project With Louise Tucker, which combined classical music with synthpop. The title track was a duet between Louise and Charlie, and its unique sound helped it to climb to #46 on the Billboard chart in August of 1983. Here's the clue for #9 - "I'm Tired Of Using Silence As A Sign Of My Strength."
- Congrats to JohnEd , who was the first to guess that Yesterday's Pixuzzle™ © ® was Valley Of The Dolls
- Here's today's Pixuzzle™ © ®. Below you can see a character from a famous movie. Can you name it?
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