Mary Lynn Rajskub by Joe Kohen/WireImage.com
Mary Lynn Rajskub is trading computer codes for cookbooks in the upcoming film Julie and Julia The 24 smarty joins Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in the story of a woman Julie Powell who takes a year off to cook and blog about all 524 recipes in Julia Childs famous gastronomic tome Mastering the Art of French Cooking from which most of my childhood meals were derived Streep will play the star chef whose life in the 1940s and 50s will also be depictedRajskub meanwhile plays Helen best friend of Powell portrayed by Adams If shes really a best friend though Ill expect her to get to taste of all 524 creations Are you ready for Rajskubs big-screen role Would you want to feast on a film about cooking and its related anecdotes Anna DimondRelated149 Pregnant Pause Chloe Awaits News on 24149 24s Mary Lynn Rajskub Is Pregnant and More Baby Talk
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Hello everyone Happy rainy Saturday night I had a nap today just so I could rally myself to write you the recap of your lives Actually I just ate too much sugar and passed out You might only get a half-conscious recap now Maybe thats for the best considering last weeks terrible show with Ellen PageSo lets just jump into the show shall we Cold OpeningAmy Poehler is Hillary once again Did you expect anything else She approves of this message which is actually a spoof of her Who will answer the phone campaign commercial Black and white stills of Hillary in cold cream and a shower cap cut to black and white sills of Obama in the White House as president Hes been calling her every two seconds for advice on everything from foreign policy to finding the heating reset button in the basement Theres a lot of swearing on Obamas side and hes smoking which is supposed to be funny but is just kind of strange Roll opening creditsMonologueAmy Adams is so damn prett
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Bad buzz for M. Night Shyamalan's mysterious new film already? Observant wags at Defamer note that Super Bowl ads for The Happening, starring Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo, were yanked at the last minute. Instead, the teaser debuted online, on Tuesday. What's especially disheartening is that both the Super Bowl and Shyamalan's film are Fox products, so apparently no amount of corporate synergy could overcome a lack of faith in the product. While the film's concept (an environmentally driven epidemic makes people die and/or kill themselves?) looks interesting, all his films have looked interesting at the outset but have (lately) disappointed. What do you think? Are you willing to give M. Night another shot? Or did you, like me, decide that the moral of Lady in the Water was: "Never see another Shyamalan movie"? In other movie news, Enchanted cutie-pie Amy Adams is game for A Night at the Museum 2, playing an undetermined historical figure who has a crush on Ben Stiller's watchman....
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson courtesy 20th Century Fox
The second X-Files movie is really, truly happening. 20th Century Fox has even blocked off July 25, 2008, as the flick's release date. Natch, plot deets are being kept hush-hush, but the pic is said to be a stand-alone thriller (Yay! No mythology!) that will further Mulder and Scully's relationship. I've got goosebumps already.... In other movie news, Meryl Streep has signed on to play Julia Child in Julie and Julia, a Nora Ephron comedy in which a disgruntled temp (Amy Adams) spends a year trying to whip up every recipe in the master's cookbook.... Teeth, the indie buzz-builder about a high school student with a toothed vagina, has had its release moved to February 2008. — Ben Katner
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Amy Adams is in talks to play the nun caught in the middle when a Catholic-school principal (Meryl Streep) accuses a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia in Doubt, based on the Pulitzer-winning stage play.... Angela Bassett has been cast as the single mother in Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.... David Strathairn is Elizabeth Banks' hubby in the horror remake A Tale of Two Sisters.... The young-adult novel Stargirl is being adapted for the big screen.
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Question: Do you have any info on Patrick Dempsey's movie Enchanted?
Answer: I do. When I visited the Grey's set last month, Patrick had just finished work on the film. "It was so much fun," he said. "It's going to be a really big, old-fashioned musical. Amy Adams is amazing in it. I play a divorce lawyer. It's the complete opposite of McDreamy, which is nice."
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Project RunwayI know it's not unusual, but it's so unfortunate that the finalists had to pull an all-nighter right before the biggest event of their career so far. Even after sewing all night, Daniel had what looked like either the show's assistants or the models themselves sewing on buttons backstage. But onstage you couldn't tell any of this, especially when he did a happy little jig for his family. I am still drooling over the white coat and the shirt with the dipping back. And I hope his and Chloe's dresses with pockets (along with Amy Adams' and Sandra Bullock's Oscar dresses) are the start of a trend. On the other hand, the first jacket looked like a couch, and when Rebecca tripped away in that brown dress, I could see M
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Joan & Melissa LIVE at the Academy Awards5:30: I'm so glad my colleagues over at the channel have decided to go blue for the red carpet. Setting the tone for the evening, Joan Rivers begins with a slightly disturbing scene in which she spreads 'em for Matt Dillon in Crash and groans a lot. And she warns us that there are many more such scenes from the nominated movies to come. Next she gives a nod to Isaac Mizrahi's infamously presumptuous Golden Globes coverage at rival E!. "I would never be so presumptuous!" she declares while she pokes Lisa Rinna in the boob. Instead of groping her interviewees, she'll be using cards to indicate whether they are wearing underwear and/or have real breasts. This'll be interesting.
5:33: Joan gives her own thank-you speech tailor-made to offend her entire crew: "We are color-blind here at TV Guide. Right, black person?" Then she fills the time
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Per Variety, Patrick Dempsey has joined the cast of the drama Freedom Writers, in which he will play the husband of Hilary Swank's young motivational teacher. What's more, if the scheduling can be worked out, the Grey's Anatomy star is also in talks to play a hardworking single dad — and Amy Adams' love interest — in Disney's Enchanted, also starring Susan Sarandon, James Marsden and Idina Menzel.
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The big winners at the 11th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, broadcast Monday night on WB, were Brokeback Mountain (for best picture, director Ang Lee and supporting actress Michelle Williams [tied with Junebug's Amy Adams]), Capote's Philip Seymour Hoffman (best actor) and Walk the Line's Reese Witherspoon (best actress). Cinderella Man's Paul Giamatti was named best supporting actor.
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