(Some of) The Critics Love Tom Cruise in �Tropic Thunder�

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So is Tom Cruise's cameo as fat, hairy studio head Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder the career revitalizer that so many claimed in advance it would be? Despite our nay-saying, it looks like the answer may be yes! Tropic Thunder has attracted mostly positive reviews � it's currently posting a Metascore of 74 � and many critics praise Cruise's performance. Some reviewers don't really love him, though, including New York's own David Edelstein � and even some of the critics who do love Cruise don't exactly describe him in glowing terms.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that this role should buy Cruise a little goodwill, at least until Valkyrie comes out. With that in mind, we've prepared Tom's For Your Consideration ad so that Paramount can just spend their time counting their money. Just replace our wire photo of Cruise with a legally obtained shot of him in full Lev Grossman makeup, send it to Variety, and you're ready to go!

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"Tropic Thunder" [Salon]
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O'Donnell Quits Blogging

Actress-turned-TV personality Rosie O'Donnell has distinct to take a break from posting news on the cyberspace - because she has become addicted to blogging. The comedienne regularly posts her thoughts and opinions on her official site, allowing fans to respond with their comments and advice. But O'Donnell admits that she has become obsessed with writing on the land site - and on Tuesday , announced to her supporters on Rosie.com that she is

Director Ethan Coen returns to off-Broadway with "Offices"

NEW YORK — Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ethan Coen scored last season at the Atlantic Theater Company with "Almost an Evening," a trio of one-act comedies that marked his playwriting debut.

Now he will return to the Atlantic with "Offices," another collection of plays, which will be part of the Atlantic's 2008-09 season, artistic director Neil Pepe announced Wednesday.

The three new comedies dealing with workplace stresses and strains will open next spring. Pepe directs. With his brother Joel, Coen has made such movies as "Fargo," "Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink" and this year's Oscar winner for best picture, "No Country for Old Men."

The Atlantic's new season will also include a revival of Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan," first seen in New York in 1998 in a production at the Public Theater. The revival will be a co-production with the Druid Theatre of Galway, Ireland, and will be directed by the Druid's Garry Hynes. It will run Dec. 9-March 1, 2009.

"Farragut North," Beau Willimon's play about Washington politics and power, will open the season, running Oct. 22-Nov. 29. Doug Hughes directs.

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Diddley was known for his square guitar and songs like "Who Do You Love?"

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Kylie back with Oliver Martinez?

Pop singer Kylie Minogue has reunited with former boyfriend Olivier Martinez after a year apart, according to reports published in several UK papers.
The pair have been seen strolling arm-in-arm in the streets of Paris, where Martinez, 42, lives, sparking the reports.Minogue, 39, was also photographed leaving his apartment to take his dog Sheba for a walk.
"Kylie has taken him back - with a new set of rules," a friend of Minogue's told the Daily Mail.
"Ollie has agreed to try for a baby. That was always the stumbling block in their relationship. They have both been single for a year and Kylie has realised she has never had anyone that has matched up to him."
Minogue arrived in Paris last Sunday for the NRJ Music Awards and spent the following days with Martinez.
"She has always described him as the love of her life," a member of Martinez's family told The Sun.
"Who knows what might happen? We would certainly like to see them back together."

Jessica Alba marries long-time boyfriend

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jessica Alba, who is pregnant with her first child, married long time boyfriend Cash Warren on Monday, her publicist said.


Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama "Dark Angel" and the movie "Fantastic Four," announced she was engaged last year. The baby is expected in the early summer of 2008.


Alba's publicist Brad Cafarelli gave no further details of the marriage on Tuesday.


Alba met Warren on the set of "Fantastic Four" in 2004 where he was a director's assistant. Warren has since moved into producing.


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Letitia, Darren off the dancefloor

Letitia, Darren off the dancefloor

Former 'EastEnders' asterisk Letitia Dean and her professional dance partner Darren Floyd Bennett ar the latest contestants to be voted away 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Having survived the dance-off last week, the duo were once once more in the bottomland deuce - this time facing Alesha Dixon and her pro dance partner Levi Cutler.
All the judges voted for Dixon and Cutler's Viennese Valse over Dean and Bennett's waltz.
When asked wHO he wanted to keep on the record, judge Bruno Tonioli said: "It's incredibly hard - you both did great dances. One duo has that duplicate stardust and magic and that's Alesha and Matte."
His fellow evaluate, Craig Make whoopie Horwood, added: "This duo is near perfective tense and that is Alesha and St. Matthew the Apostle."
After the judges' vote, James Byron Dean paid testimonial to her dance partner Floyd Bennett.
She said: "It's been the most amazing gamble. Thanks to entirely of Darren's patience and hard work it's been a wonderful get and I can't give thanks him enough."
There ar now scarcely trey couples left on the demo.




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Eagles expand US outing

Eagles expand US outing

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No 'Apologies' from One Republic in Auckland

No 'Apologies' from One Republic in Auckland

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How professional person is that? Maroon 5 cancel their Newly Sjaelland leg of their circuit due to an unavoidable scheduling clangor, only One Republic carry on. Moving their public presentation from the Vector Sports stadium in Auckland to a more suggest place setting at The Powerstation allowed the screech girly fans to office themselves a great deal closer. It appears that loss from support band to headline the night has many advantages
So on a top Sunday night in Auckland, we approach shot the entrance to the venue (without a melody might I add) realising it�s around sort of 1980s baseball club pumping out daggy hits most nights of the week. The sticky state of the dance floor as well proved my hypothesis. Now the freshly support play for the support-act-cum-headliner behave had already begun, not sounding likewise bad at wholly. It wasn�t until their final examination vocal that I recognised world Health Organization they were (likewise because the lead singer mentioned their name). Goodnight Nurse were supporting 1 Republic! What a fantastic start to the night (if only I had feature worked it out rather).
Subsequently more or less crazy people, wHO were bopping away during the interval (despite the want of music), were told to bequeath, Single Democracy came on stage to excessively enthusiastic teenage fille screams. I had no idea that these guys had such an eclecticist format of fans. Thither were the white 20-something male below the belt up the presence (totally over 6 feet tall by my calculations), the dreadlocked punkey bikers boozing and swaying altogether over the place at the back and the younger, blonder assortment packed in tight along the balcony or attempting to peer over the tall boys� heads on the dance floor. This latter chemical group were the ones that made me finger I was at a Backstreet Boys concert. Ne'er ahead had I seen such a vast array of music lovers for one lot.










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Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Arctic Zone Monkeys lead this year's NME Euphony Awards shortlist with nominations in seven-spot categories.
The group has been nominated in the Best British people Band, C. H. Best Live Band, Topper Album, Best Track, Topper Picture and Best Video Record album Graphics categories.
Lead vocalizer Alex Turner has too been shortlisted for the Topper Dressed prize.
NME music magazine publisher said the nominations, which are selected by public vote, made the group the well-nigh voted-for banding of the decennium.
Galosh Monkeys guitar player Jamie Cook said: "It's sound the readers maintain vote for us."
"Go would be good - it's goodness to have been picked up in that because we place a lot of cause into our inhabit work last year, I thought process we got a lot better."
Klaxons have been nominated in four NME categories, contesting Best British Band, C. H. Best Album, Best Video and Best Dance Floor Filler.
Contesting the Best British Band category aboard the Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons ar Babyshambles, The Cribs and Muse.
Troubled isaac Merrit Singer Amy Winehouse has likewise been nominated for four awards - Scoundrel of the Year, Worst Dressed, Best Music DVD and C. H. Best Solo Creative person.
Winehouse faces competition from Kate Nash, Jamie T, Jackfruit Penate and Saint Patrick Wolf in the C. H. Best Solo Artist category.
Nominated in the Best International Dance band category ar Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, the Killers, Kings of Leon and My Chemical substance Romance.
The nominations for Best Album are 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' by Rubber Monkeys, 'Shotters Nation' by Babyshambles, 'We'll Exist and Die in These Towns' by The Foe, 'Myths of the Almost Future' by Klaxons and 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead.
The Best Track shortlist includes 'Fluorescent Adolescent' by North Frigid Zone Monkeys, 'Flux' by Axis Party, 'Men's Needs' by The Cribs, 'Lord Don't Slow up Me Down' by Haven and 'Let's Dance to Joy Division' by The Wombats.




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Britney loses access to boys

Britney loses access to boys

Britney Spears' approach to her 2 baby boys has been withdrawn.
A Los Angeles Lake Superior Court judge ordered Spears' children to be placed in the sole guardianship of her ex Kevin Federline, suspending the pop up star's visitation rights until "farther order of the court."
A hearing has been set for 14 January which will determine how their bitterness custody conflict is to continue.
The margaret Court ruling came later a dramatic 24 hours for Spears, wHO has seldom been out of the tabloid headlines over the yesteryear year followers a string of bizarre incidents.
Last Th she was wheeled out of her Los Angeles sign on a copestone and taken to the Cedars Sinai hospital for evaluation following a three-hour custody standoff.
Spears had reportedly refused to tone ending her children Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, to Federline's bodyguard.
Television footage of the wake of the incident showed Spears alternately smile and looking distraught as she was lifted into an ambulance.
Los Angeles Constabulary Department spokesman Jason Spike Lee said Spears was organism detained and evaluated in hospital because officers had constitute her under the influence of an unknown quantity substance.
Federline's attorney Stain Vincent Kaplan said he took no satisfaction for the royal court opinion in his client's favour.
"I am non happy about anything that has happened latterly," he  told reporters. "There ar no winners flop now."




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Witherspoon & Gyllenhaal not engaged

Witherspoon & Gyllenhaal not engaged

Reese John Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are not engaged, despite rumours of a romantic proposition in Italy.
According to Witherspoon's representative, media reports of marriage ceremony bells are "utterly treasonably".
The repp said to Us Weekly: "There's not ace snow leopard of true statement to it."
John Witherspoon filed for divorce from histrion Ryan Phillippe in 2006. They consume two children from their marriage.