Lindsay Lohan hasn't tweeted once during any of the live presidential debates until last night, and her responses to the event were unlike any of the others.
The "Dick and Jane" star selectively tweeted before and after the debates claiming at the end of the hour and a half that she was probably more relieved than both President Obama and Governor Romney that they were over.
But now the world will be able to participate in celebrating the newly minted Timberlakes' nuptials, as the couple have just sold their wedding pictures to People magazine for $300,000 and to OK! in Europe for an unspecified price, reports PageSix.
Surely Timberlake and Biel's week-long, reported $6 million affair, which drew celebrity guests such as Andy Samberg and Jimmy Fallon, is worth more than $300,000 to People magazine.
But the deal, no matter how small, has allowed the new couple to control the press surrounding their long-awaited wedding. Timberlake spoke exclusively to the publication, saying the wedding was "magical" and "an unforgettable evening," while Biel says "It was a fantasy."
After a five-year relationship plagued by bad press and rumors of cheating, the $300,000 allows the Timberlakes to control exactly what the world knows about their private moment.
Just don't expect to see any of Timberlake's former N*Sync band members in the pics when they are released Wednesday.
“The band were not invited and are pretty upset about it," a source told Page Six. "But the wedding guests were mainly close family and friends.”
Less than a week after Newsweek announced they are folding their print edition after 80 years in favor of a digital future, Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent has announced he, too, will be leaving his post as a journalist at the print publication, The Daily Planet, in hopes of creating a new media empire.
In "Superman" issue 13 out on Wednesday, the mild mannered reporter-by-day quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero's earliest days in 1940.
And he doesn't go out quietly.
In the issue, USA Today reports "his still-strong feelings for Lois, combined with Daily Planet editor in chief Perry White getting on his case for not enough scoops on the Superman beat and his boss' boss Morgan Edge also giving him a hard time, leads to a Jerry Maguire-type moment where he quits in front of the whole staff and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment — in a not-so-mild-mannered fashion."
New "Superman" scribe Scott Lobdell, who took the writing reigns just last month, explains to USA Today, "I wasn't going to test the waters. I was just going to do a cannonball in the Super-verse ... This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren't really his own."
But don't expect The Man of Steel to take another day job anytime soon.
"I don't think he's going to be filling out an application anywhere," says Lobdell. "He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from."
In the issue, Clark Kent criticizes his Planet Daily editor Perry White, telling him, "I've been a journalist barely five years now. Why am I the one sounding like a grizzled ink-stained wretch who thinks that news should be about -- I don't know, news?"
"Go easy on us mere mortals, Clark. Times are changing, and print is a dying medium," White responds.
While we know the sequel is following the "Extremis" storyline (more on that later), the more we watched it, Stark's fallen hero storyline reminded us eerily of another recent superhero film.
We couldn't help but notice the latest installment of Iron Man seems to share many similarities with Nolan's Batman universe.
(Granted, it's not the first three-quel to take this route. "Spider-Man 3" also looked at a world where Peter Parker briefly threw away the Spidey suit.)
We're not saying that the two will be identical in the least–there's no Alfred ("J.A.R.V.I.S."), Rachel Dawes (Pepper Potts), or Batmobile (does the Iron Man suit count?)–however, there are definitely some parallels between the two.
The fact that Tony Stark is essentially Marvel's Bruce Wayne is fodder in itself; however, while witnessing Stark down on his luck it's easy to ask ourselves the same question Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character dwells upon in "The Dark Knight Rises": "Do you think he's [Iron Man] coming back?"
Their girl gets taken.
(Note, this is from "The Dark Knight.")
Their multi-million dollar home gets obliterated.
(And, this is from "Batman Begins.")
Basically, he loses everything.
Tony Stark: The girl (possibly), his home, his suits.
Just before Canada native Ryan Gosling packed up his bags and headed south to Florida to join the Mickey Mouse Club at age 12, the triple threat actor/dancer/singer appeared on local "Canada AM."
Gosling, now age 31, talks about the "Mouseketeer" auditions, saying "The people at Disney are so nice, like we just came from our houses where we had to do our own stuff and they did so much stuff for us."
You know, like chores and stuff.
When he found out he got the gig, Gosling "hit the roof, my mother and I were jumping around."
Despite classmates calling him "mouse boy," Gosling says he was excited at the prospect of meeting Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson.
Oh, and the Canadian kid said "aboot" a handful of times. Watch below:
James Cameron has selected “The Informationist” as his follow-up to the “Avatar” franchise.
Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment has acquired the rights to Taylor Stevens' 2011 novel, and will develop the adaptation as a future project for Cameron to direct and produce.
Cameron is presently at work on the second and third "Avatar" films, which Fox is keen to have after the record-breaking success of the first one.
The adaptation of Stevens' novel will also be a Fox project. Published last October, it chronicles Vanessa Munroe, an information specialist who works for heads of state, corporations, and anyone else who can afford her special talents.
A Texas oil billionaire then hires her to track his daughter down in Africa, which cuts Munroe off from civilization and forces her to confront her past.
“Taylor Stevens’ Vanessa 'Michael' Munroe is an intriguing and compelling heroine with an agile mind and a thirst for adventure," Cameron said in a statement. "Equally fascinating for me is her emotional life and her unexpected love story. I’m looking forwarding to bringing Vanessa and her world to the big screen.”
Cameron will produce with Lightstorm partner Jon Landau, who cited the movie as an opportunity to keep working with Fox and chairman Jim Gianopulos after "Avatar." That's a major endorsement from one of the studio's most important creatives in light of Tom Rothman's looming departure.
They must still hire a writer.
Landau also deemed the Munroe character a mix of Jason Bourne and Lisbeth Salander (the protagonist of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
Stevens, born into a religious cult and raised in communes around the world, has written a second novel in the series, "The Innocent," published earlier this year.
So when L'Oreal saw Portman's too-good-to-be-true lashes in Diorshow mascara ad, it had to blow the whistle.
Portman's shoot was actually intended to promote a lipstick rather than mascara, but apparently her eyes looked so incredible that Dior couldn't help itself ... after, of course, deciding to digitally "separate/increase the length and curve of a number of her lashes and to replace/fill a number of missing or damaged lashes, for a more stylized, uniform and tidy effect."
One woman claims the ladies of "The Talk" stole her show pitch from 2008.
Angela Wilder, ex-wife of Los Angeles Lakers' James Worthy, is suing CBS under claims that she registered a show she registered with the WGA in 2006 named "The Mothers' Hood," a show for mothers that discusses day-to-day issues in their lives.
In 2008, Wilder claimed to have met with executive vp of reality and syndication programming at Sony Television, Holly Jacobs, to discuss her show idea, but it was ultimately rejected.
Two years later, "The Talk" surfaced.
Since its unveiling, the CBS daytime series has been touted as a mommy-version of "The View." The female talk show idea was credited to co-host Sara Gilbert after "joining a mommy group and realizing that all moms have topics they need to talk out."
The problem is that Wilder made her show pitch to Sony and a similar show popped up on CBS.
Wilder claims because of Sony's distribution deal with RelativityReal "CBS had direct and easy access to Wilder's treatment and her confidential intellectual property while they were in the development stage of The Talk."
"It’s one thing to get sued over a project that was pitched to us but quite a stretch to be sued over a pitch that was made to somebody else. Ms. Wilder’s alleged offering to Sony played absolutely no part in the creation of The Talk. We’ll vigorously defend this case and expect to prevail.”
Wilder is suing Sony for allegedly distributing "The Talk" idea without compensation. She's also suing both CBS and RelativityReal for unfair competition and civil conspiracy.
By itself, you can't sue over an idea. Section 102 of The Copyright Act of 1976 clearly states original expression of ideas, not ideas themselves are protected.
"In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
Since Wilder claims to have registered her show idea, the courts can find this an expression of her idea. From there, it would have to be determined whether that idea was shared.
Despite repeated accusations and rumors, last year's enormous UK phone hacking scandal never quite managed to topple former Brit tabloid editor Piers Morgan from his new position at CNN.
However, new allegations may be making Morgan a little nervous.
In today's paper the FT reported that Trinity Mirror, the owner of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, now faces four claims in the British courts that it hacked phones. This marks the first time that claims of UK phone hacking by a non-Rupert Murdoch controlled newspaper have reached the courts. While Morgan has repeatedly denied any knowledge of phone hacking, he was the editor at the Daily Mirror at the same time as at least some of these claims.
The continuing scandal may still take its toll on Morgan's career. Today the Independent writes that CNN is "increasingly twitchy" over Morgan's past.
Mel Karmazin, the CEO of SiriusXM Radio, is stepping down from the company.
Karmazin will depart on Feb. 1, following the expiration of his current employment agreement and a transition period.
Calling SiriusXM an "extraordinary company with an incredible team," Karmazin said he believed that the company's "best years are ahead."
"SiriusXM is an extraordinary company with an incredible team. It is an honor to come to work here every day where we truly deliver the best radio on radio. I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished. Given where we started, it is amazing that SiriusXM has grown to become the largest radio company in the world," Karmazin said. "We continue to grow our subscriber base to record levels and our financial position has never been stronger. Importantly, the commitment to delivering innovative new products and technologies is very strong. SiriusXM has a strong foundation to build on for the future and there is a great team in place to keep the company moving forward. I am confident that SiriusXM's best years are ahead," said Karmazin."
Read the full press release below.
More to come...
CEO Mel Karmazin to Step Down from SiriusXM
NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SiriusXM Radio SIRI -1.37% today announced that Mel Karmazin informed its Board of Directors that he will be leaving the Company on February 1, 2013, following the expiration of his current employment agreement and after a transition period. Mr. Karmazin will also leave the Board of Directors at that time.
"SiriusXM is an extraordinary company with an incredible team. It is an honor to come to work here every day where we truly deliver the best radio on radio. I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished. Given where we started, it is amazing that SiriusXM has grown to become the largest radio company in the world. With a deep bench of corporate talent, a roster that includes the most in-demand on-air personalities and a wide-range of exclusive programming, SiriusXM has never been better positioned than it is today. We continue to grow our subscriber base to record levels and our financial position has never been stronger. Importantly, the commitment to delivering innovative new products and technologies is very strong. SiriusXM has a strong foundation to build on for the future and there is a great team in place to keep the company moving forward. I am confident that SiriusXM's best years are ahead," said Karmazin.
"On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to thank Mel for his significant contributions to the Company," said Eddy Hartenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SiriusXM. "Under his leadership, the Company underwent a transformative merger and a financial restructuring that has enabled SiriusXM to deliver significant value for shareholders. Our record breaking financial results are a testament to Mel's leadership and strategic planning, and we continue to exceed our expectations with all-time high subscriber numbers.
Thanks to Mel, we are well-positioned for long-term growth and value creation. We will miss Mel – and the Board wishes him the very best in his future endeavors – SiriusXM has a strong executive team in place and we are very confident in our business and our future prospects.”
“We appreciate the tremendous job Mel has done for the Company in overseeing the merger and delivering outstanding operating performance. While we understand, we regret Mel’s decision to pursue other interests and are grateful for his willingness to oversee a smooth and orderly transition,” said John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation.
Sirius' board has launched a search committee led by Greg Maffei to seek internal and external candidates for Karmazin's successor.
The deal on the Beverly Hills mansion is reportedly closing at $20 million, just $6 million less than the original asking price.
Maloof and her current husband Paul Nassif listed the home because the couple plans to divorce.
The house is a massive 20,000-square-foot abode, with eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms.
The buyer is reportedly a Los Angeles businessman "who was looking in the neighborhood for a long time and liked the French chateau-style," according to The WSJ.
Things are not looking good for Mark Sanchez these days. The Jets are 3-4, and Sanchez is currently rated as the second-worst QB in the league behind Browns QB Brandon Weeden.
Let's hope the break-up doesn't affect Sanchez when he faces the Miami Dolphins this Sunday.
You've seen them on TV and at the movies, playing roles where they make you laugh, fight bad guys and sometimes even show off their bare behinds.
But did you know they were veterans?
These are 11 celebrities you might not have known served in the military.
Ice-T was in the Army's 25th Infantry Division
While most know him now as Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola on "Law and Order: SVU," it wasn't the only time Ice-T was fighting bad guys.
Before his rap days, Tracy Marrow (Ice-T is his stage name) joined the Army's 25th Infantry Division. He served for four years before returning home, where he eventually started a successful music and acting career.
Harvey Keitel joined the Marine Corps at age 17
He's played plenty of bad guys on the big screen, but who knew the devil/dad from "Little Nicky" was a good U.S. Marine? Harvey Keitel joined the Marine Corps back when he was just 17, and he served in Lebanon during Operation Blue Bat in 1958.
Mel Brooks served as a corporal in the Army during World War II
"It's good to be the king," and for Americans during World War II, it was good we had this "king" on our side. Mel Brooks served as a corporal in the Army during World War II, where he was assigned to the Battle of the Bulge. Following the war, he went on to earn an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony — becoming an "EGOT-er" — and write and direct "The Producers," about producers trying to make the musical flop "Springtime for Hitler."
'The Hobbit' will receive Dolby Atmos sound mix–Peter Jackson says Atmos and high frame rates “allow the audience to participate in the events on screen, rather than watching them unfold.”
During the production of "Snow White" animators were said to have worked overtime on the film with alleged promises of bonuses if the film were to take off. Of course, the film went on to be one of the most successful films of 1937, grossing nearly $75 million in that year alone. Despite this, the cartoonists allegedly never received bonuses for their work.
The 30th anniversary edition of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" revealed an early audition of Henry Thomas as Elliot crying, and now we're getting a look at the making of the film's iconic theme.
The nearly two minute take shows Stephen Spielberg alongside composer John Williams figuring out the both the track and how to place the music with a specific scene featuring Thomas (Elliot).
There's not much to it, but it's a cool short clip at the inner makings of one of Spielberg's most memorable films.
The video is also featured on the 30th anniversary edition.
Kate Middleton is one of the most-emulated women in the world. Women rush to copy everything from her hairstyle to the brands she wore.
But looking like Middleton is basically impossible for the average woman.
According to an analysis in the Australian Vogue, she spends about $160,000 a year to look as gorgeous as she does. We converted the amounts from Australian currency to dollars and rounded to the nearest hundred.
Here's a basic rundown of her expenses, according to the magazine:
About $56,000 on her wardrobe, which includes both cheap items from retailers like Zara and designer Stella McCartney duds.
Getting a deluxe facial every two weeks: $6,600 per year.
Keratin hair treatments and blow-outs three times a week cost $14,000 per year.
The Duchess spends $3,100 per year on coloring her hair chocolate brown every six weeks.
For all her cosmetics, Kate probably spends around $2,200 per year.
Kate's weekly manicure and pedicure cost about $6,700 per year.
Her twice-weekly spray tans cost $13,000 every year.
Kate also has miscellaneous expenses such as perfume, a personal trainer and skincare.
While the Duchess has more than her share of natural beauty, she definitely spends a lot for her polished look.
Fans shouldn't beat themselves up for not being able to achieve her perfectly coiffed hair.
Lana, 47, is one half of the sibling director duo with brother, Andy, and on Friday, their latest film "Cloud Atlas" hits theaters—forcing the director duo to make public appearances.
"Andy and I have not done press or made a public appearance including premieres in over 12 years. People have mistakenly assumed that this has something to do with my gender. It does not," Lana explained over the weekend while accepting an award in San Francisco from the Human Rights Campaign.
"After The Matrix was released in ‘99 we both experienced this alarming contraction of our world and thus our lives," added Wachowski. "We became acutely aware of the preciousness of anonymity."
Wachowski was awarded the Visibility Award by the Human Rights Campaign, after her recent decision to end a long-standing policy of ignoring press and public appearances and to instead openly acknowledge her transition to womanhood.
While accepting her award, Wachowski gave a moving 25-minute speech about her painful past growing up transgender, being bullied by a nun at her Catholic school and why she nearly committed suicide.
I began to believe voices in my head -- I was a freak, that I am broken, that there is something wrong with me, that I will never be lovable. After school I go to the nearby Burger King and write a suicide note. But it was addressed to my parents and I really wanted to convince them that it wasn’t their fault, it was just that I didn’t belong...
When I see the headlight I take off my backpack and I put it on the bench. It has the note in front of it. I try not to think of anything but jumping as the train comes. Just as the platform begins to rumble suddenly I notice someone walking down the ramp. It is a skinny older old man wearing overly large, 1970s square-style glasses that remind of the ones my grandma wears. He stares at me the way animals stare at each other. I don’t know why he wouldn’t look away. All I know is that because he didn’t, I am still here...
I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn’t find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others.
Watch the both humorous and painful speech below (via THR):
To read a transcript of the speech posted by The Hollywood Reporter, click here.
“Lana’s willingness to tell her story will impact and change countless lives across the world,” HRC president Chad Griffin, who introduced Wachowski, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “She is a giant in her industry, and for someone with such success and such profile to be willing to tell their personal story to the world sends a tremendous message to LGBT people across the globe that they too can aspire to be a giant in their industry.”
But note to reporters, don't upset Andy Wachowski on the topic of his co-director/sister during interviews for "Cloud Atlas" because, he, says, “if somebody asks something or says something about my sister that I don’t like, understand that I will break a bottle over their head.”
Hopefully, OK! magazine's "undisclosed amount" will be on par with the 
Just don't expect to see any of Timberlake's former N*Sync band members in the pics when they are released Wednesday.
A Texas oil billionaire then hires her to track his daughter down in Africa, which cuts Munroe off from civilization and forces her to confront her past.
You've seen them on TV and at the movies, playing roles where they make you laugh, fight bad guys and sometimes even show off their bare behinds.
Britney Spears former manager/boyfriend Sam Lutfi 
