This Week in Tinseltown

I haven't read my Word-of-the-Day emails nor Hollywood tidbits in quite awhile; how should I deal with this crash course in vocabulary and pop culture? By rewriting WENN's celebrity news, of course. (Ok, ok, I do already know a couple words.)

Ya Gotta Do Better than Bettany, Please
While I do not find the Joker to be the ineluctable villain choice for the Batman Begins sequel, certain quotes suggest he does appear in the next movie. PageSix.com interviewed an unnamed source: "[Katie Holmes] won't be in the sequel...Warner is happy that people are now focusing on who'll be playing the Joker rather than Katie and Tom." In the running for Batman's archnemesis are Crispin Glover, Mark Hamill, Lachy Hulme, and current fan-fave, Paul Bettany, the self-proclaimed poor-man's Jude Law, who in turn is--in Chris Rock's opinion--the poor-man's Russell Crowe. Such early casting reports, of course, are hardly beyond a peradventure of a doubt. In addition, I must set the record straight--Paul Bettany is the blind-man's Jude Law.

O No-no
After she was snubbed by the Paris Hermes store, Oprah Winfrey publicly issued the couture chain a commination. Hermes representatives claimed they were holding a private public relations event for staff members; Oprah pal Gayle King stated that other shoppers where allowed to peruse the store while she and Oprah were denied entrance. Hermes is by no means an exclusively Stateside store, but their public relations staff--if indeed they were meeting--should have realized that pissing off America's Real First Lady will result in the loss of spondulics and perhaps their unavailing jobs and ironic job titles.

Wifebeater to Exhibitionist
Ex(?)-drug abuser Bobby Brown hopes his reality show will not only help rehabilitate him by providing him a job and something to do, but also dispell the public's odium towards him by presenting him under a positive light. Brown said, "[The] main reason I wanted to do this is really for my kids. They're always saying, 'Daddy, why do they always make you look so bad in the press?'" His children's ingenuous, but misguided comments and his own peccavi aside, the irascible star's show reportedly contains many crude jokes about other celebrities.

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