When a film comes out, the stars usually share the promotional duties. In the case of this film, however, Star 1 has been making the rounds of talk shows, while Star 2 has been conspicuously absent. While Star 2 is claiming that his absense is due to other work obligations, the truth is that the friction between the two was so bad on the set that Star 2 has completely washed his hands of anything to do with the film. Star 1 remains publicly upbeat and supportive of Star 2, but has privately told friends that Star 2 is “the biggest a**hole on the planet,” and that the two will never, ever work together again.

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If we haven’t said it before (ED: we have), Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt from The Hills make us want to puke up our breakfast whenever their faces grace our daily news-hunt. These two are slimey, useless fame-whores who concoct photoshoots using everything from a polo match to pumpkin hunting. Did you catch their ultra-conservative guns’n'beer “candids?” We did.

The worst part is that we’re all playing into their hands. Pratt played Wormtongue to Brody Jenner’s Theodin back in the day and it was all well-chronicled by David Amsden of Details Magazine:

Here’s how Pratt, also 23, and the son of a “celebrity dentist,” explains it: “What does it take to be famous nowadays? Nothing! Look at Nicole [Richie]. She’s on the cover of every magazine every week. And why? Because she doesn’t eat. Well, lots of girls in this country don’t eat. That’s, like, my whole philosophy with Brody—make him part of that. Like at first, when he started showing up in Us Weekly, people were all, ‘Who the hell is that?’ Now they’re starting to be like, ‘Hey, do you know who that is?’”

Read between the lines: none of this is real, not even for Spencer Pratt. When he was teamed up with Heidi Montag and made “the villain” of MTV’s The Hills, he found his partner in crime, someone so blonde, so dumb and so fame hungry that she was willing to do anything to cut her piece of the fame pie.

Apparently, this included eloping with Spencer…

The holiday season is an expensive season, for those under the strain of the looming recession and in the price of good-old-fashioned blood.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the day that the holiday shopping madness begins, and just in case you thought that this year’s financial crisis was going to tone down the madness, we thought we would alert you to the three consumer-related deaths yesterday…

Make no mistake, the above still is not from What Doesn’t Kill You. It’s just a hilarious still that we think represents this movie. There, in the foreground, is Ethan Hawke, trying really hard to convince you about something. Possibly something about Mark Ruffalo. In the background, Mark Ruffalo is just kind of taking it. He doesn’t look to sure about what’s going down, but it’s Ethan Hawke talking, not some schmo.

Officially, the movie is not described with the above still, it’s described like this: Based on events from director Brian Goodman’s life, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, stars Mark Ruffalo (Brian) and Ethan Hawke (Paulie), as friends who grew up like brothers on the gritty streets of south Boston. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog-eat-dog neighborhood. Petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses and eventually, they fall under sway to organized crime boss Pat Kelly (played by Goodman).

As Brian becomes increasingly lost in a haze of drugs and ‘jobs,’ even the love he has for his wife (Amanda Peet) and his children does not seem like it will be enough to redeem him. Meanwhile, Paulie plans “one last heist” but knows it will take both of them to pull it off. How can they escape the only life they know?

But after seeing the trailer, we think the above picture sums up the main conflict pretty well. Check it out underneath the cut…

“Rogue mutant Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) goes all in.”

That’s the caption that will bring one of the most popular X-Men mutants to the big screen, as evidenced by Empire Magazine. Gambit, the Creole mutant who has the ability to to add an explosive charge to non-human objects (he chooses to use playing cards, so he can throw exploding Kings into everyone’s face), will be played by Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch in Gavin Hood’s upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Expect a Wolverine trailer with The Day The Earth Stood Still on December 12th.

Let’s say you have two pale, attractive young men in a room. Bill and Ed, let’s call them. Now, put one of these handsome young men in sunlight and his skin turns smoky and black and flakes off his body. Put the other in the same conditions and his skin sparkles. “Like diamonds.” Night and day, right? Polar opposites, the logical man would declare. But he would be wrong: they are both vampires. Hollywood vampires, anyway, the sort that has pervaded 2008’s offerings. They are Bill Compton and Edward Cullen, respectively, stars of HBO’s True Blood and the shockingly popular movie Twilight. Bill might snarl at the comparison or brandish those switch blade teeth of his but the two are not so different as their sun allergies might suggest…

The leaky ship that is Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (if you’ve been reading, you know it’s about an emotionally-distant second wife who has to take care of a child that isn’t hers from her husband’s previous marriage, you’ve probably also noticed that we just copy and paste that phrase and that we love parentheses) continues to leak photos from their open-air sets.

We now know that Lisa Kudrow and Scott Cohen are somehow involved in the film. IMDB hasn’t listed them yet, and no one is writing about this film because all the drama already went down (J.Lo dropped out as star, producer Portman stepped in).

So, yes. Lisa Kudrow and Natalie Portman: finally in a movie together.

If you want to see our bloated coverage of events on the set of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, CLICK HERE.

We’ve had a good week and a half listening to Britney Spears’ newest album, Circus, which will hit stores on her 27th birthday, next Tuesday the 2nd.

We know you don’t turn to us for music (certainly not to Dave, who in the world would do that?), but if you’re one of those dozens of thousands of people who have Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” stuck in your head, prepare for Kanye West and Britney to try to out-pop “if you like it, then you should have put a ring on it.”

Point being is that Circus is on our guilty pleasures list, and we just found these nice scans from Britney’s Rolling Stone article, and it’s Thanksgiving. We know Britney should be giving thanks for her third comeback.

Also, if you all get interested in her again, that’s like, new post city. Because everyone loves the Britney Spears story, even if your way of loving it is hating the living daylights out of yourself for knowing where you first learned the crazy woman had shaved her head way back when…

… we can barely look at ourselves in the mirror anymore.

Ladies (and gentleman), if you want want more of People’s Sexiest Man Alive 200, Mr. Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman, look no further than freaking EVERYWHERE.

He’s on the news stand as sexy, he’s in movie magazines for Australia and on December 12th, we can finally see a preview that isn’t mostly blurry stills from Comic Con.

Coming Soon confirms that our first Wolverine trailer will be attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still, and in a gutless plea to superhero fans, will not appear online or on television for a little while. Love the X-Men but just not into Keanu Reeves sci-fi remakes? Too bad.

Until then, check out these two new Wolvie images from Empire magazine and patently await the trailer. Directed by Gavin Hood, the May 1, 2009 release stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins.

Hello, Kristen Stewart, star of Twilight, the national vampire romance sensation. What’s that you have in your hand? Is it a marijuana pipe? Have you loaded illegal smoking substances into that pipe?

Did you need to be high to stand Twilight, like us?

Not the best time for these pictures to break, we suppose, but maybe she has a perfectly legal medical condition.