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Autobahn Script Sells for Mid-Six-Figure Sum

F. Scott Frazier, who wrote The Numbers Station and Line of Sight, has sold his newest spec script to the British production company/financier Between the Eyes, TheWrap has learned.

Jack and Jill confirms it: Sandler is the new Tyler Perry

U.S. actors Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes pose with a cardboard cutout of Sandler's character during the launch of their film ''Jack and Jill'' in Cancun
Grotesquely caricatured, over-the-top drag? Check. Schmaltzy, comedy-killing homilies about the importance of family? Check. Loud, stupid scatological humor that makes the latest Harold & Kumar movie look like Moliere? Check. Patronizing digs at atheists? Check
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Sarasota Chalk Festival 2011: Best International Artwork [PHOTOS & VIDEO]

The international pavement art event has gone on for years, dazzling local residents, but Sarasota, Fla. officials decided to clean the streets immediately after the festival was finished. See fallen angels rendered in chalk, 3D terracotta LEGO soldiers, street-wide mosaics and more in these videos and photos, as artists from around the world create beauty on pavement.
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Oscars 2012 Host: Billy Crystal? Best Moments From Past Years [VIDEO]

Billy Crystal has announced that he will host the 84th Academy Awards. While this news may dash the hopes of Twitter and Facebook users intent on a Muppets Oscars in 2012, this is Crystal's ninth time as host, and he has more than proved the ability to pull off hilarious skits. Watch Billy Crystal's best Oscars monologues, and let us know: Is he a good pick for Oscars 2012?
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Ashton Kutcher Quits Twitter After Joe Paterno Gaffe

Ashton Kutcher (or @aplusk), one of the first celebrities to use Twitter with a current follower count of 8.2 million, has given up his tweeting rights to his management team after his defense of Joe Paterno turned ugly.
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CBS, Chris Columbus bringing Rifleman back to TV

CBS is taking aim at a television classic.The network is rebooting the Chuck Connors series The Rifleman, the late-1950s ABC Western about Civil War vet and widower Lucas McCain, who takes his son and his hot-rodded Winchester rifle and settles in the New Mexico territory of North Fork, an individual familiar with the project confirms to TheWrap.
A portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is placed on the Federation Tower skyscraper in Moscow's new business district

Steve Jobs is most used name in media, 2011

Arab Spring and Royal Wedding were on Wednesday deemed the top phrases of 2011, while late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the year's top name, according to a global survey of the English language.
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Bradley Cooper drops out of Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Bradley Cooper isn't going Solo.The Hangover actor, who had been in talks to play the crime fighter Napoleon Solo in Warner Bros'. big-screen version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., will not play the role, TheWrap has learned.
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Oliver Platt, Edie Falco to host Gotham Awards

This year's Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the two major awards shows devoted to indie film, will be hosted by actors Oliver Platt and Edie Falco, the Independent Feature Project (IFP) announced on Wednesday.
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Glee gets ratings bump but NCIS leads CBS to win

As with many carnal matters, the much-ballyhooed sex-scene episode of Glee caused a rise -- ratings-wise, anyway -- on Tuesday night. And a modest boost for CBS' NCIS was enough to make it the top-rated show of the evening and help boost the network to an overall win Tuesday.
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Pedro AlmodÛvar discusses plastic surgery thriller

Director Pedro AlmodÛvar wasn't just thinking Alfred Hitchcock and Frankenstein when he made his new plastic-surgery-gone-amuck thriller The Skin I Live In, in which a doctor turns a man into a woman while thinking about another woman.
Actor Bill Murray (L) presents The Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence to David Letterman (R) at ''The Comedy Awards'' in New York City

Comedy Awards returning to New York City

Comedy elite like David Letterman, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Louis C.K. turned out for last year's inaugural Comedy Central Comedy Awards, and the network has announced the show will return to New York in 2012.

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