Today: Zach Galifianakis is the latest to sign up for a movie A Confederacy of Dunces, Michael McKean was hit by a car, and everything's coming up Arsenio Hall.
Sacre blech! Reformed celebrity shamer Perez Hilton has tracked down some really grainy footage — someone filmed something off of a computer — that appears to be an early trailer for the Hugh Jackman/Russell Crowe/Anne Hathaway movie version of the big, bombastic musical Les Misérables.
Lindsay Lohan is a Homeland fan, not a fighter, Gerard Butler is singing for his supper, and Mitt Romney hits the beach.
Anne Hathaway has been ordered to drop four dress sizes in less than three weeks, ABC is demanding changes to Madonna's racy new perfume ad, and George H.W. Bush went rogue after endorsing Mitt Romney.
Also: Andrew Cuomo's Thanksgiving dinner was lacking, Tobey Maguire came out ahead on his high-stakes poker games, and Rebecca Hall and Sam Mendes are an item.
Plus: Stephen King reads from the in-progress 'Shining' sequel
And The New York Times and BBC are very different beasts
Plus: Anne Hathaway has kinds words for Kate Middleton's fanciness
Plus: Tennessee's weird families are doing quite well
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