Today in showbiz news: Everyone's favorite insane actor is going to be Left Behind, Miley Cyrus gives Two and a Half Men a boost, and another look at Skyfall.
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
Today in sports: Bill Maher buys his favorite team, a NFL rookie is already in trouble, and the future of baseball is on display.
Also: Kobe Bryant's soon-to-be-ex-wife Vanessa is poised to collect a whopping $75 million payout, the cops in Los Angeles have been talking Brad Pitt's bodyguard about that severed head they found, Cameron Diaz and P. Diddy are canoodling in public.
Salman Rushdie makes a hasty offer of marriage to the one that got away, Eddie Murphy is rumored to be starting in a Marion Berry biopic for HBO, and Fabrizio Moretti resurfaces to kiss more ladies.
Plus: Nancy Pelosi has flowers--and a message--for George W. Bush
Plus: the New York Times has settled on a new architecture critic
Plus: Spike Lee will direct the pilot for HBO new Mike Tyson-inspired drama
Plus: Jim Carrey hints at sequels for movies that already have sequels
Plus: Johnny Depp returns to his roots
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