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... disaster looks back at us. Donald Margulies talks about his new play on how war correspondents are affected by the conflicts they cover.

By the time she turned 21 in September 2007, MTV reality star Heidi Montag had already had a nose job, collagen lip injections, and implants that turned her A-cups into cantaloupe-round 32-Cs. There are many things wrong with this scenario, but here are the 11 things that disturbed us the most.

James Cameron is king of the box office again, but will his latest eclipse his success?

See Jane scramble. She's a mother, girlfriend, mistress, gal pal, owner of a thriving patisserie, and therapy patient. Not that you'd pick up oversubscribed vibes if you swung by for a glass of chardonnay.

His comeback to the pro tour may prove easier than his return to the heights of celebrity endorsements.

A ragtag crew of DJs rule in Pirate Radio, about an illicit '60s English pop station. The writer-director spoke to Sarah Ball. You send up Parliament in this movie—getting political?I am thinking of writing a film vaguely around the subject of malaria.

The Fox sitcom's rabid online fan base has given the show's music a life of its own.

After the massive viral campaign to get Tracy Morgan to join Twitter hit fever pitch yesterday, his rep just told Pop Vox that the actor has officially caved. His first tweet? "Welcome to Tracy Morgan's world." Follow the most-desired Tweeter in the world here.

Asked to appear on the Australian variety hour Hey Hey It's Saturday as a guest judge, Harry Connick Jr. sputters in disbelief when a Jackson 5 impersonation group entirely in blackface appears onstage.

In what they describe as "probably the last time [they]'ll be together," the five surviving actors who played Munchkins in 1939's Wizard of Oz—celebrating its 70th anniversary this year—reveal set secrets and reflect on their roles in the Oscar-nominated film. Learn why Toto banked more cash than the Munchkins, how Judy Garland handed out gratis candy on the set, and more in this installment of 7 Things. Click the player to view!

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Have you heard? Zombies are the new vampires. First it was the hit literary mash-up, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Last month it was Jennifer's Body, the Diablo Cody-written zombie movie starring Megan Fox.

First there was the news that the "Jon" and (sad!) the ampersand in the title of the TLC reality show were dropped.  Now it looks like part of the show has been dropped.  What's left? The e-mail from TLC:

He's still got it. The upcoming movie Michael Jackson's This Is It, due out a full month from now, has blown past several sellout benchmarks, outpacing Harry Potter and Twilight in sold-out shows, according to a rep for MovieTickets.com.

 

For a very long time. The famous filmmaker's new project is a 12-hour documentary about America's best national parks.

We sat down for a 7 Things with an old Pop Vox pal this week, Wolverine and Australia star Hugh Jackman. First order of business: congratulating him on the big Emmy win for his Oscars writing team.

Eric Ripert graduated from Top Chef, and is off to start his own series, . First order of business? Lunch.

"Pack your knives!" sounds so much less harsh in a honeyed French accent, non? Eric Ripert, erstwhile Top Chef guest judge and current top chef at New York's Le Bernardin, goes solo with Avec Eric on PBS.

The former Republican congressman shaking his booty—like, actually—for a cha-cha on Dancing With the Stars. How 'bout that outfit? Gotta say, we love this line: "It's hard for me to go left."

Like Dan Brown before him, Fox 5 news anchor Ernie Anastos's way with words has been translated into every language. Well, almost: in the gazillion multilingual Google results for the outburst, the famous phrase in question is mostly (hilariously) not translated.

If Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody () hadn't given interviews declaring her script for Jennifer's Body to finally be a feminist entry in the horror genre─to openly "take back the knife," in gendered film-study parlance─we might have no beef with her movie.

Twitter is the new fan mail—which is totally awesome, because nowwe all get to giggle at the embarrassing, TMI-filled missives that you blast to your idols. (Breathlessly awaiting the day someone learns how to program perfume and stickers.) That's why yesterday's microblog mailbag gave us such particular cheer: in case you missed the HUGE news that the U.S. has abandoned its nuclear missile defense shield Nick Jonas turned 17, Twitter went bonkers with birthday well-wishing of an, shall we...

Jay-Z's new Blueprint 3 earned the rapper his 11th No. 1 berth on the Billboard 200 chart of U.S. album sales─enough to crush Elvis's record and become the solo act with the most No. 1 records in the chart's half-century history.

Colin Firth, to thee we sing: the Brit was named best actor at the Venice Film Festival last Saturday for his turn as a gay, English lit professor in Tom Ford's film adaptation of A Single Man, the Christopher Isherwood novel.

  Today is day—or, just another day that Dan Brown will deposit a ginormous check (see Malcolm Jones' review of the book here). The king of the beach read tackles the secrecy of the Freemasons in his latest thriller, and leans on boldface names from art history to create several high-stakes puzzles. (If "puzzles" sounds too pedestrian for $29.95, slip on Doubleday's rose-colored glasses: "Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic...

The American Film Institute named this immortal Swayze line from 1987's Dirty Dancing one of the top 100 most famous movie quotes of all time: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner." The native Houstonian was the son of a choreographer and a trained dancer, a skill he readily flaunted in this romantic-comedy classic.Swayze's hilarious (and, we admit, kinda sexy) Saturday Night Live Chippendale dance-off with Chris Farley is one of the variety show's most memorable skits.

The Telegraph has a story today about a floundering British film called Creation, which opened the Toronto Film Festival to fanfare, premieres in Britain this Sunday, and has been picked up by distributors in every area imaginable, "from Australia to Scandinavia." The movie homes in on the life of Charles Darwin at its most conflicted, when the 40-something scientist (Paul Bettany) mourns the loss of his young daughter and finds himself disenchanted with religion.

Image: NBC Retouched photos are a fact of life in the entertainment industry. But it's rare that you get something so shoddy from a respected source like NBC.

Sororities are among the oldest women's organizations in the country; some even predate suffrage. But on-screen, you'll only see Greek girls gone wild.