- ABC's Oscars Get Bumped For Vancouver on NBC. Next year's Oscars will get pushed back into March -- March 7, 2010, to be exact. The later date is due to the Winter Olympics, which don't end until earlier that month; voting will conclude on March 2, and the nominees will be announced Feb. 2. [Variety]
- Piven Must 'Prove' He Ate Too Much Sashimi. "Entourage" star and recently departed "Speed-the-Plow" cast member Jeremy Piven will enter into mediation talks in early June with the suits behind that Broadway production, over what they feel was Piven's unwarranted early departure due, allegedly, to mercury poisoning. Specifically, the producers have requested "a wide range of relevant information from Mr. Piven relating to his claims that an alleged illness required him to leave the show." Since Piven-replacement William H. Macy got the show better, rave reviews -- and since the sushi stuff gave the production plenty of free buzz -- can't we all just call it a day? [BBC News]
- The Calvary Called In To Keep Cullen Safe? Okay. So Radar is reporting that Canadian mounties have been hired to keep vampire heartthrob Robert Pattinson (the "Twilight" movies) safe from the clutches of grabby tweenage girls on the set of the series sequel, "New Moon." Even if this is just a wisp of a story, it's kind of hilarious for the self-serious Mountie quotes. [Radar Online]
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