The 36-year old New Yorker will now join Robert Rodriguez’ upcoming retread of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 jungle-based romp, which Rodriguez is now writing along with some friends.

‘That 70’s Show’s Topher Grace is also debating getting involved, and if the price gets worked out he’ll join Alice Braga, ‘The Shield’s Walt Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, the UFC star, and one of Rob’s favorite actors [and his second cousin,] Danny Trejo.

This time around – who knows how many more there will be?? – the story concerns a group of elite warriors who become unwilling prey to a swarm of alien trackers called Predators. Adrien is the leader, who has a strong rep as a hunter of men. Topher, meanwhile, plays a placid bean-counter, inside of whom lurks a serial killer. Braga – last seen in ‘I Am Legend’ – is a cold-hearted assassin, Goggins will play a radical type and Taktarov will be a Russian Special Ops expert.

And in what sounds like the most fun role of all, 64-year old Trejo will be a merciless warrior who roams the world with two loaded Uzis strapped on his back.

Shooting is penciled-in for Hawaii next month, with interiors, effects shots and green-screening booked to be done at Rodriguez’ ‘Troublemaker Studios’ in Texas. The finished movie is slated to bow on July 9th, 2010.

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Adrien Brody to lead Predator reboot

The NY Post reports that the 19-year old actress and Brown University freshman was harassed and insulted during a visit to Harvard on Tuesday to attend a football game. She was even protected by minders in case the Ivy League types had plans to get close.

In a day-long display of maturity that could make even Sponge Bob look cultured, members of Harvard’s college magazine, ‘Harvard Voice’ uploaded a blog post before the big game, making it clear they intended to stalk and harass Emma for no other reason than they thought it was fun. “We will be Live-Tweetin’ the game and possibly stalking Emma Watson, so keep your eyes peeled for that!” it read.

There followed a barely literate snowstorm of tweets in which they recorded this puerile pursuit, “Let’s go, Hermione! Lolz!!” said one. A later tweet proved the offenders were now at the game, “In enemy territory. Lookin’ for a certain witch,”

The magazine also posted a photo of Emma on its web site and bragged that their infantile stalking was a total success.

In welcome proof that at least some of Harvard’s alumni had experienced puberty, this sordid campaign of adolescent annoyance drew some scathing reviews, “There is a locatable cause of Ms. Watson’s experience…and a blameworthy party,” said one. “Anybody can do anything unfeeling to anybody in this day and age, especially if they feel entitled by membership in Harvard College.” read another review.

The Voice eventually posted an Editor’s note on their photo of Emma, clearly intended to both diffuse the results and deflect all the blame, “There seems to be much ado about nothing over this photo and live-blog. Understand that these live tweets were intentionally outrageous and overblown,” it explained.

You’ll notice they left out ‘childish,’ ’small-minded,’ ‘intellectually vacant,’ ‘moronic’ and least of all ‘dumb’!

Not surprisingly, the self-absorbed simpletons who publish ‘The Voice’ have refused any comment. Emma’s own university, Brown, is also declining to talk, and her reps clearly have orders to stay silent as well.

The poor girl’s trip was not even worth it – Brown lost to Harvard, 24-21.

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Emma Watson harassed at Harvard

The BBC reports the two actors stopped a Broadway preview of the Keith Huff drama, ‘A Steady Rain’ in the midst of a scene because one audience member did not bother to silence their cellphone, and the ringing was audible right through the house.

Secretly-filmed footage, seen here, shows Hugh telling the offender to answer the call and thus give them some peace. “We can wait,” he assures them. “Don’t be embarrassed – just grab it.”

In the play, Australia-born Jackman [who'll be 41 on October 12,] and his co-star, Daniel Craig, 40, play childhood friends who grow up to be Chicago policemen and suffer traumatic life changes after a sequence of awful events.

And the two actors are by no means the first to endure such self-absorbed ignorance; Harry Potter star, Richard Griffiths made headlines in Britain in 2004 when he had an audience member literally thrown out of the National Theatre after their phone repeatedly interrupted Griffiths’ performance in ‘The History Boys.’

Luckily for the perpetrator of this unthinking insult, both Craig and Jackman remained entirely in character during the interruption, and the play continued once silence returned.

The show officially opens this week and runs at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th street until December 6th.

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Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman stop the show

Born James Bateman, on September 21, 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvnia, Henry took his stage name from the Norwegian poet, Henrik Ibsen, because, as he once explained to a fan, “if you say his name with a Southern accent it sounds like Henry Gibson”

Like most of those born to act, Henry was a child prodigy, first taking the stage at the age of just six. As his career progressed, his natural talent soon got him noticed and he landed a small part in Paramount’s 1963 classic, ‘The Nutty Professor’ with the great Jerry Lewis.

Three years later fame truly arrived – Henry was cast as a rather hip poet in  NBC’s ground-breaking sketch show, “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.” Each week he’d appear all alone, holding a book and a flower, and recite short, satirical poems – which he also wrote – that often had strongly political themes.

In 1975, Henry debuted the role that secured both his fame, and his first ‘Golden Globe’ nomination; He played the insincere country singer, Haven Hamilton, in Robert Altman’s music-themed movie, ‘Nashville.’

Five years later, the 5′3” acting maven gained a far wider, almost cult-inspired audience when he appeared as an unbalanced Nazi chasing two soul-singing deadbeats across the US, in the John Landis’-helmed classic ‘The Blues Brothers.’ If you’ve not yet seen it, you must!

Henry’s most recent appearance was as ‘Judge Clark Brown’ in over a dozen episodes of ABC’s ‘Boston Legal,’ plus an extended spell as the voice of Bob Jenkins in Mike Judge’s ‘King of the Hill.’

Throughout a varied career, covering more than 40 years and 130 separate appearances on both TV and in movies, Henry was supported by the love of his life, Lois Geiger, who herself died of cancer in 2007. They had three sons, Jon, Charles and James, who are all now successful in the field of production, so Henry’s passion and legacy are sure to live on.

A memorial service is pending. Donations can be made in his name to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, and to ‘Friends of the Malibu Public Library.’

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Henry Gibson succumbs to Cancer at 73

Good-night, God’s speed and thank you.

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Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009

Originally offered to Nicholas Cage, who declined it last week for reasons unknown, this rightful recasting should implant the 52-year old Vienna-born actor in the Academy’s minds as surely as his pipe-puffing role as Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarrantino’s wartime drama has imprinted his name on a world of new fans.

Based in London, Waltz will now join Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz on the set of Sony’s, ‘Hornet,’ which is already in production and scheduled to premiere on December 17th.

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Christoph Waltz to replace Nicholas Cage in ‘Green Hornet’

The New York-born actor, who turned 44 on September 3rd, has just released a fictional transcript in which he ‘interviews’ President Obama and asks him to re-open the 9/11 case.

“The official 9/11 story is a fraud,” says the ‘Two and a Half Men’ star, who earns $850,000 a week from that long-stale show.

According to Mr. Sheen’s most pressing delusions, the attack on the Towers was ‘used as an excuse to disregard the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,’ and the 9/11 Commission was an implausible sham.

The real meat of this rambling and frequently self-serving piece [it takes just takes four lines of the 'interview' for Mr. Sheen's fake President to confess he's a fan,] which you can read here, boils down to these points:

• The US Government was directly behind the 9/11 attacks
• The 9/11 Commissioners were not told the truth, and thus don’t know what happened
• The Pentagon and Bush administration either changed or hid all vital facts
• The US Government was actually cooperating with Osama Bin Laden until the big day
• The Obama administration still follows illegal Bush-era practices and don’t realize why

Although most of these allegations have been simmering in the cauldron of internet conspiracy-theorists since 2001, Mr. Sheen has summoned a firestorm, not merely because of how dosed-up he sounds, but due even more to his crass, tasteless choice of when to put such groundless psychosis in print.

To further his case, the Golden Globe-winning actor has now appealed to the current President – in a video you can see here – to meet for debate and invoke a new inquiry so we can all know the truth.

Mr Obama has yet to respond, but feel free to leave us your views…

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Charlie Sheen declares 9/11 a fraud

Fade out…Fade up – ‘Six Months Later:’ The same desperate has-been whose pubescent tantrum was the first earthly clue most Producers had seen that they were even alive signs up to make ten more movies – for five times the fee!

Well, that’s not the case in this story…So far.

Viggo Mortensen, the hirsute New Yorker whose smoldering presence in Lord of the Rings made legions of female geeks pay attention has declared he’s now semi-retired, “I have no plans to do another movie. I’ll see how I feel in a while, but right now I’m not saying yes to anything. I feel like I’ve taken on too much.”

From his earlier interviews it’s clear that at least part of the problem is the unending travel, and the dent that can put in your health. And it’s not like he lacks other choices – An accomplished musician with three CD’s to his name, Viggo is now promoting his new film, ‘The Road.’ But once that is done his schedule is empty.

And this sudden retirement could cause a real problem: Now the court case is settled, Peter Jackson is due to start shooting a two-volume film adaptation of the Tolkien classic, ‘The Hobbit.’ And Aragorn – Viggo’s character from ‘..Rings’ – is required in part two of those films.

So is this a ploy, or will he be back. The man is not saying, so what is your view?

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Viggo Mortensen to retire from acting?

This tasteless new travesty is proudly seen by the MTV suits as a spin-off from its reprehensible parent, ‘16 and Pregnant,’ and will follow four of the girls who first appeared on that show as they face the mountainous challenge of becoming a mom before you reach graduation.

No air dates have been mentioned, but Variety reports that MTV has ordered a season of eight, hour-long shows which should join their schedules sometime early next year.

Since its debut on June 11th, ‘16 and Pregnant’ has scored quite a hit, attracting tens of thousands of female fans in the 18-34 range. And to MTV”s advertisers, that group is pure gold.

If you needed a reason why MTV have okay’d an even more tasteless sequel, that is a good place to start.

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MTV plans new teen pregnancy show

In the future, please call him ‘King Spencer Pratt.’

And the 26-year old star of MTV’s high-saccharine soap, ‘The Hills’ appears perfectly serious in this witless new plan, “I’ve decided, since there is a Queen of England and a Prince William, there should be a King of America,” he tells the admirably straight-faced reporters. “And I nominate myself for that role.”

Well that’s a relief, because I don’t yet see both his fans exactly forming a line to do it instead.

And the aptly named Mr. Pratt is not finished yet. He also thinks Heidi Montag should now gain a new crown. In a recent discussion with the MTV scribes he called his new wife, “the modern-day, 2010 Michael Jackson.”

Without being asked, he went on to explain that Heidi is somehow Michael’s rightful successor, “Michael Jackson’s in heaven,” he opined in nice, easy short words. “The Holy Spirit now has extra Michael Jackson juice, and for all we know, Heidi gets possessed with some of the Michael Jackson divine spirit.”

So let’s  get this straight – The man wants to pay out good money to be called “King Spencer Pratt’? That’s a mistake. I don’t know one person who has seen him perform that does not already call him something close at no charge.

I’ll admit there’s an additional syllable, but I’d say it’s good value.

And well deserved.

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Can Spencer Pratt be America’s King?

MTV recently opened a web site that allowed people of such mental intensity they can watch Paris Hilton without opening a vein, to apply to become her ‘Best Friend.’ And 22-year old Josiah Stevens from Conroe in Texas is one of the legions who gladly applied.

And along with his entry, this intellectual pygmy sent Paris some porn.

On the MTV site fame-hungry fans could enter a contest to meet up with Ms. Hilton and become her BF. You create an account with information about you, then upload an image as your portrait or avatar.

We’ll let the FBI boys try to take it from here….

“The image that was uploaded by Stevens depicted a nude female, approximately 2-3 years old, posed in a sexually lascivious manner, touching the naked genitals of an adult male. Posted on the website by Stevens, this was accessible to the public and any person could view the result. “

MTV called the cops as soon as they found it, and when the FBI seized Stevens’ computer they found a lot more. “Agents found images and videos containing child pornography,” says People, quoting the Fed’s remarkably restrained legal statement. “Some of this included victims under the age of 12, and portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct or other violence.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is making no comment on whether Stevens’ application was ever successful, but it would do him no good as this clueless contestant just got five years in jail for possession of underage porn.

Something tells me Mr. Stevens will still find a friend in his new federal hotel; A 400lb girlfriend named, ‘Bubba.’

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Paris Hilton TV fan gets pwned with child porn

Having grossed $414+ million with ‘Bad Boys’ 1 and 2, the explosion-packed antics of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as two Miami detectives with a worrying fetish for standing totally still while Michael Bay’s loving camera revolves around them in jaw-cracking slow-mo, Columbia Pictures now want this highly bankable trio to do it again.

The franchise’s 1995 first outing was Bay’s directorial debut, and paired Smith [in his first film role since 'Fresh Prince,'] with the more laid-back Lawrence. The result grossed over $141-million worldwide. 2003’s inevitable sequel saw both Bay and Smith now full-fledged as stars, and hauled in $273-million just on its own.

So now, of course, their bosses want more.

Due to be written by Peter Craig – who wrote ‘The Town,’ which Ben Affleck is now directing in Massachusetts – according to the Hollywood Reporter, everyone involved in the two previous outings is keen to return. But no-one’s signed up yet, so don’t make big plans.

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Will Smith returning for Bad Boys III?