- Yet another celebrity split: Thomas Jane and Patricia Arquette are set to divorce after four years of marriage. The two had previously separated and later reconciled in 2009. [People]
- Eliza Dushku says she’s “loving” living with her boyfriend, Rick Fox. [People]
- David Fincher has already rejected Natalie Portman, Ellen Page, Carey Mulligan, and Emma Watson for the role of Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; the part is expected to go to an unknown. [PageSix]
- Danny McBride says he’d be “completely flattered” to join the cast of The Office, though “I have my own TV show now that I’m trying to work out so I don’t know what the reality of it could be. It’s pretty insane to read that [it’s a possibility].” [EW]
- Nicolas Cage says he signed on to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice due to the importance of magic: “You can’t really survive in the arts if you don’t keep the magical child’s mind alive. Magic is really very simple. It’s about imagination, plus willpower, focused in such a way to create conscious effects in the material world. Every book is a work of magic, every speech that moves people is a work of magic, every movie is a work of magic.” [ShowbizSpy]
- Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized again last night due to complications from the hip surgery she received last month. [RadarOnline]
- Julia Roberts‘ children take up all of her time, but she wouldn’t have it any other way: “I don’t have the luxury of sitting around anymore. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children but I don’t know what I did with it and I didn’t appreciate it. But it’s such a terrific trade off. And as with anybody who’s a mum or a wife, it just becomes part of your everyday routine. Some days it’s super fun and some days it’s a chore.” [ContactMusic]
- Katy Perry was none too pleased with her record label when they told her a song called “Peacock” didn’t belong on her new album, Teenage Dream: “They were all a bit worried about the word ‘c**k’ and it gave me deja vu because they did the exact same thing with ‘I Kissed A Girl’. They said, ‘We don’t see it as a single; we don’t want it on the album’. And I was like, ‘You guys are idiots.'” [DigitalSpy]
- Meanwhile, Lady Gaga is pretty excited about her upcoming album: “The new album is my absolute greatest work I’ve ever done, and I’m so excited about it. The message, the melodies, the direction, the meaning, what it will mean to my fans and what it will mean to me in my own life – it’s utter liberation. I’m on the quest to create the anthem for my generation for the next decade, so that’s what I’ve done.” [DigitalSpy]
- Gaga also doesn’t want to take a ride on your disco stick unless she’s in love with you: “If you’re not having sex with someone who really cares about you or who really loves you they can screw up your energy. I think sometimes, I don’t know, if you are promiscuous and are just sleeping around that people can take things from you. I think it’s always important to be making love.” [TheSun]
- Ne-Yo has been losing his hair since he was a teenager: “”My hair starting thinning when I was 13. It runs in the family. I initially started wearing hats to cover up my shame. Now I don’t give a damn. I can be sexy without hair.” [DigitalSpy]
- Vivica A. Fox’s boyfriend, Slimm, dumped her via press release, only to send a second press release the following day announcing that the two had not split, after all. [DailyMail]
- Kanye West recently held a secret show in New York City; guests included Estelle, John Legend and Kid Cudi. [DailyExpress]
- The Awl’s David Cho was at the show, if you’d like to read an in-depth review. [The Awl]
- Alexander Skarsgard says he based his True Blood character on a lion: “I was fascinated by the male lion on a documentary, the way he moved, the confidence. When he just sat down and looked straight at the cameraman, he did absolutely nothing, but for a second you didn’t know whether he was going to yawn and fall asleep or pounce. I thought it would be interesting to try to find that. You don’t show your teeth, you don’t say anything, you don’t show it. It’s the not knowing that’s interesting. Anything could happen.” [ShowbizSpy]
- James Franco is rumored to be joining the cast of Breaking Dawn, which really isn’t all that surprising, if you think about it. [DigitalSpy]
- Ke$ha says she’s learned a lot by watching Rihanna on tour: “I don’t know what she would be learning from me, aside from how to look like a maniac, but I definitely learned a lot from her. I’ve only been performing pop music for under a year, so I’m relatively new to the arena thing. It’s terrifying, so I really do, every night, watch her, and she’s so graceful and so sweet and so badass. She just always has such a good attitude. You just have to own it!” [DailyExpress]
- Juliette Lewis says she and Jennifer Aniston didn’t discuss their mutual ex, Brad Pitt, on the set of The Switch: “For Jennifer, being with Brad was profound as it was a marriage. For me, it was only like a high school relationship. Brad and I were on a journey together at the start of our careers. Then he became this sensation in a whole other way. I always knew I’d stay an outsider.” [DigitalSpy]
- Lea Michele says that a Justin Timberlake-themed episode of Glee may run after the Super Bowl: “I think they are saving Justin Timberlake for the Super Bowl episode. They have to be, because he is so perfect for our show. He has to be on it! When I met Jessica Biel, like a loser, I asked her to tell Justin to come on our show. She was a little taken aback and said, ‘Um, OK. I’ll tell him.'” [DigitalSpy]
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