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Sure, J.J. Abrams is directing Star Wars: Episode VII. Know what else he’s working on? The Lance Armsrtrong biopic. And Bradley Cooper, who recently told the BBC he finds Armstrong “fascinating” and would “love to play that character,” has made contact with Abrams and they’ve been talking about the possibility. It’s probably too early, but feel free to start speculating about who might play Oprah.

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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/bradley-cooper-lance-armstrong.html

“Personalities are very wrong,” wrote Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak after watching the new clip from jOBS, starring The Book of Mormon‘s Josh Gad as Wozniak and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. In an email to Gizmodo, Woz skewered further: “I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I’m embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better.” Also, “the lofty talk came much further down the line,” but where’s the drama in that?

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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/steve-wozniak-embarrassed-kutcher-jobs.html

Robopocalypse is no longer Steven Spielberg’s next film, presumably because you can’t just follow something like Lincoln with something called Robopocalypse. Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy says the real reason is that the film is “too important and the script is not ready, and it’s too expensive to produce. It’s back to the drawing board to see what is possible.” Spielberg got on board in 2010 and had a 2014 release targeted; Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth were in talks to star.

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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/spielberg-scraps-robopocalypse.html

Well, that was a fun few years. Performing solo at a German festival originally slated to feature Das Racist, Himanshu Suri blew through the following announcement with a grin on his face: “You guys wanna know the secret? Alright, so I’m gonna do some Das Racist songs, but Das Racist is breaking up and we’re not a band anymore.” The other rapping half of the trio, Victor Vazquez a.k.a. Kool A.D. a.k.a. second Latin rapper to like the Beatles, tweeted, “for the record i quit das racist 2 months ago and was asked by our manager not to announce it yet. apparently @himanshu wanted to do it tho.”

Vazquez assured concerned fans that, despite that one song’s refrain designed for this moment — “we’re not joking / just joking / we are joking / just joking / we’re not joking” — it’s not a joke. Hypeman/laugh-soloist Ashok Kondabolu a.k.a. Dapwell tells Spin the group had planned to break up last spring. “We had just signed this record deal and we were going to put out one proper album and then go on a farewell tour, release a proper breaking up statement that could have been really funny, maybe a weird, stupid video. Now, all of that has gone to shit.” He says the split feels like “a huge opportunity squandered.”

Heems and Kool A.D. each released two mixtapes in 2012, so it’s probably reasonable to expect more music in some fashion.

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In case you missed it, Rihanna is playing seven shows in seven cities in seven days, traveling on a Boeing 777 with 777 with something like 150 journalists on board. And yeah, it’s turning into a hellmouth in the sky a little bit. Julieanne Smolinski at Popdust writes that Rihanna’s concerts are starting increasingly later than scheduled, setting the whole convoy behind, and that Rih-Rih is making herself completely scarce, enough so that “‘where the hell is Rihanna?’ has replaced any of her earwormy hooks.” Maud Deitch and Mary H.K. Choi paint the madness in a back-and-forth post at MTV Style, with Choi writing, “The Australian with the harmonica is STREAKING ON THE PLANE as we scream ‘save our jobs’ and ‘access’ and ‘interviews’ and ‘just one headline’ at the abject lack of Rihanna time.” As you could expect with all those rabid writers experiencing the ruckus in real time, there’s lots more out there. And the tour still has two days left.

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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/crazy-rihanna-airplane.html

Former Man Show host and current podcast host Adam Carolla has been scooped up by Fox News as an official contributor. While Carolla has appeared on the channel several times, he’ll now visit The O’Reilly Factor weekly, as well as other shows occasionally. Carolla’s politics are all over the map; he leans conservative and libertarian, but his progressive views on social issues may give him and O’Reilly a few no-fly zones.

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Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is to The Hobbit‘s Smaug as Andy Serkis is to Gollum. “It’s very freeing, once you put the suit on and the sensors. I’ve never felt less encumbered, actually,” Cumberbatch says of the stint as a motion-capture dragon. “You just have to lose your shit on a carpeted floor, in a place that looks a little bit like a mundane government building.” With the second of the three Hobbit films titled The Desolation of Smaug, plan for lots of Cumberbatch shit-losing.

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