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Barack Obama has at least one passionate backer in Twitter-Wood for his Chicago Olympics pitch. Jeremy Piven tweeted support for his home city today, as the International Olympic Committee makes its final decision in Copenhagen. John Cusack, meanwhile, continued his intercontinental rounds and tweets today upon leaving North Korea for Japan, though it's anyone's guess how he got in there in the first place.

In lighter tweetage, "Twilight" actor Justin Chon continued his TwitPic marathon, Christopher Mintz-Plasse took a shot of his sleeping dad, and Miley Cyrus showed what her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus does to cheer her up when she's down. They're all in an unexpected Father Appreciation Special today. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for September 30, 2009. Read more...

Tags andy milonakis, billy ray cyrus, christopher mintz-plasse, David Spade, jeremy piven, john cusack, john lithgow, justin chon, miley cyrus, miranda cosgrove, paris hilton, richard kelly

In the beginning, there was "Meet the Parents." Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro clashed comedic wits on the big screen, and it was good. In the second installment, "Meet the Fockers," the Stiller/De Niro powerhouse shared their screen time with the elder Fockers, the parents of Stiller's character Gaylord, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. Gaylord's met his in-laws and introduced said in-laws to the elder Fockers. What does that leave?

"Little Fockers"!! We've known for awhile that the Focker-spawn will be the next members of Stiller's growing fictional family to hit the big screen. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" director Paul Weitz will helm it and the key cast members will return. But the latest news? Jessica Alba. Read more...

Tags ben stiller, jessica alba, Little Fockers, Paul Weitz, robert de niro

The number of content-driven outlets that have yet to spoof the uber-popular "Twilight" franchise dwindles with the dawn of each new day. You can cross another one off the list. Olivia Munne and Kevin Pereira of G4's "Attack of the Show" tackle Bella and Edward's forest encounter in the video below, with deadly results.

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UPDATE: The word from Hopper's publicist is that he was hospitalized "after developing flu-like symptoms," Fox News reports.

Some troubling news coming out of the Big Apple. Sources say that Dennis Hopper, star of such classics as "Easy Rider," "Blue Velvet" and "Hoosiers" has been rushed off to an unidentified hospital in New York City. The tipster also revealed to ET Online that the Oscar-nominated actor arrived wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible"

Count this as a developing story. Stay tuned for more news as it breaks.

Tags Dennis Hopper

By rights, Ethan and Joel Coen should not be the massively successful filmmakers they are. I’m not impugning their talent, skill or artistry with that statement; it's more that their movies are very, very strange. Weird by any standard, which makes it occasionally shocking to sit back and look at their success in popular culture.

Their movies, especially those made in the past ten years, are sold as mainstream motion pictures when they their tone and content should really sentence them to a boutique indie theater existence. When people gravitate towards entertainment that is easy to understand and comfortable to watch, how is it that guys who make something as densely surreal as “Barton Fink” or as willfully grim and ambiguous as “No Country For Old Men” are two of America’s favorite moviemakers? Read more...

Tags A Serious Man, Coen Brothers, ehtan coen, joel coen

Call them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. Here are some of ours.

I saw "A Serious Man" last night. It was excellent. Better than that even. Joel and Ethan Coen have wrangled quite a few star-powered talents into quirky, offbeat roles over the years, but "Serious" excels even without a George Clooney or a Jeff Bridges in your face for the whole time. It is easily my favorite effort from the brothers Coen since "The Big Lebowski."

What's funny to me now is, I didn't even care for "Lebowski" the first time I saw it. Welcome to this week's Sick Day Stash. Read more...

Tags A Serious Man, ethan coen, joel coen, the big lebowski

It's a given that if James Cameron's "Avatar" is as big as expected then 20th Century Fox will want a sequel. Even though we won't know for a few more months if the highly anticipated 3-D sci-fi blockbuster is the hoped-for success, producer Jon Landau is already talking about the possibility of a follow-up.

Landau, who also worked with Cameron on "Titanic," told French magazine Le Film (brought to our attention and initially translated by /Film) that the world of "Avatar" is big enough that it should be explored further in subsequent films. He says "Avatar" only deals with the surface of the planet Pandora, and that a sequel could venture deeper into the interior. Read more...

Tags avatar, Battle Angel Alita, james cameron, Sanctum, The Dive

UPDATE: For some reason this post's publish was back-dated to yesterday morning, so I've dug it up and re-posted it for your early afternoon reading pleasure.

First, I have a question. What should we be calling Paul Reubens / Pee Wee Herman? Paul is the guy's real name whereas Pee Wee is merely a persona he wears for our amusements. But @peeweeherman is his Twitter account. Which means... what exactly? Is it Pee Wee who's tweeting? Paul? It's enough to drive a person mad!

Anyway, Pee Wee has only recently come into the online fold. As far as his fans know at any rate. Therefore, it's easy to forgive him when he discovers old web toys, time-killer websites that we've all been clued into for ages. Websites like YearbookYourself.com, which transforms an image of you into a '50s-style bad yearbook picture. Hit the jump to see Pee Wee's '50s counterpart. Read more...

Tags Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman

One of the movies we’re watching closely in these parts is “Paul,” the next off-the-wall comedy from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Two of the guys behind “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” By now, you probably know that "Paul" has a dream cast which includes Pegg, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Bateman and Bill Hader. However, little has been divulged about the role played by comedy veteran Jane Lynch – a scene stealer in flicks like “Role Models,” “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and most any Christopher Guest mockumentary you can think of. Until now, that is.

“In ‘Paul,’ I am in one scene, but it’s a pretty cool one,” Lynch explained when we caught up with her recently. “I run this little restaurant called the ‘Ailey-Inn.’” Read more...

Tags Glee, jane lynch, paul, role models, seth rogen, simon pegg, Smiley Face, spring breakdown

Thanks to "Twilight" we now have more teen wolves on the prowl in Hollywood than ever. And if the Catherine Hardwicke update of "Little Red Riding Hood" and Bradley Rust Gray's lesbian werewolf romance "Jack and Diane" aren't enough to look forward to after the release of "Breaking Dawn," here's another adaptation that sounds an awful lot like that huge supernatural sensation: "Shiver."

Based on Maggie Stiefvater's new young adult novel, which has been a best seller since hitting stores last month, "Shiver" tells of a love story between a teenage girl and a yellow-eyed boy who moonlights (pun definitely intended) as a wolf during the winter months. I don't know if I'd call him a werewolf since his changes happen seasonally rather than being tied to the lunar cycle. Then again, "Twilight"'s vampires are fang-less and sparkle in the sunlight. Read more...

Tags Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver, Twilight