Back in 2001, when he played a death row inmate in the Oscar-winning “Monster’s Ball,” it came as a surprise to most of us that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs could pull off such a nuanced performance. But by the time he appeared on Broadway in 2004 in the gut-wrenching revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” it was no secret that the rapper/producer/business exec could also act.

At least in dramatic roles. Could he also do comedy? Judd Apatow wasn’t sure when he cast Diddy as a record label owner in “Get Him to the Greek,” the spin-off of last year’s Jason Segel comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Apatow, it turned out, was not just surprised—he was jealous. Read more...

Russell Brand's Aldous Snow will have a lot of help to "Get Him to the Greek," but it isn't Emily Blunt. Assisting the crazy-coiffed rocker instead will be Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Rose Byrne ("Knowing"), and Elizabeth Moss ("Mad Men").

The "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" spin-off focuses on Brand's sex addicted rocker, Aldous Snow, who had left Marshall and Hawaii behind for newer, greener pastures. Snow falls off the wagon, gets hooked on cocaine and heroin, and is due in L.A. for a big comeback concert. It falls to Jonah hill, a superfan in "Marshall" and now a record executive intern, to make sure he gets to L.A. from London in one piece. Read more...

See if you can guess who up and coming star Derek Luke is talking about when he says of this unnamed person, “I think the brother is deep.”

Spike Lee, who directs Luke in the upcoming “Miracle at St. Anna”? Denzel Washington, who Luke stared with in “Antwone Fisher”? Barack Obama?

Would you believe Sean “Diddy” Combs? I don’t, but then, Luke is here to testify:

“Most people know him as a flamboyant giant and mouthpiece but he was guy with a dream and a vision,” Luke said of Combs, who he is portraying in the upcoming “Notorious,” the story of the rise and fall of the Notorious B.I.G. “He helped transform a language for America, which is hip-hop.” Read more...