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The Twilight Saga: New Moon scored a whopping 5.8 million views in the 24 hours since its release — 4.2 million views on MySpace and 1.6 on MTV.

Since then, a couple of YouTube copies have scored another 5.4 million views combined.  Add up the subsequent views from MySpace and MTV, all the other YouTube copies, and all the other copies around the net, and I’m pretty sure everyone in the world has seen it at least eighty times.

It’s a decent trailer (basically just two early scenes from the movie awkwardly cut together), although I agree that the werewolf CGI looks a little Golden Compass-ish and not very frightening.  Read our first article (and watch the trailer) here.

So there’s a movie called 9, which is a computer-animated adventure about sentient rag dolls in a post-apocalyptic world.  And then there’s another movie with the same title that looks very different but equally awesome: the musical Nine, directed by Chicago’s Rob Marshall and starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

Day-Lewis plays a famous film director struggling through his relationships with a ton of different women, including Marion Cotillard (his wife), Nicole Kidman (his muse), Penelope Cruz (his mistress), Judi Dench (his confidant), Kate Hudson (a journalist), Stacy Ferguson, a.k.a. Fergie (a whore), and Sophia Loren (his mother).

It’s based on a successful stage musical that was itself based on a different play that was inspired by Fredrico Fellini’s classic 1963 film 8 1/2.  Javier Bardem was set to star, but when he had to drop out thanks to too much on his plate, the production somehow landed the notoriously choosy and reluctant Day-Lewis.

All this is a lead up to say: watch the trailer.  It looks great.

In the most legendary pairing since De Niro and Pacino in Heat, Mary-Kate Olsen and Vanessa Hudgens will both battle irrelevancy by teaming up for what sounds like a pretty crappy teen romance.

Beastly, a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast, will star Hudgens in the Beauty role, who falls for an egocentric young man (Alex Pettyfer of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) who gets a curse placed on him by Olsen’s character that transforms him into “everything he despises.”  Like, a nerd?  Fat?  Could be funny.  Especially the thought of Olsen as the witch.

Hudgens also stars in another upcoming teen movie, Bandslam, which doesn’t exactly look like a stretch from High School Musical.  See the trailer here.

Emma Stone, who since Superbad has replaced Lindsay Lohan as the reigning hot redhead of Hollywood, will star in the high school comedy Easy A, which just got a huge supporting cast: Amanda Bynes, Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Clarkson, and Twilight’s Cam Gigandet.

Stone plays a high school student who gets ostracized thanks to a rumor that she’s, uh, promiscuous.  She turns the tables by (somehow) using her status to start a war between the puritanical and the liberal sects of the school.

Of the adults, I’m guessing Lisa Kudrow and Stanley Tucci are on the liberal side and Patricia Clarkson and Malcolm McDowell are on the puritanical side, but it would be amusing if that was switched around.

Hopefully, the 26-year-old Gigandet and the 22-year-old Badgley won’t be cast as high school students opposite the almost-age-appropriate Stone (20 years old), but this is Hollywood, so they probably will.

As the title suggests, the movie also thematically ties in with The Scarlet Letter, that book that everybody hated in high school.

David Carradine, best known to you as the title character from Kill Bill and to your dad as the lead in the ’70s TV show Kung Fu, died late last night or early this morning at age 72.

Carradine was found in a Bangkok hotel room; he was in Thailand shooting the movie.  Early reports claim the actor hanged himself.

Carradine appeared in well over 100 movies and at least 50 TV shows; in fact, his IMDb profile lists a whopping 222 acting credits.  Try finding an actor with more.

After reaching fame with Kung Fu, Carradine also starred in the cult hit Death Race 2000, but spent much of the ’80s and ’90s in TV roles and B movies.  That put him on Quentin Tarantino’s radar for Kill Bill, which temporarily returned him to the mainstream in 2003 and 2004.  Since then, if possible, he’d been even more prolific, alternating between B movies, supporting roles in theatrical releases (Crank: High Voltage), and TV show guest spots (Medium, Alias).

Remember when I told you about that fracas brewing between Glenn Beck and the ladies of The View?  Well, Glenn’s got him a little vindication, thanks to Scott Baker of Breitbart TV and The B-Cast.  Seems Scott confirmed that Glenn was right in saying that ABC sought special treatment for its two ladies of the morning, and that Amtrak confirmed that, while seats are not normally reserved, staffers are allowed to “use their own discretion” and “reserve seats if they deem it necessary”.

Which means, of course, Beck has pretty much officially been vindicated and there is now a giant cloud of silence coming from The View as neither Barbara nor Whoopi looks even vaguely interested in apologizing for the castigation they gave Beck on their show.

Come on, ladies!  Show some girl power and, well, man up!  Apologize to the poor guy!

So Paris Hilton is planning a whole new season of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, and she’s actually planning to shoot the next season in, of all places, Dubai.  Apparently, they want to expand into a worldwide phenomena, in which Paris collects BFFs from all over the planet.  Moreover, apparently she’s going to be “respectful” of different cultures—no pointing and laughing—and will be “walked through what is expected and allowed”.

This raises a whole host of interesting questions, such as:

1.    Isn’t it at least somewhat likely she’ll be stoned by angry fundamentalists the second she sets foot on the ground over there?  They’re still steaming about Salman Rushdie and that was like twenty, thirty years ago.

2.    Who would want to be Paris’ BFF considering the shabby treatment she’s shown Brittany Flickinger?  Guess the second F really isn’t that F, huh?

3.    Who would want to be Paris’ BFF knowing that she’d be regarding them almost as a commodity, like rental homes?  If she’s so desperate to collect BFFs, how will she ever know which one is B?  Frankly, I REALLY doubt that second F now, and even that FIRST F is looking shaky.

Guess it’s just another day in Paris’ insane la-la land.

No, Eminem’s not suing Sacha Baron Cohen for sexual harassment—but there are lawsuits targeting both Cohen and NBC Universal.  Specifically, Richelle Olson, a woman from Palmdale, CA, is suing because she was allegedly hurt in a Bruno stunt.  She goes so far as to say she was left wheelchair-bound following a fight at a bingo game for the elderly.  “Bruno” launched into some “offensive language” during the proceedings—as should be pretty much expected at this point—and Olson tried to get the mike away from him.

Then things REALLY went off the rails when Olson claims that the camera crew then rushed her and started beating her, when she fled to another room, passed out, and hit her head on the floor.  She was diagnosed with two “brain bleeds”, whatever those are, and she’s been in a wheelchair ever since.  Interestingly, this all happened in 2007.  Yeah, as in “two years ago” 2007.

Anyone else wonder why she waited to sue until just ahead of the movie’s release date?

You know, it’s GREAT to be Madonna’s “friend”, as Jesus Luz is discovering—seems that Madonna just laid out a pile of loot to help turn Jesus Luz in to DJ Jesus.  She’s hired none other than DJ Enferno to tutor Luz, and shelled out about sixty thousand bucks US to buy him an array of proper equipment.

But there’s already a note of tension—Madonna’s hoping he’ll specialize in old-school hip hop.  But Jesus has other plans…techno.  Worse, she’s apparently giving him style tips and correcting his grammar in public.

Maybe this massive emasculation is payback for the whole “we’re just friends” thing.

This may be one of the biggest stories to come out of the MTV movie awards, and this will also help serve as some rumor control, because the bigger picture is, as is so often the case, a lot deeper than you may have heard about.

Just to recap, while at the MTV movie awards, Eminem was doing some hosting duties when, out of nowhere, Sacha Baron Cohen in his Bruno persona, dropped out of the sky and landed in Eminem’s lap.  Just so you know, Cohen was wearing wings and a thong.  And NOTHING ELSE.

Eminem then promptly stormed out in a flurry of bleeped obscenities.  Now for the rumor control.

While it’s true that Eminem was in on the joke, it seems that he wasn’t in on the EXTENT of the joke.  He had no idea about the thong, or the waggling of Cohen’s posterior in his face that happened subsequently, though you’d think that if Eminem was even vaguely familiar with Cohen’s career, he should’ve seen that coming.

So is this the beginning of a new rap-style feud?  Should Cohen be watching his…back?  All this and a whole bunch more right here on The Clog!

This could be awesome in the making, folks, so bear with me as I report from the earliest depths of celebrity gossip.  So Kanye and Pink were at the same fashion show in Paris, sitting very near each other when the master genius Kanye loudly protested that–get this–Paul McCartney’s clothes didn’t involve enough FUR to suit him.

I know.  I gasped too.

Pink, you see, is a PETA diehard, and you know what PETA does to people who wear fur.  Check out what Pink thought!

“I was just so grossed out by him. I’m like, ‘You’re an idiot!,’  There are so many people who I think are a waste of skin and he’s up there. I should wear him. Go on, donate yourself Kanye. People can wear your fur.”

Okay…so Pink’s willing to kill people to preserve animal rights.  Say what you will, but skinning people alive is almost certain to kill them, if not by sheer shock trauma then by exsanguination.  That’s not a skewed sense of priorities or nothing.  Seriously though, Pink, dial it down a notch, huh?

That may be one of the scariest headlines EVER.

Remember the whole Jesus Luz thing I talked about last week, saying that he and Madonna were “just friends”?  And remember how I thought that might send Madonna off the deep end?  Well, here was the first major test of that hypothesis, when both Madonna and Kate Hudson (who, as we know, is dating Madonna’s ex, Alex Rodriguez) were out watching visiting Prince Harry play polo.

Kate, upon hearing that Madonna was in the room, promptly vacated the good seats she had near the front to watch the horses chase balls around so that she could hide in the back.  Madonna, terrifyingly, TOOK KATE’S VACATED SEATS and watched the polo match. And she then WATCHED THE POLO MATCH.  She did NOTHING to Kate Hudson.  Not even so much as a dirty look.

Whoa.  Now I’m freaked out.  That was a sane, rational and fully mature reaction.  That’s not a celebrity reaction…not at ALL.

In what may be the biggest metaphorical kick in the junk EVER, after O.J. Simpson was sent up the river for nine to thirty-three years for holding a room full of people hostage while supposedly trying to reclaim his “stolen” memorabilia, we just found out what’s going to happen to all that memorabilia.

It’s going to be auctioned off.

Yes, the footballs, the jerseys, the photographs he was out to reclaim will be auctioned off by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The proceeds from said auction will be going almost directly to the Goldman family to help settle that thirty three-odd million dollar wrongful death judgment against Simpson back in 1997.

While it’s almost believable that Simpson was really never out to hurt anyone, he’s still locked up.  But there’s no two ways about it–this is a REAL crap sandwich.