1) The first New York benefit of the Young Patrons Circle of the Friends of the Louvre took place Tuesday night at Espace: Devoted socials like Olivia Chantecaille, Fabiola Beracasa, Alexandra Papanicalaou, Lisa Anastos, Annabel Vartanian, Melissa Berkelhammer, and Devorah Rose bid on photographer Candida Hofer's pictures of the Louvre's galleries. [Park Avenue Peerage/PMc]
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Even though the Warner Bros. ax has yet to fall around New Line headquarters and the Tolkien family still wants its cash for The Lord of the Rings saga, Sir Ian McKellen took to his blog (We know! We're as stunned as you are) Wednesday to confirm he's "keeping [his] diary open for 2009" to reprise his role as Gandalf in The Hobbit. But that's only the half of McKellen's big gay update, which also includes hot nose-tweaking action and yawning confirmations of his LOTR co-stars' heterosexuality:
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What at first we thought was the result of a binge-weekend-induced fever-dream incorporating some of the most disturbing images from the worlds of Middle Earth, Sid and Marty Krofft, Laugh-In, and Stonewell-era drag queendom, it turns out was merely a photo taken on the set of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Nick Jr.'s new live-action show for the toddler-set, premiering tonight in nurseries and bong-clouded dorm rooms across the country, and sure to cause much controversy when the Religious Right accuses the green hairy thing of being gay.
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· The Library of Congress added 25 titles to the National Film Registry, including Fargo, Groundhog Day, and Blazing Saddles, the last of which you can draw up alphabetically, or by typing in "Movies: Bean-Induced Flatulence." [Variety]
· Eragon is faring much better overseas than it did in North America, while Letters From Iwo Jima has topped the Japanese box office for the third week in a row, proving unless the giant flying monster movie has a "Vs." in the title, the Japanese aren't interested. [Variety]
· Apocalypto has been "stuck in neutral" since its big opening weekend, despite Disney's attempts to re-market it to families with all new subtitles that tell the story of an ancient warrior who needs to get home for Christmas before the evil Santa Mayan Claus can reach into his chest and pull out a beating heart for a lucky little girl or boy. [Variety]
· Samantha Corbin-Miller has been hired as showrunner on Lifetime's series Army Wives, not to be confused with ABC's Football Wives. Yes, 2007 TV is definitely going to be Year of the Woman Defined by Her Relationship to a Man. You go, girl! [THR]
· Elijah Wood will star in Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's first English-language film, Oxford Murders, saying "I'm delighted to work with Elijah, who undoubtedly has the most powerful eyes in the industry and who is perfect for the part." Sounds like someone has a cruuush. [THR]
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Earlier today, a Defamer operative watched in appalled horror as entertainment industry etiquette was willfully ignored and famous-type person Elijah Wood was brutally accosted by that most lethal of coffee shop denizens, the sketchy, pitch-happy "producer." Says our scandalized spy:
