At Thursday night's premiere party for Deadwood's second season, star Bree Wall shows off the skills that she learned at a recent play date with Dakota Fanning.

· Clear Channel takes steps to conquer China, where they hope to defeat communism by replacing government-controlled radio stations with 24-hour broadcasts of Linkin Park. [Variety]
· Quentin Tarantino has lost his mind: QT considers writing and directing a new installment of the Friday the 13th series. [THR]
· OK, now Fox is just making shit up: Fox greenlights lifestyle makeover series Who Wants to
Live Forever? for at least four episodes. At the end of each show, one lucky contestant will be beheaded and submerged in a vat of liquid nitrogen until science advances enough to grant them immortality. [Variety]
· Oh the humanity of pilot casting! Dennis Hopper, Rob Estes, Regina "I'm in Everything" King, Brent "Lt. Data" Spiner, Joely Fischer, Jennifer Esposito, Brooke Burns, and—gasp!—Dan Cortese, all hard at work on shows you'll never see. (Except for Hopper, who's in a Jerry Bruckheimer project. We'll never get rid of that show.) [THR]
· Bruce Willis will star in 16 Blocks for Avi Lerner's Millenium Films. Obviously, none of the parties involved have read the script. [Variety]
· Bored with appearing in roughly 65 percent of the commercials currently in rotation on network television, Sarah Jessica Parker signs a television development deal with HBO. [THR]

The gleefully profane Deadwood began its second season on HBO last night, and the West Virginia Surf Report blog once again has tallied the litany of f-bombs and "c-suckers" that artfully dance off the salty tongues of Al Swearengen and company. Really, you hardly notice it after the 36th "fuck":

· The feel-good Hollywood story of the year: top execs at MGM make out like bandits with multi-million dollar severance packages while their underlings brace for unemployment. [Variety]
· "Stevens brushed aside constitutional questions about whether the government has the right to regulate indecent speech on pay TV services." Rights? Constitution? Fuck that, there are naked titties and swear words on HBO that need them some good old-fashioned indecency finin'! [THR]
· The overall Oscar ratings were down, but at least Chris Rock delivered some extra eyeballs from the 18-34 demographic. Repeated Cuba Gooding references by Rock also increased viewership significantly in the coveted Gooding demo. [Variety]
· SAG CEO Bob Pisano to resign, AFTRA executive director Greg Hessinger will take his place. Ask your waiter to explain the implications. [Variety]
· Everybody works during pilot season: David Arquette, Marilu Henner, Kristen Johnson, and Laura San Giacomo cast in pilots, may reclaim valuable items from local pawn shops. [THR]
· Antione Fuqua, fresh of off not directing American Gangster, will direct the Messiah-ass-whupping-free Under and Alone, starring Mel Gibson. Gibson contract, however, contains a rider allowing him to act like he's God's gift to man. [Variety]

· Iraq war documentary Gunner Palace wins an appeal with the MPAA, earns the title of Most. Profane. PG-13. Movie. Ever. [Variety]
· Everyone works during pilot season, part 100: Tiffani "Don't call me Amber" Thiessen is cast in CBS sitcom pilot Stroller Wars. [THR]
· HBO moves Six Feet Under to Monday nights just to watch broadcast network execs shit their pants. [Variety]
· Poker no longer red hot: Debra Messing joins Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana in the Curtis Hanson poker flick Lucky You. [THR]
· Just in time to sustain the industry's feel-good vibe from the Oscars, the MPAA announces more lawsuits against movie downloaders and file sharers. This might just be a rumor, but we've heard that Dan Glickman is going to castrate one of the pirates right after the "Recently Dead" montage in the Oscar telecast, then feed his balls to a ceremonial MGM lion. [Variety]

Are there any casting calls in this city that don't require that people pre-screen naked pictures of our city's aspiring actors and actresses? Granted, the following notice is for a scene set at the Playboy Mansion (we're surprised it took this long for the Entourage kids to wind up at Hef's pad), so in the interest of verisimilitude, they're going to need a look at your cans:

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, known in their East Village failed-rockstar days as the Pop Tarts, are working on a new documentary for HBO. The duo, now reinvented as Hollywood teevee people, make documentaries about high-camp icons like Monica Lewinsky and Tammy Faye Bakker. Their new film, in the same vein, for HBO: Was Hitler Gay?
Hitler's sexuality is HBO topic [Hollywood Reporter]
World of Wonder

The NYT's Bill Carter profiles HBO Chairman, Chris Albrecht. Albrecht is largely responsible for series hits like "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," all of which have helped to make HBO tremendously profitable. "Sopranos" creator, David Chase, refers to Albrecht as "the Harry Cohn of today" (but much nicer, Carter says) and peers say only Les Moonves has as much power over a network.

The core audience for Sex and the City is made up of women, and gay guys, for whom the casual... The core audience for Sex and the City is made up of women, and gay guys, for whom the casual sex and cattiness are resonant, even if the sex of the protagonists isn't. But there is a straight guy constituency, where constituency means that there is one guy I know who watches the HBO program religiously. The show is a source of dating tips, and it's a good topic of conversation, particularly with women who will leap into bed with the alacrity of a Samantha. Cunning.Sex and the City [HBO]