Patricia Clarkson and Julianne Moore at the Tom Ford store opening in New York. (photo: Stephen Lovekin/WireImage.com)

Deal of the Century

As Vince Chase's new agent Amanda, Carla Gugino may have gotten a few pointers on deal making from her real-life aunt: Carol Merrill of 'Let's Make a Deal.' As Gugino told TV Guide recently, "The truth is, I'd buy whatever was behind Carol Merrill. She guided me into this business, and she's been one of my best advice-givers."

As for joining the boys club on 'Entourage,' Gugino's right at home: "It's the most natural thing in the world for me, actually. I've always been friends with lots of guys, and these guys have been incredibly welcoming. Sure, they're men — and good-looking men, to boot — but it's not a big testosterone fest on set. It feels like going to play, not to work." (photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com)

[TV Guide]

He Dunnit

Embeth Davidtz ('In Treatment') gets her comeuppance in the new thriller 'Fracture,' starring Antony Hopkins and Ryan Gossling. She plays Hopkins' wife, who's been soothing her frustrations with her husband with afternoon liaisons with a police detective (played by Billy Burke). Her husband finds out, kills her — and it's her lover who's assigned to investigate the case. The movie opens next week and as a blogger writes on Fantasy Moguls (calling Davidtz "luminous"): "The film is a taut courtroom thriller featuring great actors at the top of their game, and, no matter how many episodes of 'CSI' and 'Law & Order' you have seen, you probably still won't be able to figure out how the crafty killer pulled off his nifty crime." (photo: Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com)

[Fantasy Moguls]

Cinema Not-So Paradiso

Freddy Rodriquez is proud to be a B-movie star — in 'Grindhouse,' the new Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez homage to the genre. "Grindhouse' is basically a double feature: two 85-minute movies from each director. Freddy Rodriguez stars in Robert Rodriquez's 'Planet Terror,' as a hero fighting a town of zombies. As he told the Chicago Tribune, he was raised on slasher, karate and blaxploitation flicks. "We had the Armitage Theater and the Logan in Logan Square," Rodriguez says. "There were always double- and triple-features playing back then. My pops would take us over there when we were kids to watch those terrible movies for two bucks. We were poor, man. That was our form of entertainment." (photo: Gary Gershoff/WireImage.com)

[Chicago Tribune]

Adrian Grenier and Cameron Richardson at the third season premiere party for 'Entourage.' (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Baseball Wives

Some wives lose their husbands to baseball fever come opening day, but it looks like Bill Henrickson may be losing two of his sister-wives to their big love of the game: Chloë Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin bundled up for the Red Sox home opener against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway this week.

According to the Boston Herald, Sevigny (a New Yorker) was disappointed in the Sox 14-3 win, finding the game "a little lackluster." "It was all so exciting in the beginning with the opening ceremonies, but then it was just a dull fight," she said. But Goodwin, a Boston University grad, hung in until the end, along with boyfriend Chris Klein. "How else do you watch a Red Sox game?" she asked. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[Boston Herald 1]

[Boston Herald 2]

Feeling Drafty

Larry David's football fantasy

Lots of football fans have ideas about who their team should draft. Not many get to call up the team's management for a meeting to discuss their opinion. But longtime Jets fan (and Brooklyn native) Larry David managed to score a meeting with Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum and Head Coach Eric Mangini when they were in LA to scout players. According to the NFL.com: "Last year, David cold-called Tannenbaum and recommended, amongst other ideas, that the Jets trade up from the No. 4 spot to draft Texas quarterback Vince Young." (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)

[Jets blog]

It's Not TV...

Willie Garson takes on the role of director in 'The TV Set' a new big screen comedy opening Friday, directed by Jake Kasdan and starring David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver. Garson told the Daily News he plays "a hack director, which I sadly had enough to draw on." He says of the film: "It's very inside, but we're not talking down to the audience like they're stupid and don't know what we do. We know that they get it, and know how ridiculous this business can be." Presumably he's not referring to his gigs on HBO — 'Sex and the City' and the forthcoming David Milch and Kem Nunn series 'John from Cinncinnati.' (photo: Afshin Shahidi/WireImage.com)

[Daily News]

Lisa Kudrow and Diane Keaton at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 34th Annual Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton. (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com)

Day of the Locusts

'The Wire' 's Stringer Bell is no longer with us, but Idris Elba can be see onscreen these days opposite Hilary Swank in 'The Reaping.' As Elba told EURweb: "He's a religious man that debunks miracles and the reason for him doing that is to prove scientifically that God exists. So Hilary's character and Ben have a very interesting dynamic there. She's an atheist and he's a man that wants to prove that God exists," he explained. The horror film about a town that appears to be suffering from biblical plagues was shot in the Louisiana Bayou and Elba says that some of the effects were all-too real. "There wasn't much in terms of green screen," he said. "And the most horrific part was the locusts. We shot that in this big 'container,' but that was horrific for me because I can't stand bugs and these bad boys are huge." (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

[EURweb]

Buono Gusto

The New York Times spent a night on the town with Cara Buono, who plays Christopher Moltisanti's new wife Kelli on 'The Sopranos.' The Bronx native explained that the role came just in the nick of time. "It was not a good time in my life," she said. "I had a long-term relationship end. I was coming home from the audition on the train, and a bunch of kids came by and stepped on these ketchup packets on the platform, and they squirted all over me. I said, 'Something's got to give.' "

With any luck, this break will allow her to take her passion for cooking to the next level. "I love to cook," she said. "I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?" (photo: Eugene Gologursky/WireImage.com)

[The New York Times]

The Dark Side

Ron Livingston ('Sex and the City') will be joining Jason Patric on the New York stage this spring in Neil LaBute's 'In a Dark Dark House.' The MCC Theater production is about two brothers who are forced to face their traumatic past when one of the brothers has to attend court-ordered rehab at a psychiatric facility. The play will run May 16-June 7. (photo: Peter Larsen/WireImage.com)

[MCC Theater]

[Playbill]

Carla Gugino, Perrey Reeves and Connie Britton celebrate the third season of 'Entourage.' (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Once Bitten

Molly Parker and her husband writer/director Matt Bissonnette had to do serious battle with some bugs for the sake of their art. Shooting their film 'Who Loves the Sun' in Canada two years ago, they faced some major mosquitoes. "We bought these things at a truck stop called 'Executioners' which are these tennis rackets ... (that) instead of strings have electric wires and you can sort of swing them around and hit bugs and they zap," explained (The cast) would just sit there with these things in front of them. It was like a little techno concert or something."

The film, which opens this week in Canada is set in the idyllic Manitoba cottage country, which serves as a harsh juxtaposition to the psychodrama that unfolds inside a cabin when a wife, her husband and her husband's best friend finally confront the affair the best friend had with the wife. (photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com)

[Canada.com]

Yo, This Is Your Life

They say, just before the end, you see your life flash before your eyes. Thanks to a couple of enterprising YouTube posters, 'The Sopranos' cast can see their ten-years of TV life flash by in 7 minutes. Paul Gulyas and Joe Sabia created the '7-minute Sopranos' — and it only took them about 100 hours to do it. "We included what stood out, what flowed better or images that people would like to see," Mr. Gulyas told The New York Times. "But we kind of adapted the story to our own taste. It's so reductionist to what David Chase has done."

But according to the Times, Chase enjoyed the clip — it reminded him of all that happened over the course of the show. (photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com)

[NY Times]

Jeremy Piven and Rex Lee at the party celebrating the premiere of the third season of 'Entourage.' (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

¿Dónde está Paradise?

Aussie Melissa George (star of HBO's upcoming series, 'In Treatment') has added Portuguese to her language arsenal. To prepare for her latest film gig 'Paradise Lost,' shooting in Brazil: "The director made me go to school and learn Portuguese. I can speak Spanish too," George said. She plays a backpacker lost in the jungle. (photo: David Taylor/FilmMagic.com)

[Contactmusic.com]

Island Hopping

British actor Ray Stevenson ('Rome') has migrated to the U.S. and has been spending his time shooting a new series 'Babylon Fields,' on Long Island. "I'm playing this chief detective of the Babylon Police Department and on this one day I see people come out of their graves and try to go home," Stevenson told the Long Island Herald. "My character doesn't know whether to kill them or protect them because they haven't done anything wrong. They are innocents like us but they are just the living dead."

Stevenson has had to swap his British accent for a Long Island one, but says he's enjoying the new scenery. "Here I am in Baldwin and in sunny downtown Long Island," he said. "I like it here because it's got this kind of closeness to it." (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[LI Herald]