Sean "Diddy" Combs at his party in Saint-Tropez. (photo: WireImage.com)

A Different View

When famed HBO comedienne Whoopi Goldberg fills the fourth chair on ABC's 'The View,' co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck may yearn for the days of squabbling with Rosie O'Donnell — at least then she didn't have to match the Whoop's patented over-the-spectacles stare. Goldberg, however, promises to play nice: "I just figure I'm going to be me. They know who I am and know what I do, so nobody will be surprised if I disagree strongly but not meanly. I'll never be mean. It's just not in me." (photo: Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.com)

[BBC News]

Cement Shoes to Flat Foot

In the cops-n-robbers world of TV and Film, Michael Imperioli has played on both sides of the law, but he's best known for his work with the Mob. In addition to his Emmy®-award-winning turn as Tony Soprano's protégé, Christopher Moltisanti, film-lovers will never forget Imperioli getting his toe blown off by loose-cannon Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's mob classic 'Goodfellas.'

Yesterday, he switched teams when it was announced he would be playing detective Len Fenerman in Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-selling novel 'The Lovely Bones.' Imperioli, who recently received his fifth Emmy® nomination for his time with 'The Sopranos,' joins an all-star cast including Rachel Weisz, Ryan Gosling, Susan Sarandon, and Stanley Tucci. (photo: Eugene Gologursky/WireImage.com)

[BBC News]

Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of 'El Cantante' in Los Angeles. (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)

No Joke

As host of Comedy Central's 'Insomniac with Dave Attell,' the comedian is used to travel. But in addition to being our guide into the inebriated nightlife of the world's great cities, Attell has been on tour for the USO with fellow comedian Scott Kennedy.

"All jokes aside, it is an honor to be a part of USO tours," says Attell, who with Kennedy was entertaining troops in the Persian Gulf region last week. "Meeting with troops, listening to their stories and making them laugh is the least I can do considering that they are putting their lives on the line for America everyday."

Named one of the "25 Funniest People in America" by Entertainment Weekly, Attell will be performing his latest solo act on HBO in November. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[PRNewswire]

Flashback

'White Light/Black Rain' director Steven Okazaki's telling of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings coalesced over the course of 25 years, but the challenge didn't end with the film's completion. With a "deep breath," the filmmaker had soldiered through years of heart-wrenching material, but after the documentary's screening at Sundance, all that emotional heavy-lifting caught up with him: "I suddenly started feeling it and thinking about the whole thing. I just wanted to stay in bed."
(photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[San Francisco Chronicle]

Dane Cook and Jessica Alba at the 2007 Comic Con International convention in San Diego. (photo: Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com)

Wiped Out

After playing a soccer dad in HBO Films 'Gracie,' Dermot Mulroney is headed back to the big screen as the owner of a chain of auto-parts stores in the drama 'Flash of Genius.' According to Variety, Mulroney will be playing the best friend of Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear), the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. The film is based on a New Yorker article about the true story of Kearns, who took on corporate automakers in a nearly life-long court battle over patent infringement that eventually won him $30 million, but cost him his family and mental health. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[Variety]

Outside the Box

After a voyage on Dane Cook's 'Tourgasm' bus, comedian Bobby Kelly has finally arrived — at least as far as armchair audiences are concerned. "It's weird, but once you start getting recognized on TV, all these people start telling you how great you are," Kelly told BostonNow.com. "Where were they all those years before that, when I was on the road? I didn't suddenly get funny." (photo: Chris Polk/FilmMagic.com)

[BostonNow.com]

David Oyelowo, Bryce Dallas Howard and Kenneth Branagh at the HBO summer TCA press panel on 'As You Like It.' (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

Just Another Bad Day

Melissa George is racking up more really sh**ty days than Jack Bauer. The actress was trapped in a hellish house in 'The Amityville Horror' and kidnapped by organ harvesters in 'Turistas.' Next she's fighting vampires with Josh Hartnett in '30 Days of Night,' and she was just cast in a new thriller, 'Captive,' in which she plays a young mom who wakes up to find she's been in a car wreck and is being held hostage by a masked murderer. Good thing she'll be receiving weekly therapy sessions from Gabriel Byrne's in HBO's upcoming series 'In Treatment.' (photo: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com)

[Cinematical.com]

Triple Threat

Bill Paxton performs his own stunts

When Bill Paxton bombs an audition, he really bombs it. Back in the halcyon '80s, the actor demanded the attention of a casting panel by toting a briefcase wired to batteries and an alarm clock. "This thing was ticking," Paxton says, "and these people were like, 'Holy s**t ...' I went into this monologue about how, 'The Army taught me all about explosives. They didn't like me. They said I didn't fit in ...' I go back home and get a call from my agent, and he says to me, 'Don't ever pull a stunt like that again! But you got the job.'" (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)

[IndieWire.com]

Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Eytan Sugarman and Trace Alaya during the grand opening of Timberlake's new restaurant Southern Hospitality in New York City. (photo: Larry Busacca/WireImage.com)

Sister Act

Between 'Six Feet Under' and her new Fox show 'The Return of Jezebel James,' Lauren Ambrose has collected more whacked-out siblings than a Jackson family picnic. Her latest foray, produced by 'Gilmore Girls' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, places her at odds with her book-editor sister while sharing a pad in New York. "It's weird because they're adults, but they're just now starting to figure out who they are," Palladino says. "I like family dynamics because I can't figure out mine." (photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com)

[Charlotte Observer via Topix.net]

White-Washed Stats?

Chris Rock was just one of the many weighing in on Barry Bonds' breaking Hank Aaron's home run record last week on 'Costas Now,' and he had a different pitch. When asked by Costas if race was irrelevant, Rock pointed out: "Ty Cobb's numbers are bulls**t and Babe Ruth's numbers are bulls**t.... Because they didn't play against black players. It's like saying I won the New York City Marathon but no Kenyans ran that year. Babe Ruth has 714 Affirmative Action home runs." (photo: Gary Gershoff/WireImage.com)

[Examiner.com]

Called to Serve

Jon Seda (left), Ashton Holmes and Rami Malek have enlisted for 'The Pacific,' Steven Spielberg's and Tom Hank's follow-up to 'Band of Brothers.' The mini will follow the stories of three U.S. Marines (played by Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge) from the first battles in Guadalcanal to their homecoming after V-J Day. Shooting begins in August in Australia. (photo: Barry King/WireImage.com)

[Hollywood Reporter]