Jamie Foxx and Russell Simmons at the home of Brett Ratner for a benefit for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding honoring leaders in entertainment with the 2007 Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award. (photo: Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com)

Off the Couch

Melissa George is no couch potato. George, who's been filming the new HBO series 'In Treatment' — as a patient of a therapist whose own life is in disarray (Gabriel Byrne) — is headed to Berlin for a starring role in the action thriller 'Stopping Power.' The film is about a man (John Cusack) trying to save his kidnapped daughter; George plays his girlfriend. (photo: Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage.com)

[Hollywood Reporter]

Self Reflection

A recent interview with Timothy Olyphant suggests there are two kinds of actors: those who like to see themselves on film, and those who pretend they don't. "It's always a damned if you do, or damned if you don't question when people ask you how do you feel about watching yourself. I think maybe it's better to lie and say, 'No, it's unbearable. I can't do it,'" the actor told Ugo.com. But Olyphant admits he enjoys it. "I'm guilty of kind of going, 'Watch this; watch what I do here. Isn't that great? Did you see that? Did you see that little moment there? Most people don't catch that. That was fantastic.' You know, I still get a kick out of it all."

Between the latest 'Die Hard' movie and the upcoming 'Hitman,' due out in October, there is ample opportunity to catch Olyphant's little moments on the big screen. (photo: Barry King/WireImage.com)

[Ugo.com]

Change in Direction

'Entourage' Executive Producer Rob Weiss, the real-life inspiration for the show's madcap director Billy Walsh, added to his infamy in the '90s for declining to helm 'Good Will Hunting' because it "didn't come out of my head." Though his twenty-something wild side has now been immortalized on high-school bud Doug Ellin's show, Weiss says the intervening years have chilled him out: "I'm a 40-year-old man now. I go ballistic now in my life probably because my blood sugar level's low from not eating lunch. Billy Walsh is supposed to be the retro Rob Weiss, the guy who couldn't be controlled, the rebel, the guy acting out of insecurity, fear — neurotic, passionate, volatile. I'm not that guy anymore." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

[New York Observer]

Zoe Kravitz and Ben Foster at the premiere of '3:10 To Yuma' in Los Angeles. (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

Green-Lit

When it comes to saving the planet, throwing a little star wattage behind the cause never hurts. So 'Big Love' star Chloë Sevigny joined Natalie Portman and Kyra Sedgwick to extol the virtues of the compact fluorescent light bulb in a National Geographic video with the apt title 'This Bulb.' Interspersed with footage of melting glaciers and baby seals, the actresses explain that each low-power bulb prevents 1,000 lbs. of carbon from being released into the air. Nationwide replacement of more energy-hungry incandescent bulbs, they say, would have the effect of taking 1 million cars off the road. (photo: Lalo Yasky/WireImage.com)

[National Geographic]

Rome Clones

The guys from 'Entourage' got to do more than give a courtside shout-out to their team when Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Connolly guest hosted Jim Rome's radio show last week. But it wasn't all talking smack. Knicks forward David Lee called the substitute talk jockeys to profess his admiration for 'Entourage.' Fiction and reality collapsed as Ferrara and Connolly, who both really are from NY and are Knicks fans, chatted with Lee about coach P.J. Carlesimo, seeing Kobe on the court and working out with the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

[NY Post]

[Jim Rome]

Ryan's Hope

As Officer "Beadie" Russell on 'The Wire,' Amy Ryan has faced some rough times — murder on the docks, police politics, and a relationship with bad-boy McNulty. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that wrapping up the show's final season, Ryan has signed on for some lighter fare — co-starring in a new romantic comedy 'Bob Funk,' with Rachel Leigh Cook, Steven Root and Grace Zabriskie ('Big Love'). (photo: Randall Michelson/WireImage.com)

[Variety]

Luis Guzman and his sons visit Fuse's 'The Sauce' studios in New York. (photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com)

Mc Not-So-Dreamy

Theroux calls action on a new kind of romance

Don't go looking for your typical "meet cute" scene in Justin Theroux's directorial debut, 'Dedication.' The offbeat rom com, starring Billy Crudup as a tortured children's book writer forced to work with illustrator Mandy Moore when his longtime collaborator dies, offers a few surprises. "I didn't want it to be adorable; I didn't want to be cute. I wanted the stakes to be higher than a normal love story," Theroux explained to ComingSoon.net. The actor, who played Brenda's post-Nate lover on 'Six Feet Under' and will be appearing as John Hancock in HBO's forthcoming miniseries 'John Adams,' wasn't interested in portraying a typical girl-gets-boy story. "I didn't want it to be about some douche-y guy who's just like, 'Aw shucks what should I do?' and some desperate girl who's dying to be with some horrible guy. I wanted to get away from that." (photo: Jim Spellman/WireImage.com)

[ComingSoon.net]

War-Torn Notion

In the wake of the mercurial 'Sopranos' ending, James Gandolfini made every effort to prevent his stature as a Jersey boss from casting a shadow anywhere near his latest HBO project, 'Alive Day.' But once audiences catch a glimpse of the documentary, which probes into the lives of American soldiers who have been grievously wounded in Iraq, any talk of fictional mobsters will seem downright irrelevant.

In the film, 25-year-old Army sergeant Bryan Anderson describes the moments after his Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb: "I noticed that my fingertip was gone. So I was like, 'Oh. Ok.' So that is when I started really assessing myself ... I turned my hand over, and I noticed that this chunk of my hand was gone. So I was like, 'Ok, still not bad. I can live with that.' And then when I went to wipe the flies on my face with my left hand, there was nothing there. So I was like, 'Uh, that's gone.' And then I looked down and I saw that my legs were gone. And then they had kind of forced my head back down to the ground, hoping that I wouldn't see."

Dawn Halfaker, a 28-year-old former Army captain who lost her right arm and shoulder in the war, summed up the heart of the documentary for the New York Times. "When you're training, you don't really imagine that you could be holding a dying boy in your arms," she says. "You don't think about what death is like close up. There's nothing heroic about war. It's very tragic. It's very sad. It takes a huge emotional toll." (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

[New York Times]

Love Triangle

Get a whiff of this: Kevin Kline (HBO Films' 'As You Like It') is headed to Broadway for a 10-week run this fall opposite Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' — the tale of the large-nosed swordsman (Kline) who falls for the fair Roxane (Garner) who in turn has fallen for the handsome but not-so-bright Christian (Sunjata). Based on a true story, the French romance defined the ghostwriter's dilemma, as Cyrano writes his way into a corner, penning love poems for Christian to woo Roxane. Check out the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway come October to see if the pen is mightier than the schnoz. (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

[Playbill.com]

Hard Rock VIP Celebrity Host Richard Wilk, Kevin Dillon, Ken Dillon and Ioan Gruffudd celebrate Kevin Dillon's birthday in Las Vegas. (photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage.com)

Dallas Cowboy

Bryce Dallas Howard felt like a real "American" playing Rosalind in producer-director Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It.' "I felt a little bit like a cowboy," she said of her first Shakespearean role. "Being American, and particularly in this production — I would have to say (cast-mate) Kevin Kline is almost like an honorary Brit when it comes to Shakespeare — it was a little rough with the language." But Branagh is her biggest cheerleader: "In Bryce's case, with this sensual and sort of glorious, unusual character of Shakespeare's, she had to have the capacity of being playful and being fun and being unashamed to be passionate and silly." (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)

[London Free Press]

Turning a Corner

David Simon has earned a rep for gritty attention to detail with his work on 'The Wire,' so it only figures that the story of his real life would unwind more incredibly than fiction. Two of Simon's inspirations — Donnie Andrews, the basis for Omar Little on 'The Wire,' and Fran Boyd, the subject of the HBO mini-series 'The Corner' — married on August 11 after years spent struggling with the same urban woes Simon grapples with on his show.

The real-world saga, encompassing Andrews's release after nearly 18 years in prison and Boyd's recovery from heroin addiction, closed with Simon standing beside them as best man at a Baltimore catering hall. "Everything has a second act and a third act. And everybody gets to write their endings," said Simon, who was joined at the ceremony by 'Wire' cast members Dominic West (McNulty), Sonja Sohn (Greggs) and Andre Royo (Bubbles). (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)

[NY Times]

Dania Ramirez arrives at In Style's 7th Annual Summer Soirée in Los Angeles. (photo: Jesse Grant/WireImage.com)

Sober Poseur

Chloë Sevigny hasn't checked into rehab — she's just posing as a starlet who has. In the new issue of Harper's Bazaar Sevigny is featured in a photo spread that pokes fun at the Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears luxury rehab stints, as she reads about herself in the faux-tabloid 'Troubled Times.' The magazine hits the stands just in time for September's National Recovery Month. (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com)

[NY Post]

Mad As Health

Suzanne Somers rocks the Thighmaster, Sting does yoga and Lewis Black throws fits of rage. The comedian, famous for his performances on HBO and 'The Daily Show,' swears his furious rants work miracles for the ol' ticker: "It does give me perfect blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular." (photo: Jesse Grant/WireImage.com)

[Lincoln Journal Star]