Kelli Garner and Patricia Clarkson attend the afterparty for the LA premiere of 'Lars and the Real Girl.' (photo: Todd Williamson/Variety via WireImage.com)

Ohm....my God!

"Some people do yoga. I go sky diving and it clears my head," says Michelle Borth in an exclusive interview with HBO.com. The actress got seriously hooked on jumping out of planes while filming the pilot for 'Tell Me You Love Me' as a way to clear her mind of the emotions her character, Jamie, was going through. "There's a certain amount of freedom in jumping out of a plane — you feel like you have control. Your whole life is in your own hands. There's no one there to help you. You have to take care of everything yourself," she explains. "It's a huge release for me." (photo: Alexandra Wyman/Variety via WireImage.com)

[HBO.com]

Too Close to Home

When 'Five Days' star David Oyelowo signed on to play a father whose wife and children disappear in broad daylight, the role fit him a little too closely for comfort. "I'm married to a lovely white lady and I have two beautiful mixed-race children," he says. "So as I read this thing, what hit me was the fact that this could be me! It actually made me quite nervous to keep on reading because it felt very real." (photo: Jon Furniss/WireImage.com)

[AP via AZcentral.com]

No Regrets

Who's sorry now? Not D.L. Hughley. The comedian is taking his 'Unapologetic' act on the road, touring clubs around the country this fall. (The HBO Comedy special debuted last month.) "I had watched people — Mel Gibson, Don Imus, Isaiah Washington — voice opinions and be criticized in the media," Hughley told the Poughkeepsie Journal (he appears there locally this weekend). "You should never apologize for having a point of view, even if others don't accept it. No one ever gets to say how they feel for fear of being labeled, so we don't have authentic conversations. Being a black comic, you can say stuff that other people can't. You have an obligation on stage to speak your truth." (photo: Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com)

[Poughkeepsie Journal]

Jeremy Sisto, Heather Graham and Randall Batinkoff attend the 'Broken' New York City premiere after-party. (photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage.com)

Victory!

Johnny Drama is finally getting his big screen break. Kevin Dillon will be playing the lead in 'National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.' According to Variety, the Awesomest is a "bumbling Spartan general who fails upward in his quest for greatness." Apparently his skinny calves didn't knock him out of contention, as Justin Kanew of Lampoon notes: "Kevin is perfect for this role." (photo: Michael Bezjian/WireImage.com)

[Variety]

Bum Rush

The young folks on 'Tell Me You Love Me' who are getting attention for baring all can take solace in Dame Helen Mirren's worldly advice: it gets easier with age. The Dame, who has stripped for roles before says she has no problem with doing so again. "I am a nudist at heart," she told the Daily Express. "As you get older, the naked stuff gets easier because it's more to do with the role than what the men in the audience are thinking. There's a liberation about it," she explained. Jane Alexander, watch your backside. (photo: Eamonn McCormack/WireImage.com)

[Daily Express via This Is North Scotland]

Wizening with Age

Robert Wisdom has traded his role as lawman Bunny Colvin on 'The Wire' for a Panamanian drug lord on 'Prison Break,' but a brush with the underworld hasn't rubbed off on the actor, who relaxes on location by playing musical instruments, watching movies and catching up on his reading. "I can't say there's a rowdy lifestyle going on anymore," he says. "I cut that out." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

[BuddyTV.com]

Brett Ratner, Russell Simmons and Djimon Hounsou at Simmons' surprise 50th birthday party. (photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com)

Great Expectations

Amy Ryan has been known to NY theater goers and those astute viewers who spot her disappearing into various character roles (on 'The Wire,' and in 'Capote' to name a few). With a couple of more high profile film projects (Ben Affleck's new film 'Gone Baby Gone' and a lead role in Clint Eastwood's next project 'The Changeling') she was asked if she has high hopes for where her career is going. But Ryan's remaining level-headed: "You know, the expected mind is always disappointed. So I will stay hopeful that what I've had, the benefit of working on scripts like 'Capote' and 'Gone Baby Gone,' that that becomes the norm, that would be really nice." (photo: Jordan Strauss/Variety via WireImage.com)

[IESB.net]

Fact Meets Fiction

The 'Entourage' crew's 'Medellin' took a nose dive at Cannes, but Javier Bardem has stepped in to pay off Vincent Chase's debt to society with a Pablo Escobar biopic titled 'Killing Escobar.' The film has been in the works for five years, but production could start as soon as June 2008. Let's just hope the jungle heat treats director Joe Carnahan ('Narc') better than it did Billy Walsh. (photo: Jason Gemnich/WireImage.com)

[Variety]

Stand-up Sits Down

Bob Saget's taking his break from stand-up quite literally. He'll be playing Man in Chair in Broadway's 'The Drowsy Chaperone.' Starting October 19th, the comedian will be segueing from his HBO comedy special 'That Ain't Right,' to his debut on the Great White Way, taking over the role of the narrator in the popular musical. (photo: Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic.com)

[Variety]

LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union and Idris Elba attend Kimora Lee Simmons' surprise 50th Birthday party for Russell Simmons in New York City. (photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com)

Lost and Found

Gina Gershon needs to keep better track of her stuff. First she lost Larry David's Yankees jersey when she took a spin as his dry cleaner on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' and then she misplaced her cat, Cleo. The feline eventually found its way home, inspiring Gershon's upcoming rock album, aptly titled 'In Search of Cleo,' but you definitely don't want to lend this girl your iPod. According to the press release, the record documents "the literal and metaphoric experience of the search, not just for Cleo, but for love." (photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com)

[MTV]

Executive Search

After seeing Rhys Darby's managerial skills on 'Flight of the Conchords,' director Peyton Reed asked Darby to audition for the role of Norman, Jim Carrey's boss at a loan company in the new film 'Yes Man.' Darby had all the right qualifications and secured the position. Explains Darby: "Norman is a real nerdy loser boss, similar to my character in 'Conchords' but even more nerdy and even less cool."

[New Zealand Herald]

British Evasion

David Chase was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike when he first heard 'Woke Up This Morning,' and knew he'd found his opening credits song for 'The Sopranos.' But tracking down the band responsible for the song, 'Alabama 3' — was a little trickier. "Initially they thought we must be from Alabama, then they thought we were four kids from San Francisco although the best theory was that we were three young black lads from the Bronx!" one of the band's founders Rob Spragg aka Larry Love told BBC Wales News. "Then of course he found out we were actually a Welshman and a Scotsman living in Brixton, London, pretending that we were from Alabama!"

In the ten years since that fateful day, the band has grown to nine members. "It is like country and western meets techno with American accents by a Welshman and a Scotsman. It looks ridiculous on paper but it kind of works over a course of time."

[BBC Wales News]

Emmanuelle Chriqui at the premiere of 'The Heartbreak Kid' in Los Angeles. (photo: Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com)

Is Talk Really Cheap?

Luke Kirby may take to the therapist's couch as Hugo in 'Tell Me You Love Me,' but in real life, he's more of a do-it-yourselfer. "I'd prefer to just get a book at the library about it," Kirby told HBO.com in an exclusive interview. While admitting he's seen the talking cure do some folks a lot of good, he questions: at what cost? "I read the other day that some Buddhist said that anger is very expensive. That's how he commented on therapy. So I'm really on the fence about it." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

[Read the full interview on HBO.com]

Going Negative

We knew the race for the Republican presidential nomination was tight, but it looks like it could be a real bloodbath. Rudy Giuliani has already received the blessing of Robert Duvall, the consigliere from 'The Godfather.' And now John McCain has been spotted dining mano a mano with James Gandolfini, capo of the 'Sopranos.' When pressed for where the relationship was going McCain joked: "Next step? Maybe have some of my opponents' legs broken?....Ahhh, accidents happen ..." (photo: Albert L. Ortega/WireImage.com)

[AP]

Suffering for His Art

Jeff Garlin wants you to laugh at him, not with him. "Most comedy today is about bravado," he says. "I love low-status. I love when you're humiliated and the audience feels for you. In my standup, the only one who should ever look stupid is me." Apparently not a bad philosophy, considering the success of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and his new film, 'I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.' But don't worry — his accelerating career won't whisk him away from HBO. Or, as he puts it, "I'm not going to be the jerk that stops 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'" (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

[CNN.com]