Kristin Davis attends the BOSS Black Spring 2008 fashion show in New York City. (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com)

Bedroom Community

On 'Tell Me You Love Me,' Adam Scott (Palek) spends all his time in the bedroom trying to get his wife (Sonya Walger) pregnant. But on the film Scott is currently shooting, 'Step Brothers,' the bedroom dynamics are a little different. "Will [Farrell] and John C. Reilly play guys around 40 who each live with their respective single parents. And when their parents end up getting married, they're suddenly step-brothers who have to share a room in the house," explains Scott. "I'm playing Will's younger, über-successful brother, a real a-hole, always showing off my money, my family — making him feel terrible." (photo: John Shearer/WireImage.com)

[National Ledger]

Danson Lessons

Playing the Larry Davidized version of himself on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' may be just the acting preparation Ted Danson needed to play the ruthless Arthur Frobisher on the FX show 'Damages.' When the show's producers suggested he study with acting coach Harold Guskin, Danson felt the blow. "My ego went: 'Oh, my God! They think I need help,"' says Danson, who ended up enjoying his work with the coach. "It's good for an actor to be reminded that who you are is good enough. That you don't have to put on layers of something else to feel like you're capable of playing a part. That I have enough arrogance and entitlement in me, Ted, to play Arthur Frobisher." (photo: Todd Williamson/FilmMagic.com)

[The Age]

Marisa Tomei and Gina Gershon attend the Project A.L.S. 10th anniversary celebration in New York City. (photo: Jemal Countess/WireImage.com)

Out for the Gusto

'The Wire' is a wrap, but it didn't take Method Man long to replace his East Baltimore crew. Fifteen years after the Wu-Tang Clan's first record became the blueprint for an era, Meth and company have re-formed like Voltron to release 'The 8 Diagrams' in December. The album features hip-hop's first officially-authorized Beatles sample, along with some posthumous material from Wu-Tang favorite Ol' Dirty Bastard. (photo: Bennett Raglin/WireImage.com)

[IGN Music]

Slipping Into Something More Comfortable

If you weren't watching Patricia Clarkson on HBO or at the local cineplex, you might have been able to catch her trying to talk you into a pair of too-tight stilettos. "Making movies is a great job," the actress told the audience at a panel at last weekend's Woodstock Film Festival. "If I didn't have it, I'd be in some mall asking some woman 'You think you can you get into an 81/2? We're closing soon.'" Clarkson's success has finally caught up to her though. The actress, who's never been asked to do a nude scene, just had to strip for Sir Ben Kingsley in the new film 'Elegy.' Said Clarkson: "I'm 47. Now you want me to be naked?" (photo: Bennett Raglin/WireImage.com)

[Record Online]

Shutter Bug

Jim Norton may have hit the big time with his one-hour comedy special debut on HBO last weekend ('Monster Rain'), but that doesn't stop him from being an avid autograph and photo hound. "I don't know if any celebrities really got annoyed at me because there's something really creepy about my approach. I blink rapidly and I think they're just happy that I'm not biting their face, like they're just happy that I'm not stalking them or pulling a gun. They're like, 'alright we'll just take the picture and you can get away from us.'" (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[University of Buffalo Spectrum]

Josh Hartnett and Melissa George at the premiere party for '30 Days Of Night' in Los Angeles. (photo: Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com)

Conversation Stopper

'Tell Me You Love Me' is getting people talking — but not just around the water cooler. "[One] couple actually... started therapy because of the show," series creator Cynthia Mort told the New York Daily News. But sometimes the show's real-life look at relationships shuts people up. "When I watched it with my partner, it made me squirm," a male viewer said, who relates to Katie and Dave's sexless marriage. "I saw their relationship problems and started to think maybe we should be talking about our problems. But that makes me not want to talk about them even more ... which creates more problems."

[BuddyTV]

Anyone for Tennison?

Calamity Jane may have been a real c**t, according to Al Swearengen, but Robin Weigert made her lovable to most 'Deadwoods' fans. The actress struggled to find a way in to the tough police lieutenant she plays in the new NBC series 'Life,' but finally found inspiration. "I have trouble engaging someone without some element of supplication," Weigert said. "I'm always hoping I will be liked, and she is not this way at all. I am finding how to sit comfortably in that authority and not be a martinet, finding a way to own it. Who I have looked to as a wonderful example is the Helen Mirren character in 'Prime Suspect.' [Jane Tennison] ... I at least look at her, and that feels right — the sense of quiet command. I know if I can find that, the center of gravity in myself, it could have interesting results." (photo: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com)

[Zap2it.com]

Time Well Spent

The WWII epic 'Band of Brothers' clocked in at nearly 12 hours in length, but anyone who hung in with Easy Company long enough to watch them take the Eagle's Nest at the end of the war was left wanting more. And now they have it.

A new book, 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends,' written by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron, tells the two soldiers' stories from the home front to Germany and back again. The veterans have had plenty of beer left on their doorsteps by fans since the miniseries aired on HBO, but their book presents their fight sans historical varnish. "Once you start lying and trying to change things, it's no good," Guarnere says. "You tell the truth, and that's it."

[AP via NBC news]

Amy Ryan and Ethan Hawke at the 45th New York Film Festival Premiere for 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com)

Worn Jokes

Flight of the Conchords may be "the best New Zealand comedy on American TV at the moment" according to Jemaine Clement, but how will it play in the homeland? The show is airing down under, and the comedy duo is anxious to see how it's received. They're confident in their deadpan, but will the robot costumes fly? "I think New Zealanders have a distinctive sense of humour that's very dry and underplayed, but with really imaginative, kinda surreal elements to it as well. We wanted the show to be mostly like that, but then we also added in some more straight-ahead jokes and ridiculous costumes for the Americans." (photo: Todd Williamson/WireImage.com)

[Stuff]

Getting Kinky

Kinky Friedman may not have made it to the Texas Governor's mansion, but he's been invited to the party on '12 Miles of Bad Road,' HBO's new series starring Lily Tomlin as matriarch of an über-wealthy Dallas clan. His band, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys will be playing a gig at a bachelor's party during one episode. "We were in Dallas when we got the news," Kinky says. "So we flew out to LA to pretend we were in Dallas." He learned the rigors of Hollywood firsthand: "We spent 12 hours — I'm not kidding, 12 hours — on the set performing 'Proud to Be an a**hole from El Paso.' " (photo: Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic.com)

[Dallas Morning News]

A Tale of Two Cities?

The Big Easy may be in store for a tough treatment. 'The Wire' creator David Simon, after wrapping production on the final chapter of his "novel for television," has already turned his gritty eye on New Orleans and hopes to launch a new HBO project about musicians rebuilding their lives in the beleaguered city. Why the change in locale? "At the Macy's parade, when they show New York, they gotta get the dancers from Broadway shows out in the streets doing a kick line," he told The New Yorker. "In New Orleans the musicians are already in the streets." (photo: Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic.com)

[The New Yorker]

Alan Wyse, Kim Cattrall and Alan Cumming at a Condé Nast Traveler party at Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Expect a heap of Trivial Pursuit cards to spill out of Sarah Jessica Parker's Gucci bag — she needs to bone up on her pop-culture minutiae if she wants to hang with her new director. 'Gilmore Girls' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is making her big-screen debut with the HBO Films project, 'The Late Bloomer's Revolution,' in which Parker's character helps her recently widowed father get back in the dating game. (photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com)

[Variety]

Fight Club II?

Mark Wahlberg can't wait to spar with Brad Pitt. Wahlberg who has been in training all year to play "Irish" Micky Ward in 'The Fighter,' will be facing off against Pitt, who is playing his older brother and trainer Dicky Eklund. "This is something I've always wanted to do," Wahlberg told Regis and Kelly on their morning show. "I want to look like [a boxing champion]. I always feel like boxing movies have never really captured the real thing." He and Pitt will be stepping into the ring in early 2008. (photo: Jim Spellman/WireImage.com)

[Lowell Sun]

One for the Grandkids

There will be no c**ksuckers in Ian McShane's new film. He is playing the good guy for a change in 'The Seeker: The Dark is Rising.' Describing his role as the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" part, McShane explained, "It was a fine role to do, very different for me, which is why I did it." But perhaps most importantly: "This was also was something my grandchildren could see, as opposed to a lot of my other work. They can't watch 'Deadwood' until they're a little older." (photo: Tony Barson/WireImage.com)

[Giant]