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By now you've probably heard the reports that Hugh Jackman has turned down an offer to repeat as next year's Academy Awards host .

To: Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, producers of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards From: A Concerned Viewer So you're going to ask David Letterman to host, right? I mean, this is when everyone congratulates you on being chosen to produce the Oscars, the trickiest job in Hollywood, and then starts offering you suggestions on how to perk up those ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Actress, Emmy-nominated television personality and independent filmmaker Ricki Lake will be crowned "Queen of the Carnaval" at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval set for Saturday, October 31, 2009 between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheny Drive and La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood.

We're continuing to hunt for the best way to get you interesting tidbits that don't merit an entire post of their own, and I am always in favor of a coffee theme, so let's consider this the semi-caffeinated morning report.

Film producer Bill Mechanic and director Adam Shankman have been hired by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the producers for the 2010 Academy Awards show next March.

Actor Tobey Maguire and filmmaker Adam Shankman are teaming up to adapt Broadway musical Rock Of Ages for the big screen.

It's going to be awhile before John Travolta slips into a housecoat again. Hairspray director Adam Shankman tells me the sequel to his 2007 musical box office hit is far from being a done deal... "We are looking for a writer right now," he said.

The Atlantic Lyric Theatre has announced their 2009-2010 season. The productions will include RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA, THE ALL NIGHT STRUT!, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, A FUNNY THING...FORUM, and HAIRSPRAY.

"Hairspray" director Adam Shankman and former 20th Century Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic have been chosen to produce the next Academy Awards show.

Adam Shankman, who directed the movie musical version of John Waters' "Hairspray," is returning to the genre with "Rock of Ages," a rock-themed 80s love story set to the tunes of Journey, Twisted Sister, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, and Pat Benatar, among others.

Courtesy David James/New Line Productions. John Travolta stars as "Edna Turnblad" and Nicole Blonsky stars as "Tracy Turnblad" in New Line Cinema's HAIRSPRAY.

Share on Facebook Lionsgate recently released this new movie trailer for the upcoming film "From Paris With Love" by director Pierre Morel and starring John Travolta , Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Amber Rose Revah.

Lest we forget -- and how could we? -- he once convinced an overweight transvestite actor named Divine to devour something freshly deposited on the pavement by a dog.

Out now are the newest and best batch of DVDs from Ghost House Underground : The Children , Offspring , >The Thaw and Seventh Moon .

1 show in Vancouver, after which the Grammy winner will work her way east. The month-long club tour will stop by 18 cities through the Nov.

Funny business - in comedy , business, politics, wine and more - is the theme for the 2009 Virginia Film Festival, Nov.

John Waters has pushed every boundary and taken bad taste as far as you can take it.

Edna Turnblad and her daughter, Tracy , get spruced up at Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway in the musical "Hairspray" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.

Old-timers looking back on their teen years during the '60s may find themselves growing sentimental about a more innocent time when quirky trendsetting hairstyles , sock hops, rock n' roll music and going steady preoccupied everyday life.

The Simpsons family has emerged as surprising villains -- and Bruce Willis as a surprising hero -- in a survey by an American anti-smoking group.

Too bad Lincolnshire's Marriott Theatre operates on a tight subscription calendar, because were it not tied to a slate of continually changing shows, Marc Robin's altogether phenomenal, boldly sung, zestily comic, dance-till-you-drop production of "Hairspray" could probably run on its in-the-round stage for a couple of years.

Oscar-winning film-maker Sam Mendes is developing a stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, according to reports.

Starting today, and leading up to the Top 20, we'll be writing these little pieces on the personalities that form a huge chunk of So You Think You Can Dance: the judges, the choreographers, and of course, the host.