Newswire || By: || July 8, 2009 05:00 PM EST

'Uh, Just Wanted to See If You Were Listening, Meredith!'

· This Today Show report that Betty White was buried at Forest Lawn surely must have come as some surprise to, well, Betty White.

· Hey, it's the red-band trailer for Funny People! And it's pretty much the same stuff as the green-band trailer, but with an Adam Sandler blowjob joke and less footage about dying.

· It's been rumored that Val Kilmer wants to run for governor of New Mexico, but first, he'll costar in the New Mexico-shot MacGruber.

· Let's total the indie cred points: Ryan Gosling (+5) spoke to Pitchfork (+10) about the album he'll be releasing (even points) with his band, Dead Man's Bones (+10 for naming inscrutability) featuring the Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir on accompaniment (+50).

· Jennifer Aniston on Jason Bateman's wild, druggy past: "Even though he was pretty wild in those days, something about those dimples and that sweet face made you go, 'Oh, it's okay that you just drove up the street backwards in a Range Rover with the door wide open.' I don't know what was happening there."

· Cameron Diaz is getting Hornet-y for the new, slim Seth Rogen. Michel Gondry will supervise.

· Gary Ross has come aboard to rewrite Spider-Man 4, after turns by James Vanderbilt and David Lindsay-Abaire. It's always good when a big movie has so many different writers!

Comments

Furious D says:

July 8, 2009 at 5:16 pm

1. The story isn't false, Betty White just dug herself out. Man, I was just trying to help, she pre-paid for the plot, and wasn't using it... well, let's just say that she's way tougher than she looks.
2. Perhaps a dying blowjob joke will be the perfect capper for the film.
3. Nothing like a box-office bomb to segue into politics.
4. Wait a minute, is this about a game of D & D?
5. I guess that magazine headline was wrong.
6. That should kill the film.
7. Nothing like a script by committee to bring a sense of artistic unity to a film.
Bourgeois Nerd says:

July 9, 2009 at 8:22 am

DON'T JOKE ABOUT BETTY WHITE DYING! It's too soon after we lost Bea Arthur for this Gay to take. Rue and Betty will live forever! Do you hear me, Death: forever!