Julia Roberts Will Call Meryl Streep 'Mom' and 7 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in today's Broadsheet: MTV loses two of its programming pioneers... George Clooney finds a leading man for his next directorial effort... Fox News under fire for firing... and more ahead.

· Oscars! We've got Oscars here! Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are in talks to star in the big screen adaptation of August: Osage County for writer/director John Wells and The Weinstein Company. Streep would play Violet, the drug-addicted matriarch of the Weston family, while Roberts would star as her oldest daughter, Barbara. They're reunited when Violet's husband goes missing and "a lot of family secrets get revealed" in the process. No word yet on who will play the other two daughters, but expect them to be Oscar winners. [Deadline]

· The people who brought you Laguna Beach, The Hills, Jersey Shore and TRL have gotten a new gig. MTV president of programming Tony DiSanto and his senior vice president of series development, Liz Gateley, are leaving the network together to form a production company for Ben Silverman's Electus. David Janollari will oversee things in the short term. [Deadline]

· George Clooney may have found his leading man for Farragut North. He's in talks with Ryan Gosling for the role of a young communications director who works for an up and coming presidential candidate. Beau Willimon, who wrote the source play, worked on the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004, so you can expect much lost idealism to occur. [Deadline]

· Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are under fire for terminating a female employee after "she complained about unequal pay and job conditions based on her gender and age." The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking unspecified damages. [HuffPo]

· In other legal news, a Brooklyn prosecutor resigned after her recent stint on The Apprentice. You're fired forced to quit! [NYP]

· Here's hoping he still loves them redheads. Matthew McConaughey will join Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black in Richard Linklater's dark comedy, Bernie. [THR]

· Members of Congress have begun spurring requests to appear on Colbert Report. Now how will we know when they're being stupid? [Politico]

· Did you think Mr. Schuester bought a Corvette by accident on Glee this week? Think again. [LAT/Company Town]