Tyra Banks Gets Sued Because of a Show Devoted to Underage Sex Addicts, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

tyra_banks225.jpgAlso in this morning's edition of The Broadsheet: Pride, Prejudice and Zombies is the next movie you'll get tired of hearing about... GLAAD responds to Vince Vaughn... an Oscar contender causes fainting... and more ahead.

· In case you forgot that Tyra exists, here's your weekly reminder: Georgia mother Beverly McClendon is suing Tyra Banks for putting her 15-year-old daughter on the show without consent. McClendon's daughter appeared on an Oct. 2009 broadcast about underage sex addicts and the lawsuit alleges that she was picked up from her home, flown to New York and put up in a hotel all without Beverly's knowledge. The mother even went so far as to file a missing persons report with police. McClendon seeks $3 million in damages for exposing her daughter to "sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles." [HuffPo]

· Tired of reading about The Hobbit and Wolverine 2? Then does Hollywood have a movie for you! According to Deadline, Pride, Prejudice and Zombies is the next "next big thing" and directors are lining up now that David O. Russell has bailed to helm a video game adaptation. Natalie Portman was initially in talks to play lead Elizabeth Bennet, but now Scarlett Johansson is being mentioned with Bradley Cooper's name being tossed around for Mr. Darcy. Expect another 53 casting rumors to happen before the end of the month. [Deadline]

· It didn't take a genius to realize that Vince Vaughn's statement about the controversial gay joke in The Dilemma trailer would be met with more controversy, but here you go. GLAAD has responded as such: "Vince is right. Comedy does bring us together, unless one of us is the punchline. Then it pushes us apart." [PopEater]

· According to Deadline, two people recently passed out during a screening of Danny Boyle's 127 Hours. [Deadline]

· New York State gubernatorial candidate Carl Palladino has been using "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" from Network as a campaign rallying cry. Which other politicians have badly misinterpreted famous movie quotes for their campaign? The New Yorker offers an answer. Win one for the Gipper! [The New Yorker]

· Harvey Weinstein has hired Donna Gigliotti as The Weinstein Company's new president of production. Gigliotti won an Oscar as producer on Shakespeare in Love back in 1998. [NYT/Media Decoder]

· International posters for Black Swan have arrived. They're awesome. [indieWIRE]



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