Pregnant actress Jessica Alba has some words of wisdom for young girls who are in a relationship.

In a recent interview for CosmoGIRL magazine, which also features the actress on the cover page,…

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If you’ve read any of the 200 books written about The Brady Bunch or seen any of the TV movies or “behind the scenes” exposes, you know that Robert Reed wasn’t a big fan of the show’s scripts. In fact, he had battles with the producers on the show many times and even refused to be in a couple of episodes because of the plot and/or his arguments with the people in charge of the show.

And it wasn’t just verbal arguments. Reed actually took the time to send memos to the producers explaining why a certain plot point/line/scene didn’t make sense. Reed was a veteran TV (The Defenders) and stage actor and often referred to Shakespeare in his memos. This site has one of the memos, and after the jump is the full text of the memo (it’s about the classic episode where Greg’s hair turns green because of some shampoo Bobby sold him).

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Well, Sacha Baron Cohen has already made sure that he won’t be haunted by Borat jokes for the rest of his life, so it was only a matter of time before he started to branch out. First was his foray into musicals, and now it’s time for something just a little more ’serious’. Once again Cohen has gotten lucky and he’s caught the eye of another great director. The Times Online has reported that Cohen signed to play 60’s counter-culture icon Abbie Hoffman for Steven Spielberg. Cohen is the perfect choice to play the self-described “Jewish Road Warrior, communo-anarchist”. They both seemed to appreciate a good prank, and hey — the two even look alike.

The film will be called The Trial of the Chicago Seven and was written by Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War) with presumably Spielberg directing. The story will center on the infamous trial of seven men for riots at the 1968 Democratic convention. Hoffman was an activist and author who, along with Bobby Seale and Jerry Rubin, were put on trial for conspiracy and inciting to riot. He was eventually cleared of the charges and was still a celebrity at the time of his death in 1989.

According to the Times, Cohen is set to receive five million dollars for the role that he had to be “talked into” by Spielberg. It was probably wise for Cohen to say yes, since apparently some have lived to regret turning down the directing legend. Cohen already has Brüno lined up as his next film. It will be another ‘character’ comedy; about a gay, German fashion correspondent. As for Spielberg, he has already started wrapping up work on Indy 4 and there is still the Lincoln biopic with Liam Neeson. Plus, he has already lined up the sci-fi film, Interstellar. So it could be some time before The Trial of the Chicago Seven makes it’s way to production. If you can’t wait to get your fix of civil disobedience though, you can always check out the animated documentary Chicago 10 when it opens in March 2008.

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Talk about a casting scoop. The nice people over at UGO.com are reporting with all confidence that Tyler Perry — yes, you heard me — has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. According to the site, Perry will play the head of Starfleet Academy who acts in a sort of prosecutorial role in a courtroom scenario when a young Kirk cheats on a test and must be punished. This is apparently a well-known event in Trek lore, and UGO gives the whole breakdown of what happens. It seems that Spock finds out that Kirk cheated and turns him in and then … that’s about where the scoop stops. But forget all that — Tyler Perry?! I’ll admit that I’ve been lucky enough to avoid all of his movies, but I live in the same country as you do so I know who he is, and this seems like casting that’s almost intended to be jarring. And lucrative … everyone knows what an insane moneymaker Perry is, and this move is obviously designed as a test to see if that money tree can be planted in foreign soil.

I imagine that Paramount will create an entire secondary marketing channel that caters specifically to Perry’s devoted church crowd. It will go something like this: “Come and see the latest Tyler Perry movie, in which he delivers some down home Southern schoolin’ to a test-cheating white boy and shows him that the only place he needs to ‘boldly go’ is straight to church.” Will the teaser trailer show a guy in drag chasing a pointy-eared guy with a rolling pin around the deck of a ship? Probably not, but this casting is so out there that, combined with how incongruous the other casting choices have been so far, I’m now almost excited to see this film.

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It was already pretty well known that Arnold Schwarzenegger would not be appearing in the next installment of the Terminator series, unless the filmmakers managed to get him to pop up in some silly cameo. Now, Empire Magazine has gotten Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producer Moritz Borman to talk about exactly how, if at all, Schwarzenegger will figure into the new trilogy of films. “It’s convenient that he [The Arnold Terminator] hasn’t been built at this point of the story, as Arnold has more important things to do right now, but that doesn’t mean he might not re-appear later in the trilogy,” Borman says. He also claims that Schwarzenegger has been briefed about this project, stating that “He knows the material and is very supportive of what we’re doing. There might even be hints of his character in this one.”

That makes sense to me, but it does create some issues that will have to be solved in the future — if Schwarzenegger suddenly becomes re-involved with the series five or six years from now, he’ll be well into his 60s and won’t look anything like his muscular self, so how will he factor in? Will he play some old Austrian scientist who creates the T800 line of Terminators and models them after his younger self? And how will the movies show us a T800 if that means showing us young Arnold? Actually, I think this wouldn’t be a problem — have you seen Terminator lately? The T800s in the future segments of that movie barely look like Arnold anyway. They look like Michael Myers, if anything, with big latex faces. Like Michael Biehn says, they were easy to spot as non-human.

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The British Times has gotten word that Bond 22 will be filming a scene next week at the Barbican, a performing arts center in the north of London. The center is typically used to host music concerts, art exhibitions and theater productions, and according to the paper the “a sign has gone up giving warning that next week it will be the venue for the filming of a scene from the next James Bond film, currently working title Bond 22, which will again star Daniel Craig. Relax, ladies, Craig won’t be there as far as I know, but in the Sculpture Court … they will film a man talking on a mobile phone, the sign says. We’ll have to wait for the release of the film, set for November, to see why it was necessary to go to the Barbican to film someone talking on their mobile phone.” And that’s it. At first blush, this sounds to me a lot like the Miami Body Worlds scene in Casino Royale, doesn’t it?

Meanwhile, a source who would know tells me that Eon Productions has yet to release any information whatsoever on Bond casting to Sony, and that includes a thumbs up or down on Gemma Arterton having a role in the film. In other words, they are trying their level best to keep all of this information secret for the time being. Still, I bet that whoever the actress is, she’ll eventually be spotted lunching or walking down the street with Barbara Broccoli or Michael Wilson and the game will be up. The last time a major hiring decision was made — Marc Forster — the press knew about it before the release could be put out, because the press knew that Daniel Craig was incongruously walking down the street with Broccoli in L.A, obviously to talk business.

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Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and sister Monica can be seen getting a little naughty in their brother Eduardo’s latest music video, Cosas Que Contar.

In the video, the sisters, who play sexy…

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With White Jazz seemingly shelved for the time being, Smokin’ Joe Carnahan is in a fighting mood and not about to let anybody knock his Pablo Escobar biopic off its perch. And what exactly does he think of the Oliver Stone-produced Pablo biopic that’s to be directed by Antoine Fuqua? The one that will focus on Pablo’s relationship with his brother and start shooting in early 08′? Um, not much. On his blog, Carnahan takes that subject head on, stating that the movie is “getting turned down by a lot of folks … memo to aspiring screenwriters, if you want to know how not to write a screenplay, pick up that piece of shit and use it as reverse tutelage.” Ouch. But he’s not done yet. “It not only does a disservice to the craft of writing, it mocks one of the greatest figures in Latin American history with a non-existent, wholly fictionalized Butch and Sundance angle involving Pablo and his brother Roberto. It’s laughably lame.”

Nope, he’s still not done. “Good luck chumps. And it doesn’t matter if you get out of the gate six months earlier than me. I will have an announcement after the new year that will absolutely break your hearts and kill whatever middling credibility you have … and you deserve that heartbreak, trying to push a shitty, insultingly bad Pablo pic into production against mine and being nasty and conniving and devious about it.” He closes his rant with a “war is war” warning, but isn’t very specific about what provoked all this ire. Does anyone have any more info on this brewing Pablo biopic war?

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It took me years to get that horrible Natalie Imbruglia pop song out of my head, and now the singer/actress might be about to return to the spotlight. According to The Herald Sun, the Aussie-born actress was recently in Sydney to film a “secret screen test” for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is gearing up production as we speak. No further information was available on exactly what kind of part Imbruglia was testing for, but one can only assume the 32 year-old beauty was up for the female lead. Imbruglia has recently re-focused her career on acting and back in October we noted that she was playing the lead in the Australian drama Elise, about a missing child. She also appeared in a 2003 action comedy called Johnny English, which was unseen by me but was apparently not very good.

Earlier rumors had Maggie Q latching onto a lead female role in X4, but nothing has been confirmed yet and there’s always a possibility that there could be a female villain in the mix. Liev Schreiber is also supposedly circling the role of young Stryker, but we recently passed on the news that Brian Cox is also putting X4 on the resume he’s currently sending around, so that adds to the confusion. One of our commenters recently pointed out, however, that the film may be going in the direction of acknowledging that Wolverine is a very old character, which would necessitate the young and old Strykers both being in the film. Makes sense, right?

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Here’s what’s happening on other blogs via the interweb.

• The WGA plans to picket all of the other shows when Letterman and Ferguson return on January 2.
• Speaking of the strike, Spike Feresten returns on January 12.
• CNN’s Bill Schneider and his funky hats.
• Jamie Lynn Spears got $1 million for selling her baby news to OK mag.
• Best Week Ever picks the best daytime TV moments of 2007.
• I Love Lucy … in color!
• Buck Rogers meets Duck Dodgers.

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