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• Disney Animation is closing the book on fairy tales
• Baby talk on sitcoms: good or bad?
• 'Inferno' director: Lindsay Lohan didn't quit -- we fired her
• American Music Awards producer dishes on Sunday's show
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get touchy-feely
• Johnny Knoxville toasts his 'Wild and Wonderful Whites'
• My Chemical Romance turns the page with 'Danger Days'
• Substance mailed to 'Dancing With the Stars' set was talcum powder
• Cartoonist Maira Kalman: 'I'm doing a few things that are pretty wonderful'
• Lena Dunham, the non-slacker

Disney Animation is closing the book on fairy tales Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST 'Tangled' will be the last such movie it makes for the foreseeable future. The studio is aiming for wider appeal. Once upon a time, there was a studio in Burbank that spun classic fairy tales into silver-screen gold.

Baby talk on sitcoms: good or bad? Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST 'How I Met Your Mother' is considering adding a baby to the mix — a sitcom plot ploy almost as old as TV itself. Some feel it helps shows, others call it a major 'jumping the shark' moment. There's a very visible baby bump on the set of "How I Met Your Mother," but no one's paying it much attention. In a flashback scene for an upcoming episode, the ever-present narrator's memory is lapsing and he can't recall whether Lily ( Alyson Hannigan) was pregnant during the moment he's recounting. As Lily spars with Barney ( Neil Patrick Harris), her burgeoning belly remains unmentioned, serving simply as a resting spot for a plate of Chinese food.

'Inferno' director: Lindsay Lohan didn't quit -- we fired her Posted: 20 Nov 2010 07:02 PM PST Reached by telephone Saturday, Wilder confirmed that he and the producers of "Inferno" had come to the decision to recast the film about the late porn star.

American Music Awards producer dishes on Sunday's show Posted: 20 Nov 2010 08:19 PM PST The three-hour show is to feature 18 music performances -- and, of course, a few awards tossed in to make it official.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get touchy-feely Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST They wanted their young couple in 'Love and Other Drugs' to be authentic, so they steamed up the camera. 'We wanted to push it,' Gyllenhaal says. Anne Hathaway vividly recalls the first time she made out with Jake Gyllenhaal: It was on the set of 2005's "Brokeback Mountain," in which the actress played the neglected wife to Gyllenhaal's smitten cowboy, and they were filming a steamy tryst in the back seat of a car.

Johnny Knoxville toasts his 'Wild and Wonderful Whites' Posted: 20 Nov 2010 06:42 PM PST Knoxville would know a good hoedown when he saw it, so naturally the "Jackass" host-turned-actor would be an appropriate host for an authentic backyard barbecue.

My Chemical Romance turns the page with 'Danger Days' Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST The band emerges from a dark period (including a scrapped record) with a danceable album inspired by frontman Gerard Way's comic-book ideas. High in his ridgeline home, sitting on a porch that feels like a ledge, Gerard Way peered through cigarette smoke and the late-afternoon Pasadena haze as he searched his memory for the moment when his band, My Chemical Romance, shed its skin. "I think," he said with a world-weary chuckle, "the liberating moment is when we decided that we were allowed to make a dance record."

Substance mailed to 'Dancing With the Stars' set was talcum powder Posted: 20 Nov 2010 10:24 AM PST The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday continued to investigate who sent a white powdery substance to the set of "Dancing With the Stars," causing the studio to be evacauted Friday.

Cartoonist Maira Kalman: 'I'm doing a few things that are pretty wonderful' Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST A survey of work by the New Yorker cartoonist is being held at the Skirball Cultural Center. The first major museum survey of the 30-year career of New Yorker cartoonist Maira Kalman opened last week at the Skirball Cultural Center. "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (Of a Crazy World)," which runs through Feb. 13, includes images she created for children's books, newspapers and magazines as well as examples of her lesser-known embroidery, performance, textiles photography and design. The mother of two lives in Greenwich Village.

Lena Dunham, the non-slacker Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST Indie Focus: After her "Tiny Furniture" won the South by Southwest festival's narrative competition, the director-actress was courted by Hollywood proper. Lena Dunham gets it. She understands completely why people might be annoyed not only by her film "Tiny Furniture" but also by the narrative of wunderkind success that has followed in its wake.

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