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Dear god. In the most flagrant disregard for the safety and well-being of former sitcom stars and R&B artists from the early 1990s since Celebrity Boxing, Fox has ordered a special called Stars In Danger: High Diving. Which is, yes, celebrity diving. And they acknowledge the danger, right there in the title! I can't tell if that's respectable or makes the whole thing even worse. The show, which will feature eight "celebrities" learning how to dive and then competing, is a one-off type of a thing, so I don't expect we'll see much training. It will mostly be, like, Dalton James hurling himself into a swimming pool from forty feet up in the air. Oh, yeah, they're doing the 10 meter. So basically everyone is going to die and then we'll all be put in jail and TV will be shut down forever and that will be that. It seems a fitting way to go. There are already series like this in Europe that have gone well (I guess you could say swimmingly) so there's a chance everyone will be fine, but this is America. We f-ck things up here. I sense a lot of death in the offing. Maybe they could at least have Tom Daley and Matthew Mitcham tagteam (uh...) host the show to, I dunno, cushion the blow. Anyway, which old TV star do you think will soon be floating face down in a swimming pool, dead as cranberries? [Deadline]
Bradley Cooper has agreed to star (alongside Emma Stone) in Cameron Crowe's next movie. Which, why god why, why would someone agree to do that? Has Cooper seen Cameron Crowe's movies recently? Like We Bought a Zoo or worst-movie-of-the-aughts Elizabethtown? Why would anyone agree to be in one of his movies? Well, actually, Bradley Cooper has a plan. See, this summer he did a production of The Elephant Man at the Williamstown Theatre Festival up in the Berkshires and he would like to do it as a limited Broadway run. But in order to do that he had to basically trade a favor with movie/theatre producer Scott Rudin. So, much like Gwyneth Paltrow did The Pallbearer in exchange for getting Shakespeare In Love, Cooper will do the sure-to-be raggedy Cameron Crowe movie and Rudin will then get The Elephant Man onto the White Way. So it works out for everyone. A little give, a little take. Bradley Cooper does awful Cameron Crowe movie, but then gets to do probably melodramatic Broadway limited run. Perfect. B.Coopz really wants to be taken seriously as an actor, guys. The Hangover III ought to help that. [Vulture]