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Reese Witherspoon's holiday comedy 'Four Christmases' is currently in theaters and it looks like the actress will soon be starring in another comedic role! The Academy Award winning actress has been cast in an untitled comedy from 'Spanglish' director, James L. Brooks, Variety reports. The film will have at least three major characters like Brooks' other movies 'Broadcast News' and 'Terms of Endearment,' the trade paper says.

AP - Another book publisher is cutting jobs: Macmillan, where authors include Thomas Friedman, Rick Atkinson and Janet Evanovich, is eliminating 64 positions, just under 4 percent of its work force.

A jury has ruled in favor of the organization that hands out the Academy Awards in a dispute over whether statuettes won by one of its founding members can be sold.

Ratings for Survivor Gabon's finale last night were up over last spring's finale, and helped make the show the 8th most-popular television show in the country for 2008, and the third-most popular reality series. On Nielsen's list of the top 10 highest-rated shows of 2008, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars are again the two most-popular series in the country, and because they air twice a week and Nielsen ranks the broadcasts separately, they take up the four top spots, meaning only eight shows are in the top 10. Survivor Gabon ranked as the seventh-most DVRed show, gaining 18 percent more viewers every week when DVR watchers were factored in, making it the most DVRed reality show.Sunday night, Bob's win over Susie was watched by an average of 13.76 million viewers from 8:30 to 10:30, according to CBS. The start was delayed by football, and because CBS sucks and insists upon airing a full four-hour prime-time schedule on Sundays despite nearly always being delayed by the games

Ratings for Survivor Gabon's finale last night were up over last spring's finale, and helped make the show the 8th most-popular television show in the country for 2008, and the third-most popular reality series. On Nielsen's list of the top 10 highest-rated shows of 2008, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars are again the two most-popular series in the country, and because they air twice a week and Nielsen ranks the broadcasts separately, they take up the four top spots, meaning only eight shows are in the top 10. Survivor Gabon ranked as the seventh-most DVRed show, gaining 18 percent more viewers every week when DVR watchers were factored in, making it the most DVRed reality show.Sunday night, Bob's win over Susie was watched by an average of 13.76 million viewers from 8:30 to 10:30, according to CBS. The start was delayed by football, and because CBS sucks and insists upon airing a full four-hour prime-time schedule on Sundays despite nearly always being delayed by the games

"Columbo" star Peter Falk's daughter has filed court documents saying the award-winning actor suffers from Alzheimer's disease and dementia and she should manage his affairs....

Four years after polarizing Americans with its take on racial bigotry and stereotypes, Oscar-winning movie "Crash" is enjoying a new life as a television series that has equally divided critics....

We have an array of prizes to give away from Patrick Swayze's new A&E series.

Contenders: Picture: Filmmaker struggles with the price of vengeance -- In 1993, coming off 'Unforgiven's' Oscar win, Clint Eastwood made a little movie called 'A Perfect World' in which he played a lawman who dreams of apprehending a kidnapper without firing a single shot -- a far cry from the director's trigger-happy Dirty Harry days.

Contenders: Picture: Filmmaker struggles with the price of vengeance -- In 1993, coming off 'Unforgiven's' Oscar win, Clint Eastwood made a little movie called 'A Perfect World' in which he played a lawman who dreams of apprehending a kidnapper without firing a single shot -- a far cry from the director's trigger-happy Dirty Harry days.