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As hell do throughout the season, showrunner Graham Yost takes us inside the writers room. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you decide that Shelby (Jim Beaver) would be Drew Thompson? GRAHAM YOST:We didnt know until we were finishing up breaking episode 405. Credit: Prashant Gupta/FX We had played with various other possibilities. Initially, we were thinking Drew would be a Clover Hill person. And then we thought, Eh, we dont really know them....

This Tuesday, FX airs the eighth episode of Season 1 (10 p.m. Boyd survived and is experiencing a religious reawakening in prison. He says he wants to save Raylans soul, but odds are he also wants to screw with it. Shes been warned to leave Kentucky, but she wont go. Credit: Prashant Gupta/ FX Watch the promo for this weeks episode. Raylan hates his criminal father, Arlo (Raymond J. Barry)....

As hes done throughout the season, showrunner Graham Yost takes us inside the writers room. (If you want to jump right to season 6 talk,click here.) How early on did you decide that season 5 would end with Ava between Raylan and Boyd? Credit: Prashant Gupta/FX GRAHAM YOST:We hit on that fairly early in the break of this season. Shes done everything she can. We introduced the notion in the previous episode of Raylan understanding how bad her situation is....

Goggins, however, was too good for the show to let go. Then comes Boyds father. So the boys and their daddies, it all gets rather loaded, Olyphant says. Credit: Oylphant: FX, Goggins: Robert Zukerman / FX The second half of the [13-episode] season inevitably becomes much more serialized than the first half. The first half youre just kinda letting these things percolate and come up. But around episode six or seven, thats when you really feel like were cookin with gas....

They dont have a script or story yet, but thats where I come in. Ive got the plot all worked out. Daniel-san says Well, oooookay. No winners, no losers, just fine athleticism. But of course scowling bastard Johnny Lawrence, whos now living in a cardboard box on Hollywood Blvd. And also the world. Meanwhile, Mr. Han runs after Johnny and gives him the Jackie Chan beat-down of of lifetime. As payment for his misdeeds, Johnny must clean the toilets at the Academy with a toothbrush....

According toGolf Digest, Justin Timberlake ranks No. 15 among famous musician golfers. (Incidentally, I rank No. 23,781 among journalists who occasionally cover famous musician golfers.) Chimpanzees like human breasts. The only secular music she was allowed to listen to growing up was theSister Act 2soundtrack. She was blond, and sang on a Christian channel. At 15, she put out a Christian-Gospel album that tanked. Capitol didnt want to include I Kissed a Girl on her album....

While watchingKick Ass 2, what captivated me most was Hit-Girls arc. SPOILER ALERT!The following contains spoilers fromKick-Ass 2. She has always accepted herself as Hit-Girl the crime-fighting, ass-whooping machine. Credit: Daniel Smith Unfortunately, its easy to miss this point amongst the rest of the limp plot. I wish I could say that the other female characters also rose above the banality of the film. (To be fair Mother Russia was enjoyably terrifying, even in her decidedly absurd bikini....

Many great labyrinths exist in pop culture. And thats about it. (Sort of.) Credit: Tandem Productions If you watched Thursdays premiere, you know that it starts off slow. If you havent watched Thursdays premiere, heres a warning that it starts off slow. In a word, its a letdown. Guilhelms not like that, Alais replies sweetly. Because he was walking in the middle of a street. This might be the climax of the entire episode and its only about a half-hour in....

Last weekends winner,Burn After Reading(No. 2), held strong with $11.3 mil on a mere 41 percent decline. The Coen Brothers-Brad Pitt farce has banked a nice $36.4 mil in 10 days. And, well, the really good news basically ended there. TheDane CookKate Hudsonrom-com,My Best Friends Girl(No. 3), failed to live up to low expectations, grossing just $8.3 mil. Even more heartbreaking: The movie got a Dear John letter (i.e. a B- CinemaScore grade) from an audience that was two-thirds women....

So, this weekend, four more big movies are coming out, andagainthey all look a bit weak. Ghead, see what I have to say. THE (LIKELY) TOP FIVE Lakeview TerraceSony/Screen Gems PG-13 2,464 theaters NEWWhy isSamuel L. Jacksonso cool? Thatll be interesting to see, since Jackson doesnt play really bad guys very often. Well, and many moviegoers, too. Cooks somewhat similarGood Luck Chuckdebuted to $13.7 milon this weekend last year.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you decide to do this? Nothing is more simultaneously exhilarating and fear-inducing than hearing you have 10 seconds in the Super Bowl. We were banging heads together. How do we come close to topping the last one? Then Dave got this idea. I have to give Les credit … he got it immediately. She laughed for a good minute and said Jay would want to call....

Lu took the time to talk to EW about writing her gripping debutand about being an Asian-American author. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your road to publication like? MARIE LU:It was a long journey. I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old. That was when I realized that I can actually pursue something like this, and I started writing seriously. I had one agent in college I parted ways with....

Before every great battle there is a rallying of the troops, a rousing speech. For Tveit, that made his first movie musical much closer to his experiences onstage. The fact that I got to do [Red and Black and Do You Hear the People Sing?] before my voice had to go through all that screaming everyday was a real gift. It remains to be seen whether HoopersLes Miserableswill influence how future musicals are shot Tveit hopes it will....