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The judges certainly dont! I tried to giveThe X Factorthe benefit of the doubt this season. But if the judges cant even remember these peoples names, why should viewers? Credit: Fox Update:Annies recap of the finals is live. I wanted to likeThe X Factormore. There was fun to be had within this crapfest, I just knew it! Above all, the show is just devoid of any real character. At this point its like an unintentional parody of a reality show with zero sense of humor about itself....

ASTRO:I think I was very involved with it. Me and L.A., we decided the song. L.A. watched me rehearse the performance. Credit: Fox He thought it was great. [X Factorchoreographer] Brian [Friedman] told me where to move at certain spots. My step-pops helped me a lot. Lewis Jacobs/NBC But I think I was very involved in the whole performance. I told them, you know, I dont want too much dancing going on....

You know what being at a live taping ofThe X Factoris like? Now, mind you, I havent been to too many boxing bouts in my time. (My reputation cant withstand too many of those, honestly.) Not a person was harmed even those battling it out on stage last night, thankfully. (The commercial breaks atThe X Factortapings are rather entertaining!) Last nights famous folks included formerX Factorcontestants The Stereo Hogzz and wait for it Mackenzie Phillips!...

It was tough to choose only four, he said. What would have been simple is if I could have had five. But Im not Simon. Credit: Ray Mickshaw/Fox I thought she was fantastic, Reid says about Amaro.) Reids also excited about Chris Rene. [Hes] the most popular contestant in the competition, said Reid. Hes somewhere between a singer and almost like a singing rapper. He really just has to find the right material and nail it....

1Billboard200 spot that a technicality robbed him of for much of this past summer. A busy pack of other new releases crowded into the shadow ofThis Is It.CreedcameFull Circleto No. The publics appetite forRod Stewartcovers albums remained unwhetted as his latest such set,Soulbook, bowed at No. 4 with 84,000.Trans-Siberian OrchestrasNight Castlechecked in at No. 5 with 83,000.StingsIf on a Winters Night…traveled to No. Jumping down to No. 11, 39,000 laid-back folks (Im guessing) picked upJack JohnsonsEn Concert....

you’re free to go home again sometimes with less drama than going to your actual home. And we didnt want to change the first names. So Shawn and I started emailing back and forth vaguely Jewish names, Tropper said. I have a friend I do that with, too, Fey interjected. Bateman joked that vaguely Jewish was also one of the titles we were thinking about. I underline everything I loved, Levy said....

Theres a lot ofbastardsout there. Thor: The Dark World, which opens today, could easily be subtitledLoki Strikes Back. TOM HIDDLESTONWell, that is the eternal question. There is this old phrase that the devil plays all the best tunes. There is a kind of freedom to being bad, an embracing of ones most rebellious instincts. The idea that essentially order and chaos exist inside every human being and mostly rightly we behave ourselves....

What happens when a massage therapist suddenly cant stand to touch her clients…or anyone? Thats at least one of the questions explored inTouchy Feely, writer-director Lynn Sheltons followup toYour Sisters SisterandHumpday. Check out the trailer after the jump. In December,Shelton spoke with EWabout the film and acknowledged thatTouchy Feelyis quite a different approach for her. It doesnt have this rollicky, bantering feel that my last couple films have had, she said....

This made for a particularly satisfying movie-going experience. There are a couple of possible explanations for why myToy Story 3theater contained an adult-to-child ratio of approximately 9-1. On one hand, I went to a 2-D showing. Credit: Disney/Pixar (Im against wearing those 3-D sunglasses unless a movie, such asAvatar, absolutely demands it.) But I think something else was also at play here. Of course, its not as if this transition happened overnight withToy Story 3....

WARNING: Stop reading if you have not watched the season premiere of True Blood. NELSAN ELLIS:No, no no. He was like, You know were not killing you, right? And I was like, I didnt know but thanks for telling me. What was your reaction? ELLIS:Thank you! I have a job for next season!Thatwas my reaction. Did he explain to you why he let Lafayette survive? ELLIS:Not really. He didnt really go into any detail as to why he decided to keep me not tomeanyway....

After the heaving sigh of relief that was last weeks season premiere ofTrue Blood(Lafayette lives! Last week, Sookie forgave Bill for turning Jessica into a vampire. Sookie asked Bill, Parts of your former self are still in there, right? I wouldnt be with you if they werent. ), and unknowingly striking up a rivalry with his bunkmate, the Lukeinator. And poor Tara is still under the impression that Maryann is helping her out just for funsies....

True Bloods wolf hunt has officially begun! He gets along well with Sookie. Theres even an attraction between the two.Verystrong recurring. True Bloodis also searching for a fortysomething African-American actor to playHOLLIS, a bouncer in a bar. Despite his scary appearance he resembles an NFL lineman hes a nice guy who knows Alcide well. Hes suspicious of Sookie and delivers some unexpected bad news to Alcide about his fiancee, Debbie Pelt....

Alcide is about to put a major kink inTrue Bloods polarizing Eric/Sookie/Bill triangle. (you’ve got the option to read Part 1 here.) Will your Alcide be different from the Alcide in the books? JOE MANGANIELLO:Alan Ball and I had a conversation about that at one of my auditions. I think its up in the air. I know that, at least initially, fans of the book will be pleased with my character....