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Jason Momoa's beer-glass bully is facing a half-empty future.

Dominic Bando, 21, who allegedly argued with the Stargate: Atlantis actor and hit him in the face with a pint glass, was charged today with assault with a deadly weapon, the Los Angles District Attorney's Office confirms to E! News.

The intergalactic actor required reconstructive surgery and 140 stitches when his face was shattered during the Nov. 15 incident.

Bando is free on $30,000 bail, and his arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 10. If convicted, he faces seven years in the pokey thanks to a March conviction for carrying a loaded firearm.

For the nongeek crowd, Momoa also performed on several shirtless seasons of Baywatch and is boyfriend and baby daddy to Cosby Show queen Lisa Bonet.

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Stephanie Tanner's house just got a little less full.

Former sitcom star Jodie Sweetin has filed for a legal separation from her husband of 16 months, Cody Herpin, E! News confirms. The duo tied the knot in July 2007 after just two months of dating.

The 26-year-old Sweetin filed the separation papers against her 31-year-old film transportation coordinator husband in Orange County Superior Court on Wednesday. It was the Full House star's second marriage.

As it is, word of the split comes just seven months after the couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Zoie.

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Clearly Bruce Willis doesn't want Michael Jackson to be the only star embroiled in a legal rumble with royalty.

The Die Hard star is looking for legal vengeance on Malaysian technology firm Petra Group and its chairman, Prince Imran Ibni Tuanku Ja'afar, over some ecofriendly rubber.

Willis—along with other boldface types like Al Gore and Mel Gibson—poured funds into the company's subsidiary, Elastomer Technologies Limited, which was developing nontoxic and recyclable rubber.

Willis claims he was "fleeced" into kicking in $2 million. Per his lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, Willis was given the option of a full refund as long as he gave the yippee-ki-OK within a certain amount of time. (View the lawsuit.)

Elastomer returned $1.1 million to Willis in March, but has been holding out on the remaining $900,000.

However, the check might be in the mail. The rubber purveyors claim they will recoup the $900,000 "in the next couple of weeks," according to a Bloomberg report, meaning the case might not be bouncing into court anytime soon.

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Is the New York Times on Team Aniston? It would seem so, judging from this article that examines Angelina Jolie's crafty ways with the media.

The story explores how Angie manipulates crucial media moments in order to portray herself more favorably—all without the help of a publicist. This may seem pretty obvious to even the most casual tabloid reader, but we'll give the Times room to make their case.

For example, remember when she was a crazy blood-vial-necklace enthusiast who had sex with husband Billy Bob Thornton in the limo on the way to a red carpet event and then told reporters all about it? Well, after she decided she was done with that and the couple divorced, Us asked for an interview. She declined, but reportedly did offer a time and place where she would be hanging out with Maddox in public, so the mag could snap a few pictures of her looking like a single, young mom who was struggling to enjoy some private time with her son.

Or how about that time she fell in love with Brad Pitt while he was married to Jen?

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Rosie O'Donnell's latest bout of public bickering with View overlord den mother Barbara Walters may not have been launched to gain publicity for the former Queen of Nice's upcoming variety special, but it's certainly not hurting her column inches.

Hours after O'Donnell's video blog rebuttal of Walter's daytime remarks on their long-simmering feud, the comedian was at it again, revisiting the topic on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. (Watch the entire episode here.)

"I have a little post-traumatic stress disorder when I watch it. I get flashbacks like Vietnam vets," she said before moving, ever so fleetingly, into peacemaking mode.

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Looks like we might have a clue why T.I. went on a gun-shopping spree that got him in so much doo-doo.

Flanked by some serious security, the self-proclaimed King of the South took the stand today as a witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of an Ohio man accused of killing a member of T.I.'s entourage—and the rapper told a packed courtroom that he believed he was the intended target.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, spent 40 minutes testifying against Hosea Thomas. The 34-year-old defendant faces a litany of charges, including murder and felonious assault, for a May 2006 shooting following a postconcert bash in Cincinnati.

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Is Matt Damon getting ready to be Bourne again...and again...and again?

Universal has just inked a deal with Robert Ludlum's estate for exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character and first look at his other novels.

The agreement allows the studio to forge ahead with three more Bourne movies and continue a franchise that has so far spawned more than $1 billion in worldwide grosses and is widely considered to be kicking the crap out of a certain martini-mad rival spy guy.

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The chick magnet still has it. The guest-star thing still isn't working for Tina Fey.

Last night's Grey's Anatomy dominated among women and adults 18-49, Nielsen estimates said. Overall, the episode, featuring another curious appearance by Izzie's dearly beloved—and dead—Denny, scored with 15.7 million, up nearly 1 million from last week.

30 Rock's latest foray into Will & Grace territory—Steve Martin was this week's stunt guest, after Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Aniston—recorded the show's latest down week (7.3 million). 

The return of Toby to The Office was greeted by 8.4 million, up a tick from last week. The show was NBC's biggest comedy in viewers and adults 18-49. 

With ABC on a cancellation binge, Life on Mars (8 million) did well to stay even with last week. But it still ran third in the demo behind ER (9.1 million overall) and Eleventh Hour (10.7 million overall).

CSI did its thing—it got killed in the key demos by Grey's but won the night in viewers (18.4 million, down from last week).