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Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken the pineapple express to Oscar credibility.

As if expanding the Best Picture nominee pool and potentially nixing the Best Song category wasn't enough to modernize the usually staid Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, surely its welcoming of cinema's preeminent bong jokesters is.

Rogen and Franco are two of 134 new artists and movie industry executives who have been extended invitations to join the Academy and, in doing so, secure voting rights for all future Oscar ceremonies beginning in 2010.

The smokin' Pineapple Express duo are joined by fellow Judd Apatow repertory players Michael Cera, Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch, along with Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, James McAvoy, Tyler Perry, Danny Boyle, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams, Amy Ryan, Slumdog soundtracker A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, Tom Cruise's producing partner-in-crime, Paula Wagner, Milk man Dustin Lance Black and Mr. Oscar himself, Hugh Jackman.

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•  The Real Housewives of NYC want to make one thing clear: They do not hang with those New Jersey ladies. (Translation: You stay on your side of the Hudson, we'll stay on ours…or else).

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•  Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno plays leap frog with supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio for the cover of British Marie Claire and offers a fashion guide from A to Z. Here's a taste: "O is for...ORLANDO BLOOM. He's basically obsessed mit me. I don't vant to use ze word stalker, but ven ich vas at Milan Fashion Veek I stayed at ze Hotel Malecci. Guess who checked in to ze same hotel two hours later…Orlando Bloom. Coincidence? Ich don't think so." Yeah, this might actually be even funnier than that staged bit with Eminem.

•  Chris Pine and Audrina Patridge call it quits. So that happened, we guess, if they were ever really dating in the first place.

•  Models don't seem to like Kristin Cavallari any better than her Hills castmates.

•  Apparently, if you're Hugh Jackman, strollers are disposable.

•  Even Clay Aiken's own charity wants nothing to do with him.

•  Dear James Franco: Not cool. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Glasses are sexy. If you don't believe us, check out the Gorgeous in Glasses gallery!

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Mark Wahlberg is a Francophile. And, apparently, a Fey-ophile. Not to mention a Carell-ophile.

Wahlberg and James Franco are leading the pack as the latest boldfaced names flocking to the Steve Carell and Tina Fey big-screen comedy Date Night.

According to Variety, Gossip Girl Leighton Meester, rapper Common, Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, SNL utility player Kristen Wiig and Jimmi Simpson (aka David Letterman's erstwhile intern Lyle and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia scene stealer) round out the funnybone-tickling cast.

The all-star flick centers on a married couple, played by the Must-See TV stars, whose dinner-and-a-movie date night goes horribly—and dare we say, comedically—awry when they become the victims of mistaken identity.

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•  This sounds a lot like a country song. Given that it involves LeAnn Rimes, we shouldn't be surprised.

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•  The Suite Life with Zack and Cody's Dylan and Cole Sprouse made a commercial about eating without utensils.

•  Katy Perry wants to be in the Little Miss Perfect pageant.

•  Dear Beat Freaks and Quest Crew: Thanks for giving mind-blowing performances every week on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew this season. May the best group win tonight. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Who doesn't love a little PDA in the Big Picture gallery?!

Even if Mickey Rourke goes the distance and wins an Oscar tomorrow night, what more can he possibly say?

Not that he'd exactly been holding back at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, but the 56-year-old comeback kid outdid himself Saturday while accepting the trophy for Best Male Lead at the 2009 Film Independent's Spirit Awards, where his star vehicle, The Wrestler, won a leading three honors, including Best Feature and Best Cinematography.

Part paean to Eric Roberts ("the f--kin' man"), part elegy for his dog Loki, part ramble and all tailor-made for pay cable, Rourke's speech at the notoriously quirky beachside kudosfest either scared the crap out of the Motion Picture Academy or, as The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky noted backstage, could prove to be the best possible thing for the Oscar's declining ratings.

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