Is there nothing dreamy Joel McHale can't do? The Soup's host is a master of martial arts, noted test pilot, Arctic adventurer and rodeo roustabout, plus he's always so nice when he asks us to stop making up things about him. (His legal team could learn some manners from him, yikes!)

And now this: He's starring in The Informant, a film by Steven Soderbergh about corn, lies and the FBI. Yes, the film also features Matt Damon in the lead as a guy who rats out his agribusiness company's price-fixing to the feds while all the while enjoying the benefits of said schemes.

You figure with Damon in the role he's totally going to skate on this, right? Well, however it all turns out, we just feel a little safer now that Joel's there to take him down, G-man style.

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You'd think it would be Gisele's hood the cops would be poking around under.

But it's her hubby, Tom Brady, Matt Damon and various other local celebs who have been the target of numerous superfluous searches by authorities across the state of Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday.

State officials privy to the audit that turned up the head-scratching statistics told the paper that law-enforcement officers performed 968 searches on Brady, looking up his home address, gun-ownership record, driver's license info, Social Security number and other stats on the model-marrying New England Patriots quarterback.

Other high-profile types who were also the target of "repeated searches and queries" included Damon and James Taylor, who were both born in Boston, and Celtics star Paul Pierce.

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•  While promoting handbags in Tokyo, Jennifer Lopez chatted about how her twins, Max and Emme, come first, but apparently they don't come to Japan. Word is, they were still in Los Angeles as mom talked them up.

•  City girl Whitney Port admits that Robert Pattinson is cute, but she's not a fan of Twilight. That said, she was spotted with maybe on-again BF Jay Lyon, so there's really no accounting for taste, is there?

•  Ben Affleck reminds us that he and Matt Damon are still one of the best bromances ever. Perhaps, however, he should take a little buddy break and buy wife Jennifer Garner some new undies.

•  Those dirty dancers get Britney Spears every time!

•  Could Zooey Deschanel be any cuter?

•  Dear Alexis Bledel: We think every Gilmore Girls fan will agree that it was very cool of you to check out your TV mom, Lauren Graham, in Guys & Dolls on Broadway. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Sarah Jessica Parker is looking decidedly un-Carrie Bradshaw-like in the Big Picture gallery.

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•  That whole "friends" thing Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were touting as they promoted He's Just Not That Into You hasn't worked out the way they claimed. The Mac and Angel are maybe kinda sorta back together.

•  Is G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum ready to rescue Rihanna (on film)? Word is, moviemakers are on the hunt for a new Bodyguard.

•  If it's really her, Lindsay Lohan lost it on Twitter this weekend. Wonder why?

•  Matt Damon's wife, Luciana, has a great sense of humor. She wore a Sarah Silverman-inspired T-shirt even while she was pregnant.

•  Bradley Cooper is afraid of his own shadow.

•  Which one of Belinda Carlisle's Dancing With the Stars competitors put that pesky traffic cone there? We smell a Tonya Harding among the already accident-prone cast.

•  Dear Prince Harry: You are quite the man(icure). Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Newlyweds Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady use the Big Picture gallery to wish you peace as you start your week.

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Count Matt Damon among the celebs whose worldview doesn't start and end in Hollywood.

On Tuesday, the Bourne Ultimatum star took time off from filming to visit with Zimbabwean refugees in the South African border town of Musina, part of a humanitarian mission on behalf of Not on Our Watch, the nonprofit advocacy group he started along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle.

Damon is in South Africa shooting The Human Factor, Clint Eastwood's upcoming film about Nelson Mandela. Morgan Freeman plays the apartheid-fighting nation builder. 

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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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Jason Bourne can't be caught. Not by James Bond.

When final weekend box-office numbers were released Monday, Quantum of Solace's whopping $70.4 million debut had been revised—and downsized—to $67.5 million.

The sum is still whopping, and still a record opening for a Bond film. But it's not a record for a Bourne film. With the weekend's final numbers, Matt Damon's The Bourne Ultimatum remains Hollywood's top-opening spy adventure with a $69.3 million debut.

Bond can still beat Bourne, provided Quantum keeps doing business until it surpasses Ultimatum's $227.5 million overall domestic gross. One problem: No Bond film has ever come close to even hitting $200 million.

Stop smirking, Bourne.

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Sarah Silverman came to terms with Jimmy Kimmel. Kathy Griffin called a truce with Jesus.

Such were the overtures made at last night's Creative Arts Emmy Awards, where Silverman won her first career statuette for her, um, emphatic Jimmy Kimmel Live contribution, "I'm F--king Matt Damon," and Griffin scored her second straight win for My Life on the D-List.

The victorious Silverman thanked her cowriters and her A-list costar, even though Damon, she said, "had very little to do with this being popular."

Silverman also paid tribute to Kimmel, with whom she uncoupled in July.

"I'd like thank Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart…" she said, before reversing course for punchline purposes, and restating, "who will always have a place in my heart."

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How's this for a Behind the Music?

Steven Soderbergh has begun developing a biopic of Liberace that he plans to direct with Michael Douglas as the ivory tickler, according to Variety ; Matt Damon is in talks as his litigious ex-lover.

With a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Horse Whisperer), the film would focus on the legendary entertainer's flamboyant yet closeted life, including his showdown with onetime paramour Scot Thorson, who successfully sued for palimony shortly before Liberace died of AIDS in 1987.

Here's a peek at the day's other big deals:

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Matt Damon is obviously not hunting for any goodwill from Sarah Palin.

During an interview with the Associated Press, the Oscar winner doesn't hesitate to express his negative feelings about the Republican V.P. hopeful, saying that the idea of her running the country is not only a "terrifying possiblity," but is like "a really bad Disney movie."

"The hockey mom, you know, 'Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska,' and she's the president and facing down Vladimir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd. I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is."

But tell us how you really feel, Matt.

In its latest effort to raise public awareness about the need to assist those around the world who are suffering from poverty and disease, the ONE campaign has just come up with a creative new ad titled "Voices."

In the clip, Matt Damon begins to speak, only to have his voice replaced by those of others, including potential first ladies Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain as well as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The truly bipartisan spot will run on TV beginning Aug. 24.

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Matt Damon has that girl group he's always wanted.

The 37-year-old actor welcomed his second daughter with wife Luciana today, Damon's publicist confirms to E! News.

"Matt and Lucy Damon had a baby girl named Gia Zavala on Wednesday, Aug. 20. Everyone's doing great," rep Jennifer Allen said.

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