Be Afraid, Turkeys...Be Very Afraid

Lady GaGa’s gotten herself a Thanksgiving TV special, and if I was a turkey, I’d duck and cover (because I’d have a good memory and remember that meat dress).

The entertainer’s 90-minute A Very GaGa Thanksgiving will air on Nov. 24 and feature eight performances as well as an interview with Katie Couric taped at New York’s Sacred Heart Catholic School, which was attended by the singer way back when she went by a different name.

And just to get in the spirit of the season (more?), Mother Monster will perform some of her current hits, as well as classic Christmas tunes.

Of course, she will also update folks on her recently launched Born This Way Foundation, so keep your ears peeled for that good stuff.

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The Return of Ingo

Who here remembers TV’s Titans?

I’m sure not a whole of people do, but that soapy confection NBC offered up at the beginning of the 2000s was a guilty pleasure of the first and most-short-lived order.

One of its stars was that hottie Ingo Rademacher, who went back to the soap world (General Hospital) after Titans got the axe.

Now the actor is flirting with primetime once again and headed to Hawaii Five-0 to guest on an ep slated for early next year, playing the dad of a kid being held hostage on a highjacked school bus. Thing is he may have had something to do with the crisis himself.

Ooh....

I kinda like that Rademacher is looking at nighttime now that General Hospital is shutting down. He’s som’in’ to be seen.

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Take It All

Ryan Seacrest wants to own Hollywood, and he just might.

The golden man is diving head first into the movie-producing pool, and he’s going big because he so doesn’t wanna go home.

To that end, Seacrest is co-producing a rom-com with none other than Reese Witherspoon, who knows a thing or two about the genre. The project in question? An untitled story written by writer Krista Vernoff (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy).

Good starting pedigree, Ry.

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Mira Quien Es

I should do this entirely in Spanish, but half of ya would, Cómo?

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly thisclose to inking a deal to star in her first movie franchise as Carmen Sandiego, the heroine of the Where In the World World Is Carmen Sandiego? cartoon and game show.

Alright, so she may not star as the popular and elusive character, she definitely would have a hand in developing and overseeing the project.

This could be an exciting and stylish and globe-trotting, not to mention lucrative, gig for La Lopez, if handled properly.

I am cautiously excited.

Photo: VanityFair.com.

The Wildest Party of 2012

Holy smokes, y’all: Hangover director Todd Phillips is overseeing the rager to put all ragers to shame for next March.

The filmmaker has produced a low-budget comedy titled Project X, with no-name stars, that follows the one-night adventures of three high schoolers who throw a party in order to woo some girls and up their popularity.

What happens, of course, is the shindig gets massively outta control. And that’s when the fun really starts. Check it:

Project X will hit theaters on March 2.

Girl Will Be an Action Woman Soon

Noomi Rapace, thestar of the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is ready for her next role.

The actress, who’s playing the female lead in next month’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, is teaming up once again with her Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev for the thrilling actioner Dead Man Down, which is to co-star Colin Farrell.

She will play a seductress bent on revenge against an underworld crime boss.

Production is set to begin early next year.

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Simply Irresistible, Pt. 79

Next month, Jeremy Irvine will become a star thanks to Steven Spielberg’s War Horse.

So get used to seeing the young Brit on and off the screen.

In fact, the up-and-comer has been busy keeping busy after working with S2, playing Pip in Mike Newell’s upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, and completing work in Now Is Good, which co-stars Dakota Fanning, Paddy Considine, and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer).

Now Irvine has booked another high-profile project, The Railway Man, a in which he will play a young Colin Firth.

The drama is based on a memoir by Eric Lomax and follows the British officer’s account of his forced labor on Japan’s Death Railway during World War II, the woman he loved, and the torture he endured by the Japanese for being (presumed) a spy.

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Down on Her Luck

Naomi Watts is going to suffer in her next movie.

The Oscar-nominated actress will co-star opposite Matt Dillon in Laurie (Sherrybaby) Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., as a convenience store clerk who finds out she’s pregnant...and then loses her job.

Dillon will play her paraplegic husband.

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Going Indie

Much was done about a meeting Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner took with director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black recently (were they – gasp! – trying to pick him up? were they giving him advice on – double-gasp! – coming out?), but it seems the entire thing was about work.

So down, boys.

Lautner is set to produce and star in Van Sant’s still-untitled new indie based on a New Yorker article the actor himself optioned.

What...a shrewd move on Lautner’s part. He needs to prove he can act, not just emote like a hot wolf, and Van Sant sure has a knack for getting the best out of young Hollywood.

Consider my curiosity engaged.

Photo: NewMoonMovie.org.

Here Comes Booking Photo No., Uh...What Is It Again, Linds?

Lindsay Lohan got 300 days today.

Alright, so she actually got a month in the big house, for admittedly violating her probation in her DUI and shoplifting cases, and another 270 days of tightrope-walking if she wants to remain a free woman.

Up first, though, she must surrender for her fifth incarceration by Nov. 9.

Of course, she probably will serve a beyond-ridikolous fraction of those 30 days due to overcrowding, even though the judge said she should spend the entire month behind bars.

The fun for L2 will begin afterward, when she must stick to a pretty strict schedule of compliance with her community service and psychotherapy sessions.

The way the judge outlined her requirements is sooo organized I can’t imagine Lohan will be able to walk the line the way she needs to – she just doesn’t have the support system she should to get and stay healthy (Dina Lohan’s a f---in’ joke...and the holiday parties are a-comin’).

Sad how I’ve lost all faith in Playboy’s latest Bunny. I used to be her biggest fan....

Photo: People.com.

Back to the Battlefield with a New Guy

Could Warrior breakout Joel Edgerton be the next Gerard Butler?

Well, maybe.

The Aussie actor is in talks to star in 300: Battle of Artemisia, a sequel to the 2006 hit that made Butler a household name. (The Scot can’t star in the follow-up since his King Leonidas died at the end of it, y’ see.)

Edgerton would play Themosticles, the famed archon and general who led the Greeks to victory against invading Persians in 480 BCE.

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The Winehouse Legacy

Amy Winehouse is pulling a Tupac.

An album featuring previously unreleased songs by the late singer will be released posthumously on Dec. 5, so we will get to hear that voice once again.

The CD titled Lioness: Hidden Treasures will include alternate versions of some of her classics, some covers, and new compositions including her duet with Tony Bennett.

Photo: AmyWinehouse.com.