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Steven Soderbergh Announces Plans of Retirement

The famous Oscar-winning director, Steven Soderbergh has announced his plans of retiring from the industry that made his name.

Steven Soderbergh, 48 has stated that he is done with Hollywood. In an interview, Soderbergh expressed that he has gone to a point wherein he does not want to “get into the van” anymore. He continues to say that he has even been refusing various offers in the last 3 years and says that when you’ve reached a point wherein you do not want it anymore, then it is just right to let someone else who wants to “get into the van, get in”.

Soderbergh has still 2 films to shoot which are “Liberace” which stars Matt Damon and Michael Douglas, and “Man From U.N.C.L.E” which stars George Clooney. After these 2 films, that would be it and he’s calling it quits/

Steven Soderbergh has given us magnificent films such as:

Traffic

Ocean’s Eleven (including 12 and 13)

Lady Gaga Threatens to Sue for Ice Cream Name

The popular singer, Lady Gaga threatened to file a lawsuit against a London ice cream parlor for calling its breast milk ice cream, “Baby Gaga”.

The ice cream parlor, The Icecreamists has stated that they have received a letter coming from Lady Gaga’s party indicating that they will sue the said ice cream parlor for the name.

The Icecreamists owner, Matt O’Conner, however, denies that the popular singer is related to the ice cream name, “Baby Gaga”. He is now preparing a response for the said letter.

Just last week, the now controversial ice cream was confiscated by the Westminster Council of London for health concerns. They have already cleared the ice cream on Wednesday.

In addition to Lady Gaga, O’Conner plans on suing the Council for reputation damages due to the brief confiscation and continues to add that breast milk is the safest food in the entire world.

The Palin-Griffin War on TV

The feud that started months ago between the former Alaska governor, vice-presidential candidate and the self-proclaimed D-List star, erupted this weekend as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaks out about the D-List star Kathy Griffin’s various comments about her and her two daughters.

Griffin has made fun on Palin’s daughters, Bristol, for gaining weight while at the hit show, “Dancing with the Stars” and Willow for posting anti-gay slurs over her Facebok page.

Palin calls out Griffin to be a bully and a 50-year old has been. Palin adds that Griffin should not pick on her children and just pick on her instead.

Griffin, as released by her publicist has said that Palin, as a fellow reality star is even invited to Griffin’s Broadway show. In addition Griffin’s camp is even giving her and her TV crew free tickets. Griffin, in this response did not highlight Palin as a political figure but pointed out that Palin is one of them, a reality star. Griffin has a reality show, “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List”.

The war is far from over as Griffin is set to appear at the hit show “Glee” as a Palin-based character.

Charlie Sheen Goes to the Web

On Saturday night, the controversial actor, Charlie Sheen has moved from TV to the Web, debuting his own show called Sheen’s Korner via Ustream.

The Web show, on its debut airing received viewer of more than 100,000 which is a far drawback compared to his almost 2 million followers on the microblogging site Twitter. Sheen’s Korner had fluctuating viewers during the entire broadcast with the highest number of viewers at 113,251.

Sheen on his debut Web broadcast, which lasted about an hour wore a black hat, black shirt with a dollarsignr print in green and showed off his new tattoo located in his left inner wrist which indicates, “winning”. “Winning” has become the actor’s catchphrase which he kept on mentioning on his recent interviews.

The former TV star together with his 3 cohorts or co-hosts introduced various segments of the show. One segment features his assistant, Rick Calamaro and another segment lists down people Sheen would like to be for 10 minutes. He mentioned famous names such as Sean Penn, Colin Farrell and Brian “Fear the Beard” Wilson.

Sheen has also stated that the show may turn into a daily show if the feedback or the reaction is good.

Katie Holmes Sues for a $50 million Libel Case

With Star Magazine’s cover of Katie Holmes moves the actress to file for a dollarsignr50 million libel suit for claims that she has drug addiction.

According to Katie Holmes’ camp, the cover was meant to tarnish the famous actress’ image by putting false claims as its coverpage and the article written inside the magazine does not even attempt to support its cover. It does just discuss the involvement of Holmes together with her husband, Tom Cruise, in the Church of Scientology. Cruise is a known as one of the leading followers of the said Church. They have claimed that the accusation on Holmes’ having an addiction is malicious and downright untrue. Holmes’ lawyer also added that what the magazine did just to sell copies is not only unlawful but unethical.

Reports also state that Holmes’ asked for a retraction from the magazine but the magazine refused to do so which in turn made Holmes to file for the lawsuit and is asking dollarsignr50 million for the damages this incurred her reputation.

The American Media Inc, publisher of Star Magazine stated that they will go on with the lawsuit and will defend their claims and are looking forward with deposing Holmes and her participation in Scientology.

Oscars 2011: Least-Watched in 10 Years

Sunday’s Oscar telecast is the least-watched Oscars in the past 10 years and has received various reviews of dismay.

This year’s Academy Awards was hosted by actors, James Franco and Anne Hathaway instead of the traditional comedians, in order to target a younger crowd of viewers. However this shift in the hosts has proven to be a huge failure as this year’s Oscars only garnered around 37.6 million viewers. The lowest number in the past 10 years.

The 2010 Academy Awards has 41.7 million viewers which gives this year’s telecast a 10% dip compared to last year’s Oscar show.

Critics have been slamming the show stating that it could be in Oscars’ worst telecasts, the show which attempted to capture a younger audience was downright painful while some particularly targeted actor, James Franco for seemingly retreating into a haze.

ABC on the other hand, stated that this year’s Oscar red carpet pre-show improved hugely since 2007 and that the statistics on online video viewing rose up to 29%.

Nevertheless, Sunday’s telecast of the Academy Awards gained majority of the viewers and beat-up all the other networks’ viewers combined.

“Two and a Half Men” Cancelled by CBS

The hit TV series, “Two and Half Men” that stars the known “bad boy”, Charlie Sheen has been cancelled by CBS.

After a good news that the hit show will resume production on Monday, CBS puts the axe on the show on Thursday as Charlie Sheen verbally attacks the show’s producer and his co-actor Chcuk Lorre on a radio show and the known website-show TMZ.com. This also happened on Thursday.

Sheen ratted out and called Lorre a “stupid little man, piece of s***” and has also stated that he’s not doing his job and made a comment about the producer-actor’s Jewish background.

More than the verbal attacks on Lorre, Sheen has also stated that Alcoholics Anonymous did nothing to help him and that he was able to solve his addiction by himself.

Although “Two and a Half Men” is CBS’s biggest show garnering around 15 million viewers in just a week, CBS in a statement said that with Sheen’s conduct and condition, the show will no longer run as planned.

After CBS released the statement which declares the cancellation of the hit TV series, Sheen began to call on all his fans to help him get justice for the network’s wrong-doing. He refuses to release any further comments.

Court Order on Chris Brown Lifted

On Tuesday, the court order which restraints Chris Brown from approaching Rihanna was lifted. The lifted court order was in connection with the violent altercation that happened between the two singers 2 years ago and states that Brown cannot come within 50 yards or Rihanna or 10 yards if within an entertainment event.

The entire sentence for Chris Brown in 2009 includes 5 years of probation, community service and a 1 year course on domestic violence. Brown has already completed the 1 year course and appeared in court Tuesday for the hearing.

Rihanna on the other hand, did not appear on the hearing but her lawyer expressed that Rihanna did not have any objections with the lifting of the court order.

Brown was a no-show for the recent Grammy Awards, the same awards show where he violently harassed Rihanna 2 years ago, even though he has 3 nominations. Rihanna performed on this year’s Grammy Awards and had 4 nominations.

“Two and A Half Men” Resumes Production by February 28

After the production of the hit series, “Two and A Half Men” was long shut down due to Charlie Sheen’s absence CBS and Warner Bros. TV have already set a date to opening the hit series’ studios and begin production once more.

Production of the show was halted due to Charlie Sheen’s recent rehab stint for drug use. CBS and Warner Bros. TV decided to halt production as they can’t go on with the show without Sheen. Sheen is one of the main stars of the show. In connection with CBS and Warner Bros. TV’s decision, it has said that around dollarsignr250 million worth of deals and ad revenue were put in the line.

Sources say that the famed actor, Sheen, offered to cover 1/3 of the hit series’ crew’s salary during the shutdown he caused.

Sheen has been seen and heard around Los Angeles and people do not know what to make of his current behavior.