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Do you think this is part of the Reno 911! marketing campaign? / Photo by Bernard Mickey Wrangle via flickr. COMEDY* Paging Reno 911! fans: Robert Ben Garant, who plays Deputy Travis Junior, hosts The Armando Show tonight. (It’s an hour-long improvised comedy show inspired by an audience suggestion). He’ll be joined by a few other Reno castmates: Carlos Alazraqui, Thomas Lennon, Niecy Nash, Kerri Kenney and Cedric Yarbrough. 8 pm // iO West......

Enough with the Oscar talk -- Kimmel's long-awaited response to "I'm Fuckin' Matt Damon" is here and it's chock-full of hilarity:......

Photo courtesy of Miramax When was the last time an actor executed a more profound career turnaround than Casey Affleck? Gone Baby Gone is his second superb performance of the year. If you don't see it for him, see it for Amy Ryan's breakout, Oscar-nominated turn. The mere presence of the divine Anne Hathaway makes Becoming Jane worth renting. James McAvoy was better in this than in the over-hyped (but still good) Atonement. No......

K-Fed has been collecting stories from the people around Britney to help in his pursuit of primary custody of his two sons. Some of these stories include a fling with her assistant, drinking in front of the kiddies, and walking around naked in front of her staff. Who knew K-Fed would turn out to be the "responsible" one? - US Weekly New Couple Alert! Looks like Cameron Diaz just can't stay away from those musicians,......

What better way to make flex fuel vehicles and E85 (corn-based ethanol) more hip than by taking several YouTube clips, stirring in some Facebook, MySpace, a Napoleon Dynamite-esque aesthetic and, finally, for good measure a good dollop of Ben Affleck dressed in a corn suit (seriously, just watch it)? Narrated by Phin (who looks suspiciously like a certain silent protagonist), this series of videos, dubbed "Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel," aims to raise......

Nelly Furtado is engaged to sound engineer Demacio "Demo" Castellon - People Nicole Richie IS preggers with Joel Madden's baby, and reports are that its a boy - DListed Britney's got a new man, rehab counselor/real estate developer John Sundahl - Daily Mail Another pageant queen scandal- an unknown blackmailer has threatened to make certain scandalous photos public on Facebook of current Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo - NY Post Laguna Beach alum Jessica......

In what could turn out to be a long, expensive, and revealing lawsuit, Tommy Lasorda, the great former manager of the LA Dodgers, swears that he will sue if the tell-all autobiography "Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam" is released on Thursday. Hollywood madam Jody "Babydol" Gibson was popped eight years ago for pimping out high-priced hookers, porn stars, and Playboy models throughout 16 states. She was given three years but served less than......

Tonight - Tuesday - January 9th, 2006 Lakers @ Grizzlies (KCAL, 5:00 p.m.) Ducks @ Predators (PRIME, 5:00 p.m.) "Dateline NBC" (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) The one-track minds at NBC have dug up yet another polygamist murderer "Rome" (HBO, 8:00 p.m.) HBO is rerunning Season One in preparation for the season two debut on Sunday. Look for my upcoming DVD review on the Season-One set. "House" (FOX, 9:00 p.m.) House is back - and he......

LAist likes Matt Dillon. "My Bodyguard", "Drugstore Cowboy", even "Crash" were decent films where Dillon played that tough guy with a heart. But Matt Dillon isn't Charles Bukowski. Bukowski was ugly and bloated and got laid in spite of his looks, not because of them. That's why a fucked up Mickey Rourke played a passable Chinaski in the stinker called "Barfly". Ironic because now would be the perfect time for Rourke to play the......

Please forgive us this indulgent Hollywood moment, but hot off the wires is the news that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck (AKA Bennifer Part deux) welcomed a new papparazzi-attracting accesory to their fold (AKA a baby girl) in a Los Angeles hospital sometime between last night and this morning. The heir apparent to the couple's legacy of bad movies, hot bods, love affairs gone awry and cancelled television dramas may very well have a......

Curbed LA is cringing at the idea that the City of Santa Monica didn't even know Google has an office in town, one that they've had for at least the past few years. What's even more curious is that the low profile building that the small local Google team has occupied also housed (and maybe still does?) LivePlanet which brought many a Project Greenlight camera crew to the location and aired the scenes regularly......

During today's morning commute down Sunset, heading west, we passed a long, long line of film geeks wearing Vulgarthon 2005 T-Shirts outside of the Cinerama Dome. It's only now that we remember that Kevin Smith and his merry crew have assembled at the Dome for their first West Coast Vulgarthon, a marathon day devoted to the films of Smith and other like-minded fimmakers, plus Q&A with special guests. You can read the View Askew minion's......

We've just learned, via Eonline, that In Touch magazine's spreading the story that Ben Affleck bummed a twenty off a papparazzo recently to buy a fruit smoothie in girlfriend Jennifer Garner's Brentwood neighborhood. In Touch breathlessley recounts, "Ben took the money, went into the store and left," says the photog, who was reportedly happy to let Affleck keep the change." Geez, what a novel way to panhandle. Let's all try it the next time......

What do Jason Biggs, Zach Braff, Adam Brody, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott Foley, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Masterson and Rachael Leigh Cook all have in common? LAist was surprised and intrigued to find out that they're all Honorary Committee Members for the Kerry/Edwards Campaign and probably have, really, no involvement whatsoever in the Saturday, October 2nd event "An Evening with Kerry/Edwards" featuring musical artists such as the Black Eyed Peas. The list of supporters......

Starting at 5:00 PM today, Godiva Chocolatier will open bidding on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, a series of five special dinners in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Boston. The winners of these dinners will be treated to dinner with a celebrity, cooked by a celebrity chef, with proceeds from the events donated to a different charity in each city. Further, each chef has agreed to prepare a menu focused on......

Some Angelenos assert that the 88 disparate municipalities that make up Los Angeles County serve to further fragment the region. This might be the case, but this huge number of independent cities also creates friendly small towns within the metropolis, and sometimes provides us with idiosyncratic drama. Not to mention gambling venues, the presence of which has stirred up trouble in the sleepy City of Commerce. City of Commerce, located off the 5 freeway......

Governor Arnold continues to disappoint as the budget discussions get jammed. Republicans want two "anti-business" laws repealed, and they're willing to stall the budget until they get what they want. In response to the controversy, Arnold's administration flips on the spin cycle: "They are policy issues that are relevant to the budget discussions," said Finance Department spokesman H.D. Palmer. "These kind of issues are always going to be inextricably linked to budget discussions." Thanks for......