Richard Gere played such a convincing homeless man in New York last week that a kind-hearted French tourist took pity on him and tried to give him her leftover pizza.

Tom Cruise stirred up major controversy earlier this week when court documents obtained by several websites appeared to suggest Cruise felt his job as an actor was comparable to "fighting in Afghanistan."

Meticulously scruffy smirker Ryan Gosling has announced in an interview that he is taking brief professional hiatus from acting:

No need to fret over the recent news that Lindsay Lohan could be headed back to jail very, very soon. It turns out, Lindsay Lohan ain't even mad at jail. Jail makes her a better fake-crier.

National treasure Kim Kardashian gives so much and asks so little — all she wanted was one measly star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Right-wing blog mogul and political penis fetishist Andrew Breitbart makes his acting debut this week, in the Tea Party's adorable attempt at Hollywood glamour, self-financed drama series Courage, New Hampshire. Breitbart plays the "High Sheriff of 1770 Portsmouth." Here he is ordering the death of a lugubrious…

Teen angst icon and longtime child star Taylor Momsen is retiring from acting at the age of 18. In an interview with Elle, she says she's all about the music:

Ramin Setoodeh, the Newsweek writer who wrote an article about how gay actors can't convincingly play straight last spring and got in huge trouble with all the gay folks, is back poking at that third rail again, defending himself anew.

Show biz is tough. Once you get typecast with a certain role, that's the only way they'll use you. This one minute sketch imagines the career of Tug Bodean, an actor who falls prey to the system.

Meet Geminoid-F, a lifelike robot "actress" currently appearing in a Tokyo production of the play Sayonara. Go ahead, make a Keanu Reeves joke! You won't be laughing when the robot murder army comes for your family. Which it will, eventually.

Nicolas Cage, the worst actor of his generation (watch here), has a new movie—Drive Angry, in which he plays a car enthusiast who escapes Hell to save his granddaughter—coming! If you thought The Wicker Man looked bad, well...

Actor David Birrell was apparently shot in the eye with a gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks during a matinee performance of the London production Stephen Sondheim's Passion. He is "currently being treated in hospital." [Telegraph]

And the Academy Award for Best Fake Injury Goes to... Derek Jeter! During Wednesday night's Yankees/Rays game, Jeter acted as if a pitch had stuck his hand. He even writhed in pain! Too bad it never hit him. Video inside.

Casey Affleck, the director of I'm Still Here, the "documentary" about Joaquin Phoenix's descent into drug-fueled, hip-hop-wannabe madness, says it was all a "performance." Yes, everything—including the famous appearance on David Letterman—was faked for the movie.

Not happy merely ruining eardrums with her aural abomination "Money Can't Buy You Class," Real Housewife LuAnn de Lesseps stopped by off-Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore last night. Word is she's thinking of joining the rotating cast.