An online prank show in Serbia went straight to the top for their latest "Mission Impossible" gag, targeting the country's Prime Minister, Ivica Dačić.
Here's a trailer for Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol ("ghost protocol" is the word for "four" in video game). It looks just like the last Mission: Impossible, so... awesome!
[Tom Cruise does his own stunts on the Prague set of "Mission: Impossible 4." Image via Pacific Coast News. Click to enlarge.]
[Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible IV in Prague. (Pic by Splash News)]
The Dubai hit squad that whacked a Hamas leader in Dubai was only denied a clean kill by the age of ubiquitous cameras and high-tech passports, according to this Atlantic story. And the danger for future assassins? Twitter?
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• Did you read (or hear about) Playboy's new interview with John Mayer, the one in which he managed to make himself look like even more of an idiot? Mayer's been busy today apologizing for his comments, not surprisingly.
• American Idol's…
News of the entertainment world continues apace this dreary near-afternoon. Real Housewives reaches a milestone, Tom Cruise reaches an impasse, and Sigourney Weaver just can't stay the fuck away from aliens, no matter what she does.
Ah, the buzz cut: that sometimes-risky, sometimes-successful ‘do usually sported by male celebrities when it's required for a role in a military/secret agent/futuristic film or because they need a quick way to change their public image. But no matter what their reasons are for taking the razor to the scalp, the look…
Paramount head Brad Grey stayed mostly tight-lipped during the tense period following the femur-shattering kick-in-the-pants Sumner Redstone delivered to Tom Cruise on his way out of the Viacom family doors. Radar now reports that Grey might have been relieved to see Cruise go, especially after the deadlocked…
There's something quaintly old school about Hollywood PR fluff machine Entertainment Tonight, whose "reporters" accept every word that tumbles from the mouths of their A-list fixations as celebrity gospel. They recently sent Jann Carl (cloned, we think, off a sample taken from Mary Hart's right ankle) to interview…
Tom Cruise is trying out this Method acting stuff, and it's Ethan Hunt, his incredibly uptight character in Mission: Impossible 3 who needs his own porta-shitter, not Cruise. Hunt really hates to be interrupted when he's settled in to a private "auditing session" between takes—a knock on the door makes him seize…
Perhaps the only thing creepier than one Tom Cruise is three well-dressed guys who look and sound like the genuine article hanging out together. If our operative hadn't already been snooping around the Mission: Impossible 3 set at Paramount, he might have fled for his life, convinced that the invasion was finally…
