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Mischa’s looking better, feeling better, working hard, hitting the gym and just plain loving NYC. The star of the CW’s new show The Beautiful Life, is even back to blogging.

She writes:

“Hi everyone!!! I know it’s been a while… but I’ve been insanely busy with work and what not in NYC. I’ve been fully immersed in production on my upcoming show and I’ve been loving every minute of it. I have my dogs Charlie and Ziggy with me here so I’ve been hanging with them in my downtime, as well as hitting the gym as often as I can.”

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Last night on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” comedian Kathy Griffin joined the late-night host to chat about her autobiography “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin” (which she claims is going to “out-sell The Bible”) as well as share a clip of her newest role as “Jon & Kate Plus 8” mother Kate Gosselin.

“It’s like my ‘Malcolm X’,” joked Griffin.

Check out the exclusive trailer to the Jimmy Kimmel Live! biopic “Kate is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story” in which Kathy stars alongside George Takei as Jon Gosselin.

It is sooooooooo funny.

Entertainment Weekly’s Fall TV Preview offers readers a complete guide to 85 of the season’s biggest shows – from Melrose Place to The Mentalist. And a look at Fringe, which is back with a mission to bring sci-fi to the masses.

Last year’s most heavily hyped new drama, the gory and witty Fringe was engineered by creators J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to be a high-impact hybrid of The X-Files and CSI – a serious yet accessible sci-fi series. Though the highly anticipated thriller started shakily, making geeks wonder if Abrams and his reliably mind-bending production company had finally let them down, Fringe ended its first year with a finale filled with insane, chat-room-exploding twists that won over a skeptical fan base. Now Fringe will try to maintain its momentum in TV’s most competitive time slot. “We’re not looking to take down CSI or Grey’s Anatomy,” says Kevin Reilly, Fox’s president of entertainment. “But if it can get in there and remain consistent, that’s important. We can make money, even at a more modest rating.” But if Fringe is to thrive, Abrams’ team will have to apply the lessons learned from its rocky first season. Says Abrams: “It’s going to sound weird, but a show starts talking to you and telling you what it wants to be. It took us a while to hear it.”

As the series approached midseason, some elements began to jell, and buzz began to grow. At the same time, Fox launched a viral marketing campaign and while Fringe’s ratings stayed much the same, feedback and Web chatter indicated that the show was beginning to inspire more viewer loyalty. Joshua Jackson says “This has been the total opposite of my Dawson’s Creek experience.” Unlike the teen soap that was an instant hit when it debuted in 1998, “Fringe has taken a while for the show to percolate in the pop culture. I would never complain about being on a show with the words ‘J.J. Abrams’ above the title, but the expectations were impossibly high.”

The show’s most crucial story line belongs to Jackson’s Peter Bishop. “Eventually, he’s going to learn where he really comes from, and everything is going to blow up,” says Jackson. He adds that his character will be getting a heroic makeover in season 2; it’s a project that the writers couldn’t address in season 1 because of the other kinks they were working out. “Season 1 never figured out the question, What’s Peter’s function as a member of this team?” says Jackson. Season 2 will tackle that immediately.

The premiere also hints at romantic potential between Peter and Olivia (Anna Torv), even though both Torv and Jackson hope it’s not the case. “I see Peter and Olivia more as a brother and sister with a truly bizarre father figure – three broken people, coming together as a dysfunctional family,” says Jackson. Adds Torv, “I hope they don’t put us together. That would be so conventional. What’s interesting about this show is that in many ways, Olivia has the masculine role, and the two guys are the women. She carries the gun, they sit around and talk. I think that’s pretty cool.”

In the midst of its creative surge, Fringe strives to be considered a hit. Not a niche hit, not a cult hit, just a hit. “There is an agreement here that we are seeking excellence,” says actor John Noble. “When things are ‘just okay,’ we don’t feel like we got away with something – we take it personally….If we can hold our own on Thursdays, it’ll say that we’re not some misplaced Friday-night science-fiction show – we’re mainstream entertainment.”

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Emmy award winner Ellen DeGeneres called Ryan’s radio show Thursday, the morning after the news broke that she’d be joining American Idol as the fourth judge.

On her qualifications for being a judge:

“The people are the ones that choose the American Idol. Ultimately it doesn’t come down to some expert in the music industry, it comes down to everybody at home that says ‘that’s the person I relate to, that’s the person that I’m going to buy music from’.”

On her judging style:

“I’m not going to be mean, I hate when Simon [Cowell] is that mean. You can be constructive and criticize somebody that’s helpful instead of mean spirited.”

On Paula Abdul’s departure:

“I hope Paula [Abdul] is okay with it. I don’t want anybody to think I took Paula’s job away. I feel like she was gone and then everybody was looking for somebody else, then I stepped in. I certainly don’t want to be that person that is the evil taking Paula’s job away.”

Listen to the interview and read more highlights here!

You won’t be able to hear Death Cab’s full track that is the first single off the New Moon soundtrack till September 13th in coordination with the VMAs, but you can now listen to a stunning 40-second sample of the track immediately.

Check out the clip above!

HA! Did you see Edwards face at the end of that clip! Too funny.

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Rumors have been swirling around for months now that Penelope Cruz is pregnant with boyfriend Javier Bardem’s baby.  Well, she showed up yesterday on set of a new mystery film in Los Angeles – not helping the rumor’s one bit.  She was definitely fussing with her coat several times during filming, which seems to prove she’s trying to hide something.

Penelope and longtime boyfriend Javier have been dating  since 2007.  They have appeared in three movies together; Jamon, Jamon, Live Flesh, and recently Vicky Cristina Barcelona (loved it!).

I have two more pictures to show you! After the jump, pictures of Penelope leaving the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles after having lunch with Salma Hayek. Is there a bump there? (more…)