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She’s unrecognizable now! Above is how she used to look!

See the new Long Island Lolita here!

I think this movie looks great! It’s a different kind of role for Keira Knightley!

If there’s one person taking the summer movie buzz by storm this year, it’s Michael Fassbender. The German-born star has broken out in a big way thanks to his smoldering performance as Magneto opposite James McAvoy in X-Men: First Class.

But if you were worried that would be your only dose of the guy with cool to spare, fear not. He’s costarring alongside Keira Knightley in director David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. It’s definitely hot, but because of some friendly, uh, touching, it’s slightly not safe for work. Check it out…if you think you can handle it.

Fassbender plays renowned psychologist Carl Jung in the early stages of his career, working with renowned neurologist Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). It seems that Fassy’s on the edge of a breakthrough; he only needs that one special patient who is, for lack of a better phrase, crazy enough to reap the benefits of his new, experimental therapy.

Turns out Knightley fits the bill. She wastes no time revealing that past abuse “excited” her and that any possible advances from her trusted therapist would be most welcome. Like any good therapist, Fassbender rationalizes the whole situation: “Why should we put so much effort into suppressing our most basic natural instincts?” Just keep telling yourself that.

Freud is not amused, and all it takes is a few piercing and judgy glances from Mortensen to let us know where he stands on the issue of cavorting with a patient.

A Dangerous Method hits theaters Nov. 11. Does it have you…”excited”?

Makes me want to read the book this movie is based on …

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Werewolves, fairies, and vampires –oh, my! True Blood is back. In this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, we look at how HBO’s sexy supernatural drama is going to bold new places with brand-new baddies.

Last season, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) not only made the startling discovery that she was a fairy but also found out that her intense love affair with bloodsucking Bill (Stephen Moyer) was based on a lie, which led her to break things off with the vampire. Now, for season 4 (premiering June 26 at 9 p.m.), Sookie will explore the downside of her telepathy while taking on fairy nation, a fresh pack of werewolves, and a nasty coven of witches. If that’s not enough, she also must fight a wickedly strong temptation to do the nasty with fellow neck-biter Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) while navigating her lingering feelings for Bill and that warm-blooded werewolf Alcide (Joe Manganiello).

“I think it is hard to be Sookie because of her obvious attraction to all three men,” says Moyer, Paquin’s real-life husband of almost a year. “There’s yearning and longing, lust and protection from those three relationships. And it’s very difficult for her to choose, and she doesn’t want to choose, either.”

“Well, obviously that’s really rough,” mocks Paquin, who’s less inclined to feel sorry for her alter ego. But she does admit the stakes will keep getting higher for the residents of Bon Temps, La., this year. “I think that you can’t have True Blood and the vampire world we have created without there being a lot of sexiness. But there are a lot of really dark and sometimes quite scary places that the characters also go along the way. The more intense things get, the more intense everything else gets in terms of self-discovery, danger, and sex.”

Sex. No True Blood conversation is complete without mention of it. And there is little doubt that at least some of the drama’s fans—an average of 5 million of them watched first run airings last season, with that number swelling to 13 million when repeats were added—tuned in to see some skin. It’s an aspect of the show that gives creator Alan Ball (who adapted the series from Charlaine Harris’ immensely popular Sookie Stackhouse novels) a great sense of pride. “One of my favorite things I’ve heard is how one of our former assistant directors was visiting her college girlfriends in Texas and one of their husbands came up to say, ‘I just have to thank you for the show because we’re having the best sex we’ve had in years,’ ” Ball recounts, “and I’m like, ‘Good! That’s good!’ ”

This year, it’s into the wacky world of Wiccans. The journey begins when Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) tries to bring out the mystical side of his lover, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), by taking him to a Shreveport store where they encounter a witch named Marnie (Fiona Shaw of the Harry Potter films). “She suddenly discovers that she has a few more powers than she thought,” explains Shaw, who attended a few Wiccan meetings in Los Angeles to prepare for the role. “Exciting things happen because the vampires get involved. There’s a lot of violence in the whole thing.”

And how. She ends up inviting a whole broom closet of witches to her shop, who threaten the vamps because of their unseen—and unpredictable—levels of power. Eric attempts to cut them off at the pass but ends up getting slapped silly with a spell that wipes out his memory. “He doesn’t know who he is anymore,” explains Skarsgård. “He doesn’t recognize anyone around him. So this very strong, powerful vampire is suddenly very vulnerable. That’s been so much fun to play because it’s obviously a very stripped-down and different Eric. His protected wall, the shield he’s built up around himself over the last thousand years, is just gone and he’s very innocent.”

However, before you read too much into that answer, consider these cloudy comments from Skarsgård. “I think it’s important that the show sometimes is slightly different from the books because it has to be surprising and new,” reasons the Swedish actor. “You want fans of the books who’ve read them a million times to still be surprised when they watch the show. We can’t be like, ‘Oh, well, now this is going to happen, and now this is going to happen, and here’s that.’ It’s important to keep it fresh.”

Death would probably also come as a relief to Bill, who remains bereft that Sookie thinks he’s a liar. “Bill’s trying to do the right thing,” explains Moyer. “If he’s learned anything from the past, it is that he wants to be a decent man, and that ultimately means that he has to do the right thing by everybody. But that sometimes involves making difficult decisions.”

For True Blood recaps, galleries, and oh so much more, check out www.ew.com/trueblood

Pink released this beautiful family portrait of her new family, along with a loooooong message to the public and paparazzi.

To whomever cares:

We are absolutely blissed out in love over here! To our fans and friends all over the world, thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes throughout this time in our life! Carey is a natural, (I knew he would be) and I finally found out what love really means. Don’t worry, I’m not writing an album full of sappy lullabies. Not yet, anyways?

In the interest of full disclosure: (AND BECAUSE I TELL IT LIKE I SEE IT)
Due to the unsettling, surprisingly aggressive and unsafe measures that the paparazzi seem to be willing to go to in order to secure that “first shot” of our daughter–stalking us, chasing us in cars and sitting outside of our home all day and all night, as new parents Carey and I decided that we would release personal photos of our Willow, and donate all of the money to charity.

We will be donating the money to children’s’ charities, among them one of our favorites, the Ronald McDonald House, an organization that houses and cares for the families of sick children so they can be together during treatment, as well as Autism Speaks.

Like any parents, we believe our little girl deserves the right to have privacy and be protected, but unfortunately, this media climate doesn’t seem to provide for that. I feel so grateful that after many years of hard work, music and motorcycles have elevated both Carey and me to such a place that the public has supported us in building our life and lifestyle together. We recognize that celebrity has its upsides and downsides and do our best to manage just being people without hiring stylists and bodyguards before one of us goes to the store to buy some milk. I’ve seen some photos of myself that make me smile and some that make me less smiley. But you see, it’s one thing to harass and stalk us, the adults, the celebrity that signed up for this life, but children should be protected and safe. There should be a clear distinction between us.

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