I love Ricky – I think he’s crass, but c’mon lets be honest…he says what everyone is thinking! Gotta give him a little bit of credit! While announcing Robert Downey Jr. was coming to stage, Ricky said “But many of you in this room probably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail.”

Later, Downey Jr told reporters: “Aside from the fact that it’s been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I’d say the vibe of the show has been pretty good so far, wouldn’t you?”

The British comic said the crowd should look forward to “a night of partying and heavy drinking — or as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast,” and then went on to re-tell the Two and a Half Men actor’s notorious NYC plaza fit.

He then trashed the nomination of The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp despite critical pans.

“Who knows? I haven’t seen it,” Gervais admitted. “There’s this ridiculous rumor going around that the only reason The Tourist was nominated was so that the Hollywood Foreign Press could hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. That’s rubbish. they also accepted bribes.” Depp was seen in the audience making a sour face.

He also threw in there a joke about Scientology – which I thought was hilarious.

“Also not nominated was ‘I Love You Philip Morris,’ Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Two heterosexual characters pretending to be gay,” he said. “So the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then.”

When the crowd started booing, Ricky hedged his words.

“Probably,” he said. “My lawyers helped me with the wording of that joke. They’re not here.”

UPDATE: According to Pop Eater, Ricky has already been banned from hosting next year.

Ricky Gervais trashed Angelina Jolie, Charlie Sheen, Hugh Hefner, Mel Gibson, God, Tom Cruise (and the list goes on) last night when he hosted the Golden Globes. But the joke that got him in the most trouble was when he made fun of Philip Berk, the current head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA for short).

“Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure,” a member of the HFPA tells Pop Eater, adding that Gervais’ relentlessly mean shtick could have even larger consequences. “For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain.”

To make matters worse, Gervais’ last words in the telecast were, “Thank God for making me an atheist.”

“Ricky blew it big time. It’s one thing to make fun of celebrities but it’s another to make them totally uncomfortable,” an insider tells Pop Eater. “People in that room were furious but had to sit and smile because the camera’s were on them. It really says something when several people who attended said they would have felt safer with Kathy Griffin hosting.”

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Pictured: Sofia Vergara, Gabourey Sidibe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Zac Efron, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Pattinson, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Quaid and Mila Jovovich.

Director Sam Raimi has officially been given the reins to direct the prequel to ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (which up until now was a project that was still very much up in the air as Raimi continued to work on his World of Warcraft adaptation). You’ll remember that this is the film called ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’, and it tells the origins story of how the Wizard of Oz became, well, the Wizard of Oz. It’ll track him from his days as a circus wrangler through to when a tornado brought him to the magical land of Oz.

One of the big reasons Raimi wanted to do ‘Oz ‘is so that he could work with Robert Downey Jr., who’s still in negotiations to take on the role of the Wizard (fingers crossed those negotiations end with Downey Jr. in the part). Raimi is better known nowadays for his work on the ‘Spider-Man’ movies, however the Raimi that sticks in my mind is the one responsible for the ‘Evil Dead’ franchise and the gory, gruesome images that resulted (he later turned the franchise into a parody of itself with ‘Army of Darkness’).

While ‘The Wizard of Oz‘ is mostly known for being cute, a modern turn would likely be more twisted as with the recent ‘Alice In Wonderland’ movie, which was made by the same studio behind this ‘Oz’ movie, Disney.

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Robert Downey Jr. was pictured here leaving director Guy Ritchie’s house in London this afternoon. Sherlock Holmes is set to begin filming in October! Can’t wait!

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Splice is a story of two scientists (Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody) who take genetic experimentation into their own hands to create a genetic human hybrid with characteristics from other animals.

The strangely-beautiful creature born of the ill-conceived experiment is Dren (that’s Nerd spelled backwards, so clever), played by Delphine Chaneac. Delphine is a French model and actress, and she plays the role of Dren in the film.

That doll is freakin spooky!

The indie-horror film has been getting good reviews so far, NY Mag says: “In the context of modern horror, a solid B-movie like Vincenzo Natali’s Splice looks positively splendiferous, with a mixture of icky and poignant and terrifying that works like gangbusters.”

I’m not into this kind of movie, but if any of you see it – let me know!

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Two years ago, Iron Man took the world by surprise. Now he’s getting ready to take it by storm. Robert Downey Jr. and his costars talk about the superhero’s high-octane return in this week’s Entertainment Weekly.

EW: The massive success of the first Iron Man took a lot of people by surprise. How are you feeling at this point, with the opening of the second one just a few weeks away?

Jon Favreau: There’s always something to be anxious about. The question now is whether it lives up to the fans’ expectations. That’s been the conversation ever since we decided to make the sequel: How do you fulfill their expectations in an unexpected way? What should we demand of ourselves? I’ve never done a sequel [To Downey] Have you?

Robert Downey Jr.: Not really.

Scarlett Johansson: I was in Home Alone 3, but I didn’t do the first two, so I don’t think that counts.

Favreau: Home Alone 3? I don’t remember that. That didn’t have Macaulay Culkin in it, did it?

Johansson: [Deadpan] Let’s move on.

Don Cheadle: I did a triple.

Downey: You sure did. Which of Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen was your favorite?

Cheadle: I was so drunk during all of those films, I don’t even…They said, “Don, it’s a wrap.” I’m like, “Huh? It’s over? Check, please.” [Laughs]

EW: What was it like when these two trains [Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr.] hit the set?

Downey: Mickey likes a little psychological warfare. If I never hear the Gnarles Barkley song again, it’ll be too soon.

Favreau: Mickey has his process, man. He wants the music loud. We’d get these big speakers, like club speakers, and there were a handful of songs he would want played: Gnarles Barkley’s “Crazy”, “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse, “Proud Mary”, sometimes Johnny Cash. In that scene when he’s walking down the [Monaco] racetrack with the whips out and people are running and screaming and there’s tires on fire, “Rehab” was blasting.

Downey: I always thought, like, Why is he coming at me with “They tried to make me go to rehab”? I’m here with my Chinese herbs, sitting in the corner.

Favreau: Robert’s the opposite. Robert wants it serene. He’s laughing with people, communicating, grounding himself, stabilizing his energy. And then Mickey comes out there and throws the robe off like a wrestler coming into the ring, the music blaring.

EW: Mickey visited Russian prisons to help inform his performance. That seems like pretty hardcore Method preparations.

Favreau: I would agree. He came in and said, “I want to only speak Russian in the movie.” I’m like, “Well, that might be a problem.”

Downey: I say forget Method and just go right to the madness. I’m not even really an actor. I make faces for cash and chicken.

EW: Scarlett, what went through your head the first time you saw your Black Widow costume.

Johansson: What went through my head? I thought that it looked tight. Incredibly, incredibly tight. [Laughs]

Downey: I remember you were bitching about this kind of healthy diet you had to be on.

Johansson: I was like, “If I have to eat one more turkey burger…” It was that protein diet. So much turkey and eggs – ugh, it was horrible.

Favreau: And then there’s [your husband] Ryan [Reynolds] – you could do your laundry on his tummy.

Johansson: [Smiling] And we do.

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