Say what?!?? I guess Hollywood is all out of ideas.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal won a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids.

Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney’s Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain, has the task of inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controlling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) will produce.

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Following reports that police are investigating NYC tattoo parlor East Side Ink because Rihanna decided she wanted to play tattoo artist last night, OK! spoke to one of the owners to get the details on how the whole thing happened.

The sexy singer had shown up around 8pm on Wednesday to visit her regular tattooist, who goes by the name of Bang Bang and is responsible for both recent gun tattoos and the “sssh” ink on her finger.

According to those at the high-end tattoo parlor, Rihanna was not planning on getting any new ink.

“We were all just hanging out, joking, laughing,” East Side Ink co-owner Yadira tells OK!. “Bang Bang decided that he wanted a tattoo from her.”

So he drew up a design — a simple umbrella with a swirly “R” under it — which was then transferred onto his lower leg. Rihanna, who had never tattooed anyone before, then went over the design with the needle.

Then two other artists, Josh Lord and Patrick Conlon, decided they wanted some Rihanna body art too, so they each got tatts, which were numbered “2″ and “3″ by the songstress in the order they were completed.

“We were all talking a laughing the whole time,” says Yadira. “Joking that she was a pro now… She was so sweet, easy-going, down to earth.”

It took RiRi about about 15 minutes to complete each tattoo, and she eventually left East Side around 11pm.

“I think it was spontaneous,” Josh, who got the second tattoo, tells OK! about his decision to get inked. “And she was so nice, and so gorgeous and so charmed by her that we wanted one too.”

So can anyone just walk in and start tattoing people willy-nilly?

“They can’t,” says Josh. “Only her. We couldn’t say no to her.”

And, he adds, she did a pretty decent job. “It’s a pretty nerve-wracking thing to do your first time. We were amazed how well she kept her cool… By the third one, she was good.”

Though he did admit that Rihanna got progressively better as she practiced.

“[Bang Bang] went first. And let’s put it this way, each one was better than the last,” he said, adding, “I’d hire her. If her career doesn’t work out, she’s got a back-up.”

And whatever happens with this police investigation, at least he’s got a bit of music history etched into his skin. Says Josh, “It’s definitely one of my new favorites.”

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Gary Colemen’s wife has a dirty, filthy, foul mouth — this according to the police report filed after she was busted for domestic violence and disorderly conduct.

The doc says Shannon Price locked Gary out of his house in Utah on Wednesday night, then proceeded to destroy everything in his bedroom. When cops arrived at the scene, Shannon “yelled and called officer ‘f***er’ and told officer ‘f**k you and f**k him several times.”

The report says Price admitted she “thrashed” the room and told Gary “you deserve this after how you treated me.” She was arrested and released on $1,205 bond.

I wonder how many commercials or other stupid crap he’s going to have to do to get her out of jail?

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According to CNN, fans will have the chance to register for a free ticket to Michael Jackson’s memorial service:

Fans wishing to attend singer Michael Jackson’s memorial service next week will have to register for free tickets — 11,000 of which will be given out, organizers said Thursday.

Details on how to register for tickets for the service at the 20,000-seat Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Tuesday will be announced at a press briefing Friday.

Stay tuned as further details become available…

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Taylor Swift avoids the wild Hollywood party scene - because she’s not interested in “getting wasted”.

The country singer is rarely seen out and about at celebrity haunts, opting only to put in appearances at music award ceremonies.
And the clean-cut blonde insists you’ll never catch her stumbling out of a club.

Swift tells Glamour magazine, “I’ve never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do. I don’t think I’d be a party girl (even if I were) in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.”

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Jewel is refusing to schedule any work commitments - because she is determined to get pregnant by the end of the year.

The star and her rodeo champ husband Ty Murray confirmed in April they are trying to start a family.

They are still working on their plans to become parents, and Jewel is now turning down work because she hopes to get pregnant very soon.

The singer and her partner both signed up to Dancing With The Stars this year but Jewel had to drop out after fracturing the tibia in both her legs. She has now refused the chance to compete in the next season which is due to start in the autumn - because of her baby plans.

She tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, “I really want to start a family. My husband and I would love to see that happen soon. I’d have to say no to doing next season’s Dancing With The Stars because hopefully I’ll be pregnant by then!”

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Mariah Carey’s husband Nick Cannon denies the superstar has taken a swipe at Eminem in her latest music video by dressing as the rapper - insisting she wouldn’t waste her time.

Carey trades in her usual glamorous look to dress as a thuggish man in the promo for new single Obsessed - in which her male persona has a striking resemblance to the Stan hitmaker.

Internet gossips presumed the Hero singer used the video to hit back at Eminem after he boasted of bedding the star in his track Bagpipes from Baghdad.

But Carey’s partner, actor/rapper Cannon, is adamant she wasn’t planning to take aim at the controversial hip-hop star with her cross-dressing video.

He tells MTV.com, “Honestly, I don’t think so. I don’t think that she would take her time. My wife doesn’t beef. She’s Mariah Carey. She’s not beefin’, she’s a vegetarian. I always say I thought the record was about me, ’cause I’m obsessed with my wife. But if somebody’s out there and you feel like you might have been obsessed, then the record’s about you.”

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