Jonah Hill should be boasting and celebrating his two major nominations — one from the Screen Actors Guild and the other a Golden Globe — for his role opposite Brad Pitt in Moneyball, but even though he calls the nods “fantastic,” he says he’s trying not to fall into the hype of it all.

“I have been trying not to get wrapped up in all of this, in everything.”

“Any expectation of getting a SAG nomination or an Oscar nomination are sort of absurd expectations to put on yourself,” he says. “So the fact that I actually got this nomination was so overwhelmingly moving and thrilling and surreal. I am really just kind of shocked.”

“The phone calls and emails I have gotten today are unlike any I have ever experienced. I feel like I got married or had a kid or something. I have never had anything like this happen to me before. My parents were actually crying.”

The 27-year-old is up against Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn for the Golden Globe, along with Albert Brooks in Drive, Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method and Christopher Plummer in Beginners. In the SAG category, he’s joined by Branagh and Plummer, as well as Armie Hammer in J. Edgar and Nick Nolte in Warrior.

“I am so in shock and awe right now that I can not even begin to conceptualize the fact that I am up there with them.”

“It is not too often you get the second lead opposite Brad Pitt [also SAG and Globe nominated] in a film,” said Hill. “It did feel like a momentous occasion in my life when I got the part, and it was.”

Congrats!

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Now that Howard Stern is the latest addition to ‘America’s Got Talent,’ parent organizations are up in arms, saying that the shock jock’s inclusion is an “act of desperation for a flailing network.”

The Parents Television Council has released a statement to TMZ … claiming primetime TV is no place for Howard Stern … “a performer who is synonymous with shock, profanity and obscenity.”

The PTC says, “The once-proud broadcast network has lost its way and has made it clear it holds no concern whatsoever for children and families.”

The group adds, “Not coincidentally, in just over three weeks the network will be standing before the United States Supreme Court arguing for the right to use the F-word at any time of the day, even in front of children.”

Do you think the Council is making something out of nothing or do they have a point?

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‘Teen Mom’ bad girl Amber Portwood may have recently gone public with her bipolar and dissociative disorders, but now it’s reported that the single mother has violated all of her probation terms — and it looks like she could go to jail for two years if convicted.

– “Failure to behave well in society” — namely, drinking too much and hitting a person at a restaurant last month
– Failure to obtain a GED
– Failure to complete 6 months of anger control evaluation and classes
– Failure to pay probation fees
– Failure to set up a $10,000 college fund for her baby daughter

Amber was sentenced to 2 years in jail after being convicted of beating the crap out of her baby daddy Gary Shirley – but the sentence was suspended on the condition that she do all of the above.

Amber’s all set to return to the courthouse in January to try to convince a judge that she shouldn’t be locked up.

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Ashley Tisdale and her 29-year-old music video director boyfriend have announced they’ve called it quits. Scott Speer and the 26-year-old High School Musical star have been dating for over two years, and Ashley even gushed about what she liked most about her beau, saying:

“I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.”

Here’s to another Hollywood couple down the drain. Before she snagged Scott, Ashley was linked to musician Jared Murillo.

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The First Family is sending their season’s greetings with their annual holiday portrait. While President Obama has been in on the campaign trail for a hopeful reelection, he and his wife Michelle along with their daughters 13-year-old Malia and 10-year-old Sasha looked more than happy just being at home with the family.

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Madonna fans can rest easy. After it was announced earlier this month that Madonna would perform during the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime show, airing February 5 next year, speculation blew up about which songs from the Material Girl’s some 30-year career she would perform.

Well now website Madonnarama reports that “rehearsals for the Super Bowl performance have started this week” and that the pop legend is eyeing a set list that looks something like the cherry-picked songs copied and pasted below.

Give Me All Your Love (with Guests)
Ray of Light
Vogue
Music
Holiday

Are you excited to see her perform?

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Jonah Hill has taken aim at the Kardashian family – and you gotta give the guy credit. He makes some very good points.

Actor Jonah Hill is angry about the success of the Kardashian family’s reality TV shows. Last month, Daniel Craig, 43, ranted that the clan act like ‘f***ing idiots’ for money, and now the Moneyball actor has shared his take on their growing media empire.

Hill said that while he often finds himself watching one of their shows, he finds it ‘disgusting’ that they earn better ratings than higher quality scripted shows.

The 27-year-old said: ‘The truth of it is, I have friends who work in TV and the Kardashians get higher ratings than their TV shows. Shows that people actually work hard on – writing and creating and trying to tell stories. The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like Mad Men is disgusting.’

‘It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it. Whenever I say I like reality TV, people write about it like they’re in shock. I can’t even understand it, so I watch it,’ he told The Huffington Post.

‘I think it’s funny and I definitely enjoy it in a making-fun-of-it sort of way, but where does the line sort of end? When do I stop making fun of it and become an actual fan?’

But the star doesn’t put all the blame on Kourtney, 32, Kim, 31, and 27-year-old Khloe.

He added: ‘The Kardashians are as famous as our president. What does that tell you about how skewed our society is?’

He’s so right! Scripted shows barely stand a chance anymore. Networks spend so much money making them – that if they’re not successful immediately, they get canned. Programs like the 10,000 Kardashian shows continue to air – over, and over, and over and over, and millions of people tune in every night. I bet that does make people who work hard on shows like ‘Mad Men’ and the likes – very unhappy. Shows like the Kardashians take all the creativity and art out of TV!

Anyway BRAVO Jonah!

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