Someone knocked Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld "out cold" after the company's bankrupcy was announced. Seriously. [Radar]

Ashley Dupre now travels with three bodyguards (does Eliot Spitzer even still have a security detail?). [R&M] 

Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming Body of Lies, may be barred from re-entering Iran because of her participation in the film. [R&M] 

One piece of good news on the Amy Winehouse front: She is not on an official suicide watch. [People]  read more »

Monday: Chuck
Gossip Girl is a rerun tonight, so you really have no excuse to let Chuck slip by your DVR. This episode should be especially good, as the intimidating Melinda Clarke (better known as The O.C.'s Julie Cooper), stops into the Buy More. Ms. Clarke plays a nefarious spy known as The Black Widow whom Chuck (Zachary Levi) must seduce in order to get a vital piece of information. In the previews, he's shown pathetically trying to warm her up by asking about her favorite bands. Ha! Perhaps we find this more hilarious than you do, only because we've done exactly that.  read more »

Tom Cruise's next film, the Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie, is the film version of a yo-yo diet. Originally set for release this past summer, it was moved to the Hollywood dead zone of February before finally settling on the release date of Dec. 26, presumably in an effort to get some "awards consideration." Though judging from the new and terrible trailer, the only thing Valkyrie might get considered for is a Razzie.

In the film, Mr. Cruise stars as a Nazi officer during World War II who plots with other like-minded Nazi's, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson and Terrence Stamp, to murder Adolph Hitler.  read more »

We have long been fascinated by the new Kirsten Dunst—the rehabilitated Downtown girl whose dinners at Freeman's and late night outings have grabbed New Yorkers' attention—but until now, we have not heard Ms. Dunst discuss her reinvented self. It seems she has grown and evolved since spending time at Cirque Lodge in Utah earlier this year (she checked out in late March), which was the final step to leaving her child actress self behind and becoming an adult, she tells Harper's Bazaar in their October issue.

Here we thought we were the official Kiki experts, but given the rich detail in the profile, we bring you a 10-point summary of what we learned about the rehabilitated Ms. Dunst  read more »

Oh we're sure the Museum of the Moving Image's board was just tickled about their choice for this year's honoree at their swanky 24th annual black-tie salute. Reuters says it's Ben Stiller, the guy who parodies last year's honoree, Tom Cruise, as TomCrooze, the actor's "stunt double."

So at Cipriani 42nd Street on Nov. 12, we expect to see one of these Tom Crooze clips in the tribute reel and maybe a few from his new movie with co-star Mr. Cruise, Topic Thunder.

Just as his fab comic turn in Tropic Thunder has critics going nuts, the star is making other headlines. First, the good news: his film Valkyrie, which was moved from this year to next (never a good sign) has now been moved back again, snagging a December 26 opening. This either means that the movie is awesome--Christmas is traditionally for award-nominee sure things like There Will Be Blood--or that producers want to hide it among the biggies. (Execs say it's a purely commercial decision, made after a screening went well.) We've got our fingers crossed: at the moment, Mr. Cruise is on our good side.  read more »

While attending rehearsals for Broadway’s revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons over the past couple of weeks in New York, Katie Holmes has been clinging to her pegged boyfriend jeans like a security blanket while away from her home in Los Angeles—which hasn’t gone unnoticed by gossip and fashion blogs, all of which seem to be wondering what has inspired this new sartorial direction.

We can’t pretend to know what’s going through Ms. Holmes’s mind (can anyone really these days?), but according to US Weekly, this tired old pair of jeans belongs to her husband, Tom Cruise. A rep for Prps, the brand that manufactured the jean, told the magazine that they’ve even adopted the men’s style for women for their fall collection.  read more »

Tom Cruise has had plenty of roles as an ass-kicking government agent (the Mission Impossible movies, Minority Report, um... does Top Gun count? ). But he has been flashing his funny bone more often these days. So he turned down producers after flirting with a new thriller project. Now the role of a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy could be rewritten for Angelina Jolie, who is currently in close talks with producers. In her first part since having twins, the puffy-lipped actress will sweeten the title role in Edwin A. Salt.

Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (Thomas Crown Affair, Equilibrium) will be turning Edwin into...Edwina? Philip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector) remains attached as director, according to Variety.  read more »

Tropic Thunder, the latest from writer-director-actor Ben Stiller, doesn’t open till August 13, but the trailer has been playing in theaters (and on laptops everywhere) for seemingly forever. The very funny—and often razor-sharp—big-budget film about the ridiculousness of big-budget films lampoons just about everything under the Hollywood sun. Per the previews, you probably know that Ben Stiller plays a fading action star; Jack Black, a tubby Warhol-wigged comedian; and Robert Downey Jr., an Australian method actor who undergoes an experimental pigmentation procedure in order to play an African-American soldier. All three are thrown together on the set of yet another Vietnam War picture (cue CSNY and the majestic helicopters!), where Steve Coogan is their bedraggled director.  read more »

Strand bookstore owner, Fred Bass, is "baffled and amazed" and Cynthia Rowley is "upset" that the city's promotional agency, NYC and Co., shot the designer in the bookstore for the city's "Just Ask the Locals" campaign, but advertised it as Midtown's Kinokuniya Books instead. [P6]  read more »