Adrian Grenier and his grandmother Priscilla Rubio attend the 'Entourage' Season 5 premiere after party in New York City. (photo: Jason Kempin/WireImage.com)

Irony²

Alan Ball is having a busy week. His feature film 'Towelhead,' about a young Arab-American girl's sexual curiosity opened this week and is stirring up debate, while his new HBO series 'True Blood' promises to raise some eyebrows starting this Sunday. Ball (pictured here with the film's stars Summer Bishil and Peter Macdissi) told CNN he finds it "sadly ironic" that his film is being critiqued for its subject matter when there's so much graphic violence on film and TV. "It irritates me that people's lives are so disposable," he said, but then acknowledged: "I've created a new show with a massive body count, so maybe I'm not one to talk." (photo: Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com)

[CNN.com]

In for Life

James Gandolfini changed up his family organization over the weekend, marrying former model Deborah Lin in her native Hawaii. The actor introduced Lin as his "new boss," and his son Michael, who served as best man, embraced the local culture by strapping on a hula skirt to dance with a few of his dad's buddies. Rest assured, the Italian crew was represented as well — the guests sang Dean Martin's 'That's Amore' as the couple cut the cake. (photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com)

[StarBulletin.com]

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi Goldberg and Mario Cantone pose backstage at 'Xanadu' on Broadway in New York City. (photo: Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic.com)

Power Player

Constance Zimmer is juggling the demands of increased recognition from playing studio exec Dana Gordon on 'Entourage,' new motherhood, and a bold move for any actress: a new short hair-do. ''I recently chopped it all off. I had just had it. It was too much work.'' No doubt Dana Gordon wouldn't think twice about such a decision, but worrying about whether her hair style pleases her publicist ("you need to look sexy") and her boyfriend ("you have to look hip and cool") is just one of the ways Zimmer differs from her alter-ego. "A lot of Dana I think is exaggerated. I'm definitely not as angry, and I don't curse as much. Also I'm not as conservative. She's all work and no play. I'm basically all play!'' (photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com)

[MiamiHerald.com]

Love Bites

Before taking on the role of Bill on 'True Blood,' Stephen Moyer had prior experience as a vampire on the Brit show 'Ultraviolet.' As a pro bloodsucker, he gave the Associated Press his appraisal of the new series. "It's visceral and predatory and unapologetically sexual," he says. "And it's unapologetically romantic in the sense of an old-fashioned romance novel." Moyer does have one thing to apologize for, however. Anna Paquin, his 'True Blood' love interest, explains: "You do get fangs caught in places. Perhaps it's like people with braces trying to make it work. Puncture wounds aside, one gets used to it." (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

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Idris Elba arrives at the world film premiere of 'RocknRolla' in London. (photo: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)

Killer Serial

It took many years, but a writer's procrastination has finally paid off. 'Big Love' writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who just so happens to also be a comic-book writer and playwright recently landed the gig to adapt the Stephen King classic 'The Stand' into a comic book, with Mike Perkins as artist. Apparently Aguirre-Sacasa became an avid fan of the King book in high school when he was supposed to be studying. "I literally read it midterm week and completely escaped into it. So much so that I remember getting really emotional when some of the characters that I'd grown to love start dying."

[AZCentral.com]

Richie Rich and Jamie-Lynn Sigler attend the launch of Tide and Downy Total Care in New York. (photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Public Schooling

Bill Maher has built a career mocking and demonizing political figures, but when Keith Olberman picked the comedian's brain on MSNBC, Maher gave the politicos a break and shifted some blame to a new crowd: The American public. "I would have to say that things do seem to be getting worse and they seem to be getting worse because — sorry to say it — people get stupider and stupider every election cycle," he says. "I'd love anybody to tell me something that you can't just tell the American people and have them believe it because you didn't add 'LOL' to it at the end of your e-mail message. ... I think the American people at the end of the day have to look in the mirror. They get the leaders they deserve and they don't deserve very good leaders." (photo: Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com)

[BusinessAndMedia.org]