Proving once again that the gal with the best implants always stays afloat, Anna Nicole Smith has found herself an unlikely ally in her Supreme Court battle for the kabillion dollar inheritance she believes her ex-husband wanted her to have.  U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top Supreme Court attorney, has filed arguments on behalf of Smith, and is lobbying for ...

From the Totally Unsubstantiated Rumor file: Page Six is "reporting" this morning that a cashed-strapped Courtney Love - slimmed down and drug free but apparently broke as all get out – is working on selling the rights to her late husband Kurt Cobain's musical output. This comes after a messy, multi-year battle between Love and Cobain's former band mates Dave Grohl and Krist ...

Al Sharpton, you'll remember, ran for president last year, and it was such a success that he's now in talks to star in his very own sitcom. To be called – wait for it – Al in the Family, the CBS sitcom would allow Al to "play off his larger-than-life personality" every week. Sharpton's television credits include guest stints on Boston Public and My Wife and Kids; he also ...

Just days after its official cancellation, the effort to resurrect Arrested Development is sweeping the internets, and Michael Meiser is doing his part. Not only has he posted this video (a rant by David Cross directed at FOX's inability to market a show that's "won five motherf*cking Emmys"), culled from the Season 2 DVD set, but he's also written an open invite to Cross, and anyone ...

Two of Hollywood's biggest labor unions, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America, have banded together to oppose product placement on TV. Here's the thing: you've got your PVR, and you're trying to inhale 6 episodes of Desperate Housewives in one sitting, so, of course, you're skipping the ads. Because advertisers are – surprise! – not stupid, they've started brokering ...

Joss Whedon posted a looooonnnggggg message at Whedonesque this week, and AICN has culled the tasty bits. Most relevant to our purposes is the news that Whedon is about to start writing a Darkhorse Comic that will extend Buffy's narrative beyond the fall of Sunnydale. As AICN's Hercules points out, we haven't heard from the blonde stake-weilder herself since a fifth-season episode of Angel ...

Say goodbye to FOX's Monday night schedule –  though neither has been "officially" cancelled, Variety is reporting that both Arrested Development AND Kitchen Confidential have been taken off the schedule, "effective immediately". Arrested returned from its baseball-forced hiatus this week, and Kitchen was originally set to come back this coming Monday. Now, ...

Is Kirstie Alley signing on to star in a spinoff of Cheers? That's the rumor that's going around. All that Jenny Craig stuff aside, Alley needs the work – after all, now that she isn't really all that fat, I imagine the well of stories over at the Fat Actress camp has sort of dried up – and she's said to be interested. The spinoff would feature Alley's character from Cheers, Rebecca ...

I do like this program an awful lot, but with this week's episode, I'm starting to think the medical aspect of the show has not only jumped the shark – it's landed in the Ally McBeal Garden of Full-on Absurdity. When we last saw Meredith Grey, she was downing shots to ease her anxiety over Dr. McDreamy's indecision over his divorce. Soon the whole crew is forced to come back to the hospital ...

Remember Hogan's Heroes, the thinly-transposed comedy take-off of Billy Wilder's Stalag 17? Apparently Bing Crosby's production company didn't ask first before taking off with the life story of Edmund Trzcinski, who wrote the play on which Stalag was based. Trzcinski was the great-uncle of Kevin Tofel of our brother blog, HDBeat, and in this podcast, Kevin interviews his father, Ron Tofel, about ...