Bob Sassone

For a while there it looked like ‘The Hobbit’ wasn’t even going to get made, with the lawsuits and contract negotiations and all that. But it’s coming, and fans can now geek out over the first trailer for the next entry in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ saga.

It seems like we’ve been teased forever when it comes to the Christopher Nolan’s third and final ‘Batman’ movie, but that’s all over this week as the official trailer for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has hit the web!

‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ is a fun song (with kind of creepy lyrics). It’s usually not performed with Chipmunk voices, however. But on a recent ‘Late Night,’ Maya Rudolph joined Jimmy Fallon for a funny Christmas duet.

Steve Buscemi has played a lot of “creepy” roles in the past — his words, not ours — and perhaps that’s why when he appeared on ‘SNL‘ as Coach Bert, everyone thought he was a pedophile.

The other day we showed you video of a fire alarm going off during the ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.’ It’s a funny clip, and now Jon Stewart has had some fun with it. But Brian Williams doesn’t want to hear it.

As we told you a while back, Detroit Lions fans aren’t too happy about Nickelback playing the halftime show during their game on Thanksgiving. In fact, fans hate the idea. Now the band has answered all those haters who signed an online petition.

File this in the “bad timing” section — ‘Two and a Half Men’ star Ashton Kutcher gives relationship advice in the new issue of Men’s Health, which hit newsstands this weekend. Talk about bad timing. Kutcher’s wife, actress Demi Moore, recently announced she’s divorcing him. Reasons why are unconfirmed at this point, but there are many rumors going around that Kutcher cheated on Moore with more tha

This Thanksgiving PSA from William Shatner rests somewhere between his musical stylings and that time he threw a chair on ‘$20,000 Pyramid’ on the weirdness scale. In the video below that Shatner made for State Farm Insurance, the onetime Capt. Kirk talks about the dangers of deep-frying a turkey.

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry caused a stir the other night at a debate when he couldn’t remember the third government department he would close down. You knew talk shows like ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ were going to say something about it. But it was actually Perry himself who came on to the show last night to give the ‘Top Ten Rick Perry Excuses’ list.

You know that George Clooney gets more ladies than you do, right? Well, it turns out he’s had the swagger for some time now. In an extensive interview for the new Rolling Stone issue, Clooney reveals that he lost his virginity at the age of 16. However, he admits it may have been too early, saying he was “young, very young, too young,” though a lot of guys might disagree.

This must be the week for late night talk show hosts disguising themselves. First we had Conan outside of ‘Today,’ and now we have Stephen Colbert at Occupy Wall Street. The ‘Colbert Report’ host dressed as revolutionary Che Guevara and went to the protest location earlier this week.

007 fans have reason to be happy today: the title of the new movie is now official after several weeks of rumors and guesses. James Bond will return in ‘Skyfall.’