"Send an ambulance right now.

When an Indiana judge tossed "Teen Mom" Amber Portwood in jail for allegedly violating probation in her domestic violence case in December, things did not look good for the reality personality.

Every episode of TLC's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" features jaw-dropping moments, but usually those moments are related to the mess at hand – or whatever mass amount of creepy crawlies calls that mess home.

Fran Drescher, star of "The Nanny" and owner of one of the most distinctive voices in Hollywood, now has a distinctive story to go with it.

Swords-and-sandals epic lovers arise and claim your show: “Spartacus: Vengeance” is slashing its way back onto the Starz network on Jan.

If you've been on the Internet for all of one second, you're aware that some of the information on it is false. Fake. Made up. Fiction. Wrongamundo.

If you haven't come across one of the many "Sh-t 'Somebody' Says" segments popping up online these days, you might want to check your Internet connection. "Sh-t Girls Say" started the ball rolling and has over 12 million views on YouTube. We laughed.

Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" got a sales boost last week from an unlikely source -- President Barack Obama.

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A video of the president singing the first line of the song at a Jan. 19 fundraising event went viral the next day, sparking a 490 percent weekly sales increase for the song. It sold 16,000 downloads in the week ending Jan. 22 according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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It's the best sales week for the song since SoundScan began tracking downloads in 2003.

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The fundraiser took place at New York's Apollo Theater, where Green was also making an appearance. As Obama took to the stage, he noted Green's presence in the room and surprised the crowd (and his aides) with a bit of his crooning.

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"Those guys didn't think I would do it," joked Obama, gesturing to his staffers on the side of the stage. "I told you I was going to do it. The Sandman did not come out."

While there are multiple videos of the moment on YouTube, the most-viewed clip has been watched more than 4 million times.

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Martin Scorsese is not known for making comedic movies. But in person, he's a complete crack-up.

The mystery behind Demi Moore's sudden hospitalization Monday is beginning to become clearer, though many details remain unsubstantiated.

Last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," in the best parody of the GOP debates we've seen in a while, Jimmy Kimmel combined some of Monday's NBC/WSJ debate with everyone's favorite guilty pleasure -- "Jersey Shore."  

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Somehow, Ron Paul ended up with the girly voice.        

But it seemed to be all about Newt Gingrich, even before the debate's heated showdown between him and rival Mitt Romney.   

Never mind sparring over Fannie Mae and immigration, Jon Stewart took Gingrich's moon conversation to ... well, the moon. During the last debate, Gingrich said confidently that if he wins, before his two terms as president end he will have 13,000 Americans in a base on the moon.

Stephen Colbert got in on the joke, too, saying the moon will become a state before Washington, D.C., does if Gingrich is elected. But before he got to that, Colbert reminded us of the most urgent matter in this race for the White House -- that it is now Day 4 of the Colbert Super PAC Hostage Crisis, but Navy SEAL Team 6 won't answer his calls.

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Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein on 1970s hit "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died at 60. A spokesman at JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., told the Star-Ledger newspaper that Hegyes, of Metuchen, arrived at the hospital in the morning in full car …

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Kenny Chesney is the top nominee at the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, with nine nods including Entertainer of the Year, a category he has won four times since 2004. The singer is also up for Male Vocalist of the Year and as both artist and producer for Album of the Year for "Hemingway's Whiskey."

Jason Aldean is the second most-nominated artist, with nods for Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Single Record of the Year for "Don't You Wanna Stay," his hit duet with Kelly Clarkson. Lady Antebellum is just behind Aldean with five nominations, including Vocal Group of the Year, which they have won the past two years. Taylor Swift leads in the female categories with three nominations overall, including her third consecutive nomination as Entertainer of the Year.

The ACM awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 1st on CBS. The show will be hosted by Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire.

The major nominations for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are as follows:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR

Jason Aldean
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
Taylor Swift

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR

Jason Aldean
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
Chris Young

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR

Sara Evans
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR

Love and Theft
Montgomery Gentry
Steel Magnolia
Sugarland
Thompson Square

VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

The Band Perry
Eli Young Band
Lady Antebellum
Rascal Flatts
Zac Brown Band

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

"Chief" – Eric Church (EMI-Nashville)
"Four the Record" – Miranda Lambert (RCA)
"Hemingway's Whiskey" – Kenny Chesney (BNA)
"My Kinda Party" – Jason Aldean (Broken Bow Records)
"Own the Night" – Lady Antebellum (Capitol Records Nashville)

SINGLE RECORD OF THE YEAR

"Crazy Girl" – Eli Young Band (Republic Nashville)
"Don’t You Wanna Stay" – Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records)
"Red Solo Cup" – Toby Keith (Show Dog-Universal Music)
"Tomorrow" – Chris Young (RCA)
"You and Tequila" – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter (BNA)

SONG OF THE YEAR

"Crazy Girl" – Eli Young Band
"Home" – Dierks Bentley
"Just A Kiss" – Lady Antebellum
"Threaten Me With Heaven" – Vince Gill
"You and Tequila" – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter

Warner Bros. is going to pay a hefty bar tab to get another "Hangover."

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Dealmaking on the studio’s third installment in the raunchy comedy franchise is wrapping up after dragging on for months due in part to the salary demands of its three stars. Sources close to the negotiations say Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms are asking for $15 million each (against backend) to reprise their roles, and they now are likely to get it.

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That’s a big raise from 2009’s "The Hangover," which was made for about $35 million and paid the headliners under $1 million each (Cooper made the most because he had the biggest name recognition at the time). When the R-rated bachelor-party comedy unexpectedly grossed $467 million worldwide, the studio found itself without talent deals for a sequel. Negotiations were heated for "The Hangover Part II," released last May, with the three principals each scoring around $5 million, according to a source, plus back-end compensation that raised their haul into the mid-teens (and counting) when the movie grossed $581 million worldwide.

For the third film, the lead actors, all represented in negotiations by CAA (with agent Jason Heyman taking the lead) and are presenting a united front. (In fact, CAA also reps writer-director Todd Phillips and writer Craig Mazin.)

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Warners hopes the next film, a Los Angeles-based story that will deviate from the forgotten-debauchery formula of the first movies, can shoot this summer and be ready for a Memorial Day 2013 release.

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That would be great news for Warners, which is saying goodbye to two of its major franchises—"Harry Potter," the final installment of which opened last July, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, which the director says will end with this July’s "The Dark Knight Rises." In addition, two movies that were on the fast-track for high-profile releases in 2013— "Akira" and "Arthur & Lancelot"—have been put on hold as the studio tries to reconcile budgetary issues. All of which increases the urgency to put a third "Hangover" on the fast track.

 “It’ll happen,” says one insider. “It’s a proven commodity, which is rare these days.”

Warner Bros. and CAA declined to comment.

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When British nightclub DJ Tony Alleyne rebuilt his apartment to resemble a spaceship from "Star Trek," he couldn't have foreseen the day when he'd have to boldly go ... someplace else.

The British tabloid The Sun reports that Alleyne's apartment, in the English town of Hinckley, is actually owned by the wife he's been separated from since 1994. Now she wants to sell, meaning he'll have to leave the space-themed home behind.

"To say I'm gutted is an understatement. It is my life's work," Alleyne told the Sun. "I admit there were tears."

He says it would cost at least 100,000 British pounds (more than $150,000 American) to redo the theme in a new apartment.

When msnbc TV reported on the apartment back in 2006, Alleyne was about to file for bankruptcy over the money spent on renovations, and said he had hoped to start a business transforming homes for other "Star Trek" fans.

Msnbc TV did another segment on Alleyne in 2007 when he was apparently also hoping to sell the tricked-out home, which includes a mock transporter.

"Most people thought I was barmy," Alleyne said at the time. "I mean, you could go spend the time down the pub or in a nightclub or whatever ... I decided to live in a spaceship." He says on his website, which bills him as a "24th century interior designer," that he became hooked on science fiction at age 11.

In the msnbc video, Alleyne, clad in a "Trek" uniform and with a bald head reminscent of "Next Generation" Captain Picard,  demonstrates that even his microwave has a snap-on panel to hide it and make it look like part of the gleaming spaceship technology. He started the project in 1997 and refitted it from the Starship Enterprise to Voyager later on.

Too bad it doesn't have a working holodeck. Would you want to live in Alleyne's apartment? Beam over to Facebook and tell us.

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Rampart takes its name from the LAPD’s scandal-plagued Rampart division, where dirty cops once rubbed shoulders with drug dealers, undocumented aliens, misfits of all sorts and terrified citizens. And the movie gives you the dirtiest cop you can imagine, a monster conjured forth from a moral sewer by director Oren Moverman and crime novelist James Ellroy— author of a series of noir novels about LAPD’s history of brutality and racism. Played by Woody Harrelson with an intensity that sears the screen, Dave Brown is a loathsome protagonist in a movie that fails to acknowledge any truly good person can possibly exist. 

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This follow-up to his acclaimed "The Messenger" (2009) finds Moverman again on the prowl for psychological truth amid heightened human emotions and tragedy. But where "The Messenger" found that truth within the trauma of war and its aftermath, "Rampart" finds only emptiness. Thanks to a fine cast and solid production values that plunge a viewer into a complex environment of pungent sights and sounds, "Rampart" could speak to some but most viewers may regard the film’s obsession with such a corrupt soul as more pretentious than enlightening.

The initial expositional scenes are surprisingly clumsy but they do strongly establish that Dave Brown is the worst sort of rogue cop. His nickname alone is a tip-off — Date Rape, in honor of the serial rapist he is alleged to have shot and killed back in the day. Just a bit street justice as far as Dave is concerned.

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In conversation, he’ll pretty much diss anyone — women, minorities, politicians, even fellow cops. Much later in the movie he makes the point that he really hates everyone and that this somehow excuses him from any accusation of chauvinism or racism but doesn’t, any more than his claim that he only hurts bad guys exonerates him from rampant vigilantism.

And go figure about his home life: He has somehow had daughters with two sisters (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon) and continues to live with them despite a high level of animosity toward him in an otherwise all-female household. You’ve got to give Moverman and Ellroy credit though for true creativity in their depiction of an evil man.

But where does all this get the filmmakers? As a viewer watches Date Rape Brown slide past episodes of brutality (one caught on camera as with Rodney King) and even murder or fabricate justifications and alibis with convoluted language for doubtful superiors, the police brass, an attorney (Sigourney Weaver) and Internal Affairs guy (Ice Cube), all that is remarkable here is that he remains in uniform.

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Nothing quite explains his Teflon-like imperviousness to responsibility for his misdeeds. Nor what greater truth Moverman and Ellroy are after here. The filmmakers want to explore recent American police scandals – the story is set in 1999 — involving corruption, planting of evidence and brutality through a single improbable character. But they never make up their minds what it all means. Brown just continues his downward spiral, making things worse for himself and more miserable for anyone around him with each passing scene.

Dave does encounter a range of personalities throughout the film from a handicapped street misfit (Ben Foster) to a randy lawyer (Robin Wright), retired cop/informant (Ned Beatty) and women he casually picks up or guys he casually beats. You keep waiting for at least one of them to make sense of what’s happening — to be a plant or a snitch or a reckoning of sorts. But, no, they’re just horny women and desperate men who have the bad luck to encounter Brown.

Moverman sets his story in an atmosphere of white noise, of background radios, street protests and snatches of random conversation. Occasionally, he’ll throw in unnecessary camera movements or rough edits — as in a sex club that Brown incongruously visits — as if the movie needs to jar the viewer even more than this character and his salacious life already have. It’s pretentious, of course, but revealing as well: Perhaps even the filmmakers lose faith in the credibility of such an impossibly bad cop and feel a need to distract you with self-conscious fidgetiness.

Harrelson goes full bore from the opening scene and there are no scenes he is not in. But the effect is wearying rather than exhilarating. The sheer repetitiveness of his evil dissipates whatever fascination this dirty cop provokes.

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When dealing with a movie called "Man on a Ledge," there are certain inescapable expectations that should go with the territory.

First of all, unless the intended meaning is a figurative one, it ought to involve an actual man perched somewhere on a ledge.

Secondly, there should be a palpable, edge-of-your-seat peril; that at any moment the individual and his ledge could part company.

To his credit, director Asger Leth ("Ghosts of Cite Soleil") gets right to the business at hand where the set-up is concerned, but it’s in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat.

There’s never the feeling that wronged cop Sam Worthington is in any real danger despite spending most of the film’s 103-minute running time clinging to his windswept Roosevelt Hotel roost, some 200 feet above 45th Street.

That’s not to say the talky picture is a complete letdown, thanks mainly to a colorful cast that has its energetic way with the B-movie dialogue (courtesy of screenwriter Pablo F. Fenjves, ghostwriter of the infamous O.J. Simpson book, "If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer") it has its entertaining moments, but it never lives up to that nail-biting potential.

The promise of something more could initially lure the thrill-seekers, but this Summit Entertainment release will likely perform best in its ancillary life.

Having recently escaped from prison, disgraced NYPD detective Nick Cassidy (Worthington) checks into the midtown Manhattan hotel, and, after ordering room service, promptly climbs out of his window and onto that tight ledge.

Is he really suicidal?  Or is this his one shot to proclaim his innocence to the quickly-swarming crowd below?  And just what is his relationship to the piranha of a businessman (Ed Harris) who’s about to unveil his new real estate venture?

It should come as no surprise that not everything is quite what it seems to be in "Man on a Ledge," but the various reveals would have been more effective if the audience had been too distracted to figure out the "Mission: Impossible"-type machinations so far in advance.

What was needed was the skill of a Sir Ridley or Tony Scott, the sort of filmmakers who can deliver on the sort of tightly-calibrated action sequences required here, constantly ratcheting up the tension.

And while much of the plot logic also appears to have been tossed out that window and the corny dialogue does Aussie Worthington and his unconvincing New York accent no favors, others in the cast, including Elizabeth Banks as a jaded NYPD negotiator and Jamie Bell as Worthington’s younger brother, manage to keep things lively.

Looking to be particularly enjoying herself is Kyra Sedgwick as a tough cookie of a New York TV reporter named Suzy Morales who elicits chuckles each time she rolls the “r” in her last name.

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Late is better than never with "The Grey," a man's-man of a genre pic that will satisfy the action audience while reminding more discerning viewers what they saw in director Joe Carnahan's decade-old breakthrough, "Narc."

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However Liam Neeson's admirers feel about the disappearance of "Kinsey"-grade fare from his filmography, the film may be the best of his lowbrow outings, casting him convincingly as a broken man getting one last chance to prove his mettle. Neeson plays a sharpshooter among brutes, hired to kill wolves that threaten the oil-company employees -- "men unfit for mankind," he calls them in a nicely mood-setting voiceover -- populating a remote Alaskan outpost.

On the verge of suicide himself, Neeson must rally when a transport plane crashes, leaving him stranded with a half-dozen other men somewhere in the wilderness. Scenes of post-crash triage deftly establish him as a man of deeper resources than his peers: As he coaches a dying man through his final moments, speaking with calm authority, Neeson and the filmmakers ground the film -- promising that none of the deaths to come will be treated lightly, however pulp-flavored the script's perils may be.

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Testosterone rages among the survivors, particularly from a violence-prone ex-con (Frank Grillo), but the film makes that energy serve the story instead of behaving (á la Carnahan's "Smokin' Aces") as if macho posturing were the whole point. Skirmishes over what to do intensify once it's clear that a nasty pack of wolves are pursuing the men, killing them territorially instead of for food, and Neeson argues they must leave the plane to seek shelter above the treeline.

Some viewers will find the movie's slog through snow and pines longer than necessary, but Carnahan and co-screenwriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers make the most of the time, wringing as much meaning as they can out of every test of courage and campfire bull session. Expected man-versus-wild, man-versus-absent-God themes ring more true than usual here, though not at the expense of the promised scares: Plenty of chase scenes and gory encounters keep tension high.

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Co-stars Dermot Mulroney and Dallas Roberts fill out supporting roles ably, lending character-actor color to the ensemble without threatening the pack's Alpha. Occasional grace notes (particularly with regard to sound editing) exhibit a subtlety unexpected from a filmmaker who just gave us "The A-Team," and even the tale's final standoff, while pandering to the more hotheaded members of the audience, manages to squeeze off one last shot of adrenaline without insulting more skeptical viewers.

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Veteran game show host Pat Sajak recalls his early days on "Wheel of Fortune" with fondness, but that has nothing to do with the show's wheeling and dealing. In fact, Sajak recently revealed that he found the show format snooze-worthy in the 1980s.

Comedian Bernie Mac died over three years ago, but his influence is still felt by comics and actors alike.

A new documentary about the late comic, "I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac," will air on Comedy Central Feb. 19, with the accompanying DVD out Feb. 21.

The documentary looks at Bernie Mac's personal and professional life, including movie clips, early footage and never-before-seen performances.

Our exclusive clip below showcases numerous celebrities, from Chris Rock to Cameron Diaz to Zoe Saldana, remembering the comedian and what he meant to them.

"His number's in my phone right now," says Rock. "I won't get rid of the number. There's only one Bernie."

Bernie Mac died of complications from pneumonia in 2008. He was just 50.

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