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The Fighter
Christian Bale and Melissa Leo give knockout Oscar winning performances in director David O. Russell's inspirational, against all odds true story of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward and his trainer brother Dick Eklund. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, the drama chronicles the brothers' early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Massachusetts through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London, a powerful journey that united his fractured family and brought pride to his blue collar hometown.
 

The Buzz...

Simon Cowell stopped by Piers Morgan Tonight to talk about his reality shows, past and present. He tells Morgan that Idol has definitely seen an improvement this year. "I personally think it is a better show than last year," Cowell says. "It feels to me they've got their energy back, they're confident, they're competitive. And I said to everybody on The X Factor, if you think 'Idol's' gonna be the same as last year, think again."

Before he sheared those curly locks to play the buttoned down Blaine on Glee, Darren Criss made a bid for fame/romance on a Fuse dating show. The short lived You Rock, Let's Roll enjoyed a one season run in 2008, and, during a recent repeat, someone recognized one of the contestants and sent the info to a Criss fan site.

Former That '70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama will (possibly) return to network TV in NBC's drama pilot REM. Valderrama is one of five actors who have been cast in the pilot.

If life just hasn't been the same for you since Larry King left CNN suspender less and stuck with Piers Morgan, you may be in luck. After an initial report from the New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Comedy Central has spoken with King about coming on board The Daily Show as an occasional contributor.

Skylar Grey, the woman singing the biggest hooks of the past year, has been signed to Interscope Records. Most recently, Grey has appeared on Dr. Dre and Eminem’s I Need a Doctor, Lupe Fiasco’s Words I Never Said, Diddy Dirty Money’s Coming Home and the original version of Eminem’s Love The Way You Lie.

Gilbert Gottfried’s Aflac duck is no more: After the actor tweeted a series of insensitive jokes following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the insurance company announced it was parting ways with the actor, who famously voices the Aflac duck in the popular commercials.

Hereafter, the Clint Eastwood film that dramatically recreates a tsunami, has been pulled from Japanese theaters after the earthquake and flooding in Japan.

Count Disney among those who don't wish to live on a Yellow Submarine. The studio has abandoned Robert Zemeckis' stop motion homage to the Beatles. The move looks smart after the Zemeckis produced Mars Needs Moms flopped at the box office last weekend. The family film, made with similar motion capture technology, cost $150 million to make. It brought in a limp $6.9 million in its opening weekend.

It seems that a sex tape Usher filmed with his ex-wife, Tameka Foster, is being shopped around to celebrity websites. TMZ reports that they were sent screen grabs by a seller interested in making a deal with the company.

You can call it the unofficial 2011 YouTube tour. Greyson Chance and Cody Simpson, both discovered on YouTube (Chance – Ellen, Simpson – Shawn Campbell, producer for Jay-Z among others) are touring together this spring.