Seeing Simon and Brickell Down by the Courthouse

(AP) — Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges by officers investigating a family dispute, but the couple held hands in court Monday and said they did not feel threatened by the other.

 Simon told a Norwalk Superior Court judge that he had a rare argument with his wife Saturday night at their home in New Canaan.

 The arrest struck a discordant note for the couple. Simon burst onto the national stage with his former partner Art Garfunkel in the 1960s, adding a gentle voice to the growing chorus of opposition to the Vietnam War. Brickell, meanwhile, gained fame for her songs that blend rock, folk, blues and jazz.

 A caller from the singers' home dialed 911 Saturday night and hung up, police chief Leon Krolikowski said at a news conference Monday. Officers who responded found minor injuries and believed it was a case of domestic violence, he said.

 Simon and Brickell, who have been married for more than two decades, were each given a misdemeanor summons and one of them agreed to leave and go to another location, Krolikowski said.

 "There was aggressiveness on both sides," he said. "They're both victims and they have children involved and we're trying to be very cautious of that." More

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Who 'Sabotaged' Arnold?: Latest Film Bombs

 Not even. Sure, his new flick was so dwarfed by the "Noah" marketing blitz that you can be forgiven if you didn't know there was a new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie this weekend. But there was, and "Sabotage," which cost an estimated $35 million to make, earned a mere $5.3 million over the weekend.

 "Arnold has been a box-office bust in the U.S. ever since he came back from his political tour of duty, and even before that his star was steadily falling," says Exhibitor Relations senior box-office analyst Jeff Bock. "'Sabotage' is Arnie's worst debut of his career, when adjusted for inflation. Ouch."

His age isn't helping him either.

"At nearly 70, he's not quite believable as the Action Jackson he once was," Bock says. "Plus, Liam Neeson is getting all the scripts that are actually good, whereas Arnie gets the Z-grade scripts nowadays."

Then again, if you suspect that all translates into retirement for Schwarzenegger, think again. The world doesn't end at the Eastern seaboard — a lucky fact of geography for the Styrian Oak.

"The big money for Arnold is made back on DVD sales overseas," says casting director Bonnie Gillespie, author of "Self-Management for Actors." "He's untouchable."

In fact, Arnie is not only surviving via worldwide sales; he's thriving. His Ulmer Scale rating? A whopping 98, which means that film financiers stand a 98 percent chance of recouping their investment in worldwide upfront sales before a single frame of a movie is even shot...More

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Tacky Miley Takes Dig at Katy's Diss Kiss

 After Katy Perry had less than kind words for Miley Cyrus regarding their now infamous kiss at her Bangerz concert in Los Angeles in February, Miley is hitting back where it hurts -- taking a dig at Katy and her reportedly now ex-boyfriend John Mayer.

 It all started with Katy's appearance on Australian talk show Sunrise Tuesday, when she was asked to comment on her and Miley's much-publicized kiss.

 "I just walked up to her to give her like a friendly girly kiss, you know, as girls do, and then she like tried to move her head and go deeper and I pulled away," she said. "God knows where that tongue has been. We don't know! That tongue is so infamous!"

 Not surprisingly, Cyrus wasn't too pleased with her comments, and responded Wednesday.

Clearly, Miley's alluding to the reports that Katy has split with her on-and-off boyfriend -- and notorious serial dater -- John Mayer....More

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Fox Bullied into Cutting Satan from Bible Film

 Scenes with an actor who played the devil but looked a lot like President Barack Obama have been edited out of the upcoming movie Son of God, one of the producers told The Hollywood Reporter.

"It gives me great pleasure to tell you that the devil is on the cutting-room floor. This is now a movie about Jesus, the son of God, and the devil gets no more screen time," said Roma Downey, who produced the movie with her husband, Mark Burnett.

 The film, which 20th Century Fox opens on Feb. 28, is primarily a reshaped version of the The Bible, last year's hit TV miniseries that featured actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni as Satan.

For Son of God, the 10-hour miniseries needed to be cut down to the two hours or so that focuses on Jesus; Downey says they went out of their way to leave the controversial Satan out of the film.

 A year ago, bloggers immediately noted the similarities between the Satan of The Bible miniseries and Obama and side-by-side comparisons went viral. Burnett, Downey and History, which aired the show, each issued statements supporting the president and slamming those that made the " connection," as History put it, between Obama and Satan....More

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The Grimm Face of NY Politics

New York rep admits he “verbally took the reporter to task” in an unapologetic response to the incident.

 A New York congressman accosted a reporter after President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, reportedly threatening to throw him off a balcony on Capitol Hill.

 The congressman accosted Scott after their brief interview on Grimm’s reaction to the president’s speech. Scotto had attempted to ask Grimm about alleged campaign corruption, when the congressman refused to speak off topic and abruptly walked off camera.

 But the camera kept rolling after Scotto tossed back to the anchors, when Grimm returned and verbally accosted the reporter...More

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Gadot Defends Her Being Mis-Cast as Wonder Woman

 Gal Gadot isn't worried about being too slight to fill Wonder Woman's red boots - or bustier, for that matter.

 In her first interview since being cast as Wonder Woman in the "Man of Steel" sequel, Gadot told the Hebrew-language entertainment show "Good Evening With Gai Pines," "I represent the Wonder Woman of the new world," according to a translation posted on Batman News.

 Responding to criticism that she lacks the curves of Lynda Carter, the previous actress to portray Wonder Woman on screen, Gadot said, "Breasts… anyone can buy for 9,000 shekels and everything is fine. By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book'…it'd be problematic. Gadot is planning to add some muscle, however.

 The former model and beauty queen who completed her two-year mandatory service in the Israeli Army has already begun a "very serious training regimen" that includes Kung Fu, kickboxing, swords and Jujutsu, she said.

 "I'll gain body mass," she told the Israeli TV show.

 Before landing the part opposite Superman's Henry Cavill and Batman's Ben Affleck, Gadot was best known for her role as Gisele in the " Fast & Furious" movies. The 28-year-old actress got the news from her agent just after her flight from Israel landed in New York. "She says to me 'Wonder Woman!' and I'm like 'What?' - 'The role is yours … and it's a secret and the news is not yet announced and you can't tell anyone, I'm saying to her 'Are you serious?' - and we both scream!"

 "Now it's a plane from Israel to New York and I can't make loud noise, so I lean on a window, bending down to my legs and just trying to understand."...More

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Selena Gomez F-Bombs, Then Walks Off Stage

Meltdown alert! Selena Gomez didn't have the best night at KIIS FM's 2013 Jingle Ball. The 21-year-old star got held up during her performance on stage when her audio and mic malfunctioned. Her reaction? The "Slow Down" singer dropped the f-bomb and later walked off stage before finishing her set. See more pics of Selena here.

 "Sorry, the sound isn't working!" Gomez was heard yelled to the crowd. "Are you guys having a good night? I promise, a lot cooler people are gonna come out tonight," Gomez continued. "Is it okay if I perform two more songs and you guys can get to it?"

 But it didn't get any better. Clearly agitated, Gomez continued to speak to the crowd hoping the issue would quickly be resolved. "I have to thank you guys so much for allowing me to be able to perform the music that I love," Gomez said. "And I have to say that before you guys go on to the people that you care about, I really appreciate you supporting everything that I do. So this next song is the first song I had hit No. 1, and it's called 'Come & Get It.'"

 After the song, Justin Bieber's ex decided to leave the stage instead of finishing her set -- to a crowd filled with mostly children. "She was pissed doing the next song and she said two more songs," an eyewitness tells Us Weekly. "[She] didn't do the last one." Source

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Baldwin Booted from TV Over Gay Outbursts

 MSNBC has pulled Alec Baldwin's talk show Up Late off the air for at least the next two weeks following the actor's public outburst that included an anti-gay slur, according to a statement on the Up Late website.

 "I would like to address the comments I made this past week," Baldwin wrote. "I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have — and for that I am deeply sorry. Words are important. I understand that, and will choose mine with great care going forward. What I said and did this week, as I was trying to protect my family, was offensive and unacceptable. Behavior like this undermines hard-fought rights that I vigorously support. I understand Up Late will be taken off the schedule for tonight and next week. I want to apologize to my loyal fans and to my colleagues at MSNBC — both for my actions and for distracting from their good work. Again, please accept my apology."

 Several hours after winning his court case against his accused stalker, Baldwin lashed out at a paparazzo, allegedly calling him a "c---sucking f--." TMZ posted footage of the incident, which Baldwin refuted, saying that it was clear he called the pap a "fathead." Still, after GLAAD rep Rich Ferraro noted that "c---sucker" also falls under the category of an anti-gay slur, Baldwin apologized and promised to retire that word from his vocabulary....More

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