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Stephen Baldwin is coming out with a new book called, 'The Unusual Suspect' -- a play on the title of one of Stephen's most popular films, 'The Usual Suspects.'

Baldwin is discussing the book in a new exclusive podcast on AOL Books between AOL Book Maven Bethanne Patrick and Baldwin.

The book - and Baldwin's discussion with AOL - looks at Stephen's journey from criminal to Christian. He admits that it is "unusual that God would use somebody like me to be a part of representing him and preaching the gospel."

A bag worn by Anne Hathaway in the film has been so popular that it is now on back order until August 1st. The brown distressed studded handbag designed by the film's stylist, Patricia Field, (who also styled every fashionista's favorite TV show 'Sex and the City') "transforms from clutch to tote and pairs with everything from denim to silk."

Making it even more delicious is the fact that the bag retails for just $79.95. It may not be Prada but that's still a devilishly good deal.

Other items on the site include a $14.99 baby tee and a $12.99 tank top which feature the supermodel mantra of "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight" written across the front.

If the online boutique is any indicator of the movie's box-office, expect 'The Devil Wears Prada' to be in fashion all summer long.

American photographers may be irritating to the stars they shoot, but they rarely boo. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn found out the hard way that it's not always the same across the pond.

While touring to promote thier movie, 'The Break-Up,' the couple posed -- separately -- for a mob of media in Hamburg. This fits with their long-standing tendency to not be photographed together. But the German photographers wanted a two-shot, and loudly cajoled Vince to join Jennifer under the lights.

Finally, Vince did step forward, but only with the film's director, Peyton Reed, standing between Vaughn and Aniston. This teasing maneuver only further upset the media, whose voices swelled with groans and boos.

Jack Black was surrounded by a group of men in tights last night for the premiere of his latest film, 'Nacho Libre.' In the movie Black plays the title role, a cook-turned-free-style wrestler.

"Well you know, Nacho, he has a few different loves in his life," says Jack of his character. "He loves the Lord, he loves the children, he loves lucha libre, and he also secretly loves a nun and it's forbidden so he can't tell anybody. He's tortured in his heart."

The sexy Ana de la Reguera plays the nun in question and says that Black's derriere was a draw to the film. "Well yeah, I think he has a nice butt, so I was like ooh!" she said jokingly. "He knows how to, you know, do things with that. So that's good."

Apparently Black and his behind are a hot commodity with six other films on his plate, including 'The Holiday' with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jude Law, 'Be Kind, Rewind' with Kirsten Dunst and pet project 'Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny,' which is slated for a November 17 release.

One of the largest celebrity-filled events of the year hit LA Sunday afternoon at the Time for Heroes Celebrity Carnival sponsored by Disney.

Parents and children were invited to attend the festivities as some of Hollywood's hottest volunteered their time working carnival-style game booths. The event is a benefit for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and is expected to raise more then $1 million.

Some of the heavy hitters in attendance included Kobe Bryant, Marcia Cross, Kristin Cavallari and Stacy Keibler.

On June 28, the world will finally get a good look at perhaps the most anticipated movie hero of the decade. Yes, in just a few short weeks, 'Superman Returns.' Brandon Routh, who plays the dreamy alien hero (as well as his bumbling alter-ego, Clark Kent) has a lot to live up to. Few actors were as beloved as Christopher Reeve, who donned the red cape 25 years ago.

But Brandon has some friends in his corner, including Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth, who play Lex Luthor and Lois Lane, respectively. Spacey says, "He embodies what people want out of their Superman."

Bosworth says that after her audition with Routh that she didn't care if she got the role or not, but that "it's going to be such a great film, and you're gonna be great. You really are."

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed Monday a lower court's decision that Maureen Marder gave up her rights to the film when she signed a release with Paramount Pictures Corp. on Dec. 6, 1982, giving up her interest in the project for $2,300.

The three-judge panel noted in its ruling that the agreement, in hindsight, "appears to be unfair," but said "there is simply no evidence that her consent was obtained by fraud, deception, misrepresentation, duress or undue influence."

News today that YouTube has shot yet another viral video star into the Hollywood firmament makes us wonder: What the hell is happening?

Variety reports that Carson Daly has signed a barely-out-of-her-teens Brooke "Brookers" Brodack to a talent/development deal, "making the 20-year-old the first talent to emerge, in an official capacity, from the online service."

Of course, the talent that emerges in an unofficial capacity is legion, too. Consider Justin Laipply, the Evolution of Dance creator whose routine has gotten 18 million
viewings on YouTube.

Meanwhile, last month, mySpace became, semi-officially at least, the farm team for Fox Atomic and Fox Broadcasting. David Lehre, a 21 year old kid whose short (only 11 minutes) film "mySpace: The Movie" shot him out of osbscurity in the hinterlands of Michigan to meetings with studios and networks.

When Fox paid half a billion for mySpace, it seemed like they might have overpaid. Now, it seems like they got a bargain. Or have they?

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Anthony Michael Hall, who played the awkward geek in '80s teen movies "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club," says he doesn't try to forget his early career.

"To be part of some films that people have grown up with -- it's amazing," the 38-year-old Hall told reporters recently, according to AP Radio. "I'm often stunned by it. It's actually very humbling."

More than 20 years later, Hall has gone from geek to reluctant psychic as the star of USA's "The Dead Zone." The series' fifth season starts Sunday (10 p.m. EDT).

Call it car-ma: 'Cars' has met an 'An Inconvenient Truth.' It won't be the panacea for Hollywood's box office malaise. The Pixar film's $62.8 million opening weekend was less than Hollywood was expecting (maybe because it failed to feature any hybrids?) but it's paltry only when compared with what the last two Pixar movies have done.

Of course, that won't stop a few snarky comments from being uttered about the movie's slightly-under-expectations opening, as you can see in the Los Angeles Times today: "Pixar is like the parent who has a straight-A student: One day the child comes home with a B-plus," said Anthony Valencia, an analyst at money management firm TCW in Los Angeles.

But what's really vexing Hollywood isn't opening weekend -- it's the weekend after that.

Cleese, one of the founders of the comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, said he plans to write a history of stage, film and TV comedy, from silent screen classics to the workplace sitcom "The Office."

"I'm too old to write new comedy," Cleese, 66, was quoted as saying Monday by The Times newspaper. "I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game." Cleese told the newspaper the book would range from "the greats of silent cinema to Ricky Gervais, who is the height of modern entertainment."

The British comedian, who now lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., said too much TV comedy today is targeted at "American teenage kids." "My generation prized really fine acting and writing," Cleese said. "Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."

TMZ talked with Hollywood's heavy hitters Thursday night at The Recording Academy Honors to find out when was the moment they knew -- without a doubt -- they had officially made it to the big time. Randy Jackson, Bow Wow and 'X-Men: The Last Stand' director Brett Ratner revealed their defining moments.

Despite a lucrative career, hit films and A-list status, Reeves has seen his share of heartache.

His best friend and fellow actor, River Phoenix, overdosed at 23. Reeve's baby daugher was stillborn at 8 months. Then the baby's mother, whom he loved dearly, died in a tragic car accident a few years later. And now his younger sister is fighting leukemia.

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