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Is Amanda Bynes still working?

Trisch, we last saw Amanda Bynes as the spunky Holly Tyler on the finale of "What I Like About You," but she's still out there working. She'll be seen in next summer's musical "Hairspray," with John Travolta. Bynes will also be starring in "Sydney White and the Seven Dorks" – a comedic remake of "Snow White," based around college freshmen who've gone greek.

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Contrary to popular belief, Beyoncé Knowles is not angry.

After the debut of her rage-filled video for "Ring the Alarm," everyone wondered if she had flipped her diva lid. Beyoncé tells Elle magazine that she just "didn't want to do another album full of love songs. I did that last time. It's boring."

Miss B nixes rumors that the song is about her boyfriend, Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z, cheating on her with pop star Rihanna: "There's nothing to read into. Sorry to disappoint you!" Okay.

Beyoncé does reveal that her public image is the calculated hard work of many people. "I have a team and we've been working together since I was 15, so every show, earring, every shade of eye shadow is all something that comes from me and my team." You don't say.

Beyoncé let go of her mad-as-hell persona to give a raw and honest performance in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls." Knowles' acting coach, Ivanna Chubbuck (don't you?), admits that the bootylicious star wrestled with demons. "We went really deep. It was like therapy." Get me a couch.

Read the entire interview in the December issue of Elle magazine.

Lindsay appeared on the gabber with director Emilio Estevez, publicizing the film "Bobby." A reserved Emilio defended the party girl's professionalism, saying she was on time to the set -- quite unlike her publically chastized experience on "Georgia Rule" this past summer.

Since her film performance elicited a rave review from Oprah, no doubt Linds will celebrate by "dancing with friends" tonight at Hyde.

The highly anticipated "Bobby" opens in New York and Los Angeles November 17.

Playing a blonde James Bond is no easy mission. Daniel Craig steps into the super-spy shoes of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan (sorry George Lazenby, you did nothing for the franchise), and he's got the bruises to prove it!

"I lost a cap but that was the least of my worries," says Craig of his on-set accidents. "I had bruises. I was battered everyday. I had a black eye. You always get hit where the padding isn't."

In previous installments, while Halle Berry and Ursula Andress left us agape with barely-there bathing suits, but it's Daniel's hot Bond-bod sporting sexy trunks in "Casino Royale." His secret for looking so damned good in the short shorts? Five days a week in the gym. "There is no secret. Push weights, run around." Somebody does it better.

Jerry Seinfeld called on funny buddy Chris Rock to appear in a live-action trailer for Jerry's animated DreamWorks flick, "Bee Movie," where the comedic twosome are dressed as insects. In a case of art imitating life, a joke about Rock's wife seems just a tad buggy today.

In the trailer, Jerry, dressed as a bee, thanks Chris for appearing, to which Rock, in a fly outfit, responds, "You're going to come to my wife's book signing, right?"

Rock filed for divorce from his wife, Malaak Compton-Rock, on November 3. This gag might bug him now.

Steve Irwin's choice to play him in a movie: Australian actor Eric Bana.

Irwin's best friend and producer, John Stainton, tells "EXTRA" that the late Crocodile Hunter was so impressed with Bana's performance in "Munich," he approached the actor with a prophetic request. "He raced up to Eric on the red carpet and said "Eric, you gotta promise me one thing mate ... you gotta play me when I die."

While no movie is in the works, Stainton did make this promise: "If we ever did make a movie I would have to get Eric Bana and try to honor that."

Stainton also has high hopes for Irwin's eight year-old daughter Bindi, who's remained preternaturally poised since her father's death in September. "I said to him [Steve] before he died, 'you're gonna have to be prepared for the fact that Bindi is going to eclipse you as a star in the world,' and he said 'bring it on, bring it on.'"

The sweaty and notoriously smelly hunk revealed his more modest side by not showing his pectacular chest.

We enjoy every opportunity to view his rippedness, but the bongo boy appears to wear a shirt once a year for his birthday.

In the last eight years, six Academy Award-winning actresses have lost their B-list men on the heels of their Oscar wins. Whether it's a symptom of living in the shadows of their celebrated spouses, or just a wacky coincidence, their fellas can't seem to deal with Oscar being the other man.

For your consideration, TMZ takes a look inside the so-called "Oscar Curse."

Julia Roberts

Just three months after winning her 2001 Best Actress Oscar for "Erin Brockovich," Julia Roberts ended her relationship with sexy boyfriend Benjamin Bratt. The couple split amid rumors that Ben wanted Julia to work less and settle down. Apparently, that didn't fly with Roberts, but love didn't elude the "Pretty Woman" for very long. A year later, she married cameraman Danny Moder, with whom she had twins.

The funnymen were snapped marching down the street, sporting "Mrs. Pitt" and "Mrs. Timberlake" t-shirts. Even though we wish they were wearing these shirts of their own free will, they were just in wardrobe for a gay pride parade scene being shot on the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday.

Fans of this comedic duo will to have to be patient -- the flick doesn't hit theaters till next July.

Not letting any grass grow since getting canned by Viacom's Sumner Redstone, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner are setting up shop under the resurrected United Artists/MGM banner, with Tom and Paula getting full control of the company's production slate, and Wagner taking the title of CEO of UA.

The reborn studio, originally formed by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith, will purportedly give producers, writers, directors and actors a talent-friendly production environment, assuming, of course, that they take no shots at Scientology. Cruise and Wagner have produced films with worldwide box office grosses exceeding $2.9 billion.

In a deleted clip available only on TMZ from her online-for-download movie "Incubus," which can be found on RED, AOL's teen-oriented web venture, Reid flexes her thespian muscles in a couple harrowing scenes. The former teen scream queen finds herself having to kill a bound and dying man at his creepy request, and then, in the long tradition of the This-feels-really-good-but-wait-is that-blood-down-there? horror scene, has to contend with the fact that her menses seem a bit, well, heavier than usual.

It's all a bit too much for poor Tara to take, and she crumples into a little ball with mental and physical exhaustion. She seemed to have recovered on Halloween night with her Santa-cularly revealing costume, however, as documented faithfully by TMZ.

Prior to the red carpets and acting accolades, Kate tells Parade magazine she grew up being called "blubber" and sought comfort in the arms of her first love Stephen Tredre.

Regarding Tredre, Winslet says, "He was the most important person in my life. My life revolved around him." In 1994, Tredre was diagnosed with bone cancer and Kate rushed to his side.

In late '97, the same week that the movie that would make her a household name, "Titanic", opened, Tredre died. Kate says it was "unbelievably heartbreaking."

Winslet managed to pick up the pieces and, after a failed marriage to James Threapleton which produced her daughter Mia, eventually fell in love with Mendes. In 2003, the NY-based couple had a son, Joe.

With her career and personal life now at the top of their game, Kate's life couldn't be better. "I love being married to Sam and I love motherhood more than anything."

The bumbling journalist paid a visit to American radio personality Howard Stern this morning and spoke freely about his deep love for Mel and his even deeper love for the ladies (he has had syphilis 15 times). Listen to the audio clip for Borat's words of Kazakhstan wisdom.

"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" will make sexy time with American screens this Friday.

I heard a long time ago that Green Day was planning on turning "American Idiot" into a movie. Is that still happening?

Melody, people have been very quiet about this could-be movie for a while, but it seems as though it will in fact come into fruition.

With ideas for the flick pouring in, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong confirmed to MTV in an interview over the summer that "it's definitely going to happen." But don't expect to see the band members on screen -- they're leaving that to the professionals.

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It's always Halloween in Helena Bonham Carter's world.

Helena strolled through London on Monday, and although she wasn't begging for change, her homeless chic ensemble seems more appropriate for a bag lady than an Oscar nominee.

While it may be chilly in London, we think Helena should ditch the 'everything and the kitchen sink' fashion motif and buy a proper coat instead.

The Kazakhstani journalist, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, was on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last night raving about his long-awaited return to the single scene while bashing his deceased spouse.

Borat claims he's already on the hunt for someone to fill her shoes. His type: "I like yellow hairs, little plow experience and preference little or no history of retardation."