Unconfirmed report: Iron Man's wife is pregnant

Radaronline has this: "Robert Downey Jr. and his wife of six years are expecting their first child together, Star magazine is exclusively reporting. The Iron Man star and wife Susan Downey - a film producer - are due in February, and family members say they’re thrilled. “I think it’s wonderful that she’s pregnant,” Susan’s aunt, Nancy Miller, told Star in an exclusive interview. “The baby is due in February. Susan’s father, my brother, called me about three weeks ago with the good news. Her parents are over the moon about it.” Robert, 46, has an 18-year-old son, Indio, from his previous 12-year marriage to actress/singer Deborah Falconer. “It [doesn’t] really matter if it’s a boy or a girl,” Miller added. “What really matters is that the baby is healthy.” Robert is currently filming The Avengers with Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner."

UPDATE: And now it's confirmed: "Robert and Susan could not be more excited over this news," his rep tells PEOPLE. "They can't wait to welcome this new baby into their wonderful family."

A good excuse to post this again:

Cutest thing ever. Today

Nothing that can happen today is going to be better than watching this kangaroo peeking out of its mother's pouch, so you may as well go home. Via Buzzfeed.

Yummy new promo shots from Vampire Diaries

Here are Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley from EW. Just a few more weeks.

 
 
 

Trailer for Al Pacino's Wilde Salome

While you were sleeping

... brought to you by Ed O'Neill and TV-wives Katey Sagal and Sofia Vergara as Ed gets his star on the Walk of Fame. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

Haven't everybody seen this garbage already? "The mystery buyer looking to purchase Kim Kardashian's sex tape needs to muster up at least $30 million if they want a CHANCE at taking it off the market ... TMZ has learned. We spoke with Vivid Entertainment top banana Steve Hirsch ... who tells us he HAS made contact with the lawyer who's representing the mystery party interested in buying the rights to the sex tape ... and he's open to the possibility of a deal. Hirsch tells us ... "Based on its long term value, it looks like $30 million would be a starting point for a discussion on all of the rights." Hirsch adds, "I have no idea who is behind this offer ... but If it's Kim, I have a tremendous amount of respect for her. She has my number and can call me any time."

Will the next Bond movie be called Carte Blanche? Here is some rampant speculation from Bleeding Cool: "Jelena Mihailovic is a Serbian cellist and, apparently, she performed in front of Sam Mendes and some James Bond “producers” at Cannes. So “staggered” were they by what she was doing, they allegedly asked her to provide “the opening score” for Bond 23 ... Now, this info is courtesy of Blic Online, but it’s not the juiciest bit of their report. No. They also just tossed in a name for the film while they were at it. Check this out: At one of the many concerts the musician held in France during the Cannes Film Festival, the producers and the director of the next Bond film were in the audience, who were staggered by what they had heard and on the spot offered Jelena a chance to write the opening score for the new James Bond film, entitled Carte Blanche. Do we assume that Jelena used the name of the film when speaking to a reporter, not understanding that she probably shouldn’t? The plot gets even thicker: Carte Blanche is actually the name of a new James Bond novel by Jeffrey Deaver, and here’s an excerpt from the book’s plot summary on Wikipedia: [Bond] starts his assignment on the outskirts of Novi Sad in Serbia where an Irish sapper-turned-enforcer named Niall Dunne is planning to derail a train carrying three hundred kilograms of methyl isocyanate, dumping it into the Danube. Bond is able to prevent the catastrophe by derailing the train himself at a much safer place along the line. He is unable to detain Dunne, who kills Bond’s Serbian contacts in the course of his escape. This chimes nicely with reports last week that the film would feature a big set-piece on a train."

Urkel guests on House From Ausiello: "Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: House will be doing time in the pokey alongside Urkel! Former child geek Jaleel White will guest star in the Oct. 3 season premiere of House as a fellow inmate of Hugh Laurie’s titular grouch, TVLine has confirmed. White is, of course, best known for his iconic role as the suspenders-clad little Einstein at the center of the ’90s sitcom Family Matters. In recent years, the now-34-year-old actor has made guest appearances on The Game, Psych and Boston Legal. The prison-set House opener, intriguingly titled “20 Vicodin,” picks up a year after the events of May’s finale and also features a guest turn by Michael Paré (Eddie and the Cruisers) as the warden."

Daryl Hannah arrested "Daryl Hannah was among 100 people arrested Tuesday in Washington, D.C., during a sit-in in front of the White House to protest a a massive expansion of a pipeline carrying oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico. "I do believe we are in a time of crisis for so many things. And in times of crisis, you have to get engaged in the process. You have to walk your talk. Being arrested is something you never hope for. You don’t want to get arrested. But you know it's a risk you take," the Kill Bill and Splash star, noting that "Civil obedience is a long-heralded American tradition," told PEOPLE after paying a fine and being released. "The majority of people who got arrested with me were moms, grandmothers and school teachers. Like me, they are standing up against this big corporation and saying, 'No.' " Hannah, 50, whose two previous arrests related to environmental protests concerned urban gardens to coal mining," added: "Tar sands are the worst environmental atrocity. This pipeline would extend over the nation's largest freshwater aquafiers that 20 million people depend on for water. "A third of the nation's irrigation water comes from there. What's going to happen when that pipeline leaks? We can’t take that risk." (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque).

Apropos of Doug Ford's monorail

John Barrowman is not a fan of flying

Neither am I, but I would pretend to be in order to hold his hand and calm him down. This is from The New York Times' Frequent Flier column:

"People who watch “Torchwood,” or actually any show, associate the characters on it with the actors. So when people see me at an airport or on the plane with them, they don’t see John Barrowman, the actor. Instead, they expect me to have a lot of the same qualities as my character, Capt. Jack Harkness, the immortal, time-traveling guy and leader of a secret organization called Torchwood that saves the world from aliens.
I get it. But, man, I’m not that guy.
When the show was moved to the United States with Starz this year, I was flying back and forth from Britain a lot while I was looking for a home in the States.
I’ve actually had seatmates ask me to hold their hands during rocky flights. I oblige, but little do they know that I’m really the guy who wants to scream for my mom to hold my hand. I do find helping someone else calms me down. As does alcohol.
I fly Virgin Atlantic a lot and the service is always incredible. The attendants really believe in customer service. But they believe in it so much it was almost a problem for me.
The flight I was taking was really turbulent and an attendant could see that I was getting nervous. She came over to me and was being really solicitous. Passengers were looking at me kind of weird, like, “What’s wrong with this guy?” I finally asked her if she could grab a magazine and pretend she was showing me something.
There’s always that fear that some sci-fi fan is on board and will shoot video and plaster it up on YouTube with me whimpering like a 2-year-old girl. The producers might frown on that.
I do, however, love our fans, and don’t mind signing autographs in airports or on planes. Several years ago, I was flying from London to Orlando. Most of the passengers were on holiday for Easter weekend. There were tons of children on board.
The attendant came up to me and said passengers saw me come on the plane and were talking about me. During the flight, the attendants were going to do some games and raffles with the kids. She wondered if I would help out and play the role of Captain Jack.
It was a lot of fun, especially when they asked me to make an announcement as Captain Jack. I got on the speaker and said: “Ladies and gentleman, this is Captain Jack Harkness. Welcome. Let me assure you, there are no aliens on board.” I think I heard a couple of folks muttering, “Thank God.”
The kid’s drawing contest was pretty funny, since a few of them drew Captain Jack with the Easter Bunny. Maybe that will make it on a show.
Science-fiction fans have very strong opinions about things. Actually, everything. A lot of characters on our show have been killed. Well, actually, everyone but me and Eve [the actress Eve Myles] has been killed off. When Ianto Jones, my love interest, died last season, a lot of fans were really angry.
I was flying in Britain on a small puddle-jumper and was seated next to a fan. Everything was great and the guy seemed really polite. Then he started talking about Ianto, and wouldn’t stop. I wanted to say, “Dude, seriously, Ianto’s not real.” But didn’t.
I also wanted to throw myself out the window. But unlike Captain Jack, I’m not immortal, so that wasn’t an option either.'

By John Barrowman, as told to Joan Raymond.

And let's not waste an opportunity to watch this again even though it has nothing to do with anything.

Worst music video ever. Today

Sometimes it's a great blessing to only get to see one minute instead of the whole thing.

The continued adventures of Baldwin and Krasinski

No, you can't have one

This is an African Golden Cat and this is, apparently, the first time one has been filmed. Via The Daily What.