Rosie O’Donnell will be presenting  a new variety show on NBC the night before Thanksgiving.

Rosie’s Variety Show will reportedly feature celebrity guests, as well as music, comedy skits and prize giveaways.

The hour-long live special if it is popular may lead to a new series, according to reports by the  The Hollywood Reporter.

“This is a genre that everybody is anticipating is going to come back,” said executive producer David Friedman.

“Rosie sort of invented the daytime variety show. Without question, Rosie is the right person to bring this back.”

NBC’s Craig Plestis adds: “This will reinvent the idea of what a variety show is for 2008. There’s very few performers willing to put themselves out there live.”

Didn’t we see enough of Rosie on “The View”?

The mini thespian who took part in the comedic Austin Powers spy flicks is rumored to be taking part in the Celebrity Big Brother
reality show that will start in January.

Troyer, who is 39, was linked with other rumored players such as Whitney Houston, Lembit Opik and Cliff Richard.

Earlier this year, the erstwhile actor was involved in a controversy when his former girlfriend Ranae Shrider leaked a sex tape of the duo.

Johnny Depp is just about to earn the highest up front paycheck in the history of show business for starring in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.

Show Biz, Digital Spy reports that Depp, who plays Captain Jack Sparrow in the series, will pick up 55,616,000 for the part, beating the Tom Hanks paycheck for for Da Vinci Code follow-up Angels And Demons.

An insider commented that a fourth movie in the franchise could not have gone into production without Depp onboard.”The first three films have earned $2.7billion at the box office,” said the source. “It’s no surprise that Disney executives want Jack back and they are willing to pay big bucks to get him.”

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Will Smith has agreed to star in the prequel to I Am Legend, which was announced in official capacity by Warner Bros. films this week.

Smith is going to reprise his role of the scientist, Robert Neville to offer explanation on the final days before the virus wreaks havoc to NYC.
WB confirmed the rumors that they were doing a follow up show to the blockbuster hit, and that it will be in the works for Will Smiths’ 40th birthday.

Also rumored is the screenwriter D. B. Weiss has been commissioned to write the script, according to Empire

Actor and strange baby namer, Jason Lee and his live in Ceren Alkac say hello to their first child together.
US Weekly reports that the little girl was born August 10th.

The duo haven’t given anyone a name yet, but we’ve got high hopes that Lee, who told us all in May that they were expecting a little girl, will find a name more suitable than the one he picked for his son, who is now almost five years old. (Pilot Inspektor, from another relationship)

The opening track, ‘He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot,’ absolutely blew my mind when I first heard it,” Lee explained when asked about the little boys name by Entertainment Weekly back in 2003.

He also said that it was mom Beth Riesgraf who originally coined the name, so here’s hoping that new mom has a bit more sense.

The star of “My Name is Earl” in the meantime,  is closed mouthed about whether he was actually seen waiting line for a marriage license. Stay tuned for details.

Laurence Fishburne has after some negotiation been signed to appear on CBS new season of CSI.

Nobody is talking about when William Peterson, aka Gil Grissom will be leaving the show, (although he will be staying on behind the scenes it is reported )but Fishburne will appear as a regular on the highly watched series beginning this season.

CBS network announced today that Fishburn will be introduced in the ninth episode of this season, although he will not be portraying a CSI investigator, but instead a  college lecturer and former pathologist, someone who will be more involved with and focus on the motivation of the criminal than the methods they use.

“I am elated and delighted to be joining the cast of CSI,” Fishburne has stated. “I look forward to a wonderful collaboration with the creative and talented team of such a successful and distinguished show.”