Common To Battle Growing Army Of Robot Killing-Machines

· Common has joined the cast of the PG-13-rated Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, as a "freedom fighter and member of [John] Connor's inner circle," who lends the future world savior the much-needed dose of hip-hop cred he'll require in battling the rising machine army. [Variety]
· Paul Dano and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's agent Warren Zavala has left Gersh for CAA's Death Starry embrace, where the new agency is planning on drinking up his client list. They drink it up! Along with babyshakes. But that's nothing new. [THR]
· "Deal or no deal?" Variety asks cheekily of the final day of SAG negotiations. Yeah, it won't be so cute when the only thing on TV is Howie Mandel's brain and a bevy of 80-year-old models, clutching titanium spacecases containing amounts from $.01 to $1,000,000,000 in NBC's 70th Anniversary Salute to the idiot-proof game show that still keeps them afloat. [Variety]
· A Two and a Half Men penned by the writers of CSI won the Monday 9 p.m. slot, in which the invisible semen-stains covering Jon Cryer were finally revealed by black light. [Variety]
· Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman, and Josh Lucas have joined the cast of Cillian Murphy-plays-husband-and-wife thriller, Peacock. [Variety]
