Cobie Smulders Pulling Down $100k A Week
· When you're done looking up her name, feel free to discuss the fact that Cobie Smulders and her castmates now make between $90,000 - $120,000 per episode of How I Met Your Mother. [THR]
· Undettered by the economy, studios are meeting NBC's exorbitant $3 million-per-half-minute Super Bowl ad fees to unveil tentpole releases like Up, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and G.I. Joe. [Variety]
· If it did nothing else, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet contributed the Spaghetti Cat censor photo (featured here, along with our proposed alternates that never really caught on) to the world, and for that, it will be sorely missed. [Mediaweek]
· Acquitted of murder, Sopranos and A Bronx Tale star Lillo Brancato Jr. still got ten years for burglary. [Variety]
· After the disaster that was last year's strike-and-Billy Bush-afflicted Golden Globes, the International Hollywood Junket Whores Association's annual kudosfest is back in swinging form. Who cares about world misery and the economy: Bring on the swag and 20-foot-high chocolatefalls! [THR]