Now it looks like Time Warner is trying to get in the game to buy MGM, according to Reuters. The interest is in response to Sony's $5 billion bid for the studio earlier this week.

Kill Bill Vol. 2's Budd, Michael Madsen, tells About.com that Quentin Tarantino looks as if he's finally going to go ahead with his Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs prequel The Vega Brothers. Tarantino's been kicking around the idea that features the characters Vic "Mr. Blonde" Vega (Madsen) and Vincent Vega, John Travolta's Pulp hitman.

Never ones to disappoint, The Smoking Gun posts the papers from the Friends harassment lawsuit.

The website of a fake company claiming the successful cloning of dead children, created to promote the upcoming Robert DeNiro film Godsend, has apparently "fooled" anti-cloning activists into creating a petition to stop them.

FOX is considering buying the TV rights to Mel Gibson's wildly successful examination of faith as an exercise in torture, The Passion of the Christ.

This is what is definitely going to happen at the movies this weekend. Predictions are for recreational purposes only, and should not cost any studio executives their jobs, however hilarious that might be.

Once again, Hollywood looks into the idea cupboard, finds it bare, and starts rooting around in the wastebasket for a half-eaten donut. MGM is remaking the Rodney Dangerfield/pre-legal-problem Robert Downey Jr. classic Back to School. Cedric the Entertainer, who is currently reimagining Chevy Chase in Johnson Family Vacation, will update the Dangerfield role.

Variety reports that Lord of the Rings team Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens are in talks to direct the adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel The Lovely Bones.

Don't expect to see the long-promised fourth Indiana Jones installment any time soon. Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas are all tied up in projects that will likely delay the film's release until 2006. (Paramount originally slated it for the Fourth of July holiday next year.)

An appeals court is reinstating an ex-Friends writers' assistant's harassment lawsuit against the show's writers. The woman claims that the writers constantly joked about sex and women, and even went so far as to make sexual gestures in the workplace. (Ed. note—We've always been a sucker for the one where you stick your finger in a little "o" you make with your other hand and move it in and out. Comedy gold!)

In his amusing, wow-L.A.-is-a-wacky-place! diary for Slate, visiting British writer/food critic Toby Young dines at The Ivy and is totally unimpressed. What L.A. restaurant does impress him? Matsuhisa? Dantana's? Koi?

The Smoking Gun is tired of hearing claims that The Apprentice winner Bill Rancic built his internet-based cigar company into a mutlimillion dollar "empire." They've obtained a document from the company's sale, which shows a price of $425,000.

Wherein we attempt to translate the humpy gabber's gossipspeak into Standard American English:

In a bit of unexpected fallout from the coming NBC-Universal merger, Variety reports that NBC Enterprises chief Ed Wilson has left his position.

Poguego.com (a self-labeled gay blog, or "glog") gives their pics of the gayest films ever.

TBS is unveiling a $50 million campaign to rebrand themselves (slogan: "Very Funny") as the place to go for comedy programming.

If you're anything like us, you spend a good portion of your day staring at the stereo, wishing that there were more bands featuring celebrities. Your CDs —Keanu's Dogstar and Becky, Russell Crowe's Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, the Bacon Brothers—all have had more lasers run across them than Catherine Zeta-Jones' face.

The plot of the Friends finale is not being kept the huge secret that we might expect. Says executive producer/reputed taskmaster Marta Kauffman:

Low Culture jumps all over Page Six's abominable proofreading of the writers' strike item.

Page Six reports that talk of a Writers' Guild strike (which we tipped you off to a few days ago) is heating up. Top-level screenwriters very recently huddled at New York's Harmonie Club and talked strategy.