Well, after much speculation over exactly how this movie would shape up, the Ryan Gosling movie in which he falls for a doll finally has a trailer. Lars and the Real Girl certainly looks bizarre, but also funnier than I thought it would be.

Gosling's character Lars, a loner-type who seems to have issues with dating real human women, orders a life-size doll off the internet and insists that he is dating her. He tells his friends and family that "Bianca" is a "missionary," which is most likely a reference to the missionary position probably described on the Bianca's packaging. The adorable Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson also star.

This strange romantic indie screens at the Toronto Film Festival in September before opening in limited release October 12. To see the trailer, read more

What?
Live-action talking animals. Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book. Natural-history filmmaker John Downer (whose 2004 lion "drama-documentary" Pride was nominated for an Emmy). Put all together you have a live-action version of The Jungle Book in the works.

How?
According to Variety, "[Downer] will shoot in the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in India and intercut this footage with footage of trained animals shot both on jungle sets in the U.K. and against bluescreens."

A little refresher...
"Kipling's Jungle Books tell the story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. He's kidnapped by monkeys and rescued by his animal friends, including Baloo the Bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python. But when it comes to fighting the tiger Sher Khan, Mowgli must do that on his own."

So, why now?
There have already been a few live-action film versions of the movie made, but Downer claims, "My ambition is to use pioneering digital and wildlife filming techniques to portray one of the greatest stories of all time just as the author intended — with real live talking animals inhabiting the jungle world of Kipling's India."

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Well, Nigel Lythgoe's plan to keep spoilers from leaking about the "So You Think You Can Dance" final four worked like a charm, even though the couples in question are well on their way to performing their routines for the finale. The dragged-out wait for results this week only made me more anxious to see which guy and which girl would not be advancing to the finals.

On the girls' side, Lacey was the first to get through to the finals, leaving what I thought was a fairly easy choice between Lauren and Sabra for the final round. The guys' side seemed a bit tougher, with Danny making it through first and the second slot coming down to Neil vs. Pasha. To see who made it in, read more

Recently I wondered where the great comedic parts were for all the great comedic ladies in Hollywood, and many of you said you'd love to see more of the hilarious Kristen Wiig. A regular on "Saturday Night Live," Wiig was also seen in Knocked Up playing Alison's (Katherine Heigl) catty and insecure coworker. Now she has a couple more opportunities to do her hilarious thing.

In Ghost Town, Wiig will star opposite Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. She'll play "the surgeon of Gervais' character in the David Koepp-directed comedy, which centers on a dentist (Gervais) who has a near-death experience during routine surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living."

Then she'll go on to play the female lead in Pretty Bird, an indie comedy that also stars Billy Crudup and Paul Giamatti. Soon, however, we can find her in The Brothers Solomon this September, and this December's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (which also has Jenna Fischer!). I'm glad we don't have to wait too long to see this funny lady in more roles.

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Here's the story of this TV season in a nutshell: Networks put on new shows. Networks cancel new shows. Networks promise to bring back the canceled shows so dedicated fans can get some bit of closure. Well, now we can add a new step to the process: Networks cancel the canceled shows again, further frustrating fans who had waited months for the supposed resolution and now are unlikely to get it at all.

ABC got into the act this week, canceling "The Knights of Prosperity" and "The Nine" for a second time after just two episodes each. They must have taken a lesson from Fox, which moved the date of the final two episodes of "Drive" several times before finally deciding against putting the episodes on TV at all.

In all these cases, the presumed reason behind pulling the show yet again is low ratings. But how could the networks have expected anything else? We viewers take risks when we make time for new shows, and when they get pulled mid-season, that chips away at our trust and makes us less likely to return. With me so far? Then read more

If that This is Next compilation I told you about a while back is trying to catapult indie music into the mainstream, then Guilt by Association is taking mainstream songs way, way more indie. The compilation, which will be released in early September, finds artists such as Devendra Banhart, Luna and Will Oldham reinterpreting their favorite guilty-pleasure pop songs, covering artists ranging from Oasis to the High School Musical cast.

Four songs are up on the album's MySpace page, including Petra Hayden's fun, layered take on karaoke-and-"Sopranos" favorite "Don't Stop Believin'." As for the rest of the track list, Swedish band The Concretes appeals to my '90s-radio-loving self with a cover of Take That's "Back for Good," and I can't wait to hear Superchunk taking on the Destiny's Child hit "Say My Name."

The artists also held an amateur video contest for the songs, and to see the winning video for Devendra Banhart's cover of the Oasis hit "Don't Look Back in Anger," just read more