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Warning: Major spoilers from Thursday's episode.] As it turns out, it wasn't another fine navy day. Captain Marcus Chaplin's No. 2, Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman), often sides with his superior, but as the latest Last Resort showed, Sam is very much able to act for himself.

It's impossible to accurately review an on-the-fly late-night show like FX's BrandX With Russell Brand after watching the 22-minute first episode (which airs at 11 p.m. Thursdays starting tonight). But one thing is pretty obvious: If you like Brand, you'll love BrandX, but you might be left wanting.

The first season of Louie on FX was like landing on a familiar but completely foreign planet. It was a television show that didn't look much like anything that had ever come before it. There was this loose, almost improvisational feel to it but you never once thought that series creator Louie C.K.

Ann Curry is not the only one in Hollywood to be paid big bucks for leaving a TV show. The former TODAY co-host reportedly walked out with a $10 million payout from NBC following her last broadcast this Thursday, but her severance package is only a blip compared to some of Hollywood's biggest contract payouts.

The stars hit the red carpet for the premiere of Oliver Stone's new film Savages in Los Angeles on Monday night, and star Blake Lively was the talk of the red carpet. When asked about working with the Gossip Girl actress, Hayek told : "She's an incredible actress and she's a great person."

Kourtney Kardashian may have been wowing critics with her recent maternity looks, but her beau Scott Disick is looking just as stylish these days. Whether he's rocking a tailored suit or casual v-neck sweater, the 29-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star knows how to stay suave with any color - be it a lime green blazer or a lavender polo.

is ready to talk about her divorce from comedian Russell Brand. Speaking out about her split for the first time on camera, the "Wide Awake" singer confessed that she needed to include her highly-publicized split in her new movie, Katy Perry: Part of Me.

The search for the next Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato kicks off again! Another crop of hopefuls are ready to compete on the fifth season of Radio Disney's N.B.T. (Next BIG Thing) hosted by Jake Whetter.

Oh, to have Rick Ross' life - at least the life depicted in his music videos. In the Chris Robinson-directed clip for "Touch'N You", the Teflon Don spends his days chilling poolside with a cigar as his much younger, much hotter female companion swims laps, and fills his nights with his woman in the master bedroom of his glamorous mansion.

In a year already filled with some major pop releases, we may need to make room for one of the biggest pop divas of all time. Mariah Carey has been dropping some mysterious teases that may lead to a possible summer release for her new LP, her first non-Christmas album since 2009′s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel.

Justin Bieber could pull off a threepeat when his just-released album hits the charts next week. His previous two releases, My World 2.0 and Under The Mistletoe, both hit the top of the Billboard Top 200. And according to trade publication , Believe is on its way to achieving the same feat.

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Published: 8 minutes ago FILE - In a Tuesday, June 5, 2012 file photo, a Syrian boy sits in the rubble of house which was destroyed during a military operation by the Syrian army in April 2012, in the town of Taftanaz, 15 kilometers east of Idlib, Syria.

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At the end of the 1950 film The Furies, the character T.C.-played by Walter Huston, one of the most popular and respected movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s-lays dying. With his final words-which also proved to be the last words that Huston himself would ever offer on the screen-T.C.

If there's one thing that I learned from my interview with the actress Sarah Paulson in New York one recent afternoon, it's that she's one fun chick: she's smart, sexy, laughs easily, imitates voices, dishes out high-fives and even gives great subway directions.

In an ongoing trial over whether Kevin Costner and his partners tricked other associates, including actor Stephen Baldwin, out of shares of a technology that separated water for oil, Scott Smith, CEO of Opflex Solutions, told the jury that Baldwin threatened to leak personal information about Costner to the New York Times if the $21 million dispute wasn't resolved.

It's the new daytime TV feud. Veteran Fox star Wendy Williams of The Wendy Williams Show has warned her rival, freshman talk show host Bethenny Frankel, not to be an open book when it comes to her personal life - the exact thing she did when the show premiered on Monday.

8 p.m. Last year's winner, The Book of Mormon, opens the show with a number involving James Earl Jones and Judith Light and, naturally, host Neil Patrick Harris. 8:03 p.m. Harris cracks, "Welcome to the 66th Annual Tony Awards, or as we like to call it, 50 Shades of Grey."

He dashed back and found little Nancy with staff at the Plough Inn in Cadsden, Bucks. No 10 said: "The PM and wife Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn't with them." Nancy got left in the pub loo when Mr Cameron drove off after his lunch.

On the same night that Mad Men would serve up its final episode of the series' fifth season, creator Matt Weiner and his AMC cast members gathered at the TV Academy to reminisce about a batch of episodes that touched on themes of love, betrayal, success, indecency and suicide.