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  • 25
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    2012
    12:01pm, EST

    Best bets: 'Dancing With the Stars' crowns an all-star champion

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    The "Dancing With the Stars" all-star finalists will face off on Monday and Tuesday.

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    Ease back into the swing of things after the holiday week with a lively "Dancing With the Stars" finale. Here are our picks for the three best entertainment events of the week.

    MONDAY AND TUESDAY: 'Dancing With the Stars' finale
    It's ladies' night at "Dancing With the Stars" this week, with three women vying for the ugliest trophy in American history, the "Dancing" mirror ball. (There's even a rumor that the all-star trophy could be different -- we vote for "even uglier, please!") Gymnast Shawn Johnson, "Bachelorette" Melissa Rycroft, and soap star Kelly Monaco will duke it out in the two-night finale. They may have made it this far, but it's not going to be an easy coast to the championship. Each of the three reportedly will perform four dances before the winner is announced, and for one of the dances, they are told their musical choice less than an hour before they must perform to it. (Nov. 26-27, 8 p.m., ABC.)

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    TUESDAY: 'Men in Black 3' on DVD and Blu-ray
    Those "Men in Black" returned earlier this year. Will Smith returned to his role as Agent J, but partner Tommy Lee Jones only played Agent K for a short time before being replaced by Josh Brolin as an unnervingly excellent younger version of K. Agent J must struggle with the younger version of his partner, battle a creepy time-jumping villain (Jemaine Clement), and learn about his own past in the process. The film's a fun romp, Brolin is a dead-on young Tommy Lee Jones, and the whole shebang was so well-received that another sequel is now planned. But before that one rolls out, you can now check out "Men in Black 3" on home video. (Nov. 30.) 

    FRIDAY: 'Killing Them Softly'
    Robbing a high-stakes, mob-protected poker game is perhaps not the smartest thing to do if you want to live long. When two doofuses pull it off, Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini step in, and things get bloody. Says Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter, "A juicy, bloody, grimy and profane crime drama that amply satisfies as a deep-dish genre piece, 'Killing Them Softly' rather insistently also wants to be something more." (Opens Nov. 30)

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  • 31
    May
    2012
    7:17am, EDT

    'Men in Black III' extra sues over alleged wardrobe malfunction

    Wilson Webb / Columbia Pictures

    Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black III"

    It's almost becoming a legal ritual that each summer, a tentpole film prompts a lawsuit from an injured extra. The latest claim comes from a New York woman who says she suffered a wardrobe malfunction on the set of "Men in Black III."

    Danika Gerner filed the lawsuit last week in New York Supreme Court against Columbia Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and many of the individuals who worked in the costume department for "MIB III."

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    Gerner alleges that the costume department provided her with a costume in a "defective and dangerous condition" and that the defendants were "negligent in failing to take suitable precautions" for her safety.

    As a result, she says she suffered "serious bodily injuries" during the filming that took place May 9-14, 2011, in New York City.

    In the complaint, Gerner doesn't detail the precise nature of the wardrobe malfunction nor specify the injuries she allegedly suffered but says she is still injured and has been unable to attend to her usual vocation. (There's some circumstantial evidence online that suggests that Gerner is a model and personal trainer by trade.)

    We've reached out to Columbia Pictures and will update with a response if we get one.


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    The lawsuit is the latest in a string of claims by individuals who claim they were injured during the production of big-budget films.

    Last week, an extra on the set of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" received a $18.5 million settlement after being critically injured in a stunt gone bad. The deal followed the resolution of another case in which a stuntman sued over an injury suffered during the making of "The Hangover Part II."

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