Lea Michele is beautiful in blue at the 2012 FOX TCA All-Star Party held at Castle Green on Sunday (January 8) in Pasadena, Calif.

The 25-year-old actress was joined at the party by her Glee co-star Jenna Ushkowitz.

Earlier in the day, news broke that the Glee seniors would be graduating from the show - but Lea tweeted that there is nothing to worry about!

“It’s official Rachel Berry will be back next year for season 4! I’m so happy you have no idea!!” Lea tweeted. “Ryan Murphy has some brilliant and ground breaking ideas for including us graduates in the show for next season! It’s going to be great!”

Also pictured inside: Jayma Mays at the party.

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Rihanna cheers on the Los Angeles Lakers at their home game held at the Staples Center on Sunday (January 8) in Los Angeles.

The 23-year-old entertainer watched as the Lakers won the match against the Memphis Grizzlies with a final score of 90-82. Way to go, Lakers!

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The day before, RiRi sent Beyonce and her hubby Jay-Z’s new baby Blue Ivy a welcome message via Twitter!

“Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih” she tweeted at the new baby.

Jennifer Garner holds onto her cutie pie daughter Seraphina as the two head inside Caffe Luxxe on Thursday (January 6) in Santa Monica, Calif.

The 39-year-old pregnant actress treated her little girl to a birthday breakfast!!! Seraphina turned 3 that day - happy belated birthday, Seraphina!

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The next day, Jen was spotted out on a breakfast date with some gal pals.

Also pictured inside: Jen’s hubby Ben Affleck walking the family dog on Saturday (January 7) in Brentwood, Calif.

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George Clooney totes a large carry on through his terminal at LAX Airport on Sunday (January 8) in Los Angeles.

The 50-year-old actor was joined at the airport by his girlfriend Stacy Keibler.

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George has his next film project all lined up! He is adapting the book “The Monuments Men” for the screen, where he will serve as the director - and possible head up the cast.

“I’m really interested in telling the story of how these very unlikely heroes went miles deep into a mine and found all the art and returned it,” George told E! of the true story of art experts who search for priceless works that were stolen by Nazi’s during World War II.

Emma Stone kisses her beau Andrew Garfield as the duo shop the day away in the Chelsea area of New York City on Sunday (January 8).

Andrew, 28, and Emma, 23, were all smiles as they enjoyed the afternoon together!

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Octavia Spencer, Emma’s The Help co-star, recently spoke about the young star.

“I’m very, very protective of [Emma] because she is the real deal. You don’t see scandals regarding Emma Stone because she’s a good girl, ” Octavia told E!

You can catch both Andrew and Emma in their upcoming flick The Amazing Spider-Man, out on July 3.

FYI: Emma is wearing a Hoss Intropia hat.

Charlize Theron looks gorgeous in green at Variety’s Indie Impact Award Brunch held at the Parker Resorts on Sunday (January 8) in Palm Springs, Calif.

The 36-year-old Young Adult actress, in Reed Krakoff, was the recipient of the prestigious award, which was given as part of the 2012 Palm Springs Film Festival.

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The award “celebrates a performer’s ability to crossover from indies to mainstream studio success.”

The Descendants actress Shailene Woodley also made an appearance at the event.

Congrats, Charlize!

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Jennifer Lopez lets out a smile at the 2012 Winter TCA tour held at The Langham Huntington on Sunday (January 8) in Pasadena, Calif.

The 42-year-old singer, who paired her 3.1 Phillip Lim skirt and top with Lisa Zunino earrings and Pomellato bracelets, spoke onstage during the American Idol panel along with her fellow judges Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson. Ryan Seacrest joined the trio for the talk.

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“I’m still an emotional person, but I’m a bit more comfortable,” Jennifer said of her return to the judges table.

American Idol returns January 18 on FOX!

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Lana Del Rey hits the stage to perform her track “Video Games” on the Jonathan Ross Show on an episode airing Saturday (January 7).

The 25-year-old singer will be the musical guest on next weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live! Daniel Radcliffe is hosting.

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Lana recently signed a contract with NEXT Model Management as the newest addition to their talent division. Also working with NEXT: Jessie J and Alexa Chung!

Carey Mulligan engages in some interesting conversation at the New York Times TimesTalk held at The Times Center on Sunday (January 8) in New York City.

The 26-year-old actress, who was escorted out of the building by her fiance Marcus Mumford, rocked a The Row jacket, L’Agence shirt, Isabel Marant jeans, and Salvatore Ferragamo flats.

Carey recently spoke with the New York Times about her nude scene in Shame.

“Mentally, I was never against the idea. I knew she [Carey's character, Sissy] didn't go to the gym and diet, she drank and ate, and so I had fun and didn't worry about what I looked like,” she said. “It was kind of liberating.”

FYI: Carey is carrying a Dolce&Gabbana “Miss Sicily” bag.

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Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott has married her boyfriend Chris Tyrell, according to Us Weekly!

The couple, both 25, wed on Saturday (January 7) at sunset in front of close family and friends in picturesque upstate New York.

“We got married! We just wanted you to hear it from us first,” Hillary, who wore Vera Wang, said in a video on her band’s website. “We love you. We’re so excited to be starting our life together, and we just had to let you in on the excitement.”

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Alexander Skarsgard works on his fitness as he heads into Equinox gym on Sunday (January 8) in West Hollywood, Calif.

The 35-year-old True Blood hunk donned his workout gear and carried his gym bag into the fitness center for his intense cardio session.

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Have you seen Alex on the cover of August Man’s January 2012 issue? Check out the shot in case you missed it! Alex shares a cover with his fellow True Blood co-star Joe Manganiello.

Alex can next be seen on the big screen in Battleship, coming out on May 18.

Amanda Seyfried takes a phone call on the set of her new film Lovelace on Friday (January 6) in Los Angeles.

The 26-year-old actress, who plays porn star Linda Lovelace, was joined on set by her co-star Peter Sarsgaard, who plays love interest Chuck Traynor.

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Amanda is reportedly in negotiations for another high-profile gig - the role of Cosette in the movie musical Les Miserables. She will join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway in the flick.

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James Franco penned a well thought out piece about his co-star Andy Serkis for Awardsline.

The 33-year-old actor argues that Andy is the soul of Planet of the Apes and deserves credit from fellow actors.

“Andy Serkis is the undisputed master of the newest kind of acting called ‘performance capture,’” James writes,” And it is time that Serkis gets credit for the innovative artist that he is.”

Click inside to read James Franco’s full piece on Andy Serkis…

Andy Serkis Deserves Credit From Fellow Actors

By: James Franco

The new Planet of the Apes film, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes belongs to Andy Serkis. Narratively it was always his film: I play an emotionally stilted scientist who in the process of mistakenly unleashing a lethal virus on the human race, learns to care for others; Serkis gets to play Caesar, essentially Che Guevara in chimp form. There is no question that his character arc is much more dynamic and fascinating, it is the story line that takes the franchise's central theme of culture/racial/species clash and turns it on its head by making the maligned apes the unequivocal heroes. We get to watch the fall of mankind and enjoy it because we root for the underdogs, the apes.

But this narrative structure is only half of the story; there is also an acting revolution that has taken place. Andy Serkis is the undisputed master of the newest kind of acting called "performance capture," and it is time that Serkis gets credit for the innovative artist that he is.

When Serkis was hired to play the inimitable character, Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy it was initially only for his voice, the character was meant to be entirely animated. But Serkis got so physically involved in the production of the character's odd voice – Serkis was inspired by his cat coughing up a hairball – that Jackson decided to find a way to capture the performance so that it could be translated into a digitally rendered character. This was the birth of performance capture as we know it, the process that led to the nuanced performance behind King Kong, the blue things in Avatar, and now Caesar. Audiences are used to large scale effects: impossible explosion, space travel, fantastic fairytale worlds, boys in tights swinging around New York, men with Squids for faces, but there is still a disconnection that happens when a character's outer surface is rendered in a computer like Caesar's was. We want to forget that there is a human underneath, the effects are so well rendered we either forget that the spark of life in it's eyes and the life in its limbs is informed by a breathing human or we are so drawn into the ontology of the character we can't grasp its artistic origins or exactly how it was created. What this means is that we can enjoy such a character – enjoyment testified by the response to such films as Avatar, Return of the King, and Planet of the Apes – but we don't give artistic credit where it is due.

I, as much as anyone, can get anxious when I think about the future of movies and the possibility of the obsolescence of actors, or at least actors as we know them, but after making Apes I realize that this is backward thinking. Performance Capture is here, like it or not, but it also doesn't mean that old-fashioned acting will go the way of silent film actors. Performance Capture actually allows actors to work opposite each other in more traditional ways, meaning that the actors get to interact with each other and look into each others eyes. For years computer technology forced actors to act opposite tennis balls if a movie wanted to have CG creatures, but now the process has come full circle so that actors playing CG creatures can perform in practical sets, just like the "human" actors. In acting school I was taught to work off my co-stars, not to act but react and that was how I would achieve unexpected results, not by planning a performance, but by allowing it to arise from the dynamic between actors, and on The Rise of the Planet of the Apes that's exactly what I was able to do opposite Andy as Caesar. And Andy got to do the same because every gesture, every facial expression, every sound he made was captured, his performance was captured. Then, what the Weta effects team did was to essentially "paint" the look of Caesar over Andy's performance. This is not animation as much as it's digital "make-up." There are plenty of Oscar winning performances that depended on prosthetic make-up to help create the characters: John Hurt's in The Elephant Man, Nicole Kidman's in The Hours, Sean Penn's in Milk. Those actors depended on make-up artists to augment the look of their characters, but the performance underneath came solely from the actors. Well, that's exactly the same position that Andy is in, his problem is that the digital "make-up" is so convincing that it makes people forget that he provides the soul of Caesar. That soul, the thing that was so compelling about that film, came from Andy, and the way he rendered that soul is of equal importance, if not more important than the photo realistic surface of the character.

Andy doesn't need me to tell him he is an innovator, he knows it. What is needed is recognition for him, now. Not later when this kind of acting is de riguer, but now, when he has elevated this fresh mode of acting into an art form. And it is time for actors to give credit to other actors. It is easy to praise the technical achievements of this film, but those achievements would be empty without Andy. Caesar is not a character that is dependent on human forms of expression to deliver the emotion of the character: despite the lack of any human gestures, and maybe two or three words of human speech Caesar is a fully realized character, not human, and not quite ape; this is no Lassie and this is no Roger Rabbit, it is the creation of an actor doing something that I dare say no other actor could have done at this moment.

Celine Dion and her family meet Belle and The Beast as they celebrate the release of Beauty and the Beast in 3-D in this recent photo taken backstage at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The 43-year-old Canadian singer was joined by her husband, Rene, and their kids, 10-year-old Rene-Charles and 14-month-old twins Nelson and Eddy.

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Celine and Peabo Bryson won a Grammy for their recording of the title track from the movie back in 1993!

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Isabel Lucas shows off her gorgeous gams in a Malene Birger feather skirt in this photo shoot from Glamour UK’s December issue.

Here’s what the 26-year-old Aussie actress, who also rocked a sheer Topshop top, had to share with the mag:

On bringing boho back: “I don’t feel I deserve any credit because I’m very sort of comme ci, comme ça about what I wear. I just kind of go, ‘Oh today I feel like this,’ but I know I’m more comfortable when dressed down - I won’t wear high heels unless I’m obliged to.”

On moving back home to Australia: “I do enjoy L.A. when I’m there, but it always felt very transitional for me and I really was there for work. Plus my boyfriend [musician Angus Stone] lives in Australia, so there are a lot of ties. But I’ll be flying back to L.A. constantly.”

Madonna and her daughter Lourdes leave the Kabbalah Center in New York City on Saturday (January 7).

The 53-year-old Material Girl was also joined by her boyfriend, Brahim Zaibat, and her little ones, David and Mercy.

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Madonna and her family are back in town after taking a trip to Switzerland for the holidays - everyone hit the slopes in Gstaad to go skiing and snowboarding. Fun!

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Alan Cumming and his sweetheart, Grant Shaffer, have tied the knot in New York City!

The 46-year-old Scottish actor wrote on his Twitter account, “I just got married!!!!!” on Saturday (January 7).

“On the 5th anniversary of our wedding in London [G]rant and I tied the knot again in NYC!!! #eatmericksantorum,” Alan added later.

Alan and Grant first entered a civil partnership in London in 2007; before meeting Grant, Alan was married to Hilary Lyon, a classmate from drama school, for eight years.

Congratulations to Alan and Grant!

David Beckham and his boys Brooklyn, Cruz, and Romeo react to an intense moment during a match as they sit together at a soccer game on Sunday (January 8) in Manchester, England.

The Beckham boys watched as Manchester United, David’s former team, took on Manchester City in the FA Cup - Man U won 3-2!

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Be sure to check out David’s sexy shirtless pics for David Beckham Bodywear, his new line for H&M, if you haven’t seen them yet!

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Prince William and his wife, Catherine, hit the red carpet at the UK premiere of War Horse on Sunday (January 8), held at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, England.

The Royals, both 29, kept dry under an umbrella on the way inside.

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Will and Kate were last spotted out together on New Year’s Eve, where they attended a party at Kate’s parents’ place in Bucklebury.

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Kelly Clarkson hits the stage to perform on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live.

The 29-year-old singer performed her hits “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)” and “Mr. Know It All” for the show, where Charles Barkley served as host for the evening.

“At rehearsals for SNL :) I’m very excited for tonight! Spent the morning with Elle magazine doing a photo shoot. Busy day!” Kelly wrote on her Twitter account earlier in the day.

Can’t wait to see the Elle shoot!!

Exorcism movie The Devil Inside took the top spot at the box office this weekend, taking in a remarkable $34.5 million domestically.

Also faring well this weekend were Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, with $20.5 million, and Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with $14.1 million.

Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo picked up fourth place with $11.4 million.

Variety notes that Tom Hardy’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been enjoying success in limited release while expanding to more theaters.

WHAT DID YOU SEE at the movies this weekend?

Chelsea Handler attends the NBC Universal 2012 Winter TCA Tour Panel and All-Star Party to promote her new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? on Friday (January 6) in Los Angeles.

The 36-year-old comedienne spoke during the E! Entertainment Television lunch panel the next day at the Langham Huntington Hotel to promote her talk show Chelsea Lately.

Chelsea revealed that her show will be moving into Conan O’Brien’s former The Tonight Show studio!

"We really haven't event looked at a floor plan or anything," Chelsea told Access Hollywood. "Obviously I don't want to completely change it. You want to keep the essence of what it is, but it's really exciting… It's just gonna be a great new platform for us because… we'll have a bigger audience.”

"Everyone will have their own bathroom [and an individual one] for [each of the] the guests… instead of Jennifer Aniston having to share with Brad Wollack,” she joked.

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Natalie Portman steps out with her fiance, Benjamin Millepied, and their son Aleph on Saturday (January 7) in Los Feliz, Calif.

The 30-year-old Oscar winning actress carried cutie pie Aleph in a Baby Bjorn as they checked out organic produce at the farmer’s market.

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Earlier in the week, it was announced that Natalie may be taking on her first post-baby project in Jupiter Ascending, a sci-fi movie by Lana and Andy Wachowski.

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