In Jesus-it's-hard-to-be-an-actor news, two of America's most acclaimed and intimidating thespians, Laurence Fishburne and John Malkovich, are currently competing to replace the exiting William Petersen on television's gimmicky but fun CSI. Ah, acting: From Broadway to a Culver City sound stage littered with blacklights, just like that!

No word yet on if there's a front-runner, but we hope the slithery, simmering Malkovich gets it and out-weirds CI's Vincent D'Onofrio.

What could George Clooney be watching so intently on the set of the new Coen brothers' film, Burn After Reading?

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It's the first day of the Sundance Film Festival and the photos breaking from the event make it look like a cold and bland assortment of actors with nothing better to do. So far we've got Wilmer Valderamma, James Van Der Beek, Bai Ling, John Malkovich and Winona Ryder. Weird, right? I just reread that list and I crinkled my nose up like, "What the fuck? Bai Ling dancing? Where's Julia Roberts in a parka? Where's Maddox making snow angels? And what the fuck does Bai Ling do, anyway?"

I'm assuming major players arrive fashionably late, and I wish these pictures were better/funnier/famous-er, but they're not.